I Am Not A Farmer!

Earlier in the year we decided to join 4-H, Becca is in 3rd grade now so this was the first year she could participate. We had big plans, cooking, photography and chickens. Yep you heard me right...chickens! Funny thing happened, we got busy, life happened, and somehow we skipped out on the cooking and photography...but we still got the chickens. Thursday Feb. 21 we get the phone call to come pick up our 50 chicks (that was the smallest amount we could order), so I head to the fairgrounds with the kids. First we stopped by the store to buy a large plastic tub... I was sure they would laugh at me for only having the one tub, because, well 50 chicks thats alot! They would have laughed alright...apparently chicks are small, like super small, they had them all crammed in this tiny box ready to travel haha. I knew I was in trouble when we walked in to get them and they start sifting through the box to check them and record their tag numbers... the first chick they pulled out had a broken leg, then the second chick they pulled out had...ahem...expired, pretty sure I wanted to run out the door right then...without the chicks, but we didn't, we packed them up and headed home. We get the chicks home and because they are so small and the weather is still cold here at night we chose to keep them in our "office"...ok I can't lie the "office" is actually called the "junk room" around here. So here we are with 50 chicks in a tub, what could go wrong? Day 1, the girls are loving them they are so small and sweet, the kids hold them and help feed them etc. Day 2 more of the same, we did lose one chick but the kids didn't notice, and we didn't tell them. By the evening of day 2 the girls are starting to lose interest. Then came day 3...We woke up to another dead chick. The girls were super sad so I sent them out and tried to figure out what to do with this chick... I look around the room and find a large chic-filet cup (I didn't catch the irony of this until many days later) I scoop the chick up, I put him in a box and set it in the closet for Josh to dispose of when he got home. By this time the girls have decided that chickens stink and are gross (both statements are quite true). They continue to help me take care of them, only now it's because I force them too haha. Day 4 we are cleaning out the tubs, feeding etc when I notice chirping coming from somewhere other than the tub. I send the girls out and listen closer....No, it can't be! The chirping is coming from the box with the "dead" chicken! This poor chicken had been without food, water and heat....closed up in a box overnight and was ALIVE! Apparently I can't tell a live chick from a dead chick....now do you see why I am not a farmer!

Where did the time go

So I was thinking I could just start posting again, but when I realized how much time had passed since my last post I felt kind of silly. I could tell you about my day yesterday but you would go from a post about a sweet 10 month old Seely to a post about a rambunctious 2 year old. Wow time really does fly! I'm not sure why I havent posted in the last almost 2 years...we have definitely been incredibly busy but more than anything we have just been enjoying a calm normal life, nothing blog worthy I guess. Then I realized when I started this blog it was for me to record daily...weekly....ok monthly sometimes memories:). When I look back on my posts I am so happy that I have those memories written down because as time passes I seem to forget those sweet, funny and sometimes sad memories. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm back!!! I would love to go back and do a review in pictures maybe of life in the past 2 years but that will have to come later, for now I'm just going to jump back in! I feel that I should give a disclaimer, I will be writing these posts whenever I have a few minutes to sit down, so please do not expect them to be perfect...I write like I talk, there will probably be many run on sentences and in case you haven't noticed I use a lot of ellipsis....and yes I had to ask Josh what the correct name was for those, he's so smart:) So ready or not let's jump back in, I wonder how long it will take before I post again!

I Scream...

You Scream....We all Scream for icecream!!! Well atleast my kids did this past weekend! As many of you know my sister and her best friend own a photography business.... Hard 2 Hold photography....they take some amazing pictures. They have taken pictures of my kids for a while now and when they decided to start doing it proffessionaly I was pretty excited. Keelie came to me and asked what I thought of the name Hard 2 Hold.....hmmm I wasn't really sure it fit. You see when I think of something that is hard 2 hold.. weird, funny and crazy are a few of the words that come to mind to describe that phrase. Well after watching these girls this past weekend I now realize that the name fits them perfectly! These girls will do absolutely anything to get a smile out of your kids....absolutely anything to get that perfect, treasure for a lifetime picture....even if they look Hard to Hold doing it! :-) We love you Kiki and Jess!!!
Now scroll down to the next post and enjoy our Icecream pictures....and if you love them as much as I do (and I know you will) Call and schedule a session with Hard 2 Hold photography! I promise you won't regret it!

Hard -2- Hold Photography - Blue Bell Series

Just like me

What do you do with three kids when you are stuck in the house on a cold rainy day? You could bake some yummy banana muffins,


make a mess with some homemade playdough,



put together a castle...


yes, these seem like fun things! Or while Mommy is out of commission feeding your baby brother on the couch you could.... find a pair of scissors and give your doll a haircut. Then upon your mom discovering said doll and asking you about it, you could say...."well Mom I wanted my baby to look just like me!"

Tooth Fairy

We had a first time visitor at our house this past week! The tooth fairy! Becca finally lost her first tooth... its been loose since before Christmas, and she finally wiggled it enough to make it fall out. When it came out her response was wow that tooth was small! the Tooth fairy brought her money and left a toothbrush under her pillow and Emmas. Let me tell you there has been some inflation since the tooth fairy last visited me...I'm going to hate to see what the price of a tooth is when Seelys losing them! Becca already has another loose tooth, and Emma has been working really hard wiggling hers trying to find a loose one!

4 months

Seely you are 4 months old, I can't beleive how fast you are growing! I think we have finally figured out what was making you so fussy, we have started you on zantac twice a day for reflux and put you on soy formula when you have bottles and I have cut out dairy from my diet. Since we have done these things you are a different baby, so much happier and content. You are in your 3-6 month clothes now and next time I buy diapers I will be getting size 2. You have started laughing and smiling a lot more, and your sisters will do absolutely anything to get a laugh out of you. You enjoy sitting in your walker and your sisters enjoy pushing you and giving you tours of the house. :-) I am pretty sure you are going to be left handed like your Daddy, you use your left hand alot more than your right when you are ging to grab your toys. You are so amazing and we are loving watching you grow and change!