We've Been...

We've (the kids and hubby) been sick!  These last two weeks have been sleepless nights, high fevers, breathing treatments, double ear infections, nasty coughs and lots of snuggling.

BUT!!  There were a lot of other things going on too:)

Believe it or not, life goes on even when the family has the flu!

So we've been...

 Pulling ourselves up onto furniture (at 7 months!!)

 

Crashing

Climbing

Eating lots of fresh eggs

Running

Having dirt road date nights with my man

 

Watching Peter Pan... Over and over

Getting ready for kindergarten

Doing some late night reading

Sick and pathetic:(

Doing yard work

Bonding with Sugar

 

Yes, life goes on... WAY too fast!

The New Chicks

We got 8 new chicks a few days ago!

After loosing some of our laying hens last fall, I decided it was time to add to our flock.

So here they are a couple days old.  We have a few reds, a few yellows and a few blacks.

The kids are excited and want to love on them, but we are going to try to hold off until the chicks are a bit bigger.  Bubba Love already accidentally dropped one and they are really too young to recover from that, luckily that chicky is still doing fine:)

  

Here is their temporary home in the garage until they are bigger and stronger.

Many more chick updates to come!

Our Ladies

Daddy came home from work today and finished up the coop because we found someone selling hens less the two miles away.

The coop might seem "ghetto" to some people, but can I tell you how much we spent on building this??

$0.

That's right, we spent nothing!  The pallets were given to us, and the rest of the stuff was laying around the property, waiting to be used.

Here are the ladies!  We got four Plymouth Rock year old hens.

Aren't they pretty?

The kids already love playing with them.  I am sure they will be named tomorrow.

Chicken Coop

Daddy was working with a fencing contractor a few weeks ago and brought home six pallets.  These things are awesome because they are big and sturdy, but also have already served a purpose and are looking to fulfil another need.  So what did we convert these fence pallets into??  A chicken coop (well almost, it isn't done quite yet)!!

It's more like a chicken palace!!  Not only will they have lots of space inside, but they will be able to roam free during the day while we are around. 

My hope is to be done this weekend and to get a few local laying hens soon after.  Then we will be raising (lots of) meat chicks this summer, to butcher and freeze for the colder months.

Exciting new adventures!