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Thursday, January 10, 2013

christmas wrapping paper

Thursday, October 25, 2012

pumpkins without a carving knife...

Elle wanted to carve a sugar pumpkin... I coudn't find out carving knife, so a typical face carving couldn't be performed, so instead we gutted it and took a drill with different size bits to it and it turned out kind of fun!

When you hold it up and turn around- it looks like a great disco ball! =)

More Rabbits

Christian is in love. He holds them, rocks them, sings to them and is always happy to see them.

My grandpa gave us his old horse trailer and since cow prices are through the roof this fall, we are waiting until spring to get any calfs and in the mean time, the trailer has become home to 4 bunny rabbits that were given to us from an old high school friend. These are for pets, (not meat) and will be set free to roam the property with our other "free range" rabbit in the spring.

In the mean time, they are loved on daily... sometimes to their dismay... and the trailer is an amazing babysitter! =) I planted three fruit trees on the hillside just by the trailer, with Christian shut in with the rabbits. I could hear him singing to them the whole time and laughing, it was so cute!

My little workers

Here's Elle SCRUBBING her little table. It had so much paint on it from the fall party. I caught sight of her working at cleaning it out the window...

Christian is hammering away at a decorated pumpkin...

Elle scrubs and scrubs...

And scrubs..

He's checking the integrity of the hammer... ;)

I love that my kids have farm chores... and so do they!

And here they are having a bath after the long day! Ha! We gave dada a special foot rub in the tub of hot soapy water, while he relaxed on the couch and then that turned in to the kids wanting to have their bath in that tub downstairs... It is so funny what kids think is exciting.... 'oooo... a bath, in a tub we can hardely fit in, down in a big open room, with none of our bathtoys or cushy bathmat.... oooo..... how exciting!' =)

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Fall Party 2012!

Such a beautiful fall day- perfect weather, wonderful guests, very fun memories!

Candy hunt in the straw

Targets for apple sling shot

I love it when people make themselves at home... =) Sleepy sister in law

Kids free to be kids

Just some of the amazing picture frames the kids painted to take with them

maybe someday we'll have a real pony for them to ride. =)

Pressing cider

I failed to get photo's of Levi's (cousin) amazing self made bow which he used to try and shoot apples out of the air! AMAZING! Not to mention, all of the incredible food everyone brought, and the kids going in and trying to pet the sheep... Thank you to all who made the effort to come out and enjoy this day with us- we had a blast!

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Glow Sticks in the Bath!

SO much fun! 100 glow sticks for $7 at Michaels craft store. I put about 8 in the bath for the kids and turned off the light... they were SO excited! My kids already like bath time, but this might be a real fun trick for those who have kids who do not like baths (as long as they are not scared of the dark...). Seriously a huge hit! (As glow sticks always are...)

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Pottery Shed

We have been working on converting our old chicken coop into a pottery shed. We insulated it and have started putting plywood up on the walls. We will paint the walls white and let the kids use them as "graffity" walls. Should be a nice extention of our tight quarters right now and may make a good little farm store in the future. Or just an amazing play house! =) For Christmas and birthday from Michael and my parents I got a pottery wheel! LOVE IT! Elle is really enjoying it too. Today we made 3 small bowls and a vase. All very simple, but things we needed around here.