happy birthday ashlee

Ashlee's third birthday was a blast! The Dino party was a success and he had all his cousins and a bunch of friends come to the farm. They all went to play with the baby lambs and we ate corn dogs and chili! I will post more pics and some comparison pics of sage and ash as a baby in a few days! more baby lambs are on the way as well!

Sage and Ash on vacation!

Our first road trip in a long time! Out trip took us to Durango to visit the Mckinley's, then to Cortez to visit Josh's brother Todd and Ashlee and Sage's cousins Carter and Sadie. Then to Delta to visit two potatoe farms (one of which we stayed at the farm), a quick stop in Silt where we visited another farm, then back to Morrison where we stayed one night at the Halder Hacienda! Fun trip, everyone was worn out as you can see from some photos! And now we are home and back at it! Ashlee's birthday is on the 27th! Yeah! I will post more pics then!

Sheep Surprise!

We came home Christmas Eve night and went out to the barn to put the Sheep away. We heard something coming from the other side of the barn. There had been a ewe who was having some "health issues" so she was in a separate section of the barn. We walked around the barn to see if our suspicions were right and saw these two beautiful lambs. The mom and babies seem to be doing fine. We were not expecting any lambs until February so we are not real prepared. Luckily they kind of do a lot of the work themselves. Hopefully they will not need any intervention! If so we have a few good resources we can tap into(neighbors, friends,vets,etc.)_Merry Christmas! Ashlee will wake up on Christmas morning to a surprise even to us and Santa!

cute!

Sage with Santa!

more pics of Sage and Ashlee

We made some sauerkraut last weekend and it is fermenting right now, that is what all the mess and jars are of. It has been a Halder family tradition forever so we bought a cabbage shredder this year and are keeping the tradition alive! It is one of our favorites. I also learned how to make soap! I friend of ours took a class and brought all her stuff to the farm and taught me how to make soap. We made a Milk and Honey batch using milk from the sheep and unpasteurized honey from my uncles bees. We added no fragrance so they smell like graham crackers ( probably from the honey ). They are sitting downstairs right now to cure for a few weeks so we will see how they turn out in a few weeks. I will try to post a pic of that too! Ash is enjoying his sister and I am learning valuable lessons on patience with two! And valuable lessons in "not getting anything done". We are all doing good though.

Sage has arrived!

Sage has some wild hair!
Daddy and Ash cooking up some pumpkin for homebrew.
the picture below is of Ashlee and the ones above are of Sage.

So, Sage Jarret Halder arrived October 31, 2010 at 9:20pm. She came into this world weighing 8lb even and she was 21 inches long. Labor was fast and we were able to have a natural delivery again. She looks very similar to Ashlee when he was first born, but she has a little bit more hair and it is a little darker. We will see what happens when she grows into it. I put a pic of Ash next to the pic of Sage. See the similarities. Sage is a great sleeper, great pooper and a great eater. She loves her brother and Daddy always kisses her cheeks and makes her cranky with his beard I imagine. She loves it though.

The Sheep Are Here!

We took Ashlee to a pumpkin patch near our house. It was really small and kind of sucked, but Ash had fun. He didn't know we had to pay to get in though! And the pumpkin in the pic we took home with us.

Our new ergo, thanks to Sarah, Nicole and Kendra! Josh loves it! Because of my belly I can't try it on yet, but so far we Love IT!

Here are the ladies getting milked! Nice butts!