A very exciting day indeed!  A little history first - My brother is getting married in May and the boys are in the wedding - so the engaged couple wanted to give the boys something that would be special. but pratical at the same time - we were planning to get some calves this spring for the boys to bottle feed, so we thought that might be a great present - they could sell the cows and put the money in their accounts and then do this again next year, on and on and on to see their money grow - and it would all have started from the wedding.  So we searched for calves and ended up going to the stock yard and instead of getting 2 we ended up with 4 - you know the price was right!?  They have been lovingly named Oreo, Brownie, Coal, and Unkie Chad -my brother now has someone to carry on his name - a heifer named after him - thanks to T for picking out the cow that should carry that name!  The brown cow standing is Unkie Chad - lovely, don't you think?

In addition to the calves - our goat, Delilah, started showing some signs of early labor the night before we went to get the cows - I was up til 3 in the morning checking on her - no changes - next morning she looked no closer to having the babies, so we left - I said, " you know now that we've left she'll have them?"  Well when we pulled in the driveway with the cows the boys went running down and started yelling," we have babies" - she was still cleaning them up - we just missed it!  She ended up having 3 kids- 2 girls and 1 boy - 1 girl is named Patch - she's easy to spot - she is the runt but the most fiesty - Snowflake is the other girl and Butterball is the boy.  They are the sweetest things!  Momma's doing a great job taking care of them!