Becky, Becky

Hey everyone... this is Jen :)

First off I want to say that I KNOW that some (or most) of you MUST be getting tired of this tag. BUT my big Sis-in-law tagged me and you know if I didn't do it... well.... I'm not sure, but I think one is supposed to listen to you big sister. :) So, Bec.... if for no one else.... this is for you K? :)

1.High heels or boots? DEFINATLY boots, (especially if they are cowboy boots :)

2.What time did you get up this morning? 6:19 was when I got up to check the cows, but I went back to sleep after that :)

3.What was the last movie you saw in the cinema? The Nativity Story

4.What is your name? Jennifer

5.What is your favorite tv show? We don't have tv....

6.What do you usually have for breakfast? We have lots of different things.

7.What is your middle name? Rose.

8.What food do you dislike? Whipped Cream.

9.What is your favorite CD at the moment? Becka borrowed us the purple WOW worship, we've been listening to it often :).

10.What characteristic do you despise? One who doesn't take the time to listen.

11.Favorite clothing? Wranglers, plaid shirt, cowboy hat, and belt and also my "farm girl" hoodie.

12.Anywhere in the world on vacation? Isreal or Africa.

13.Are you organized? I can be if I REALLY want to.... but usually not.

14.Where would you retire to? Don't know!

15.What was your most recent memorable birthday? Tough question, but I think I'm gonna say my 18th, cause Mom and Dad were able to take me out for my birthday (usually Dad is either cutting or baling hay) and my sweet parents bought me a western outfit :).

16.What are you going to do when you finish? Go and watch a "Gaither Vocal Band" DVD with my sisters. And check on the cows.

17.What is your birthstone? Ruby

18.Person you expect to publish this first? I don't know.

19.When is your birthday? July 30

20.Are you a morning person or a night person? Not sure. I'm the one that wants to stay up to watch shooting stars... or mediorite shows... or eclipses (unfortunatly.... not everyone has the same veiws). But on the other hand.... I will wake up at 5 in the morn. to ride... I guess it is conditional :)

The eclips of 2008

21.What is your shoe size? 7 or 8

22.Do own any animals? YUP :) A horse and we've got LOTS of animals on the farm :)

23.Any news you'd like to share? It's only 3 weeks (21 days) till the Muncks come out for their visit!!!

The Muncks and the Pauls' at the end of our first visit (March 2009)

24.When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up? A cowgirl living on a ranch raising and training horses (along with a husband :), or a Christian band leader.

25.What is your favorite flower? Roses and daisies.

26.What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? I have 2 days.... March 31 when we are going to the "Brandon Winter Fair" with the Penners and April 16th when we FINALLY get to see the Muncks!

Raechelle Penner and I at the fair last year

27.If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Orange

28.How is the weather right now? It is actually nice and sunny :) it is currently 3 degrees cecius (38 F)!

29.Last person you spoke to on the phone? Mom.

30.Favorite drink? PEPSI!!!

31.Favorite restaurant? Montana's

32.Hair color? Dirty blonde

33.What was your favorite toy as a child? My doll Jessica

34.Summer or winter? Summer... cause in summer I can RIDE!!!

35.Chocolate or vanilla? Chocolate

36.Coffee or tea? NONE!! The only coffee we have in the house is Uncle Arther's coffee :)

37.Wish you were still young? Umm... I think I am young....

38.Do you want your friends to publish this? If they want, sure!!!

39.When was the last time you cried? Couple days ago.

40.What is under your bed? Shoes, my journals, art stuff, dust bunnies.... and stuff :)

41.What did you do last night? Milked my cows, and watched the gather vocal band DVD "Reunited"

42.What are you afraid of? Heights, if I don't have anything sturdy to hang on to :)

43.Salty or sweet? SWEEEETT!!!

44.Best quality you have? I don't really know.

45.How many years at your current job? I don't have a job.

46.Favorite day of the week? Sunday (cause that is when we oft get to ride our horses when it is busy) and Saturday (cause of brunch day, we spend lots of time just being a family and then there is HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA!).

47. What four people will you tag? All my favorite persons in the world are tagged already :) But if ya really want to do this tag... go ahead!

I'm It!

Rebecca tagged me....so here it is!

