Coulter Family

This last week we went back to Colorado for a week long visit. It was great to see family and friends we haven't seen in a long time. The time spent there flew by way too fast.  I have a lot of photos I want to share so I think I will make this into a 2 part post. The road trip to get there went really good! We left early Sunday morning and made it to Denver around dinner time.  Ashley's road trip selfies It was so good to be back! It was really nice to see mountains again! Lovely view from Stanley Lake The first full day we were at Grandmas, the little ones and her made popcorn balls Then, Norah and Izzy started making themselves some extra large ones! Sammie spinning Joe We also got to see our cousin Sammie, Megan and her husband Karl and their son Ronan and Aunt Karen. I hadn't seen them in at least 2 years and that was our first time to meet Ronan. We met them at the park and then went back to Grandmas house aft...

Now that we have completed our first year of selling meat at the farmers' market, we have learned a lot about how many animals we should be raising and which ones are better to raise than others. We really caught on to the fact that there is a high demand for lamb meat. I see why, its so good! And its a little harder to find it at market. Our whole family agrees that we would like raising sheep the most out of all our meat animals.  Since we only have 4 adult female sheep and 2 lambs we obviously had to get more sheep. So Saturday we went to the Norwood sale barn to get some more sheep there. We ended up getting 5 rams for butchering next year, and 7 pregnant ewes. They are all due this month. I am really hoping most of them have twins! And our other 2 original ewes never did have any babies, so that was pretty disappointing. So now we want to get a ram in there with them again. Hopefully within the next couple of weeks. Pigs were going for really good prices there as well...

Anna got into Veterans Day this year. As we were driving around today, Anna noticed that a bunch of people had their flags out. So when we got home, I went out to do my chores and found Anna in the field doing this......  She was running around with a bed sheet on, holding an American flag up, and waving at people who drove by on the highway. Yep, that's Anna for you! Never a dull moment!