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Happy St Patrick’s Day

Mar-17-2006 By Jessica

I’ve always loved St Patrick’s Day, although I kind of wonder if maybe my life is so boring that I always look forward to any type of celebratory holiday just to decorate, eat festive foods, and have a good time with it? I mean, my life is never boring - how could that be with 5 kids, but I am a holiday NUT! Love them… the kids all dressed in green and the older ones took shamrock shaped shortbread cookies for snack. The younger two are going to have green mac n cheese for lunch. I’m not sure they will eat it. The leprechaun came to visit this morning and left us green milk in the fridge - the kids kinda thought it was gross LOL.

I am making corned beef, cabbage, Irish potatoes and Irish soda bread for dinner, complete with chocolate chip mint milkshakes for desert. Good grubbin tonight! Great recipe for traditional Irish fare: http://www.fabulousfoods.com/holidays/stpat/stpat.html

Ashlyn has her first softball tournament this weekend. She’s VERY excited for this. This age is when they really start getting competitive and she has alot of talent, so it should be lots of fun to watch and cheer her team on. She is one of the youngest on her team now, before she was always one of the oldest, so she’s having to adjust with a few other players being better than her and getting the positions she wants to play. That’s been rough, but she’s learning…. McKenzie is into Tball and loving that… finally Daddy’s little girl is out there playing sports and as much as he claims this age and sports is not the greatest, I KNOW he enjoys watching her and comes home bragging about her every time he takes her to practice

Have a great weekend all!

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Snow Day In March

Mar-9-2006 By Jessica

So, our weatherman (my personal favorite local forecaster being Dave Salesky http://www.kgw.com/weather/ ) has predicted snow several times this winter. Little bits of it here and there the last several months. We have not seen a single snowflake at our house! So, needless to say when Ashlyn came home from school and told me her teacher thought it was going to snow and last night when I watched the 11 o’clock news and saw that it was in our forecast “DOWN TO THE VALLEY FLOOR”, did I believe them? I mean how often do we get snow, let alone in MARCH? Ummm… NO! I woke up about 4am and noticed my tv, which I tune to a mx radio station, had lost it’s signal. I looked outside and the beautiful snow was lighting up my dark night sky. <> LOL. My family loves the snow! It also meant I knew that school would be cancelled and we could have our first (and probably only) SNOW DAY! We all have colds and ear infections anyway, so might as well keep the kids home from school without having them officially miss a day.
The kids had mixed reactions. Kati was bummed that school was cancelled. She went back to bed immediately, after getting dressed and sharing her disgust at having to get up and dressed for nothing. We didn’t know officially that school was cancelled until about 10 min before they leave for the bus. Bailey was so tickled…. Daddy picked her up out of bed and showed her the snow and she couldn’t believe it had snowed “on the trees, on the grass, on the roof”. She couldn’t wait to put her snowsoup (that would be snowsuit LOL) on.

Daddy helped the kids build the base of the snowman and they just finished with carrots, a scarf, my baseball hat, and mr potato head parts. LOL. Completely kid created. It’s adorable and has TWO sides LOL…. one for viewing from our living room window and one side viewable by “our visitors” LOL.

So we’ve played in the snow, made a snowman, had some hot cocoa

the older kids have been sledding and now we are cuddling up and getting warm.