Last week, we made a visit to the party store to buy supplies for Evie’s class party. Its was fun to take pictures of the kids will all of the crazy things that they put on. So here are some more fun pictures. (Continued…)

Tessa and I found the solution to our bobcat troubles. It includes a cute fluffy white bunny, and a steel trap. Don’t worry, this trap is designed to keep the bunny safe. (Continued…)

This year, we are trying our first shot at incubating chicken eggs. These eggs were home grown in our coop, and should be exciting to see hatch. Stay tuned, we have about 15 of the 21 days left before hatching. (Continued…)

I found some broken eggs this morning while walking between my house and Mom’s house. I just assumed it was an opossum or something so I set a trap, only to find my self face to face with a skunk. (Continued…)

It was Dr. Seuss birthday yesterday. The school had various activities. Tessa made a huge cat in the hat cake for the Pre-K, and Catie’s class make their own Dr. Seuss books. (Continued…)

About 6 months ago, Mrs. Riddle, our neighbor called and said that a bobcat had attacked her chickens. Now, we finally have got one of the bobcats, but there is still another one. (Continued…)

Check out this video of the kids having fun on the historical snow day in Italy, Texas. Mikey, Catie, Evie, Sydney and Frankie had a lot of fun making snowballs, snowmen, and the start of a snow fort. (Continued…)

February is a really busy month our family. We have Tessa’s Birthday, Dad’s Birthday, Mom and Dad’s Anniversary, and Gary and Nan’s Birthday. The kids helped blow out the candles, and dad had a little too much fun with my son’s sugar addiction. (Continued…)

Today we bought six chickens. The kids are really excited about getting eggs and taking care of the chickens. We drove to Waxahachie, to the Boyd Feed Store and purchased a mix of different breeds. We got 2 Americanas, 2 Brown Leghorns (in Texas it pronounced Legerns), and 2 Rhode Island Reds. (Continued…)

When Tessa came up with the idea of building a chicken coop, we didn’t know how to start. So we went to visit the only people we knew that have chickens, the Johnson family in Milford. They had made two chicken coops using hog panels, and we loved it. (Continued…)

Thursday morning, it started to sleet. Then, by around noon, it started to snow. Over the next 24 hours, it would lay down 5 inches of snow in Italy, and twice that much in the DFW metroplex. (Continued…)

Evie took my sunglasses during one of Mikey’s basketball practices. Once I turned on the camera, she started cheesing for the camera. (Continued…)

One of the first things we did today was visit Sodimac, the local “Home Depot”. We went there to look for prices for materials. I’m telling you, these people aren’t missing a thing. They have stores with everything just like the US. (Continued…)

Carlos and Linda had a meeting in the morning, so we went out. First was to a Honda shop where we could look at some motorcycles. Most all motorcycles here are 125cc or 90cc, they have bigger ones, but not very many people have them. You can buy a nice 125 for about $3,000. The 250s were available on special order, but you could get them for about double the 125s. (Continued…)

Today was business. We went and talked to Segundo, the man that was in charge of the association that was helping get the land. We went out to the job site to see the land, and it looks like it will be a very nice place to build. We talked to various building supply people, a contractor or two, and an engineer that can help with the utilities. (Continued…)

We made it to Lima about 8:00am, got through customs, located the bag in Miami, got it scheduled to be shipped to Chiclayo (our final destination), checked in and ditched Andrews bags for the flight to Chiclayo. The Chiclayo flight wasn’t until about 6:00pm that night, so Linda had lined up for a niece of Carlos’ to meet us there and show us the sights. (Continued…)

I left DFW airport on a flight to Miami at around 8:00pm, even though the flight was scheduled for 6:20pm. So the first day was already late. The flight was around 3 hours, and was just like you would imagine. (Continued…)

Over Thanksgiving, Evie got really sick with Pneumonia. This is the story of her ordeal. (Continued…)