I really need to be in bed!

Remind me not to go and drink soda so late at night and then eat a super rich turtle brownie! I absolutely can not get to sleep! I finally got up and I got on the computer to fool around a little thinking that I'd start getting sleepy. Well...it's not working!

I'm usually so good about keeping this site updated though so I might as well use my insomnia to my advantage. Let's just say it's been a busy couple of weeks though and not a whole lot exciting going on...

Our little soccer team had an away game last weekend and did super! I was so proud of them and their teamwork. They actually ran circles around the other team and we're able to keep the play mainly at our goal end. We had many attempts at goals and got two! The kids were quite proud of that! We ended up tying with the other team: 2-2, but it was definitely our game. The other coach even said, "You've got a great little team; they sure can run!" LOL...

After the game, a few of the kids from J and B's team came back to the farm and played for a while. They all had a blast and I even saddled up Pedro to ride. He is such a great horse! No matter what the kids did, he only walked when and where I did.

The kids have been busy getting school work done, playing with their friends, messing with the farm animals as usual and learning as we go along in our days.

On Monday we got 40 bales of beautiful hay. I am so glad to have found this hay supplier! He was supper nice and has awesome hay. The best I've had since living here. He is even storing the other 40 for us in his barn until I can get it! We got it stacked in the run-in shed right now and yesterday I got the tarp hung up in the front to keep it from getting wet. I had good timing too since today it poured and most of it came in sideways!

I took the kids today to see our friends and their kids who recently moved to town. We just love and miss them! The kids always beg to go visit.

B's birthday is coming up next month. She wants to go see the movie 'Enchanted' (seems really cute), get her nails done and have lunch. She is inviting a few girls to come along and she's so excited about it! Jacob wants to come see the movie, but he's says no way is he getting his nails done! LOL!

I had a Pampered Chef get together to attend tonight with some friends of mine...I love their stuff, just can't always afford to buy...I'm hosting a party next month though so maybe I can earn a few things! Much to Steve's chagrin, LOL.

When I got home though, I found Steve outside with our neighbors son (the neighbors whose dogs killed all my chicks and was in my pig pen last night-I'll get to that in a sec) trying to catch one of our pigs! It shoved it's porker self under the fence probably because it saw a human and they were late being fed! Duke had busted off his rope (I knew it was bound to happen) and was trying to catch it himself...maybe he was helping us to herd it back! Yeah right! I'm sure his only thought was: L-U-N-C-H! Steve had just got home and all was well, then Maggie went crazy outside baying and howling! He went out and didn't see anything, told her to hush and went back in...only to go back out because she was still going at it (I don't think he's quite learned her calls yet!) and saw Duke and a pig run by in the back! Here I am dressed up nice, running to the back and had B bring a lead rope to catch the darn thing with...pigs aren't all that friendly when you catch them! They will back up so fast like someone lit a fire to them. It flew between my legs sending me sideways (F-U-N-N-Y sight I'm sure!). We did eventually get it back in the pen. It just wanted to stay out and eat the acorns under the live oak tree!

As to the neighbors dog being in my pig pen last night...I'm pretty ticked off about it. It was like 9:30pm and Duke was barking about something. I went out to look...didn't see anything off hand and told him to hush. Then he went nuts and wouldn't hush. I walked out and I could hear barking that sounded like it was coming from my pig pen. Ummmm, pigs do not bark! They can make a ton of noises, but I've yet to hear one bark!

I grabbed my pants, flashlight and J's wooden gun (just in case I had to swing at something-too bad I didn't have a real one!) and ran out. There I see my goats huddled together, panting and calling to me, then I see my pigs running around grunting and the flash of a dog go by...I am not a happy camper when I see that it's the red dog of the neighbors. He had shoved himself up under the goat fence, jumped out, then dug a huge hole under the wood fence into the pig pen! Steve carried him to the neighbors behind me where I sharply banged on their door with my flashlight...they weren't too happy to see me and I can say that I knew that they knew I wasn't happy to be there!

Anyone got any ideas for a nice stinging type gun?! I'd actually like to shoot it, but unfortunately I'm a bit soft-hearted and as Steve says, that's not a very good idea for good neighbor relations. Well neither is their dogs constantly coming over and killing or terrorizing our animals. It's too bad that I put the extra dog kennel in the attic last week. He would have gone straight into it and I'd have called the pound in the morning. This is getting to be too danged regular for my tolerance level anymore...I don't want to shoot it, but at this point what do you do?!