And Then There Were Ten

 Dills chick

 New light brahma chick - named Cowie by Stella

Back of Dill's chick - looks like a chipmunk

OK so maybe I have a little problem...As you know, we decided to get chickens this year.  Well, we started with 1 chick for each kid. Six chicks, no problem.  Then I decided I wanted one too. Jay said, "Sure, what's one more?"  So I headed back to the farm store and picked out my chick.  I am driving home telling Jay that I got my chick and he says, "Cool, did you get me one too?" Well no I didn't.  So, back to the farm store to get him a chick.  So we are at eight.  Cool that should be a great amount of eggs for our family.  Then......I did some research because Dill's chick looks quite different than the other chicks.  Turns out, Dill's "she" is likely a "he".  We aren't gonna keep any roosters, so Dill doesn't want to be the only one without a chick.....back to the farm store.  They had 1 day old chicks yesterday.  SO CUTE!!!!! Dill chose an araucana baby. She is housed alone because she can't be mixed with the "bigs" yet.  Well, she was chirping and  chirping and chirping.  She was lonely in there all alone......back to the farm store.  We got her a buddy.  She is a light brahma.  So now we have 10! Good thing we built a LARGE coop!

Chickens

 Dillon and Ruby got buff orpinton hens - above

 Rosie, Naomi and Zaria got Barred Rock hens -above

Adam, Jason and I got Silverlace Wyandotte chicks - above

When we moved to the country, one of the things we told the kids we wanted to do was get some farm animals.  We decided to start with chickens. We headed out to the the local farm store and each of the kids got to pick out their own chicken.  They are so excited and have been holding them and watching them all afternoon! Let's hope their enthusiasm holds when they have to clean out their coop and collect eggs and feed and water them!!!

Halloween Fun

Our first halloween at our new house was a blast!!! We had Jenny and Katie and their kids over in all their costumes to do a candy hunt all over the house!! It was a total blast! Then just when we were finishing up, I got a call from Adam that he shot 2 deer!!!!!! The one dropped immediately and the second he recovered in the morning!!! What an exciting way to get your first deer with your bow, Adam!!!! WOOOHOOO!

Summertime Fun Pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evening at the Beach

Toledo Zoo

Yesterday we took the kids to the Toledo Zoo.  We woke them up at 5:30am and told them we had a surprise for them.  None of the kids knew we had been planning this trip and they were all very excited!!! We had a super great time and made it back home by 8:15pm.  The zoo was great fun and not too huge that it felt overwhelming to do all in one day.  We arrived there at 10:30 and were finished doing the whole zoo by 3:00.  It was a very worthwhile expedition! *TO SEE THE PICS LARGER, CLICK ON THE FIRST ONE AND THEN ARROW THROUGH THE WHOLE GROUP.* (More pics in the post below.)