Wk 1 and a Few Confessions

• We survived the first week of Big Daddy's current deployment. Here are a few of the highlights. . .

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  So, as you can see from the picture above, I think I might be the one who leaves the toilet paper roll empty. Sorry, Big Daddy, I have blamed you plenty in the past.


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  Miss Priss announced proudly as we were leaving the airport: "If Daddy dies, we will be fine." She was very matter of fact about it and wasn't upset at all.


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  Things that have broken this week: the master bathroom sink stopper, Big Daddy's drivers window won't go down, and the second scrubbing bubbles automatic shower sprayer (I keep killing them - not sure how but if it makes a sound like an elephant trumpeting underwater, it will stop working in less than 48 hours)


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  We have had one adult chicken die. Not sure why. . . Three of the 6 baby chicks we transfered over to the big coop also died - I'm sure that was the pecking order.


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  The roof on the house is finished! Yay!! I about went bonkers with all the pounding. Now the only thing left is to paint the rest of the vents.


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  I officially joined the gym and have had good sore muscles and I'm liking it. I still prefer my old gym but distance makes it impossible to go.


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  I've opened Big Daddy's deodorant and smelled it twice. I miss his smell. Not the Ooh, honey I just got done working out give me a big ol' hug smell but his nice clean smell.


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  Made a great recipe for dinner this past week : Mango Chicken Rice it was super yummy and a keeper recipe for our family


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  Diva got her progress report and all looks good 6 A's and a B


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  Cowgirl has a for sure contagious laugh. She starts to giggle and in no time others have joined in.


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  I've enjoyed a few solid cadbury chocolate eggs with the pastel coating on them. Thank you Walgreens for marking down the individual packs in your after Easter sale to $0.18 each. I'm praying the 5 bags I bought last a while (remember they are tiny bags). I do love chocolate!


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  On Sunday, we played a game in senior primary where we sang some opera and silly monster voices. I LOVE singing opera style and the kids love it too. My silly monster voice was a ridiculously high squeaky voice and the kids were laughing so hard. I do enjoy my calling!


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  Drama Queen was wanting to test out the Lord by asking Him multiple times the same question hoping He would change his answer for her. She has since talked to me and says she doesn't think it would be a good idea to test the Lord like Joseph did when Martin Harris wanted to take the 116 pages of translated materials. Thank goodness the girl must have thought about it on her own.


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  I've slept with all the lights out! That's a biggie for me.

Remember This Guy?

This is when Turken was a baby. Remember how ugly he was?

Now look how handsome he is!

What we did this summer

Hello all this is Big Daddy. I thought I'd take this chance and up date you on a few of the projects we completed this summer. As many may remember we built the hope coop in the Spring well as the chickens got older we needed to build a nesting box so that they would have a place to lay eggs. So afters some reserch and planning we built this Nesting Condo for them they really seem to like it and the hens that are laying have adapeted to it really well.


One of the next projects was to build some outdoor seating. We finally settled on two separate designs. One for the Patio and one to place through out the yard. Below HOT MAMA (i mean little Mama) models the patio chair we built. I don't have photos of yard ones but we like them to.

Next on our list of things to do was a swing set for the girls. Again planning and research led us to this hefty design that should last many generations to come and if we ever don't need swings we can replace them with a "porch" swing.

And last but not least is our never ending project THE YARD it is looking a whole lot better and we have only had a few minor incedents, including my getting stung by two wasps and my hand swelling up like a balloon resulting in a trip to the ER. I was told that it was just a bad reaction and not an allergy (as of yet).

Well that covers our major projects over the summer, I am sure I may have missed one or two but those are the big ones so until I grace the blog again, good-bye