March is full of birthdays!

We have several family birthdays in March. Ethan was just on the 12th, then T's mom is 16th, my dad is on 22nd and then our dog, Ashton is on the 26th.

On Monday, 16th we went to T's parents for his mom's birthday. I picked out a coral colored sweater from CJ's for her. I think it was a different color for her, but she can wear it with different colored pants for a new look.

Then on Saturday night we went to my parent's house for my dad's birthday. My mom invited us over for dinner and cake. We got him money for new bike shorts. I guess those special shorts are expensive! I made a little pair of shorts to hold the money. T suggested that I add some foam to the butt for that extra padding that is in there, so I found some to snip to add to it. So funny! My parents were leaving for a trip to Natchez on Monday. I like how they make time to travel still.




See the little shorts pocket with the shorts with the money pocket...

Then today was Ashton's birthday! He is 9, wow! I got him his white cupcakes on my way home. He was totally expecting them I think! He saw that container and really responded to it. I waited until T was home for the annual pics of him eating his cupcake.


Giving T 'five' before he gets his treat...


E was excited to use some of his birthday money this past week. He got a gift card to Best Buy from his A. Pat & U. Jim for a wii game. He picked out Mario Kart. We let him pay the cashier, he was so cute!
We played some when we got home. It is a fun one with a steering wheel, but T thinks you have more control with just the regular controller.
T is still so addicted to that Lego Stars Wars game. It is crazy funny how he plays it SO MUCH! He is downstairs right now playing it, it is a little advanced for E. Well, at least the level that T is at now. They can play it together but then I hear T yelling at E to either "Stop hitting my guy" or "quit going that way" and it is in an angry tone. Yeah, nice.

Looking forward to the weekend. I am taking Friday off and planning on going to Fair Oaks Farms. I've been wanting to check that place out for awhile. I've heard it is great for the kids. I'll take way too many pics, I'm sure!

St. Patrick's Day complete with Parade

I love dressing up in green on St. Patrick's Day. We ended up celebrating M2's birthday at work on this day. Only 3 of us wore green at work - me, Stevie & cb. We took M2 to TJs for a birthday lunch but it was just me & Kim. It was neat seeing TJs so busy with everyone enjoying the St. Pats festivities. I wished I could have ordered up a green beer then! I got the yummy shepherd's pie.

I was planning on going to CP's 1st annual St. Patrick's Day parade. So happy that they moved the start time to 6:45pm so I could make it. It was a PAIN getting to a parking lot, way too many streets were blocked off, it was stupid.
We all wore our green, E & I wore the light up shamrock necklaces I got at the DollarStore and I brought extra goodies for the cousins.


Quite a bit of people showed up for the parade. The weather was awesome, like high 60s. So nice. We sat by our church.
I packed us some drinks and snacks. We actually didnt see the parade until around 7:30 down where we were! I need to remember that for next year.



It was so neat to see a night parade with the lights. I love lights! Each float had to have at least 150 lights. Most of them were green, too! These were horses, hard to tell with the dark pic, I know. Check out their lights on their ankles and around their neck! So neat!

One float had a little leprechaun and Trent realized he knew him! It was Stevie, who graduated a few years ago. How cute is he in that green tux?? He was dancing around when he went by us. We parked by where the parade ended and T had to get a pic with him.
Overall, a good parade. It wasnt too short or too long, might need candy thrown for next year. People in this town expect candy at parades, our 4th parades get insane with candy. I think next year we will just walk from our house so it won't take so long to see it all.

Birthday party recap

Ethan and his friends had a ball at Jump Zone. I stressed over it way too much, but it ended up ok. The place was huge and so nice. The kids all kind of did their own thing. It was hard rounding them all up when we ordered pizza.

Ethan with Savannah & Zach

All 11 kids he invited showed up to play, too! They let us use the party room for the pizza & drinks we ordered. They had plates, cups & napkins included. It was nice. We had the place pretty much to ourselves, I think 2 other families were there part of the time. It was good I had it on a Thurs. night on his actual birthday.

They had this neat Birthday Throne in the party room for the birthday kid. We told the parents that they didnt need to bring a present, but about half did. I think the ones that didnt bring a gift just ran to go jump more, which was fine.

Then on Sat. we had our family party at the house. I didnt do a set theme as years past. Couldn't decide on anything. His cake he chose was Hot Wheels, but he isn't a super fan of cars.

The cake was neat, called a stage cake. The pic in the bakery book of course was awesome due to them using fondant.

My happy 6 yr old.

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Happy Birthday, Ethan!!

My baby boy is 6 Today!!!! Where did the time go? How are you already 6??!!

Happy Birthday, Ethan!!!

