New Chicks

On February 10, Mom and all the kids decided to get chicks early (as the weather had been rather mellow this year),and went to the Dayville hay and grain store. Usually we get chicks at the Bothell feed store so the variety's a bit different then usual. Dad had wanted to get all Rhode Island Reds,but due to his absence, we only got two Rhodes (out of eight chicks). Only one chick death (Emma's chick) and the rest are all healthy and growing fast. In fact we have had to expand the chick box and soon we'll have to move them out to the garage. This works out in our favor because on March 22 we are getting more chicks and by then the first ones will be out in the garage and the box will be free. Then again we only have one heat lamp....
-Caleb

George Washington's Birthday

Today is George Washington's birthday, 2/22/2010. Whats more interesting is that (unintentionally) we happen to be doing speeches on the first three presidents at this time.

I'm (Caleb) on Thomas Jefferson, Emma is on John Adams, and Colin's on George.

Despite the fact that I am speaking on Jefferson, I will lay down some facts about George Washington. George was an interesting man, aside from normal things such as having several pairs of false teeth (made of materials such as deer antlers,hippo,and elephant teeth), having a dog(named "Sweet Lips"), and owning land at age eighteen(15,000 acres).

Aside from the normal things Washington was a farmer before he became an army general and then first President of the United States of America. Tobacco was a major crop then, but it sucked all the nutrients out of the ground, so George as a farmer liked to experiment with crop rotation and fertilizer, and also was the first to breed a horse and donkey together to make a mule.
Yes George Washington was a interesting man and great president.
-Caleb

Trampoling & Tumbling: Meet #2

The second meet of the season was hosted by our own gym Northshore Gymnastics Center. Here is a video of everyone's Double-mini trampoline run.

Super Sugar Cookies

Making sugar cookies is a blast but making them with friends is even more of a blast--and a blast is what we were having on Monday the 1st when our friends Grayson and Gabreilla Lobbs came over to make sugar cookies to eat and for the Lobbs to take home. Mom had already made the dough, so we could immediately start cutting out cookies as soon as lunch was over. Soon after starting Colin and I got a little tired of the small cookie cutters and made some giant hand-formed hearts. Frosting the cookies was definitely my favorite part of sugar cookie making. With five different colors; blue, red, white and green we could slab and spoon on colorful globs of frosting and dump on mountains of sprinkles. After we were done cutting out and baking the cookies we, of course, ate some and had also eaten most of the blobs of frosting and sprinkles from the table. We can all say that all the cookies we made that day were Super Sugar Cookies. -Emma (11)

Living Life Together!

Had an awesome afternoon with the Brent & Joanne Smith family! Wii time for the kids then Pizza and homemade cookies! Best pre-Superbowl party ever! (…wait the Superbowl isn’t until next week, right?). This was a perfect example of what they say at The City Church, “Living Life Together!”

…And Happy Birthday to Jack’s sister Becca Norwil in Chandler, AZ

Trampoling & Tumbling: Meet #1

The Brenchley kids had their first Trampoline & Tumbling meet of the year! This is Rilla (6) and Cian's (5) first year competing. See all the kids on the big Tramp in this video:

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs last night for movie night (thanks to Netflix). For once the movie was better than the book! We stopped in the middle and had banana splits! But other than that, no other food rained from the sky. That's it for today's food weather report.