Summer Recap...

We have had a nice, busy summer.  The last part of June we got to go to KS and visit family and then on to OK to visit more family and then have Youth Camp and then home again...we were gone for over two weeks.

As you can imagine I have SO many pictures, so to save space and time, I did collages (because they are so fun to do).

We got to spend a couple of day with my brother, Jeremy, and his family on their farm - we had SO much fun!!!  They have a lot of old building and barns on their property and Trelanie and I were digging around through them and found this old stove door, but it wouldn't move and was set in concrete.  So we got the guys and they got it off (of course) and GUESS what was inside?....

 MOONSHINE!!!!! No, we did not taste it, or give it to the kids to try. :)

Keith helped Jeremy cut down some dead trees and the kids all had a grand time on the go-cart and four wheeler.

Thank you, Jeremy and Trelanie, for letting us come for those days - we had so much fun!!

 

We headed down to OK to my parents and the whole family got together for the town parade - it's always a fun time and dad grilled up the best hamburgers in town!!

 

We also had a little party for Jeren - FOUR years old!!!!!!

We were also very happy that we got to spend some time with Keith's family!  We never got a full family shot, but here's a couple of the kids.  We enjoyed the park, homemade ice cream and being together in mom and dad's "new" house. :)

We love being with our families so much!  Thank you all for such a great time.

It's nice to be home and Ashlyn was especially happy to be home.....  she missed her chickens  :)

Having fun with the sun...

I love taking sun pictures. :)

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. :)

New things..

I know this has probably been around forever and I'm very behind the wagon, but that's okay....I just learned how to do collages!!

Isn't this SO neat-o?  All thanks and cheers go to Martha!  :)  Thanks, Martha, for walking me through this.

Now the great thing is, not only can I put a LOT more pictures on our blog for our family to enjoy, but I can also do it in much less space.  Double goodness!

This is just a sample.  I promised pictures of our garden and they are coming, but I thought I'd practice with some flower pictures - aren't they pretty. :)

More collages coming soon!!

Recap...

My blog tells me, it's been a LONG time since I've posted. Has it really been that long?

Here's a recap of what's been going on....

First of all, both mom and dad's came for a visit and while they were here, they (the dad's) helped Keith build our chicken coop. (the mom's and girls went thrifting)

Then we had this little lady dedicated....

Bored brother during the service....

She REALLY needed dedicating (she has a little attitude problem - it's being worked on as we speak and she's getting better).....

 Both dad's got to do the dedication which made it even more special....

Then Misty and Wesley stopped by and Wesley helped Keith finish up the chicken coop - in the rain....

Then we had graduation at school - handsome hubby with his good friend Chad.....

Then we had Awards night.  Owen got the highest GPA of the entire school - proud mama....

Kristyn got second highest - proud mama....  :)

Then Grandma and Papa came up for another visit and they worked on the suburban.....

Grandma played ball with Owen...... (and we did lots of other fun things)

Then there was Mother's Day a very special day....

Then Jeren had a little accident with a log (a very small log he was standing on rolled and it happened to roll his feet out from under him, resulting in his head meeting up with a thumb-size stick growing out of the ground)

 

  

Eight stitches later.....

 He's a happy clam and licked his ice cream bowl clean....

So all of that, plus a 10 day camp, plus a family reunion, that's about the extent of what's been going on. :)

How has your summer been?

P.S. Garden pictures coming soon!!!!