Surplus, that’s not a word you here too often these days. However, our hard-working chickens are providing quite a surplus of eggs for us this week. Yesterday the girls collected 7 eggs, and we’ve been getting an average of at least 4-5 each day. Our family is not going to be able to keep up [...]

Annie declared a few weeks ago with excitememt that the Watertown Farm Show was going to take place. She talked about it the way kids would look forward to the State Fair and even implied that this was also the general feeling of her classmates. Unfortunately, her hopes were dashed when she realized the farm [...]

A very generous family from church brought us over numerous treats the other night. One of the treats was a platter size gingerbread man made of Rice Krispie treats. The girls were also given several bags of goodies to decorate the man. It actually fit in perfectly with our Family Home Evening lesson as the [...]

Mike had a friend in town to hunt again this weekend. We decided to do some Christmas shopping in town after his friend left on Saturday evening, but we checked out a new place to eat first. It was an Irish pub and eatery called Dempsey’s, and it gave us lots to keep the kids [...]

Now that the weather is taking a turn for the cold (it got down to 2 degrees last night) we have been staying closer to home base. The girls have been wanting to go to the Lanes, the local bowling alley, since we’ve moved here. We finally had a quiet enough weekend to go check [...]