A snapshot of our farmhouse life ~

My sweet daughter-in-law Emily

took some wonderful pics around the farmhouse this past weekend....

I have to share a few with you ~

Here's Big Red...I love her ~ she was our first egg layer
and is SO the leader of the pack!

A shot of the front porch ferns through the shrubs....

The pecan trees on the side of our home...

They are so heavy with pecans right now too!

This photo of our angel Clara was taken by her mama....

she'd been rolling around in the pine straw!

This child loves, LOVES being outside.

This is one of Clara's chickens....she loves them so :)

This sweet pair of cherubs came from my former antique shop ~

Clara striking a pose in our back yard...

Such a wonderful pic below that Emily took:

Clara taking a peek inside the chicken coop!

Our happy girl!!!!!

Emily took this gorgeous shot of our barn.....

Wishing you a great Tuesday precious friends!!!

hugs and love,

Dawn

Chicken love....

Clara tries feeding them her vanilla wafers.....

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend sweet friends!!!

We're up to three eggs now...YAAAY!!

hugs and love,

Dawn

A very special day!!!

How did it happen???

Two years have FLOWN by!!!

Our little Clara is two years old today!!!

Seems we were just welcoming her into our family . . .

 

Here she is yesterday afternoon eating her first ice cream

from the neighborhood ice cream truck!

You can tell by the color of her lips that the LOVED it!

We're celebrating her second birthday here at the farmhouse this coming

Sunday afternoon and it's all about Dora the Explorer!

Brent finished our chicken coop!!!

I just love it!

He's going to make a plank so they can walk up to get inside at night ~

Don't you think it's wonderful??

I had to paint the outside to protect it from the weather ~

Of course I had to choose a great barn red color.

Next I'll be working on getting their actual pen finished ~

they still have to grow a lot before they can enjoy the coop

but I'm just glad to have it waiting for them!!

I hope you have a great Wednesday precious friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn

I don't know if I'm an "official farmgirl" but... we've got chickens!!!

I've always loved animals.

When I was just eleven years old I had about five rabbits

and even bred them for a short time!

The baby bunnies would just melt your heart....

Our new chicks (well, they are really a couple of weeks old) we bought

Saturday have already grown like little weeds!!

Here's some pics from Monday afternoon playing under the pecan trees.....

Ellie's being such a good sport and tolerating our new additions to the family!

We purchased two each of three different breeds...

Ameraucana,

Plymouth Rock and

Rhode Island Red ~

Here's what the little ones should grow up to look like:

SO.

Monday, my eldest son Brent and I

headed to Lowe's to buy a little bit of lumber!

You know I'm always trying to watch my pennies so we

ended up spending about 60.00 on lumber

and some metal roofing

to make a coop for them!!

In just three hours Brent finished it!!!!

Here is a photo he sent me with his phone right before finishing the roof ~
I just LOVE IT!!!

He's going to make a plank to go from the ground up to the door ~

I'll show a few more pics as soon as I can of the finished piece.

Now I just have to paint it to protect it from the elements!

Now I need to buy wire and lumber for the protective pen area outside of the coop.

Oh....and look at the eggs these sweet babies are supposed to give us:

Do you think Lowe's could color match that gorgeous shade of blue using an egg????

Thank you so very much for your wonderful anniversary wishes and

sweet words about my altered box!!!!

Wishing you a beautiful Tuesday my dear friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn