Chick-ens

We are so busy !!! Today I decided to introduce the Chicks (5-6 weeks old) to the Laying Hens in the coop.  I put down one White Leghorn and one Dominique and they absolutly froze....and the Hens all froze too!  Everyone just looked at eachother wondering something of unfamilar thoughts Im sure.  All of them looked as if they were not sure if they should greet eachother or RUN !  The Laying White Leghorn Hens seemed okay but Ms. Pepper the Grey Hen puffed up all her feathers and look upset with me, like I had done something wrong.  Well then the Red Hen known as Lucy now by child #3 started pecking little Dominque and this momma was not going to have it.  So I grabbed little Chicks up and out we went.  I did put them in a small run on the outside though so they could all see eachother.   I did not have my camera but should have taken photo of everyone so still.  We will see where this leads us !

Here today, still here tomorrow.

 Billy

We tried to sell "Billy" .  He was way too loud for the lady !  Also would not take to the bottle for her.  Lets say I was more than just displeased.  Is that a word? Not sure but sounds good!  Anyhow  she only gave it like..... 3 hours.  Oh well the smile on my 7 year olds face was precious the next morning when he realized that he had come home.  It was a secretive, sneaky smile that said "now can we just keep him?"  Uuummmm....NO.  Sorry , still has to go.  We love playing with the kids so much each day that we can.  They are so much fun.  The boys played the other day in the beauty of the sun and the kids were all racing each other through the yard.  Love days like that when we are all in harmony with each other.  Today has not been harmony.  Hubby thought it was better to walk together last night to put goats back in barn, so I waited for him.  But, he was ready after dark.  Fiona decided to lead our small heard under the fence for grass and dinner that we had not brought yet....looks like goats can tell time.  No more late nights for them.  Well today I put them out in field and sure enough Fiona has to lead them under two times before she has taught me a good lesson in catching goats!  Knee's a little dirty today.....oh well.  After making a structure to block them all was well again.  Well....for today :)



HC Farms First Baby ! Its a Girl !!!



Name Unknown yet !!!



Our first farm baby has been born.  Wednesday @ 1 in the afternoon.  I had put the girls out to graze and had hoped to get them back in before it started raining but sure enough I had to get my own little ones down for nap and the rain had started !  I went out and instead of just two goats in the Field there was three.  I did freak a little and so did momma goat.  See she is the mom of the soon to momma white goat(Lainy).  And Lainy ran to the barn to get out of rain and left her mom,Fiona.  Well Fiona got upset and ran after her...so I grabbed baby with towel to get her in out of chilly weather.  Then Fiona remembers new baby and runs back to Field.  All the while I'm holding baby and chasing momma three times from barn to field.  Finally Baby makes noise in my arms and Fiona chills out and I get all three into stall.  Forgive the photo's  , my camera does not take good inside pictures.  So least to say I'm keeping whole family up today hoping that Lainy is due to kid anytime now too and we will have an easier go with stress. 
Side note :  I'm not sure if Goats are supposed to run after giving birth (I know I would not or could not) but clearly the Goat is in better shape than me !  I could hardly breath to tell Jacob there was a baby.  I think he was more worried about me !

Funny Friday : Only a 2 year old !!!

Wow it has been a busy week... I thought I would post twice a week but other than really my glances at FB when I need to check something I am never on my computer.  New schedule has me a little tired this week.  Before Goats I was pretty lazy in the a.m.  Getting up anytime Nathan woke up as long as it was no later than like 7:15.  Bare minimum to get boys going for school since we leave at 7:50.  I decided to get Nathan into his crib this week and that has gone great, he loves to sleep.  Still getting up once a night but that is fine with me till he gets bigger.  So getting up at 6 now to get ready and feed goats (and see if they had kids overnight) and then get boys going for school.  Amazing how hard it is to get out of bed but then 5 minutes of being awake im am on with my day!  Anyhow...keeping up with four boys and cleaning and getting used to Goats has been the priority this week.  This is pic of their first day on the job !!!  Honeysuckle cleanup crew.

