Our First Peeps

One of our chickens became broody (meaning she wants to sit on her eggs to hatch out some babies).  Last time we had a broody hen, we had no rooster, so that was no good.  Now we have a rooster so we decided to let her sit on the eggs.  She sat on 4 eggs and unfortunately only 2 of the babies survived, but they are totally cute the way they follow their mama around.

It was hard to get a good picture because they are constantly back in the brush.

Trampoline

Emily is the saver in our family.  One day she asked Daddy if she could buy a trampoline with her money.  As I prepared my speech to help Emily deal with the disappointment, Daddy actually said yes!!

Before he had the chance to change his mind, we were online ready to order.  They were a little more expensive than we thought so I chipped in the last third to cover the cost.

It was tons of summer fun...totally worth it.  Thank Emily!!

YIKES! Not lookin' too good, Max.

Bye Bye Crib!!

After 12 years and 6 babies we are saying farewell to our crib!  Although Drew isn't quite 2 yet, I decided he was going to transition to a big boy bed.  It was a decision made from laziness more than anything else.  Now that our addition is done and Bob and I are moved down to our new bedroom it is time to switch the kids bedrooms around as well.  In order to get the crib from one room to the other I had to take it all apart, so I just decided it would be easier to take it down for good!

 Jack was the trusty handyman who took it apart.

And here is Drew in his big kid bed for the first night!

So far so good.  He hasn't been getting out of bed on his own yet.  Of course it takes a few weeks for the kids to understand that they can indeed get out of bed anytime they want so we'll see if he can keep it up.

I have loved the little years, so it's a little sad, but I'm looking forward to the freedom to do more with the kids as they get older.

First Summer Field Trip

During the summer I try to take the kids on one field trip each week.  This doesn't mean it always happens, but at least we try.

For our first trip of the summer we went out to Parker Dam State Park to meet up with our friends, the Gardner Family.  Of course the dads were at work so they couldn't go and James was still in school.

I love it that the kids get along so well!

Here are some pictures of the day.

Since it was about 65 degrees that day we pretty much had the place to ourselves:)  Despite the chilly weather, the sun warmed us and we all had such a good time catching up with friends.  Can't wait to do it again...maybe we can aim for a warmer day!

Dots!

Now that school is out, one of our first projects is to paint and set up the kid's bedrooms.  

We saw this project on a you tube channel called Show me cute.  Here is the link if you're interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ43SzkZGmM

Thankfully the walls were already a beige color so we didn't have to paint the whole room...we just added dots!

I did the circles on the main wall, but Emily did a great job on her closet walls.  We had lots of fun!

Hopefully soon once we paint the trim and move in the furniture we can show you the finished project!

Turtle Eggs

This morning this turtle showed up in our mulch bed and started digging a hole...very slowly.  It would reach its hind leg down into the hole, slowly scratch up some dirt, and then bring it up to discard the dirt. Then it would reach down with the other leg and do the same thing.

A little bit later, I went out to see if it was still there and this is what I saw!

And of course we had to take a video. 

And when she was all done she covered her eggs with the dirt and completely filled in the hole.  Then covered the dirt with the mulch that was around.  You would not even be able to guess where the hole was because she did such a good job at returning it to how it looked before she started.

Does anyone know how long it takes for turtle eggs to hatch?