Our Family Happenings

Home, Home on the Range...........

Wednesday, Jason went to get 5000 (yes that's five thousand) chicks. Just for info, 5000 little chirping machines are loud. I knew the kids would want to keep a few so I told them they could pick out a couple (hahahaha). I wouldn't mind having fresh eggs anyway. While we were "processing" the chicks, more and more tubs of chicks went into the keep pile. We planned on thinning the herd until, naturally, Jason gets a call, hey I need chickens about 3 weeks old. Well crap. So Jason brings over more chicks that were supposed to "stay at the building with the guineas". So now we have..............

And this is only a few, I bet there is 100 chicks total. Ding Dang customers....LOL. The kids do have a good time taking care of them and letting them run around. Poor Madison squeezes the life (literally) out of the poor little suckers. She seems to think that anything she holds must be pinched between the index and thumb until it's eye balls pop out. So we are working on that.

Ice cream is a popular afternoon/evening snack around here.



I love the look on her face in this one.




JD enjoying his freeze pop, notice his other hand. (Click on the picture to make it bigger)

There are more pictures in the Family Time 2006 album. Just click on the Sweigart-Pictures link to the right. There are even some of Mom and Dad in there!! Wow.

We are planning a trip to the St. Louis Zoo tomorrow providing everything goes accordingly. With this heat wave, our AC at the building has been going out. I think we've lost like 4 ac units in the past week. The heat is supposed to break today.

Please keep commenting. JD LOVES it!

Lots of Love from Illinois

posted by Our Family Happenings @ 6:58 AM