A few days ago I told Isaac that during spring break this year I promise to get him to a Zoo.  He has been asking for awhile now.  Well this morning we were talking about Zoo's again and I said I bet there is a White Tiger at this Zoo.  Tigers were the convo this a.m. bc we ate frosted flakes and we have a Tony Tiger plush.  Anywhooo.... Izzy goes on to tell me that when we are done with the White Tiger Zoo can we  go to the Orange Tiger Zoo because he wants to see Orange Tigers !!!  Then a few minutes later he says "Mommy,you like Purple".  Yes I say and then he asks if we can go to the Purple Zoo !!!  I am going to have to break the news to him about colors...I guess I dont get him out much....ooops.

New Year...New things !

Wow...has it really been since August since my last post?  We moved September 8th !  WE LOVE THIS HOUSE !!!  God put me here oh so gently and I am loving it all!  What a blessing for my kids to get to know their Grandmother more even though she drives me crazy which all moms do I think at some point ! LOL !  She is so good to the boys (well that is what they say)  I disagree with the M&M's and potato chips all the time but hey...Some day I will do that to my grandkids im sure!
So a quick catch up on Capozella's !!!  We added Nathan Joseph Capozella on Nov. 18th.  He came into this world ready and speedy and we have loved every minute of having this sweet boy in our lives ! 
Other than Nathan all our other new things had previous owners !  Kinda like the yard sale ads you see in papers...Used items but New to you !  Joe along with Mr. Honeycutt added a 1964 Ferguson Red Tractor and now has become Joe's 2nd love !!!  Even if the tractor is not needed he has started it up and taken a ride once a week since it came in September!  Other item was my "Trash Truck".  Got a great deal on a large cab truck that actually fits all 6 of us and I use it for Trash each week!  Love my truck !
This week we added our first Farm animal!  Thank you http://www.teufelhudenfarm.com/ for our new "Girls" or rather I say "Momma's".  We bought 2 Does that have been bred from my sweet freind.  I was so excited that this fit for us right now because my friend has 3 kids and dogs and cats and the goats would be used to the action around here !  They are doing great and we are loving our new animals.  Although Jacob tells me we are not a farm yet until we have another animal that is different.  Hummm....will have to work on that. 
Okay so as far as the Post please check in on Fridays.  Im going to do my Funny Fridays and boy do I have funnies to share.  Living with these 4 children and an amazing husband brings funnies all the time and some I want to share...(others we will keep to ourselves..especially if they involve me !) LOL ! Enjoy pictures !

Its August !!! Projected Move in Month !!!!

We have a Patio now !

Joe checking out Microwave!

Boys on LARGE tractor at fair

What amazing times for the kids.  Summer Break has been filled with Capozella family time making unforgetable memories at water gun play, Beach time with Honeycutt's splashing in waves and even a West Va. road trip just  me and the kids.  We had the best time! Lots of swimming this summer and visiting friends from the Lake where we moved from, since the boys do not have too many friends here in the county yet.  School starts in two weeks and I can't believe Im a mom of a K and 1st.  Where has the time gone? Im sure we all can say that, time moves on so fast in an adults world whether your in times of trials or blessings.  I was thinking Sunday that the time moves so fast and so much energy to take care of such a young family that the chaos to it all is what keeps us all put together and headed towards our goals.  I know that with three small boys and one baby on the way chaos is all around me and has moved in for a long time!  That is good news then !!! 

The kitchen is coming together and all the small things are being placed.  Questions like where do I want the towel rack?  I wish I had a personal assistant that could just make 100 % sound choices without my imput.  Im so easy to please with this house its hard to answer those questions.  Well Chaos moves all around (J,E &I) and I keep moving forward with them , the house is going to serve an amazing purpose for this family and I can't wait to move in.  Thank you to all who read this and keep up, enjoy your week.

Moving right along !

