March 2014

Stephen's cute wife, reading (likely something about martial arts or herbs). It must have been a Sunday morning or afternoon, as the Sunday paper is still on the floor. We have been saving our newspapers to smother grass with for the large herb garden Jillian has planned (more on that in another post).

Quinton, on his bike, pulling his  frog from Babci* Browning, holding the giraffe the Home Depot employee gave him when he became board with the woodcraft project his siblings were working on.

*Babci is Polish for grandmother

Zachary and his friend Logan at their pack meeting. 

Quinton at pack meeting, who would not leave until he got his picture despite the meeting having convened and everyone trying to be quiet and attentive.

Zachary and Steven Knight (my sister, Amy's husband) helped me build three new top bar bee hives. Zachary and I spent most of a Saturday getting the boxes and bars finished. He was fantastic help as we ripped triangle shaped pieces to attach to the 110+ top bars we made. I'll post more on this later.

Zachary at the pinewood derby race. I was recruited to run the release mechanism on the track. Quinton help well for a while, but I had to find a replacement (Jillian was at her Karate class).

Chayce, Payge, and Quinton cheering. Not sure what Zachary was looking at. 

Quinton helped me dig a hugelkulture bed for our new blueberries. Our 2-year old plants produced a few fantastic berries last year, which was sufficient encouragement to double our patch size.

Chayce has taken primary responsibility for the chickens this spring, including cleaning, feed, water, and egg collection. One of our older hens produced the giant egg on the left. The egg on the right is a standard store large egg.

The morning of general conference, Chayce and Payge wanted to climb the mountain behind our house. We made it about 2/3 of the way to the first saddle point. It was snowing lightly the whole trip. 

Chayce and Payge on the way back down the mountain with a view of USU in the background (upper left).

Jillian took the children to the park during spring 'break'. We didn't ask them to do any school work that week, but it took two trips to the library to keep them satisfied.

Jillian and Rosie, just past half way done.