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The Bunch Conclude Birthday Week

I love the country. Beautiful evenings.

A was the last one to have her birthday during birthday day season and she managed to arrange her schedule to have most of the day off. I also quizzed her on somethings her pharmacology test would be over. She wanted to see the live Pinocchio that Disney just released. It wasn't a bad movie; it just had too much cgi effects for me. It must have been really weird for Tom Hanks to just act by himself for a whole movie. It was a great day and I was glad we were able to spend it with her. I really try to relish the traditions we have because I know that soon we won't have so much time together and I know I will miss that. Don't get me wrong I am super excited for life after kids, but I will miss the everyday things.

We had to have a pic with Noelle. She is like the family baby.

A opening her gifts.

T drew her some birthday drawings.

He knows she loves Harry Potter.

He did pretty good, especially for only using a dry erase board!

A had a wonderful day. Her work even got her a card and some doughnuts.

With basketball season starting soon, I have worked a couple of quick camping trips in this month to Eisenhower State Park. It is one of my favorite parks and now all the sites are pull thru and FULL hook ups, which is an oddity for any state park. I can't wait to see the newly done park! Between choir practice and basketball open gyms, we can only manage a couple of days away, but that should be enough to kind of reset. We get stuck in the mundane of chores and business that encompasses us at home and it is nice to just go somewhere and relax....or at least have nothing the needs to be done.  No animals to fed (except the ones who travel with us), no having to get up early for school (though we still usually get up fairly early), and NO internet. We play games, hike, and watch Dvds together. The kids usually play several board games with each other all day and that rarely happens at home. I would say we just live simply for a few days, but anyone who has ever seen us knows that we bring everything with us. What can I say, I like traveling. I have a literal countdown to when D is retiring and we are going to spend some time traveling together. We might do some camp work too. I have no idea how it will play out, but I am excited for the experience.

Our cat is not normal. This is the dog feet washing bowl. She loves to nap in it.

I was surprised when I cleaned the old hay out of the hay trough and it had newborn bunnies. Not surprised about the bunnies I have now found a total of 51 with this nest since April, but that she put it IN the hay trough!

To hopefully keep Iris from knocking them around, I put them in a low box so they couldn't wiggle away and placed the box in the back. Basically my morning routine is I put them in the box and cover them with hay and that night mama rabbit comes, takes them out of the box, puts them back in the middle of the trough, and covers them with hay. Repeat daily.

Iris is NOT impressed with the new guests, but so far she has been good and not messed with them.

This should give you an idea of how friendly the older rabbits are. About 6 come out each night, just from under the deck, to eat scratch when I feed the chickens. As you can tell, it is not bothered by me. 


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