Day before Court.

Our court case in regards to custody and staying in Ohio is tomorrow. Wish us luck! Its a nerve racking process and Ill be glad when its finally over.

Secondly..... As of yesterday morning, Matt officially has a job working for an alcohol distributor here in Ohio. He starts next Wednesday. He's very excited and we will make sure to keep everyone updated when he starts.

For all of you that guessed on those last pictures. Yes they are Nigerian dwarf goats =) yes.... I'm sure most of you being from California must think we are absolutely insane, but Matt and I decided awhile ago after reading "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" and watching the two documentaries "FoodMatters" and "Food inc," that we wanted to produce most of our own food. We were tired of finding out how unhealthy the food that we currently buy from the store is for us and wanted to change our diets. After researching many, many animals, we decided on three that we would raise ourselves:

1) Chickens (for both eggs and meat)- we chose Delaware Chickens as the breed we would raise
2) Turkeys (For meat)- we chose Bourbon Red as the Turkeys we were going to raise
3) and Goats (for milk)- we chose Nigerian Dwarf goats as the breed we were going to raise

Nigerian Dwarf goats are a miniature breed of milking goats and many people keep there's inside as if they were dogs. They only get a couple ft tall. We got two baby goats from a breeder three days ago and they have got to be the cutest things that I have ever seen. They are actually very similar to dogs in their demeanor but I have to admit, they may be smarter than the dogs already. My dogs are having allot of fun with their new "weird looking" brother and sister and they all seem to be getting along beautifully. We got one Dow (A girl that we will someday use for milking), and a Wether (a fixed male) as a companion. Goats are very much pack animals and we were told that even with dogs around that the baby goat would have been very lonely if we hadn't gotten two of them. So two of them is what we got. Two girls were not available in this particular litter.

I have many pictures but until I find the chord to my phone i wont be able to post them just yet. Thanks for reading our blog. We love you all!