1.High heels or boots? I detest high heels, so boots!

2.What time did you get up this morning? 8:00

3. What was the last movie you saw in the cinema? Can't remember the name of it :-(

4.What is your name? Rosalie....Mom....Grama

5.What is your favorite tv show? We don't have TV, so I will say one of my favorite videos....Fireproof

6.What do you usually have for breakfast? Depends on what baby is craving!

7.What is your middle name? Anne

8.What food do you dislike? Cooked spinach or squash

9.What is your favorite CD at the moment? I'll say one of my favorite songs.....Revelation Song

10.What characteristic do you despise? A lying tongue

11.Favorite clothing? Anything comfortable

12.Anywhere in the world on vacation? Israel

13.Are you organized? I can be!

14.Where would you retire to? Anywhere our children and grandchildren are.

15.What was your most recent memorable birthday? Too many to pick out just one.

16.What are you going to do when you finish? Spend time with my family.

17.What is your birthstone? Sapphire

18.Person you expect to publish this first? Strange question?

19.When is your birthday? Sept. 5

20. Are you a morning person or a night person? Well that's hard to answer cause I like my sleep :) But I definitely prefer to get up early rather than stay up late.

21.What is your shoe size? 8

22. Do own any animals? Yes, many

23.Any news you'd like to share? I have the best husband :)

24.When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up? Many things, I'm glad I became a wife and mother instead!

25.What is your favorite flower? Roses

26.What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? Middle of April when the Munck family comes for a visit.

27.If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Cherry Red

28.How is the weather right now? 3C (37.4F) and calm....quite nice actually.

29.Last person you spoke to on the phone? A neighbor

30.Favorite drink? Milkshake, does that count?

31.Favorite restaurant? Montana's

32.Hair color? Dark brown with a couple gray hairs.

33.What was your favorite toy as a child? My doll, "Bobby"

34.Summer or winter? Summer

35.Chocolate or vanilla? Is that even a question? Chocolate of course :)

36.Coffee or tea? No thank you!

37.Wish you were still young? Not a chance!

38.Do you want your friends to publish this? That's up to them.

39.When was the last time you cried? A rather personal question!

40.What is under your bed? Yikes!!! A few baskets of things and dust bunnies!

41.What did you do last night? Had a great visit with friends that we hadn't seen in way to long.

42.What are you afraid of? I don't know if afraid is the right word, but that I would dishonor my Heavenly Father.

43.Salty or sweet? Okay, another silly question! Sweet....sweet.....and some more sweetness please!

44.Best quality you have? Hmmmm.....

45.How many years at your current job? 21 years

46.Favorite day of the week? Sunday

47.What four people will you tag? Your It!

A Precious Moment On The Farm

I know we have posted a lot about calving season already, but you must understand that right now it consumes much of our days :) Calving season always makes life on the farm much more busy, but I wouldn't trade it for anything! It is so fun and rewarding to see these cows give birth to their little babies and take care of them. There is just something special about new life and spring that makes your heart feel good! We are now up to 11 calves. Last year Jen, Meg and Kerri learned the ropes of calving and this year they have basically done all the calving work so far, except for the tagging and castrating. They are doing an excellent job and we are so proud of how responsible they have been. It's such a blessing to have good help around which frees Mark and I up to be able to concentrate on other things. Thanks girls, we love you! We have heard comments over the last little while that some of you would like to see a cow giving birth to a calf. Well, since you can't be here to see it, we thought we would give you the next best thing....a video! So if you don't like to see cows giving birth, THEN DON'T WATCH THIS VIDEO :) But if you would like to....ENJOY! This is our cow "Calfy" (well she was a calf when we named her this:) She is part Holstein. We have milked her on and off over the last few years before we got our Jersey cows. She is a sweet and stubborn cow all in one! The video that you will see was taken in a span of about 5 hours. About 3 hours from her water breaking until she gave birth to this little sweet heifer calf. And within about 2 hours from birth she was up and drinking from Mama (with a little help from Jen.) You will see Kerri pulling the calf out, we will do this sometimes if the birth has been long or the calf's head has been out for awhile. This was an easy pull, so she probably would have been fine on her own. But when you are standing there watching, it's hard not to help her out :) And if you have any questions, please feel free to ask them in a comment and we will try our best to answer them. Now for the video!

