New Years Eve

Well my husband really knows how to celebrate New Years Eve. We had just put Christina to bed and she was sound asleep when Joe and the kids decided to go and check the goats to see if they have had any babies which has been a ritual for the last two weeks. All of a sudden as I was closing Christina's door the kids came in screaming.....Thomas, yes a girl goat, had a baby. So I donned all the beautiful farm apparel and went into the 40 below windchill MN night and saw the baby. He was beautiful. This was 11 PM... so we waited in Joe's camper which we set up as a warming house and waited for Thomas to have another because she was still huge. We waited and froze and waited and froze and nothing for over an hour then at 12:30AM New Years Day she had two more boys. So one was born New Years Eve and his brothers were born New Years Day. The kids were so excited. I was excited too but couldn't move because I was so cold. We all ran in the house after the triplets had eaten and warmed by the corn burner. Then we all said "Happy New Year" and went to bed. Yes, a memorable but not very romantic New Year's Eve. This is the way a farm family with goats in MN spends New Years Eve. As I write this we have had 6 Nannies come in with 11 babies. All healthy and oh so cute.

Here are some pictures:

All the pregnant Nannies

The kids love their kids(Name of baby goats)

Here are pictures of the special Mama and her one of her babies having dinner. Aren't they cute!!??