A birthday and cheesy waffles.

3/16—Sunday night dessert: strawberry shakes with the fam.

Sunday night family wrestling lol. 

3/17—Monday was Josh’s birthday.  We all woke up bright and early so Josh could open his presents before school.  He got a Lego set, a bike, Pokémon cards, and a basketball. 

Then we had St. Patrick’s Day doughnuts for breakfast.

After the kids left for school, I took Ella to Amy’s, and went to take my StuDev 100 final exam.  It was pretty easy so it’s a relief to have that done.  I should get the grade this week sometime.  Then to sign up for the next class!

Sometime during that day, Ella headed upstairs and was quiet for a long time.  I went to find her, and she was on Andrew’s bed doing who knows what.  She thought she was pretty cool.  Now we have to keep the ladder up during the day.  

To celebrate Josh’s b-day, we went to a pizza buffet for dinner and then an arcade to play games. 

Josh picked to eat in the cartoon room so we watched Mickey Mouse Clubhouse while we ate.  Ella was in heaven. 

Because we all wore green, we each got a free $5 card to the arcade which was the perfect amount. 

Josh played one game and got his ball in the monster jackpot hole and got over 1500 tickets.  We’re pretty sure he had good luck because it was his birthday.  It took forever for the machine to the count that high.  For a prize Andrew and Josh combined their tickets and bought a lava lamp for their room.  Totally brings back memories of being a kid!

We swung by Toys R Us to pick up Josh’s bike that was being assembled over the weekend.  Who doesn’t love the toy store?

We got home and Josh’s primary teacher stopped by with this gift.  Holy candy. 

Then we quickly sung Happy Birthday and ate a cupcakes.  And hurried off to bed.

3/18—Tuesday we had a little party for Josh.  He invited 4 friends to go see Mr. Peabody and Sherman.  I was a little nervous taking 7 (3 were my own) kids to the movies by myself, but everyone did great!  We got 2 buckets of popcorn, and I even got a nap in lol.  Ella was able to go play with Hudson while we were at the movie.  So grateful she is okay with going to play with friends and going to nursery!

After the movie we came back home and ate pizza and the boys played basketball. 

We had more cake and opened presents.  It was a fun little party! 

3/19—I went to the school to help each 4th grader make salt dough for the salt dough maps they would be making the next day.  It was lots of work and took a lot longer than I planned.  Thankful for Danielle who had Ella all morning and then picked up Luke from the bus and kept both kids even longer. 

When I got back Ethan came over here to play.  I made chicken nuggets for everyone. 

And I’m pretty sure Ella just ate dip for lunch.  She thinks these foods are are just spoons for ranch and ketchup.  lol. 

In the afternoon we had the normal piano, scouts, and Darrin had a soccer game.  When he got home I went to the Jenae’s for a Pampered Chef party.  I was naughty and bought a few things.  I couldn’t help it :)  The party ended shortly after I got there, so I stayed and chatted with Jenae while her hubby was gone.    Grateful for good friends.

3/20—I went to the grocery store to stock up.  When I got home and was putting the food away, Ella was very quiet over by the front door.  I went to check on her and found she had discovered a cutie in Josh’s lunch box, peeled it, and was eating it.  It totally cracked me up.  Silly girl.  It’s now my secret trick if I need to keep her busy for awhile, I’ll put her in the seat and give her an orange.  Bam.  Peace for 15 minutes.  

Later we went to check out the new library and get a book for Josh. 

In the later afternoon, Ethan and Hudson came over to play.  Christopher was here too.  They had a blast hunting for bugs in the backyard.  Oh to be a little boy!

I made corn and potato chowder for dinner.  Most of the kids ate it except Luke.  Then we all took a drive to take Josh to soccer practice. 

  3/21—Friday there was no school.  I made waffles for brunch.  I’ve fallen in the love with this recipe.  Adding the cheese is super good too if you’re up for something crazy :) 

Friday night snack.  Love this recipe here.  This may or may not have been the second time this week I made these :)

Most of Friday and Saturday were spent cleaning getting ready for company.  The weather’s been awesome too, so we’ve been outside a lot. 

Well that’s a wrap.  Looking forward to an exciting week!