Leslie
“I can’t believe I’m making a snowman this big!” Lately, we have had a lot of cold, snowy weather. One relatively warm afternoon Lilly began rolling a snow ball around and discovered the snow was prefect for building. The result was the biggest snow man Lilly had ever built; It’s as tall as her if … Read more
Social Chickens When we brought home our chickens this past Spring, we wanted to make sure they would be friendly and easy to manage. Since day one we have been giving our chickens daily attention, and they are all quite social, running close whenever we go near and allowing us to pet them or pick … Read more
Winter is officially here and the days of time off from school have come and gone. Here are a few ways our family enjoyed our Winter break. Bundling up and heading outside So far this year, Rose will only embrace the cold weather for a few minutes at a time. Lilly, however, is accustomed to … Read more
Halloween and Thanksgiving We had a wonderful time celebrating Halloween as part of our local community including the school, library, local businesses, and neighbors. So many fun events were happening the weekend before and on All Hallows Eve. What a magical holiday! This year Thanksgiving was truly a time to enjoy one of the things … Read more
The last few weeks our family has been busy celebrating the Autumn season by visiting pumpkin patches, painting, carving pumpkins, baking, and playing in leaves. We had so much fun out exploring some of our local farms. Trying out some new painting methods to create a spooky Halloween haunted house: Drip pumpkins and splatter spiderwebs. … Read more