Goat Attack

Monday morning, one of the dogs we're keeping on our property, attacked our female goat, Penny. Caden and Grace were playing with the goats and dogs in another pasture near the stables. Collin and I were getting breakfast ready, it was Memorial Day, so he was off. When we heard and saw Miss. Ellie (the donkey), heehawing and rearing up and down! She was having a fit! I saw the kids were still in the pasture they were in so I knew they were okay but noticed a few dogs in with Ellie. Collin ran out there and I followed shortly behind him. Some dogs got a hold of our female goat and she was in a corner of the stables covered in blood and limping. Mona, our friend, was thankfully home. She ran over and got her horse trailer hooked up to her truck. She called the emergency vet to meet her at the office. She helped us load her up in her horse trailer and she took her in. Praise God, Penny is fine! The vet cleaned her up, gave her antibiotics to take for a week and we're keeping the dog out who went after her. We have six male dogs on our property. All of the dogs have done so well with the other animals but something must have startled Penny and she took off running and Pirate and a few others followed. I'm just glad Penny is okay. We realized on Monday that it's just as important that we have a vet's number handy. We also really need to get a truck and a horse trailer. We are also very thankful for friends and Mona, for helping us with Penny. She's become a good friend of mine who has taught me and the kids so much about large animals and farm life.

She got bit on both sides of her body.

They got her pretty good under her left ear.

Farm House Kitchen - Before and After

I'm going to do a series of posts featuring some of our farm house renovations. If you're new to my blog, we bought an older house on a little farm and had it completely renovated. The process took 3 months. Thankfully, we didn't move in until a few weeks before it was completely finished. The first post will be my kitchen.

The kitchen in our new house is one of my favorite rooms! This is my dream kitchen and has everything I have always wanted. When I first saw our house, I saw so much potential. You can change almost any room in a house and create a space you love. When we bought our house, the kitchen had a peninsula and short cabinets hanging from the ceiling. I knew instantly that if we tore that out, moved a door over, we could create a large island. I always wanted double ovens, a pot filler, and an appliance garage. When I met with our contractor's carpenter, I walked with him along each space and I described exactly what I wanted, including pot drawers. You can never have too many drawers! I also wanted the cabinets to reach the ceiling. We also wanted white shaker cabinets, dark gray quartz counter tops in the kitchen and bathrooms. I think the kitchen turned out great! You'll notice the old kitchen was narrow. The old water heater took up some of the space behind the old cabinets and wall. We bought a tankless and put it in the attic. Then we pushed back the walls and it really opened the kitchen. We had them install can lights throughout all of the living areas except for the pendant light above the sink and the chandelier I found on a really cool website. Let me know what you think of our new kitchen.

BEFORE:

Small but functional kitchen

We moved the door in this picture over to the left.

There was a lot of wasted space.

AFTER:

Maximizing all of the space!

Lots of storage, double ovens, gas stove, and pot filler.

We have a 12' island. I'm planning to get bar stools, eventually.

There used to be a wall where you see the table in the background.
We added a room, I'll explain this in another post.

5 burner gas stove top

Closeup of the island.

Notice the wider walkway 

Appliance garage

We moved!

About three weeks ago we finally moved into the farm house. It wasn't quite completely ready yet, but we sold our house and needed to move in. Now the inside of our house is done! We are LOVING it! We still have some curtains to hang and window treatments to purchase and either install or have installed. But overall, it's great! Country life is quiet at night, peaceful during the day, and just lovely. 

We had our housewarming party last Saturday and were blessed with 73 friends and family members who came through our doors. Our kids are adjusting. Grace and Jackson seemed to adjust really quickly. Caden took a little longer and isn't completely adjusted yet but is getting there. The first two days we were here, he sat in our van wanting to go back to our old house. I think having so many of his friends come over, he's feeling more at home. His favorite place is the hay low in the stables. He found a secret passage way up to his hideout. 

Being busy is an understatement. Haha. I will post some more before and after pictures soon. My three favorite rooms are my kitchen, bathroom, and breakfast/homeschool area that we added. Those three rooms have transformed our house! I'm also loving our new laundry room, den, and half bath. Really I like everything about our house. I'm looking forward to hosting friends and family and having our kids' birthday parties here. It's such a special place to raise our kids.

Here are a few pictures of our house and from our housewarming party.

End of the Year Trail Life Party

We hosted Caden's year end Trail Life party Tuesday night and his buddies got to come over and see our house and animals. We got a new foster horse yesterday and he waited outside 20 minutes for him to arrive. Eventually we'll get chickens and this summer we'll start getting our garden ready for a Fall garden.

Due to burn bans, the boys didn't get to roast marshmallows for smores at any of their camp outs this year. So we got everything for them to do that at their party. This is such a great group of guys. Their families were invited as well.