Here's The (S)coop!

I'm telling this story backwards because I wanted this picture to be last, but oh well, you will just have to try and follow. This is the amazing chicken coop that Richard and Matt built for us. They still plan on adding nesting boxes, but we think it is wonderful. Shame on any of you skeptics that said we should buy a coop and that they would never have the time to build us one.

Our neighbors went out of town this past weekend and asked us to babysit their cute little baby chick, Lucky Nellie! Paige and Kaylee had so much fun with her. They even considered trying to dress her up in some troll doll clothes that were in the toy box.

This is a close-up of Nellie. She sure did love to follow the kids around all day and she made a lot of noise when they put her in the laundry room to sleep each night and she couldn't be with them.

We have already spent the good part of the summer looking at this catalog and trying to decide which breed of chicks we want. Now we understand what Prophet Monson and Prophet Hinckley were talking about when they talked about getting so excited over catalogs at Christmastime when they were young.