Scenes from the homestead. Buddy's health was deteriorating. Long story short, we bumped him up to 3 bottles a day and more feed, and he's back to being a happy cow. Richie planted something crazy like 30 fruit trees to create our mini orchard. :) It's gonna be so beautiful once they're all grown. We plan on stringing lights through the trees and putting picnic tables in the rows. The biggest homestead news was that Duchess had piglets! We didn't even know she was pregnant! I don't think the people that sold her to us knew either! ha! So Gwen got herself a sweet deal. She will earn quite a bit of money selling the piglets off, and she didn't have to pay a stud fee. It was a really cool experience.
Finishing up the homeschool year! At least trying to! Finishing up all the curriculum we had on our plates and feeling proud of our accomplishments. Pictured are the littles at homeschool group going on a letter hunt. Also, hosting homeschool group here to learn about plant cells. The lesson took a little longer, but because we made a model of a plant cell out of cake and candy, the kids were mostly ok with it. :)
Uncle Chuck, Aunt Laura, Aunt Nancy, and Great Grandma Garner all came to check out the homestead. We had a nice visit and they were really sweet and way overpaid for a bunch of eggs to support the kids. :)
Our ward put on a 5k for all the girls and women in the ward. It was superhero themed and so fun! The girls took off at full sprint once the race began and I never caught up again. So they had a nice time chatting with people at the front of the race, and I had a fun time chatting with people at the back of the race. We caught up with each other at the end. :)
I kinda like this guy.
This kid...My little Curious George boy. Now that the weather is warming up, I can't keep clothes on him. On this particular day, we had our first watering turn of the season, and for whatever reason, there was a lot of water coming our way. This made for great puddles. I stopped trying to keep him out of the mess and just let him go for it. He was tired and messy and happy by the end of the day. Sounds like he's living his best life to me!
The lilacs are usually in bloom around Mother's Day. And lilacs seem to be a thread that all of us Crosby girls connect with in relation to the story about my Grandma Hinckley weeping by their lilac bush after finding out her mother died. So on Mother's Day, Lindy came with me to clip some gorgeous lilacs from generous neighbors willing to share, and we delivered 3 jarfuls to women I minister to.
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