Tragedy In The Coop

Some of you may have already heard regarding the invasion in our chicken coop what we think might be the “weasel” on Saturday morning. The picture is pretty gruesome so I’m sorry for posting such a picture, but you have to see the picture to believe it. Half of the chicken’s body is gone, eaten by another animal. We think it’s the weasel, because that is the only animal that could go into the small opening in between the coop and the chicken run. According to the explanation about the “Long-tailed Weasel”, “FEEDING HABITS: . . . the size of the prey does not seem to matter. The weasel has been known to attack full-grown rabbits and will occasionally enter a chicken coop and kill poultry. When prey is plentiful, the long-tailed weasel will store its surplus food. . .”

It was a sad Saturday morning to wake up to something like that. It was Goldie, which is Abigail’s Chicken!

Blessed Sacrament Parish . . . Here We Come!

The excerpt above is taken from Our Lady of Sorrows parish bulletin today and we are so excited and happy for Fr. Booth. As Father Muller mentioned about his homily, it is very good and it hits the spot every time! You can read some of his past homily by clicking here.

We are looking forward to ‘hopefully’ a weekly Traditional Latin Mass at Blessed Sacrament Parish.

Congratulations Father Booth, we are looking forward to joining  you at Blessed Sacrament. We will continue to pray for you and your new assignment.

Wordless Wednesday

One rose for our Lady . . .

Mother’s Day At The Botanical Garden

Visiting the Botanical Garden on Mother’s Day is becoming to be an annual tradition for us, and this year the weather was perfect for us. Not too hot, and cool enough but not too cold. We started the day by going to Mass at Sister Servants in Irondale, and picnic lunch at the botanical garden followed by a walk through the rose garden and the rose show.

Although Coby didn’t get to relax with her book on Mother’s day, it was a very enjoyable day looking at the beautiful roses and just being together as a whole family.

Mother’s day hug from Christiana

Happy Mother’s Day

To my dear wife, to my Mama, to my mother-in-law, to all the mothers and most of all to our heavenly mother, our Blessed Virgin Mary, happy mother’s day!

Words cannot describe how grateful we are with your existence. We love you and happy mother’s day!

This year mother’s day flower arrangements comes from our own flower garden.

Wordless Wednesday

Christiana at 15 months @ the Aldridge Gardens

Jesus Christ, Our King, Is Risen!

“Exsúltet iam angélica turba cælórum: exsúltent divína mystéria: et pro tanti Regis victória tuba ínsonet salutáris” (Rejoice, heavenly powers! Sing, choirs of angels! Exult, all creation around God's throne! Jesus Christ, our King, is risen! Sound the trumpet of salvation!)

Have a Blessed Easter to all of you,our families,our friends, our colleagues! May the joy of Our Risen Lord brings peace and love to all of us.

. . . “Christians  do not “conquer” through the sword, but through the Cross”. - Pope Benedict XVI Image Source: Una Voce

First Cache Location

My first hidden cache located at N 33°12'49.0212" W 87°17'34.0188". You can enter this coordinates in your GPS and find the hidden cache.

New to the hobby of geocaching? Well, I am very new at it! On this first hide, I didn’t put much thought to it and hid it rather quickly and I hope the coordinates is accurate as I want it to be. I think hiding the cache is more difficult than finding it, because you have to make sure that you are not too close to the next cache that a cacher hid (the rule is you have to be at least 528 feet apart). In our area there are a lot of cache everywhere, you can do a quick errand to a grocery store and on the way back you can try to find a cache or two.

Gabriela and I went out on Saturday for quick errands and we found 4 geocaches on the way there and back. Although what we found were small or micro cache which usually doesn’t take that much space to hide. Could be really hard to find or could be really easy, it all depends! But regardless of the sizes, we enjoy hunting for the cache!A micro cache is hanging on the fence the size of a chap stick.

Missed The Wordless Wednesday . . .

. . . but TGIF!

