Six Chicks and Us!

Well March is now gone. But life became a bit different for our little family in March....we got us some chicks! March has been all about our six little chickens.

We talked before we moved to Colorado about the possibility of getting some chicks and how cool that would be. We would love to have a small farm one day, but for now we were able to get us some chicks. Our new friends from church have 15 chickens and we visited them in the early March. They gave us Raising Chickens for Dummies and told us that the local feed and grain store were getting chicks the following week.

So on March 9, we got six little chicks. Don't ask me what kind they are. I just know that they lay eggs about once a day and some of the type we got lay pastel colored eggs.

Each weekend, we bring them out on the lawn and play with them. All the neighborhood kids come over and play with them.  Cousin Bear was brave enough to hold them, but still not sure about them.

This little addition to our family also has given Markus the opportunity to build something. For the last several weekends, he has been building the chicken coop or "the cookoo " as the kids call it. It is still not complete, but getting closer. We have had fun going to a local resource yard finding "treasures" to help us build the chicken coop. We also have been getting the "oops" paint from hardware stores to decorate their little house. It has been a fun project that we all have been a part of.

They are now almost four weeks old - eating like crazy, flying out of their little nest in the garage, and ready to transition to their new home in the backyard. So, hopefully this weekend the coop will be done enough for them to move on out.

The kids had spring break the last week of March. It was so nice for us to relax and enjoy being home with no schedule. We were able to do a family day up in the mountains about 25 minutes from our house on a gorgeous spring day. Tyler was able to go fishing and Markus and Abi panned for gold (thanks to Gold Rush!) . It was great to get out and do something fun and different as a family.

I have been busy turning the soil and getting the garden all ready for a busy planting season. I also have been planting seeds in pots and in our garden. The peonies, dahlia's, onions, and lettuce have already began to sprout. There are a ton of iris sprouting that were here already.

Happy Spring!