Back Again!

Well, sort of. I tell you, it’s been quite difficult going for weeks on end like this! Being disconnected from that wonderful world of blogs and e-mails is just...awful. Terrible. Absolutely horrible!!! And we still may not have internet out at the property for another couple of weeks! *sigh* (and I mean a really BIG sigh!)

Enough of that though. Update on moving and the house: yeah, we moved, are in a house and are still alive. Good enough or you want a few more details? Okay. Well we packed the trucks (yes, we ended up having to get two!), drove up here, stayed with the Stouffers for what? five days? while we unloaded the trucks, and then we finally moved into the house on the property. Finally! We’re up here and we’re on the property! Still not in our house, excuse me, our barn, but we’re within walking distance from where it’s going to be! We haven’t closed on the place yet, but we’re hoping we can do that early next week. Keep praying...

It seems as though everyone is getting into the farming spirit. Caleb and Daniel are both getting chickens, Dad, or Caleb, not real sure who, wants sheep, Chris I think is getting goats, and Mrs. Stouffer is getting a pig. Well, okay, maybe not a pig, but if the snakes get too bad...

Mrs. Stouffer already has her garden started and Mom’s right behind her. Caleb and Daniel were planning this big, monstrous, elaborate, well planned out garden, but for some reason they quit their planning and decided to do that next year. Oh, you should have seen them bending over their catalog looking like the gardening experts they thought they were...

I guess that’s somewhat of an update. We haven’t been doing too much lately besides school. Dad has begun...and ended...his chainsaw career. All in one day too. They guys have been working on fencing, putting it up and taking it down...wait, that was backwards; they haven’t taken down their own fencing, they’ve taken the old stuff down that was already there and have been putting up new fences. That was a terrible way to put it, but oh well. If you didn’t understand it, ask me later.

Still trying to come up with a name for the place. Any suggestions are welcome. And no, it was not my idea, originally, to name the place the Shire. I know some of you were thinking that and I just had to clear it up. You probably don’t believe me anyways...

Caleb has come up with...oh I can’t tell you. Words just can’t describe it very well. It has to do with water and him actually staying on top of it. I’ll have to show you a picture. :)

Spring is just around the corner and I am getting so impatient for it! I think we all are. The fields are slowly turning green and the flowers are slowly blooming and the trees are slowly getting their leaves back, but they just can’t seem to hurry up!



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There was a birthday of a special person in my family a few weeks ago that I did not get to post about because of lack of internet. That special person is my little sister Abigail...although, she’s not that little anymore! On March 10, Abi turned 8 years old! Can you believe it? Wow how time flies! She has been such a wonderful sister, daughter, and friend to us all. She always has such a cheerful spirit and sweet attitude about everything she does. She has become such a big help around the house and with her younger siblings that I don’t know what we’d do without her! She is a great companion and friend and is just all around a wonderful person.

So Happy Birthday Abigail! I love you!