We are going to have fun tonight!! Family party is Sat. at our house.

C wanted to have his next birthday party at the local jump place and offered to pay for it. I let him pick 7 friends from school plus cousins and 2 of friends' kids. So maybe 12 kids will be at our local jumping place. I didn't book a party room, they are just meeting us there for fun in the inflatables. I decided to make up goody bags to give to them on the way out.

Last night I made choc chip cookies for his class treat to bring in today. I had started my star cookie suckers and they stuck to the pans!! That never happened before. Not sure what was going on, but it was stressing me out too much so I just did my normal cookies. It may have been the flour or baking soda, they seemed too flat.

We got our treadmill yesterday. It took T 3 hrs to put it together! I guess that is typical though. He needed my help at times, too. It takes up way too much room in our bedroom. I can barely get into my closet. Need to shift some things around in the room, I think. It is super heavy! But pretty nice, I didn't want it to be too narrow. It is facing the tv, which is the only way I'd ever use it!! But, when I fold it up it still sits out in the room. T thinks it should just go downstairs. We do have more room down there, but I need it in front of my tivo and that tv down there doesn't have tivo. Ugh!!

Valentine's Weekend

I had fun on Sat. making cute heart treats for the kids.
Those cinnamon rolls didn't quite work out. I guess you need to make them homemade. The ones I bought in the tube didn't unroll. I tried to reshape them to hearts, but I knew they would just puff up and you wouldn't be able to tell the heart shapes.

For lunch I made peanut butter & jelly sandwiches and grilled cheese, with apple sauce & baked lays chips. Then I used my neat heart cutter for the sandwiches.


I made up little goodie bags for the cousins, too. Ring pops, Little Debbie heart brownie, pencils & valentine from E.
I was wanting pizza for dinner. T was out at games and stuff. I told him to pick up a pizza from Papa Johns for us. I kind of hinted that a heart pizza would be great. So excited that he brought the right one home!

HE got their special which was this heart pizza, then a large cheese pizza & this chocolate pastry dessert that was so yummo. Really off track on Sat with the diet, but I'll be better today.I started doing our taxes today. I actually kept on track and got them done. Well, at least just the first draft in pencil! I know what we are getting back, which is awesome! I told T that I got them done and he proceeded to ask if I filed for the daycare refund. Well, I've never done that party before, need to look it up. I think we qualify since E stays at the after-school care. I don't have all the receipts, though. Do we have to turn those in? I need to ask my sister how she has done it in the past.

Wish I had tomorrow off, Ethan does, of course. T has to work a few hrs, so he'll just bring E in with him.
Hope I have an easy week at work!

Happy Valentine's!

Just getting ready for Valentine's Day. I have had the house decorated for the last 2 weeks.

Ethan had a project over the weekend to decorate his Valentine heart, basically a pocket heart to hold all the valentines from the party.

I found 2 little kits I got last year from Target's dollar spot that had the perfect stickers and sayings and ribbons. pretty cute, not that girly, is it? T thought it was...oh well.

Ethan signed all his valentine's for his class party last night. He picked out Wall-E valentines this year. They came with a little sticker that was a pain to compile, oh well. I was going to do treat bags, but decided not to after his teacher suggested a lower key party.

I have to watch my niece and nephew 'the cousins' tomorrow. I already got them some treats, but now I'm going to make some other cute things I saw on a blog.

How neat are these? I have a tube of cinnamon rolls already. It looks like you just unroll them and roll them in a heart shape. I saw it on Be Different...Act Normal, one of my fav blogs.



I'm going to make these cupcakes tonight. You can use a regular cupcake tin and put a marble or a ball of foil in the side to make the heart shape. It was first on Family Fun website.

So excited to do it all!

For lunch I'm going to use this awesome sandwich slicer/cutter that is 2 heart shapes.

Last weekend I got to hang out with my oldest bff, Zubie.
It had been 2 yrs since I saw her! Wish she lived closer. At least her family still lives here.

We partied like we were in college. I had no idea that we have 2 bars in town where you can dance, complete with dj and lights, and people actually dance. We had so much fun. Thanks to her younger bro for taking us out to the right places. We are so old, but I felt young last weekend. This pic was taken at the first bar we went to, which just opened up like 2 blocks from my house. T and I have to go back there and then just walk home!

Looking forward to this weekend festivities. I doubt if T & I will get to do anything on Sat. Not sure when my sister will be back. Her father-in-law is the hospital up in Wisconsin.

So happy that the snow is gone, last weekend was so nice. Now it is supposed to snow on Sat. again. Hope it doesnt stick.

Praying for my friend, Holly. Havent heard how she is yet. I know she is reading this now, call me let me know!!