An exciting day, one of our nine chicken eggs in incubation hatched!! I about missed it. When I checked on the eggs this morning I had began to feel as though none of them would hatch...EVER. Then, at about 2:00, I noticed a small hole in one of the eggs. I started to panic, even though I had been waiting for this for 21 days, then, something popped out of the hole!! I was completely unprepared for this. Soon, the egg was wiggling and the hole began to get bigger and bigger. We could hearing chirping from inside the egg. You could imagine the excitement, Zachary, James, Hazel, 6 neighbor kids and myself screaming, oohing and ahhing. I was calling everyone I knew, trying to film and take photos. My egg hatching coach Craig had warned me that this process could take a long time, but it was coming fast! Soon, the little guy busted open his shell. Then he layed there and made us all nervous. Soon he was up kind of crazy like trying to get a piece of the egg shell that was stuck on his head off. (just like the cartoons) Now he is resting, chirping and learning to control his limbs. We are hoping that more eggs will hatch, but it sure was exciting to just get one!!

PECKING AWAY!!

Today is so exciting. We have been waiting 21 days for our little chicken eggs to hatch. Today we got the first signs off a little chick pecking its way out!! We'll keep you posted at the little guys progress!

I really don't know what I am doing...but here it goes.



This is the official beginning of the Alder Adventures blog.



The Alder Family was established in June of 1999 and it has been an incredible adventure ever since then. As we come to our 8 year anniversary, we often look back and think how fast it has gone. Now, 3 beautiful children and a minivan later, we wonder what we did with all of our time and money back then!! Our children now define us as a family and we are so proud to call them our own. Zachary is almost six years old and is the social butterfly of the family and has paved the way for our timid 4 year old, James. Those two are hooked at the hip. I have found them before 8 am cruising to the neighbors house on their skateboards, or recruiting the entire street of kids to play with their shirts off to "be cool." Yes...even the girls. Hazel is the baby at the end and good thing she is adorable or you might think she'd be left out. But, it is quite the opposite you see. This girl loves her brothers and will smile for them all day, but you can almost sense the relief when they go off to school or a friends house.