Taking a Long Weekend

I am having brain overdrive, so am gonna read books, laugh and giggle with my family for a bit...be back in a few days! Enjoy!

Scrappin' Life

I am having so much fun in real life, teaching my children in our little homeschool environment!  We had planned on a garden.  It is a lot of work! The grass had to be removed before we brought in the rototiller.  My boys were phenomenal.  I love to take pics of them working together!
As soon as I opened Dawn Inskip's new kit: Essentials I knew which set of pics would be scrapped.  First a glimpse of Dawn's Essentials:

I did a bit of recolor on her word art to bring in the greens I wanted to pop, but it is all her designs:

Thanks for poppin' in! I love sharing with ya'll!

I have my very own blinkie!!

I won it from a sweetie named Michelle aka Turtlegirl203 and she is also the maker of blinkies under the name; Times2Designs!
She is marvelous!! I love this so much! Please feel free to hotlink it to your blog, siggy or where ever! ha haha

We have eggs! Yes, we do...plural!!

Six am, I open the top and here it is...

Can you see it!??! oh what joy!!! Anna was the first up so she received the honor to pick it up!  We waited for the other 3 to wake up and Anna scooped it up with all excitement she could muster! 
(blinker blinker) change of subject-I am walking in the morning before school (yeah we are doing math and grammar thru the summer, and chicken as science).  We had explained to the numerous neighborhood children, as they like to ring the doorbell, and forget we are still in school.  I told Anna we needed to make a sign...so my daughter made one:

This is a HUGE joke in our house, due to a comedian named Kathleen Madigan, who talks about Rednecks and "we don't need no book learning"...as homeschoolers we do have some obscure questions and my kids like to do the dumb redneck speech...just to cause folks to ponder...weird little kids! hahah  Look at my proud, redneck, anti-social homeschool child!

 Back to your normally scheduled blog about chickens:

Remember this awesome woman? She is the one we met in the parking lot to pick up the two wild (free range) hens from yesterday.  Today, her sister (our dear friend, LIsa) called and said, I have two more chickens! oh we were excited...Janeice knows so much, she is like have an encyclopedia teach but with fun stories.  I told her we need to have her come once a week and teach science by Janeice...cause it is fun!!
She brought two more hens, they are a year older than those from yesterday and hand trained and sweet and cuddly.  Too cuddly for Eric, who held one and had chicken poop shoot out onto his shirt.  My clean freak boy was not amused, but he said he does like the chickens!

So we have 4 chickens, and Anna has named her's, Jaseniah, Abby's is Jalice, Gabe's is Jenny and Eric is holding out til he gets to know her better?

 Tony had to fix the ramp for the chickens so they could get up it, and they liked it...but one was roosting down on the ground...and we found an egg down there about noon!  Abby had to go inside and get it! Very excited!

Then, we dropped Eric off at the library for his job! (insert proud momma beaming) He is helping with the summer reading program and has a t-shirt to wear (that the chicken pooped on, but we rewashed it).

 Off we went to some pickups at Wal-mart and home to see yet one more egg!!!!! So 3 eggs in one day!
I am racing around trying to get a unit study together so we can learn and see! These chickens are amazing!  

bawk-bawk-bawk they are here!!

oh they are here!!!

two of them...we met Janiece at the church parking lot to "pick up the chickens".  She lives in the hills away from Yuba City...she brought 2 wilder ones, they are bantam blackies and Rhode Island red mix.

They were not enjoying being in a cat carrier...but it was just a few more minutes, til they came to their new home with us!!

They both just popped right out of the carrier, and were not real amused.

The huddled and clucked and clucked some more...but they went in the roost, up on the bar...pooped everywhere..and even ate some left over broccoli!

They are quite happy in there new little home! Tomorrow, eggs?

Chat at CVD - Thursday! 6pm PST

I almost forgot to post this! EGADS!  Dear Frani is going to teach a how to class! It is free and the tips you will learn are wonderful! Come and babble if you are new to scrapping or have been scrappin' forever...it is fun to laugh with others and learning NEW things is fun with friends:

This is all happening at Creative Victorian Designs - Thursday - 6pm PST....

Fantasy layouts are really not my thing!

Okay, I like real things, I'm a meat and potatoes kinda girl.  Down home, heartland, flag waving American girl.  I have put wings on one of my daughters in a layout once...weirded me out!  I have never been into Sci-Fi.  I have seen exactly one Star Trek episode, Trouble with Tribbles, and thought they had to be filming under my bed.  I have watched the first Star Wars, and was frozen all they way thru it...all that dark black sky and high moving a/c in the theater in Napa, California. Okay, but I love Netta and her designs at Creative Victorian Designs.  Her team is hilarious on top of it, and we have Jenn on it, who is the master of Fantasy pages! Master!  So Netta did a series of Fantasy Realms, here are a few of the series:

So I played and played and Netta helped me with perspective and all.  I got a giggle, but here it is, Diva Maker!