Our beloved ducks

Well, this is more of a tribute to our ducks which we have had for over a year. We woke up Sunday morning, June 26th and after some family worship time (we have had an extremely busy week with Mia at Bible camp and then our conference and then another week ahead of the boys turn at camp we just needed to stay at home and be quiet as a family), a good late breakfast and a lazy morning, Dave went down to care for the ducks and chickens and let them out to roam. He came back up pretty quickly and asked for everyone to come out on the deck. He told us that something got the ducks in the middle of the night. Only later did we find out that something got 5 of our 15 chickens also. At first we thought it was the rats whom we have been fighting with, but after Dave and Ethan examining further, (Ev was down there at first but he couldn't handle it when they were discarding the bodies, poor guy. He was just looking at them crying. The girls and I were up at the house the whole time) we think that it was a raccoon. All the kids cried over them. And even now when we start talking about them, one of them might say, "stop talking please or I'm going to cry." So here are just some fun memories we have had with them.