I am so excited in seeing this House come all together.  The heat is on here in Va but the workers just keep going.  We walk through the house atleast every other day.  It can almost look the same and I still just love standing there looking at this amazing home we are about to fill up !  I can't wait to have the space and property to make our home.  Painting has been done and we are looking forward to seeing the kitchen come together in the next week!

Back of the house, going to add patio soon.

Kitchen coming together !

Boys Room ! (They wanted color :))

Love the light in our bathroom.

Here I am !!!

Wow...what a long move its been.  We moved May 21st and Internet left me that sad day.....the apartment we moved into did not have internet established and Verizon gave us a headache trying to get on their work order list and then setting it up was not easy either....not sure why.  Hubby took care of most of it..... We just got back from 8 days at the Beach.  One night in D.C. with my Grandmother that will be 91 this month and other nights at our sweet spot in life...Ocean City !!!  The kids lived in the Ocean and played in his bucket with Sand Crabs and was official cleaner of my feet !
THE HOUSE !!!!   Our beatiful home on our property is absolutly amazing and I am so excited to get into it.  Word is Mid August and then we will have closing time so I am thinking late August Move.  Oh so special.   All major worked completed on the outside and starting on the inside now with trim , paint, floors, lighting and ect.   Picking all of that has been such a tough Job.  But let me tell you.  Joe and I have been an A+ team with all this decisions !!! I am so happy over that !!!!  All right...for now here are some pictures to tell the story !!!
Jacob made a picture at our LM house for the new owner...."Thank you for beying our house" We left it !

 Joe sat in our future Bathtub !!!!

 Just before the siding was started !!!!

 Back siding with our back stoop roof on !

 All siding done with our Green.  Sometimes looks grey and somtimes green , we love it.

 Kitchen / Dinning

 All our final pait colors !!! Can you guess what the red is for?

Feels good to put these up again !!!! Check back for my favorite Fathers Day photo !!!!

Wacky Window Wednesday !!!

Windows all going in and framing steps now after Basement was poured! I hope to use the stairs by the weekend instead of Ladders...

Look who is peaking in on Mr. F ! Just making sure the job is done right !

                                     I can't wait to try first taste of my "bluebabies" I call them my babies bc last year we had so little rain and I had to go water them often and so did hubby.

It has been a long week.  So much to do and so little time. I need a plain Capozella kind of day...it will come soon.  I have 3 more nights in our home of 8 years.  Tears are starting alreday...Going to miss my friends and neighbors and park and road to play on....so many things.  But, so many things coming in return too!  Anyow as you see house is coming along so great and next week I get to see it everyday instead of my once a week trip with camera !

We meet our new neighbor at our apartment this week...we talked for a few minutes and then I said , "Well we have 3 boys so I will try to keep them quiet".  His reponse.."Don't worry, thats ain't going to happen".  I laughed so hard and Joe said ..."He is so right".  It was funny.

I thought I would add this funny to this post too ....Conversation with a 2 year old while it was just him and me on way back from town in car.

Mommy: "That pizza from Roma's was good last night"

2 yr old : "What"

Mommy: "The Pizza"

2 yr old : "Where"

Mommy: "At Roma's silly"

2 yr old: "Oh yeah"

I GIVE UP... I will stick to singing songs on the CD when in car

A slice of Life !!!

     I hope everyone had a wonderful Mothers Day.  Sharing time with your mother or being treated special because you are a Mother !  My oh my , I'm so thankful for the Mothers in my life.  Each Mother that has shaped me or shaped my parenting life as you lead examples for me. 
    So...As you see the Roof is ON !!! Today the porch was being constructed as we were there and shared some fabulous time with a dear friend and her sweet babies !  The boys love the swing and were giggling so much as I tried to retrieve them to the car so I grabbed the camera.  Beautiful day for pictures. 
     The last picture is of my Mothers Day sweet gifts.  E made me his hand print...but oops I left out the Tea Cup that came with it.  J made me a sweet Lady Bug Pot and sweet friends baby boy mentioned above picked me flowers.  And, in the mix is the newest Capozella's.....6 Caterpillars that are growing strong each day and should be constructing their chrysalis any day now.
      So not sure why but 2 times this week I have witnessed a car in front of me on the road wreck into the ditch...must be my glowing beauty shinning in their rearview mirror ! HaHaHa !  Enjoy !!!!