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And Calving has Begun! (By: Megan)

This morning at 10am we had our first calf of the season. It is always a very exciting time when we start calving. And today some even got to watch them being born.

It's a girl! This is April and her new calf....Jen, Kerri, Jesse and Caleb were watching and waiting for this calf to be born while I was inside helping mom with brunch. I kept running in and out hoping I would see it being born but I misssed the birth by half a minute :(

I guess she dosn't like her picture taken...LOL!

And while Jen and I were checking on the new arrival we saw this...

Yep, another calf was ready to be born! And I wasn't about to miss this one! Here you can see just the hooves coming out.

Now you can see the head..

Here's Jennifer helping her out by grabbing the legs and giving a slight tug. This one probably would have had the calf fine on her own, but Jen can't stand not to help :) Sometimes, not very often though, we will have a calf that gets stuck and we have to put strings on it's legs and pull quite hard. Thankfully this cow had no problems!

It's another girl! Meet Bellar (affectionately named so because of the low, growling bellar she serenades us with every time she has a calf, at first it was kind of intimidating, but now we know that's just what she does and that she means no harm) and her sweet calf. She looks kind of lifeless right now, but as soon as she realizes she is free she will be trying her best to get up

Some of the other cows greeting the new arrival. I guess they can hardly wait until they have their own calf to lick off :-)

Isn't she a sweet, slippery looking thing? :) Her mother will soon have her all licked off and looking just as clean as can be!

So this has been the happenings on the Pauls' farm today..within a couple of hours, two brand new calves.

And this is just the beginning. There are LOTS more to come!

Updates....

I just wanted to say a big thank you to all who have been praying for me since I posted this request. I am so thankful for each and every one of you who have said that you hold up our family daily in your prayers and I am once again overwhelmed and so grateful for our friends and fellow believers from far and near.

The baby is doing great as far as I can tell. We have heard a strong healthy heartbeat a couple of times. That's always so nice to hear :) I have been feeling more and more movement the last couple of days as the little arrow is letting me know he/she is in there! Sometimes it catches me off guard as in the busyness of life I often forget that I am even pregnant :) (I think those of you who have many children will know what I am saying!) But that little flutter brings a smile to my face and a feeling of LOVE to my heart for this dear, precious little life.

My blood pressure has been staying in the normal range. My Dr. has agreed to continue to let me monitor it at home, while continuing care with my midwife. And if it would happen to go up again then I would have shared care between her and my midwife. I can't tell you how grateful I am to the Lord for sending a Dr. to us that is so caring, not to mention reasonable. She has been a HUGE blessing to us. And have I ever told you how wonderful my midwife is? Well.....SHE IS :)

On another note, we are enjoying have Josh, Rebecca and baby Andrew home with us again. What a special little sweetie he is. It has been such a joy to cuddle and love on him. He is doing well, growing, and becoming more and more alert every day. He was scheduled to have hernia surgery this past Tuesday, but he has a cold so they postponed it until a later date. Please pray for him, that he would get over this cold quickly and be able to fight off the other germs he comes in contact with.

And just so you can take a peak at the little bundle that we get to cuddle with, here's a video of little Andrew taken last week. He's already changed a lot since then....but he's just as cute :)

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Say High to the Boy :)

Every once in awhile the excitement on the farm is getting a new piece of machinery. Such was the case last week when this was delivered to our yard.

For our friends who are not farmers, this interesting machine is called a high boy sprayer. And even though spraying crops is our least favorite thing about farming, it is a necessary part of growing them. We spray for many things like bugs that want to eat away our plants, to pesky weeds that threaten to choke out our crops and diseases that threaten to cut down our yields. It was HIGH time for a newer sprayer and this BOY is going to make things a lot easier and will also eliminate the need of hiring others to do spraying for us :)

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All of our boys were very excited as they had been waiting a long time for this exciting delivery. As soon as the word came that the delivery was at the end of our lane they threw on their winter gear as fast as they could and were out there to look it over.

Of course everyone had to have a test drive! How many kids can you fit in a tiny little cab? In our family.....quite a few :)

And of course our photographer had to take pictures from every angle :)

So there you have it.....the newest addition to our farm machinery.