My youngest turns 12 today. These twelve years of knowing him have gone by so quickly. Looking back at the pictures I still vividly recall every scene. He is just ten days old here. God made our hearts to love each child just as much as the others. And yet in some ways it is […]
The Boys Decorate the Christmas Tree
Each year the boys take turns putting the angel on the Christmas tree. This is the first year for Nicholas that he felt he didn’t need dad lifting him up. Don’t know how I feel about that 🙁 As I said in my last post, I promoted the boys to managers of the Christmas decorating. […]
Nature Walk Sans Goats
Michael had plans for our Saturday afternoon. Some sort of survivalist activity. We would need to use compasses, communicate with signals, etc. Then he started working on the garage door project on Friday and didn’t have time to set everything up in the lower acreage. So we took the goats for a walk. For some […]
Fun in the Barn
The last post showed some of the things our animals do in the morning. Well, they are not the only ones doing photo worthy activities. Here are my boys. They are finished with their chores so now it is time to play. Nicholas is working on climbing the rope. He is getting quite good at […]
Motivation
Motivation is a good thing. Being former city folk, we are not used to being SO busy on the weekends. If we were busy it was usually going somewhere to do something fun as a family. On Thursday Michael put together his weekend to-do list. The boys and I sat in rapt attention. What were […]
Hello Again (part two)
Ok, so we left with Michael heading to NY for his annual meeting. One last thing we needed to do before he left was tattoo the two babies. The last time we tattooed baby goats we had our friend Raspberry do it. This time we thought we would do it on our […]
Boys Having Fun
Michael and the boys have been riding their dirt bikes down in the lower acreage. They actually “cleared” a trail around the perimeter of the field to use with their bicycles as well as their dirt bikes. The boys pitched in and we bought them each a helmet. Have to keep those heads safe. Here […]
Happy Birthday Joshua
Joshua turns 13 today. Sorry, I can’t accept this. We are just going to have to pretend that it isn’t happening. Lalalala. Nope, my baby isn’t a teenager today. So anyway, I thought I would share a photo from each year. Here is the guy that made me a mom. It is amazing how much […]
Frogs Legs
Joshua has enjoyed hunting bull frogs. They are the only thing that he is allowed to shoot whenever he wants. According to the Department of Fish and Wildlife, bullfrogs are invasive and destructive and should be destroyed. Music to a preteen, gun toting boy’s ears. Usually he gets in the canoe and shoots from that […]
My Kitchen Adventures
I thought I would take some pictures of a few of the things going on in my kitchen. In the photo above, I wanted to make “Triple Berry Scones” from my latest issue of Cooks Country. I was measuring my ingredients when my boys came in and announced that they too wanted to make their […]
Honda TL125 restore update
So, its been a few months since the boys and I brought home the “Dirt Bike Project”, you can read about that story by clicking here, and we finally have it up and running! Cheers and Shouts. Here is what it looked like when we brought it home, pretty sad and worn out huh? When we […]
Birthdays and Birthdays and a Graduation
What a busy weekend we had. It was a fun weekend but busy with fun. That is a bit of a change for us. Usually it is the work kind of fun. On Friday our wonderful neighbors threw a big party. Their daughter Glory was graduating from high school the next day. It also happened […]