Our oldest had a great show season and brought home Grand & Reserve at almost every show he went to!

Our middle is just enjoying life as a 3 year old on the farm.

At our local show both boys got a chance to show lambs & dairy cattle.

Our oldest in the championship drive at state fair with his Brown Swiss heifer, Reece.  This heifer has since calved and had an adorable little heifer we have named Paige.

Farmboy2 isn't old enough to show just yet but he loves helping out in the wings.  Here he is holding Catrina.

Our last show of the season is one of our favorites.  These folks do a great job!

Then came Halloween with a lumberjack, Little Red Riding Hood & a hunter

That hunter got a new dog named Copper late in November.

Our oldest enjoys showing so much that he has already started breaking next years showstring calves.

Visiting Santa was an adventure this year...our sweet farmgirl hated the experience but the boys thought it was great LOL

For those of you interested in the Etsy shop you can find it here

Below are a few of the items I have made since opening...

obviously it's mostly girly items ;)

One of my favorite dresses to date!

This romper is so cute and a wonderful fall piece.

  These 2 flannel & lace tunics are so soft and adorable!

Our Christmas outfit has me swooning!

Then a few accessories for moms.  Yes they are dishcloths but let's be honest if we have to do dishes let's make sure it's cute.  

Hope you enjoyed catching up with this farm family!  

Until next time, 

Our oldest started 3rd grade this year and as you can tell by the look on his face he was less than thrilled to have to spend 6 hours a day away from the farm.  

The youngest farmboy started preschool 2 days a week.  He was super excited and actually begged to go to school everyday from the start of the school year until his school started.  

And the farmgirl is still just hanging around at the farm with Daddy & Nana.  I'm sure she is enjoying this "brother free" time.  

What does a typical school day look like for us around the farm?

Since I work off farm I drop off our oldest at school and take the 2 littles to the farm.    Our preschool program is only 3 hours 2 days a week and since my office moved to another town I can't just run him over to the school anymore.  So 2 days a week Nana or Daddy takes the middle one back to town for preschool.  Then pick up begins at 12 for our preschooler and 2 for our oldest.  Which means someone runs back to town to grab them.  Once everyone is out of school and home there is snack time, down time, homework time, play time and chore time.  Somehow homework time gets pushed way back to the back LOL.  Chore time has to be done before I get back from work because it includes practicing with their show stock which is at the farm not our house.  Once I pick everyone up we are typically home by 6:30.  We then have to finish up homework, get supper, baths and ready for the next day...not to mention we have to also take care of the animals that live at our house.  

Needless to say we are still trying to get our routine down...It makes for quite the challenge.  We will get settled into it but it takes time.  Any b2s advice from other farm moms??

Every little boy I know loves something...tractors, fire trucks, a teddy bear or maybe even a blankie...our oldest farmboy has had a love affair with his boots since I can remember.  At 8 he has owned close to 20 pair of boots in his short lifetime.

His first pair of boots have been handed down to each subsequent farm kid to wear.  After that first pair not many have made it for his brother and sister to wear.

His obsession didn't start until he was about 14 or 15 months old.  He had finally gotten down to only wearing his braces a naps and night time so any shoe was now game. 

He had gotten this adorable pair of Ropers for his 1st birthday and they were worn everywhere with everything.  Once he outgrew these he went through pair after pair over the years.  I learned quickly you get what you pay for with kids boots especially if your kid wears them day in and day out on the farm.   

These were a pair of hand-me-down boots from a family friend....that made it through the 1st month of preschool.  

He even had a few pair of mud boots thrown in over the years.

He has worn boots to school more days than not (these were brand new)

and from time to time will have a meltdown if for some reason he can't wear boots that day. 

His boots have carried him to feed calves and milk cows, to ride along on the tractor.  They have trekked through mud and briars, been stepped on by show calves and chewed up by the dog.  Each pair gets retired with a little bit of sadness.  

As he grows faster and faster these boots remind me that one day this little farm boy will be driving tractors and milking cows.  If he chooses all to soon he will be trying to figure out how to keep the farm going for the next generation.  There are so many memories attached to each pair of boots.

Is there unusual that your child loves?  Share below in the comments!

building a new pack barn

with lots of help from these 2 farm boys.

practicing baseball,

running shavings from our new machine,

participating in the annual SAC #Run4Agriculture

welcoming new calves...

and kittens...

enjoying green grass...

fresh strawberries 

and warm sunshine.

We have made a delivery of isolette covers to our NICU

spent countless hours at the baseball field

and been fishing...

I even got a bouquet of farm flowers from my 2 boys

What does spring look like where you are?

Last Sunday we celebrated Farmboy's 8th birthday.  He was so excited to go out to eat, spend time with his family and LOVE that his Broncos won the Super Bowl.  Farmboy 2 was just happy we had cake.   (Remember we are in SC...so there are like 2 other Bronco fans here...and cake or cupcakes in that theme where no existent) 

Farmgirl loves hanging out in the warm barn office and "telling" the Farmer all about what's going on. Don't mind the recliner arms...they get lots of wear and tear LOL.

We have been working on a new shed for our shavings mill.  While Farmgirl is loving shavings pile, Farmboy was helping build trusses for the shed.  This kid can work when he wants too...he can put some grown ups to shame when it comes to physical labor.  

Farmgirl got some awesome new nursery decor painted by one of our dear friends!  We are loving the pink cow even though the Farmboys were a little worried about it's "unrealness".  I was too excited to wait for the frame to hang it.  Can't wait of get a barnwood frame around it!!  

What happens during the middle of the week when the Farmer needs you to feed baby calves after work...well you feed baby calves in your work clothes because you took all your farm clothes out of the car to wash them before the winter weather gets here.  

Thankfully I leave "barn" shoes in multiple places (my office, my car, the barn, our house).  Yeah I'm one of those folks who have things EVERYWHERE!!  Just no real pants...Don't you know the day he needed help I had worn leggings and a tunic sweater to work.  

Farm girl got to help out too but she was nice and warm in her fleece suit riding in her Tula (which I'm LOVING).  Honestly she was helping keep me warm LOL.

I didn't get any pictures but last night Farmboy and I (along with Farmgirl) went to his school Valentine's Dance.  We had lots of fun!  My favorite part of the night was reading Farmboy's dream on the display honoring Dr. Martin Luther King....

"I have a dream...to be a farmer.  Because people are trying to stop farming."

I'm so happy that he wants to be a farmer and even happier knowing that he realizes he needs to speak up for agriculture.  

xoxo,