How I do it: Cow Checking

We have our cows on a breeding and baby making schedule. We turn our bull loose on his women in February and let him do work. Then 9 months later we know it is time to start watching for Mommas in Labor and getting ready for labor.

 

This is what we look for in our cows:

Swollen Milk bag- this means the milk is coming in and preparing to feed their baby

 

Swelling and Protruding of the vag area and or leakage

and the next thing you know babies start arriving

You can read and see all about the birthing process here.

I  must say this is my most favorite time of the whole process.

I love guessing what they are going to be on the size of their head when we pull up and the taking a peek to see if I am right. The bull calves have a bigger head more times than not.

Once a Momma has a calf we have to weigh it, ear tag it, and give it a dose of jump start.

The kids love to get involved and they jump right on it.

Rhett pulled up some of the left over corn stalks to feed to them.

They love when the kids feed them treats.

We match the calf's number to the Mommas so we know which baby is her calf. 

 

Mauri wanting to get some calf loving

 

 The Farmer is a huge UT fan so why not do the hook em sign with a Longhorn

Texsa is always there to help round them up with us.



Breast Cancer & Babies



October 20th was the day I got the call from my Mom......
My Nana had a mammogram and the doctor called to ask that she come in for the results. As we all know when the doctor calls you personally and wants you to come in that means it isn't good new you will be receiving. My parents live in Shreveport and my Mom couldn't make it to the doctor in time so she called me to see if I would go. My brothers wife, Nana, and I met with the doctor to tell us that she had breast cancer and she would be need to see Dr Barr and go from there.
After meeting with Dr Barr he insisted that she undergo a mastectomy and remove the tumor and also check the lymph node and if the first one had cancer in it then remove the rest of the nodes under the arm and send them off to be tested. We hoped for it not to be in the nodes but after the surgery the doctor met with us and it was in the node so he sent 15 of them to be tested. We had to wait 72 hours before we got these results back and out of 15 nodes 8 of them had cancer. We knew there would be treatment involved since it is in the nodes but had to meet with Dr Barr to determine the next step.
We met with Dr. Barr and discussed the results of the pathology report and we received some very good news. Her cancer is estrogen positive. That's the news we were hoping for! We will meet with an oncologists on the 20th of November to discuss treatment. We know most of the treatment can be treated with hormones but aren't sure if he is going to want to do some chemo or not.
My family and I appreciate each prayer and kind word we believe this kept our heads up and positive thoughts.


For more exciting news.......while I am not allowed to have more babies due to me being a bad pregnancy person. With all 3 I didn't have a good one and with Rhett the farmer said he almost lost his wife and son all in one and that's when he knew he was done with having kids. I've tried to talk him into adoption but until I get him on board we are going to have to go with the next best thing...our farm babies. Its baby dropping time on the farm.

Here are a few:

 

 

I've got more of these coming up.

In 7 days......

In 7 days  I my Nana {Moms Mom} went for a mammogram, met with the doctor and found out she had breast cancer, then met with an oncologist to decide what the next step was, and now having a mastectomy. This is what my life has been and changed in the last 7 days. Please say a prayer that the surgery and testing while in surgery comes back good. I will go into more detail this week when I get a chance to sit down and write everything out.
Breast Cancer isn't something that runs in our family so this is a bit of a shock, especially after loosing her husband and son to cancer. Her and my mom is all that is left. Its surgery day and I pray that everything goes better than expected and I have good news to report.



#acktdoesNYC our last day

We woke up to a drizzly dreary day but that wasn't going to stop us. With a 5$ umbrella we went on our way. We started on Times Square to do some shopping. Their forever21 was 4 stories and organized and the workers were so helpful I wish our Forever21 was like that. If so I would actually like going to ours.



We stopped in Buddy's Bakery 

I wish I could of taken one of the scrumptious cakes back home with me. 

 

Took 40 million pictures at the Starbuck on their Starbucks cam.

We couldn't figure out where to stand or when it was going to take the picture. 



 

This is where the ball drop on New Years Eve.

Trying to take a group selfie and realizing we should of bought a selfie stick so we could properly take a better selfie. 

My kids would love their toys r us

It was also 4 stories

Guy's American Kitchen & Bar is what we hit up for lunch and it was so good. 



 

Does this look yummy or what

It def was one of the best burgers around



 

Resting my piglets before walking the Brooklyn Bridge

 

We here Brooklyn

 

 On the bridge overlooking the traffic

 

Even though we were to full from lunch and couldn't try Waffles & Dings I still got a picture. 

Wall Street

The Bull is what I wanted to see while in New York 

 

Then we headed over to Battery Park to take a peek at the Boss Lady herself

That night we made a quick change headed out to Broadway

We all knew we wanted to see wicked

 

I was worried how I would do I am not a singing play kind of person.

If they would just talk I could of taken it better but all that damn singing I was checked out after hour number 2.

 

 Our Dinner reservation at Carmines was at 10:30pm so while I was checked out of Wicked and didn't realize it was over a 3 hour play Tiff and I headed to Carmines to grab our table while the other 2 stayed and finished.



 

Its now 11:30pm and we are like OMG how do people eat this late?

Its so packed glad we had our reservation.

This place was highly recommended and I now know why.

Their food is served family style so one plate will feed 4/5 people.

This food so amazing but sadley we couldn't eat all of it. 

 

 

Now it is around 1am and we had to pack up to head back home. This trip was so much fun and I am now counting my days until I can come back. I love this place!