We love babies...

Baby chickies are so fun and adorable. Lena especially loves them and tonight when they took her out of the chicken coop she cried and cried. After supper she asks, "Please mommy, take me to the chickens."

Moriah and Lena and the baby chicks.
They were all alive when we went to the post office. It's nice that the Main post office is open 24 hours a day and they called us Saturday and said they had some chicks for us and we were able to pick them up yesterday. Otherwise, they would have been delivered tomorrow sometime. We got to get them water and food almost two days earlier. I hope it makes a difference in how strong and healthy they will be.

Two little lovelies!

First of all...

The lost/stolen/missing bike!!!! I lost some sleep over this! Emily had an idea when she was outside the garage doors one day to open the North door which we never really use and there was Caleb's bike. It was in a corner of the garage that no one would even think to look because the garage is quite full of junk right now and you can't even walk over to that corner of the garage from the inside. We would not think of it except now Kevin remembers opening the door and putting there one day:) Praise the Lord it wasn't stolen!

I should be too embarrassed to show this. The bike was way over in the corner on the back side of the tractor. You cannot walk to it on either side of the tractor so no wonder no one looked too closely there. It was last seen outside so we concentrated our search to that area. I show this to you because within the month you maybe amazed to see me transform it from this chaotic picture of disarray to peaceful bliss. The stuff is going I tell you! I am painting the walls and maybe the floor and then when I look outside my door it will fill me with calm. I should show this to my chiropractor and he might know one reason why stress in my life is preventing my neck from healing :)

Grandpa likes toys and he likes to get our kids toys. He usually makes things home made from welding things together and such. I'll have to have a post someday showing what he's already made us but today he stopped by and dropped off this!!! He's been promising the kids to build them one but hasn't gotten around to it so found this on Craig's list there in Duluth and decided to go for it. Too bad it is so cold and then it started to rain. Kevin and I thought "Oh, good something to bribe them with to get their jobs done!"

While Grandpa was here his dog Boyka and Dakota had a grand time.

What are we doing?!?

OK, so my life just got a little scarier and probably busier than I really want! I just placed the order for 100 chicks (which we weren't going to do this year, Kevin called and said, "Let's do it.") and I finished the order for a polytunnel (24 feet by 72 feet)! (This is a picture of the one we are putting up). I am also planning a graduation party for Jordan complete with games and fun for the whole family. (Jordan thinks it's getting too big but how often do we have people over?!?) I plan on making it memorable and fun (for me at least since I'm doing most of the work). :)

It's time to plant!!!!

We had a great day today beginning the garden. With some help I got 5 rows of potatoes, 3 rows of peas and two wide rows of onions planted! Last year these things were in the ground 2 weeks by now so it must have been a little wetter here than usual for us even though I felt it was less water than last year. The back half of the garden was a bit mucky but we planted anyway.

Kevin got the third side of the chicken coop sided! Progress! He also, with some help, cleaned out the chicken coop! Whew! You could smell that all over the yard today. It was nasty. I think having three ducks in there makes it messier and smellier.

Happy Mother's Day tomorrow to all you mothers out there!

Couponing????

Jordan and I volunteered at a Scholastic Book Fair today in Fargo. It was kind of fun. It was a long day standing. We volunteered 5 1/2 hours. I say couponing because I am always looking for ways to coupon and this was to me a bit of extreme couponing. We each made $10 in books per hour we worked. Since combined we made $110 you also get a bonus of $25 so we got $135 in totally free books!!!!! Here is a sampling of the books we got; One on sharks, snakes, famous paintings, Abraham Lincoln, Harry Houdini, The History of Spying and Espionage, The President's Daughter (about Teddy Roosevelt's daughter), a picture atlas, three cookbooks, making 12 different airplanes (3 of them), Buried Treasure kit, 2 different build a book sets, the North and South Pole, etc, etc, etc.

Happy Birthday...

Caleb! In front of the door where we measure height.

Chicken Pot Pie. Caleb's requested birthday meal.

Chocolate zucchini cake. Thank God for summer produce in the freezer.