FULL HOMESTEAD UPDATE 

Callie and Kinsley helping with the chicks is so sweet. They are so gentle with them aren’t they? And it’s lovely seeing everything coming together. Enjoy your day 💕

All the chores! :) I love when you just bring us along on your day :) I also appreciate your videos about ivf and love watching them, It really doesn’t matter I’ll watch anything you post haha :) hope your doing ok ♥️

Watching your kids grow warms my heart so much. I'm at the point where I probably won't have kids because the universe apparently has other plans besides my dreams but finding your channel, watching such a beautiful couple raise such a wonderful family gives me comfort that dreams do come true.

That is so sweet that momma doggy has adopted the kitty. It's like they took a note from your own story and they know how beautiful adoption is. ❤️❤️❤️

Please bring us along for all your family life - this is one of the reasons I started watching you guys you are so open and honest about your life, what you are going through. Don’t change for anyone, you guys rock the way you are 😊

Farm people know the joys of raising "farm babies" inside. We have bottle fed goats, pigs, and a cow or 2 inside. Also raised chickens, ducks and geese inside because their mothers left them alone after they hatched so we brought them inside because it was still to cold for them to stay outside alone.

I adore your videos - so wholesome and informative. I must say though, my anxiety went through the roof when i saw Cassidy playing near an open tub with water in. Genuine nerves. Love what you're doing with your home though 😊

I love how the farm is taking shape and is so different to how it was when you moved in. Please keep a close eye on little ones around any body of water. Here in Australia we hear too often about kids drowning in all different sized bodies of water, it makes you more vigilant

Alex it is your house and no one has a right to judge another. I don’t mind you having chicks in the house, I know that once the chicks go out to the coop you will clean the house to very clean condition. You have been a nurse and know what to do. I love watching you and the family, give everyone a squeeze from me and have Philip give you a squeeze from me. Take care of yourselves, Phil feel better soon.

That’s so sweet how brownie is being mothered by Chloe!

Alex, you filled my heart when you loved on the Momma’s who were being empathetic to their daughter’s who couldn’t talk about their feelings. We have something a bit different. My 17 year old grandson, the most sensitive, caring, loving soul has slipped into severe mental health issues in the last two years. My poor daughter is managing so much as she also mothers her 14 year old daughter too. She is so strong but can only be open when she can which is not often. I keep loving on her and hoping that she can make it through this without too much more heartache. Sending love to you, you strong mama.

I enjoy your content and videos so much and would love to see whatever is going on in your life whether it's infertility or farm/homesteading. I'm just so thankful you choose to share your life with us. I'm here to support your channel and your family and I'm here to cheer for you in wherever your life takes you.

I love to see the farm chores as well as everything else. I have learned so much from you, this year I actually started all my garden plants from seed thanks to you! ❤️❤️

I love watching the whole process. Chores, mess, fun times and sad. Real life is reassuring and motivating 😊

I am a smallhold farmer in UK. My family has been farming for 5 generations- at least. Love seeing you fall in love with this way of life. God bless, more farm vids please xxxxx

I love how you include us in the "Farm Chores".

I love to see your farmlife! Always so interesting to see what you guys are up to.

I want to see ALLLLLL the projects! 😍

Love how you just keep on going no matter what. I'm a Mum who is going through infinity via my son and daughter in law. I want to know and understand how they are feeling, but I just want to say, we as Grandparents to the lost embryos feel a loss in a way also. It hurts seeing my son and daughter inlaw everytime it fails. It seriously breaks my heart. Every loss is also a lost grandchild. I wish I had a magic wand. Watching your channel does give me hope. Seeing Cassidy and knowing that could happen to us. So thankyou for the mention of mums of the infinity couple. Looking forward to the piglet blog 😀

Nothing like you experienced, I am going through the change. Even though I don’t want any more children, I feel like it’s been taken away from me, that’s made me sad. ❤️🇬🇧

I love how your so into doing things in the yard that are Eco Friendly and I’m sure it helps you get your mind off the Infertility. The kids are learning a lot too!

I love to see all the projects coming to fruition. It’s been so interesting seeing all the changes you’ve made since moving in!

Another failed month with fertility meds going on 6 years of trying in total and now we are about to get our 3rd cat. It may not be the baby I want but it is something that needs me and something to put my motherly love into while we wait for our little one to join us

I would love to watch anything you will share. I have been around since your California days. Your life is so different now. Before the RV. Before this house. Before a baby success. I love your view on life. Feel better Phil!

