our family had a great weekend this week. It was branding time and we loved it! we branded a large group of calves and wyatt got to rope for his first time off the horse. he did great we were so excited. calves looked good getting ready to go to summer pasture. I got kicked in the knee while trying to give vaccinations, hurt like hell! abby enjoyed watching from grandmas lap, and hailey had fun trying to rope the calves and play with her cousin todd. jess got a ticket this week going 106 on the snowville flats, I know I have already yelled at him, he feels bad, hopefully he the ticket will be reasonable in price, but at 106 mph I doubt it. anyhow will post pics of the branding later this week

today is junior rodeo and wyatt is excited, he is really becoming a good roper!!!! hopefully the goat will be a little smaller than last time and he will be able to throw him down! hailey is sure she wants to ride a sheep today at the rodeo, but she had her tonsils out last week, I pretty sure that riding sheep is not on the approved list of things to do. anyhow we docked lambs on saturday(also known as removing the testicles of a lamb) the kids got all bloody and loved it, jess's mom and brother cooked up the testies to eat but I would have none of that!!!! I have decided to start taking a few classes for my bachelors I am not happy about it but in the long run it will probably help, jess is going to have to help me on stats and that should about as much fun as getting hit by a truck!

I haven't left any blogs in the last week or so, been pretty busy around the place, anyhow took the girls to see disney on ice it was so much fun! Hailey thought the princesses were beautiful and the skating was great. even baby abby was clapping her hands. thanks to hayley at work for the amazing tickets!!!!! wyatt had his first wrestling match in dayton Idaho it was so fun, as soon as he started to wrestle I turned into the yelling and cheering mom I was so proud he did great he won his second match and I haven't seen him this happy in a long time. Jess couldn't be there he was working but I think jess was just as happy if not more, it was so cute what a good dad!

The ranch has picked up speed these last few weeks, we currently are at 3 lambs, one goat, several horses, several cows, and now a new baby pig! Wyatt has picked out his bucket calf that he will be showing at the fair, he is so cute wyatt and hailey named him cutie. Hailey is having surgery tommorow, she needs her tonsils out so hopefully so will be on the mend soon!