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Well.. today was fun. The plan was to take all three kids to Marineland, but Drew got into a pile of junk food for breakfast and ate himself too sick to go... idiot... So I ended up taking just Joey and Tisha. My friend Tina and her kids came too so it was super fun because I got to go on the rides with the older kids! I finally got to try out a few rides I haven't been on before and took Joey on a few he hasn't been on. Tisha was a bit annoyed that she had to wait for us and wasn't spending the whole day on kiddie rides... but she got to go on a few new ones as well. We fed the fish and discovered a large snapping turtle in the pond... Joey wanted to eat it. Thanks mom. At this point my legs are dead.. I am tired.. good night!

So I've finally uploaded the pictures from our little trip to Happy Rolph's on monday.. also I have some pictures of the strawberries we picked today from the garden.. I can't wait to make something with them once Matt gets home to go buy me butter!! For those of you who don't know, Happy Rolph's is a free petting farm just outside the city where we can go see all kinds of different farm animals and ducks/geese. They have goats, horse, pony, llamas, sheep, pigs, cow, donkeys, chickens, bunnies, and a pond for ducks. It's a great place to take the kids for an afternoon as they also have picnic areas and a playground. We discovered that we can be the animal's favourite people if we bring chicken scratch instead of the 25 cents a handful animal feed they have there.. the goats will leave you just plain slobbery and the cow will stick her tongue out so far you're amazed it will fit back into her head! (seriously.. it was like a foot long!) I even managed

So today was another good day. Started out with lounging around watching cartoons with Tisha this morning, then got up and went to dollarama. We found some cool pots for putting tomatoes into on the patio and a candle to put on Amy's grave. Drove up to the cemetery and walked around there looking at old graves for a while.. it's such a sobering thought that so many people lost so many babies.. there are three gravestones I have found so far with 3 or 4 babies on one stone... I'm so grateful that I live in the time I do and most of my children have made it past babyhood! On the way back I found a really neat garden centre (midway on 4th ave) that offers heirloom varieties of tomatoes! I picked up four, "Black Prince", "Mr.Stripey", "Cherokee Purple", and "Green Zebra." I'm pretty excited about that because the chickens ate half of my tomato plants and they were all heirloom and I really wasn't sure if the new ones would g

Well.. let's see.. what's happened recently? Well.. to start.. we now have chickens in the yard and we're working on changing the bylaw to make them legal to keep outside. The current bylaw doesn't prohibit them unless they live outside, so legally they have to sleep in the house at night. Right now we have four hens named Angel, Blackie, Baby, and Brownie. Don't ask me.. the kids named them. I wanted to call them the chickens. Primarily we have them for eggs. I have no plan to eat them at any point unless that is unavoidable. Tisha spent a good bit of time trying to figure out if they like purple or yellow better... They liked yellow I have been working on planting the garden and getting it all prepared for the summer. So far we have all heirloom tomatoes and heirloom peppers.. our salsa this year is going to be something else! Also planted are heirloom (purple) carrots, regular carrots, beets, radishes, onions, delicata squash (they are sooo