March started with a beautiful rainbow on our walk home from school on the afternoon of the 1st. Spring!
I completely forgot about Dr. Seuss’ birthday. Thankfully Grace was on top of things and she decorated in Dr. Seuss’ honor. I did give the kids pink ink for dinner that night.
When we moved into our house the door leading from the garage into the house was filthy and really needed to be painted. Nine years later I finally painted the door and the frame!
It is the door we use the most so I wanted it to be welcoming and inviting. I chose a fun color and added some vinyl. It looks so much better! Especially when you see the before and after!
Oh how I love good friends and play dates.
Isaac got the first three Calendar Mysteries books in the A to Z Mysteries series for Christmas. By the beginning of March he had read all 50 books in the series. He read lots of other books during that time period as well. He is a fast reader! He enjoyed the mystery series and was happy to have read them all!
YW Camp prepartion, planning and (lots) of meetings were well underway in March. I loved having Emma at many of those meetings. The YCL group was a fun bunch and they were so wonderful to work with! Emma has some good friends.
The only problem with having Emma at my camp meetings is that I lose my babysitter. Lee always has stake meetings on the same night so I am usually scrambling for a place for the twins to go (or taking them with me which isn’t always fun). LaLa was nice enough to watch them several times. One time they watched Despicable Me. The next day they drew LaLa some super cute minion pictures.
Also in March for camp, I went to Camp Alpine for a meeting with leaders from all the stakes who attend Camp Alpine. We exchanged experiences and ideas which was wonderful. Camp Alpine had also asked the amazing COPE leaders from our stake to present to us. We are the only stake that uses the COPE courses to their full potential and they were hoping to give the other stakes some ideas of how they can be used. It was fun to see Mollie, one of our fearless COPE leaders, having to do the trust fall herself. Camp Alpine is so beautiful!
Isaac and Grace are always doing projects and experiments. I’m not sure what they were doing in these pictures, but I remember it was some sort of science “experiment”. I was watching safely from inside.
We got to go to the Great to Be Eight fireside in March. It is hard to believe that the twins will be turning eight and getting baptized this year. Both of them were so excited to learn about Activity Days and Cub Scouts. Isaac is especially excited about starting scouts. He has been anxiously waiting to turn eight and has been talking about Cub Scouts for months. He was completely enthralled with the presentation and came home even more excited! I just hope that enthusiasm lasts a long time!
We were in Arizona for all of Easter week so we didn’t do many of our usual traditions. We did talk about the story and timeline of Easter, and we had Resurrection Rolls as treats for one FHE (thanks to my visiting teacher who bought the ingredients for me since the van was in the shop!).
Emma started going regularly to a new physical therapist in March to hopefully get some help with her swimmer shoulders issue. She looked like a football player with her ice and stim set-up after her treatments!
Brenna and I decorated for the RS Birthday dinner the night before we left for Arizona. We had a bee theme.
While were in Arizona Tenley was in Japan. She brought home some Tim Tams which we ate with hot chocolate like she did on her mission. So yummy!
She also brought kendamas home for Isaac and Grace. They loved them and were wowed by the tricks we looked up on YouTube. They are hard!
Right before we left for Arizona Emma finished up Drivers Ed. She passed the class and the behind the wheel test which meant that she wouldn’t have to take the DMV driving test to get her license. She jokingly told me that she thought she deserved a Burgerville shake for that accomplishment. She didn’t get one. One day after spring break I had to pick her up from school early for a PT appointment. I surprised her with a shake. I think it was just as much a treat for me as it was for her! Love that Emma Mae!
The last day of March ended the month just as beautifully as it began. This time it was with perfect weather and blue skies. I was even persuaded to put aside a full to-do list and just sit outside with the twins after school. It was glorious!
Lee ended the month at a Blazers game with Matt, Troy & Tyler. Their seats were super close. Lee was obviously excited about that!
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