Home, Home on the Range...

...where the children and chickens play!  LOL  That should be the theme song around here.  The kids just love to go out and play with the chickens and gather their eggs.  Since getting these little hens back in April, they've been a daily source of entertainment.  Who knew chickens could be so funny!  So today I thought it would be fun to let the kids, I mean chickens, out of their coop to free range a little bit.  This was the first time we let them go completely free.  The kids were a little nervous at first, not knowing how far they would wander.  But they did pretty good and stayed pretty close to the coop (the chickens, not the kids).  They loved eating all the fresh green grass, clover, dandelions, and anything else they could forage for.  Here's a few of them just after leaving the coop.  They stayed close together at first.

After a while they started going off in separate directions.  With four chickens and only two kids to lasso them up, we decided that was enough for one day and gathered them up.  

Here's a shot of my daughter's favorite.  We never did name this one, we just call her "the white one."  Actually the only one we did name is the brown one and her name is Penny, as in Henny Penny....get it?  LOL

As we rounded all the little clucksters up I got this shot of my daughter holding Penny, and yes, that is a feather in her hair.  You might say she's gone a little birdy.

Th...th...tha...that's all folks!  Have a great day!

Disney Scrappers' Challenge

One of my main hobbies is scrap booking.  So I was so happy to discover Disney Scrappers, a scrap booking site dedicated to all things Disney.  Since we've had a few vacations there over the years, I have a few photos to work with.  Right now they've got several challenges posted for various themes.  I've completed a few of the challenges and thought I'd post a layout I recently completed for Challenge #3, On the Wild Side.  This challenge is all about Disney's wild life.  Things such as the Kilimanjaro Animal Safari, Animal Kingdom, or even as tame as the Jungle Cruise.  I decided to use a couple of pictures we had taken at the Tusker House restaurant at Disney's Animal Kingdom park. 

 

I used Bo Bunny's Zoology collection here for the mat, background paper and animal print accent paper.  The flowers are a combination of Prima and Petaloo.  The black hidden Mickey is actually a paint sample from The Home Depot that I just peeled off of the paint chip.  This was a fun layout to work on and I even dug up some old trim with fringe to replicate animal fur.  TFL

Flying over Seattle

This weekend my husband and son traveled to Seattle for a guy's only weekend to visit the Everett Museum.  This weekend they had some vintage aircraft doing demos in a show they called the Battle of Britain.  After this they toured Boeing Airfield and got to take a rare flight in a vintage bi-plane over Seattle!  My little guy was so ecstatic, and with his flight goggles on, he looked just like the Red Baron.  Isn't he cute!!

Just prior to boarding he got a little nervous about riding in such an old plane.  He asked his dad if it was going to crash.  LOL  Here he is getting ready to board.

Here are some of the views they got while in flight. 

         

 I guess flying in an open air cockpit is very loud, but they didn't mind.  After all, this may have been a once in a lifetime opportunity. 

Jumping into the Blogging World!

Hi everybody and welcome to my little corner of the big wide blogging world.  Here you'll find little bits of things that make me happy like my family, home, scrapbooking, homeschooling, photography, all things Disney, photography and my faith.  

For my first post I want to share a magical experience my husband and I just had at Disney World.  My husband surprised me with a stay at the Grand Floridian resort.  This was a great surprise, but it really was just the beginning of the magic.  Upon check in, we were told that we had been upgraded from a standard room to a concierge level, park view room.  Yes, that's right, a room with a perfect view of the castle with our own private balcony!  Our room was located on a "hidden" floor in the main building just a short, perfumed walkway down from the concierge lounge.  It was amazing!  You did read that right, the hallway was perfumed!  It was a very strong floral scent.  Thankfully though, our room was not perfumed.  I don't think I could have handled that heavy perfume all night, but it sure was nice in the hallway.  

After leaving the hotel, we hopped on the monorail which took us directly to the Magic Kingdom.  It was such a nice and easy way to get to the park.  Since we didn't have the kids with us this time, I had the time to take lots of pictures.  Unfortunately I forgot my tripod, so I was a limited to daylight photos.  I did happen to take this lovely picture of the castle at dusk.

 

My dear husband was so patient with my photography.  He told me not to worry about him, just to take the pictures I wanted and he'd keep an eye on me and follow me wherever I wanted to go.  Sure enough, I'd get caught up in settings and angles and then turn around thinking I'd lost him in the crowd.  But nope, he was right there waiting there for me and even carried my camera bag.  Isn't he a great guy?  I'm so thankful for such a loving, caring man.