May

Hey, it's May!
May has been a great month! We celebrated Mother's day with both Jon's and my parents. The best part was when we decided to surprise my mom with a sleepover on Saturday night. Of course we got my dad in on it, so he left the front door open and we snuck in while they were watching a movie. And by "snuck in" i mean we quietly opened the door and then busted into the living room jumping and screaming "HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!" After the initial shriek of shock from her, it quickly turned into happy cheers :) I love my mom and mother in law, and am super grateful for them both! Wish i had taken some pictures while we were there!

Then May 22nd was my dad's birthday so we went down again to celebrate, again, no pictures. I'm not great at this. But it was a lot of fun! love my dad!

Things are turning green and it is getting beautiful outside! We plowed up the yard so we could re-plant the pasture. (of course red-neck style)

It was... semi successful haha


Daddy Jack and his son did some bonding. Which mostly consisted of the baby biting Jacks face.

We did some work with the colt, trying to get him more used to people. He's so cute!



We moved mama horse and baby (who still has no name, but is definitely a boy!) down to the neighbors pasture and they LOVED it!

                                    

Jack missed his girlfriend, and from our yard to the pasture where we brought them, he could still see them, so he spent a lot of time staring longingly at her.. oh yeah, and whinning all night.

                                                   

We had another calf born!! I wasn't very creative this time around, so since our first bull calf born was named Joe, and this guy is also a bull calf, but not quite as big, I call him little Joe. 

Speaking of babies... We got home from my parent's house on Sunday night (mothers day) and the next morning we woke up to puppies!!!!

                                                

10 of them!!! Quinny is a champ mama!

Unfortunately we did lose one pup, But 9 is still a huge litter.

Jon feeding the runt-

            

This poor mama.. haha sooo many babiessss

 Proud dad!

Last, I did some house work- needed to update the paint on the doors. yikes! and ya'll know how i feel about red doors :)
Before and after:

Quotes from Jon:
"That's what I'm known for- versatility. versatility and awesomeness"
"We better lock the car, my gun is in there... and starwars." (his fav board game)

Oh yeah, and I chopped off 10 inches of hair. 

Bye!

April pt. 2

Well, since I did my first April post in the beginning of April, there was a lot more that happened between then and May. So I figured I'd do a part 2 so that the May blog post wasn't a novel.

Our current #LaRueFarm stats:

2 of our cows had calves. The first was a little bull calf named Joe (name credit to our 5 year old niece) and the heifer calf is named Lulu Bell.
Lulu bell was born in the middle of the night in a rain storm. Jon couldn't sleep one night and felt like he should go check on the cows. He went to the farm and the mama cow was in labor, he came back to the house to get a rope in case he had to pull the calf and when he got back she was born! Unfortunately she was born right in a mud puddle out in the rain, so Jon went in the pen and dried her off, got her standing up, and drinking from her mama. I'm so grateful he went and checked on them!!
Because she was handled at such a young age, she is much friendler than the bull and we can pet her.
Joe-

Lulu Bell-

So the chickens grew really fast! I let them roam around the yard to eat bugs and the really enjoyed themselves, instead of being in the box in the garage.

They loved being by the horses.
Unfortunately one day they wandered outside the yard, and the neighbors dog got the little hen (right in front of the 9 year old neighbor girl, yikes!) so after I was done comforting her from the recent trauma of watching her dog play with a chicken like a rag doll, I carried the dead hen home and tossed her in the trash. (who am i?! i didn't even cry!) I was sad though. But then we just had the rooster and there is no point in having just a rooster because they become aggressive. If you don't believe me, just read THIS post!
SO we decided to give the rooster away, meanwhile we had to catch him first, so Jon, being the man that he is, thought he should try to rope it. And that was the funniest thing ive ever seen.

I wish i had video of it. Surprisingly enough, he was not able to rope the rooster, so we just cornered him and caught him.

 So now we are chickenless. It was fun while it lasted.

The dogs are still enjoying their lives. Heelers are the best, they're just so content no matter what

Quincy is not very photogenic, and she always turns away from the camera whenever I point it at her. oh well.

That's all!
Still not quotes from Jon... he must just not have been very funny this month lol