Family Farm

Our family farm is growing! We recently got our Tower Gardens. I am SO EXCITED about these! This is an aeroponic system, so there is no soil. So I don't have to pull weeds! Using this system also alows me to garden year round. So has the growing season ends here in Florida, I still get to have fresh produce! We also planted sweet potatoes that we had to protect from the ducks. I did't think about it, and one days we noticed that the leaves from the slips were all gone! Luckily they are growing back now that we put chicken wire around them.

The ducks are so big! They are almost 2 months old already. They are so funny to watch, and they are afraid of everything! We also decided to go ahead and get 4 chickens last night. This morning we got our first egg!We look forward to all the eggs we will get!

Summer has begun!

Our fist day of summer break, I was brave enough to go to the beach by myself with the three kidos. 

KaeLynn won a bike!

KaeLynn's school had a contest in their 3rd grade, that one boy and one girl that got the most "Reading Counts' points wins a bike. When I found out about this contest, I knew that this would be the perfect motivation for KaeLynn to get a new bike since she was just complaining to me that morning how much she needs a new one. She set her mind to it and she won. The Reading Counts program is when the kids read books that count for points. The harder the book, the more points it's worth. When she decided that she was going to be serious about doing this, there was another girl in her grade that was already 200 points ahead of her. But that did not discourage her. But it wasn't just about the bike. KaeLynn discovered a love for reading that we all didn't know she had. She read all the Percy Jackson series, and loves all the book that author Rick Riordan writes. She also discovered that she can accomplish what she sets her mind too! She ended up getting 660 points! I am so happy for her! Now that summer has begun, her and I are reading the Harry Potter series together.

Linden Update

Linden is now pulling himself up to standing. He will only stand if he chooses too. When I try to get him to stand, he won't. He has taken a few steps with his walker one time, but only cries when I try to get him to do it.  We had to go ahead and lower his crib. He also had accident. He fell out of his highchair and fractured his left clavicle. He is doing just fine though. The doctors are not worried about it, and said he will heal just fine. The first week he was really grumpy, but after that he is back to himself. He is crawling around just fine. He is starting to dance too which is adorable!! He has been slow to eating a variety of foods, but is starting to take to some table food. He went through a few weeks that he didn't want to eat any solid food at all when he was teething. Still taking 2 naps day. School is out in a couple of weeks, and I hope to get him down to one nap a day so we have more time to go out and swim. 

We got Ducks!

Our ducks were born April 16th. We got them when they were 4 days old. They were so tiny and cute!!! We got 10 female white laying ducks. They are yellow now, but will be all white when they are grown. They are growing so fast! They are almost a month old now. We just started letting free range a little outside while we are out there with them. I still think they are to little to be out all day. I'm worried about hawks and owls picking them up, but once they are full grown they be free range during the day. They are so funny to watch because they are so scared of everything. We joke that they run when they see a butterfly :D

We are busy at work establishing our family farm. We just planted 6 trees. A sycamore, cypress, red bed, tabebuia, and 2 elderberry trees. We also been preparing for our garden. More pictures on that project will be posted soon. Our next big thing will be cows. 

Daniel's Art

Daniel's art was chosen to be displayed in our Local DeLeon Springs "Art Among the Trees" festival. Daniel and I went over to see it, then walked around and looked at all different types of art there are. Daniel loves art! He really enjoyed seeing everything that other people can do. He loves drawing, making crafts and writing. I have such an amazing boy!

Easter Weekend

Easter weekend we had general conference. On Saturday after we watched conference we drove to a wildlife refuge just 2 miles from our house. It was so peaceful there. I absolutely love being in nature. The kids brought their bikes, and then they wrestled in the grass. We got to see an alligator across the water from where we were. We saw two cranes with their cute little baby, a deer, and heard a wild hog off in the distance.  My camera lens has a crack in it so some of these pictures didn't turn out so well. 

 

 During conference we made crafts. The kids even put Linden in a box with some toys to keep him from messy up their stuff. Linden totally didn't mind, and loved being in there.

Then on Sunday we watched more conference, and had an Easter egg hunt before it started. The Easter bunny brought Daniel a wallet that he has been asking for for a while, and KaeLynn a Percy Jackson movie. 

For Linden's birthday we got him a bike trailer. Here is our first time using it. He really didn't like it at first but quieted down once we started.