Snow In Arizona!!

We woke up one morning with a light layer of snow on the ground.

The perfect amount for Jubilee to get a sled ride! 

I think Jubilee was having a blast while Mom was thinking that she was getting her exercise in for the morning.

On Saturday we all loaded up and headed to the Chiricahuas! The mountains are so pretty right now with all the snow on top!

 We took the van about as far as it would go and then all loaded into two trucks. Our goal was to try and make it all the way to the top. It's been a few years since we were up there, but when we were little the trip to the top was something we did every year.

Jubilee, looking as cute as ever!

After we made the transfer we started on our treacherous journey to the top.

Uh oh! Someone had slid into the ditch and was being pulled out. Should we go any farther?

Letting the larger trucks go first we continued up the mountain. Another guy coming down informed us that there was no way we were going to make it all the way.

So we made our way back down till we came across the trail. A perfect sledding spot!

The boys packed down the trail!

And we sledded the rest of the day!

Jaylon, Hannah and Kyle :)

Jubilee and Micah D. had a blast!

"Weeeeee"

Mom and Dad's turn!

Little Judah staying warm in the truck.

We made a fire and roasted hot dogs.

A quick group picture before heading home.
Photo credits: Kaitlyn

The boys hooked up the tube behind the truck on the way down the mountain.

We had an amazing time, even if we didn't make it all the way to the top!

To see a more pictures and a clip of us sledding go to Kaitlyn and Justin's Blog.

Chicken Update!!

We recently added 60 more chickens to our batch of 40 laying hens, getting our flock up to 100. Any extra eggs that we didn't use we sold like hot cakes to the people we deliver milk too. We have been wanting to get more chickens to be able supply more of our customers, but we hadn't found any reasonably priced chickens. We were really excited when our neighbor put all 435 chickens plus her business up for sale. We purchased the chickens last week and kept them at her place till we finished setting up the facilities.

We closed in the end of our barn making two different closed in areas.

The boys busy at work!

Making the gates...

Dad came up with a cool chicken feeder plan.

The boys put quite a few together!!

Dad went over to check on the chickens and the person that was supposed to be feeding them for the lady while she was away wasn't feeding them very well. Dad wanted to get them home as soon as we could. We quick put the roosts and the wood chips in and then had all the family over to help with the move. We waited till night so it would be easier to catch them. It started snowing outside, so we bundled up, grabbed all the cages we could find and headed over to get the chickens. 

We brought over half of them on the first trip.

Unloading them...

Making sure they went to bed with their crawls full! :)
Dad is feeding them a special mix of ground up alfalfa in with their grain. The chickens just love it and it's not only good for them, but us as well! :)

We made one more trip and were able to get all the rest.
 We put up temporary nesting and we were done, for the night!

The last couple days we have been working at finishing up both pens.

We added chips and roosts to the other side as well. Nests are being built!

It is nice to have them moved. We have an outside area for them as well, but we will be building an even bigger pasture for them. I'll try to keep you updated on how it's going! :)

In the mean time, we have over 500 happy chickens! :)