Lately

 We've been busy around these parts with the temperatures rising and the sap running.  Almost up to 200 gallons of syrup so far!

Busy with new babies entering our family, welcoming them with photo sessions and celebrations.

Busy with my photography business growing and expanding.  I am so in Love with this.

Busy with monitoring my health, while watching my hair fall out by the masses!  (Totally not a good thing,  my doctor says it will stop once they balance out my hormone pills).  Until then-  I'm pulling the "comb over"  OK not really a comb over, but it's rather horrifying.  But really, i am feeling good.  I am so thankful my thyroid wasn't cancerous and the surgery was smooth sailing.

Busy with buying new couches.  Beautiful chocolate brown ones. 

Hubs (calling me at work):  ummm huni-  the new couches just flew out of the dump trailer.  On the interstate.  Going 60 MPH.

Me: ...........pause........... Really??!!!  You didn't strap them down?

Hubs: No, i didn't have my straps with me because of the sap tank in the back of my truck.  The couches were tight when i loaded them, so i didn't think they would go anywhere.

Me: ....pause......Really????  Well you better get off the highway and take the back roads the rest of the way.

An hour later we meet at home.  One couch is in three pieces.  The other one just has some road rash, as hubs so sweetly puts it.  I take a utility knife and cut out some of the fabric on the one that is headed directly to the dump, to patch our road rashed couch.  Sigh.

We looked at each other and laughed.  Life is full of surprises and lessons.  We ditched our "stay in on a Friday night" plans and headed out.

Material things like these couches we have been waiting so long for?  They really don't mean a lot.

What means a lot is us.  Our family and our joy.

Six boils in, and finally turning to a medium amber.  What a great season this is shaping up to be!

Charlie loves tractors.  He always hops on our tractor to go for a scoot with Hubs and loves four wheeler rides.  Yes, you can tell we have no children, he's our kid :)

My big brother and his wife welcomed two new beautiful babies on February 21st.  They now are a lively family of eight!

Rex & Harper <3

Hubs and i made our first batch of maple candies last weekend, they almost flopped, but tasted great.  We're going to work on our technique this weekend, along with maple cream! 

We also have scouted out a trailer that will be suitable to build a chicken coop on.  Soon we'll be ordering 6-8 baby chicks and another pig to start out 2013!

~Have a great weekend friends~