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.