The makings of a wedding....

I decided to do some of our stuff for the wedding by hand...


First, I made the felt flower for Adam's boutonneire (or however you friggin' spell it lol), then I wrapped the peacock feather with floral tape, and glued the ribbons on. He wanted the fringes trimmed, so I obliged.

And then I made a plainer version for the other boys...

For the girls' hair clips, I ordered the plain clips online, and then added hydrangea flowers from the Dollar Store hydrangeas we picked up for the table arrangements.


And I took our favorite photos of each other and the critters and included them in our peacock fan photo display :)


And this what happens when I get distracted and the hot glue gun is still on.... :)
And of course, we enlisted Smudges help...
:)

This was a card box we picked up from someones wedding for $10 on Craigslist. I ended up adding more to it than just the one feather though.

Our wedding favors, peacock shaped lilac scented soaps. We ended up with a ton of these left over unfortunately, but I suppose it's better to have too many than not enough.

My toss garter

And the one for Adam to keep:
I had the lady send the garter without the ribbons and charms attached, and I added everything afterwards, so I could include the peacock feathers, and instead of the butterfly charm on Adams, I put our favorite band's pick, Three Days Grace. Their song "Lost In You" was also our first dance together.

Jefferson: Day 2 (9/10)...Show day!

I didn't take a ton of photos today, was too busy sweating as this was our first year showing. I'm proud to announce that Lightning was "moved forward" in the first round of them pulling their favorites forward for Best Fleece on Hoof, and honestly, as many animals as were there, I was really proud. I know it's not much, but it made me happy :) I found out, however, that the reason he hadn't been placing higher, is his bite is off a bit, so his breeding pen is limited this year to hopefully see if it's something he passes on or not. Anyway, here's the very few photos I took on Show Day! :)
"I'm ready for my closeup!"

Goofy boy wanted to try on dad's hat :)
"Ready, willing and able! Let me show 'em what I got!"


Mom standing in line with Lightning, awaiting entry into the ring :)




Mom was SO thrilled that Saigon got 4th place out of pair of ewe lambs.

Adam did SO well showing, I was so proud of him :)



I'll be nice and not post the photos of Juli's stubborn boy or Corinne's butt ;) This time..... Mwa ha ha....

Jefferson: Day 1 (9/9)

Okie dokie, Friday. Becky Utech couldn't make it, and so she graciously gave me her spot (you rock!) to the judges clinic. This is where Alan & Kate (our judges who came over from the UK to judge this show!) gave us all a course in judging our rams, something they take more seriously over in the UK.

Here Garrett is sitting with his ram White Pine Caiphas AI, as our specimen to observe how the judges evaluated him.


Here Kate is talking about the fluke shaped tails of the Shetlands and how important they are in judging a pure Shetland. If you look under the tail, it is always a V shape. Cool, huh?

One of the forms, these are the big 5. If they don't pass one of these, they generally don't pass the assessment.
Kate showing how to feel the teeth on the pad of a sheep.

Garrett feeling in another position, as sometimes they jut their jaw outward when you pull their heads up.
We all kinda got a kick out of this, but it's a good question :)

Kate showing the spiral of the horns on Caiphas.


Intent Garrett....


Innocent Garrett? Nah. :)
It's all in the hips...It's all in the hips...lol


Feelin' the back...Feelin his chest/lungs area....


Showin that they want wool up on the poll, cheeks and even some as far as wanting it all the way from the back of the head through the horns.
Alan getting some words in about length in the back, I believe. I have the whole thing on tape recorder, I should really download that one of these days. Probably need a computer upgrade first. *sigh* Sometime after Christmas maybe....
At the end of the clinic, we all got a certificate saying we could actually judge things like county fairs and stuff, cool huh? It was all very educational. I still gotta get copies of the papers to Becky though, just been kinda busy....

And afterwards, I had to go get my dose of cute and go see the newborn barn! No black faced babies this year :(




Here's mom trying to halter train one of our newest Shetlands, White Pine Saigon.
Alice grazing.
Wendy grazing...




"I'm keeping an eye on you...."
"I GIVE UP!" hehehe

Pre-Jefferson Opp: I.E. Brushing up on walking with a halter...

The pictures are kinda self explanitory...lol












Standing nicely, he finally figured out that the halter isn't so bad :)


The girls however, dont' agree :)


Everyones thinkin' they can get a quick snack while mom and dad aren't looking....



Hey Becky? Recognize that big mouth? Diamond, the 3/4 BFL originally from your place :)

Winters coming...that means more posting, right?! :D

Okay, there are more updates on my Facebook page, it's SO much easier to post on there, but I will try harder now that the busy year is winding down.

So...updates since my last post (which was September 5th...oh I'm sooo bad :( )
*Jefferson was a riot, I will post all the photos on that!
*I got married!
*Went on my honeymoon.
*I bought a small flock of CVM/Romeldales
*We're not moving out to the farm this fall, instead by spring lambing we'll be out there
*Getting everything ready for fall
*Getting breeding groups planned
*Got my hair all chopped off :)

SO much has been going on. I haven't gotten all of my wedding photos back, but I did get some from my FIL, and aunt & uncle. I'll try to go post by post and start updating everyone on my life. I think I'm going to absorb all of my blogs into one now that we can post pages. I can't WAIT until I get a website up and going :)

Hope I don't overload you with posts :)

xoxo - The Mrs.

Last call!

Sorry I've been so absent of late, but we've been getting ready for Jefferson! Anyway, just wanted to post quick that if anyone is interested in purchasing a sheepie or two, and wants it transported with us to Jefferson, I need to know by Wednesday, as we're going to the vet Thursday on our way down. :) Will have LOTS to post about when we get back :D