There are about 5 posts today!  Reid is napping; Jason is planting his vegetables; Grant is reading; Kyle is playing legos!  I am blogging!

See what I mean about his camera smile?!?!  Jason sent me these after he woke up from his nap when I was up at school working.  I guess his hair was really crazy, which was the main reason he was taking the pictures, but the grin is just nearly too much....

Most of our projects around our house are things that Jason and I have (or will) do with our own hands.  However, we are beginners learning about a Koi pond and we hired the professionals to come clean it out for us this week.  

What a difference it has made - we can actually see the fish!!!

Here is a picture as they were nearing the end of draining the pond.  Ponds are suggested to get cleaned every 1-2 years, and at most, 3 years.  They thought it had been about 7 years based on the junk at the bottom.  There was nearly a foot of dirty muck - fish poop, leaves that had sunk, old food, whatever.  ICK!  You can see the muck at the bottom.

We discovered the pond is 4 feet deep, and double the size of the average Koi pond (still trying to decide if that is a good or bad thing!).  It took about 11 hours with one water hose to fill back up!

ta da!  Here are a few of our fish friends.  We ended up with 43 goldfish and 16 koi fish.  Three of those Koi are pregnant and will lay eggs in May!  Of all the eggs that are laid, he predicts at most 12 fish will actually survive.  The brighter yellow one in the picture is our MVF (Most Valuable Fish) and is pregnant.  Her name is Sunshine!  We have had fun sitting and watching them the last few days.