RockinRRanch

Jacob watching Daddy start the fire.

Tears because of the harness. Happy with Mommy.




Watching Daddy from the porch.

"Hey, he picked one".

"I got a little piece".
Jared's large poker stick - couldn't get too close to that fire.

Jacob poking the mud.

Around 7am Jared and I went outside to put the broiler chickens in their crates on the trailer. At 7:30 we woke the boys up and took them, in their pjs, out to the car. Adam saw the chickens and leaned towards them because he wanted me to take him closer. Jacob got in the car and said, “dears a lot of chickens in dear, on dat trail (trailer)”. Sarah, the amish lady who is butchering the chickens, came out to help us unload the chickens. Jacob waved at a couple little girls. We got home around 8:15. Jacob handed Daddy his lunch and told him to have fun at work. He waved at the window as Daddy pulled out of the driveway. Jacob was really tired and sat on the couch. He complained about being tired and then said, “look Mommy, I tad (sad)”. We got out his matchbox vehicles and played at the counter together. After that he wanted to play with his cash register. We put bar code stickers on things for him to scan. Adam likes to climb on and off of Jacob’s bed. I moved laundry from the dryer to the basket and then the washer to the dryer. Adam took dry laundry out of the basket and put them in the dryer. After lunch Jacob was walking with his camera pointed at his feet and said, “dat my camera on my feet walking, you wanna see?” “I love my camera”. After I was done dusting I showed Jacob my dirty rag. He made a funny face and said, “how messy”. Jacob was running down the hallway pulling his wagon, which had Adam laughing really hard. Jacob laughed and said, “look, Adam’s laughing, I made Adam laugh, you wanna see” as he ran to him again. I vacuumed the house and the boys ran up and down the hallway and into our bedroom. Jacob would tell Adam, “hurry, here comes Mommy” and they’d both run to our bedroom and fall down on the dogs bed. They were laughing so hard. While the boys were napping (Jacob fell asleep during his rest) I folded a huge pile of laundry that was on our bed and got everything, but the boys clothes, put away. Then I did the dishes and cleaned up things in the house. I went outside to spray off the chicken poop and feathers that were on the trailer. Jared came home around 4:30. We got a few things ready for picking up the chickens. We woke the boys and put them in the car. Jacob stayed asleep until we were almost there. When he woke up he said, “what we do-in here?” Sarah had our chickens in a couple big tubs of water. Jared and Sarah packed them into a couple containers. Jared said the water was ice cold. We brought a cooler but didn’t need it. A cute little 3yr old girl rolled it back to the car for us. When we got home we had a table set up outside with the scale on it. We weighed the chickens and packaged them up. They were smaller than we planned. Most weighed between 3-4 lbs. Smallest chicken was 1¾ lbs and the largest was 4 ¾ lbs. Mike from Jared’s work stopped by to pick up his chickens. He helped us package them up. Adam watched and Jacob played in his sand. Jacob came and sat on my lap and watched me type the numbers into the computer. He said, “I love sitting on you lap”. We packed the chickens in our freezer and then left for dinner at fazoli’s. There was a hot air balloon in the air. Jacob said, "I wanna tee dat hot air balloon". I told him that some people were up there and he said, "dears fire up dear". Back at home we stayed outside until almost dark. Jared started the woodpile on fire. I put the harness on Adam, which he really does not like. I sat on the porch with the boys. Took the boys inside for their bath and to get ready for bed.