Utter Chaos

This is what we had when we got home last night in the Goat pen...There were nannies in a pen by the barn when I left and then when we got home there were only two nannies and a bunch of babies..no fences down or damaged we can't figure out how they got out but they did. We have one baby that we can not figure out who it's momma is and no one is claiming it. At one time we counted 20 some babies but that was guessing with them all moving around so much while we were counting them. When I left yesterday morning we had two sets of twins. When we got home we had at least two more babies that had been born since then. So the attempt at leaving them locked up in all three pens for a couple of weeks has failed. We turned them all out together and you should have heard the noise..It was very cute to watch them all running and jumping around. And then we tried to count the babies and we are not sure what the count is right now, so we will try to recount tonight and make sure everyone has a mommy. If not we might need someone to take in a couple to bottle feed (GRANMA???)...

Then to top that off I tried to download pictures from my camera on the laptop and use the new picture thing that Dad told me about well it downloads the pictures but it does it twice so I thought hey I will just delete one folder well deleted the pictures of the goats but got the pictures of Andrew's second photo shoot on there...And I had the computer wipe the camera card clean so no finding them. That okay will take more this weekend or tonight might be dryer tonight then this weekend from the sounds of it. Paul not real happy on that program on his computer anyway it has slowed stuff down and we have pictures every where. Need to talk to my Computer Guru and get some help on it..

Well take a look at Andrew's new pictures in the photo gallery if you want. I also am hoping to get a copy of what the poster will look like as well to put on here..

Planning a little bday party for Dad on Saturday evening, Good food and company. Paul is on week number two with his rookie which he has for 5 weeks. He has been in accident class here in town all week.

That is it for now wanted to let everyone know that the fun has totally begun with the "multiplying like rabbits" Blankinship goat herd..Come on out and take a gander....

Happy Birthday to you...

Happy Birthday to you...

Happy Birthday dear "daddy" "granpa"...

Happy Birthday to you...

We love ya bunches !!!

TWO MORE SETS

Well the latest baby goat count, for those that care...is 16 we had two more sets of twins born early this morning...We took some pictures last night hoping that I can get them on the computer tonight for all to see and also the photo shoot from yesterday with Andrew the Fireman..

In a another week or so we should be able to turn Mommy's and babies out and then will try to get some real good pictures and maybe some video...Will also have to get Granpa Moffat out to shoot some pictures..

We figured last night we have 13-14 more nannies to kid and we will be done. We have all twins except for two they had singles...And as of right now all are taking good care of them. There are two little kids that Andrew will tell you that they look like lambs b/c they are pretty much all white they are definitely weird looking. Then there is a little nanny that is black and white and looks like she has a lightening bolt down the center of her forehead..I like the black headed ones..

Well until next time..

Do Over

Well here pretty quickly Andrew will be having a 'Do Over' photo shoot for the poster here at my work. They are actually bringing out the Ingalls fire truck to the office and we are reshooting outside our offices. The other ones were a bit too dark for them so they wanted to reshoot..Will have somemore pictures when we get this over with...

Quick Update

We are at total of 12 babies as of last night..And no new ones this morning..

Add two more..

Well latest count is up to 8 baby goats that is 4 sets of twins (yeah for me and my math skills today).....We had a set of twins born sometime early this morning..The kiddos got to go out and see them last night we did not mess with them just looked Andrew is ready to pet and love on them..Maddie is not so sure what is going on except that she sees babies and wants to just stare and stay in the barn with them..

Guess we will see later tonight what the count is when we all get home..

Baby Goat Update

The last message I got from Paul:

One mom and two babies on west side of barn and two moms and four babies on the north side of the barn..

And who knows what will happen overnight or what we will come home to tomorrow night :)

UPDATED PHOTO ALBUMS

Hey for those wanting to see our pictures, the ones that don't make the front page. Go to the left of our web page towards the bottom under "Links" and click on the link that says "Red Dirt Diaries Photo Albums" it will take you to all our photos from this year and years past..I only pick and choose a few to make the front page so that everyone can see those and then go check out the rest of our photos..

Enjoy...

We have babies..

Well the official 2007 kidding of our goat herd has started today. Just got a message from Paul and we are up to 6 babies so far. We have about 20 some nannies and might be a couple or so that did not bred. So if you have heard anything about goats they kinda multiply like rabbits once they get started..We will have pictures soon...We are very very thankful that it is not freezing this week..Wish us luck..

I will also have pictures from the kiddos from Saturday when we got to see and visit with Uncle Jon, Aunt Randi, Kaitlyn and Dylan..We had a nice lunch (thanks mom) and a great visit..As well as pictures of my two kiddos from yesterday..

Until then..