Chickens!

Well this mama has decided to finally get some chickens so we can have meat we can trust. lol! All this pink slime hoopla has made me not trust the food chain at all. I had to get hubby to OK it but after I showed him the costs and all (which will be little since they will be free range), cost of slaughter and processing and the fact we would have fresh eggs all the time he decided we should give it a try. So meat, I mean meet our first 5 chickens now 2 weeks old. Nugget, Smoke, Cordon Blu, Hotwing, and Popcorn. I bought these guys early as some fun Easter eye candy for my kids. I have to place an order for the others, we are going to start with about 40-50 and slaughter about half. I made sure to pick out a butcher before hand because after reading up on it, slaughtering chickens is not for us. lol I'm excited and the butcher says we will never buy store chicken ever again that there is that big of a difference in taste. We'll see in about 2 months. :)

St. Patricks Day!

The kids woke up Saturday morning to some surprises from a little leprechaun named Lachlan. First they found a note from Lachlan on the stove with a pile of gold coins and some Lucky Charms. They were so excited and giggling. I told them they'd better go to the bathroom so they could eat their Lucky Charms he brought them. We don't normally buy sugary cereals so that would be why such excitement. So they all trotted to the bathroom.....where an eruption of giggles and laughter filled the whole house. I said "what's going on??" Then Dominic, 9, came out and said "The leprechaun peed green pee in our toilet!!!!" Sure enough! I went in to examine and there it was green pee in the toilet.

We had a fun day and celebrated having all kinds of green goodies. Green Jello, Green Shamrock cookies, Shamrock pretzels, small shamrock m&m's on pretzels, green milk, rainbow candy, green cupcakes, green grapes and green milk!
Here's my 7 lucky charms after our day of fun.

Dominic's 9th Birthday!

Dominic decided after seeing me on Pinterest that he was going to have a LEGO birthday party. I saw plenty of pins for it so I started pinning them and everyday he would eagerly look to see what I found in a Birthday Party album I had made. I took the ideas he liked and tried to make him a pretty cool party. These are just a few of the pics of everything I did for the table. I had more planned to make/do but my hubby was at Men's Encounter so I didn't get everything I wanted done. But it still turned out great. He had a great day. :)