You Know Your Child is Watching Too Much Dora if...

...your two year old daughter is counting and it sounds something like this, "Uno, dos, quatro, cinco, seventeen!" There's your smile for the day :)

Lunar Eclipse

This is the view of the Lunar Eclipse from our backyard. Pretty cool.

A Trip Down South

This past weekend the chickens and I headed south while Daddy headed to Arkansas for some ice-fishing...not really, but they did have sleet and freezing rain! We had a great time with grandparents and cousins and Daddy had a great time with the guys. While I have no pictoral evidence of how Daddy spent his time, I do have many pictures of all the fun we had.

The first thing we did was go to cousin Ellie's choir concert. She was chosen to be in this choir along with about 140 other children from various schools in Memphis. They did a great job...the singing was fabulous! Ellie is in the very middle of this picture with a big grin on her face!

My parents, my sister, Ellie and M

Friday was a sister day for Lynn and me. We got our nails done, went out to lunch, and did a little shopping. We had so much fun, had so much to talk about, and of course, lots to laugh about. If only we could do that every Friday!


Saturday was spent at a local park in Olive Branch, MS...that's where Pop and Nana live, it's just about 15 minutes out of Memphis. This was a great park...we all had a great time, despite the cloudy, windy, and cool day.

Four Cousins Swinging

Riding the dinosaurs

Fun on the slide

On the dock

A little silliness

The Girl Cousins

The Chickens in their Sunday best!

Snow Day

We had another fun weekend of snow! This time the snow was almost too deep for little E and I didn't even try to get C out in it...he has no snow gear and has come down with another ear infection! The girls had a blast though and here are the pictures to prove it.

Snowball Fight!

Snow Angels

Eating snow

Look how far the snow comes up to her boots!

Didn't want to leave our little man out...here is his latest trick :)

Little Walking Man

Weekend Recovery

The weekend has been much better than the beginning to last week! We still have a chicken down...M has a bad cold, but we'll take that over last week's happenings! Here are a few pics that are sure to give you a grin :)

E's Saturday afternoon reading

M's dance moves

E and me...taken by M...pretty good for a 5-year-old!

C's mohawk! This is the face I get every time I pull the camera out!

Towel head!

Burns, Stomach Bugs, and Bladder Infections, Oh My!

We have had quite an eventful few days! It all started Sunday night when Kris was fixing some dinner. E stuck her fingers under the eye on the stove. Thankfully, Kris was right there and pulled them out quickly, but not without burning 2 of her fingers. It's a pretty bad burn, blistered immediately...she was crying, I was holding back the tears. She was so brave and eventually allowed us to hold her hand in a cup of ice water. And later allowed us to bandage them up. She really has been a trooper through cleanings and band-aid changes. I hate it when one of my chickens gets really hurt!


On Monday I was talking to a good friend on the phone, saying how thankful I was that none of us had experienced the stomach bug this season. Hmmmm...I think the stomach bugs were laughing at me. That night we woke up to sounds of C throwing up in his bed. That was a long night to say the least, but Kris was so good and did most of the hard work! Thankfully, it seems to have only been a 24 hour bug and so far the rest of us have escaped it. I really do hate it when one of my chickens is sick!


We've been wondering about M for awhile now...she's been having some issues, let's say. And in honor of her privacy, I won't go in to great detail. So I finally took her into the dr. yesterday and all indicators point to a bladder infection! Poor thing...those are NOT fun...yes, I speak from experience. But not to be outdone by any of her siblings, she too has been a trooper! Have I said how much I hate it when one of my chickens is sick or hurt?! I really do.


On a lighter note, E got the cutest hair cut over the weekend...have a look-see...

Merry Christmas to All!

What a joyful, chaotic, loud, fun, relaxing day we have had! Christmas was definitely busier this year than it ever has been, with a new child and everyone else a year older. There were squeals of delight, fights over sibling's gifts, too much candy, mouthfuls of wrapping paper and fun had by all! Here are a few highlights from the day:

princess slippers on Christmas Eve





I hope y'all had as great a day as we did and found joy in celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!