Birthday girl is 2!

Happy birthday to our not-so-little baby girl!  2 years old and what a joy she is.  She is mama's girl for sure and I love her hugs.  She loves to play with her 2 big sisters, be pampered by her oldest sister, have fun with her big brothers, and to cuddle with daddy.  What a delight she is to our family and loved by all.  Her smile and giggles are so precious!  We love you!!

Today was our precious boy's due date.  We would have been celebrating 2 birthdays!  How I wish I was holding him right now :)

Headcoverings

Getting excited!!  I've been thrilled at the results of my headcoverings.  I've done 3 different varieties so far.  Once I get a good stock made up, I will add them to my store BeautifulHairWraps on Etsy.  Here's a sample.....

New Year

Much has been happening around here since I last updated.  Things seem to get busier and busier, thus my blog posts get fewer and fewer!!
We had a great holiday with our family here over Christmas.  We managed to have 24 people squeezed together over the weekend and it worked out pretty well.  It was nice to get a pic of the family and the cousins all together.
We entered the new year with a birthday and our oldest turning a teenager!!!  Woohoo!  She received a sewing machine for Christmas and has already been busy sewing projects.  I'm so proud of her as she has put together 4 cloth feminine pads so far.  She has very little supervision from me and is getting quite quick with them.  We are very  much thinking of selling these in the future, so stay tuned for that!!
I've been excited at the sales so far from my online store, BeautifulHairWraps.com
I am working on expanding the variety and offering some really beautiful headcoverings soon.  Finding the time is the hard part for this homeschooling mama!!
The farm is doing well.  Our animals are nice and cozy thanks to 'Uncle Steve' for his handiwork.  The chickens are enjoying their chicken mansions :)  Great job!!

Birthday Girl

  It's been awhile since I have posted!!  We've been pretty busy here and I will show you why after I say a big 'Happy Birthday' to our girl.  Six years old already!  She wanted a Sofia themed party (even though we don't know much about Sofia - but she wears purple and that is the birthday girls' favorite color :)  We've switched around some of the rooms so our 6 and 4 yr old now have a room to themselves.  What a fun way to decorate with such pretty purple Sofia sheets.  She was very happy to see that.  We love you sweet girl.

What's been keeping me for posting lately is the venture of my new business!  Beautiful Hair Wraps!  It has been excited seeing it all come together and a relief to finally get it out there.  I'm working on an official website but for now we have all the items listed on Etsy.  You can find us at www.BeautifulHairWraps.com.  We will be adding hair pins and earrings as well as some different styled head coverings.  I think the logo is so beautiful!  Love the way it turned out.  Now to pray in some orders :)

Grandpa's Homegoing

My grandpa went home to be with the Lord this past Thurs.  Although we lived a distance away and couldn't visit as often as I would like to, we enjoyed our chats on the phone and through email.  For a 92 year old, he was pretty good with technology!!  Although grandpa's health was failing, it was still a shock to hear he had passed away suddenly.  I'm so thankful he professed Christ as Savior, and I have the hope of seeing him again one day in glory.  How different it is to lose someone when you know you will see them again in eternity!  We will still miss his presence here, but how thankful we are that he is now in the presence of the Lord!  No more suffering, no more sin, no more pain.  We love you Grandpa and will miss you.

Fun week

We had such a great week last week with our visitors.  We had hubby's uncle and family visiting with us and the kids had such a wonderful time together.  We enjoyed their fellowship so much and always look forward to their visit!  Next time....2 weeks, right!!!
We also celebrated hubby's 40th!  So thankful for him :)
And our girl lost another tooth.  It was wiggly and not quite ready to come out, but when you're playing around with your younger sister and she bops you in the mouth....it popped right out!!  She was so excited to get some new cowgirl boots for her present.

Me and my love

Thought we would update our pic together!

Tooth

Look who lost her 'first' tooth (the right way!)  The one beside it is loose as well....won't be long :)

Kids photos

Birthday boy

Here is his birthday pic!  Such a handsome fella.....

Happy Birthday

Our boy turned 8 today!  We say it every time, but it sure feels like time is just flying by with each birthday.  His theme this year was dinosaurs.  He enjoyed his day very much and appreciated all the cards, gifts and calls.
We love you so much!!!  You are such a blessing to our family!

Updates

Haven't posted for a while so I'm trying to think if there is anything new around here.
   We took the month of August off for school, so we are back into the swing of things starting our new year.  So far the kids are enjoying their subjects.  Our oldest LOVES her history program this year.  She kept talking about it so much that our oldest boy now sits in during her audio portion (on CD) and he loves it too.  Still trying to work out a good system of adding the 4th full time child into the mix.  Hoping things will smooth out quickly and we will get into a good routine.
   All the animals are doing well.  Our batch of black maran chickens are starting to mature and we think we have 3 roosters so far (out of 9 chickens).  Rabbit cages have all been set up and the 7 of them are in seperate cages now.  We have one female ready for breeding but still need to wait on the male to mature.  I am anxious to start getting little bunnies!!!  Hopefully by Christmas we will be able to enjoy some rabbit meat.
   The ducks and guineas are laying eggs but since there is no nesting area, we find them broken in the yard every once in awhile.  Today we found an intact duck egg, so hubby is looking forward to trying it out :)  Puppy is growing!  He has done really well around all the animals so far.  We will take him into the chicken pens with us, and he is more interested in eating chicken poop than anything else.  How gross!  He also has a habit of eating any dead mice our barn cat leaves laying around.  Double gross!!
   I think that is about it.  We are enjoying the cooler weather!  Walking is so much more enjoyable with a nip in the air than humidity.  I love autumn!!  Our boy is also going to have a birthday this week.  Eight years old....how time flies.

Pigtails

Oh what a cutie!  And getting sooooo big......

Puppy

Last week we got our puppy!  He is a Great Pyrenees male, almost 6 weeks old.   We called him Duke.

Baby boy

On Thursday, I got to hold my baby boy in my hands....way too early.  At 14 weeks pregnant, our baby unfortunately miscarried and we met our precious son.  I did have to go to the hospital for an overnight stay due to much blood loss but I'm back home recovering.  We have a tree in by our front porch that droops over much like a weeping willow tree does.  We thought this would be the perfect place to put our little boy and I thank God for the short time I was able to carry him!
God has been so very good to us!

Good morning on the farm

"Good morning" from all of us!
The last pic is not one of ours.  He ate our last 2 adult Tophats that made it through the first massacre (by our dog).  We trapped him!!