Coop Delivery Preparation...

This past Thursday was delivery day for the "Oklahoma City Food Coop" that we sell our eggs to. Our chickens have started laying very well. Our new egg record for one day is 175!!! This month was our biggest delivery month yet. We sold 270 dozen eggs!!!

We all have different responsibilities that we carry out and help one another with. I do the greater part of coop delivery preparation which includes: cutting the labels for each carton, gluing them on, packaging the cartons and loading the coolers. The couple of days leading up to delivery day are pretty busy with preparation.


Sienna cleaned up dinner.


Sabrina packaging some of our eggs.


Our egg storage refrigerators are in the laundry room. Here I am doing our monthly deliver preparation. There was quite a lot to do this month, but I enjoy the job!

A Family Field Trip

Last Monday, our family took a trip down to Oklahoma City. We went on a field trip to the "Oklahoma
History Museum", ran a few errands and got dinner at "P.F. Chang's". We had a great day!!!

The museum was a lot of fun! There is so much to see and learn and we are looking forward to going back again sometime. Regrettably, I was having so much fun that I forgot to take many pictures!!! I'll try to take more next time. :)


Outside of the "Oklahoma History Museum".

Shenandoah Remembrance

One Month Old -January 4th





Two Months Old -February 4th



She is growing so fast!!!

Pictures...

The Cochran Kids


Mommy and Shenandoah


Daddy explaining some flying tactics to us around the dinner table.


Making collages


Sayer's one-eyed smile!

The Flu...

Our family just recently got over struggling with the flu. Awful headaches, high fevers, nausea, lingering coughs and runny noses. That was our story for about three weeks. Daddy was the only one that didn't get sick. Thankfully, we are all well now (it feels so great!:)

(These pictures are from about the first week and 1/2 of the sickness.)

The well ones playing with play-dough.


Sabrina


Myself


Shenandoah


Stasia


Sayer


Seth - The poor little guy was such a big help taking care of everything while the sick ones were out of commission. He was the last one to catch it and kept up such a positive attiude.

Seth's 6th Birthday

January 21st was Seth's 6th birthday!!! He had a "Pendragon: Sword of His Father" birthday (can you guess what we did?! :) Unfortunately, mommy and Sabrina were sick with the flu. But, other than that he had a great day. Seth is a very special part of our family and growing into such a wonderful young man. We love you Seth!!!


Seth


The sign speaks for itself :)


Getting ready to open presents...


Seth's "Strawberry Pendragon Castle Cake"! (It was a lot of fun to make :)


Saying his birthday prayer...


Blowing out the candles!!!


Daddy and Seth by his birthday countdown sign.

Shenandoah's Baby Shower

Several weeks ago, the families in our church had a baby shower for Shenandoah. It was wonderful!!!
Here are a few pictures.


Shenandoah all dressed for the day!


Shenandoah's Banner


The food table


The gift table


Mrs. Blevins and Shenandoah


Our family


Opening gifts


Shenandoah and I. Isn't she cute?!


Shenandoah's gifts. Thank you all for everything!!!

A Trip To Kansas City

In January, we went to Missouri to attend the funeral of mommy's uncle Jimmy. Though it was a very sad reason for our trip, we enjoyed the time we were able to spend visiting with family and friends (it was fun to be able to introduce Shenandoah to them for the first time!) Here are some pictures from our trip.


The kids in the back of the van.


Shenandoah did such a great job on the trip. She is such a good traveler!!!


I got to drive too!!!


Grandma (daddy's mother) seeing Shenandoah (in person) for the first time.

On Tuesday after the funeral, our good friends the Pentimone's had us over for dinner. It was so nice to see them again. Thank you for your hospitality!!!

The Pentimone family (minus Mr. Pentimone who was unable to be there that night).


Sienna, Carissa and Shenandoah


The kitchen clean up crew!!! It was fun working together!!!


The younger children playing.

Wednesday

We were so happy to be able to visit with grandpa (mommy's father) again. It had been a while! In this picture, Seth is enjoying a ride on grandpa's wheel chair. (Grandpa was in a car accident 6 years and broke his neck. He is now paralyzed from the neck down.)

For lunch on Wednesday, we met our Uncle Todd and Aunt Moe at "On The Border". It was a lot of fun!!!

Aunt Moe and Shenandoah


Eating lunch


We had a great time visiting with them!

Friendly Game Of Aggravation

We were playing 'Aggravation' as a family today. If you've never played it before, I highly recommend it. It's a great game for all ages. The goal is to move all your marbles around the board and into your home. However, if a player lands on a square occupied by another player they knock them off and send them back to their starting point.

In this particular game Savannah was about to win so we all decided to go after her.





Savannah was pink. Do you think she felt like she was being ganged up on? I was green. Sabrina was orange. Sienna was blue. Stasia was yellow.

She didn't have a chance...



-- Posted by the Patriarch