New Trees

I'm so super excited.  We planted three apple trees, one granny smith for my pies, one gala and one fuji tree.  We also planted two Dynamite Crepe Myrtle trees in honor of our angels.  When the other colors start coming in we will plant those for the other kids.  We have two peach trees ready to be planted but since the temps were going to drop this week we put them in the house and will plant when the chance of a freeze is lessened.  They were already blooming and we didn't want to kill them.  The trees were container trees so I think they were 2-3 years old already.  I can't wait to start eating my own apples and peaches :).  I've added a picture from the internet of a crepe myrtle for those that have never seen them.  We also started the planter boxes for my garden.  Originally it was going to be two small and one big box.  Hubby got really excited and now it has grown.  But I will post more on that in another post.  I had alot of fun designing my gardens and I will have even more fun planting them.  I will post more pictures.  Hubby is also going to build a fence and gate for the garden to keep it safe.

It finally happened!

We finally closed on our dream property to start our little family hobby farm.  We were able to submit a second offer on the 40 acres we tried to purchase last fall.  We closed in less than 30 days this time with the Veteran Land Board.  We are thrilled.  And it turns out the house isn't in that bad of shape so we are working on gutting and then going to renovate the house.  One room at a time.  This weekend we are going to plant two Dynamic Crepe Myrtle trees in honor of our angel babies whom we lost this time of year in 2009 and 2010.  We will plant Crepe Myrtles for the other three kids as well, but they want different colors so we have to wait for them to come in.  We found the house has pine hardwood floors through about 3/4 of it.  So that saves on cost for flooring in the bedrooms and the soon to be fireplace room.  The goal is to be in a position in the fall to get some cows and apply for our ag exemption.  We will have to see since we don't have a truck.  If we didn't have to move the manufactured house then we could probably afford to get a truck but sadly we have to move it.  I am going to try to be better about updating with pictures and everything here.  I stepped away for a while since it was hard when we lost the original loan.  It worked out better in the end.  Lower payments all around.  The kids love it!