Piglet 2014 Pictures

Little Girl and Gilly brought their piglets out into the sunshine by the road this morning. After a truck did an abrupt stop in front of our house I knew something was up and went out to see this.

They are surrounded by piglets though they are hard to see because of their color. Little girl got up after a minute and I got some more pictures. She was almost showing them off for me. 

This sow is Gilly, half Hampton/York half Berkshire bred to a Tamworth. 

The lighter piglets with a lot of white on them are hers. Little Girls, purebred Berkshire bred to a Tamworth, piglets are the top picture.

A pile of piglets :) 

And last but not least, she is the BIGGEST sow after all, is Big Girl who is still waiting for her piglets. She's in a cranky stage so hopefully it will be soon. 

Kitchen Walls have Color!

My mom and I spent a few hours staining the kitchen stucco walls in the house. 

The kitchen corner. These were taken while it was wet. It dried a bit lighter and we are still thinking about whether we will do another coat or not. 

We bought two gallons of stain...and used 1/4 of one! I think perhaps the living room will also be yellow :) 

Population Jump!! Piglets

Gilly's eleven!

Little Girls eleven :) 

New House Pictures! August 8th/14

The kids and I cleaned this room Wednesday and the oldest 4 moved in. It's nice to have a little bit of breathing space. One of the walls in what will be the kids room for now and the master bedroom forever :) 

The rest of that room. Amazing how much room there is left! And it's a good thing too, eventually all 7 kids will be in this room but hopefully only for a month or two! 

The master bathroom, or what will be the master bathroom. Toilet is installed as we really do need two :) but the rest of the bathroom will have to wait until we have a hallway...got to walk thru the walls right now! Oh and that big black snake thing is the bathroom fan vent system or something like that. 

The main bathroom, see the whole in the wall?? That's so we can get into the main bathroom thru the master bathroom. I'm really looking forward to a hallway ;) 

The vanity, from Costco online, all ready to except the drains for the sinks. 

Mirror, lights and towel holders. We are going to add two small mirrors on either side of the light switch. Turns out none of the kids can see into the mirror! 

The tub/shower! Yay! 

The little bedroom, Papa and I's for now and todder room later, good view of the missing chunk of wall for the mini hallway.

The rest of the little bedroom. It will also double as the living room/office for a bit as there is no other place to put the computer. 

The pantry. It just needs a little bit more painting at the moment. Eventually it will have upper shelves too. 

The kitchen dining room area. The stoves in the middle as Papa needs to install the pipes for the propane yet. Propane, drains, dishwasher set up is all that NEEDS doing before we can move in. 

The other end of that room. 

The utility room from the outside. Needs a door and she's ready for winter! 

The inside of the utility room. Hot water system on the left, pressure tank on the right. Filter inbetween. 

The hot and cold water set up. Looks cool. Several empty spots for the laundry room, milk sink and another bathroom. 

And there you have it, new pictures of the house. I won't bore you with a list of what we've been working on but it's coming along and we've been plenty busy :) 

Can you tell there was a sale on?

J3's 4th Birthday :)

Making his cake. He loves to work the mixer.

Boy and Cake :) 

Cheesy smile :) 

It was a great party!! 4 years old already!!