Visitors From Canada

Coby’s brother and his family came down to visit us this week for spring break and we just had a blast. They have 8 children, so as you can imagine, meals are always fun. The preparations, the conversations, the clean up . . . no chaos . . . well behave, and everyone knows what to do. Sixteen people around the table for breakfast, lunch and dinner almost everyday, we just love it!

To the Vandenbergs, thank you for the great visit and God’s willing we hope to see you this summer.

Geocaching Anyone?

We got introduced to Geocaching this weekend by Coby’s family and I’m thinking . . . how come I didn’t know about this before. It involves GPS, outdoors, and internet . . . it is a high-tech treasure hunting and a lot of fun. It’s very inexpensive activity for the family . . . well other than purchasing the GPS (or an iPhone in my case), the rest are pretty cheap. Geocaching activity will get your family outdoors, and some nice weather is coming our way.

We went out several times this weekend to look for some caches (containers that have been hidden by fellow geocachers) and found them all and we log them on the website so the owners of the caches that we found will be able to see the messages that we log. You can read a simple explanation about Geocaching by clicking here.

For those of you who are familiar or a Geocacher, you can add us as a friend: 4SoeCache.

I will update this post once we have a cache of our own to hide.

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Sick, Sick, Sick . . .

That's all we have around our house this week, we all got the stomach bug. A very powerful stomach bug that travels very fast from person to person. First it started with Coby’s Father, he got it after he got back from the cruise. Two days later, Rebecca got it, and Christiana, Coby and I got it around the same time. Is not finish yet! We have couple more girls, but hopefully they are immune to this bug.

I don’t wish this on anyone, because it is very painful and nasty. Please pray for us!

Rebecca’s Birthday Party

We had such a good time with friends and family celebrating Rebecca’s 6th birthday. Thank you to everyone, family, and friends for coming to the party and spending the afternoon with us, we had such a blast and we are still talking about it.

Enjoy looking at the photos and you can check out more photos in the photo gallery by clicking here.

Another Project

Please forgive my absence from blogging, I’ve been a little preoccupied with some wood working projects. This time I made a birdcage for the bookshelf and I have to say, it came out really nice and the Society finches and Zebra finches are very happy with their new home.

This is might be a start of a new idea which will be announced soon.

UPDATE: I added a little ambiance to the birdcage.

Happy Birthday Rebecca!

Our little girl is 6 years old today . . . wow, it seemed like it was yesterday when she was born. Six years later she still makes us laugh and melt especially her daddy’s heart.

@ 9 months

@ 1 year old

@ 6 year old

Happy birthday Rebecca, we love you!

The Day After

It all started when the groundhog, Phil saw his shadow couple of weeks ago and predicted that winter will be six more weeks . . . Just like the rest of 50 other States, Alabama also got some snow yesterday which pretty much paralyzed the whole state.

I saw a headline, “it took 30 inches of snow to paralyzed the Nation’s Capitol, it only took 1 inch in Alabama”

Nevertheless, it’s beautiful, like in New England!

Fun Friday: Crazy Cube Illusion!

I saw this at Patrick Madrid’s blog and I thought I’d share it with you. Pretty awesome illusion! Enjoy!

Wordless Wednesday

When you see this, need I say more . . . just a big smile!

Finally, An Egg From Goldie!

We finally got an egg from Goldie today, she was the last one that has not laid any eggs yet since we got the chickens back in October.

Goldie is the chicken that Abigail picked out, so you can imagine how happy she was when she found that that her chicken had laid an egg today. “Daddy, can you take a picture of me and my egg?”, asked Abigail while holding the egg.

Although we are supposed to be getting 4 eggs now, but we’ve only gotten three eggs a day so far.

Fun Friday: Hitler Finds Out Scott Brown Won Massachusetts Senate Seat

This is a parody from the movie Downfall which I have not seen yet, which is supposed to be a good war movie. (if you get a red box in the middle, ignore & do not click it will disappear in 30 seconds)

Video Source: vodpod.com