I'm pretty sure last time I checked, we didn't have a 2 year old and a 4 (nearly 5) year old living on a farm with us. I guess there's a lot to catch up on!
Why don't we start at the beginning?
When Chris and I were dating/engaged/first married, we agreed that one day we would live on a farm. Not just an acreage with some land. A real-deal no-joke farm. We looked at a few when we were house hunting back in 2007, but never found a place that worked for us. So, we ended up living in the middle of town in our "five year house" for nearly six years. Honestly, I had gotten pretty comfortable there, and didn't expect to move any time soon. At some point in the spring of this year (2013) we asked a Realtor friend of ours to come check out our house and let us know what we'd need to do to get it market ready. We were both surprised to learn that we didn't need to do as much work as we thought we would. After a few more months (let's be honest, we're both procrastinators), we made the leap and decided to put our house up for sale.
We received an offer on our house less than 24 hours after we listed it. The day after we accepted the offer, our Realtor took us to look at two acreages. The first I affectionately referred to as "the haunted house". It was an old vacant farmhouse that needed a lot of work. The second house was much more appealing, to say the least, and we ended up buying it.
So here we are. We have egg laying chickens, barn cats, lots of room for our dogs, plans for a big garden and hopefully animals in the pasture in the spring. We drive 20 minutes to get to town, and our closest neighbors are about a quarter mile down the road. We burn our garbage, and we were the family who looked like tourists this fall taking pictures of the combines harvesting the field that butts up to our property.
So here we are. We have egg laying chickens, barn cats, lots of room for our dogs, plans for a big garden and hopefully animals in the pasture in the spring. We drive 20 minutes to get to town, and our closest neighbors are about a quarter mile down the road. We burn our garbage, and we were the family who looked like tourists this fall taking pictures of the combines harvesting the field that butts up to our property.
As if that wasn't enough to keep us busy, we've had a few other things going on too. Chris took a job with John Deere right before we moved, and has been working on 3rd shift - 10:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m. - since August (so don't show up unannounced at my house in the middle of the night, because I just might shoot you). Samantha is less than a year away from starting Kindergarten, and Hailey surprises us every day with the things she knows and says. I'm planning to run a half marathon in the fall, and I'm sure Chris is planning to shoot a prize winning buck shortly after.
And now you're caught up!
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