Monday, March 23, 2009

The New Coop

We got a new chicken coop a couple of weeks ago. It looks a lot nicer than what Peter created out of an old dogloo and pvc pipe; it's more functional too. The chickens must like it because it only took a day or two in the new coop before we got our first egg.


We now have four chickens. I've delayed writing about our newest addition because we didn't know if we would keep her or not. She is younger than the others and is in her own make-shift house until she gets big enough to defend herself. Now we understand the meaning behind the phrase "pecking order." We've also named all four birds and I've added them to our sidebar.


Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Big Girl

Taylor just had her pre-kindergarten dentist and doctor visits. To celebrate her bravery and cooperation we took a hike to a place I discovered while getting lost on one of my runs. It's an easy mile-or-so hike to a nice view of the city, the bay, and the temple. It took us over an hour to get there because we had to stop for each lady bug and slug along the way.
Here is Laruyn pouting. When she realized I was going to take her picture she turned her back on me.

I haven't quite figured out how to take a self portrait with our camera.

The view of the LDS temple.

Monday, March 16, 2009

More "No Nap" Footage

"No Nap"

Lauryn has been refusing to take a nap in the afternoon and the result is that she crashes around dinner time. Taylor and I thought this was so funny.

I did move Lauryn to the couch. I'm not that mean.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Breaking News...Literally

It's almost 5 AM and I've been up since 3:45 when I heard a crashing sound. "Did you hear that?" I asked Peter, "No, what?" My mind searched for what it could have been; a toy falling off Taylor's bed? Poorly stacked dishes in the drying rack? Well, unfortunately it was neither of those things. This is what I found. A rock thrown through our huge front window.


That's the rock under the curtain. The police have come and gone but didn't do much. We've cleaned up the mess and put down some old vinyl table cloths to catch the shards of glass when they finally fall. The window sounds like the crackle of a dying fire and could fall at any moment. We hope we have a good insurance policy. This is not the way we wanted to start our Sunday morning, and this lack of sleep will not help us recover from the nasty colds that we're fighting. I'm going to try and go back to bed. I miss living in the mountains where vandalism like this is not so common.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Surprise!

When I got home last night from Youth Conference, Peter said, "There's a surprise for you in the fridge." What could it be? A yummy chocolate treat from his work? Flowers? (I'm not sure why these things would be in the fridge). Instead it was a small brown egg. The first egg from one of our chickens! Taylor was so excited to eat it this morning.

Taylor likes "eggs that yoke" or fried eggs.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

The Secret to Grocery Shopping with Kids

Does anybody know what it is? Because I haven't figured it out yet. A trip to the store with Taylor and Lauryn is usually an embarrassing experience and yesterday was no exception, and unfortunately we had to stop by Costco and Safeway. Apparently I wasn't the only one exhausted after our trip. Here's Lauryn falling asleep while finishing her lunch.