March Highlights

Why does time have to fly by SO fast???  Well, I will try to sum up March with a few pictures.  And hopefully I will still feel like updating to April and what is left of May!

The Odyssey

 

Tyler's language arts class put on the play The Odyssey.  I was impressed with how well they all memorized their lines!  Tyler was a "suitor" to the queen and Posidean.  It was pretty entertaining sometimes. :)  His class seems to be a pretty good group of kids from what I have seen of them.  He has some good friends, but most of them will be going to a different middle school next year.  It is kind of weird how they do it here.  Even though you live in a certain school district, you can choose which middle school and high school you want to go to.  Tyler will be going to the middle school out of our assigned district, which means I will have to take him everyday and pick him up, but after a lot of thought, prayer, research, and visits, I think it will be the best school for him.

 

 

 

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

We had lots of yummy green food, Irish soda bread, and a green Brazilian lemonade to drink.  I have been finding new recipes for Muddy Buddies and these were mint flavored.  Yum! The kids asked why the leprechauns didn't come this year, and I told them it was because they didn't make boxes for them to hide treats in.  I guess they were just too busy to come this year! ;)

 

 

Spring Break

We went up to stay with Grandma and Grandpa von Harten one day and then met up with Kelly, Grady, and Leon at the Children's Museum the next day.  I decided it would be worth buying a membership, so that was our first visit.  We have already gone twice since then as well! If we go as many times as I am hoping, we will be able to make it so that each trip costs us about $3-5 dollars instead of $15-20!  The kids had a ball and loved hanging out with their cousins.  Too bad I forgot the camera. :(

It wasn't very nice weather until the end of the week, so on Friday we planned to visit a state park called Clifty Falls State Park.  It was pretty neat, but my camera shots don't do the scenery justice.

It was so nice to get out and enjoy the weather.  It was a bit on the breezy side at first, but the sun was shining and it warmed up by the afternoon.  We went with a few friends of ours from church.

 

This was taken way up on a ledge (where the kids are standing in the next picture) looking down, so it is pretty far down and big, but it doesn't really look like it in this picture.

 

  

I was a little concerned about them getting too close to the edge or looking down because it was a LONG drop to the bottom.  Heights kind of freak me out.

 

 

 

The Rugged Path: (we didn't realize that until on our way back and saw the easy route that we decided to take back.)  One friend was about 7 months pregnant and the other was carrying a 7-month old baby as we were going down!  We were very careful though and made it up the path just fine. :)

 

 

 My "twins"

 

 

Cutie-patootie

 

 

 The energetic one

Well, that is all the pictures I have from March.  It was so nice to not have snow anymore and we were so anxious for warmer weather, but we didn't get a whole lot.  But I guess that is how March is.