Monday, November 11, 2013

Our New Ladies

This is Skittles. He is one of the original 4 babies that we got this summer. I wrote a post about them here. I had planned on updating on their growth weekly, but Buffy and Twinkie died really early on :( so I lost the motivation to follow through with that. Notice how I said "he" up there ^^^. We were told that all of our new babies were girls, and until a few weeks ago we were holding onto the chance that Skittles was a girl, although we noticed all along how aggressive he was and how quickly he was growing. Then he started crowing about a month ago. That answered that question! Haha. So we are trying to find him a new home.

Since we didn't want to leave Chewie all alone (just realized I don't have a picture of her), we bought a few more hens off Craigslist recently. They are already laying, so the hard part is done already. The yellow one is Sunny, the red one is Velma, and Roxy is the big black one. They are beautiful and we know for sure Sunny is already laying. One of the others might be laying already, too, but we haven't seen it happen. They still aren't totally accustomed to their new home, so it might take them a little longer to start laying due to the stress and major life change. Ha. Anyway, we have already enjoyed some fresh eggs and are excited to collect enough to feed us all the time. Right now we are still eating store bought in addition to the 1-2 eggs we get each day.  


Thursday, October 24, 2013

Monday, October 21, 2013

Six flags


The other day, my friend Natalie from Huntsville invited us to go to Six Flags with her and her family that was in town from Oregon. On a whim we decided to go! We all had so much fun. The kids had a blast and played really well together, and it was really great getting to catch up with her! (Well, we did as much catching up as you can while chasing 4 kids around Six Flags, lol.) Thankfully she and I were able to break away for a bit to go ride Goliath! All in all it was a great time, and the weather even finally started to cooperate there at the end.


All photos taken with my iPhone.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Lympic City!


After we went to Imagine It!, we walked down the street to grab a bite to eat at Googie Burger right by the fountains at Centennial Olympic Park. Oh. My. Gosh. I had THE best southern fried chicken sandwich I think I will ever consume. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. While Fico and I ate, the boys played in the fountains. (We came prepared with bathing suits and extra clothes ;) They had a splash! I mean a blast! 

Once it was time to go, they both were about to fall apart emotionally. I mean flailing noodle arms and hissy fits... -_- Anders hadn't napped all day and Casen had been non stop for almost 4 hours straight. Bless their little hearts. They both crashed. Anders didn't even make it to the car. He passed out in his stroller, which he has NEVER done, mind you.... And Casen held out til we got to the car, but couldn't take much more after that. My sweet boys had so much fun. We might try to go ONE more time before the weather gets too cool.