First Piggies

Growing up I always planned on having three children, one boy and two girls.  Funny how it's not up to you what kind of children you get.  Needless to say, when I was pregnant with my daughter I was over the moon excited!  I finally got my girl and boy was I making hair bows like crazy.  It's a really good thing the 15,000 ultrasounds we had weren't wrong!

My little Sarah is 19 months old now, and I can finally do something to her hair other than attempt to brush it.  I've been experimenting with pony tails and today, piggies!  Her hair is still so thin and whispy and most of the time her bangs hang over her eyes, but I'm working on training it.  If you can really do such a thing.

This is her current "cheese!" face, I think it's adorable!  Yay for piggies!!!

Coyotes and chickens

One perk of living on a plot of land is that you have room for animals.  Our goal in the next year or so is to raise some chickens and possibly goats.  Horses will come in the next 2-3 years.

One of the pitfalls of living on a plot of land is that there are coyotes that live nearby.  Quite nearby.  Over the last three days, one of our neighbors has lost all nine of their chickens to coyotes.  All NINE chickens!  They are quite upset over this, naturally, but in the future, they will probably build a coop to house their chickens - if they get more chickens that is...

Goodbye, fair chickens.  Your eggs were really yummy...

Now, to do some research on chicken coops so we don't suffer the same fate when we get chickens...

Moving dirt

We have a lot of dirt. Really. Well, dirt and weeds to be exact.  Living on almost 1.5 acres has it's benefits as well as pitfalls, such as the dirt and weeds.  But give us some time and we'll have it all mostly under control.

Our good friend owns a landscape maintenance company and loaned us their small skid-steer tractor in the hopes we could move around the dirt how we wanted it.  Below is a picture of the back part of our land - there is a raised dirt pad that's about 40 feet deep by 60 feet long that we put there when we built our house thinking that's where we would put the horse stalls.  Once the house was built we said nevermind.  So, dirt has to go away.

Don't you just love the weeds/vines growing on the backyard neighbor's fence?  It's yucky!

Tractor...meet Man.  And iPhone.

He did several of these which made my heart want to stop!

He did some of this -----^ and then realized this poor little tractor just wasn't going to cut it.  We needed to bring in the big guns.

So, at the end of the day (or rather the next morning) the dirt pad was still there and we had a guy with a bigger tractor scheduled for the next day.

A little bit of wing sauce never hurt anyone

My boys.  Let me just say that finding a food that they both agree is yumm-worthy is difficult.  Unless its my scrambles eggs, waffles and bacon, that is.  So whenever we get the chance to eat out with our boys we try to take them anywhere they serve hot wings.

Love Eli's wing sauce face!

Oliver's face says it all here!

Yes.  They love them.  We get them smothered in a sweet, honey BBQ sauce and they go crazy for them.  Eli eats them just like my husband - to the bone.

So, if you haven't already, give hot wings a try with your little ones, who knows, maybe they'll be just as crazy for them as our boys are!

**Sorry for the low-quality iPhone images, sometime you don't think about the lighting when you're shooting pics with the iPhone.

A couch we did buy

We bought a new sectional sofa over the weekend after a long, and I mean LONG, search.  Mr. Blue wants something deep to sprawl out on, I want something with a little style but still fit me well.  And we finally found it!

I am so excited for this to happen, which sadly won't be until the middle to end of February.  But at least it's ordered and on it's way-ish.

It's the Radley 5-piece sectional from Macy's in Mocha (yes, typically Mocha is brown, but in this case, it's a gray - all their color names are off in my book).

Here are some other views of the sectional:

 

If you notice, the corner of the sectional is an angled cushion, but the back of the sectional is squared off.  I loved that about this sofa.  I feel like the corner/wedge offers more snuggle room with the children or Aaron but it doesn't distract from the back view of the sofa.

We'll post pictures of the sectional and family room once it's been delivered, so stay tuned!

A funeral and a frosty morning

Aaron's Grandma passed away last week, and sadly, I've only ever met her twice.  She seemed like a wonderful woman with a huge heart that loved my dear husband as a child.  As an adult, meh, who knows (hahaha).  So he and our oldest are off to her funeral where my husband will be one of the pallbearers (I had to look up how to spell this, I thought it was paul bearer...), this will be Oliver's first funeral he has been to.

On a side note, it has been cold here at Tweet Acres, it's frozen over the last two nights and this morning when I woke up I snapped a couple pictures of it.  I love the crystals on the morning glory plant below (it's really a weed, one of several we have yet pulled or sprayed - maybe the frost will kill them off...)

And here is a Pinterest fail, perhaps.  Along with some pretty ice patterns.  Or maybe trying to grow a pineapple from a pineapple in the winter in Arizona isn't the best time to do so.

Happy New Year!

We did this ----^

We unpacked our storage pod with the help of our dear friends.  I guess they must really like us with all the help they've given us.

I have made a little progress in the putting away of things, but it feels like I've just unpacked another household's worth of stuff.

I sense a garage sale on the horizon...