Monday, March 22, 2010

All for the gold!

On St. Patty's day, the leprechauns messed up the kids rooms but left behind gold coins (chocolate). I was left putting the rooms back together and cleaning up empty gold coin wrappers! Porter asked if I did it and I asked him, "why would I mess up your room? You know how I feel about making messes!" Porter said, yeah ....I know how you feel about messes." I told the kids I was going to set a trap next year :)
The kids also ran and raised money for the annual jog-a-thon at school. It was such a warm and beautiful St. Patty's Day! Most of the kids were wearing green so they wouldn't get pinched.

Parker ran 32 laps.
Pman's last lap he ran with Hud.



Porter ran 24 laps. He was trying to dodge the camera but I caught him. He also tried to separately raise money from me and Alan. If he WAS successful at that he would have raised more money than Lyla and Parker put together. Porter will be quite the deal maker when he gets older. It is hard for him to take no for an answer :)

Lyla ran 16 laps. Can you tell she had a good time? She would pose for me on every lap she ran. Maybe that's why she only ran 16 laps. Lyla and another friend also walked a few laps with Huddy. The best part was eating popsicles at the end!

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

we love st. patty's day!


Porter says this is his favorite holiday because it is a week before his birthday. I think the Leprechauns bringing Lucky Charms and leaving behind gold coins once they trashed the kids rooms has something to do with it being his favorite holiday. I will post some pictures of what the Leprechauns did to the kids rooms later (I'm still cleaning them up!). Those naughty Leprechauns! We even had the traditional corned beef and cabbage for dinner......yummy! I think this could be one of my favorite holiday's too.
I started this blog one year ago and looking back, I can't believe how time flies! My hope was to post some family pictures and give some updates on what we all are up to. I realize that I'm not the best story teller but I hope my photos tell the story to you.