Blake goes to work, comes home with 2 chickens

I started this post for a couple days as an update, for 2 reasons. One, I was going to show the fruits of my labor. No, not my garden pics, like my friend Brooke and Steph have done, (my garden story is more like my friend Pam-Pam, I feel your pain sister!!!) but some egg pictures. fun, huh?

I FINALLY broke down and started eating the chicken eggs. I admit, I was a little intimidated at first. I mean come on, our chickens are named for goodness sakes. Do I really want to eat something that came out of our named pet's butt? Well, after 2 omelets and some boiled eggs later, YES. They are YUMMY! Very yummy. So thank you Abbey, for the yummy goodness.

Second thing I was gonna point out on the blog was my new gift from my Mother-in-Law. She saw this, thought of me, and hit the enter button on the computer to get it for me. Totally appropriate for the back door now. And funny.

So, then comes the 3rd part of the blog, the title of the post. I had a root canal this morning, fun and only half way done with that, and Blake emailed me and said don't worry about dinner-I'll take care of that. So, 5 hours later when he says he's picked up 2 chickens I think, cool-dinner. No, not the cooked-chicken-eat-for-dinner kind of chickens, the open the chicken coop honey, we have 2 more chicken kind. So, we started with 3, got 2 more, 1 died, and now have 2 more. We're busy chicken people.

Here are the new ones, Minni and Pearl.

Mean ol' Abbey who started pecking at them. She's mean, but she lays a yummy egg!

Here's our chicken family. Well, their butts.

last of the vacation pics to follow

I have been a little blogging lazy. The rest of the vacation pictures will follow soon!

Day 4

We are well on our way to really enjoying the lake life. And, there are quite some wality lake people around too! All more fun to enjoy. We had a slow, easy and realxing day today, and the hot tub is finally up to 100! That only took 3 full days to heat up. We had a day of board games, outside game of peg baseball, a nice dinner out @ Red's Oyster Bar, followed up with a night game-off with the kids on rock band. BTW-I am much more of a rocker than I thought. Proof below.




Several rounds of Disney Scene It

Then on to a long game of baseball. Flowers 1st base, glove 2nd base, baseball bag 3rd base & life jacket home.

Oh look, mom with no makeup got in one picture.

Ready for our dinner night out on the town.

The 4 boys

Waiting on dinner

WOAH! Mom got a 100 on vocals!!

boys rocking out.

Bran loves to sing, just like his mom.

The kids love them some Eye on the Tiger! Bran followed his mom with his 100 and Cam on guitar with a 97!

Day 3

Day 3 came and went pretty fast. We rented a pontoon boat for 4 hours, which was the biggest part of the day. Having fun! And all 4 boys caught a fish @ night, thank goodness. So after super fun boat day, some homemade pizzas and several rounds of picture phone (it's funner than it sounds), we called it a day! (Super mega fun all day boat day will follow on Friday.)

Big shout out to our friends @ home who are helping us take care of the dogs, the chickens, and the garden. We love & miss you!!

Day 2

We were up and at 'em early in the morning on Day 2 @ the lake. Which also means day 2 of trying to get the hot tub heated up too. It's been 2 days and has gone from 85 to 91 by the mid-day mark, then back down to 88 @ night. We obviously do not know how to work hot tubs. The kids have had some fun on tubes, slides, hanging out in the before mentioned luke warm hot tub, making up games, and overall being very good! Here's some pics!

Bran, Alex & Avery

Here's proof that Bran & Avery are getting along this year! They are sitting together and smiling!

Camron chilaxin (That's for you Raenette)

We got the setup!!

We made our own water trampoline.


Didn't do the beach, and we still found sand @ the lake!



Little ladder golf

The slide into the lake. Super fun.

More chilaxin.
Blake & Brandon doing some night fishing.

Camron & Alex

The Griswolds-Day 1

The Griswolds, I'm sorry, the Taylors are on VACATION! We're pretty pumped, and Blake had to get us all packed up. Once we made the decision to take the trailer, it all went from there. We brought everything. The boys were SO exited, they "are we there yet"ed every 15 minutes. Well Brandon did. Camron always followed up with some sort of smart alec comment about telling time.

Here's some pics to start us off...

The very full trailer

back full too. Seriously, we need to learn how to pack.

The boys, ready to go, sporting their new do's

Quick visit with the Kosse's in Round Rock on our way out! Thanks Char!

The kids

The grown ups

The girls

Quick shout out to Brooke for her Birthday today! You're getting old! There's proof on HWY 35.

Gotta have the rock band action. Blake on vocals.

Camron on guitar

Brandon on drums. Rocking out.

This is the plan for day 2. After the girls go on the monster shopping trip!

Just picture me, in the recliner, spending way too long blogging.