Thanks for all your wonderful comments about our yard. We thought we would try to answer some of your questions.
We saw lots of questions about the chickens. They are contained in their house so they don't bother us (other than the smell.) We don't get feathers to play with though or get to visit the chickens. The chicken houses use to belong to our family but we sold them off because they are lots of work.
Eric asked about Evil Intruder Kitties - there are some places to hide but BG (the woofie) keeps them out of the yard. Yes, there are some mices out there to chase.
To answer the question about size... we do have a large yard. Our house sits on a five acre plot of land so we have lots of land. We are able to have that much land because we live in country and used to have farm.
We hope we were able to answer your questions. We will try to post more pictures for all our friends who have all the snow since it is still nice outside today.