Puppy Pile

This picture is more impressive if you turn it. But for some reason I cannot get the picture to stay in the right direction. How many puppies do you count?

We had two that are mostly brown. Funny is that one is the biggest, above, and one is the smallest, below.

According to Mark, who now lives in the barn with the dogs, there are two that are in competition for being the smallest.

Grand total: 11 puppies

Volcano Experiment

Aunt Carmen sent a set of "Explore and Learn" Books years ago. Alex and Rebekah have read them (yes they take after John's geek gene's :). Anyway Rebekah found an experiment in the first volume, a time honored experiment, and wanted to try it. Why not?!!!

First: Baking Soda

Second: Colored vinegar

The reaction :)

Who's Taller?

As we were walking into church yesterday I was looking at Mark's pants yet again. I had bought him some new pants around his birthday and then when I bought Alex pants, I passed his down to Mark. For the past couple of weeks or so, as we have walked into the church I've wondered what the heck the problem was. Alex had just grown out of them, Mark should be fitting in them better. Then it hit me (yeah I'm a bit slow). I made them stand next to each other right then and there, I couldn't believe it. We have been warning Alex that this would probably happen, that he was definitely going to be shorter than Justin and probably shorter than Mark, but here it was and I all but missed it. Alex is cool with it. He is a pretty laid back kid anyway.

Does God Exist?

Cute Chicks

Day old Buff Orphingtons anyone? Please?

Alex and his Rubik's cube

Alex is trying to solve his rubik's cube for the Youth Conference Talent Show. We made a video to enter, this is part of it. He has been driving us nuts for weeks with this project, but I didn't find out that it was an official project until a few days ago. I also had no idea that he was able to solve the puzzle in a minute on average!!!

Spring is here

These are blue swedish ducklings. The one that looks like a bandit is a mutt. Half blue swede and the other half a mixture of Aunt Tammy's ducks.

Justin has been hatching eggs for the last couple of weeks. The week we got our show broilers (two weeks ago, Justin and Alex are showing them in the Milam Co. Fair), he hatched 5 chickens (3 survived). Last week he hatched 5 ducklings and 4 chicks. This morning he informs me that he already has 3 eggs showing signs of life. I'm soooooooo excited (not). Anyway, he is trying to sell them so if you are interested in saving my sanity gives us a call :)

The meat goats are due at the end of March and the Dairy goats are due the middle of April. We also got our first turkey egg today. And yes, Justin rushed it right in holding it with great care. We have four Turkey hens - that kind of scares me. How many eggs do you think they will lay?