The BEST pickle ever!

That's all I can say!! Well, I can say thanks to my mom for bringing a Costco sized jar to my house. 1/2 a gallon, gone in a week! Yep that good :)

Front door.

I've had this paint for a year now. But after completely painting the inside and out side of our house we just didn't have it in us to paint the door. The wait is over and I am super happy with our black front door!

The best fireworks ever!

If you are ever planning on coming to visit me, you have to come in July for pioneer day!! Just 30 minutes from us is a tiny town called Lund and they do the best fireworks you'll ever see. You sit so close you can see the guys with flares running around lighting them off. You have to lay on the grass to see them because they are directly over head. It's amazing.

Yard work

I've been trying to think of a way to make our coop area look more tidy. (I know, they're chickens) but if they want to live in my back yard they better keep it clean :)
Yesterday I just decided to try some thing and hope for the best. Noah has been the best helper and was teaching Levi how to stain. So awesome.

Do you know the muffin man?

I do, because he lives in my house! The truth is all my kids LOVE muffins just like their dad. They want them every morning, boxed, homemade, they don't care. So I will just have to make muffins 6-7 times a week to keep the peace :)

Sorry little mouse :(

We have tried for 5 days to free you, but you have fought hard. We have fed you and given you water, and caught you once, only to have you escape at the last possible moment. We have done all we can, and now with the help of handy Manny's tools we have set our last trap :( we are sad, the kids wanted to keep you and feed you honey roasted peanuts (your favorite) for the rest of your little mouse life. You should have cooperated with us.

Happy day!

Oh I am SO glad to be saying good bye to this horrible truck! It's not mine, and the other cars weren't ours either. But they sure did ruin our view! It's much better now. Poor Matt won't have a place to stay when he gets in trouble though ;) totally kidding.

Back yard chickens

My poor husband! He probably didn't know just how much I like animals when we got married. He knew I like them but didn't know I wanted to live on a farm ;) anyway, I finally talked him into me getting chickens. It took some time, lots of research, and me drawing up plans for the coop, and he said yes. So we got two chickens who lived in our kitchen for weeks. But it paid off and Sunny and Scrambled are super friendly. We have two others, thing one and two who did not live in our kitchen and are not so friendly! So here's hoping come September we have fresh eggs!!

Hello out there :)

We have been a bit busy, and I haven't been on here. It hasn't been that long;) but I need to be better. So what have we been doing?? Lots! Mostly playing and eating ice cream, those are two very important summer activities!! I'll try my best (mom) to blog more, for those of you (mom and Tiff) who keep asking me too ;)