Two posts in two days:)

Boy is it windy out there! I did barn chores this morning and Erin went with me again! She even woke up on her own this morning! She helped quite a bit again! Isaac wanted to go, too but when I tried to wake him up this morning, he rolled over and said he'd stay home with dad... Last night, before going to bed, he says to me "Mom, if you think the rooster is scared of the whip, you are wrong!" and he showed me 2 puncture holes in his knee from the rooster's spurs. Brave boy - he never complained, so momma doctored it up for him and that was that! I came home this morning and went for my walk - the wind helped give me a better workout and helped push me to get home faster:) Now it is raining as well. We were hoping to work on building a chicken coop today for the chickens - their shelter kind of went kerplack in the wind last night! The wind is helping to dry it up out there - rain rain go away! So, no school for us today! Just chilling and thinking what to make for a freezer meal for a couple at church that just had a baby and for our lunch and dinner today! I slept wrong last night and have a kink in my neck today, Lyndsay is hugging me right now, trying to stretch it out for me, I guess:) I wish it would work! I guess I'd better go and let the pup in before she gets too wet and muddy out there!

Spring,spring, beautiful wonderful SPRING!

Oh the joys of warmer weather! I am loving every minute of it and I can honestly say I am honestly enjoying the mud! We celebrate the breeze drying it up as well! Thanks to mud boots, it is manageable and makes for great entertainment for the kids outside! They have been begging to go outside the last few days and I happily oblige! Isaac had fun adventures today following the little brook from the frog pond over to the real teepee on the property next door with the puppy following him. He carries a horse whip with him in case the rooster decides to attack! Erin and Lyndsay are super afraid of the rooster and stay close to momma when outside! I've been walking outside again and hubby goes with me sometimes... unfortunately I am a morning person and he is not. I love the sounds, smells of spring out there! Today was not so rush rush. Had to go into town quite a bit this week - Brooke had stateline practice and left for that yesterday. They did pretty good, I hear... She is going to the horse expo in Lansing tomorrow with a friend from church and then to her dad's. So, this morning, I went and did barn chores without her, but took Erin with me - she did help muck out a few stalls - so cute! The cats were all glad she was there! Then, home to start breakfast and school. Isaac got through fast so he could go outside and Curt and I worked til 4:30pm on his and then I finally went for my walk! I came home and took Erin on another walk around the front field. She wanted to exercise with me! Jeremy and I have been using the Nordictracks in the room in the barn on bad weather days and Erin will go out there with us and run in place the whole time! She is a motivator, for sure! Isaac also pulled out another tooth tonight! Erin is begging me to go out to the freezer in the barn and get the ice cream! Our freezer in the house doesn't freeze it hard for some reason - that and bread dough, everything else is frozen in there! Lyndsay fell asleep early - I have a feeling she'll wake up around 10pm and be ready and raring to go, though:( The guys had haircuts yesterday - Jeremy hadn't had one since Christmas and Curt finally decided with going short again! Yay, I love the nice short cuts!!! He has sooo much hair and it's so thick that if he doesn't get a clipper cut, it just goes POOF after a week! I am so enjoying living here now! I don't have to worry about packing a suitcase every weekend, food, etc! I have all of the comforts of home here now! THIS IS HOME! I love that as I was doing dishes this morning, I could watch the ducks playing in the water puddles out back, there was also a pair of pheasants in the lane out back, strutting around! So cool! Praise the Lord! Puppy, kids, rain, dirt = lots of mud, though:) But, I just keep vacuuming, sweeping and scrubbing away! It will dry up soon enough! We just wear our mud boots to the van and carry our "good" shoes with us! We are looking forward to cleaning up outside now that the weather's getting better and getting the place for the horse scoped out and ready to plow for pasture and corral and barn. We will keep him where he's at for another month or two until we are completely ready for him! This time is going by extremely fast, it seems! Warmer weather and it will go by even faster! Hard to believe time change is tomorrow night already! Brooke keeps busy going to the barn 3 times a week atleast to ride Gent and a few other horses there as well. Tuesday, us "girls" go for haircuts while hubby is at the dentist and then Wednesday we will venture up to my Dad and Teresa's to do some deck fixing for him! Can't wait! Amber is going to be home next weekend for spring break and her birthday! You can tell your kids are turning into young adults when they start asking for practical gifts for their birthday.... appliances, etc:) Hard to believe she is going to be 20 years old - where has the time gone?! I bought a potty chair for Lyndsay and she's used it quite often, I am not pressuring her, just hoping she will "get it" on her own... right now she also has this thing with bugs and there are tons of those red beetles coming from who knows where - everywhere and mostly in our bathroom! So, we have to get them all out of there before she'll go potty! After she's potty trained, no more diapers! Wow... sigh.... Curt is in a size 10 shoe now and I had to buy clothes for him in the men's department cuz he's so tall! The boy is growing like crazy!!! My camera is on the fritz so I haven't been able to take any pictures:( I think we might need a new battery. Gotta get it fixed soon - too much new stuff going on with playing outside, adventures, etc! Gotta go and get the ice cream!!! Have a great weekend everyone!