Country Living...

This first picture is kind of random.... It's not safe for the kids to run around without their shoes when we play in the little pool, so these are our water shoes, drying in the sun!

Here is our little swimming hole... deflated for now, but you get the point. Just giving a tour around the yard....
Here is our compost:
I was going to post a picture of the inside of the compost, but it's kind of gross. We are going to plant a garden next spring, so we thought we would start composting now. Everyone in the country does this, right?

This is Mr. Turtle's new home... I think he likes it. =)

This is Jersey's new home! We know she likes it!!!
This yard is about 20 times bigger than the yard she had in Abilene, so she is loving the extra space. We are planning on fencing off the portion of the yard that the kids play in, so that Jersey can run around with them a little too. She is so good with the kids and when they are outside, she just barks and barks to let us out to play with them.
Sit... Stay.... Good girl.

Country Living wouldn't be complete without COWS!

These are my parents' cows, but Papa (my dad) told Jayna that we could 'share', so we don't have to get our own cows. Thanks Papa! That's a big load off.

This big white-faced cow is the 1 of 3 mama cows. We call her Cowlick because, well, she has a cowlick! My parents don't name their cows anymore, so we decided to. Bonham is calling this baby 'Chuck'.

This big mama cow is 'Wild Red'. She is named after our favorite soda. It works well because she is red. She's not wild though... she is probably the most gentle and personable of all of the big cows.

Now this guy... we call him 'T-Bone'.
Bonham was gathering up some long grass for the cows to eat. This was doubly good, because it provided entertainment for the kids and cleared out some tall grass in the flower bed area.

Stinky Cows....

Allergies... the cow can wait.

Right back at it!

We found some green stuff to give them and they came running!
This is what cows could look like if you were an ant....

I was trying to get a shot of what they would look like if you were a bird, but this is more like if you were just really tall...

I took a lot of pictures on this day... I hope you don't mind.
This guy also wanted to watch us feed the cows:

Getting more green stuff....

Trying to anyway...

Okay, we're going to walk to the mail box... Jayna is faster than Barrett, so she is going ahead of him. Hugs and kisses....And she's off! He gets distracted. A.D.D runs in the family =)This is our drive way looking toward the house from the road...

Bonham got some feed, so no more pulling grass and plucking trees!
Get a hand full!
Or hands full!Aftet that, we had too much fun feeding them pellets, so I stopped taking pictures.

The next day, the kids were ready to go out and do it again!!!

Sorry for the poor quality of these last few pictures... they were just so cute looking out at the cows. =)