adventures!

Ok so like I was saying in the previous post we are looking for ways for our kids to do hard things.  Today we got our sheep and I can honestly say it is a day that none of us will forget.  We go out to the ranch and are picking out which ewe we want, we are totally clueless, so we finally decide on one and Elijah ropes it for us, after a couple of tries.  We then try to get her into the trailer, holy that was quite the ordeal.  We finally get her loaded and head back home, we stop and get some straw from Katie and then some alfalfa hay from Huntsmans and get home about dusk.  We get her pen opened, backed the trailer right up to it and though she would just go in.  WRONG!  Brady was holding a metal gate to block the one open area, and she took him out.  Like knocked him over and took off running.  After about a half an hour Chas finally caught her in the farthest corner of the orchard and started yelling for us to bring a rope.  By now it is almost dark outside, we try to coax her and push and pull her to the shed, she won't budge.  Chas then tells Brooklyn to get the big blue tobaggon like sled and we would push her over on it and pull her in.  So that's what we did, in the mud.  Brooklyn and I got quite the workout that night from pulling her all the way into the house.  But the kids will never forget the day we brought home our sheep.  And that is what we are looking for, memories to make, adventures to be had and work to be done!