More!

There are four chicks now! And a fifth is starting to hatch!

They are sooo cute :) and Momma is being really good,

she purrs at them and tucks them under her. We gave her a little pile of food and a dish of water so she won't be to tempted to leave the nest. I was wrong about the egg count, she's sitting on about a dozen eggs! We're trying to decide what to do with her/chicks location wise. They need to be moved to the other smaller coop so the big hens won't bother them, but we don't want to move momma and risk her leaving the eggs. We're thinking about bringing the chicks in the house as they hatch so we can keep them warm and safe until the rest hatch.

We have a chick!

One of the hens was being really broody, meaning she was sitting on everyones eggs/staying on the nest all day. So we decided to let her try and hatch some chicks for us. We have two rosters, so nature takes its course, and wahla! Baby chick! This one hatched yesterday, there's one hatching today too, and she's sitting on 7-8 eggs. We have no idea if they will all hatch or not, but we'll have at least two! Oh and we put all green eggs under her since we don't have as many of that kind of chicken. If this baby is a hen, she'll start laying her own eggs in about Sept.

Woosha Woosha!

Yesterday Mom and I went to another conference called the Farmer to Chef Connection. It was held at the Clackamas Comm College. There was some interesting information on how to connect local cooks/chefs and farmers so that we are using our local produce and supporting each other. Although our farm is still mainly focused on CSA shares, there is usually some surplus, so we were looking for some resources for selling said surplus instead of farmers market/donating/composting. Yes yes, donations are great and a tax write off, but bottom line, the farms still needs to make money! Anyway, learned some interesting stuff. Oh and enjoyed the snow fall! It was falling most of the morning/early afternoon. Big fluffy stuff, but not much sticking.

We left about 3:15 and headed back to Vancouver for my 4:30 OB appt. This was rescheduled from last Monday since my doc was out sick. I was suprised that I got in by 4:45 since it was so late in the day, I was expecting to wait at least half and hour. Mom came in with me and got to meet Dr Wiens. She's great, I really like her. Everything is looking great. She was a little concerned since I've been losing weight, but I actually gained a little this last week, so just something to watch. Then the best part, the woosha woosha! Or hearing the baby's hearbeat for you none prego people! She found it really fast and we got to listen for a while. It was right around 145-150 which is perfect. The next appt will be the really fun one! My ultrasound! It will be on Monday March 30th. Yes we would like to know boy/girl, we're thinking probably a girl with the genetics and all, but I've had a couple dreams that it's a boy :) So here's a little bit of belly, these are still my regular jeans, but they are starting to cut in a little, so probably won't be wearing them much longer.

After that, we went to Red Robin and had dinner with the fam for Galen's birthday, he's 28! It was Kaylee's second time going out to a restraurant and she did really well! And she's already wearing her 6 month clothes, and she'll be 3 months tomorrow!

Jamie and Kaylee are over here this morning visiting. Look at her feet all the way to the end of her 3-6month sleeper!

Yes again.....

Sorry Emily, I thought we were done with it!
Yes, that's right, it's snowing again. I'm done with the snow pictures, and it's not really sticking anyway. I was just thinking about getting my snow tires off too, maybe next week?

A little bit of late February snow :)