Gooseberry pie!

Emily and I took a mother-daughter hike down to our creek.  We had a lovely time together being able to talk without any interruptions, allowing our conversation to ramble and roam and go wherever we liked just as we did with our feet.  Between the two of us we found over 50 ticks on our persons, but an even better find than that was the discovery of gooseberry bushes!  We picked some leaves and a berry and brought them home to identify them using the internet and were so happy to find they were indeed gooseberries.  We all planned that we would keep our little secret to ourselves and bake some gooseberry pies to surprise Daddy with.
 

A Baleful Hayday

We had a full day this past Saturday.  We had an outdoor workday planned and everyone had plenty to do. 

Moving adventures!

I have come down with a case of bronchitis with laryngitis and since I'm on my 5th day without a voice, and assigned a day of rest to get over the hump, I thought I'd do a blog post to update a little bit. 

 

Here are a bunch of photos of our recent move.  We still aren't moved in yet since we've had to do cleaning, repairs and repainting and tonight will be the first night everyone will sleep on a real bed.  Soon I will give you the tour of our new home, but for now here are some glimpses of the glorious chaos minus the severe thunderstorms we loaded and unloaded during and the tornado that touched down within miles of us while we were trying to get the truck unloaded and back on time.

We bought the farm!

That's just so fun to say! 

 

 We've waited a long time to be in the position of buying a hobby farm with which to raise our family on.  We are still in that state of pleasant shock where it all seems too good to be true yet we've lived it unfolding and know it to be a reality.

 

So much to say, so little time!

We've been very busy lately...too busy to sit at the computer and write things out.  I have much to tell about because so much has been happening!