The Beginning

Welcome! I thought I would start a blog, hopefully to keep family and friends updated. This is a family picture taken in the fall with 3 of our chickens. We now have 17! We also have 2 sheep, will be getting a cow soon, and we would like some ducks, too! Yes, we are city people turned country bumkins!

Oh Mikayla, Mikayla, our sweet and funny Mikayla! Yes, she wrapped a scarf around one of the chickens and walked it! She definitely keeps us laughing!

And here's Mikayla again, putting her Barbie sunglasses on one of the chicks a few months ago when they were little!

Mikayla putting one of the chicks to sleep!

Here's a hilarious picture that Bryce took! The chicken on the barbecue! Love it!

When we first got the lambs, they were very jumpy and scared and wouldn't come near us. Then we lured them with yummy food (Rick calls it their "candy") and slowly they started coming closer and closer to us.

Now the lambs come right up to us, and when they see us coming, they run to the gate and get all excited!










Erica and Mikayla love driving the riding lawnmower around!

The following are pictures of my beautiful girls. We took them to the Botanical Gardens in Boise, where I got some great pictures of them!

Here are a couple of photos I took of some flowers.

Bryce loves playing the drums. He was in jazz band last year and is excited to start marching band in high school. I still can't believe my baby is going to high school! Weird! He has been practicing for the high school drumline since about March, and had tryouts last Saturday. He just found out he made it on the "tenors" which are the 4 drums together. That's what he wanted to play and he is so excited! Way to go Bryce!


 










Bryce was awarded "Most Outstanding Jazz Musician" by his peers and teacher. It was neat! He was also chosen by 8th grade teachers for "talent" and got to do a PowerPoint presentation about himself in front of the whole school!

So Miss Erica has taken up the flute this year, and is quite good I must say! Her and I have already played in Sacrament meeting. She loves it, and is going to be playing the flute in concert band and the violin in orchestra in the fall! Me and my musically talented kids (snicker snicker!)

Mikayla entered the science fair and got 1st place out of all the 3rd graders! She did an experiment on how to make a lava lamp without electricity. It was really cool!

Here is a picture of our "new" house. It's come a long way since we first looked at it a couple of years ago! We moved in May of 2011, so it's been just over a year. The people that remodeled and fixed up the house just before we bought it took out most of the overgrown shrubs and planted grass, etc. But for Mother's Day this year, I got curbing put in, and that Saturday we all planted the nice flowers and put the rock in. It looks beautiful...I was so excited! We just planted the 2 trees in front and we'll be putting curbing in around them and also some more on the other side of the driveway, with rock etc. But that will probably have to wait until next year. Curbing isn't cheap! Below on the right is what the house used to look like...overgrown trees and bushes, dead lawn and all!

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 Tom Scott Toyota in Nampa sponsors a bike program where all 3rd graders that get perfect attendance and a "3" on the IRI receive a new bike! Both Bryce and Erica got one years ago, and today Mikayla just got one too. Thank you Tom Scott Toyota!