So excited for the new vlog!!! I hope Phil feels better my daughter had the stomach bug & it really drained her!!💕💕💕

How FUN... I AM SO MUCH Enjoying watching your Family grow since Kinsley into all your Fur babies... Absolutely LOVE You all Alex, Phil, Kinsley, Calle, Cassidy & Critters... GBY ALL 🙏❤️💙💖💖💖🐕🐷🐷✝️🤗

I love watching your channel. Homesteading and the love of family you share makes my day 💕🐣.

I just adore your whole family. Any content you make I will watch and enjoy, but it is infertility content that led me to finding you. I have my miracle IVF baby boy (who also has a CHD) and I’m wanting to try again so our family’s in a similar stage as you all. Feels like you are our friends walking alongside us 🥰

i absolutely love and enjoy these types of vlogs!! love seeing the farm grow

You need to really be pro-active about predators and chickens. It needs to be a priority because the chickens depend on us humans for protection. Its a serious thing. Best if luck in the future with your chickens!

Hey girlfriend! I'm here for it all! hugs.💚

I love your homestead content. All the farm projects please!

I always had cats and dogs together as a kid.🥰 I just love the bond.

Love all the farm chores!!

You guys are living my absolute dream. Hubby and I have a 5 year goal to be settling on our own land, homesteading and being as self sufficient as possible. Been following you for years & I absolutely love where the road has taken you. I look forward to learning more from you & watching your farm & family grow 💜

Pregnancy loss are difficult no matter the cause or how old the baby is. Prayer, leaning on your lord, supportive friends and family. Grieving the loss is individual and a process. I am grateful that you share your experiences and thoughts with the followers of your blog

so motivational. thank you! we have a good plot of land and I'm so excited to get our homestead going good! I love seeing the videos of progress and would love more of all things homestead

Do you think Alex could be sick. From the chickens being in the kitchen where you cook your food and eat. They can cause diseases. That cause stomach issues and also can cause breathing issues also. So please be careful because of your baby having heart problems and your other children also. And your self also. ❤️

The variety of the things that you are sharing, I love to see. You are very open with all you are going through...I wish I would have had someone like you during my infertility days in 1977--1980. I was blessed with a beautiful baby girl June 1, 1980. She'll be 42 this birthday. I can hardly believe it. She has blessed me with 3 granddaughters 12, 5, 3 right now. They are definitely precious. Your beautiful girls are precious also..I love seeing them do things. It's amazing how big they are getting.

I love everything and anything you guys post.

I think you live wonderfully. And chick's in your home is beautiful!! Love you guys.

I love watching y'all do farm chores. I have learned so much about homesteading from you and Phil. I enjoy that content so much

I love watching your journey.

Please don't sugar coat. You All are so Amazing. Pain and Loss Does Matter.

I enjoy both content. Homesteading stuff mixed in with your infertility issues. Just your every day life stuff is great

Yes I love the homestead videos. We have egg chickens. We raise meat chickens. We’ve raised turkeys too. We also process our own meat & a have a large garden. Finally we have 4 dawgs that we love sooooo much. Oh we have 3 kids & 2 24 wk angels.

I love seeing your farm and family journey!

Love you & your dear family! Love to see farm chores, projects & anything you want to share!

I love the farm chores!! Love watching what you a currently doing and each chapter.

I am also documenting my journey, my videos are not in no way as good as yours but when I finally get my second child I want them to look at those videos and know how hard i worked for them and how much they were loved. You and Phil inspired me.

Your girls are going to be so down to earth (pardon the pun) living and growing up on y'alls homestead! I'm 62 and I want to be y'all when I grow up! Have a great rest of the week!

I don't know how to heal from loosing my son last November. I am mad at everyone! And it's a homicide investigation on top of that. Love you guys ❤️🙏

Love hearing all the chicks...what a fun household

also, if you are using dirt you are bringing in which has been created by compost, that wont have weeds in it. Its clean. The weed seeds have to come from somewhere.

According to Alexa, “Golden eagles and bald eagles reside in Tennessee in large numbers.” Please don’t let your cat outside unless you were out there with her.

