March 2012

March 1- dropped Nicky and Abby off at preschool, ran errands with mom and the kiddos, said goodbye and went to Great Wolf Lodge for AHG, Brian picked up Caden to bring him with us and dropped ephram off at Laura's while we're at GWL, lots of sliding/laughing/playing/ and having great fun together, after 9 hours of water the kiddos did story time and played games in the arcade (or R K as Cailey calls it:) until 9:30!

March 2- another super fun day at GWL starting at 9am, left with the girls at 3:30 to get Cailey to her last basketball game where she scored another basket!!! (even though she had played all day at the water park then sat in the van for 3 hours thanks to traffic), bojangles with the girls, brian came home with the boys at 8, reunited with my baby boy who had a great time at Laura's, and crashed.

March 3- soccer games canceled because of rain, kinsey's cheerleading, unpacked, cleaned a bit, lazy day, school, piano, and games.

March 4- big kids ran 4.2 miles!, church, some school, kids played outside, cailey picked her talent show song (Go Light Your World) and started learning it, braden was my sweet helper, ephram had the grumpies after nap time, kinsey spent her day outside, awana, and choir.

March 5- school, gymnastics, mom came for the day on her way back home, writing class for cailey, games, laughing, snuggles, dancing...and more laughing:)!, scouts for braden, hung out with mom, ice cream sundaes for everyone (except me:), and laughed more.

March 6- braden went to the eye dr., said goodbye to mom, long school day, played games/sang/tangrams/letters/puzzles with ephram, played with kinsey, listened to cailey practice her talent show song, coupon shopped, laughed a lot with braden, and read to my babies.

March 7- oldest two ran hills for 3 miles, school, beth came over to be cailey's vocal coach and help her with Go Light Your World, kinsey and ephram played with addison, caught up with beth over lunch, school, and outside play.

March 8- school, errands, field trip to Gretchen's to see baby chicks/ducklings/chickens, school, warm day...lots of outside play, prepped for big weekend, listened to kiddos practice their fine arts stuff, and

March 9- watched alex, co op, forgot about clean up...then stayed!, AHG, kiddos packed for lock in, dropped braden off at lock in, picked up gracie, girls played outside for a bit, upward banquet, dropped girls off at lock in, kinsey and ephram had wii night, then veggie tales, and a sleepover.

March 10- 8am soccer game for kinsey, picked up kiddos from lock in, rushed cailey to her 9am game and stayed to watch kinsey play another while the others went home for naps, COLD:), got kiddos pictures framed for art show, outside play, fine arts show at crossroads where cailey sang (then the younger two accompanied her)/braden did art and piano, and kinsey did art.

March 11- oldest two ran 5 miles!!, church, ice skating for braden, cailey sang at Bayleaf and went with Morgan's, early choir rehearsal for cailey, park for youngest three, awana, and choir.

March 12- piano, early school with kinsey, cleaned the house, school with others, watched gymnastics, writing class where cailey had her rough draft of her first research paper, played outside with the kiddos, watch ephram draw a 'king' (magic kingdom castle) with chalk, played lots of princess card games with kinsey (and my helper, Ephram), and baked cookies.

**wanna remember..forever how ephram ALWAYS says thank you unprompted for the sweetest things. like, "taint tou mommy for reading a book with me" or "taint tou mommy for letting me pway wif tinsey (kinsey) or "taint tou mommy for letting me have a sleepover with the girls"...it goes ON and ON. SUCH a sweet sweet boy!!

March 13- school, lots of playing outside in the warm weather, made and LOVED korean beef, played games with the youngest two, loved listening to kinsey read more amanda pig, cailey finished (and typed) her first 5 paragraph research paper on Korea for writing class, braden wrote the cutest story about being invisible, kinsey ran a 10:19 mile, cailey and braden ran 3 when brian got home, made 'yogurt' dots, and read a super cute garden book to the kiddos...which they will be turning into their own stories.

March 14- kids had to wear shorts since it's 85 on this march day, school, took ephram to story time at the library only to find out they weren't having it, went to Durant park for swinging and played lots of tag with all the kiddos, jumped on the trampoline and played outside w/ kids, braden found Runaway ('our' turtle) under the porch, tons of playing outside, tried a new recipe (Rio Chicken) and didn't love it, brian pulled braden's second tooth since the permanent had grown in, took leslie's kiddos since they were both VERY sick so they joined us for dinner, outside play, refuel at church, and then they came to sleep over!

March 15- braden and cailey ran 3 miles, fed all 7 kiddos breakfast, brian took girls to school while winston played at our house all day, school with kiddos, cleaned and "reset" the house, picked up the girls from school, made cake batter rice krispie treats for the kids, they spent most of the day/evening outside, yummy dinner together of spaghetti pie/awesome breadsticks, etc, introduced the Morgan's to frozen grapes (YUM!), played outside w/fam until dark, and crashed.

March 16- c & b ran 3 miles, watched alex, co op, caught up with cheryl l, played with the kiddos, early dinner, back to back soccer practice for both girls, ran errands, listened to a great play and poem written by cailey, LOVED hearing braden's amazing piano songs, read with ephram and kinsey, and got lots o' snuggles:).

