Holy Cow

Okay so I just have to blog about our crazy experience yesterday. We can laugh pretty hard about it now, but at the time it was anything but funny.
Wade and I took a cow to the vet to get her eye looked at, after they were done with her they turned her out and she proceeded to run Wade over, knock him down, break his glasses and step on him. That is the easy part! She proceeded to get out of the corral and ended up running through a grain field by the vet office. Wade called me and the hunt was on! Wade, Susan and I followed her through several subdivisions, on to the golf course, down through Jensen's Grove Park, and into some trees behind Walmart (downtown Blackfoot). Well the only people I could think of to call to come help since my family was gone moving cows were Matt and Rick Thompson. Luckily they had been working cows and had horses saddled and they came right away. In the mean time the cow got on to the interstate at the main Blackfoot exit and headed south towards Fort Hall. Wade, me and several cops followed her until she finally stopped along the side of the intersate. Not too long after that Matt and Rick showed up and roped her and drug her over to our trailer where she happily jumped in (this whole ordeal took right around 2 hours). It was probably the scariest experience I have had in a long time, just worrying about someone hitting her and hurting themselves. And I just might add that 99.9% of the people on the interstate yesterday were crazy idiots, even with flashers and cop cars, they hardly even slowed down. We are so lucky that no one was "seriously" hurt. Wade can hardly move, but we will take that anyday instead of a car collision. Moral to this story.....Well, I don't know that there is a clear cut moral, all I do know is we are forever thankful for Matt and Rick, I honestly don't know what we would have done without their help. To them I say a sincere thank you. I guess the moral to this experience could be, keep your true friends close, and you will know they are true friends when you call upon them and they drop what they are doing and rope a cow on the interstate for you.

We thought for sure that the baby would come last night, with all the stress, running and driving around, but to our disappointment - no baby yet! Hopefully soon.