Happiness – Page 3 – Gracious Rain

April 26, 2016May 18, 2016

Ready To Rip

My sweet Jillian came over one day with her work gloves on…

and said, “Are you ready to rip out that carpet, and have a look at what is underneath?”

She’s a very brave soul and I’m more the contented with whatever, “Ummm, sure!” kind of person.

So, I stepped back and she started yanking–only took her about 15 minutes and she had the whole thing loose and curled up in the middle of the room.

Sure enough–there was dusty, staple-y, positively potentially lovely hardwood underneath that blue carpet.

I am officially the staple remover, duster, sweeper lady now. When that’s finished, I think we’ll have a dang pretty floor here.

That’s my bet.

April 24, 2016May 18, 2016

Free At Last!

We let them out into their yard as a trial run–and then didn’t have the heart to put them back in that silly little tub.

So, I’m afraid this is home now–come rain or shine.

Pretty sure they love it.

April 20, 2016May 18, 2016

Tight Space

Well, it’s time. These little girlies are getting so big that their tub-housing just isn’t going to cut it anymore.

We’re working on getting their coop set up outside as quickly as possible. If the weather would just cooperate and warm up we could put them in a run outside–once we have one.

I’m afraid if we don’t hurry…

they’ll go house hunting, on their own!

April 4, 2016March 23, 2023

Chicky Conference

We’ve been trying to hold the baby birdies as often as we can so that they are people friendly when they get big.

So, while our church’s General Conference was on tv we decided to take the girls out and hold them one at a time.

Rhen’s a bit partial to the Russian chickies, so he only really holds them.

But look how cool their feathers are growing in. They are only a whopping 3 weeks old, but I’m amazed at how fast they are growing.

Even though I was playing with this cute little sweetie, I promise I was still listening to conference.

Well, most of the time.

March 26, 2016January 16, 2023

Happy Easter–Egg!!

I have to admit, Easter caught us a bit off guard this year. Easter in March is just…you know–weird. It’s still cold out and there’s not too much Spring yet. Who decides these things anyway?

The kids declared that an egg hunt was in order–whether or not Spring had officially sprung.

And what child will ever argue with a basket full of Easter eggs with tons of surprises inside?

The big “kids” were thrilled at the prospect too.

Obviously.

Back in my day–when I was the mama filling all those eggs for my babies to find–we just packed those suckers with as many malt ball eggs and jelly beans and gummy bunnies as we could get our mitts on.

It’s a wonder all their teeth didn’t fall out. Sheesh.

But this year–my smart cookie daughter, came up with an idea that would give the kids just enough sugar in the plastic eggs to give them a buzz–but not so much that they’d run around the coffee table 45 times in 2 minutes.