Chickens

While Brian and Libby were gone, we tried to have our own fun. Friday night we had dinner at home, then went to Cold Stone for Ellie's "reward." Ellie and Eliza opted for cotton candy ice cream with sprinkles and Hattie got vanilla with M&Ms.

We came home and got the two little girls to bed and Eliza stayed up to watch The Wizards of Waverly Place movie on Disney. I was so tired I feel asleep.

This morning, Hattie greeted me at 5:15. Grrrr!! So it's been a long day. We got up and ready, then we headed over to a feed store to pick out chickens. My SIL Chrystalyn kind of headed up a little venture for Brian's siblings--mostly for us wives and Laura. We are going to have chickens for eggs at his parents' house. So today was the day to pick out the chickens. So we got there and there were two cute little puppies roaming around, so--if you know my two little girls--I was holding one and my niece Sara had the other. Luckily the chickens were in cages! While we were up front paying, one of the employees got out a HUGE--probably 3 feet long iguana--from a cage for the kids to see. Ellie and Hattie both went over there and petted it!!!!!!!! They are terrified of a tiny dog but will pet the giant iguana. Weird!!! I finally put them both down and got down low with them and let the dog come close and they did pretty well with that--both ended up petting them. We went over to Brian's parents' and dropped the chickens off and checked out what we have to do on our designated day. After I had left, Chrystalyn called and said one had already died! Heat stroke from the transport and such. And the one Eliza picked out had a bald spot--which the store people told us was molting--but it wasn't. The other chickens were picking on it and it continued with this group, too. So they took both back for a refund. Chrystalyn was able to find 7 more chickens from someone in Brian's parents' ward--which were cheaper and better, so we got those, too. We'll have more eggs than we need, but we are hoping to sell the extras. It'll be some work, but it'll be good for the kids and good for "food storage" if needed.

After the chickens, we came home--Eliza had Maddie and Katie come play and then Kari brought her girls to play while they moved. They had fun playing and it passed the day pretty quickly.