Take a look Tuesday !

Wow...today tears shed as I see the changes in this house.  Just like our famlily.  We started so small just Joe and me kind of like the Hole.  "J" came along and we poured the foundation for parenthood like the basement to support a house.  "E" was born and we gained more experience like the 1st floor.  "I" was born and life gets a little more faster like the 2nd floor going up  because of the beautiful weather.  "Baby 4" will be born in November like the roof finishing the home just right and ready to mature into amazing things !!!!  Thank God for this journey :)

Goosebumps !

When I saw the framing done from the road I literaly got goosebumps and even the children said, "oh my gosh", Little I ran with this too and kept saying "Gosh, gosh gosh gosh". We drove up and got out and went right in.  The children are looking out their front kitchen open dinning room window.  I love this picture!  I am trying to get out and get one picture each week of the progress about the same time and then at the end of this do a time elapse video. 
We visited the apartment this past weekend and it was J's first time inside and my little man must have been very worried because he came to me and asked..."Is this an Amish apartment?" Mommy replied..."NO", he said, "But there is no TV Mom".  Poor thing was worried he was not going to have it.  He is too funny about this stuff.  Okay..watching American Idol and just plug in like 20 Huggies reward numbers, I'm done for the night !  Till next week stay safe in the storms.

Take a Look Tuesday !

Foundation Complete ! Wow...in one week we went from showing you a Hole in the ground to now ! Yeah !!!  The well has been completed too and plenty of water !  Next week more to come.  Look at those windows in the basment, Im so excited that its going to be so well lite and usable space ! The kids dream of their basement everyday....E plans on driving his scooter in there all the time....(we will see).  This weekend will start our first moving of outside items to the property and then start moving into our little apartment.  1 Month from today we plan to completly move....I have ALOT to do ! So nice to take apartment early though and move slow.  The distance is about 35 minutes from selling house to property and apartment so should not be to hard.  Thanks everyone for following !

Friday Favorites / Friday Funny

Wow, what a week !  First picture is my favorite thing we did this week as a family.  Bought J, E & I a Butterfly Net and sent them on their way in our front Hay Field (Giant Front Yard).  Butterflies and Grasshoppers were everywhere.  Next picture is the basement walls poured and supported with the Forms.  Those come off today and the Well  is being dug as I write !  Boys faces were worth so much when they were on the property and watching all of this going on.  I hope they remember this ! Enjoy your weekend !
Friday Funny : Isaac tried putting dirty sippy cups in the washing machine this a.m.  Silly boy, atleast he was thinking !!!!

The Best HOLE !!!!

We are so pleased to be now the proud owners on a hole in the ground !!! LOL ....I had to take a picture of the "Potty".  E thought that was the funniest thing ever.  Rain Rain Rain go away we want a Dry Day ! 

1 Bathroom..can we do it?

Well since my last post my sweet "God Given" Momma has found my family an apartment so very close to our property.  Its tight and a bit shocking to be going into a apartment and so close to other people after living in a home and large yard for so long.  But, God is directing us into the best sitution with saving money and being close to our land.  The hubby has one problem though...THE BATHROOM.  ONLY ONE !  Its okay...here is what is going to happen.  He will be on the toilet and one child will need to go...option squat on smallest Capozella's training toilet or jump into car and head to Grandma's or Nana's.  Im not kidding this is going to happen.  Just the other day all 3 Capozella's (3 young one's) had to all #2 at the very same time.  Thank Gosh for the training toilet for smallest !  It will be the most active year of our lives but with my head up Im looking ONWARD and UPWARD !
In the same week of finding apartment we signed all construction paperwork needed and hope to hear of digging later this week or early part of the next.  Then I will keep blog updated each week with building.  My hope is to take one picture each week on same day and do a time elapse video at some point.  Also looks like everything with our currant home is underway for sale ! 
The boys are so excited, Smallest Capozella has taken on his new role as one of the Bo-Bo's (spanish for Monkey's) that is what the big boys call themselves.  Smallest Capozella is sleeping in  toddler bed in big boys room ! 
Next time I post hope its with a new picture !

