Gracie and Dooley

Dooley and Gracie were born this afternoon around 3:30pm. Anya got to name them. Aren't their names awesome!!

Gracie is closest to Lyla (mama) and Dooley is the farthest away from Lyla. I had they privelege of watching Dooley being born :) Quite an experience!

This next picture is of Anya holding Annie who is now a day old.

As you can tell we are having a lot of fun here on the farm!

The Miracle of Life

Here is Annie (the dark brown baby) and Rae (the tan baby).

They were born this afternoon in the pasture. The birthing went really well for a first time mama. Since we have 5 nannies that are pregnant, each of us in my family get to name one of the families. I got to name Star's babies. 

Aren't they ADORABLE?!!!!!!

New Blog Header.......

Since the school year is coming to an end for me I thought of changing my blog header to something more appropriate. Instead of Em's Year At Home, I have changed it to 'My Journey'. I know I could've come up with something more creative, but sometimes the simplest is the best :) I want to deeply thank each one of you who have read my blog over this school year. As I have shared with you some of the experiences that I have enjoyed over the past school year it has been nice to have your comments them. I am so grateful for an amazing year at home, and for all the memories I will take with me for the rest of my life. I am also very grateful for the oppprutunity to be able to write about my feelings and experiences on this blog, and I thank you for your willingness to listen and read about them. I ask you to continue to read my blog as I go through out the summer and what all that will bring.

Blessings to each one of you in the coming week,

1st Day of May Was An Eventful Day

Goodness Gracious, I can't believe it's already May! Today was my daddy's birthday so we had a fun day celebrating with him. This afternoon we went shopping for a recliner as a birthday present for dad. It was a lot of fun trying very comfy recliners the whole afternoon. At Grand my sisters and I tried out the massage chairs, WOW, wasn't that fun. For supper we picked up some BBQ from Smokin Pig and had a picnic at the JMU Arboretum. The Arboretum is SO beautiful this time of year. Here are some pictures I took while there:

We counted 14 turtles.

It was so funny, at the Arboretum there was 1 female duck and 2 male ducks and the male ducks were fighting over the female. I felt so bad for the female!! :)

So Beautiful!

My AWESOME parents!!

This month is a birthday month for my family. My Dad, Mom, and Sister Kate all have birthdays this month. Good thing I am cutting sweets this month. The beginning of a new month means the ending of the past month. And for most of you who read my blog you know that my family gave up TV for the whole month of April. Well, that experience has challenged us to reduce the amount of TV we watch for another month. For the month of May we are deciding to watch only 5 shows a week. We each get to pick a show we would like to watch. It is not expected that we choose to watch a show because after a month without TV I really don't see the point of watching TV at all. Stay tuned this week, because we will be having some little ones (baby goats) soon, and I will be posting pictures.

Take Care,

Rock-A-Thon

At 8:00PM on Friday night we starting rocking and we stopped rocking at 8:00AMon Saturday morning. Now, let me give a little background info. My youth group at church are going to Indy this summer for a service trip. So we decided for one of our fundraisers we were going to do a Rock-A-Thon which is sorta like a Walk-A-Thon but instead of walking we rocked in rocking chairs for 12 hours. We watched movies like The Blind Side, Inkheart, Alvin and the Chimpmunks:The Squeakual. We also played games and listened to music. To keep us awake we drank caffinated drinks and sugary snacks.It was a lot of fun! We all managed to stay awake the whole time, but once it hit 8:00AM we were ready to go home and hit the sack. We raised over $1000 dollars which was awesome!
TakeCare,

The Promise of Life

    Yesterday dad took my sister and I to where he had found a robin nest full of eggs along our fence row. The eggs were so pretty I just had to take a picture. I love this time of the year! When everything is just bursting with color and life. In two weeks our 5 nanny goats are due to have babies. I can hardly wait, baby goats are so cute! I will definately have some pictures when the time comes.

TakeCare,

A Beautiful World

"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands." ~Psalms 19:1

"The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the world and all who live in it;" Psalms 24:1

"Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it according to their various kinds." ~Genesis 1:11

"He makes grass grow for the cattle and plants for man to cultivate bringing forth food from the earth." ~Psalms 104:14

" So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." ~Genesis 1:27

The words of the Bible always have something good to say! Thank God for such a beautiful earth. Now let's do our part and take care of it. "Then God said, "Let us make man in our own image , in our likeness, and let them rule over over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the liestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground." Genesis 1:26

TakeCare,