My grandpa went home to be with the Lord this past Thurs.  Although we lived a distance away and couldn...

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 wonderfu...

Thought we would update our pic together!

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

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

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 di...

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 scho...

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

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

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...

"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 ma...

   Getting around to posting a few pics.  Here are our new 'babies'.  I think we are already going to lose one, probably tomorrow.  ...

   We had some baby chicks arrived today!  Yep.....we missed our little Tophats so much we ordered some more.  The kids were surprised becau...

How exciting!  My first 2 loaves of homemade pumpkin bread with our very own garden grown pumpkin!!  Tastes good too :)  We roasted the seed...

Here is our boys' 10th birthday pic.  (Well, one of the many!)  And another pic of today's harvest.  I've done 3 batches now of ...

This morning was a sad day on the farm.  We woke up to a sea of dead chickens across our yard.  All our top hats and Maran chickens are dead...

Here is our first pick of the harvest!  We have quite a few pickling cucumbers ready so I tried my hand at the hot water bath method and mad...

This happened yesterday.  So cool to watch it from start to finish.  (I could only post a small portion of the video)  We now have 4 chick...

   Trying to survive infancy as a chick is tough!  The odds are not in your favor.  We have now lost 6 chicks with only 3 surviving so far. ...

We learned the hard way NOT to let the comet chickens hatch eggs!!  We had 2 suddenly want to start setting several weeks ago which we thoug...

I can't get out to take pictures as there is a monsoon outside right now!!!  But I sure do love the rain we are getting, especially for ...

We need to hear this over and over!!!  Such truth!

Here are some pics of the garden.  You can see that some of the rows still need weeding!!!  We've done several already, but there are mo...