March Already?

Reed and Will chilling, licking tootsie pops. and watching CloneWars.

Emmy and Abby posing for the camera.The basement is almost complete. Trevor and Steve glued down the laminate for the counter top. I just need to paint the bits of trim, clean and organize.

ITS OFFICIAL

We are now part owners of Baldwin Insurance Agency. Call us for all your insurance needs. Most likely we can save you $$ (just ask Mandy & Trevor, Buff, and us). Besides, we now have huge loans to pay-off and we need your dollars.

Chickens

I talked to Robin and the chickens dropped off there are doing fine. No gang violence, everyone is getting along. Now we wait to see if they will lay eggs.

Here are the rest of our chickens outside enjoying the "warm" weather. We've scraped them areas to go to, but with the thaw the old area is basically a mud pit. I threw down hay which they scratched up making it a hay-mud pit.Yes its Little Brown.This is the new shoveled area.

Chicken Drop

No pics (where is a camera crew following you around when you need one) of the fun of capturing 3 hens and dropping them off at the Job's. We have (had) three hens who layed white eggs, but quit laying several months ago. With this weather we've had to keep the coop closed-up several times, and each of those times there would be white eggs in the laying boxes. Those stinkin' leghorns and the one blue must have been laying outside somewhere for months. I finally got fed up with feeding them and not getting eggs so I called Robin aka Chicken Girl Job and asked if she would take them. Her chickens are fenced in not fenced out like ours. She said yes so tonight was the night. It went pretty smooth, although before darkness came Steve wanted to know what we were going to put the hens in since the dog crate was frozen to the ground (and under lots of snow). I said no problem we'll put them in Wal-mart bags; he was skeptical. So I double-bagged three bags and we went to the coop. Since we have heat lamps on its not really dark so the hens don't settle down right away at night. Anyway Steve grabbed the first one and stuffed it in the first bag. She settled down right away amazingly (Wal-mart can't go wrong) and so he went after the other two. Beside one hen laying an egg on the run (not one of the ones we were capturing) and the usual chaos of chickens running crazily, each hen was captured and bagged. We then drove over to the Job's, went in their coop, opened the bags, and the hens scampered out and stood with the other hens there. We'll get Robin's update tomorrow.

Snowy Sunday

Another snowy day 6"-8". Church was cancelled. The kids came up early so they wouldn't get stuck late.

Matt tried on his suit to be sure it would fit for the wedding. He and Amber also had 'engagement' pictures taken by Mandy out in the snow. Where are they?

Valentines Day

The trouble with Mandy using my camera is she takes bad pictures with it, most are blurry, etc. So, there are just two from Valentines Day that make it. Will and Trevor playing with the fish straw and Steve with the cake....ymmmm.

Valentine Update (early)

We got a new 'energy efficient' water heater. Since its supposed to save money we went larger, to 80 gallons. Now Tom can shower without leaving us in the cold. Steve installed it himself. He's taking the old one out. Hopefully he capped the gas line good and tight. The new on is electric, hmmm....I wonder if that's why our electric co-op was encouraging everyone to change.

   Some of the fun after our Valentines Day (one day early) breakfast. Amber and Matt take it easy before going to look at a house.Abby is put in charge of vacuuming up the crumbs from our pre-breakfast donuts. She loves the 'baby vacuum'. Emmy, Abby, and Reed stayed all night last night so of course it was make-up time this morning for the girls. Emmy had already cried-off some of her eye liner and some mascara by the time this was taken.

Downstairs is now (almost) finished so the toys are kept there. Reed (and teaching Will) loves the pinball games that were Mandy and Matt's .

Here's some of my projects. I bought two of these end tables for $3.75 each. Trevor added a foot piece on this one, I stripped them, then stained them. Considering I really don't know what I'm doing I thought they turned out great. To see them in person go to the Liberty Stake offices.

I also painted up a little side table real quick. Once again I found it at a 'thrift/antique mall', kind of stripped it, and slapped paint on it. I think this counts towards my 'Pusuit of Excellance' were doing in RS.

2010 Embraced

  2010 and both Steve and I have joined new technology (Steve's had a laptop for years). Although I am typing this on our real computer. My laptop goes to the temple with me today to see if I can pick-up someone's wi-fi from the temple apartment.                                  Will someone stack the ads?Will walking around looking very cute. The other kids were downstairs watching Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. They'll tell you all about it...over...and...over...and...over. Apparently its hilarious.