Life on the farm has begun!

Fun in the moving truck!

Sela and Nina made zucchini chocolate chip cookies with the zucchini they picked.

Nina playing in the grapes.

Where's Sela?

The kids love this little maple tree right outside the front door.















What a crazy couple of weeks we've had. I feel like I've been saying that all summer, but the pace is finally slowing way down. Moving with little kids is no small feat, but thankfully, we have the bulk of it behind us. Zig rented a big truck and the kids were very excited to ride in front way up high. We met our first neighbor, Dana, when Zig backed the truck into her fence. Minor damage and instant get to know your neighbor moment :) We are fortunate though, we have some very nice neighbors. Many of the neighbors have stopped by. Some even brought us cookies. There are several little girls Sela and Nina's age very close by.

We got the keys to the new house last monday and moved a huge truck of stuff over on Wednesday. Our first night here was Thursday. We just listed our other house so we had to leave most of our furniture there for awhile. At least the cleaning and packing of little stuff is DONE! And best of all, we don't have to live there while it is shown. Super hard to keep a house with three kids perfectly clean every second of the day. The vacuuming alone in that house (which has to be done everytime we show it) is enough to make me want to camp outside rather than live there any longer. We don't even need our big vaccuum at this new house. We can get the job done with our tiny little glorified dust buster adn the girls can do it.

Now that we are here, the kids are just in heaven. I have felt no desire to leave home and it just feels so peaceful. Zig is like a little kid in a candy shop. He is beyond happy to be living here and he keeps coming home early and during the day. He seemed to even enjoy mowing the yard with Rollin last Saturday. It took him about 3 hours and Rollin fell asleep in his lap. The thought that went into this home and especially the yard/landscaping is something we really appreciate and are noticing more each day we live here. I am loving the simplicity of the floorplan and the one level. Everthing is smaller than our other house, the house lives so much better.

Right now there are Asian Pears and another variety of pears, apples, italian plums, white raspberries, grapes, blackberries, and tomatoes that are ripe. Well, the grapes are almost ripe and there are at least a hundred bunches hanging from the vines.

One outing we did take this week was to a farm a couple miles from here. Last year we picked apples there, but this year we went earlier and to my surprise, there was u-pick everything. We came home with five varieties of carrots...purple, red, yellow, white and regular orange. Sela picked rainbow chard, lettuce, huge heirloom tomatoes. Nina was excited to discover the beets all by herself. We also picked honeycrisp apples, galas and one other variety I hadn't heard of. We were all filthy but it was really fun. Rollin of course had a diahrrea episode because he eats things that aren't ripe and goes overboard on blackberries. He was eating carrots that the girls pulled straight from the dirt. And to try and stop him is impossible. His immune system must be quite strong. That little guy is quite I wonder, I tell ya!