Our week

First: Blogger hates me. I have tried this post everyday for nearly a week. It never works.

Okay moving on.....this last week has been packed with work around the yard. We decided that we were getting our yard under control and somewhat landscaped this year. We live in a weed patch so this is somewhat of a difficult task. Last weekend we got a dump truck full of mulch as a way to battle the weeds. We will be getting 2 more loads this weekend. We will win the battle on weeds!!

This week we have also seeded the back pasture with grass, planted 30 trees, nearly finished the chicken coop, planted 18 asperagus plants, 40 strawberries, carrots, potatoes, radishes, lettuce... the list goes on and on. Dean has been running like crazy to get everything done. He has a job interview today (right now in fact) and if he gets the job, well work time around the yard will be drastically reduced. Which we are both totally okay with at this point!!

*the back pasture newly tilled and seeded*

* flower boxes filled with wonderful little goodies*

*the spectacular tulips. These babies come back better and better every year. They are my favorite flower hands down!*

*Heritage raspberry plants. They are making a come back after sitting in pots all last year at Deans parents house.*

*Pile o' mulch. This doesn't look all that impressive but at this point it had been driven over with a tractor and compacted. It was way bigger looking before that. This entire pile has been distributed around the new lilacs and garden paths.*

* Cauliflower*

*Meat birds, cornish x rocks. These babies grow unbelievably fast, eat insane amounts of food and taste fantastic with BBQ sauce. :)*

*The completed chicken run. The chicks are still a little small to spend much time in here. Its been too cold so they just run out and then run back into the coop.*

*the nearly completed chicken coop. Dean will finish siding it and we still have to get a window in the back side. I plan on planting a bunch of sunflowers around it for a bit of color.*

Well that is it around our house. School is winding up and all house projects are on hold until the outside is done. We still have a lot of work to do outside. If the weather would cooperate for 2 days we could be finished up. With the wind blowing like it is, I just dont see that happening anytime soon.

Have a lovely weekend.

Our week

First: Blogger hates me. I have tried this post everyday for nearly a week. It never works.

Okay moving on.....this last week has been packed with work around the yard. We decided that we were getting our yard under control and somewhat landscaped this year. We live in a weed patch so this is somewhat of a difficult task. Last weekend we got a dump truck full of mulch as a way to battle the weeds. We will be getting 2 more loads this weekend. We will win the battle on weeds!!

This week we have also seeded the back pasture with grass, planted 30 trees, nearly finished the chicken coop, planted 18 asperagus plants, 40 strawberries, carrots, potatoes, radishes, lettuce... the list goes on and on. Dean has been running like crazy to get everything done. He has a job interview today (right now in fact) and if he gets the job, well work time around the yard will be drastically reduced. Which we are both totally okay with at this point!!

*the back pasture newly tilled and seeded*

* flower boxes filled with wonderful little goodies*

*the spectacular tulips. These babies come back better and better every year. They are my favorite flower hands down!*

*Heritage raspberry plants. They are making a come back after sitting in pots all last year at Deans parents house.*

*Pile o' mulch. This doesn't look all that impressive but at this point it had been driven over with a tractor and compacted. It was way bigger looking before that. This entire pile has been distributed around the new lilacs and garden paths.*

* Cauliflower*

*Meat birds, cornish x rocks. These babies grow unbelievably fast, eat insane amounts of food and taste fantastic with BBQ sauce. :)*

*The completed chicken run. The chicks are still a little small to spend much time in here. Its been too cold so they just run out and then run back into the coop.*

*the nearly completed chicken coop. Dean will finish siding it and we still have to get a window in the back side. I plan on planting a bunch of sunflowers around it for a bit of color.*

Well that is it around our house. School is winding up and all house projects are on hold until the outside is done. We still have a lot of work to do outside. If the weather would cooperate for 2 days we could be finished up. With the wind blowing like it is, I just dont see that happening anytime soon.

Have a lovely weekend.

Sunday Snapshots: Lazy day

I picked up some foam curlers recently and thought I would give them a try. They turned out pretty awesome but I felt pretty dorky while they were in! The kids thought I was hilarious!

Laina has gotten so big. She talks and smiles frequently. I tried to capture it on camera but to no avail. She is pretty dang cute if I may say so though. :)

Really do I need to say anything about this one?

I roasted 2lbs of peppers and then stuck them in the freezer for later. I will add them to spagehti sauce and pizza sauce for the next little while.


I bought pink nail polish the other day. I dont normally do pink but today it works.

Sunday Snapshots: Lazy day

I picked up some foam curlers recently and thought I would give them a try. They turned out pretty awesome but I felt pretty dorky while they were in! The kids thought I was hilarious!

Laina has gotten so big. She talks and smiles frequently. I tried to capture it on camera but to no avail. She is pretty dang cute if I may say so though. :)

Really do I need to say anything about this one?

I roasted 2lbs of peppers and then stuck them in the freezer for later. I will add them to spagehti sauce and pizza sauce for the next little while.


I bought pink nail polish the other day. I dont normally do pink but today it works.

Life around our house

Life around here has been crazy to say the least. We have been so busy it seems like there isnt enough time in a day to accomplish everything. Dean has been spending all day everyday outside working on the many projects we have going. I have been helping outside but also working on a few crafty things. The mood to sew hit me and I am running with it. I have an etsy store and it has been a year since it was last stocked. These two pics show some of the fabrics I am currently working with. For what you might ask....well you'll have to come and see when its all ready!

The long view of our property. This is the garden shot. Dean has been making raised beds and a new chicken coop. Right now we have onions, peas, strawberries, blackberries, saskatoon berries, and blueberries planted in this space. The rest will come as the season progresses.

