Little Things

Jubilee is learning sight words and mom has many fun ways to teach! :)

The boys have been kept busy with school.

Us girls spring cleaning the kitchen for mom.

Mom found this cute idea on pinterest.

I thought it turned out really cute!

Our cat had another batch of kittens much to Jubilee's delight! 

Little Judah adores them.

A week or so after one of our other cats had kittens and they just all mixed! 

The bond between Jubilee and her nephews are so sweet! 

Remember we mowed the raspberry patch?  Yep, they are growing out already! 

Joylin couldn't pass up these ducklings at a local feed store.

Jubilee loved them! I say "Loved", because they are much larger than this now and are not in the house! LOL

Uriah giving hugs. =)

Letting them enjoy some water. Poppy thinks they would make a good snack! 

Dairy Update

It's been a long journey with getting the dairy up and running, but we are now so close to the finish line! We have a vacuum pump on it's way here that needs to be installed. Next step is to have the inspector come out to inspect everything, hand us our license and we will finally be certified as a Grade A dairy. 

In the mean time we have been able to move all the egg process out of the house into the new room. Mom's pretty excited to have her laundry room back.

The holding area is now finished...

Thanks to a friend, Smiley Rice, for helping with all the welding. 

The milk tank is now in the milk house waiting to be hooked up to the milking system outside. 

Mixing food for the cows.

Farm kids :)

We have been sprouting the barley before feeding it to the cows. 

Soaking the barley.

Barley sprouts...

Spring is here and the fields around us are so beautifully green.

Till next time...

New Stovetop / Trip to Canada

For a while now we have been needing a new stove top. A few of the burners had gone out and we had our eyes open for a new one. Micah and Jenny were shopping and found a nice big one on discount for a really great price!

Micah installed it for us. It was quite larger than our last so he had to cut the hole bigger.

It has more burners than the last and we have really been enjoying it!

It also came with a griddle. 

To top off the new look Joshua added this shelf for Mom.

I went to Canada the last week of March for a visit. Miss these little cuties so much! 

I got to spend time with Jessica, and just like old days, we went shopping and had girl talks. :)

And yes, I have to mention I had an amazing time with my boyfriend also! :P 

Jason's little grin just melts my heart!
All in all I had a wonderful time and I can't wait to go back! 

Kaitlyn's Baby Shower

 Kaitlyn and Justin's little bundle is due in less than 2 weeks.
We are all getting very excited! A few weeks ago we had a baby shower for Kaitlyn.

She is decorating her nursery is this lumberjack theme, so we thought it would be neat to have the same theme for our shower.

We had a nice little group! :)

Thank you, to everyone who came and participated.