Hi Friends! Man, last week this site exploded (compared to our usual) and wouldn’t you know it, I was on vacation with no internet and only got to sneak peeks at everything on my husband’s phone. HA! I’m so thankful though because I would have worked straight through vacation and missed out on some amazing cuteness from my kids. Before we get into vacation recap, let’s take a look at this week’s video.
3 Animals I Would Get Right Away If Someone Gave Me A Farm (and ya know, money was no object):
And as promised, a video of fainting goats 🙂
My Cutie Family
My 2 year old, Dozer, can climb in and out of his crib. With a couple of weeks of exceptions, we don’t have a lot of problems with this and mostly, I tend to find him laying on the floor after naps. The other night my husband went in to check on the kiddos as he always does and found our son asleep on the floor by the door. I knew it would happen one day!
“Mommy, daddy called me ‘mister’!” -Dozer. I don’t know why this made him so upset but it was cute.
“Daddy, when you die, you know when you’re old, you cannot forget to stop breathing!” – Lemonade, 3
Pregnancy Update
I’m 29 weeks. I talked my midwife into letting me wait 3 weeks for an appointment but then I’ll be every two. Which is annoying but also means baby is close. I’ll get really annoyed when it’s every week. Not because it’s bad it’s just inconvenient.
Otherwise it’s pretty normal around here. Baby kicks. My belly looks funny. I eat a lot. No crazy cravings. No terrible other symptoms. Just ya know, pregnant.
We did talk baby names whilst on vacation. We didn’t come to any conclusions. Ha. Typical us. We do have it narrowed down to two boy and two girl names. Which I think is a good place. Baby comes out. We say “OOO there’s our _____” and we’re done.
This was a lame update. I’ll take a belly picture to make it better.
See, it did didn’t it?
Our First Family Vacation
I could write a whole post on vacations and rest and being together as a family and a ton more – and ya know, it could happen – today though I’ll tell you that we went to Gatlinburg. We got a heckofa deal on someone’s time share. We had an indoor water park. We went on a hike. We slept a lot. We got to bring our own food. Only one person threw up. And my kids are already asking to go back. So yes. Win.
Here’s us hiking. Well obviously here, we’re sitting. On a gigantic rock.
Why do we only ever go hiking when I’m pregnant? It’s hard to climb humongous boulders that way. And a little uncomfortable.
O, funny story:
There was a gorgeous mountain spring so obviously we played in it. My son has crocs, because he can put them on himself and the grandparents got them which means I didn’t have to so yay. Anyways, splash splash splash and shoe comes off and starts going crazy fast down yonder in the stream. I, not being much of an experienced mountain-stream-frollicker, just assume shoe is lost and we will have to get another pair.
My husband is a super hero, gets me holding both kids hands and makes sure we’re not on any slippery rocks, then begins to …what’s a good description for what he did…run? saunter? hurdle? yes, hurdle….he begins to hurdle over the stream from rock to rock until he catches young man’s shoe.
My kids are in AWE of their amazing daddy (and me too really because I thought ‘no way Jose this kid is getting new shoes’ and I also would have fallen in the water) but my husband saved it and my kids cheered like he was Superman which he kind of is.
On The Homestead
Our squash plants all look like psht. Which is the sound that your tongue makes when you blow a raspberry. Our one pumpkin I’m obsessed with is huge. I think I might be done with pickles which, thank goodness, because 7+ gallons and a new fridge later, I think I’m stocked up.
We finally got an eggplant and the tomatoes are coming on strong. We don’t eat tomatoes so we keep asking each other why we planted so many. First timers logic I guess. My dill flowers are also the size of my kids’ heads. Amazing.
In Other News
I got school supplies and am “ready” to start planning for homeschooling this year. Again, another post for another day. Including my love affair with school supplies.
We bought all this stuff one morning:
And my daughter asked if we could do school right away. And I’m like “Mommy is too tired to put this away let alone teach school right now.”
But then I got it all put away. Yay.
My post last week on not getting up before the kids was HUGE and I just wanted to thank you all and also welcome our new friends. Reminder to everyone that we’re on facebook, pinterest, twitter, instagram — so I mean, you can join in the fun in all kinds of ways! (I also just got periscope but I’m not sure what to do with it. Will let you know when I figure this bad boy out.)
O! And if you haven’t yet you can sign up to get a free copy of Get Your Groove On, which is an ebook on getting some productivity and organization out of our days and is just a thanks for being a part of the community.
And that about does it for today. Leave your farm animals of choice in the comments below. Check out the facebook page (I put up one of my fave marriage books that’s on special today on Kindle 🙂 ) And have a great week!
I vote for chickens just for the eggs, but also the ease of care! Fresh eggs, what a difference!
I feel like the eggs alone would save us a fortune.
Laying ducks get my vote.
Hubs is all for getting ducks. I bet that would be in his top 3. He read something about ducks foraging in the woods and now he’s really psyched for ducks. I like ducks as much as the next girl I suppose. Never had their eggs though.
We’d probably do chickens (obviously), ducks possibly too…I feel like hubs has mentioned ducks? and also we recently had a conversation with a cousin about rabbits and how healthy and cost-effective they are for meat. I’ve never had rabbit meat, but I could possibly get behind it. I’m not sure how I feel about cleaning coops/pens though. I’d probably be a bad farm girl. Oh also bees. Does that count?
Kimber, Obviously. Bees totally count. I can’t say about rabbit meat. I hear it’s very lean protein and mostly tastes like chicken. I’m sure Hubs could think of a clever way to expedite the pen-cleaning system. he’s a smart fella. -Leah