"Saints" Patricks Day

Both girls say "Saints" Patricks Day and have been excited for this day all week.  Since green is not a favorite color, (Shelby asked "Can we wear blue instead, I don't really like green") it took us a little bit to come up with some green.  Luckily Karlee had a shirt and I had some hair pretties that Shelby could wear...so it all worked out.  I think the thing they were looking forward to the most though, was the green food.  I got a little carried away last year with the green food coloring and the girls pooped green for a few days, so I used the food coloring a little more sparingly.  I colored the sugar green for their cereal this morning and then for dinner we had green juice, green pancakes and green eggs.  Shelby asked if she would turn green tomorrow. (We have been reading "Pinkalicious" ALOT this week where a little girl turns pink after eating too many pink cupcakes).  Anyways..a fun day and the girls are already talking about what kind of green food they get to eat next Saints Patricks Day. :)

Feeding the Cows

My in-laws went out of town to watch the state basketball games, so GP, the girls and I helped feed the cows and check the cows for calves.  The girls had so much fun riding in the tractor and then helped their daddy pull out the hay from the feeder.  They felt like they were helping so much and were "cowgirls".  I was a little worried Shelby would run after the cows, especially the ones with calves...since she has no fear and she also thought the mommy cows would definitely like to play with her and show her their babies, but she did really good. ( I have a really good reason for this fear because I have been chased by momma cows, not because I wasn't afraid of them, but because I was kind of stupid...luckily I was 12 years younger and much skinnier...but thats another story.)

They were always worried that the tractor would run over the cows and would try to scare them off.  Poor girls, in some ways, their mommy has kind of made them into "dudes"  Basically I just rode in the tractor and took some pictures, and opened and closed gates...

Later on the girls helped GP check the cows and got to see a calf be born.  They thought that was pretty neat...I am just glad they have not asked yet how the calf got into the mommy cow's belly.  Not ready for that conversation yet! :/  This is actually my favorite season as far as cows are concerned.  The little calves are so dang cute and it is fun to see them run around. Sherri and her kids were out helping too...but I think Tanner mostly worked on how many mud puddles he could run the 4 wheeler through.