Day 104

Fiesta 40!

Today was Jen's Fiesta 40 Party!  My contribution included some amazing Margarita Cupcakes.  

An another awesome Pinterest find.  

Happy Birthday to my very dear friend!

Day 103

Curly...

I had a date tonight with my heat gun and a wooden spoon, ribbon curling was happening.  

Party is tomorrow!

Day 102

Cupcakes picks...

We are planning a surprise party for a very good friend, decorations have started. 

Day 101

What the hail?!?!?

 

On our way home from shopping it started pouring down rain, then as soon as we pulled into the garage the hail started.  Cody and I stood just inside the garage watching it come down, then watching the lightning and waiting on the thunder.  Quite the spring storm we had! 

Day 100

More sewing...

Two more down, two more to go.  

(Yes, I'm still ignoring the number of log cabin filler blocks still to be finished...)

Day 99

Little Skater Boy

Cody's really starting to get the hang of his RipStik, he can go quite a bit before stopping.  His next task is to learn how to start without holding on to something.  

Day 98

Happy Easter!

Cody made it a point after breakfast to bring Keith and I the special eggs he dyed for us yesterday. 

Day 97

Dying Eggs...

Yep, there they are.  Only one egg hit the floor, I'm impressed.   

Day 96

Permanent fixtures for the next 6-8 months...

These, amongst others (like the missing, beloved, face stick) will be sitting on the counter until probably October or so.  The boys hit the pool (twice!) with Grandma today in hopes of having Tyler remember he can swim before swim team starts in a couple of weeks.  So far things are going okay, Cody on the other hand swam 22 laps in his evening session! 

Day 95

Workin' at the Car Wash...

They put in a new Quick Quack Car Wash in our area and we drove by it yesterday.  The boys decided that if I wasn't going to stop and get the Tahoe washed they needed to do it themselves.  So I pulled down the car soap, mits and buckets, turned on the hose and let them go at it.  We decided the Van could use a scrub as well.  They had fun, even if the cars didn't turn out all that clean! 

Day 94

Buddies...

We celebrated 3 friends turning 8 today at the park.  Cody's buddies from preschool, along with some of my best friends, it was a great time. 

(Oh, and yes this is the "best" of the three crappy pictures I took today)

Day 93

Old School

Grandma and Grandpa Douglas brought down a bunch of old games and puzzles for us during their visit over the last few days.  The boys have been playing with our old View Finder.

Day 92

Tree Trimmin'

The neighbors behind us had a tree that was dying and with a lot of branches that hung over on our side, today they had it cut way back and we spent a lot of time watching them.

Day 91

Testing out the new toys...

Cody is getting better at balancing on his new RipStik, can't wait to see him cruising down the sidewalk on this thing!

Day 90

Eight....

Oh my....

Day 89

Watchin' You....

Still working on Cody's party.

Day 88

Preparations...

Getting ready for another Birthday!

Day 87

Something new....

Cody has been asking for a while to try rollerblades, so today was the day.  

It really wasn't much different for him, but he felt like a bigger kid, rollerblading with his buddies. 

Day 86

Rainy day....

and I finally let them play the Wii!  

We don't let them play it very often as it can bring out some bad attitudes.  After a good school day and them running around outside as long as the weather allowed, Wii it was. 

Day 85

Evil...

Chocolaty, creamy goodness in an egg shape. 

March, the diet killer.

Day 84

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

We went to a play this afternoon to see a children's theater production, it was really great.  

Can't wait to see another show in Davis!

Day 83

Chuggin' along...

Another one down.  Really need to start working on this more than once a week!

Day 82

Monsters ate my book...

Things are coming together for Cody's party next weekend.

Day 81

Head is swimming...

We are switching our charter school for the next school year, giving me more control over the curriculum and making funds available for other enrichment activities. 

My head is swimming as I'm going through the 50 lb packet of papers.  

(okay, so that's a bit of an exaggeration, but it's a good 5 lbs at least!)

Day 80

On a hike...

For homeschooling group today we met and went down by the river for a hike.   Such a beautiful day after a few days of rain, it was perfect.

Day 79

More Karate...

The boys are really loving karate.  

Only a couple more weeks left on our Groupon, boo.

Day 78

Food....

I go through phases where I can't get enough of certain foods.  

The current heavy hitter is corn tortilla quesadillas with ground turkey and salsa. YUM!

Day 77

2 more down...

I'm down to 5 more months, then there's the 24 log cabin blocks that will fill in between. 

