Eleanore and a Horse....

So this little girl loves to ride anything she can sit astride and call a horse. From the arm of the couch, to the rocks, to well anything use your imagination. So when I was putting in the garden I wanted her to quit tromping through my freshly planted seeds so I got out one of my saddles and put it on a rock.


A picture of our raised beds because our soil is so rocky. I unfortunately froze the melons and the cucumber, but my peppers and tomatoes made it. The potatoes are coming up really well too. I am hoping that moving our garden out of the back yard will give it enough light. Now I just have to keep Eleanore out of it. She likes to traipse through it with her bare feet. I can really relate because I used to traipse through the corral, but my carrots won't take much more of it. In fact you can see her foot prints in the picture. This dirt is the soil recipe (funny huh) from gardening by the square foot, so I'll let you know how it goes.

Chickens

To all of you who said the 20 chickens is a lot you are right. Josh hasn't had to mow the lawn for 3 weeks and the chickens are killing it around the edges. Lets just say I'll be glad to get rid of the majority of them. We are sending them to my in-laws as soon as we finish the coop josh is building. In my opinion it would make a great play house almost too nice for chickens, but hey no point in doing anything half way.

This is a picture of the Turkey which is twice this size now.

One of the 19 chickens.



The little coop that Josh built fo the back yard.


I think there are 20 chickens in this picture, but it is hard to get them all at once, and again this was two weeks ago, so they are twice this big.



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This is the big coop that I think would make a fun play house, but we should finish it sometime soon and then I can say audios to the many chickens.

Lately

Wyatt spilled his cereal all over the floor, and he had milk splattered on his head. I thought I better take a picture, he wasn't very happy, but I thought it was cute. Ella came in as a clean up crew.








Inspired by other people and Josh's overwhelming urge to have chickens, here they are. we started with 6 chickens and 2 turkeys, Ella was overzealous with her affection for one turkey, and it lives in a better place now. We went back to get some more only because most of them are going to move to josh's parent's new place as soon as they move in, which is any time now, and they wanted more. So we now have 19 chickens, hopefully mostly hens, and 1 turkey. I'll let you know how it goes.

I'll get a picture of all twenty and the coop Josh built later.

Then Wyatt and ella are almost too big to do bath time together, but here is a shot of them.

Eleanore's Birthday

I can't believe I forgot to to post Ella's birthday.

She was very excited about her new pj's I think it is funny that she already likes clothes. It is funny and scary at the same time.



Wyatt helped her blow out her candles, so we had to relight them so she could get the full effect.


This is Ella's horse cake. I just bought the cake pan, not very original but it was pretty easy.

Things I did Once upon a Time

These are my friends Meagan and Anne Marie at the farmers market in Moscow. It was usually pretty good. This was my freshman year of college and very early in the morning. (Probably the skinniest I've ever been, one of the reasons I like this picture.;)

This is my roommate Jen and I in Spain, I'm pretty sure it was in Cordoba a la Alcazar de los Reyes Cristianos. We visited a lot of ruins so they kind of run together.

This is my senior year of highschool during the awards ceremony in Teton. I won the third place buckle in barrel racing thus winning a seat in the state finals.



This is a picture of me and two of my friends at my wedding reception.

This is kind of a random post, but sometimes it is good to remember that I have accomplished more that changing diapers, which ironically is directly related to the most important thing I'll ever do. Interesting that being a mom has so little curb appeal, but the longest lasting rewards.