All Three are Laying!

All of our chickens are now laying eggs.  The kids love how different the eggs look.  I thought they might be a little freaked out by green and brown eggs, but they love them.  Blake would eat a couple hard boiled eggs a day if I would cook them.  I love having the chickens.  We have a fun time taking care of them and the kids love getting the eggs out of the coop every day. 

Dirt hill

The dirt hill in the back yard has become the bmx track.  They spent a big chunk of the afternoon riding their bikes up and down the hill.  Lincoln let me know that I could no longer take that dirt for my gardens! :>)
I just want to say how grateful I am for my hard working kids.  We went to Benson on Saturday and started getting wood for the next winter.  The kids worked so hard!  It doesn't stop there.  They continue to help unload and stack.  Their work ethic has always amazed me.  I love you kiddies so much!

April Fool's Day

We were all prepared this year for the April Fools attack.  Lance and I stayed up on 3/31 setting up traps and jokes for the kids in the morning.  Molli and Lincoln decided to get up early to set their traps.  Lance and I enjoyed laying in bed listening to the kids run into the saran wrap on the door, tripping on fish line that would drop things from the door, lifting toilet seat covers to discover alien faces and so on.   This did not deter the kids from fulfilling their missions.  They sabotaged my Diet pepsi, hid fake snakes in random place throughout the house and did the classic adjust water faucets so that mom gets soaking wet.  It was a fun morning.

That night I decided to trick the kids with their dinner.  They were so excited that I put cake on their plates for dinner that I guess they weren't too aware that I was taking pics of their disappointment.  I told Blake and Bart to dig into their cake, which was really a sponge covered in frosting.  After the disappointment of not really getting cake for dinner wore off I told them to eat their fish sticks.  Well, some of the fish sticks were not real either.  I have to give props to Lincoln.  As soon as he sat down he separated the fake fish sticks from the real.  Molli dug into them and was a little surprised.  It was a fun day.  Gotta love kids!