Hello Mrs. Robin

A robin has decided to make her nest right outside our living room window in the climbing roses that grow up the side of our front porch. We now have the perfect view of her little nest that she is busy building. It brings me so much joy watching her fly to and fro, carrying little bits of dried grass in her beak to build her nest. Sometimes it's the simple things in life that can bring the most joy.

Our Family Valentine's Day Dinner

With four kids it's not always easy to slip away to a restaurant for a romantic Valentine's Day dinner for two, so we've come up with the next best thing....a family friendly Valentine's Day dinner in with everyone included. :) We set up the kitchen table in the livingroom, decorated, lit candles, turned on relaxing music, made a yummy dinner, and even invited my mother in law and sister in law over to celebrate. The kids loved it and we had so much fun. :)

Meet our sweet 4th little daisy, Miss Meadow

Meet our beautiful little blessing named Meadow, born in November 2011. Her birth was not an easy one, but I am so grateful she is finally here. I am so much in love.

Doll hats

Today Raven wanted to try out the knitting loom. She got the hang of it pretty quickly and made some winter hats for her dolls. So cute! :)

Hats for Miss Meadow

Today I decided to break out the little knitting loom and make some tiny hats for Miss Meadow since she is due in December and she will needs lots of little warm hats for her sweet baby head. :) I haven't used my knitting looms in over a year (maybe two) and apparently I couldn't remember quite all the steps involved. So my first attempt at a baby hat resulted in what looked like a tiny pink fuzzy nest too small for a head...not quite what I was going for. lol Luckily hats number 2 and 3 turned out fine after I got the hang of it again.

Blackberry, our new kitten, helped assist. ;)

Fairy Gardens

Inspired by an adorable fairy garden that Karen, a friend of mine, made for her daughter I decided to make one for the girls to play with. Karen graciously gave us a wee fairy house to paint to get started with our fairy garden. :) Here are the finished results.

After seeing the Fairy Garden I made Raven decided she wanted to make one too. Here's hers. :)

While Googling ideas for Fairy Gardens for inspiration I saw that one of my favorite blogs The Magic Onions was hosting a Fairy Garden competition. Talk about perfect timing! :)

Baby Bantam

One of our bantam hens went broody recently, so just for fun we asked my Dad if he could maybe get us a few fertilized eggs for her to sit on so the girls could see our little bantam hens become Mamas. :D He got us a mix of 6 fertilized hamburg and seabright bantam eggs from my cousin Jim.

Yesterday one of the eggs hatched. :) We're hoping at least a few of the others will hatch too since both our hens are both intent to be a Mama to the one lone chick. They both cram their butts into one nestbox to protect their baby. LOL