Random March Happenings, Part I

Here are some fun things we did in the Month of March:

March 1

Starting the month of right with a picture of my cute Ian....

March 1

...and a picture of guinea girls! 

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March 2

Ian playing Fur Elise. He's getting so good!

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March 4

I took the kids out for some goodwill shopping, and Elisa found a bunch of Dork Diary Books for herself, which she may or may not read. Then we went to subway for dinner. I'll make sure to use coupons when we go there next, otherwise they're kinda pricey for just some sandwiches. I'm not sure why we went out, I guess Erik was working late and I needed to get out of the house.

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March 4

I wasn't really planning on going, but a ward friend said she'd give me a ride so I agreed to go to a multi-stake activity. I left the kids home to watch themselves. I don't worry as much now that Elisa has a phone. Usually, I don't bother with these types of activities and I was reminded why---It was just some get-to-know you games but I didn't really enjoy any of them very much. After the games we used the "Relatives around me" via the family search app, and I found a 2nd cousin (3 times removed I believe). I think my ward friend was more excited about it than I was. I met the lady (who was very nice), but now I don't even remember her name. Toward the end we had some desserts, I took a picture of the table to show Elisa. 

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March 4

A sleeping beauty! 

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March 5

Ian had a birthday party to go to at his favorite place, Luv 2 Play! I dropped him off and took Elisa to get a drink at the Boba Tea House, and then drove over to pick up some girls that are in our ward to drive them and Elisa waaay out to Peoria for an ice-skating activity set up for the youth (young men/young women) in our ward. Elisa isn't technically one of the youth, but this activity wasn't technically a ward activity so I sent her anyway haha. She had fun. I didn't stick around too long because I wasn't sure when Ian's party was over and I didn't want to be late. I guess I could have stayed longer to watch Elisa skate, because I hung around for almost another hour waiting for Ian to finish playing. He had such a good time! Someone gave Elisa a ride home, I was glad not to have to drive way out there again!

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March 5

I wanted to take the kids to Cracker Barrel the night before instead of Subway, but Erik wanted all of us to go, so we all went the next evening instead. After dinner, the kids used their spending cards (except Elisa who can't find hers) to help themselves to some toys and candy in the store. Erik helped himself to some root beer.

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March 6

Ian learned to blow bubbles with his bubble yum bubble gum. Silly boy. He was poppin' those bubbles for some of church, until I made him spit his gum out.

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March 5

Erik bought some brisket at Sam's club and wanted to invite some friends over to help us eat it. Erik invited his friend Dan and his family, and we also invited another family from the ward. I made potato salad, lemonade, and set out a veggie platter. The other families brought rolls and the dessert (apple pie). All in all a fun evening. There were 8 boys there and they had fun together too.

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March 6

Silly Gabe. Does he not know that I can see every picture he takes?

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March 7

Gabe had a (seemingly random) band concert. Gabe has not been practicing his trumpet at all and I didn't even know about this band concert until a few days before. I think they played a bit better than the December concert, but other than that, I can't remember much else. 

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Yeesh. No.

Erase that, aka paint over.

Better--much--better, but I still didn't like it.

I made a banner for the mirror to mach.

Finally finished!

March 7-10

I had basically zero St. Patrick's Day décor, but I did have lots of paints and several canvases! I thought I'd try my hand at making a St. Patrick's Day painting. I spent more time changing it up than I did actually painting. And the part I spent the most amount of time painting I ended up painting over since it looked horrible. It is hard to paint neat lettering, I think. I ended up having a friend down the street make me the vinyl letters, and it was well worth the $5 I paid her. Although the paintings were vastly improved, I didn't like the clovers because they just weren't convincing. So I once again took the paintings down and put some better clovers on it along with a horseshoe and a couple more gold coins. Its not super perfect or amazing, but I like the final product alright. I also made a banner using the same type of clovers (I made them using fabric and lots of mod podge) and horseshoes. There. Now I have some St. Patrick's day décor, even though no one cares about St. Patrick's Day much.

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