Bacon and Eggs

Here are the two new pigs we got last week. Olivia is going to show Eggs (the white one) at the county fair in August, Bacon (the brown one) will become dinner for us and the neighbor. Blake built an awesome pen for them, a new feeder that they can eat from by lifting the lid with their noses and hooked up a water spout for them to drink from. Apparently you must not just leave their food and water in a dish, they will turn it over and then walk in it.

Hand feeding of the pigs was a short lived event, tons of excitement from everyone for two days and now they barely go out to make sure they are alive. Maggie found out that they do have teeth on the bottom and now she is done with the hand feeding!

The first night we had them it was cold and rainy, Blake checked on them before he went to bed, then I got up at 5:30 to see if they had made it through the night. I couldn't see any movement and hadn't brought the flashlight so I started throwing old hamburger buns at them! They finally grunted, but I still wasn't sure they were okay so I kept chucking stuff until they got up on their legs and were squealing at me for waking them from restful sleep.

Jaxson Lost a Tooth

He hasn't wanted to loose it - said that he would let me pull it for Christmas! Guess he got bored during scripture time because he let me give a few good yanks and out it came. Blake wasn't thrilled with the whole interruption, but he is very forgiving.

Garden Preparation

Last week I sent the kids out to the garden spot with a bag of rancid flour and asked them to dump it out there for composting. They loaded the bag into the red wagon and seemed to be having a great time and making the working thing fun. I smiled to myself and thought how wonderful it was to work together as a family and enjoy each other.

10 minutes later all four kids came around the end of the house and I didn't even recognize Jaxson for a moment and my mind was racing, trying to figure out what he had done to himself.

April Fool's Day

Last night after we put the kids to bed I decided that it would be funny if we put them all in different beds during the night so that when they woke up they would all be confused. Doesn't really work with Jaxson because he is usually all over the place during the night. But he slept in his closet last night so that was weird enough for me.

Blake went off to bed so I decided to do it on my own - big mistake. I started with Sophie and thought that I would put her on the top bunk in Jaxson's room. Well, when I picked her up she folded in half and I couldn't lift her up to the top and over the board. So I just kept trying and was bashing her head into the siderail. When I finally pushed her up and over she rolled over and said 'thank you'.

Went in for Maggie and she went stiff as a board so that when I turned the corner to put her in Olivia's room her head hit the wall! I decided to quit before I really hurt someone.

Sophie came into our room at 5 am and wanted to know why she was in the wrong room! Told her it must have been the April Fool's Fairy. Olivia slept in and by the time she got up everyone was out of bed so she didn't really get the whole joke. So maybe the joke was on me?

After I got into bed I decided that purple koolaid in the toilet tank would look cool when someone flushed this morning, so got back out of bed at 11:30 to rummage through the kitchen for koolaid. Hope I think of something better for next year!

Reason For Being Late

This might explain why we were late for school the other day!

Happiness is Muddiness

Jaxson finally got to turn on the hose in the mud and he was one happy boy for quite a while.

Cheap Gardening

The yard looks a mess after all the snow melted, matted yellow grass, rocks that have risen to the top of the flower beds, dead plant stubs, dead leaves entangled in the ground cover. Have been wanting to do something out there so I started by edging the flower bed out front and removing rocks. It was looking good when I went to start on the other flower bed. It is one I made myself and I have never liked the shape of it. I call it the pregnant omebea. It is such a pain to weed and take care of. So we decided on the spur of the moment to remove it. Started digging up all the flowers and moved them to the smaller bed and smoothing out the dirt in the big bed to let the grass take over again. That is where the grass wants to be anyway so I am going to let it grow. Feels good to get rid of it, it was tons of work and not that pretty. Hopefully we got the plants transplanted early enough in the season that they will adjust and do well this year. So now I have had my need for gardening and digging in the fresh spring soil satisfied, without spending a dime!

Here is the smaller bed:

And here is the big bed that will be going back to grass: