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I’ve known it’s been coming since the end of May, but somehow, the first day of school sneaked up on me. Good thing these whipper snappers keep track of such things. They were ready and raring to go. Even Kelly …

I absolutely love this picture of Matt. Heather took it this weekend at the Maryville rodeo, and I want to frame it. When she texted it to me, I got tears in my eyes. I know, I’m weird that way. …

Cody and Tucker spent the night with us this weekend. (Along with Lindsay and Jessica…but the girls were busy watching Joe and Heather’s kiddos and I didn’t get a picture of them.) And as luck would have it, we had …

After weaning all the Werner Family Angus calves last week, we decided to wean the Larson calves as well. Hello, Rhett and Diz! Hello, Matt and Haidas! Don’t stick your tongue out at me, son. Didn’t your momma teach you …

Here’s some more about our trip to California. We didn’t do a whole lot comparatively speaking about touring CA, but for the day and a half that we had, we crammed a lot in. We scanned the first day, and …

While a crew was processing catting in the barn during weaning, we had another crew out gathering pastures. It worked really slick, actually. The gathering crew would bring us a group of cattle, we’d sort and work them, and they’d …

We weaned our spring calves last week. And when we wean, we vaccinate, de-worm, pour, weigh, sort, and tattoo the calves. This takes a little time and needs several hands to run efficiently. But as luck would have it, we …

Earlier this week Dad and I went to California. We ultrasounded cattle one day, and went sight seeing the next! I will post a blog with some more pictures next week. Right now, I have to catch up on school! …

Okay, I wanted to explain something here today. I do not typically allow my children to go around shirtless. It just screams redneck, and as you can see from this photograph we are NOT rednecks. Lol. You see, Matt and …

I got to watch the most fun thing last night. We went over to Lewis and Martha’s and I got to watch 6 kids ride Bullet. Bullet is Tate’s bottle calf. And what does one do with a bottle calf …