This is a video of my friend, Becca, and me playing God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.

O Come All Ye Faithful, Harp and Voice

This is my best friend, Becca playing the harp, and Christina singing.

Our New Family Pic

This is our new family photo, taken at the Reformation Faire in Morton, IL.

This is What Happens When I Give My Baby Brother Brownie Dough!

State Fair

Here are some photos of the State Fair dog show. Zeke got sixth out of 80 kids in junior showmanship ( 3-5 grade), fourteenth out of 80 kids in obedience! I got sixteenth out of 140 kids in senior showmanship ( 9-12 grade) and second out of 14 in obedience!

Zeke and his friend Josh.

The 2010 Porter County Drill Team; ( With their obedience awards)

Back Row: Kaila Shock, Emily DeYoung, Mary Brack, Josh Wilcox, Hannah Hendricks

Front Row: Taylor Crisman, Rachel McCullough, Zeke Shock

2010 State Fair Showmanship

Back Row: Kaila Shock 16th senior SS, Zeke Shock 6th Junior SS, Josh Wilcox

Front Row: Emily DeYoung 1st! Senior SS, Jessica Duncan 9th Senior SS, Taylor Crisman 14th Intermediate SS

Hog Wrestling!

Here are pictures of our hog wrestling; On my mom's facebook she has a video of us hog wrestling.

THE BEASTS Left to right, Sydney Clark, Kaila Shock(me) Christina Foy and Taylor Crisman.

My New Horse!

This is me and my new horse, Addie. I named her from the book, "The Princess Adelina". (Her name is Adelina, but we call her Addie for short.) I bought her at the auction in Shipshewana and she is registered Quarter Horse and registered Palomino! She is only five so she still has a little more growing out to do. I just rode her today for the first time and she did fine! I can't wait to show her in 4-H next year! I was getting a little tall for the ponies so I decided to get a horse! Check out my new blog, www.myhorseandme3.blogspot.com

It's Fair Time!

I can't believe that the fair is almost here! Tomorrow is the first day of the Porter County fair, ( the fair that we go to) and is also the first day of the dog show! We took the dogs to be groomed at 9 am this morning to get them ready for tomorrow.

I gave Haus a bath myself because I am not doing showmanship with him ( and let me tell you he did not like it!) but we took Blackbear and Shasta to get groomed because we are doing showmanship with them.

Farm Pictures

This is My Little Brother

Titus Walking

Little Dude has finally figured it out!

Savannah's Baptism

Sunday evening was a very special time, my little sister was baptized! She was baptized on our farm in a water trough to keep up the tradition, I was baptized in a water trough and Zeke was baptized in a pond!

Camp-Out On The Farm

Here are some pictures of the camp-out that we had on our farm. Thanks to all who came, we had a great time!

My Mother and Titus (In the front)

Mr. Van Vuren, Evan Devine and Eric Van Vuren

Mr. Fuentes

Mrs. Wells and Janai Fuentes

Sara Devine and Michelle Van Vuren

Dad's Birthday (Evan is peeking over his shoulder!)

Baby Goats!

Our doe, Peaches, just had twin babies, a buck and a doe! The buck we are not keeping, but we name them anyway! Their names are, Chocolate and Milky Way (we call her Milky for short). Here are pictures of both the mother and the kids.

The black and brown one is Chocolate, and the cream one is Milky.

This is Peaches, the mother.

Titus' Birthday!

Titus, my youngest brother out of four, turned a year today! And just yesterday, he started to crawl!

Here he is eating his birthday cake!

His first hair-cut.

Weeding!

Now that we have most some of the planting done, the next step, WEEDING! I for one do not like weeding that much, but I don't mind it.
Here are pictures of some of the gardens:

The white things are hotcaps, and under the hotcaps are tomatoes and peppers. (The ones farthest away are the peppers.) Hotcaps protect the plant against the cold, so, you can plant vegetables earlier.

Left: Radishes.  Right: Peas.

Peas

Blackbear and a Snake!

My mom was running down to our gardens, and she almost stepped on a Western Fox Snake! She told me to come down to where she was and sure enough, there was a pretty big, brown and black snake slithering on the ground! I went to get Zeke, (who is intrigued by snakes) and he came running out along with, R.J. and Savannah.
When we got to the snake, Zeke tried to pick it up! But of course mom didn't want him to.  Then who should come along but Blackbear, our big black dog! He didn't notice it at first, but when he accidentally stepped on the snake, it lunged toward him! He definitely saw it then!  After about 10 minutes of watching Blackbear bark at the snake and then in return it would lunge at him, Zeke,(being the brave ten-year old boy he is,) picked it up with a stick and Blackbear was trying to bite the snake of! Finally, he took a bite at it and shook it and then let go! He did that a few times until it died! One time it almost hit Zeke in the face!!!

Gardening!

About a month and a half ago my dad plowed 7, one-hundred by fifty foot gardens with his Farmall 806 tractor and five foot rototiller!
We have a lot of planting to do!

4-H

It's that time again! Zeke and I have already  started 4-H dog training! I am showing a new puppy this year, his name is Haus.
I am also sewing a horse western showmanship outfit for 4-H! I love to sew!
I am also showing goats and horses, making a movie, gardening and growing flowers for 4-H!