Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Lost Chicks

Last week we lost Blonde when the door to the chicken coup was left open overnight. A few days later we let the other 2 roam in the yard all day and when we came back those chicks were gone too. We have been having crime reports in the neihgborhood of hawks eating chickens so the word was out to keep the chickens undercover. We didn't.
But 24 hours later Shane and a friend were on the hunt for "who knows what" and came running into the kitchen screaming, "We found our cheapers!" They were hanging out at the neighbors backyard. I then decided to go to our other neighbor's to see if Blonde had manage to join their barn of animals. The next thing you know the owner is giving us 2 of his chickens to take home since we couldn't find Blonde. The kids were so excited and Hailey was kissing that chick from the minute it went into her arms. Our neighbor even said that if for some reason one of the chicks was a male we could return it to him and get another chick. (he has about 50) As we are walking up the easement i could see Jesse just shaking his head. He knew that Chickens don't like new chickens and he was right. We had the 2 black chickens for about 15 minutes and then we brought them back to their original home. Hailey was in tears but at least we still have 2 Chicks!


The best part of the story- Our neighbor's name is Moses and when he told me his name, of course my first reaction was to say, "Oh I had a dog named Moses", and i did. What goes around comes around.

Shana and Craig's Wedding

It's been a long time since we went to a wedding. It was nice to get to dress up and dance with no kids!

The Sunday dinner crew minus Dan



Saturday, August 14, 2010

Up In Smoke

In honor of our new BBQ smoker, we hosted a "Smoke Out" this past Friday with the Coogans, Graves, and Katos (8 adults, 10 kids), but had enough food and wine for twice as many. All went well, except for Jesse waking up at 6:00 AM to start smoking the meat, only to be informed by Molly at 7:00 AM that the party wasn't until the next day.


Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Palm Springs finale

A little ATV action

The only picture of Hailey and I, she fought it

Shooting range

Late night water balloon fight

Blackberry picking

We went on a short hike to pick blackberries. The boys wanted nothing to do with picking them so.........they helped fertilize the blackberries


Jesse wants only the best

pucker up

Monday, August 9, 2010

13 years of......

memories in this car. We sold it to the first person who saw it. I'm going to miss you!

Friday, August 6, 2010

Ice Skating

We went ice skating at the Mall with some friends. Shane loved to go as fast as he could across and then bang straight into the wall

Best of buds

Hailey wanted nothing to do with skating, she didn't even want to watch from the sidelines. Then by the end she was telling me to go away so she could skate all by herself with Nicki.