Day 76

Playing with beads...

The boys have been busy!

Day 75

Bath...

Today was rainy and cold, we had a short school day and boredom was setting in.  Tyler's solution was to enjoy a bath for about an hour this afternoon.  Sounds good to me!

Day 74

Pecker...

We have a wood pecker hanging out in our front trees, the boys really enjoyed watching him work this morning.  He was hard to catch a picture of, but you can see his red head with black and white body on the tree trunk. 

Day 73

Bank tour...

We went on a bank tour today with our homeschooling group.  The kids were all very interested to see how it all worked.  Here they are learning about the coin machine and how it sorts and bags the coins.  They were able to see what the tellers do, and how they have machines that disperse money.  Then they went back into the vault, seeing a stack of 2000 one-dollar bills, they thought that was awesome.  

They were given a goody bag with fun pencils and stickers then received a shiny, new $1 coin.  

Awesome field trip!

Day 72

New journals

The boys have sparkling new journals to help boost their writing skills a bit.  Both boys are working hard to improve, this made it a bit more exciting.

Day 71

Gymnastics toe...

Tyler decided he wanted his toe painted again for gymnastics, so he could remember which is his lead foot.  Today's choice: electric blue with green sparkles. 

Day 70

I'ma cut you...

and that's what I did.  

Today's project was to cut all the remaining blocks of the month sew that I can work on putting them together quicker.  Then there's the task of all the filler pieces to make it into an actual quilt.  Baby steps...

Day 69

New....

We upgraded our tv/internet today.  Along with moving the living room around slightly.  

Yay for fast internet that isn't thinking about every move and a crap-ton of new channels to enjoy for 6 months until our promo price ends and we'll jump down a level or 3.

Day 68

Earning their keep...

Yep, that's what we did today.

Day 67

Late Gym night....

At the busy gym tonight, this was about all I could see of Ty, little orange and blonde glimpses.  

(He's the speck hanging off the wings, to the right of the high flying girl)

Day 66

A 35 minute tour....

We ent on a tour of the new Whole Foods in Folsom with our Homeschooling group today.  It was really fun to have a guided walk around the store.  Here she is letting us sample fresh ground peanut and chocolate chip butter.  YUM!

Day 65

Karate...

The boys were given a Groupon for Christmas for a month of karate.  Today was their first class and they both seamed to have a good time.   

I"ll post more pictures on the other blog.

Day 64

Out to lunch...

A lunch out with all the guys to the hot rod shop.

Day 63

Son of a.....

I've been meaning to fix the boys' floor pillows for months now and finally pulled them out yesterday.  I am sewing a new liner out of old heavy bed sheets because the quilted tops keep tearing and letting the foam beads out.  

So I sewed up the first insert and went to transfer the beads from old to new and dropped the old, still full bag.  We will have foam beads around the house for months.  

Day 62

Final Game...

Cody's last basketball game for the season was today.  His team played well and squeaked out a final win 14-12.  He received a cool new medal to add to his collection and a certificate. 

Day 61

Watching the live feed...

Keith is in Bakersfield this weekend for the March Meet with the Top Fuel dragster he crews for and bangshift.com has a live feed of the race all weekend.  We spent the last hour of our school day flipping between the race and our science studies waiting for Mike's car to run.  

Fingers crossed they fix the car and get in the show tomorrow.

Day 60

Printed pictures...

It's bad when this is a major accomplishment for the day.  Anyway...

The pictures came in the mail today for my new frames that will sit on the opening between the kitchen and family room.  Once I get some other things put away, they will be spread out a bit. 

Day: Bonus!

With it being leap year and all, I'm going with this being the bonus day.  

Today the boys present a project on Australia for their homeschooling group.  

Cody did well with the speech part and Ty was good at point out the pictures to go along with it.  

Day 59

Self Reliance....

The boys usually make their lunches each day, or Cody makes both of them.  Tyler is working at being able to do more of this on his own. Peanut butter sandwich, minus the jelly.

Day 58

Monkey swings...

Swing and release to work his way up the incline of the bars.  

BUSY gym today, so fun to watch the older girls flip, tumble and vault.

Day 57

Oscars...

The Momtourage started a new tradition this year by getting together to watch the Oscars.  It was a lot of fun, oohing and booing the dresses, talking about the people and films and eating some yummy food.  Awesome night.  

(Oh and I won the 2nd Best Ballot award, as in I only picked 1 winner for the whole night)

Day 56

Sewing...

Finished one of many projects today.  Check it out here.