Ethan Turns 9!

Our little Ethan turned 9! It's hard to believe he can possibly be that old!! He has grown and changed so much, becoming more and more responsible and always adding some silliness to our days! The day of his birthday was busy with church and working on our families garden project but we took a special afternoon break for some ice cream cake!

It's too funny that two years ago Ethan also requested an ice cream cake and ended up with the same one. It's Auntie Sarah's specialty. HERE is the post from his 7th birthday and the directions on how to make one.

Here is Ethan getting ready to blow out the candles, he used an interesting technique of blowing each candle out separately and not all at once!

Ethan is really in to Star Wars this year. Here he is thanking Papa for some Legos!

This is a little blury but I loved his excited face when he saw the double bladed light saber!!

The day ended with the last gift, a roof for our first greenhouse!

Sheep and a Schoolhouse

We had a fun visit to a nearby farm in Tamworth NH called Schoolhouse Farm. They raise Icelandic sheep, a breed known to be triple purpose, wool, meat, and milk! The seep had been shorn a couple months ago to make way for kidding. There 18 lambs born this season!

This was as close as I could get with my phone camera so you cannot see the curly long wool on these beautiful sheep. Check out the link to the farm above to see more sheep pics. The wool actually gets really long almost touching the ground before being shorn.

We also got a tour of the farms namesake, the old schoolhouse. It was so neat to go inside a schoolhouse untouched and as it was long ago.

This was what you saw as you walked in the front door. So cute!! And the map was so neat!!! It was of Carroll County and some of the old hotels and stores were pictured around it.

The kids, not really ever having sat at a real school desk had lots of fun pretending!

There were only two little desks so the little kids piled their chairs around both sides of this one. No electricity and no lights made this photo with my phone a little dark but fun!

There was also a frog/swimming pond, a barn that was solar powered and the beautiful farm house to check out too. The kids had a great time with their pals as you can see from these sweet pics of friendship.

A Real Tea Party

The girls and Mommy got to enjoy a real tea party at our church last weekend! This is becoming an annual event at our church and is so fun to dress up and play pretend with all the ladies!
Here is Emmy and Mollie with their Mimi.

The girls had a great time sipping tea out of real tea cups and munching on all the goodies!

Especially the sweet ones!!!

Thanks Miss Sherry for planning this event for the ladies!

Mollie is 3!

Our baby is 3!!
Time has flown by so fast since this little one came into our lives! Here is a pic of her at her 1st birthday:

And here she is now enjoying her froggy cupcake on her birthday at home! What a difference!!

Here she is getting ready to devour that pile of frosting! Miss Mollie has a MAJOR sweet tooth! If she is crying and unwilling to stop she is easily bribed into stopping with candy or some other sweet treat!

She also can be oh so sweet in nature too! Here she is with her little chick (fluffy 2), who is the same kind as the one we lost in a dog attack last summer!

Oh Miss Mollie how you have grown! We love you so much and are so glad you are in our family!!

Our New Babies: Update

We took our new spring babies out in the spring grass today! They had such a good time exploring and pecking!!!

Our duckies got a new home in the corner of Pat's shed. They seemed to be enjoying the freedom to move around a little more.

They also got to take a dip in the pool/garbage can top. This gives you a perspective of how small they really are! So cute!!