have. love. want.

Have. Love.

Love. Want.

www.bogsfootwear.com

Best Boots Ever.

Thanksgiving

5

 Burgundy is smart (will probably skip Kindergarten), Burgundy is tough (throws as many punches as she takes with Finn), Burgundy is independent, wise, loving, confident, certain and beautiful.  Burgundy is 5.

each person made a mini-cake for Indi's birthday

mommy's cake

daddy's cake

Finn's cake

Indi's cake

Halloween

Cody went to Burgundy’s class party.
And I went to Finn’s and surprised him.  Also did the toilet paper mummy game which the 2nd graders loved.  So much fun.  I was the only mom who dressed up (see my costume, below).  I used to love it when my mom would show up to a class Halloween party in costume.
(Ps this picture is not of Finn, he didn’t hold still long enough to be wrapped up well by his partner)

So for Halloween, Finn was a knight…
Burgundy was a cheerleader…
And Cody and I were cowboys.  We went up to Jim & Paula’s for dinner and trick or treating.  I thought it was possible I might get a few spruce-ups to my costumes.  I was not disappointed!  (notice the sidearm & authentic Sheriff badge, yee haw)
This is my favorite picture from Halloween.

Pumpkins

I had the stomach flu last weekend so Cody took Finn to the pumpkin patch to pick out some good jack-o-lanterns.  Burgundy decided she wanted to stay home and keep me company.

Above are the pumpkins we grew in our garden.  Of all the seeds that got planted last year, it’s funny that only white ones grew.  We’ll have to make sure to plant some orange seeds for next year, but we did enjoy our albino pumpkins!

Farm Life

3 eggs hatched, only one little guy made it of those 3.  But boy is that little chick a spit-fire!
He or she (?) is super fast.  She has been peeping and popping around since birth, after a couple days, she hopped out of the nest box and mom followed.  They usually hang out in the coop during the day, but they have come out for the day while the weather was beautiful these last few days.  Lu is a super good chicken momma.  Taking good care of and protecting little Gwenni.  (Finn named her Gwenni, saying she looked like a miniature penguin, get it? Pen-Gwin) Ok.
Only issue I see with this little chick is she is shy of humans since she has a momma to take care of her.  So we can’t pick her up and handle her as much as if we had her in a brooder box.  Did I mention she is fast?  Nearly impossible to catch her.  We should have named her Flash.

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The alpacas are all doing well, with moose moss to munch.
(and tomatoes…)


Happy Autumn!

Hay There!

(originally published 10/8/2012)

Here we are hauling it by hand…

until Farmer Dave drove up with this nifty machine

and made short work of it

Daisy is interested

so are the boys

Finn is rushing out to climb it as I type this

Finn's post

Finn really wants to start his own blog, so he thought it would be a good idea to put a post on my blog to refer my readers to his new blog.  Genius.
So here's his first blog post.  I will let you know when his blog is up and running :)

(PS so his spelling isn't the best, that's ok, Nana will be able to read it :)

 

I had a holween perdee at my school and my mom shode up and superisd me . love Finnleydeller

Go to finns blog 3days aferter holaween

i almost forgot to show you!

cover your head

trying to switch my blog over from mermaid to missa.  let's hope I can do it without making the whole blog disappear.  that would be bad.

in the meantime, here are some quick updates.  I knit this hat from 100% alpaca fiber.  Oh. My. Goodness.  It is the softest, most luxurious thing ever.  And it looks awesome, too.  Soon... soon I will making many, many more of these with my own fiber.  Hopefully I will be getting some fiber tomorrow that I will be able to send in to be processed.  Stay tuned for that!

Let's see, what else.  Oh I went to get peaches off our peach tree in our old yard and all the peaches were gone.  Boo hoo.  I got about 15 peaches.  Still the best peaches IN THE WORLD.  Somebody got lucky this year.  They better have made something wonderful out of them.  So that was a good excuse to come home and make Cody order a peach tree.  Let's have one even better where we are now.  And let's plant it in the back yard this time.  Anyway, I made fruit leather from them and used wax paper instead of parchment, and apparently there's a difference because it all stuck to the paper and I had to throw it away... sparkly tears :*(  I also got a small amount of tomatoes and canned them up for chili this winter.  This is the kitchen in the midst.  It looks like someone got shot.  Not a great canning experience this year all in all.

 This is Chanelle.  She looks like a miniature camel.  She so wants to be loved, but stays just out of reach.

 Here is our littlest farmer.  Probably the best one out of all of us.