Outdoor Play

 I have come to learn that if you want great photos of your kids you don't need to plan. At all. As a matter of fact, just take your camera out into the yard and sit right in the middle of play time. You might just be amazed. I always get much better shots this way than if I try to pose them and create an elaborate set up.

Oh, can you tell someone is enjoying her gymnastics classes?

Fashion Statement

Paisley has an obsession. Everywhere we go, any time of day, she has to be wearing a certain pair of shoes...

The thing is- these shoes don't match anything she wears. She doesn't care...

It was a fight to get her to take them off and wear her sandals for pictures yesterday...

Today she even napped in them. Yes, she slept in heels...

...and I LOVE it. I realize there will come a day all too soon when I wish I heard clicking up and down the hall all day long. So I let her wear them and smile...

Chicken Play

The kids new favorite activity since we have warmer weather is to go get the chickens out and chase them around the yard. They love it and I am fairly sure that the chickens enjoy being out too. We are working on their new coop and I think right now their old one is a little cramped.

We purchased five chicks a little over a month ago. We got two barred rock, two buff orpington (we already have three of these hens and we love them), and one frizzle. The frizzle died on the third day we had them and the others are still going strong.

Above is one of our barred rocks and she is standing where our soon to be garden is! I am so excited to get that garden going soon.

Blake likes to try and train them.

 They seem to love him to pieces. This is one of our baby buffs. We are still trying to think of good names and we have had them for over a month now. We need to get on that.

*please excuse the play set mess in the background. we had a small tornado a few weeks ago and have a huge mess on our hands. the hubs was rebuilding our fence as I was taking these pics.

Lucas wanted to put her on his shoulder too but she was more interested in standing on his back.

Paisley cracks me up with them. She makes the funniest faces when they do things. We have to teach her every day over and over again how to be sweet to them. She is not very gentle with the babies but she is getting there.

A Little Game of Catch Up...

1. My yard pretty much looks like this whenever we get a warm day.
2 & 3. We love spending lots of time with these girls...
4. Such a great brother, helping his sister...
5. Some of the chicken scraps (I have since learned that I shouldn't give them any onion, thank goodness they picked around it).
6. Cooking some Easter eggs.
7. Water color is his new favorite thing. Ever.
8. Trying to brighten this 'ol house up. I'm going for a cottage/farmhouse feel...
9. Another great brother, swinging with his baby sister.
10. My little love bug playing outside.

Project 52: Week 7

1. She was determined to get that boot back on.
2. Pretty much sums up his life. It's an obsession.
3. Blake's new obsession. He loves them. We all do, who am I kidding?

Insta-Catch Up?!??

I will apologize in advance for the phone photo overload that is coming. I should have split this up into two posts but I figured why not just go ahead and catch up and be ahead of the game... right? Haha.

Checking out the "bok boks" at Nanny and Pop's house. She is obsessed with chickens... she may be a very happy little girl very soon. That's all I can say about that now! :)

Petting one of the baby goats. My pawpaw has 36 goats. 14 of them were born last week! Crazy! We actually saw a mommy goat give birth to number 15 while we were there. That was.... interesting with the boys. Ha!

Just sliding!

Movie time!

Lucas holding his project for the 100th day of school. It is what he will look like when he is 100 years old.

My burlap rag wreath I made. I think it is missing something. Any tips?

Can you find the baby??

Once again with the chickens...

Dress up time!

iPhone Pics Catch Up

Figured I better catch up on the phone pics. I took a little hiatus and now I am playing catch up! I promise after this post I will be all caught up and hopefully I will have something half way interesting to blog about. Ha!

Bowling with daddy.

Happy New Year!

Coffee on the back porch...

Iron Man is not above tea parties with his baby sister.

Someone loves the new bell. Good thing she can't reach it yet!

Random dance party in the living room.

She was rocking her baby and saying over and over "Bok Bye Babyyyyy"

A princess waiting on her daddy to come inside.

Best. Toy. Ever!

He was told to show his chest hair! HA!

Photo bombing.

Amazing gift!!

LOVE the look on her face. She's like "whatcha gonna do about it?"

New shades!

That's not how you play with it.....