introducing our chicks

 introducing the newest members of the family...

camilla

alice

hazel

martha

rebecca

dottie

 francis
lucy

we are thrilled to have begun our new 

adventures as backyard chicken farmers!

happy birthday wes - outtakes

i shared the above photo on wes' birthday.

our failed attempt at snapping a fun little happy birthday photo for daddy.  

i thought the episode was best depicted in those 3 pics up there.

but while going through photos today,

 i realized the moments leading up to the point when ella & bennett 

rescued jane by removing the balloons and then losing them up in the tree  

tell a far better story.

i present takes 1-10 of a failed birthday photo shoot...

happy birthday wes!

headbands & sleep

  pictures posted while sitting outside jane's room on the night 

we let her scream and cry herself back to sleep.

what's it called...furberize?

awful word.
this is torture.

so...i'm making myself feel like not such a mean mama by 

looking at the pics from our day together making headbands out of old t-shirts. 

yeah, this was not a good idea.

she's too cute give tough love.

especially with new chic headband look.

but, the girl needs to sleep.
this mama needs to sleep,

or there won't be anything left for more headbands,
 or better said, dinner. 

tweet tweet birdie treats

we saw our first robin redbreast the other day,

a most welcome sign of spring!

 we celebrated by making some treats for our backyard birdie friends.

we decorated some tin cans for feeders, and made some tasty frozen birdseed cookies. 
and , can you even stand how focused jane with a paintbrush?!

we are quite excited to have another official member of crafternoons here at home. 

 

the next day after the paint dried and the cookies froze 

it was time to fill the cans and hang everything up on the make shift kid-height tree 

that bennett created by sticking a fallen limb into the snowbank just below our kitchen window. 

and as you can see,  jane thought we should also give the squirrels a treat by dumping 

half the bag of birdseed in the snow, woops!

and now our mornings look like this...

gazing out the window to watch our happy bird friends (and squirrels)!

janie is beyond fascinated, can't you tell?

bennettt, ella, wes & i are fascniated as well and have been busy 

checking off the different types on our bird guide from anya.  

tweet tweet...happy spring!