Ok its been a while

Wow how time flies.... We have been over our heads in dance recitals, Baseball, Lacrosse, piano, scouts, and every "end of the year" thing the school can throw at us... I also got a new calling, YW 2nd councilor so that has added a ton to my life! And to top it all off I have been sick for about 4 weeks so AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH..(probably just allergies) Any way we only have 6 more days of school and 2 more baseball games before the playoffs so hopefully things will slow down soon and I will get out the pictures I took at all of the above and put them on the blog..

Until then we are alive, busy and missing you all!

We did it.

Maple syrup anyone? We did it. We got about 6 cups of syrup from our trees. Not bad for only tapping 4 trees and for it being our first time! We will enjoy it till it is gone! Yay us.

Because I can

Not everyone has wild turkeys wondering through their yard on a daily basis so I thought I would share.... The really loud turkey is my turkey husband. He likes to talk to them.

Spring

Spring--- finally!

oh yeah this is spring also

Yes both the picture of the flower and the picture of the snow were taken on the same day.. I took the picture of the flower and then turned and took the picture of the snow! It has been raining here since this was taken (Sunday) so it is melting away!! Ours takes a long time to melt because of all our trees.. Our neighbors are enjoying their snow free yards.

When in Maine....

This morning before church (yes it is at 9:00 and we weren't late), we all ventured out into the yard in our pj's and tapped maple trees!! Ok so we have lived in Maine for 7 years and this is our first time tapping our trees. It didn't take long to tap 4 maples around our house. We drilled the hole, pounded in a tap and hung the bucket. This afternoon we dumped all our sap into a big clean garbage can that John burried in the snow. We estimate that we got over a gallon. When we get a good amount we will boil it down to syrup. It takes 40 gallons of sap to get 1 gallon of syrup so we won't be swimming in the stuff but it will be good on our pancakes.. Come visit and maybe we will share some.