garden

I took these a few days ago, just took awhile to get them posted.

Here is my garden this year. I have carrots, lettuce, zuchini, cucumbers, marigolds and snow peas in there.

These are on the back side of the little fence, I'm not sure what kind of flowers these are exactly. I believe some sort of daisy. They keep spreading a little every year, this is the best they've looked so far. I don't think the picture does them justice (maybe I should have messed with the color/vibrance in photoshop to help, oh well).

And here are more snow peas that I put next to the chicken coop to give them some shade. This is the first year I've ever grown snow peas. It's been great having them, I'll definitely do them again next year.

summer is on it's way!

I always love the first use of the clothes line of the season. It means summer is on it's way. I don't set up the clothes line until we actually start getting nice weather. Since I don't have diapers to wash anymore, it's going to be hard to use it 100% in the summer. When I did have diapers to wash, hanging them on the clothes line was the best. The stains would come right out and since I had to wash them every other day I felt good about drying them outside instead of using so much electricity with the dryer (especially since they took forever to dry). In an odd way, I miss having diapers to wash and line dry. Here is an old post that I talked about using the line the whole summer with pictures.

Look what I made! Dan helped me... a lot. It's for our little chickies (more like teenager chickies now). We are going to move them outside and put them in with the adult hens and this will be a place they can hide if the big chickens are picking on them.

Here they are. I had to corner them to get a picture. They wouldn't listen when I told them to sit and stay in front of their new house.

Getting ready for Easter

We dyed Easter eggs yesterday!

chicks and cookies

Dan's mom wanted some more chickens, so we got two chicks that we'll keep at our house until they get a little bigger and then give them to her, this way Jackson can watch and play with them. He is a little timid towards them because they pecked at his finger in the beginning. But the other day he picked one up to put on the scale. They weigh 1 5/8 ounces each. They are growing fast though, they are already getting their feathers.

I made oatmeal raisin cookies the other day. Have I posted I love my Silpat sheet? It's great! Food doesn't stick at all and it's easy to clean. Just hope that later they don't find out it's poisonous or something.

party and snow!

Amy hosted a Christmas party at her house. We did a white elephant present exchange and ugly sweater contest. The guys that wore the sweaters won. I think no matter what, the sweaters would always look uglier on the guys. (Like all pictures, click to see it bigger.)

It warmed up some here and so it snowed last night. I took Jackson out in it this morning. He liked crawling around in it and pushing it around. When his mittens would fall off, he didn't like touching the cold snow at all.

Jackson's crawling trail.

Kaeli loves the snow and always gets it on her nose.

The chickens must have thought the snow was food, they were going crazy for it (since they didn't get any in their coop).

loves being outside

Jackson loves being outside. It's too bad our winters get so cold. I'll take him out some, but there is no way he can go out the same amount that we were during the summer.

winter already!?

We've already had snow this year and now freezing rain/sleet! We got all bundled up to check the chickens water and to let them out for a bit.

Labor day weekend and 2 new things

We got back from Washington for Dan's family's annual reunion for Labor Day weekend. It was a lot of fun. On that side of the family there are 5 new babies and 4 were able to attend. Jackson, Alana, twins Carter and Logan.

We all put on a pirate themed carnival for all the kids. Jackson even got in on some of it.

Jackson is on the left being held by his Uncle Jeff the Pirate.

We made a quick stop at Babies R Us and got some new stuff. Since Jackson has been grabbing for all bottles and glasses, we figured we would buy his own sippy cup. He likes it, but is still learning how to keep it at his mouth.

While at our family reunion, Alana let Jackson try out her mesh feeder and Jackson liked it really well. So I decided to go ahead and buy one too. I figure this is something else Jackson can do on his own right now and it gets his hands working. He really liked it. I put frozen papaya puree in it and he loved it.

We have been getting eggs everyday now and we are getting a blue egg too! They taste great too.

We got an egg!!!

Yesterday we got our first egg from the chickens! Can't wait to see if we get another one today or maybe two!

My corn is growing hair too!

Kaeli walked over and sat next to us on the floor. I ran and got my camera and took some cute shots of them.

sewing diapers

I've been sewing some more diapers for Jackson lately. He's just about out grown some other smalls that he has, so he will be in need of more soon.

And here he is wearing the new one!

No eggs yet, still waiting. Hoping to have some soon. This is one of the hens, we call her Blackbeard.

Chickens and more

Our chickens are getting so big! We moved them outside now, day and night. Dan and some friends moved the coop to the other side of the fence yesterday (it's pretty heavy!).




Just a quick shot of Jackson drinking his bottle and in a new wool cover I got. After this picture I felt the cover was a little too big, so I tried felting it some to shrink it. Well now I think I shrunk it too much, oops!


Dan held Jackson while I took pictures of the chickens.

6 wks old and more pictures of course

Jackson is 6 weeks today! Here is a shot I got today. Jackson is smiling so much. While I was making dinner tonight, I had him in his chair (a vibrating rocker). I would stop and talk to him a bit making eye contact and he would smile. He did it a couple times, it was super cute. I think this is the first time that it for sure was a reaction to me, not tickling or out of the blue.



This was a picture from a couple days ago. Jackson is still in NB size clothes.



Dan put together the chicken coop in the back yard and is finishing it up. We will put it on the other side of the fence when it's done.



Kitty had to check it out too. I think he liked the view and security of it. Too bad, it's not his.



Yesterday, Jackson had some visitors. Uncle Trystin got to give Jackson his bottle.