Menu Monday - 9/24

This Week's Menu     
      I haven't posted for a few weeks & you can tell that my house is out of order. Here is to creating more order in my home this week.  

Monday:
        B- Pancakes
        L - Beef Stroganoff
        D- Hawaiian Haystacks


Tuesday: 
         B- Eggs & Sausage
         L- Sandwiches
         D - Beef Noodles

Wednesday:  
          B- Breakfast on the Go
          L - Tacos
          D- Chicken Pot Pie

Thursday:
      B-     Cream of Wheat/Oatmeal
      L -  Ramen Noodle Stirfry
      D -  Tuna Noodle Casserole


Friday: 
       B - On the Road
       L  -Shepherds Pie 
       D -  Tin Foil Dinners/Take out (On the way Home) 

Saturday: 
        B - Sticky Rolls
        L - Fajitas
        D - Apple & Maple Porkchops


Sunday:  
        B-  Omelets
        L- Creamy Bacon Carbonara from Get of your Butt & Bake
        D - Ham & Mashed Potatoes 

Baking:  Homemade Wheat Bread,  Pumpkin Cookies

As always I am linking up to Organizing Junkie. 

This Week's TO DO

• Laundry, cleaning, & laundry 
• Editing Pictures!!!! 
• Thank you cards written & mailed
• Make & Freeze Hashbrowns, 
• Make & Can Refried Beans 

Loading Ewes

        We are working on getting our newly founded professions up & running as well as we would  like it to be too be. We are getting there. Slowly. Ever so slowly. Well last Friday, homes school was a working day & boy did my little boys work. We started by getting them out of bed around 3:30 a.m. & tossing them in the pickup, they slept part of the time, & once we arrived at the corrals they were ready to go. This was my first time trucking any animal, so I was excited for it & had to capture what I could on camera.

The moon was a beautiful sliver moon, but I couldn't get a good picture without a tripod.

All those light spots are the sheep eyes, starting back at me. 

Getting the semi's trailers set up to load. 

Starting to load Sheep 

My good looking hubby. 

  I was a little nervous to see how the boys would be, we did drag them out of a bed at 3:30 in the morning. They were none to happy about it  then & it was a little chilly. Once we arrived at the corrals, we got moving & working.   I was glad to see they were all happy to be there.

A ewe waiting her turn. 

             I love this picture for so many reasons, it has to be one of my favorite of the whole day. I love the sheep camp in the back, the men working & knowing my boys are in there working hard too, the heads of sheep, the mountain in the background. The morning lights & the dust from the sheep from being moved from pen to pen. I love the bokeh. Really I just love this picture.

                                                         Loaded into the shoots.

If you can't tell that is my oldest. Working & separating the groups of sheep off.

My handsome hubby, keeping sheep back, while they switch the levels on the semil. 

My baby was strapped in a pack for a portion of the morning & once it warmed a little, we laid him down in his car seat & he took a little nap. 

I was lucky enough to have this boy helping me. 

My boy, working hard. Love it. 

Happy faces of hard working boys, after a good morning of loading. I love how the whole family was there together, working together. Plus they still were able to do work on a lot of  learning. We learned about  range management, tending animals & agriculture, we learned about new professions (the trucking business), wildlife identification & some plant identification,  sorting, addition & subtraction, grouping like objects together, counting by  ones & counting by tens, we practiced Spanish & tried to learn new words, we read as we went off the mountain, & we continued to learn the joy of being a family that gets to work together. 
Part 2 . . . . to come later. 

1st Day

This blog has been so ignored lately, & I miss you all so very much. But life has been crazy & right now I am just want to keep my head above water. One day hope fully I will be actually able to swim, not just tread. Anyways, hopefully in the next week or so I will be able to get back on top of it & this blog is on my to do list.  So here is a start.  

  

     We had our 1st day of school just after labor day.  It went nothing like I planned, but that seems to happen frequently here are our home school & I am learning I should know better. However we did get a chance to take the infamous 1st day of School pictures.

My Cowboy is 2nd. 

My little dude I struggle with, technically he shouldn't be in Kindergarten yet, but he home schools with us everyday & I would dare say is at a Kindergarten level, but we will call him Preschool for now. 

My monkey in 1st. 

My beautiful baby slept during this time.  Oh he is growing so fast.

Picture Time . . .

 For those local people, who actually know the girl from this country road, I would just like to remind you. It's family/back to school pictures time!! 

So lets all jump & shout!!! Yeah!!!!! 

So if your ready to capture a picture  of your sweet little girl, 

                   or maybe just your favorite place to walk:


  Let's get it schedule now.  So give me a call or leave a comment  & I will get ahold of you. I am running a couple of specials for the month of  September only!! I would love to be the one to capture your family.

 

Menu Monday

This Week's Menu     
    I can't believe summer is almost over. It has gone by so quickly. We spent the weekend out of town with my family & now we are back. This week we will "officially" start homeschool. Between that &  a few days out of town at the Ranch, it should be in an interesting & exciting week. 

Monday:
        B- Pancakes
        L - Cheese Quesadillas
        D- Pork Chops w/ Corn on the Cob


Tuesday: 
         B- Hot Cereal
         L- Macaroni & Cheese
         D - Mexican Chicken Casserole

Wednesday:  
          B- Muffins & Fruit
          L -Leftover Chicken Casserole
          D-Beef n' Broccoli ( In a crockpot)


Thursday:
      B-     Sausage & Eggs
      L :   Pork Fajitas (In A Crockpot)
     D -   Italian Chicken (Crockpot)
 

Friday: 
  B- Cream of Wheat & Oatmeal
  L :  Sandwhiches
 D -  Bajio Shrimp Tacos w/Sweet Rice (CopyCat)

Saturday: 
        B-.Sticky Rolls
        L : Ham & Pepper Sandwhiches
        D - Steak & Mashed Potatoes

Sunday:  
        B- Pancakes
        D - Herb Roasted Chicken w/ Steamed Veggies 

Baking:  Homemade Wheat Bread,  Butterscotch Oatmeal Cookies


As always I am linking up to Organizing Junkie. 

This Week's TO DO

• Clean House
• 1st Week Homeschool
• Working @ the Ranch
• Doing 2 Family Photoshoots  (I love working!!!!) 
• Load & Start Editing Latest Photo Shoots.
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