Our Baby Calves

As of last night we have had four baby calves, three alive, out of our herd that we keep at Chunky's.  They will get moved back to our place as soon as it dries up a bit more.  So this means we are almost half way done calving!!!!  We took Bryce to see the calves last night and he was already in his pajamas but that didn't stop him from getting up close to them.

Dylan's Birthday Party

So the day after the branding we headed to the city to help our nephew Dylan celebrate his 5th Birthday.  We went to a bowling alley to bowl, played arcade games, had pizza, birthday cake and open presents. 

 Easton and Lee watching his ball go

 Chris helping Taylor throw her ball

Caleb doing some side arm action

 The Birthday Boy letting his ball go

Grandpa giving it a whirl

 And Grandma giving it a shot

Lee

Leanne

Me and Bryce

His favorite part was standing there where the balls came up

Cody

Notice Grandpa wearing 'pink' shoes

After bowling it was time for the arcade games

Surpise, Caleb found the hunting game

Easton and Bryce going for a train ride

And lets not forget the CAKE!

And PRESENTS!

Happy Birthday Dylan and hope you had a great day!

A Mucky Branding

Today was the yearly branding at Cody's brother's place.  We had just about 40 calves to vaccinate and tag.  Its called a 'Branding', yet no cattle were harmed in these events.  The kids had a blast....all ten of them plus the men.  Lee usually has his crew rope the calves and drag them to the 'nord-fork' by horse and then vaccinate and tag but due to mud, we ran them through the chute instead.  This takes less than a hour to do but the main event follows.....the delicious meal and 'visiting'.  All in all it was a great muddy day and the parents all thank Leanne for washing clothes after the fun was had. 

The kids pushing up the calves

This is proof how muddy it was in the corrals

How many kids does it take to push up one calf?

The smaller kids watching in a better spot with Grandma C

Chunky moving them up the alley

The Walthams watching the action

Layton pushing as hard as he can

Dylan overseeing the work

The calves finished....can you pick out the replacement calf we bought when ours died?

Jessie demonstrating how we usually brand...with a rope

Herding the calves back to their moms when the work was done

Hanging out in the garage after the work