Nestor and Eclipse are loving life. They get all the special treatment being inside and then they get to go out and play with Madison.

Kelly had her baby during the storm, as did some of the sheep. This is Mist. She is really cute, but she doesn't like us to try to touch her.

We had snow today. Isn't it just beautiful!

So we have baby goats living in the house. Just imagine how that smells at the end of the day. Yep it is bad. But they are really cute to watch.

Madison works very hard feeding all of her babies.

Today Eric called me at church and told me that the creek was almost ready to spill o ut into the pasture. So I quickly came home so we could make changes before everything flooded.

It was touch and go for a bit. It was really high.

We watched waiting to see if it would come over the edge of this cut behind the house.

We cut off the creekline and put up temporaty fencing behind the water line.

Eventually we decided to spend the night at Mom and Dad's just incase the water came too high.

Baby goats!

This morning as we looked out at the pasture we saw a little brown thing. We couldn't figure out what it was. We got halfway to the pasture and realized that it was baby goats.

Moon, our Nubian had 2 little babies.

Melvin, the father is a LaMancha, and they have no ears. Nubians have long floppy ears. The female has the body shape of her father and the coloring of her mother. The boy has the body shape of his mother and the coloring of his father.

Since mom's name is Moon we named the girl Eclipse. The boy with the long floppy ears reminded us of the Christmas movie with the donkey with the long ears, so we named him Nestor.

Unfortunately there was something wrong with Moon and she died this afternoon. So now we have 2 goats in the house

Sad day

Unfortunately on Saturday little baby Tips died. She just wasn't eating enough to thrive. We ended up forcing her to eat most times and not getting nearly enough of that food. Madison was really upset, she had a hard time watching, knowing that she wouldn't make it. Once it was over everyone was ok with it. It is just a part of life, sometimes things don't work out.

The shelter got an overhaul. Instead of the individual stalls, we now have an area for the moms and babies and an area for those waiting to deliver.

Our ram likes to hang with the dog.

The pregnant mommas really don't like being confined.

The babies are having a blast.

My animal free home...not.

He was born on New Year's Day. It is now Sunday, the 3rd and we moved in the house exactly15 days ago. His brother died of the cold last night, and now I have a lamb in my house.

He is a really cute little thing.

His name is Spaz, because he jumps around like a crazy little thing.

We bring him in around 8pm and he sleeps in the house over night, and then he goes back out around 8am.

Tanner is loving having the lamb in the house. He wants him to live here forever. Luckily it will warm up tomorrow and the lamb won't need to be inside overnight.

Madison loves to watch the animals. She found a new place to perch to do that.

This is Tips. She is the next "house lamb". She was born sometime in the early morning today. We found her brother frozen by the fence, so they must have been born very early.

She wasn't nursing and her mother wouldn't stand still for her. She started getting very weak, so we brought her in to feed her.

It had been so long since she had eaten that she didn't even have enough energy to do that, so we had to force feed her.

She decided she liked being a "house lamb".

New Year's Day and more baby lambs

The lambs were due on January 15th. Two were born yesterday morning. Today we had plans to eat our traditional New Year's lunch of pork and kraut. I had everything ready, I was just putting the last touches on the potatoes and we were ready to serve. I looked out the kitchen window and I see a lamb. So I sent Madison out to put it back in the shelter.

She got out there and by the way she was acting I knew that something was wrong. She picked up a lamb...and then another...and none of them had black on them.

So here we were, two more lambs and another stall to build in 6 degree weather.

Here is Nellie and her 2 boys.

Molly and her girl and boy from yesterday.

They are both great mommas.

The shelter is a carport that we decided to put sides on.

We needed to break as much of the wind as we can since it is so unusually cold and windy this year.

The goats are really happy for the shelter.

So instead of eating our meal for lunch, we waited until dinner. We had a great time spending the first day of the new year with Mom and Dad...after we got all the work done.