Skating!

The pond froze over beautifully in the past week and yesterday we were on it for over two and a half hours! Since there has been no snow over here lately we didn't have to shovel it off before we started. It was a little cold for the camera but it still works so I think its ok.


Know who everybody is in that picture? :)



I don't think Andrew was trying to trip Jer in that picture. Probably just trying to get the puck.

Our transportation.

Rachel

--Update~Monday Morning--

Rachel had a good night last night. She was quite groggy in the evening because of medicine they gave her to help settle her stomach. The little TV in the corner of her room wasn't working so the nurses brought in a big one and she had a huge selection of DVDs so she was pretty happy about that and she was the only child on the Pediatric floor so she had the nurses all to herself. She hasn't had another seizure since the one yesterday afternoon and she is on her way home now.

--Original Post--

Well, Today has been kind of scary. It started out normal. We all went to church and all of us came home except for Rachel. She went to Emily's between services. The rest of us came home and were having coffee and cookies and stuff just like usual. Then the phone rang. It was Jenn. I answered it and she told me to tell mom to come right away because Rachel was having a bad seizure. She hasn't had one for months and shes been on some medication. Anyway mom and dad went over there right away (they live right down the road). She had been eating lunch with them and had all of a sudden kind of passed out. Mike was there and caught her and they layed her on the floor. As soon as mom and dad got there they called 911. By then it was like she was in a very deep sleep. She sort of woke up but was still very confused as to where she was and what was happening. The ambulance and some volunteer fire fighters came and they got her on a stretcher and mom went with her to the hospital. Mike took us to church and back home again. We were only home for a little while and then mom and dad and Rachel came home. They had done CAT Scan and it looked like there was nothing major. They told mom just to call the specialist in London tomorrow and tell her what happened. Well they had been home for about twenty minutes and Rachel was sitting in the living room with a bunch of the others eating chips and it happened again but this time it seemed like it was worse because she started shaking really bad and she had been eating so it looked like she was choking. Anyway, those of us who saw it started panicking and were yelling for dad and mom. Dad came right away and mom was on the phone and had to hang up. Sorry, Aunt Caroline.
So mom called the ambulance again and by that time Rachel it looked like she was just in a deep sleep again. We all kind of calmed down and stopped shaking and started to think as to what we needed to do. We moved the table and chairs for the ambulance people, somebody made some food for mom because she figured she would have to go back to the hospital, and somebody turned a movie on for the twins and Benji. So the ambulance came and also a bunch of volunteer firefighters. By then she was half awake again and they hooked up a bunch of stuff and got her out in the ambulance and left with mom again. John, Andrew, Dad, Jeremy, and I did chores and then dad left to go to the hospital again. We heard later that she threw up in the ambulance but since then has been OK. She is going to stay overnight for sure . . . after that, who knows.
I will update again when we know more.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
-Romans 8:28

Home-made Goat Milk Soap!

Lately we have been trying our hand at making soap out of goat's milk. We made a batch a while ago but we weren't sure if they were quite right and the shape is not very good but they do work. Last night we made a new/better batch. These ones turned out better and the shape is better but they still have to sit for 4-6 weeks to cure. Our next batch will be with scent.

This is what the new bars look like:
I know there kind of smudged up in places but thats just from hand cutting them.
This is what the whole thing looked like before we cut it into squares:
Any orders? :)

A Cow Farm!!!!

Last Friday night we went to some people from our church who have a dairy farm. It was kind of fun to see pens full of cows again. I'm sorry I haven't posted in so long. I have got quite busy with school lately and I was sick last week.

The guys who farms here is trying to breed in Brown Swiss cows and Red and White Holsteins into his Black and Whites but it takes a long time to build up a herd of Red and Whites so he still has a bunch of Black and Whites.

This tractor went through a little accident and all the windows were broken and the cab was bent so windows don't really fit in it anymore.



I am planning to do a post about a bunch of goats we sold a few weeks ago but I haven't finished it yet so I'll do it in when I have some more time (something I do not have in abundance these days).

Family Members

Here is a picture of my Mom and Dad......and don't I have the coolest siblings....
......ok maybe not.

Echo!!!!

Well, I counted the votes and for Holly I got 2, for Echo I got 3, and then there was Betsy, Charlie and Wannabe and a bunch of others. When you come over you may call it whatever you like but I am going to call it Echo ( even though according to my brothers the name sounds like a car and according to my Dad it sounds like a weed eater). My Dad does say he thinks that I have earned the right to name it whatever I want since he says it probably wouldn't be living if it wasn't for me. :)

A Vote!

Since I can't decide between Holly and Echo we are going to have a vote. You have to choose which one of those you like better and which ever one has the most votes gets picked. May the best name win! :) By the way, I am still open to other name suggestions.

Name The Kid!!

I know everybody wants pictures of my Mom and Dad but I'm going to do this first.

This kid was born about two and a half weeks ago and and looks just like a little calf, so right now we call her our Holstein kid but she needs a better name....so get out the name books! Anybody who looks at my blog has to leave at least one name suggestion and then I will pick the one I like best. To suggest a name you can either leave a comment or email me at: goatchick03@hotmail.com
I'm going to pick on Thursday around noon so you have to do it before then. I will post on Thursday afternoon which one I pick. Have fun!!!

New Camera!!!

Somebody asked me recently to post pictures of my family so with that and the new camera I got for my birthday, (really cool!!!) I got these.
They're not really in any particular order. Enjoy!
The kids didn't mind posing for a few pictures, after I assured them that some of them were probably gong on my blog. :)



The girl in front of Rachel is Kayla. She lives just down the road and we get together often and either fool around at our place or go swimming or something at hers.


Benji was tickled pink so be able to sit in the tree and have his picture taken.
Benji loves the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and asks constantly to have it read to him.....and also asks lots of questions throughout the story.

Last week Jeremy and I went down to Bolton and we went with Aaron and Sarah to African Lion Safari, Ontario Place, Horse-back Riding, and Wild Water Kingdom. These pictures are backwards so they start at the bottom. The first ones are from African Lion Safari and then Ontario place and one from when we went horseback riding. I didn't get any at Wild Water Kingdom.