Just a Small tip of our Crazy summer!

Our life has been crazy busy, but who's isn't right! I always feel like if we can just make it through the school year to the summer we'll get to relax alittle.... So not true!!! We are just as busy in the summer as we are during the school year if not busier.

Our oldest will be in high school next year and has joined the marching band. The summer started with a marching band camp to prepare them for the up coming 4th of July parade. Her marching band was the first in the line up because the band had placed first last year. They will also be 1st again next year because in the prejudging they placed first again! Jonathan and I are so proud of her and her dedication to preforming in the band.  We live over a mile from where they practice and 90% of the time she bikes to practice. So not only is she getting the work out for marching but also from pedaling there, 

 She has not had a week this summer that she hasn't had a camp, parade or rehearsal this summer. She is loving it!! She just finished a week a the University marching band camp and she loved it! 

She has one more Marching band camp, a week of girls camp and then a week visiting family in Arizona and then back to school! 

I/ We ;) (because my husband supports me in anyway he can! Even if that means chasing crazy chickens around!!) decided to raising meat chicken this summer. We bought 20 thinking we could just rotate them and when these where big enough to start killing we would buy more. But the local feed store was running a promotion when we bought our hens this year. When you bought a bag of starter feed they would give you 15 free rooster. This same promotion was still running when I picked up my meat birds and bought another bag of  starter feed, 

The next week Cal Ranch was doing a chicken stock day and ever little kid that came in received a free chicken (Freedom Rangers). So We ended up with 20 Cornish Hens, 30 Roster, and 11 Freedom Rangers!!!! That's only 41 more than I really want haha. Total I think we lost under 10 of them to various reasons. We are housing them out on my brothers farm because we can't have that many chicken's in town :(. 

Our poor dryer has quit working at least 3 times this summer :( The crazy thing is about ready to drive me NUTS!!! So we have borrowed a dryer until ours is fixed so I must go and get caught back up on some laundry.