Bring it March!!!

So February can just be done...why you might ask?

-Craig managed to walk out the front door to take the kids to school, not realizing our porch was covered in ice and managed to crack open his head...resulting in six staples!

-Luke went to hang out with my parents for a few days and managed to accidentally break my Mom's nose...resulting in a very painful two weeks waiting for surgery and an even more painful recovery from that surgery!

-Craig went out of town for a week, leaving me home with the three boys (need I say more?!?!)

-We are currently trying to figure out how to juggle our weekday schedule between the following...basketball practice (Brian & Matt), soccer practice (Luke), baseball practice (Matt), football practice (Brian), CCD (Brian & Matt), Chess club (Brian & Matt) and the endless errands that seem to keep coming up! (Thank goodness basketball ends next week!!!)

-Matt has been soooo excited about his big birthday party (I let him invite the whole class). It is from 5-8 on March 12. Matt got an invitation for a party for a girl in his class (she also invited the whole class), her party is March 12 from 1-5...REALLY?!?!?! (and Matt's invitations are out, so no changing things!!!)

-We went to the Walmart Vision Center 7, yes 7 times this month!

I think I need a vacation from my life:)

Snow Two Years in a Row!!!

Up until last year, it had been over 10 years since Austin had inches of snow actually stick to the ground. Last year we had a fun time with a whopping six inches and this morning we had yet another surprise... we woke up to 2-3 inches covering our yard:) The boys are beginning to like the yearly tradition of one day of snow!!! School was cancelled and all the boys (Craig included) were outside by 7am playing in the snow!!! Turns out Tex LOVES the snow as well...he was running around the yard and rolling in it while Wilbur and Ally watched from inside:) By 8:30, we were cold, wet and tired so inside for hot chocolate we came. Aunt Key called us with a good idea a little later...make snow ice cream! I hadn't done it since student teaching in Flagstaff and the boys were thrilled with the idea! We headed out to collect a gallon of clean snow, mixed it up with some milk, vanilla and sugar...threw in some crushed up oreo cookies and there you have it...cookies and cream snowcream! What a FUN way to start our weekend!!!

Emma's Party

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Our sweet Emma turns 1 today...holy cow...where did the time go?!?!?! Her party was this past weekend in Houston and we had plans to pull the boys out of school early on Friday to head down and spend time with Aunt Key & Molly who flew in from Vegas:) Well like usual...plans changed! Poor Matt came home sick from school on Thursday and on Friday morning...swabbed positive for the flu:( We were soooo bummed and not wanting to contaminate any poor babies so we decided to leave Matt and Daddy home while I took Brian and Luke to the party for the weekend. (I got the all clear from both sisters that the babies had been exposed to far nastier things than my kids in the past few days first!!)

Emma's party was so fun...I got my girlie fix with the pink and purple princess theme and spent time snuggling with both of my sweet nieces! Matt was bummed to miss the fun but sure enjoyed the "party in a box" I bought home for him...complete with the food, cake, decorations, party bag and more:) Thankfully Matt was the only one to get the flu and we have since moved on to runny noses and coughs...oh the joys of Winter!