Borrowed

While we were house sitting for you Uncle Tony I borrowed your beanie to go outside with my Dad, I hope that was OK. Love Vienna.

Vienna loved all the outside time we got when staying at Uncle Tony's place in Mauku, expecially visiting with Beth the Sheep.

Beth's First Christmas

Camp layout: 6

I love this page and I LOVE the photos! They show that this crazy sheep was still getting a bottle at 5 months old! I love that in the big photo you can see the froth at the side of her mouth! That crazy pair!

Meeting Beth

On Saturday afternoon we drove out to Mauku to take the pig scraps out to Missy. We had a lovely visit with Uncle Tony and Aunty Lyn who made our little girl feel very special, they shared cuddles, took pictures and Uncle Tony took her for a walk around the orchard looking at the trees. Of course they have heaps of very recent experience with little babies as their first grandson, Jacob is just 2 months older than our little girl.

After catching up on all the happenings we headed down for our little Miss to meet Beth the Sheep. Of course Beth was just looking for something to eat and the little Miss was just enjoying her cuddles with Daddy but it was fun to introduce them.

We were suprised to see how much the black face lamb had grown, it is almost as big as it's mother and Beth. Beth and the lamb are great mates, I think that Beth is enjoying reliving her lambhood through her new friend.

Beth's 2nd Birthday

I had started this page at October camp and got it finished yesterday.

Beth was in a funny mood on her birthday ... still sulking from her recent brazillian, she wouldn't eat her birthday cupcake but Missy the pig took care of it for her!

Sleepover @ Beth's Place

Last night we headed out to Mauku to have a sleepover at Beth's place. Uncle Tony and Aunty Lyn were away for a long weekend at the beach with the family and we went out to Mauku to feed Beth and her friends.

They were all so excited to see us, Beth was doing her crazy 'I'm a lamb' thing, bouncing around the paddock with Ashley, the real lamb who is so cute and big was trying to make friends with Ashley but it's scaredy Mama said 'Hell No' we don't associate with him. Missy the pig chased Ashley and the pig food bucket across the paddock in excitement. And I sorted out the domestic animals with their cute little tins of cat food.

We had a nice night away and took advantage of the bath - I haven't had a bath since we lived out in Mauku with Uncle Tony and Aunty Lyn - It was sooooo nice!

Today I sorted out Beth's latest fleece (she's naked at the moment!) and got it ready for sending away for cleaning and carding. She sure did keep some odd things tucked away in her fleece - sticks, stones, parts of different foliage and sheep nuts (i guess it is like keeping candy in your pocket to snack on later).

What a lovely night away.

Visiting Beth

Inspired by the beautiful sunny weather and the excess of pig food in our freezer we decided to take a trip out to Uncle Tony and Aunty Lyn's place to deliver the pig food to Missy and visit with our Beth.

Beth is looking a bit raggety at the moment with long wool and the windy day. But Ashley was too so she didn't feel too bad.

Beth was very much in the mood for visitors, she enjoyed getting scratches and cuddles with Ashley and then played running games. She was bouncing around like a two month old lamb not a two year old sheep.

Of course, the Maori sheep and her baby are big ole scaredy cats and so were quite upset by all the frolicking happening in the paddock. The baby has gotten so big since I last saw it. Missy the pig wan't bothered at all though, she slept through it all.

A great outing in the sun, visiting with our friend Beth. Yay for sunny Sundays!