More Snow Day Pictures

Another Snow Day

Unbelievable! The kids are out of school again! I am not sure how many days they have been out since the first of the year but it seems like more than they have been in. So we got a couple of inches of snow last night which pretty much shut down middle Tennessee. I know you northerners are thinking whats the big deal? But here in Tennessee we 1. Have wet snow so that when it freezes overnight it is not only snowy but also icy. 2. We live in the foothills of Tennessee, thus lots of hills! Hills and icy roads do not go good together. 3. Since we don't get much snow here, normally, we don't have a lot of resources like snow plows, salt trucks, etc to keep our roads clear. We have some and eventually roads are cleared but the interstates are the main focus and then they try to hit the back roads. 4. We are country so we have a lot of backwoods type areas and not as many subdivision type areas, people are spread out so it just takes longer to get all the roads cleared. But all this just makes snow days a lot funner for my kids who know that if there is a chance of snow they will probably be out of school!

Kayla started her first day of school today. I have been excited for our last child to start school but I was a little disappointed that she was just as excited and not at all sad to see me leave her there.

I love reading others blogs and wonder where they get the time to sit and do them. I am not all that good at writing in my journal and maybe that is why I struggle with a blog...... What do I write?

I suppose I could write about our chickens..............

We just bought this year 25 White Pearl Leghorn chickens. They were sent to us as little baby yellow chicks. So cute and they fit in a box the size of a childrens size 5 shoe box. We put them in one of our water troughs (without the water) with heat lamps until they were old enough to be put in their chicken coop that we were building. It ended up being more like a chicken condo as it is probably bigger than it needs to be. We have finished almost everything on the chicken coop except the front siding and the ceiling over the porch. We didn't realize it but with the ceiling over the porch undone the chickens were able to fly (yes, they fly) up into the attic of the chicken coop where the insulation is. Chickens start laying eggs when they are 18-20 weeks old so a couple of weeks ago we were waiting with anticipation for our first eggs and sure enough we found a couple of eggs and everyday we would check the nests in the coop for eggs. We were finding a few every other day but thought with 25 chickens who are supposed to lay 4-5 eggs a week, we should be getting more than that, right? Well yesterday my kids are climbing up in the roof of the porch because they see a chicken up there. To their surprise they hit the jackpot. 15 eggs all up in the insulation of the chicken coop. I guess some of the chickens thought the insulation would make a good nest. We will be closing up that roof today so no more chickens get up there. It was fun though to see the excitment on the kids faces when they found all those chicken eggs!

Well I now have 3 grown children and though they have not all completely left the nest, I still feel a little of the empty nest syndrome. I always feel like someone is missing and we are not a whole. I guess when we have lots of grandkids running around someday I won't feel like that anymore!

Jessica spent this last year at BYU-I and really enjoyed it. She is home for the summer but will go back in the fall.

Joshua is in France on a mission and he is loving it a lot! He is having a lot of great experiences including learning to make crepes.

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