HC FARMS

Well...we are in the midst of gaining permits and etc. etc. etc. to get the tractors on the land to start construction ! I just can't wait to get this house moving along !  We have a contract on our house and will be moving in about 2 months from now to a rental house while the house is being built.  What rental house...I have no clue...This is a struggle with 3 kids and 2 cats and 1 dog.  Not too many people want to rent to us.....But it will happen somehow.  So much excitment and work ahead and worry bit about the three boys but I know as long as we are all together and God filling our hearts on this journey we will survive ! 
On a side note..the land we own is 2.6 acres on 7 acres of Honeycutt land where my parents live and J our 6 yr. old says two houses make the name HC Farms ...so we will go with that !

Enjoy the spring weather coming our way !

Why HC ?

So...I thought I would explain why HC.  A few months ago Joe,the kids and I were adventuring through the barn and small hay shed.  Inside the small hay shed that I had not entered in 2 yrs bc the last time a swarm of bee's chased Jacob and I found the old "tack box" for the steers we had in the Loudon 4H fair.  Even cooler was inside was the old calf milking bottles that I remember being shoved around for by calves ! Well anyhow as I stood there with a flash of memories from childhood I though of how my Grandfather started this HC thing for the  Honeycutt's name. As you see in the picture he used Half of the H and added the C.  We may use two letters this time.  Later my father used it for their farm in NOVA and continued it here at the farm with Horses.  All within those memory flashes I realized that I am still a H and C.  I married a Capozella.  So.. I am still a Honeycutt and Capozella !!! I have an amazing husband that understood that thought and agreed to continue the name.  3 Generations later Im re-starting this ( well , I don't know about the Angus thing, but atleast the farm ) and SO VERY excited ! 

Im sure this "Tack Box" will get a new redo !!!!

What we are doing...

         In Summer 2009 my Father took me on a trip to the beach.  I thought I was out of my mind because I took him and my three small boys......Isaac only being 4 weeks.  Well anyhow I did it and so glad I did.  The boys loved their Granddaddy time and We also got to discuss Joe and I taking over 2.6 acres of the Honeycutt's 7 acres !!!  When I called Joe I remember him laughing and wondering what in the world I was talking about.  Until that day this idea was never even a thought.  We had a 5 yr plan here at our home but were past that but really had no direction since the market is so bad and we do love our neighbors and friends here.  But...I came home and as the days kept on we started rolling with the idea.  Here we are almost 2 yrs. later trying to make this work but we are closer today then we were yesterday.  That is what I tell the children on trips when they say..."are we there yet".  Mommy says..."closer than we were a minute ago".  They have not figured out yet that is really of no help to their question ! LOL ! Anyhow it looks like signing the new house construction contract is right around the corner.  We have taken that slow since our house is for sale where we live now.  The Market has picked up so much.....3 days straight of house showings.  I know and God knows this plan will all work out. 

Im just getting started (for the 2nd time)

Okay...Im going to try my hand at this blogging thing again ! I have changed the look and we are excited to share our adventure of building a home we designed with you. Almost 2 yrs ago the idea came about to own 2.6 of my parents 7 acres and build a home in Louisa County. After time and thoughts and now many many many papers and contracts later we are almost there ! I will talk more about all this planning stage later. For now just want to say hi and that Im getting back into this. I want to be able to reach out to our family and friends that are interested in seeing what we are doing. Welcome Back.