The new chicken coop, well what you can see of it anyway. When Dean went to Virginia in March he got to see the chicken coop of the guy he was staying with. Once we knew for sure we were staying in Idaho he quickly set to work incorporating some of the ideas he saw there. The coop will hopefully be finished this week. The chicks are already in it tonight and I must say the house smells alot better!

If you have been reading this blog for any amount of time you know that I have a love affair with tomatoes. I cant help myself. Here are a few glorious plants....a few of the 72 ish that I started. I always start a ton and then the weather takes out a good portion of them. I usually am left with just the right amount. I cant wait till I can make salsa and spaghetti sauce...yumm.

Bulbs are my favorite types of flowers. I havent seen any that I do not like. Lining our front fence we have daffodils, tulips and one lone day lily. One of these days I will get my hands on hundreds of bulbs and they will cover the yard.

Red cabbage and cauliflower stalk. Very pretty if you ask me. These will go in the ground this weekend. We will cover them with a row cover to keep the bugs out.

One of the things we have always hated about this house is the color of the trim. A nice way to describe it is peanut butter.....a more accurate description can be found in a diaper. We bought a gallon (for now) of dark red to paint all the trim. We eventually want to paint the whole house but that will be later on down the road. For now the red trim is coming and I can not wait.

My favorite planters in front of the house. I usually plant pansies here but this year something else is calling my name, I just dont know what it is yet.

The chicks. We bought 30 to start with a couple of weeks ago. The white ones however are HUGE and have since trampled 6 or so. Today they went outside to the coop along with another 10 we bought. Hopefully with more space everyone will be happy.

So there it is....a lot of the sam ole' stuff but a lot of new things too. Tomorrow we will be adding more strawberries and bluberries, cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower to the garden. We will also be planting 30 trees. Well 10 Quaking Aspens, 10 Lilacs, and 10 Dogwoods. Grass is on the menu this week also. The chicken coop will be finished and then we will tackle the shed. We are going to be converting our shed into a homeschool room and a tool shed. I have a lot of ideas for the space that I will definatly be sharing in weeks to come. At some point in all of this we will be putting on a new roof, ripping out a wall in the dining room and converting the basement to a bedroom.

One thing you can say for us, things are never dull around here. Have a fantastic weekend everyone~

Life around our house

Life around here has been crazy to say the least. We have been so busy it seems like there isnt enough time in a day to accomplish everything. Dean has been spending all day everyday outside working on the many projects we have going. I have been helping outside but also working on a few crafty things. The mood to sew hit me and I am running with it. I have an etsy store and it has been a year since it was last stocked. These two pics show some of the fabrics I am currently working with. For what you might ask....well you'll have to come and see when its all ready!

The long view of our property. This is the garden shot. Dean has been making raised beds and a new chicken coop. Right now we have onions, peas, strawberries, blackberries, saskatoon berries, and blueberries planted in this space. The rest will come as the season progresses.

The new chicken coop, well what you can see of it anyway. When Dean went to Virginia in March he got to see the chicken coop of the guy he was staying with. Once we knew for sure we were staying in Idaho he quickly set to work incorporating some of the ideas he saw there. The coop will hopefully be finished this week. The chicks are already in it tonight and I must say the house smells alot better!

If you have been reading this blog for any amount of time you know that I have a love affair with tomatoes. I cant help myself. Here are a few glorious plants....a few of the 72 ish that I started. I always start a ton and then the weather takes out a good portion of them. I usually am left with just the right amount. I cant wait till I can make salsa and spaghetti sauce...yumm.

Bulbs are my favorite types of flowers. I havent seen any that I do not like. Lining our front fence we have daffodils, tulips and one lone day lily. One of these days I will get my hands on hundreds of bulbs and they will cover the yard.

Red cabbage and cauliflower stalk. Very pretty if you ask me. These will go in the ground this weekend. We will cover them with a row cover to keep the bugs out.

One of the things we have always hated about this house is the color of the trim. A nice way to describe it is peanut butter.....a more accurate description can be found in a diaper. We bought a gallon (for now) of dark red to paint all the trim. We eventually want to paint the whole house but that will be later on down the road. For now the red trim is coming and I can not wait.

My favorite planters in front of the house. I usually plant pansies here but this year something else is calling my name, I just dont know what it is yet.

The chicks. We bought 30 to start with a couple of weeks ago. The white ones however are HUGE and have since trampled 6 or so. Today they went outside to the coop along with another 10 we bought. Hopefully with more space everyone will be happy.

So there it is....a lot of the sam ole' stuff but a lot of new things too. Tomorrow we will be adding more strawberries and bluberries, cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower to the garden. We will also be planting 30 trees. Well 10 Quaking Aspens, 10 Lilacs, and 10 Dogwoods. Grass is on the menu this week also. The chicken coop will be finished and then we will tackle the shed. We are going to be converting our shed into a homeschool room and a tool shed. I have a lot of ideas for the space that I will definatly be sharing in weeks to come. At some point in all of this we will be putting on a new roof, ripping out a wall in the dining room and converting the basement to a bedroom.

One thing you can say for us, things are never dull around here. Have a fantastic weekend everyone~

Sunday Snapshots: Easter Weekend At Our Place

**View from the couch where we have spent all weekend sleeping and feeling miserable.**


**crashed in the middle of trying to get comfortable. All of us have looked like this at one point or another over the course of the weekend.**

** A small detour from the miserable/sleep cycle. We managed to die a dozen eggs....and then we went to bed**

**I was ambitious this morning and decided to make homemade chicken noodle soup. The house smelled great while the broth was simmering.**

**Homemade noodles that actually turned out for me. Very yummy, although we didn't eat much. I think we were all a little paranoid of eating for fear of what might follow.**

Overall it was a quiet weekend. We watched a ton of movies, read and slept. Most of us are feeling much better so here is to a better week!!