We have a great garden in Indiana. One of the things that grow very well for us each year is watermelon. As much as we love our watermelons, I admit I was a little surprised when Jim decided to bring one of our homegrown watermelons with us on vacation to North Carolina. But I didn’t […]
The weather here has been gorgeous lately. (Nope, hurricane Irene didn’t reach us here in Indiana.) We’ve had hot days, cooler nights, and low humidity. We took advantage of the lovely weather to exercise outside. I thought you’d enjoy watching part of our “sprint 8” session. We basically sprint for 30 seconds then walk for […]
The other day I got an email inviting the family to come swim at a local lake with some friends. The invite was last minute (the way I like them), so I told her we would try. I gathered the children together and made a big announcement that we could go swimming at the lake […]
On our recent trip to St. Louis, we had to stop at a rest stop. Whenever we stop, the children always run around and stretch their legs. If we’re in a parking lot, without a safe place to run, we just do 50 jumping jacks as a family. It’s usually quite a spectacle, and yes, […]
My children adore swimming, but for some reason, we haven’t had a chance to swim once this summer. So we packed the children up… … and we rectified that today! Jade kept coming up to me every 2 minutes and giving me the little hopeful look and saying, “Mom […]
Did you know that we once got to “babysit” dogs for a few months? Yep! We took care of two Great Pyrenees dogs – Alex and Shelby. Great Pyrs are livestock guardian dogs for the goats. But we just liked to play with them. Unfortunately, they also like to roam, and our 3 acres weren’t enough […]
Greyden really enjoy cooking eggs for everyone for breakfast. The only problem is that some of us like our scrambled eggs “dry”. And some of us like them “wet”. So they make them twice. First Fletcher makes the “dry” eggs: Then Greyden makes the “wet” eggs: In the end, we […]
When Greyden was a baby, we called him “fat and happy”. He’s outgrown the chubby part, but fortunately he’s kept the happy part. He’s an incredibly hard worker and mostly works with a big smile on his face! Get to know Greyden better and what he does at Goat Milk Stuff by watching his video. […]
We haven’t dyed Easter eggs in a long time. But this year, Mom surprised us and bought eggs for us to dye. Now, that might not sound like a big deal to some of you, but she didn’t buy just a couple of eggs. She bought 8 dozen eggs!! That was a dozen for each […]
The circus came to Charlestown this spring. The newspaper said you could watch the elephants put up the Big Tent, so we went to watch. You can imagine how disappointed the boys were to watch a bunch of guys running around setting up the poles and canvas. While we waited for the elephants to do […]
Mom and Dad have granola with cut up fruit and goat milk for breakfast. Mom likes strawberries and blueberries best. But they’ll also have bananas or peaches too. A few days ago, Dad asked Greyden and Hewitt to get his and Mom’s breakfast ready. He told them that they each needed a cup of cut […]
“Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me.” At least, that is what my brothers want… a pirate’s life. I dont think they are going to get it though. Recently the boys have been on a pirate kick. It all started when they got Mom’s permission to watch the first Pirates of the Caribbean […]
Boys will be boys – they will turn straws into fangs: Boys will be boys – they will play in the mud: Boys will be boys – they will wrestle anyone that will let them: Boys will be boys – they will play football as much as they can: Boys will be boys – they […]
I have amazing cousins. And I love visiting them. Do you know what I like even more? Going to their birthday parties. Do you know why? Because my Aunt Heather and Uncle Adam pick the coolest places for birthday parties. Last year for the boys’ party, (they do one birthday party for all of the […]
… the more they stay the same. I was digging around trying to find some old pictures the other day, when I came across these. In August 2008, we were at a friends house for dinner. And since they have a pool, we just couldn’t resist swimming in it! As I was looking at these, I kept […]