Green Day!!!!

We celebrated St. Patrick's Day with family this year. My sister's birthday is right after Patty's Day so we threw a birthday party and green day celebration all in one. Justin cooked green curry chicken and coconut soup-yum! I'll let him post the food pictures on HIS blog! Now that St. Patrick's Day is over, we can start looking forward to Easter! I need to get my spring decorating done, but we are so busy trying to get our yard to look like spring I haven't had time! Plus, I've been taking advantage of the nice weather and walking more. The pollen is outragous, but pine pollen doesn't bother me. (Except for the huge mess it makes!)

Serama-mama

The kids are enjoying the chickens. We try to hold them every night so that they get use to human interactions. Chickens are actually very friendly and very trainable. In fact, in animal training schools chickens are the first animals that students train! Who knew? I don't know what Justin has in plan for chicken tricks, but it would be fun to train one to do the laundry....

Check out Sophia's pose in the second picture. This is the first picture she has posed in, and what a sassy stance! She has never really smiled for pictures and this is one of the first that we have seen!

Chicken Fever!

Miller Plantation has now become Miller Farm! We have chickens! Justin has been wanting chickens for over a year now. I have said no over and over but finally gave in (when he bought a chicken barn). We bought our first batch today, six chicks in all. 2 Silkie's (fluffy) , 2 Cochins (my favorites), and 2 Serama's (the smallest chicken breed). We bought them from one of Justin's new BFF's from his chicken club. Yes, you are reading this right-Justin Ryan Miller is a member of a chicken club! This guy had 300+ chickens in his yard! I asked his wife how many they started with, and she said 6...

This will really be an adventure for our family. I'm interested in using the chickens to create an awesome compost pile for our gardens, and using the gardens to feed our chickens! I think it's a bit funny though, that our family had fish, rabbits, and chickens. What ever happened to just having a dog or a cat?