Merry Christmas!!

At home on the range.  Colin and I hope each and every one of you had a very Merry Christmas! After graduation and finals, Colin and I had a little time to celebrate Christmas a little early in Manhattan and then left to visit our families for Christmas with them. Each of us had a wonderful time celebrating the birth of Christ and we couldn't have been more happy to see snow when we returned home. The snow was the first moisture we had seen in a while and we were all very excited.

Merry Christmas!!!! How do you like that nice looking Hereford?

It's been a while since either Colin or I had been back to the farm to check up on things. Needless to say, Colin was thrilled to see his girls (don't worry...he tells me I'm still his number one girl) and they were thrilled to see him. Separation is hard on them...they're just a bit less spoiled when Colin's away.

Feeding ground hay with the feed wagon. 

The girls line up nicely for breakfast. 

I've been getting my bovine fix with some very dapper looking young gentleman while working on my grad project. I'm looking at how mineral supplements affect fertility in yearling, purebred bulls and I have 90 not so willing participants. They like to show off in the lot, but when it comes to their turn in the chute they are a little needle shy. Little do they know, they've got lots more opportunities to impress the lady and her clip
board.

We need to work on some bull pics, but this is how Alissa analyzes her bull data.  All business.  

The countdown is on till the wedding. With the big day less than a month away Colin and I
are very excited. There's lots to do, cattle and wedding wise,  but we will be more than ready when the 19th comes around!

Annie says hi! 

Say some prayer for the sanity of those at home on the range!

Graduation

At home on the range. Last week Colin and I finish up our last round of finals as undergraduate students. We were both pretty excited to be wrapping things up! Although we walked across the stage to get our diploma covers (actual diplomas don't come till March!!!) and then had to go back for a week of finals, we were both very ready to be Kansas State alums.

Now that we are all graduated...Colin will continue on working at River Creek Farms. I don't think it has quite hit that he will never have to spend another day in the classroom. I will begin my masters in bovine reproduction in January and then will begin vet school in August. I guess I couldn't quite give school a break. 

Congrats to the Class of 2012 from Colin and I at home on the range.