Our 4 cute girls...?

Well, what can I say about these pictures?  Some days kids get crazy and in the moment don't think about what they are doing...don't you wish we as adults had more days like these, just having fun cuz it is fun right now.  I admit these are going to be great photos for when they are older...

I did just ask them to all get dressed so we could go...I guess I should me more specific next time.

good thing emma and asher are about the same size and hannah and ben are very close too.

One day the kids found the bag of left over fondant in the fridge and wanted to eat it plain...I said heck no...I'll make cupcakes tomorrow and you can decorate them...and here is the results...they had lots of fun.

A Farm in town...?

So after having chickens and caring for them and gathering eggs every day, and deciding to see how well we can really live off our food storage without going to the store for little things just to make life easier, I've discovered something about myself.  I would be completely content to be a farm wife taking care  of animals and gardening and making everything from scratch.  My happiest days are the days that I spend time at home, in the yard, cleaning the coop, caring for animals, starting dinner in the morning or afternoon and cooking and baking and cleaning house, and doing homework with kids.  The last few days, for example, we decided to have vegi-pizza and greek chicken gyros...normally I'd run to the store and get a few cans of crescent roll dough for the pizza crust and some pita bread for the gyros.  Instead I made crescent roll dough from scratch and the sauce and pita bread for the gyros from scratch too...it was so much fun, however a large portion of my day was spent in the kitchen...but I loved it. I've even started making most of my own pasta for chicken noodle soup and things like that....Maybe I was just born in the a few generations too late :)  Well, enough said...I wanted to post some pictures of our recent eggs...we get about 6-8 eggs a day now...occassionally only 5 we only have 7 chickens and Olivia is still in the house at night and early in the mornings...so one of the chickens lays 2 eggs a day every once in a while.

This is Millie's double yolker...she's laid 2 of those and they were one day after another...it it next to a regular egg from one of the other chickens.  The egg in the shell was bigger than a large egg from the store.

This was our first 7 egg day...I was so excited.

The egg on the left was Olivia's "big egg" the middle egg is Millie's double yolker and the white egg is a large store egg.

Yes, I'll admit I'm the crazy chicken or egg lady...it's like a crazy cat lady only I don't have tons of chickens and at least the chickens give us eggs...cats don't...but I just think the eggs are so beautiful and they are amazingly tasty and such higher quality that the eggs we get at the store...hope you enjoyed my obsession.

Christmas 2010

Christmas was way too much excitement for Pup

Bob and Donna had to leave early cuz of a storm so we had a little family party for Ben and he got the Star Wars Wii game he's been eyeing for many many moons:) He wasn't very excited though...ha ha

Brandon made his mom and dad a nesting bowl set on the lathe...it was beautiful.

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For our 10th anniversary Brandon started Our Adventure Book (from the movie UP) it's pictures of our adventures in life...and so for Christmas I got a code to get a bunch of pictures free from Shutterfly so I updated the Adventure Book...it's so fun to look through

Our VCR and DVD player all went kaput right before Christmas...so Grandma and Grandma spoiled Brandon with a new BluRay player...it's so fun to be able to watch the movies together again.

Brandon was pumped to get a Lava light from his mom and dad...he's wanted theirs for years.

Brandon's favorite present each year....NEW SOCKS!

Bob and Donna got me the cute cow slippers...I really love them.  And I'm wearing a purple apron that Hannah hand sewed for me from fabric that she got for her Birthday and Ben made me the necklace and bracelet at scouts out of wooden beads and rolled up magazine pages cut in strips...it was so creative and he did such a good job.

My mom and dad gave us a copy of all our family videos growing up put on DVD...what a stroll down memory lane...Donna couldn't believe how many there were...I can't wait to finally get them all watched. But it will take some time.

This was another one of my killer deals...I got a code to get a free 20 photobook from Shutterfly too, it was so fun so I put together a book of our 2010 happenings.

Hannah got an art set from Ben.

Jammies from Grandma Gayle

A game from Grandpa and Grandma Knopp they really spoiled us all.

A whole bolt of fabric from Santa

Hannah asked for art stuff from Ben and boy did she get some

Also some cute slipper socks she liked that Ben got her.

Hannah only asked for books from Santa...she is our little book worm...she's always got her nose in a book...I just love that she loves to read.

We were very blessed this year...and what a blessing to be able to spend the season With Grandma and Grandpa we had a really good time while they were here.

Ben asked for a Blanket "like Dad's" for christmas from Hannah and she got him some Iron man legos too...he loved them as you can see.  And from Santa he got Iron Man and G-Force Wii games, and somehow we didn't get a picture of that...so sad cuz he was unbelievably  excited.

Emma just asked for a Blanket of Pooh Bear from Santa...she was ecstatic when she unwrapped it.

Jammies from Grandma Gayle

Emma wanted a babydoll, paper and crayons from Asher and he got her the biggest box of crayons he could find and a whole ream of paper...she is in artist heaven...what a great little brother.

Another game from Grandma and Grandpa Knopp...and the kids have played it almost every day since...even Asher is loving it and it's really good for his math skills.

Grandpa and Grandma surprised us with a visit for Christmas...we were all so excited...I was the only one that knew they were coming and the secret was killing me...I'm so glad they came early and didn't wait till Christmas to come.

I think this is Asher's favorite Christmas present...he has had so much fun making forts and having it in there, doing shadow puppets with his friend and using it at night before he falls asleep.

Jammies from Grandma Gayle

I love swagbucks...using the free gift cards from Amazon.com we were able to get 3 movies for the family completely for free...I love a good deal:)

Asher only asked for watercolors, a flashlight, and some m&m's from Ben and a bird hunt game and a skateboard from Santa...he was thrilled with everything he got...it was so much fun seeing his face.