My First Blog Award

First of all I would like to thank Rose from Through Rose-Colored Glasses for giving me my very first blog award. Here are the ten questions I need to answer:

1. How long have you been blogging?

My first blog post was on January 7, 2009

2. What's your favorite animal?

horse :)

3. How many siblings do you have?

7 on the ground, another on the way. So technically 8!

4. What's your favorite thing to do in your spare time?

That's a tough one, but depending on the season either riding/working with our horse or sewing

5. Have you ever wanted to fly?

If you mean like a bird...YES!!

Have you ever traveled out of the USA?

Yes, I have been to Canada :)

What's your normal bed time?

um... 11ish

How many books do you read in a year?

honestly, I haven't ever counted, I just read!!

What's your favorite author and why?

Tough one. thinking...... probably Lauraine Snelling because I loved her book series Red River of the North!

Do you ever wish you were famous?

Well, the cons definately outweigh the pros, but I must admit sometimes, yes I have wanted to be ;)

Again, thank you, thank you Rose for the award and asking some really good questions!!!

With Love, Lindsey

PS Rose, if I need to do something more or if I did something wrong, please let me know!

Funny Faces

I, as you can tell, have been slacking in posting. I took a few pictures of some goofy Timmy faces last night and thought ya'll would get a kick out of them. Oh, guess what???!!! We got a vacuum!!!! I got it today and even though it is just a cheap one, we all were claiming different rooms to vacuum!! Me and Mom were arguing (not in anger) in Wal-Mart about getting the vacuum. I finally told Mom, "Hey, I am not sweeping the rugs anymore and I don't think you want to either, so too bad I am buying it!" So, she had no other choice :) HAHA, I won!

Goofy Tim picture #1

Peek-a-Boo :)
I love you Beth!!

Oh, yah. Noelle and Hannah had a "picnic" yesterday!!

I hope you have an awesome weekend, Beth!

Lindsey

In Which I Post Tons of Pictures :)

Here is one big post of what has been going on the past few days. Enjoy!!

Noelle and Hannah drew this cute picture last night and I thought it would be nice to post it. But this morning Hannah got the idea to scribble ALL over it before I got to take a picture of it. Of course it made Noelle really upset seeing as she did most of it :( Anyway, the picture is of Noelle, farthest to the left, Hannah, middle, and Orrin H. all the way to the right. This is them when they are older and can hunt together! Noelle said that when they go on this hunting trip they will hunt for fox. Notice that the girls are wearing skirts (Noelle's idea)!!

Little boy in blue!!

Skipping through the yard. (Any pictures that I had cropped, Blogger wouldn't let me load, so this is from far away.)
Isaiah says "Hi" from an apple tree.
CHEESE!!

When we were outside this morning Lacey decided she needed a drink and helped herself to Trey's water bucket. Trey was not happy and was flinging his head back and forth and even tried to push her around with his head! I got a picture of them with their noses touching, but I had it on the flower setting so it came out really blurry.

I think Lacey is really brave, just look at the size difference!

Here are some apple blossom pictures. Due to my camera's accident, they didn't come out as good as last year :(

Look at the garden!!! Yeah!! Mr. H. came over yesterday and used his tractor to move the big piles of manure and he rototilled the garden!!

While I was cleaning up some stuff in the yard, I found this....

I had picked something up and there it was! Of course I screamed.(Yah I know, I hate snakes.)

I didn't have my camera on a good setting, so even though I got it striking, it blurred the head.

But not to worry, Chris put down in the woods :)

Okay, I think that's it for know!

We send our love, Lindsey

Neat Video

Hello, I had sent some of my sheep shearing pictures to a local newspaper and together with my photos and another mom's photos, they created a video. If anyone is interested you can go to: mooseheadmessengernews.com and under "News From Greenville" on the right side, click on "Homeschool Sheep Shearing Field Trip". Please just ignore the picture of me and Rebekah. The other mom taking pictures wanted to get a picture of the two sisters holding two lamb sisters. At first she only took pictures of the lambs, but when her daughter (who happens to be my friend) said she could get a better picture, my friend took a picture with me and Rebekah in it. HAHA, Sarah..... NOT FUNNY!!! I guess I'll forgive you, but come on!!!

Anyway, if your interested check it out!

Lindsey

Moose Sighting

When I went to let out the chickens and give the cows water, I saw that the horse and cows were not happy. I turned the hose on and started to head down to do the animals when I noticed a moose walking over into the nieghbor's yard! I ran in the house and grabbed my camera. By the time I got outside again, it was about halfway up the nieghbor's front yard but I was still able to get a few pictures. It isn't abnormal to see moose in Maine, but it isn't common for them to walk through our yard.

A bull (male) moose. You can see his antlers starting.

He seems to have made it through the winter okay!

Heading home...

It was really windy so it was hard to get a good picture, but the forsythias are beautiful!

Look how HUGE the rhubarb is! I think we'll have to "put it up" soon :)

We send our love to you Beth!

Lindsey

Hint, Hint Auntie Renee :)

Noelle drew this really cute picture yesterday and when we asked her what it was she said, "Um, it's just Auntie Renee with another baby in her belly. This time it's going to be a girl." When we explained to her that that wouldn't happen, she was not impressed. The picture is so cute, I just had to post it!

Well, I couldn't move the pictures around so this is a picture that Noelle wanted me to post. It is 2 Mother's Day boquets that the kids picked for Mom.

This is the picture :) Too cute!!

Lindsey

Sheep Shearing

Well, I was finally able to take some time to blog the homeschool sheep shearing fieldtrip.

Not anything very fun going on to report, especially seeing as we have had to do a couple wood stoves the past couple of days. Need I say more :( Oh, we do have nice blossoms on the trees!

Our friend Mr L. just happens to be a sheep shearer so he did the shearing at the fieldtrip. Here he is explaining one of the positions you can put sheep in that they can't get out of and because they know they can't get away, they just sit. Pretty cool :)

TA-DA! Another position where the sheep can't move!

Shearing...

Some girls take an oppurtunity to listen and learn from the owner of the sheep.

Watching...

This is an older lamb. They are all so cute!

Some of the herd came to visit us.

Hello there ;)

Some of the wool products from these sheep.

This was another great educational fieldtrip that everyone enjoyed. We even got to spin and card some of the wool. Even though we couldn't do the actual shearing, the owner made sure that there were other activities to entertain the kids. We all had lots of fun.

We love you and miss you Beth!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!!!!!!