Puppy Love!

My 8 yo playing with my mom's puppy, Izzy.  Izzy is a lovey little thing!  She just loves to be picked up and loves to give kisses!  Here she was smothering him in puppy kisses!

Fuzzy Butts!

Our peeps came in the mail today!  I love getting peeps!  They are the cutest little things!  Listening to their chirping is just one of the signs that spring is on the way!  

Here is my 8 yo playing with one of them.

I love the little peeps with the darker stripes down their backs.

They are so soft and silky that you just want to pick them up and snuggle them!

I got 2 dozen and my mom got 1 dozen of these Golden Comets.

Rocky Awards!

Bill was nominated for a "Rocky Award" at our church this past week.  The "Rocky Awards" were a way to recognized people at our church who go the extra mile and go out of their way to volunteer and just do that little bit extra that makes them stand out.  Bill was nominated for "Sound Tech".  He did not win but the guy who did win the award was VERY deserving.  Bill was just thrilled to be nominated and the winner is a good friend of his and he was happy for him!  

Bill runs the sound system every Sunday morning for first service.  He sometimes stays into second service to help.  He also does a LOT of sound jobs for our Worship Pastor Jordan Biel....who is an awesome worship singer and Bill considers it a privilege to work with Jordan.

Cake Mix cookies!

These cake mix cookies are so easy!  All of my kids love to cook and bake!  If the younger ones (6 and 8 yo) can not make something on their own they can always talk one of the older kids into making it for them or with them!  Can you see the problem with that??  Well, that means we get to have cookies or a cake or a dessert nearly every night!  I guess the good thing is that by the time each of us have something no one can over eat on the dessert when you have to divide it 8 ways!  LOL!

The baby literally inhaled hers!!  She loved these!

She closed her eyes right when I snapped the shot but can you tell how much she was enjoying this cookie??

The recipe:

Your favorite cake mix

2 eggs

1 stick of butter

Mix all, then spoon onto a cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees!  

It is so easy!  

The next time I want to try the chocolate cake mix with peanut butter chips.  The Funfetti cake mix makes excellent cookies too!  My mom makes the Butter Pecan cake mix and puts toffee chips in them!  YUMMO!!

Linda & Roy at Elk Leap Farm!

Here are the pictures I promised from Linda's little farm that we went to to get our goats bred. She has such beautiful animals! These are her Silver Seabrights. She also has some Black Copper Maran's and some Aremercaunas.
Micro pot belly pigs. If anyone is interested in buying one let me know and I will get you in contact with Linda.This is Sally Bear with her piglets.
Spice!
The Boer goats!

War Cry! Linda's beautiful Boer buck!

Linda's Goatie Baby Goodness!

These twins were born 10 minutes before we showed up at Linda's for the first time to get our goats bred! This is Running Bear and Little White Dove.These are her moon spotted goatie babies that were born a few weeks ago. Two bucklings and a doeling. These guys have the same daddy as my goatie babies will have, Cloud. The are just ADORABLE! Can you see why I it is going to be a LONNNNG wait until our babies arrive??

Her two moon spotted bucklings are for sale! So if you are interested I can get you in contact with her. These are Moon Ranger, Lightning Rider, and Star Dancer.

Getting my goats bred!

My goal is to become more self sufficient and eat more homegrown or home raised food. I am trying to get a goat herd going for milk. So far that endeavor is off to a very slow start. I have had a hard time finding a pure Nubian buck. Well, I finally found one and he is beautiful! Then we were on watch for my girls, Amber and Lily to come into heat so we could make a mad dash over to Linda's house for a 'meet and greet'. Amber has the blue collar on and Lily has the red collar. Cloud, the buck loved having the ladies over! My girls love traveling in the van too! By the second time we headed over to Linda's they were jumping right up into the van! I am estimating Lily's due date to be July 27 and Amber's to be August 6th. It is going to be a LONNNNG wait! Especially after I seen Linda's goatie babies! (pictures to come in another post...along with her pot belly pigs.)

Homemade Pierogies!

I made some homemade pierogies from some of our homegrown potatoes! For the dough I used 2 cups of flour, 2 eggs, a tsp of salt and 1/3 cup of lukewarm water. I mixed the dough and then let it sit for 10 minutes.
For the inside of the pierogies I made regular mashed potatoes and added some suateed onions and shredded cheddar cheese.
I made some up and then let them sit in the fridge to chill. Then I rolled out the dough and used a large cup to cut them out. Then I spooned some of the potatoes into the center and folded them over and used my fingers to press and seal them shut.
Then I boiled them and fried them in butter. I like to dip mine in ranch dressing!
For my first time making them they came out pretty good! The kids sure did like them! They are a labor of love though!

Guitar Hero!

The boys were playing Guitar Hero and gave baby girl one of the guitars so she could play along! She was thrilled and played along just like she knew what she was doing!

She even thought she was a regular rock and roll star dancing around!

Pine wood derby race!

My boys had a Pine Wood Derby race at our church with their Royal Ranger group last weekend. It was a lot of fun!

My 8 and 13 yo did not win but they still had a lot of fun and enjoyed making their own cars and racing them!

My 11 yo won 3rd place in his division. He named his car "The Uglymobile".My oldest won 1st place in his division!