Our First Egg!

I was JUST thinking about how long it has been since I blogged, knowing it had been a while, and I couldn't really think of what to blog about. So I decided to go out and feed and water my chickens, and check on my puppies hurt leg. When I opened up my chicken coop door, I saw it! The first egg from my chickens!!! It is a small brown one!!  I am sooo happy!!!

I'm trying to get my dogs used to being around chickens so they wont kill them.....

Life around me is FULL of new life! TWO of my friends had a baby yesterday, another two are due VERY soon (one of them is my sister in law), I know A LOT of pregnant ladies, and one my chickens layed an egg today! New life is so precious, even if it is a poop covered egg :)

I have always been amazed at how new baby animals just know what to do when they are born, get up and start feeding! Even human babies, without any instructions (except for the getting up part :) )! Also studying how animals work from the inside out, seeing how in the brain and nerves, that EVERYTHING has to be just right, so the body can function, and messages can be sent through ion channels to tell you something is HOT or cold, it hurts, or telling you "You'r upside down". I just can't help but be in awe of our creator, and how His blueprints for our lives make us function.

Baby Cake

I have been seeing these cute diaper cakes all over the internet, and I have wanted to make one so bad! My friend had her baby shower last night, so my other friend and I made 1 for her! I had read a few tutorials online, but I never found 1 that i liked exactly how they put it together, so like me recipes, I took a little piece from each tutorial to make my own diaper cake variety :)

 The very first thing we did was roll the diapers up. We used small rubber bands to hold them together. I bought an 84 pack of size 3 diapers to make this cake. We only used probably 60 diapers to make the cake though.

 Here are the little decoration things we put on the cake, and the diapers.

 This is a random close up of the base. We rolled up the diapers for the base, then held together like 3 rolls of diapers with a rubber band, we really just stuck rubber bands all around to make sure they all stuck together :) We substituted 2 diaper rolls for a bottle of baby powder. My friend did the cute bow (it is far above my talents ;)...) I had an idea of what I thought would look cute, had no idea how to do it, and she made exactly what I was thinking!

 We laced the yellow ribbon on the second tier with the letters that spelled out her last name (Yoder), and on the top tier we laced the word Baby. We held the ribbon down with hot glue.

 We kind of just stuck the socks and little animals where we could fit them on.

Ta-da!!!