Leprechaun Madness

While I am not a big St. Patrick's Day celebrater (not sure if that's even a word), my kids sure are!  After being hounded for weeks in preparation of the "special" day (insert eye roll) I finally caved and agreed to make green eggs for our St. Patrick's Day kick-off!

And while the kids were at school, a visitor came.....and left a little treat with a note.  Apparently he had to use the bathroom too.  Although no one got to see the evidence because Miss Shayli apparently can't tolerate green "pee".  She flushed it down before anyone saw it.  Luckily, I managed to capture it on camera before it disappeared......

And talk about a lucky day!  Lexi managed to find a real four-leaf clover while we were at Kendri's softball game.  It looks like it's going to be a lucky year for us!

Happy Birthday Ryan! And Some Other Things

 Even though I am approximately 3 months late in posting it....Happy Birthday Ryan!  (I'm sneaky and will back date it so no one will every know......;)

Ryan was lucky enough to get a mud pie for his birthday cake.  And I must say it was delicious!
He was showered with home-made gifts from the kids along with a new gym bag and to be honest, I can't remember anything else.  I guess that's what happens when you procrastinate your blogging.  Shame, shame.

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!

The next picture is highly graphic and bloody.  Proceed at your own risk.

This is what happens when you wrestle with your older cousin who believes body slamming is the only way to prove your prowess.  Kyson happens to believe the same doctrine.  He cracked his head on the footboard of Aunt Liz's bed.  Sigh.  The amazing thing is he came walking down the stairs to find me.  This was our conversation,  "Mom, I bumped my head." Just like that.  No crying. No panic.
                         
Me: (all calm and gentle) "You did? Well let me take a look at it."  I couldn't see anything from the front.  I assumed he might have a little bruise he wanted me to kiss or something.  And then he turned around.  GASP! I was horrified.  I was trying to figure out what all that red stuff was.  I was going through all the possibilities.....ketchup? No, how would they get ketchup upstairs?  The Halloween make-up perhaps?  Ooooh, they are in big trouble if this is fake blood.  I can only imagine the mess they've made.....

It took me about 10 seconds to finally realize that it was indeed the real thing.  The good news is, I consider myself part nurse.  Although I have no real reason to mention that as one of my accomplishments other than my mother is an actual nurse and by default it runs through my blood.  A bit of a stretch, I know.  But I did take several health courses in college.  At any rate, we made a quick phone call to the actual nurse (aka grandma) and then proceeded to super glue his head.  And I must say, it turned out quite nice.  Very little scarring.

And the last news for this post is our family loves to ride to Gammi's house for Sunday dinner! (Or Aunt Jenni's or Aunt Liz's) My siblings and I used to ride our bikes my grandma's house every Sunday and it's been fun for the kids to do it too.  Hooray for nice weather!

A Few Memories from March....

I hate to brag.  But I will.  My white chili is da-bomb.  As proven in this picture where I took home the coveted Silver-Ladle from our ward chili cook-off.  (I think it should be called the Golden-Ladle but then that would require some spray paint.)  Anyhoo,  my record for chili cook-offs is currently two for two. But who's counting? ;)  

I managed to spot Kyson right before he tried this daring stunt.  Riding two electric scooters at the same time.  Anyone else foresee broken teeth? I'm actually pretty impressed that he's balancing on them.  It takes some coordination.......And Shayli and Kendri are just cute so I threw the picture of them in too. ;)

And this is what happens when you think you can take a 15 minute shower.  Someone sniffs out the Oreos. And only eats the cream.  Shayli and Kyson.  At least they put the cookies back in the container just in case someone else might be on the cookie side.  Ahem. The cookies they licked, that is.

And Shayli was having too much fun at the park to bother with the toilet.  And then she realized that sitting down with wet pants was not fun either.  This was how we managed to get home.

Kyson surprised me with a bouquet of  "flowers". He must be learning from his daddy!

We've been enjoying spring and we couldn't let this pretty tree turn green before we got a quick picture of it!
It's actually our neighbors tree but we get to enjoy it since it hangs over our backyard fence.........

And ps, where has March gone?????  Talk about how time flies!