The next chapter

I know I have been away for the summer. I am just not good at posting during the summer. I also think I have been avoiding posting because some of what I need to let my blog family know is that we have had to make a hard decision this summer and although it was the correct one it makes me sad.
You have all followed the sheep biz from the start your have watched me learn and heard my complaints and been with me in total amazement as I delivered my first baby lambs. Now for the next chapter in this story, we had to sale the ewe lambs this summer. I say had to and that is not actually true, we chose to, we have spent 3 years of our lives with everything we doing rotating around the sheep and what they need and we got to a point that Duane and I felt that we needed to decide if what we where doing was the best thing and the decision was no. No financially, no time wise, no for the future. I will never be able to express to my parents how grateful I am for all of the help they gave us along the way, I will never be able to express to the people that trusted us to buy our stock what it meant to sit on the outside and watch our stock turn into winners. I will never be able to express how impressed I have been with my children through this whole experience........Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

Graduation 3

Jacob with all his parents
Jacob, Allissa, Kaylee and Hunter

Ok really can I not get a picture with our eyes open

My brother and I

Nana, Papa, Uncle Bob and the kids

Graduation 2

Uncle Bob and Alex
My family

Jacob picking on Nana (love this pic)

Who is the creeper in the back??

Jake's personal cake, everything was edible

Graduation

Ok these are backwards but you get the point.

Look they signed it!!

In the recieving line afterwards wanting to leave

The mess the Seniors left behind

Walking across the stage

Walking in about to graduate

My Coffee Cup

This coffee cup.........ROCKS!!!! Not only is it mine, but it was made especially for me by the most amazing kid, mine.

This is the top look how much coffee that will hold

The front with my name in special letters so no one can steal it.

Should I have stopped them?

OK I am officially a grown-up, yesterday the girls where pulling the heads off the dandelions that are in the "puff" ball state and blowing them. I panicked, I wanted to scream, "oh my gosh stop doing that, don't you know if you blow those things they will create more of those ugly little flowers?" I know that I did this as a kid even now I would love to pluck them and blow the little feathers off but the "grown-up" in me knows that if I do this then what little grass that is still in my yard will turn into dandelions.
Just so you know I didn't yell at my girls I turned and went back into the house, kids should be kids they should be allowed to blow the stupid flowers apart, I did. Did my parents and grandparents go back into the house when I did that?

Thanks Grandma!!

I believe there are miracles every where you just have to be open to them. I believe the flowers below have been helped out by my grandma who passed this year...let me explain. I have lived in this house for four years and I have done everything she taught me about Iris's to get them to bloom, remove some to make room, weed, fertilize everything..... and yet one or two and nothing more. This year almost everyone bloomed.....

so thanks Grandma!!!