Peep! Peep!

Guess what we heard last weekend?  Misty and her kids and my mom was here, so it was a very exciting time and the kids were thrilled to get to see the chicks hatch.

What an amazing God we serve that created these beautiful chicks and still cares about all the little details of our life.

What a weekend....

Some friends called us and said they were done canning tomatoes, but there were still a lot left to be picked, so we could have them if we wanted to pick them.  So off we go to pick tomatoes.

 

 We made a donation to the school and used their huge stoves and had about six burners going at all times. :)  We got the whole family involved.

After 14 hours of canning - 7 hours one day and 7 hours the next

Grand total = 71 quarts!

I'm smelling a lot of Chili, Spaghetti, Lasagna, Veggie Soup etc.......in the next year!

Then we had a family baseball game.  Miss Ashlyn decided it was not a priority in her game to wear her skirt, but it was to wear a bonnet.  What do kids THINK?  That was short lived, but I couldn't resist this picture of her batting the ball on Keith's glove - and look at Keith's face......

*Note: No members of the family were injured during this activity*

Also, we have a little hen that has decided to sit on her eggs.  We are very excited about that. :)

Thanks for stopping by.  We LOVE hearing from you. :)

Guess What We Came Home To?

 We have been gone for over two weeks and I will post pictures of our fun time, but we were SO excited to come home and see THIS!

They are TINY eggs and so cute. :)  They are quite tasty even though they are small.

We had to share our excitement. :)

Our Chickens

We absolutely LOVE our chickens!!  They are not old enough to be laying eggs, yet, but we hope within a month or so we should be getting some eggs.

Since I haven't posted pictures of them for a long while, and I wanted to play with the new collage maker Martha showed me :)  I thought I'd let you enjoy our chickens, too.

The only complaint I have - and it's not really even a complaint, because I like them so much - is that they seem to enjoy flowers as much as I do....or maybe they're after the bugs.

They come running every time we walk out into the yard and they are out of their pen.
(don't you love our  we've-been-weeding-and-mowing-all-day-sweaty-attire?)

This is our rooster.  He hasn't started crowing, yet, but I don't know that I'm sad about that.  We may have neighbors complain if he gets too loud.  He's always keeping himself looking nice for the ladies. :)

This little lady is our mystery girl.  We've named her Goldie. :)  We ordered all the other chickens by their breed, but she was thrown in for free and we don't know what she is.  She's a beauty though.

Just because I promised pictures of the garden (I have so many pictures and I'm trying to decide which one's to post so I don't go overboard) here is a little sneak peak.  Yes, this was taken from the roof and no, I did not go up there and take it....Keith did it for me. :) He's real nice like that!

Do you have a garden, or chickens?  I'd love to hear about them if you do. :)

Birthday~Chick Day~Snow Day

We have had a fun week.  First of all, Grandma came and brought Megan back home. :)

She also brought Owen's birthday present - he wanted Lincoln Logs and she found a good Craigslist deal.

She also brought the kids Valentine cookies that she makes for them each year - and mom and dad, too.  They are SO tasty - Thanks, Mom! (Ignore Megan's hair - she had traveled all day - ha)

Then they had two days of school and we got......

Patch wanted out and quickly got covered in snow....

Two beautiful snow days!

It finally stopped today enough to shovel a path without it getting immediately covered again.

Today was also CHICK DAY at our house!!! These lovelies arrived at the post office this afternoon and we have enjoyed watching them.  We have 27 butchering chickens (we raised some last spring and it was a big help to our freezer, so we're doing it again) and we have 14 laying hens - I think there are a couple of roosters in there somewhere, too.

This evening it's been construction of Lincoln Log Village.

(In case you're wondering about Kristyn's hair - Wednesday was crazy hair day at school, so she wanted her hair crazy, BUT she also had a dentist appointment that day, so I didn't want to get any strange glares, so I did her hair in corn rows....the best part of that is, I don't have to comb it again all week. :)

How was your week?