Friday, April 20, 2012

when was that?

Life has been a blur. It seems like there is nothing to do to hold the time down and keep things simple these days. April in Montana just EXPLODES with activities both at home and work. Between those two things I hope to eek out some time with the family but on most days that sounds impossible.

So, when was Easter? don't remember. Sure am glad that I managed to take a few photos. We stayed home and did'nt seek out easter egg hunts or people. We just stayed put. It was a beautiful day and we spent time together outside and enjoyed the holiday with each other. Gabe and Frannie (and Murf) all had fun looking for treats from the Easter bunny and basking in the sun we had. Murf probably found the most eggs but he has an unfair advantage-that nose! We talked the house faerie to tell the gnomes to tell the Easter Bunny (all gnomes are friends with rabbits) that Frannie was good and to not forget to leave things for her. She knows that the house faerie watches over her and that if she sucks her thumb, she gets knots in her hair. She knows that the faeries and gnomes are friends and can help her. She is at a magical imagination level and we are letting it explode. Murf also has supernatural powers too but we wont go into that today...


Excitement before the hunt...


First easter egg hunt

The egg hunt expert is on standby incase that egg falls or breaks. Dont worry, in the end is graciously given a few


Murf finds this egg first

Frannie swoops in

Murf has given up on eggs and has moved onto squirrels...



More egg hunt fun


Easter hunt picture

enjoying the outside time


wishing that he could just go-
  

Swinging at 9 months

Gabes "space ship"


Danger-Danger Gabe has found the stairs

...and up he goes

Honey and Tilda are growing like weeds and enjoy getting out and about in the yard when the sun shines. We hope that they can joing Ju-Ju soon and I think that she would like that too. We introduced them thru the pen and she was very noisy when the kids left. We might be expaning the pen to accomodate this big girls too.

Honey and Tilda on their recess break

Frannie Farmer and her girls-she loves every minute of it
Frannie has started to make her bed (and Gabes) in the morning (on her own) and is starting to be a little helper (we had a rough spot for a while where listening and helping didnt exist). Gabe is teething (top teeth) and trying to get into as much danger as possible. Frannie has given him a new nick name of 'googly-bear'. Frannie is also into the Titanic this week and more and more into soccer. Her first game is saturday-GO LOBSTERS!! more to come on that.

Hopefully, life will slow down as summer approaches and we wont be feeling run over all the time and can keep up with life.Summers are a great time to be in Montana.

Monday, April 2, 2012

'Girls' weekend

The kids were busy this weekend playing and having fun with the chicks and we were thankful that we were all healthy and that it is now APRIL!! Wow-another month has come and gone and there was so much learned-Lou's birthday and Easter come to us this month and we are hoping for a beautiful spring


My unicorn and monster

big time- now Gabe can stand up in the play pen
he likes it!!
Somebody knows that their cute !
So much happend over the weekend but the big new is about girls! We gave Gloria, our donated chicken, to a farm on sunday to live freely and be happy. She came from a 100 acre farm and was a free-range girl and didnt like being in the city in her little chicken tractor or being with us. She wasnt friendly plus she 'crows' sometimes?? So, a gracious friend added her to his flock and off she went-by Gloria! Since she was gone, we were able to get two new chicks to joing Ju-Ju Bee. Dont say it, "more chickens?" but we are doing it again.

Here they are-


HONEY and TILDA

TILDA

HONEY diggin in to the crumbles


TILDA-Silver Laced Wyandottes

Silver Laced Wyandottes are the original Wyandotte variety, and a wonderful example of American breeding. They are beautiful and productive.

Wyandottes are a favorite amongst backyard flock owners for their dependable egg laying, easy going nature and cold hardiness. Each feather is silvery white edged in beetle black, similar to Silver Sebrights. The hens look as if they're ladies dressed for a fancy ball!

Wyandottes have a heavy body and small rose comb which makes this breed perfect for cold climates because they are not prone to frostbite. The hens are hardy, energetic and faithful layers.
HONEY- Buff Orpington


Orpingtons are big, friendly dual-purpose birds originally developed in the UK. For many small farms and homesteaders, Orpingtons are the only way to go!  They're cold-hardy due to their fluffy plumage. Wonderful mothers, they do go broody. Plus, they're gentle and friendly on top of being good layers. The Buff Orpington is the most popular of all varieties of Orpington--a pretty, bright, pale "buffed" copper color that is striking.