I love the chores it reminds me of when I was a kid and would go to my grandparents farm and stay

Phil: Please feel free to go rest during the day to add to your evening rest. You need it when you are not feeling well. If you work for two hours, then go take a break. Don’t set a clock or timer. Have the girls play outside with Alex. Oh, I wrote this and then you were laying on the ground. That is the sign that you need your bed for comfort. Take it easy please. You are needed. Enjoy your vlogs! Did you put that chicken coop on wheels?

YES! please share farm chores! i love the homsteading content. i think its heartwarming and so important for people to see. we should all be becoming more self sufficient.

I'm a city girl, but leave had some gardens which I love produce my own food. I love watching your family move in the direction you have gone. Keep up the good work. Do your thing then share with us. Live in the moment. God bless you all.

I watch your channel looking for a bit of solace. I feel like I am an incomplete broken human being. I underwent surgery at 36 to have a full hysterectomy becauseI had a uterus so full of endometriosis inside and adenomyosis (form of endometriosis)on the outside of it that it looked like I had carried 10 babies full term even though I had never been pregnant at all. I have heard so many woman say that is not natural to not have babies and if you don't have any biological natural birth babies or if you do not have a uterus you are not a woman. So that only made my intrusive thoughts about not being a woman sense I had a full hysterectomy to help ease my physical pain. So I have done everything I can to try to be sure MY daughter that we adopted and I was even blessed to watch her be born. I held mammas hand during her pain and showered her with love, praise, strength, and thanks for blessing me to be able to become a mommy to a newborn. I was already a mom to a beautiful daughter that was married(in Costa Rica 9 days before my second one came into the world and I was praying she would just wait for me tp get home to be born and she did). Mamma (Who chooses to go by name instead of mamma because she doesn't want to take away from me for all I do to raise OUR beautiful daughter with my amazing hubby who is still daddy even at age 18 and getting ready tp graduate high school...wow she is getting ready to leave the nest). I have noticed that the more my depression is worse because of the emotions of her going to college (Sad....excited...anxiops) it is triggering my feelings I burried 14 years ago and it is so so bad now. I am hating myself being mean to myself, being angry. Hating I never had a biological child because society makes you feel like you need to do so at all cost. I couldn't afford to go through all the fertility help. I spent what I could afford and when they told me I had 1 working ovary and it was on the side that the fallopian tube was blocked and even with ivf I most likely would never become pregnant I gave up. lol I gave up on getting pregnant, gave up on me...i just gave up. Then I was needed as a legal guardian for my niece and I jumped to the opportunity. Eventually I became mom. That helped me heal ..or so I thought. Now I know I am a broken human. sorry this is so long. If it bothers to many people I will delete it.

I understand the infertility issues. I had them and was not able to have children then found out I had cancer forming so had to have everything taken out. Watching your channel helps. Thank you

Trees grow down before they grow up...so hopefully, they are building a nice base out of sight.

We live on a little farm so I really enjoy that. But love all of your content. ❤️ edited to add - make sure no predators can undo the lock on the cage. Unfortunately we lost chickens that way and we made wood latches alongside the latch. It’s a piece of wood with two screws underneath so we can raise and lower it but predators can’t. So far it’s done pretty well.

My Daughter went through infertility. Eventually doing ivf. She was in a terrible state of mind before hand and after the first round failed. Eventually 2nd round - i was with her holding her hand. She got pregnant with my 1st grandchild. Harry who is now 2yrs 7 months old. Then lo and behold when Harry was only 9 months old she announced she was pregnant, naturally. And 7 months later a second grandchild Jacob. What a very pleasant shock. There is hope. My Daughter (37 yrs old now) is a Mum to a 2.1/2 yr old and a 14 month old. Blessed eventually. 💙💙

We’re praying for you all every day so appreciate you and what you are going through. We just hoped it would be successful. God knows every thing. We love you all very much from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I have the same coop. Your new coop should be secured to steel stakes. If not, the first strong wind will topple it. Also, you will want to shut up the ramp at night. I had a weasel dig under the pen, go up the ramp, and carry off two of my little chicks.

I live 7 floors up and don't have a garden, however I have an outdoor concrete balcony and I am growing vegetables in pots. It's feels so rewarding watching them grow up especially through hard times that I have been feeling.

I pour into my crochet and cat. In the future it will hopefully be animals.

I say this all the time, but I love your vlogs!!!

