*My New Baby!*

My new baby :) '05 GMC, 323 6.0L motor, four door, half ton, new tires, new rims, new front end, has air bag suspension, lift and awesome sounding exhaust, and is in excellent condition! Yeah, I'm pretty much in love. THANKS BABY FOR MY NEW TRUCK!

*They've Arrived In Full Force*

Okay, so remember how I said I LOVE calving season? Well, this weekend not so much. We have 2 new little ones that were born this week. We moved all our cows here at the ranch down a field and because it is winter they have to be fed hay everyday. When the cows were being moved there was a cow with her brand new calf that we left behind to give the calf a few days to get strong so it will be able to walk the whole way. So, yesterday Joey and I got on our horses and rode out there to find the cow and her calf to finally move to the field with all the other cows so the cow could get some good hay but..... we couldn't find her calf ANYWHERE. By then the wind had picked up and it had started snowing hard. We both had 4-5 layers of clothes on, gloves, hats and all that but good heck it was still FREEZING. The problem with this field is there are loads of batches of cattails in the middle of small half frozen half slushy/muddy/sticky swamps. We looked everywhere the calf could be besides in the mini swamps but couldn't find it. And the stupid, ignorant mother would not lead us to it for the life of her. So then we chanced riding our horses through the accident-waiting-to-happen swamp to keep looking for it. After TWO hours in the wet, literally bone chilling blizzard we decided the calf was either dead in the swamp and the cow had forgotten about it, or it was tucked in the shelter of the cattails and the cow just didn't want us anywhere near it. SO, finally... but unfortunately we headed back home. But, Rancher Joe remembered one of the neighbor cows had made her way through a fence into our herd and he decided we'd just cut her out and take her home. We spent a few minutes trying to find a yellow and green ear tagged cow in the middle of a bunch of pink tagged cows. When we finally found her and started cutting her out everything was going fine... THEN she realized how far we had led her away from the other cows and she turned and started after the horses... Joy... Joey lost his hat and my horse Scar thought he was the cutting champion of the world and figured he could take on the cow till I whirled him out of the way right as she came at us. To say the least we left our 2 1/2 hour expedition empty handed, snowman like and pretty ticked off. AHH it's days like this I have to ask Joey what the heck his grandpa was thinking to start a ranch here in good ol' Randolph. And now today it is a blue sky, windless, beautiful sabbath day in which we don't work at all... Go figure.

*Mmm Smokin' Blues BBQ W/ The Fam*

I love it when my parents and little brother and sister come down to visit! I'm so glad they live only less then 3 hours away!

On Friday the 5th we all went out to a new restaurant in Providence, UT called Somkin' Blues BBQ. They have every flavor Root Beer and live music. They have really yummy sweet potato fries aswell. Other than that I don't really care for the food too much but everyone else liked it so it was a good time!

Grandmother (Momma), Ethan & Grandpa (Daddy)

Eric & McCall lookin' like the adorable couple they are.

Me & ChristiBug

A fun Mason jar lamp that I'm going to make for my kitchen when we build our house.