Spring has sprung!! Part 1!

Sooo, we've been home for almost a month that has flown by faster than just about any of the other months recently.

Here's what we've been up to as of 3/12/14

We finished (finally!) Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis. Yay!!!
We've been sick quite a bit for the last month. In fact, every week, at least two people were suffering from sickness at any given time. This resulted in us missing many of our weekly activities, rescheduling playdates and visits with friends multiple times, 2 trips to the doctor and 1 to the emergency room, since we've been back from Haiti alone!
We've been working on our backyard and garden area. It's a work in progress, but we put a fence up to keep the dog out of the garden area which we are expanding. FYI: It didn't work well, so we are going to have to reinforce it. We started our chicken coop, and there's been a pretty large learning curve, but we hope to have baby chicks here by the end of the month!

This was us laying the fencing down.

Now, 2 1/2 weeks later, we've accomplished a lot more too!

  Full Van after a trip to Lowes! Maybe God will bless us with a pickup one day!

Ug. Power tools. 

Kids #1 and #2 helping with painting.

My honey hard at work.

 I actually got to work on the roof, too!! 

So it's almost done here. We still have some fine tuning to do. We have since straightened out the edges where the side door is. We still have to add a handle and clean up the edges on the  main door. We also are adding a ramp to the coop from the outer run area. We will roof the whole coop, and put hardware cloth on the other window. Eventually we may ad white trim to make it more barn like. 

More to come...