Hopefuly the first of many to come!

This will probably be an odd post as it is my first and I am unsure how to go about it. But here it is, this is me! I am 26 years young, my husband super human Super Man, our 5 kids and I live in the middle of a very busy, ritzy town where all the houses are annoyingly close together. Some how here is where we found 7 acres to buy.

 We share our home with our amazing Muttly Crew of two (for now only two) Jazz the blue merle Great Dane 3yrs old, whom was named from Transformers as was Barricade, our "mini" English Mastiff 1 1/2yrs old.

 Our home came equip with many lil guests that were not welcome, so along came Sir Bently. He is a lean mean mousin machine. Bently has earned his keep, all though he is not one who wants to be touched unless it is on his terms. Oddly enough that seems to be around 2 o'clock in the morning. He came strait from a shelter a few miles away. I figured one is great but two is better and Wednesdays you get free cats there, not quite sure how I feel about that but it worked for us, so we also got .........

 Lil miss Shelby. Yea I am in the habit of naming dogs and cats after cars. I love cars! This is pretty much all you will ever see her doing other that eating, that is all that makes up her day. But that is ok with me as she is the lover of the two kitties.

Three lil piggies, awww so cute right? Not so much. lets put it this way, one is named bacon and the other is pork chop, the third lil one did not make it and not sure why but two will do for this year.            

These are the newest additions to our home. I just picked them up the day before yesterday. They were FREE, now ya can't beet that. I already had an area ready for them that we had used before for our Pygmy goats that I miss so much. The Chief helped me build four nest boxes (which the lil buggers have yet to use) and we put up the roosts and chicken wire and poof a chicken coop!
 Here is where my thinking was, got these 4yr old chickens for free and was told they are still laying so I assume (which can be dangerous) that they will need some time to get use to their new home before they resume their laying. I do have a light on in the coop, it gets turned on in the morning by the Chief at 7am and off by me around 8 or 9pm.
 Then in Feb. I plan to buy some lil baby chicks to hand raise with the kids for a younger generation of layers for this summer.