A lot can happen in a month and half!

This has been a busy, but wonderful month and half. We have been bad about posting updates, but hope to catch you up some with this post. I can't really figure out how to change the order of the photos easily, so bear with me in this out of order post. It is appropriate actually, because many things are out of order these days. Our house looks like this:

Yep....those are moving boxes. We are due to close on our first house and become homeowners this Thursday. It's not done until its done, so we aren't going to post pics just yet, but will do so when things are final.

Here you see Henry with our first egg! Last Tuesday, Emily walked home for lunch and checked on the chickens and this little gift was in one of the laying boxes. They have since produce two more bringing our grand total to a fourth of a dozen!

I got my hair cut...mom requested pictures...

Here I was trying to show the size of our first egg. The first ones are smaller and eventually get to be "normal" sized, although they will always be all different colors and sizes....part of the fun of having your own chickens.

The first egg in the egg collection basket given to Henry by his mom.

Emily had shoulder surgery on Sept. 24th. The staples are now out (thank goodness) and she is doing great. She had a shoulder decompression - two bone spurs removed, bone removed that was impinging on the rotator cuff and collar bone shorted 8mm. She had a slight setback when she found out she was allergic to pain medication and has lost about 8 pounds in a week, but the stomach is getting back to normal and the physical therapist said she is a rock star with great range of motion.

I know I mentioned that I wasn't going to post any pictures of the house, but here is a teaser...this tree will be in our new backyard! They don't have trees like this in Texas and when they do, they have a fence around them and some sort of historical plaque. It is HUGE.

Here are the chickens enjoying some of our leftover corn on labor day. They really know how to clean an ear of corn.

Here is Henry being goofy with his ear of corn....delicious!

Home grown poblano pepper....

New flowers by the front door...

Every year on labor day weekend, Matthews throws a huge festival called Matthews Alive. This was held one street over and made for a fun, crowded and traffic filled weekend. Here is a shot of the street. There were THOUSANDS of people and lots of expensive food and crafts....

Instead of spending a ton of money on expensive food at the fair, we had out own picnic in the backyard....hamburgers, grilled corn and grapes! Obviously we need to invest in some outdoor furniture. Here we are using empty cat litter containers....classy!

The cats still love each other. They are sitting in the open window upstairs on their perch intrigued by the crew putting a new roof on the neighbor's house.

We turned our lower boxes into flower beds because we couldn't compete with the ants. I was so excited and then realized that I had just created a box full of food for the deer....so I had to build these covers to put on at night...the flowers are still happy a month later.

Henry also started a new job as community outreach coordinator for Covenant Presbyterian Church and has been working hard on a garden project. Check it out here: (http://www.friendshiptrays.org/Gardens/GardenMain.htm). This garden is also in the running for a huge grant from Tom's of Main. You can vote everyday for the entire month of October. Go to this website (http://www.tomsofmaine.com/community-involvement/project-sponsorships.aspx) then click on the community tab and scroll down until you see "Friendship Trays Garden: A Plot to Thicken Community." Vote EVERY day! We hope you are all doing well and we hope you will plan a trip to visit us once we are settled in the new house! Peace! Emily and Henry