Our Weekend

So our weekend was nice and relaxing. It started with our adoption profile being posted online on Friday!

Since we did our deep cleaning last weekend and on Monday (for our home study) we didn't have a ton to do on Saturday! So we slept in, exercised, did some light cleaning, played with the dogs and gave Mr. Bean a bath. I even got to READ A BOOK! It has been quite some time since I got to sit down for a couple of hours and just read.

 

I made meatloaf for dinner (SO GOOD!) and we had Kneaders' asiago cheese bread toasted in the over with a little shredded asiago cheese on top of the butter. It was delicious! We ended the night with a movie and popped popcorn.

We have decided that we don't take a ton of pictures...so that is a new goal of ours. We took pictures of Beanie during his bath, because he looks so funny. I tried to get a picture of his 'fro after his curls dried...but I don't know if it showed.

There is also a picture of Mr. Bean begging to go to church with us this morning! (No, we did not oblige...he had to stay home.) :)

 

Here are some pictures! Hope you enjoy. 

 

Getting ready for church

What?!?

PLEASE? Can I go to church!???!?!?

Ready for church

Animals and Christian

WARNING: I do not claim that this is an exciting post!!

Here are some pictures of Hope and I hanging out while Christian and D were on a business trip.


Here's some cool pictures of our rooster.


Here's some pictures of Christian with a sparkling cider bottle. We were trying to make it look like he passed out like a drunk. He's pretty convincing!

Another Liberating Day

This post may sound like a previous post. However instead of geese, the subjects are roosters. We had eight roosters and only four hens. As you can tell, this isn't great for the hens...or our sleeping habits.

We had a couple of friends come in town and so they helped Christian butcher the chickens. In turn they got to take home some fresh chicken and Christian didn't get worn down. It was a win, win situation. Actually it is a win, win, WIN situation because now we can have our windows open and hear nothing but the PLEASANT chirping of birds.

It is the little things in life!

We are Registered at Babies 'R' Us

Now that I have gotten your attention...



We are not pregnant. However we do have some new chicks. To our surprise, our chickens have hatched three chicks and are sitting on two more eggs. They are REALLY cute and here are some pictures.









They like to lay underneath the mama's and poke their heads out.

More Noise at the Hoopers

Christian and I (and probably our neighbors too) were so excited that the geese were gone because it was REALLY quite in the neighborhood. That was until our chickens grew up and learned how to crow.

With our batch of Cornish Hens Christian also ordered some Silky Bantams. He had been watching, "Bizarre Foods" and saw an episode in China where they were serving black-boned chicken. In America we call them, Silky Bantams. He knew that he had to try some of this chicken because it's skin, flesh, bones and everything except it's feathers (yes even it's beak) is black.

They are pretty cute I have to admit, and they don't grow as fast as the Cornish Hens. Christian had decided that we were going to keep them and see if they laid eggs and what the eggs looked like. Then when they grew up a little, we noticed that some of the "hens" were in fact roosters. The company we ordered from also threw in a couple of random chickens...which also turned out to be roosters.

You know where this is leading right? Roosters-crowing-crowing at the crack of dawn-I think you have the picture.

Of course it is our luck that our roosters can't tell when it's dark or light and so they crow NON STOP! All day and night. I now remember why I hate chickens, they are dirty, smelly, and loud. (They remind me a lot of geese.) I only like them for dinner!

I can't find the pictures I have taken of them, so here is a picture of them as little chicks. (Heavenly Father knew to make thing REALLY cute when they are young because they are so much hassle they probably would not live long if they were ugly.)