The chicks hatched!

Emmett's kindergarten class obtained 17 fertilized chicken eggs in early March. They were meticulously maintained by his kinder teacher, Ms. Woolen, with Kirsten's supervision (as the community chicken expert). 16 of them hatched over Spring Break last week and they were so tiny and cute. We sold 8 of them to community members looking to start their own home flocks and gave 2 to another kindergarten family. SInce hatching, they have lived on/near our breakfast bar in a rubbermaid bin... until this morning. This morning, Kirsten built them a pen using some old shelving that was in our salvage pile. The 10 day old chicks got to spend their first time in the dirt and the sunshine. They are so cute!

That's our dog, Maxie, trying to figure out how she can catch and eat them. She hasn't been too happy about us having baby chicks in the house and out of her reach, but she's getting used to them slowly. Emmett is also sitting in the pen with them, he is proving to be a very good chicken Daddy.

Our beets are ready!

Kirsten harvested our first beet today. Time to figure out how to pickle them and also try sauteeing some of the greens.

Can you see the zucchini flowering behind her? We already have more than 4 zucchini growing, plus some very nice crookneck squash comming in... Our garden has been very fruitful so far and seems to be coming along nicely. Have yet to see any tomatoes? So we'll see about those.

First miniature golf outing

We took the boys to their first putt-putt golf experience today. Totally fun! Surprisingly, Emmett's first shot on the first hole was a hole-in-one... I am not joking! We were so excited :) He is really good at seeing the angles. He got another hole-in-one later inthe game too, but was very upset when he didn't win the free game by getting the center hole on the 18th.

Harrison wasn't too into it, except when there were those "secondary" holes that led through tunnels to another part of the hole. He enjoyed trying those out to see where the ball would go. It was pretty funny that he was golfing in his Superman costume :)

We all had a great time!

Hoppy Easter!

We had a great Easter Sunday. The Easter Bunny brought Emmett a remote control robot in an "egg collecting" basket that he can use to gather our real eggs from the hen house. Harrison received the coolest green Bakugan guy ever, delivered in a new bike helmet. We spent the morning with various egg hunts and a couple of outdoor yard projects, then headed to Grandma and Papa's house for a nice Easter dinner. The weather was gorgeous, nothing like Tucson in the Spring!

Here's a great picture of the cousins during an Easter egg hunt in Grandma and Papa's backyard. Great job getting them all to look at the camera, Kirsten :)