Learning while young

As stated in my last post, I didn't grow up being raised around animals that require a lot of work to maintain. After being exposed to the way my husband was raised, I truly do value and appreciate everything that his parent's taught him. To this day he is always eager to get up early (5am, 6am, doesn't matter), to go out and work with his dad, most likely he wasn't that eager in his youth. Anyway, they could be feeding the farm animals, or fixing fence and he loves it. He will sit there and tell me all the fond memories that he has had with his dad or grandfather in those early mornings, and some of the most important life lessons he has learned with them. How neat is that? Okay, I realize that some people might have already known this, okay maybe most people, but I didn't. I had no idea that this type of exposure could greatly impact someones life, and now it has impacted mine.

My husband and I have a beautiful 5 month old. She has been such a blessing in our lives, and I truly do love her. I want, as a parent, to give her the best life she can have. Sounds normal, right? Well, we've decided to start her young, learning the ropes around the family ranch and exposing her to what our family does. My hubby's family raises farm animals, has a small cattle operation, hunts, fishes, traps, and does anything and everything that involves the outdoors.

It is kind of hard to see, but our girl has already had her first hunting experience in the womb. I literally got to see my husband draw back and get a deer for our little family. He is going to school and is a year from wrapping up his bachelors degree, so we went down for a weekend hunting trip. Most guys probably wouldn't have shot a two point  (I'm sure you can look at the picture and see why it's called that), but my husband Cameron was in a moment where he was going to shoot the first legal buck (boy deer), that he could see. This deer provides meet for us to eat for the majority of the year. As poor college students this is how we survive. (Recipes soon to come on the different ways we use our deer meat.)

Last week we took our little girl to see the family ranch and see the cows.

Her daddy was so sweet and talked to her about what she was seeing. Moments like this are so tender and touch my heart. I cannot wait to see the friendship she will develop with her dad as he teaches her love, passion, and respect for the great outdoors and everything it has to offer her.