The Few and The Proud!

This is the story of a fearless goat shower.  This goat shower has never let her goats miss a meal.. (In fact they may get a bit more than the need sometimes and are even snuck a treat or two occasionally.) This goat shower has never once tried to take the easy route or cheated to win.  She has day or night, rain & snow been out there, running right beside (and in some cases right behind) her goats giving them the exercise they need.  She has gone to every show possible and wins showmanship almost every time she enters.  This girl is exceptional and she’s mine!

It was an amazing, emotional, fast paced, exciting, draining, and awesome year.  I’m still new at this goat thing but Autumn had two of the best goats I’ve ever seen with one being exceptional.

She’s made friends and learned so many lessons by helping others.

Because there were so many shows and spread all over the state, all her grandparents were able to see her show this year!

I love this series of pictures.  It shows just how serious Autumn is during a show.  This is her waiting to go into the ring:

Smile at Mama:

Can I have another smile?

Autumn?  Hello?

Annsley and Papa, waiting just as intense and serious as Autumn

Autumn Showing her little heart out!

Daddy’s old belt buckle from his goat showing days.  Autumn is so proud to wear this!!

I love this series of pictures also…  I think it truly represents how much Joshua is into this:

See him in the background?

Judge was picking first place and it was killing Josh…  Look at him all the way on the fence now.

After she shows, He likes to tell her what she did good and bad!

Winning her class

Now trying to win grand:  (Can you tell how hard she works to do this?)

The judge went on and on about how much he liked Autumn.  After she won, he told her she was one of the best he’d ever seen!

Before any show, Joshua and Autumn work together to make sure they both have everything right!  It’s really cute:

This is Autumn winning showmanship.  Again.

My baby is so short and her goat is so strong.  That makes her have to work so hard and she does and loves it!

Love that girl and those goats!

Happy New Year! 2011

Here is what I am so thankful last year brought us:

Love, Friendship, Cupid, School, learning new things, New Goals, Tonys, Goats, Craziness, Naps, Holidays, Family, Carpet, Snow, Cookies & Cupcakes, Good Books, Cheer Leading, Good Stories, 2nd Place’s, New Jobs, More Experience, More time with people I love, Cabins on the lake, Teachers, Dr. Pepper, Lip gloss, fuzzy socks, Coveralls, Health, lots of lessons,Dove Chocolate, Iced Sugar Cookies, Work, patience's, New Camera’s, More animals, the 3 most amazing girls, My Hunny, & Our Precious Family closer than ever. 

 

I’m excited about this year for one main reason.  Last New Year was supposed to be extraordinary.  Nothing was supposed to go wrong and it was supposed to be full of so many new firsts in an almost 180 flip of the life we’d known.  Well, as I should expect and in normal fashion for us, it was not quite what we thought.  It wasn’t the complete belly flop that it could have been but it wasn’t everything I expected either.  SO, the main reason for looking forward to this year is seeing if we can turn it into the raging success that last year almost was!

This year we have the same plans and goals as last but this year we will try to incorporate all the bends and twists that last year produced. (I also have a goal to be better prepared for the unexpected.)  Last year held so many unexpected changes on an already seemingly new life.  Some were for the better and were welcomed and some were not so great and were fought pretty hard.  I think now looking back that 90% of the unexpected changes turned out for the better.  It even felt like a set-back in some cases so we’re not beginning the new year quite where we thought, but were starting the new year. 

This year has just as much promise for excitement as last year and we’ll continue to Learn God’s Lesson’s and find HIS path for us!

Christmas 2010

Amazing of course.

Not sure why but the girls slept in until 7:30!  They all came and jumped into our bed.  We talked about what they think Santa brought and what they hoped he had not brought…  “Cole” and so forth!

Each girl ran downstairs (One at a time for some reason) to take a peek in the living room while everyone got ready.  The girls were surprisingly patient.  Trying I think to make the day last as long as they could.

This is what we came down to:

They immediately checked to see if Santa ate his cookies and the reindeer ate their food.  Apparently reindeers are messy and Santa was Hungry!

Then the girls took a look around guessing what was in each box.  For the first time ever the girls wanted to take turns opening gifts to see what each of the got!

The first gift they opened was exactly what they asked Santa for.  Autumn got the DS and the Girls got the pillow pets they asked for.  (He’s a good man!)

Then it was time to see what else he brought.

 

Autumn:

DS and game, clothes, uggs, lots of crazy socks, jewlrey, purfume, cd player, bottle top necklace kit, electric toothbrush and a few little things!

Aubrey:

Panda stuff, Cap and gloves, Accordion, Pillow pet, finger print craft set, DS and game, clothes, uggs, markers and notebook set, electric toothbrush and a few little things.

 

Annsley:

Mobi go & lots of games, dot paint set & color books, rolling suitcase, uggs, clothes, Pillow pet,  crazy socks, electric toothbrush and lots of little stuff.

The aftermath:

Then Joshua and Granny cooked us breakfast while Gramma, Pawpaw and I watched!

   

After Gramma, Granny and Pawpaw left the girl started opening and playing with their new stuff.

 

While I watched Christmas movies.

I was so excited that my Dad came to spend a few hours with us too!  I love the couch full of gamers.  Both Men playing pink games….

Aubrey in all new clothes!

 

I made my Dad go and see my Christmas Present:

Miss. Vivian!  My Mini Pot Belly Pig.

 

(I love how he’s looking at the pig!  I can just about imagine what he’s thinking here.  I’m sure it has something to do with bacon or pork chops!)

After Dad left we did a little cleaning up and the girls were ready to trash their Ginger bread house!  I love love love the look on Autumn’s face as they walk it out to it’s death.  Death by destruction by the hands of it makers!

I love having nothing to do.  I always find something to do but it’s always stuff I think is fun.  So for the first time in a very long time I decorated the table.  I was pretty excited to have it all done up although I never got a night shot with all the candles lit.

    

Dinner was not so traditional. We had Prime Rib and turkey but instead of mashed potatoes we had twice baked and instead of stuffing we had steamed veggies with melted cheese.  We also had Rolls.  The good kind.  You know the kind that have the 2 lines on the top? Buffet style of course!

This was the last picture I took on Christmas day.  (Granny and Pawpaw came back and had dinner with us.) 

Their is just something about Christmas day.  It’s just Magic!