Wedding Wednesday

While out taking engagement pictures we had to not only take some with our family dog Bud, but my cow Elle was also on the list of must haves.

Not many people have a request like this, but our photographers were all for it. Luckily Elle is a baby, super quiet, loves attention, and would do anything for a scratch. Elle has had her picture taken many times both at our house and down in the USA where she came from. However, I am not sure that she ever seen herself getting pictures like this done.

Elle and Nina because pretty good friends, and lets just say Elle is not camera shy!

Fall Pictures

Along with the picture of Rival, we also pictured the bred heifer, Prom Date, and the black bull calf, First Time.

We are selling Prom Date in Checkers as a lot where we will sell 2/3 animals offered. She is being offered along with her mother, Dream Date, and her sister Play Date.

The bull calf will be sold either this fall, or in the spring through a sale. We sure like him, and he will be shown with his mother both at Agribition and Farmfair this year.

Picture Day on the Farm

This weekend it was picture day again on the farm. It seems like we are always taking new pictures of the cattle, especially the calves, as they are always changing and growing. 

Before we can take the pictures we always wash and blow them dry. Some clipping may be done, then we head off to our picture location.

The Eng helped us wash

Our picture location is down in one of the fields at the main farm. Because this is usually away from the other cattle we will take 2 or 3 down at a time. They usually stand better knowing they are not the only one there, and it makes it easy to picture a few animals at a time.

The Eng and First Time

Dad and Prom Date

Once and a while we will even get a few visitors coming to see what we are up to. We can make some pretty funny noises so there are always a few curious ones. Last weekend in was the new bred heifer we bought at Remington's dispersal sale.

Our new purchase

We got some pretty great photos this weekend, one that will be up tomorrow. Pretty excited too as I think it is the best photo I have ever taken!

Wordless Wednesday: First Date

It is like for another addition of Wordless Wednesday. This week we have pictures of one of my favorite cow's on the farm, First Date.

Happy Wednesday!

A Champion of a Weekend

This past weekend dad and one of our bull partners were out at the National Simmental Show in Brandon, Manitobia. The Simmental National takes turns rotating through the 4 larger shows throughout Canada.

We had never shown our cattle at Brandon before, so it was great to get back out and do some promoting in that part of the country.

We took a heifer calf, a sale bred heifer, our 2 yr old Bull and our bull partners also took one of their yearling bulls.

The show was excellent for us. The heifer calf was 4th in class, the bred was 2nd, the yearling bull was Res. Jr. Champion Bull, and our 2yr old Bull was Champion Sr. Bull and National Champion Simmental Bull!!

We had lots of really good comments about the cattle when we were there, and I was itching to be there all weekend. Thankfully we got dad trained on how to text message so he could keep us up to date on what was happening at the show.

 RJY Lady May 16W

2nd in class

Sold to Conray Cattle, MB

 Anchor D Viper

Owned by Beechinor Bros Simmentals

Res. Jr. Champion Bull

 IPU Revolution 172U

Sr. Champion Bull

2010 National Champion Bull

Name These Landmarks

So I figured it was time for a game and prize here on my blog.

Below are pictures of landmarks around New York. The person who correctly guesses the most landmarks will be the winner. It some cases it will be the actual name that we are looking for, and in other cases it will be where a film/tv show that it is featured in. You will know which one you should be using.

If we have a tie, the person who submits the fastest will win. The contest will close Monday at 9:00 PM MST.

You can either leave a comment with your answers or email me at stacy.young@live.ca.

Have fun!! The winner of the NYC prize will be announced on Tuesday.

Marcus Adventure

This week as I was going back through some of my blogs, I realized that I had never blogged about our friend Marcus!

Marcus was our new friend that we found in Vegas. While out for supper for Brett's birthday one night, a balloon animal guy came around. He asked us what we were doing later that night, and as we were going to see Thunder from Down Under, he decided to make us a male stripper. We named him Marcus.

That night Marcus toured Vegas with us. It was our mission to show Marcus around and make sure he had a good time.

Marcus bought souvenirs, gambles on the slots, and also came to Thunder from Down Under with us.
We also decided that Marcus would pose in every picture with us that night. Wait! Where is Marcus in this picture?

Oh there he is!

Marcus hanging out in the hotel room after a crazy night. He was a little hung over...

At the end of the night it was a pretty good time. There was lots of things that we can't tell you, because after all what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!

Fun Finds

I figured this was a great way to end a long week. Happy Friday everyone!

What a Cute way to wake up in the morning!

Wonderful way to store your shoes. Except for the really beautiful ones of course!

Seems like a great idea until your fingers pop through and knock a drink over

Who needs Penis straws. These are way more fun!