Wowzers where did summer go!?!?!?!?!

Summer has flown right past us & it's time again to start a new school year! Lots of changes are happening in our house: new curriculum, new chore list, new schedule for everyone!

We are super excited about this new school year, since I got the box in the mail 2 weeks ago I have heard nothing but "can we start today" "I wish we would start school" etc! It has been AWESOME!!! We went to the library last week to get the books we'll need for our fist week of school (yea we'll have them for an extra week but that's ok) the girl have been devouring them!!!

We will be starting with VIKINGS, a TIMELINE and a STATE POSTCARD exchange!!! All of which we are really excited to begin!

I've almost got everything ready to go....just need to finish cutting out the timeline pieces & getting them colored :) I'll do a few each week. 

As it's been FOREVER since I've posted LOL (I'm gonna try to be better...new schedule.. We'll see how that works lol) Let's get you caught up on what's been going on here:

Let's start with March/April 2014:
      ~I spent about 5 weeks in the hospital & ended up having corrective surgery on my intestines (I have Chron's disease)  Surgery was on April 9th, came home on the 14th *ouch* almost a 4 hr drive!!! *ouch*
      ~ On March 30th one of our goats (Ariel) had a super cute buckling (Billy the Kid)! (While I was in the hospital :( I missed the whole thing!!!)  

Billy the Kid
(Mom Ariel in the back ground)
May 2014

Billy the Kid
May 2014

     ~ Had a strewn of kittens during April & May

      ~ June was pretty quiet....we did celebrate D-Bugs 6th birthday!!! Yes you read that right SIX!!!!
      ~ Lots of fun in July... Independence Day Celebration, Family Reunion, County Fair!!!! FUNNEL CAKES!!!! YUMMY!!!! And we had TWINS!!!! Yep sure enough TWO BOYS!!!! Flash & Spark were born on July 1st!!!! Our momma goat Liberty did a wonderful job of birthing them in LESS than 20 mins!!! (go figure I ran to the house & the girls wanted a snack, so by time we got back out there the boys were here!!! So YEP I missed it all AGAIN!!! LOL There's always next year!!!!)

Flash & Spark
July 2014

      ~ Ducklings!!!! You may not be able to count them all...but there are 25 ducklings there with momma, there are 2 sets of ducklings: 12 were hatched the end of July & 13 were hatched & given to us the beginning of August
      ~ Here we are in August: K-Dog just celebrated her 8th Birthday!!! I can hardly believe I have an EIGHT year old!!! Crazy!!! I'm NOT that OLD yet!!! LOL 

Well time marches on & I will have to leave you all at that! God bless & have a wonderful day!!!

~*~ Chicks in the Bator ~*~

It's SPRING!!!! Oh how I LOVE spring!!! Pretty flowers & TONS of babies!!!

We are well on our way to experiencing all the "newness" spring brings!!! We had 1 of our 6 momma cats go into early labor, after she was roughly played with by our 2 youngest dogs (bad dogs dumb cat)  she had 3 kittens but was unable to care for them (neither was I) so they're stay here was short. Sad yes, but it happens so we move on.
We still have 5 prego momma cats that should be having babies in the next few weeks!!!
In January 1 of my hens decided it was hatching time...well I kept collecting eggs & about the beginning of March she "gave up". Now that it's spring time I have NO BROODY HENS!!!! Silly Chickens!!! So as I knew I wanted to hatch chicks I got out the incubator & put in 19 chicken eggs! Yes I know odd number *shrug* I also had a wonderful friend donate 6 duck eggs to hatch out. Last Tuesday I set up the incubator, collected eggs to be put in it & got busy. I was taking the box of duck eggs down the stairs (I put the incubator in the basement so it wouldn't get "bumped") as I was going down the stairs - you guessed it - I fell!!! the box fell out of my hands & bounced down the stairs, 1 of the 6 eggs bounced out of the box while the others went crashing together leaving a trail of egg goo down my stairs....that ONE egg survived with NO cracks!!!  I put it in the incubator after having a really good cry! I candled the eggs on Sunday afternoon & as far as I could tell I only had 1 chicken egg that was bad (showed a blood ring signifying death) 

My duck egg shows a beautiful LUCKY duckling growing inside!!! (along with 18 chicks in their eggs) 

I'm so excited that Lucky may actually hatch!!!!  I'm not going to "count my chicks before they hatch" but I will be candling them again next Tuesday!!!

The chicks should hatch around April 22nd & Lucky Duck should hatch around April 29th!!!

Please stay tuned for weekly updates & pictures of Lucky Duck!

~Momma Sie