March 17- lucky charms and green milk before early soccer games, rainbow waffles and lots o' green after, went on a green hunt with ephram, big walk with the girls where cailey found a turtle, kiddos spent the day entertaining both turtles (runaway and speedy), decorated rainbow cupcakes, went on a bike ride, and went to the Klick's for a YUMMY green dinner and lots of fellowship time:)

March 18- kiddos ran 6 miles!!!, went to cheer them on (in my jammies:) from the van with kinsey and ephram, stopped by BK to pick them up breakfast for a treat, church, nice day outside meaning LOTS of playing, cleaned the house, awana, and choir.

March 19- piano lessons, school, cleaned, laundry, gymnastics, kinsey went home with kelly for the day, met Kelly at the Y to walk, made a dessert with kinsey, and crashed (after all the laundry was put away:)

**don't want to forget when ephram said (two weeks ago) after screaming at a sibling, "do you still love me mommy?" MELT MY HEART...of COURSE, sweet boy!!

another E quote: "Tinsey, do you like pepperONI?" "Ephram, I'm the pepperoni QUEEN!"

March 20- made orange fluff and rice krispie treats for our guests, braeden came for the day/night to play with braden, school, took ephram to the dr. for pink eye, braden had lab work and tb test (for eyes), welch's came for the day/night, kiddos played outside most of the day and had a ball, great catching up with laura, walked with her in the evening, and stayed up until midnight.

March 21- went on a walk with all the kiddos and laura, said goodbye at 10:(, school while Braeden played with ephram and joined in with us, played Old Maid with Kinsey, worked on blog books, braden played lots of games with braeden, nice day so kiddos played outside, found out molly was having her 4th boy, chatted with cailey, did triples, shrimp and linguini:), and read to the youngest two while the oldest were working with brian.

March 22- oldest two ran 3 miles (and Braden ran so fast brian had to slow him down!), school, braden went to get tb test checked...and was negative (of course), triples shopping a few times, great 'date time' with kinsey girl, played and tickled ephram and braden and had some great time making "people sandwiches" with them!!, went to kelly's 31 party, and came home to just the boys awake for more fun:).

**ephram said, "what's your name?" "is it heaDer? Oh, and daddy's name is BIan?" (just w/o the r) so cute!!

March 23-watched alex, a little school, triples, lots of playing with the littlest ones, AHG, poor cailey went to sit down and missed the chair..and was horrified in front of her fellow AHG girls:(, took braden to harrison's birthday party, race packet pick up at CFA, almost took E to the ER for an allergic reaction of bumps all over him but all was fine, visited with leslie, got the kiddos ready for their race day, and got great 1 on 1 time with braden to hear all about the party.

March 24- got up bright and early for the Chick fil a race, cheered on the three oldest in the rain with ephram as Cailey and Braden ran their first 10K and Kinsey ran the mile, watched them devour lots of CFA biscuits when it was over:), stopped by the morgan's to share biscuits and tell them about the race, took hot showers, kinsey and braden went to swimming lessons, cleaned the house to rid it of an ant attack!, laundry (just a couple loads), played kings in the corner with kinsey, read w/ ephram, did triples w/ the fam, went to the mall for Easter clothes/claires w/ the fam, and helped Cailey with her Korea poster for writing class.

March 25- braden woke up with a stomach ache so i stayed home from church w/ him while the others went, triples three times (once w/ ephram:), awana, choir, lots of playing together, read tons to ephram and kinsey, and listened to cailey practice for her presentation tomorrow.

March 26- piano, school, took kids to gymnastics (started feeling sick), kelly took ephram and kinsey so i could rest in the afternoon, watched cailey give her oral presentation at writing, rested/ helped the oldest two with work, scouts for braden, got new blog books, and listened to brian read w/ the kiddos.

March 27- woke up not feeling good, school, kiddos played, brian did one last triples run for me, made a big yummy dinner for the fam (with help on the chicken course from braden and cailey), brian did History/Science.

March 28- school, dr's office for my chronic stomach prob's, more school, preschool with ephram, lots of snuggles from the youngest two while the oldest two procrastinated with their school work, and kiddos went to McD's with brian for 25 cents lemonade slushy drinks.

March 29- school, picnic lunch with ephram and kinsey, lots of playing outside, kiddos/neighbors played in the yard all afternoon/evening, and did resurrection eggs/easter candle nightly routine.

March 30- school, walked with kelly, helped with the easter egg hunt at co op, loved watching the kids have a blast at the hunt, dr.'s apt for lab results which didn't show much, cailey and braden had a piano festival, soccer practice for the girls while i stayed home and played with ephram for a long time, lots of baby boy time, and heard all about piano/soccer:).

March 31- rainy soccer games, swimming lessons, lazy day, errands, kiddos played outside, played dinosaurs and read about them with ephram, old maid with kinsey, great talk with braden, cailey spent her day outside with neighbors, and blogged.