Welcome baby Jasmine

We are so tickled to announce the arrival of Jasmine Marianna. She was born on the 17th of January and weighed 7lbs. 11ozs. She was born in our new home, but in the same tub as all of her 3 sisters. We are all completely and totally in love with her already and look forward spending lots and lots of time snuggling her.

My little helpers

Mama: Chey, can you please feed the dog?

(Mama wanders off to gather up dirty laundry.)

(Mama enters laundry room.)

Mama: Chey! What are you doing?

Chey: I give Franklin very much. (Said with a big smile)

Ahhhh....love my mama's helpers.

Happy 4th Isabella

We were so happy to celebrate Izzie's 4th birthday at the end of October with a sweet tea party. What a fantastic time watching the boys get so excited about decorating and treating their little sister with all kinds of homemade gifts.

Happy 7th birthday, Elijah Xavier

We love you and think that you are the coolest 7 year old on the face of the planet. Your tomahawk cake was a smashing success and we are so blessed to have you in our lives.

And the little princess said...

with eyes so big and bright, "Mama, can I wear your dress?" So, mama stops ironing, puts the pink nightgown on the princess and all is right with the world.

Adding more cluck-clucks

We welcomed 6 new Golden Comet hens to the bunch this past weekend. It is exciting that they are already laying eggs and absolutely beautiful chickens. It is obvious that they have been well taken care of and are very healthy.
It was quite an interesting day watching the Barred Rocks (5 hens and 1 rooster) try and immediately figure out a pecking order with the new batch of 6 hens. A lot of squawking and running and pecking and flexing by the only male of the bunch. Rich and Dante had quite a time narrating the rooster's thoughts as he was walking around in his glory among 11 females.
We are having a great time not only watching the chickens clean up the bugs in the yard, but also giving us yummy brown eggs each day.

The moment has arrived

Sunday morning as we were getting breakfast ready, Dante came charging up through the yard. At first I thought he was hurt with as quickly as he was running. He charged through the door holding our very first ever chicken egg. The moment had arrived. WOOHOO! We were all so excited. We were making eggs anyway (store bought), so we decided to cook up our homegrown one, too. The bright color of the yoke was just unbelievable compared to the other eggs. The children have been relentlessly stalking the chicken shed waiting for more eggs. We have gotten 4 so far and I am sure the eggs haven't even been sitting in the nest for more than 30 seconds before they are brought up to the house.