Hamster, Ducks and Chickens.. Oh My...

I had this crazy idea, actually Zack is the one who begged me to do it.. To get some chicks for Easter and raise them.. Where was I going to put them when they are older, my neighbors already think we're strange and now we are hiding chickens in the back yard.. Well we did raise them, but they went to a good farm...Lemon the yellow one was Zack's, Abbriana was the red headed chick and she was mine, Nick picked the black one out and named her Mrs. Puffles.

Josh and daddy picked out ducks to raise.. THEY WERE STINKY BEYOND STINKY.. But we raised them for 5 weeks and let them go at my mom and dad's pond.. They stick by the house, and is neat to see them around still.

Lemon napping in Zack's hands, who won't touch any animals, germaphobic, hence the gloves...=)

Does he look like me mom? No, but he is quacky like you ....=)

Once a day they are to swim a few minutes, like their mom would do to get them used to water and build their muscles, this got tricky the bigger they got. but here they are tiny little things.We named them Mallory and Mcgiver.. We got mallory from them being Malard ducks and the boys were really into watching Mcgiver at the time...

Josh Turns 12... yikes time flew....

Happy Birthday Dear Joshua.. You are twelve now and fastly becoming a teenager soon.. I have enjoyed you so much, mixed with some hard times, when you were a little one, you were the happiest child I knew and you still love life, people and I see glimpses of your love for the Lord...

Joshua wanted a sleepover with a few boys which ended up being about 10 or 11 boys.. He wanted it in the basement, which not being finished was not flying with Mom, but Josh said, "their guys, they won't care if the walls are painted." So he picked out the colors and everything. His friends said it was the coolest party they had been to. I put lots of snacks, pizza and even borrowed a TV so that all the boys could play XBox at the same time.. Josh got an XBox for his birthday , with his birthday money and had a few of the other boys bring their and their controllers and they played Halo Reach all night .. Snacks, pizza games, sleepover. well it was quite interesting..

Here you can see two of the TV's and there is one more not in the picture.. They all had so much fun.. They were all really good boys too, so that made it even better..

Nicholas William the Great... Isn't that face just adorable...

A twelve year old look , right...The cake was a hunter and a deer by a stream..Josh loves hunting, and fishing. All the outdoor activities he can find to do.

This is What You Do in Minnesota when there is lot's of Snow....

Here we have our colorful rice krispie Caterpillars....
Our lovely swimming fish cupcakes.... Yes, you get a little crazy in the summer and were dreaming of bugs, fish and spring...

Give me a kiss on my red lips baby... hmmm

What are you looking at with those big bug eyes....