Goals! Lol. Wish I had the land to start developing so I could do all that. Have my own little farm. It's good you have all of that to help keep your mind occupied. My babies (2 dogs and a cat) and all my plants are my babies in a way too, those are the things I care for at home. It helps me keep my mind off not having children or a spouse. I'm so thankful and grateful I have my babies. Your property has come a long way, looks great and I can also see your vision when you mention what's going to be. The girls are gettin so big, they're so beautiful. Phil is such a great man, pushing through like he does when he doesn't feel well. You guys are a great couple, balancing each other out, teamwork and helping each other is definitely necessary.

Chicks in the KITCHEN?! That's a major health risk for your family and could possibly be why Phillip got sick. They can carry salmonella and campylobacter. From the DoH: • Do not eat or drink in the area where the birds live. • Do not let your live birds inside the house, especially into areas where food or drink is prepared, served, stored, or where young children have access.

Ya'll may already know this but don't spray neem when its sunny out. It can cause burns to the plants.

I love hearing all about farm things. Planting, chickens, cats, cows, everything or anything I enjoy your blogs they are far from boarding. (In a amazing way) I enjoy everything you share it makes me sad when you are going through sad things. I pray for you everyday that god will help you have another baby. Keep up the great work. You five Rock!!!🤗😘💙💕💕💕💕🤗🤗🤗🤗

That is the cutest thing! Brownie would be doing that for comfort and its actually a really good sign out kitten use to do the same with our mumma dog years ago when we got her and it worried me but the vet was like its a comfort thing and is totally fine just let them bond

Love hearing about your chores, homesteading, and farming. I truly appreciate you sharing ALL aspects of your life, good, bad, ugly, and beautiful! God bless your amazing family! 🙏🙏🙏

If you have never head of Korean Natural Farming, I would look into it! It seems like something you both would be very into! I just started learning and my mind is blown. You can make all of your garden inputs with things found on your farm for very inexpensive and everything is all organic.

If you would like to prevent the teenage chicks from getting out of their “house” you could place a piece of hardware cloth or screen on top. Secure the screening with a couple bricks on the corners. It’s worked for us…good luck!

I was brought up on a farm 50 years ago always had chicks inside and motherless lambs heated up in aga warm oven then bottle fed by us kids oh it’s the best life xx

Pig manuea is awesome for fertiliser for orchards and stuff. I have trouble growing things then I got piggy poo and it was a game changer. Praying for you all on your fertility journey xx

I love watching your homestead grow... You motivate me to grow more of my own.

You can get special screws to anchor trampoline into ground. Or use bike lock chain to deck or a fence.

Yes please, would love to be educated as I’m trying to live the off grid life so anything I can learn would be lovely 🙏💜

chocolate tweets…that is the cutest thing ever 🥺

I feel like the girls get a year older with every video! They’re growing so fast!!!

I personally am not interested in farm chores or excessive farm talk like this. Just being honest! I love heart-to-hearts and hearing your thoughts on infertility, family, marriage, faith etc :)

I love all your content .so please video everything!

Also watching kids helping with chores at the level they can . It makes me smile.

I’m so glad you are all feeling better.

I love love love love the farm stuff , garden stuff, and stuff with the kids ❣️. I am homesteading as well so I'm all into any tips you have

Yes please regurgitate all the info you guys learn. It’s also interesting

Love the chores!!

We have a German Shepherd who is "best buds" with our cat. They are one month apart in age and grew up together. As long as one of them is a baby, they can adjust to each other easily.

Truthfully I’ve raised hundreds of chickens and I have to say. I have never had chicks in my house much less in my chicken. Lol but what ever floats your boat lol

Yes, all of the information we're getting chickens and starting a garden.

Been a fan for many years. Love your family. 💓 In from Kentucky and grew up on a farm. I'm now in Florida and I miss it badly. You're in the best part if the country raising your girls. Your new baby will come in God's perfect timing. No worries. God has got you. Look how he's blessed your family already. 💓💓💓💓 I wish you could adopt again. So many kids needing great parents. Much love sent. I have no family. I could only dream to have one like yours. 💓💓💓💓

Thanks for sharing your chores as well etc. I enjoy taking part in it with U & I'm sure most of us do.

I love these vlogs. So informative.

Would love to join you on your new projects ♥️♥️ such a wonderful family ♥️♥️ xxxxxxxx

We always kept our little chicks inside under their heat lamp

I have a friend out there in Tennessee who has I believe two Great Pyrenees puppies she’s adopting out. They are livestock guardian dogs.