Socks!

For the LOVE of all things holy Griffin and Peyton we can’t keep up with socks at our house! Who knows what makes them “disappear” but I’m tired of buying them!
SO.
I just went and bought TWENTY pairs of socks for them. That’s right 40 socks.
And I took my happy little sharpie and politely wrote “G” on half and “P” on the other half. No more, “Peyton lost the socks” or “Griffin lost the socks”. They are each responsible for their own!
The end.
If they come up “missing” in the next few months I’m so making them buy their own!
That is all. :)

Thirty

Holy cow, y’all! I’m the big 3-0!!!!!!!

My birthday was Sunday. We had a fun day. Didn’t do a whole lot of anything! Which is exactly what I wanted to do!

We had an air show here this weekend so on Saturday I took the kids to see the Blue Angels! Hubby had to work traffic so we stalked down his traffic post and watched from there! :)

(side note-I’m having the hardest time finding shorts for Reece this year! These are WAY too short, in my opinion. And yes I’m picky about what they look like too, so that makes it harder!)They were all three way more interested in helping Daddy work the traffic light than seeing the jets!

I won’t bore you with all the pictures of the planes! It doesn’t do them justice anyway! If you ever have the opportunity to see the Blue Angels in person you should go!!! They are amazing!

Sassy Pants

Sweet Emmalynn

The real reason that I didn’t have any pictures of my sweet new niece in my last post was because she was in the NICU. And still is. I wouldn’t dare broadcast it on here but now her parents have made things “facebook official” and so pretty much everyone knows now!
Isn’t she so beautiful?!
For some reason her lungs were not fully developed and so we’re all just patiently waiting on them!
VERY patiently.
My sister in law was discharged yesterday. Boo. I can not imagine having to leave my baby that I had just carried for 9+ months!
I can not wait to kiss those sweet cheeks!!
Please keep her in your prayers!

Baby Girls and (more)Baby Chicks!

My sweet little niece was born this morning! She is beautiful! I went by at lunch to check on momma and baby. I didn’t get any pictures (YET!) because the baby was a little busy! But don’t you worry your pretty little heads, there will be LOTS of pictures of baby Emmalynn on here VERY soon! She has sweet fat cheeks and a head FULL of dark hair!
On Josh’s side of the family, the granddaughters now out number the grandsons!! :) heehee!
Maybe we will even it out soon. Reece now wants a brother! :) haha. I still want another girl. kinda.
Today is also Josh’s younger brother’s birthday! Us sisters like to give the brothers-in-law fabulous birthday presents because Griffin was born on Josh’s other brothers birthday! The one who had the baby today! Got all that? Good.
Soooo y’all know how hard I was trying to find WHITE Silkie Chickens. Well, I found a lady on craigslist that hatched 28 on Tuesday. Only thing was she lives two hours away! Lucky for me my lover love was going to be about an hour away from the lady yesterday so he picked up SIX for me!
And had he not been in the area he would have gone anyway. My man is fabulous.
They are SO SO SO SO very tiny. Itsy Bitsy! Less than half of the size of the other chicks we had!! I’d say about half the size of the palm of your hand. They will only weigh 1.5 – 3 pounds when fully grown!
Without further ado, meet Marshmellow, Sugar, Snowball, Coco(Thanks Tori!), Cotton and Casper!



Please ignore the “fresh outta the tub and half naked” look. That’s just how he rolls!

Busy Weekend!

We had a great weekend! Josh and his Dad did a lot of work on the coop and I am SO happy to report that the chicks are now living in it!
All that’s left to do is to put the wiring around the pen and a little bit of painting! Then on the inside we’ve got to get our nesting boxes and roosting poles and we’re all set!
Then it’s my turn…y’all know I’m going to make it cute, right?! Surely you know me well enough to know that our coop will be snazzy?
And I was calling it Cluckingham Palace..but now I kind of like Hen Hilton???
While the hubs had his hands full with all of that work, I had my own little project to work on…

May not look like such a big job to you but that was just grass before!! ALOT of hard work from this momma! I wish I had a before pic!
I also need to figure out a spot for our little strawberry patch!
I’m starting to stray away from getting the goats. I don’t know…maybe we still will. But as much as we go to the beach and stuff in the summer…that would be one more thing to take care of!
Chippie and Daisy are the only two allowed to travel :)

Healthy Pins!

What have you pinned on Pinterest this week? I found this on there a day or so ago…

Do you like to eat ranch dip with raw veggies? Me too! Do you like yogurt? Me either! yuck! haha! BUT, if you take a packet of dry ranch and mix it in a 16 oz of non-fat, plain greek yogurt…it tastes the EXACT same and is WAY better for you!!! YAY!!! That’s what I had for dinner last night!

And don’t think that just because I’m on a big health kick that I’m not bad sometimes! I also made a red velvet bread pudding last night that was to DIE for!!!

I’ll share that recipe soon!