March 11 Round Up

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 It is definitely showing signs of Spring in these parts.  When we drove into town this morning it was 33 degrees and just five hours later it was 63 degrees. Heat blasting in the morning and all the windows down at lunch and the drive home.  Sandals will be out soon as I will stop picking out socks when getting dressed.  I love it.  

Baylor was tasked with looking at the tree buds by his substitute teacher.  I took him over to the neighbor's pussy willow but he was not impressed.  I love them! 

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My field of yellow flowers.  Thank you Grandma Miller 

Cookies and Milk at the Lower Allen Bedtime Story Night 

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We had beautiful weather and the house was open for three days straight.  Grimm loves the kitchen window and was there when we left in the morning. 

It said 80 for most of the drive around lunch time but was 79 when I parked and it was safe to take a photo. Close enough. 

Guess who was in the window when we got home? 

It was wacky clothes day.  Sadly other than a hat and mis-matched socks, he looks the same as any day.  

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A bit of Spring blue

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Warm weather prevails and I love not having to grab socks when getting dressed. 

I did a bit of raking the night before and found our first mantis egg case. 

After school Baylor has been playing outside.  He was up to his silly tricks eating an apple on the basement doors. 

Bed Time Story and Book Fair Night at Lower Allen

On the walk to the mail I saw my beautiful field of Grandma's flowers.  It is amazing how far they have spread as I only took a few roots of them so many years ago.  They are popping up all over the place.  Heather told me she thought she killed the pot of acconites I gave her last year but she found them blooming in the pot.  

Part of the Bed Time Story night was wearing jammies. He pulled out a tighty pair that I asked him to not wear. Then he put on a footie pair which he played in outside for a bit while I was inside. I pulled out a rake so I could get started on the garden clean up.   In the end he changed into a third pair he could wear shoes with and off we went.  

The kids were divided into groups and sent to rooms to hear a book being read.  This book was about a bear hunt and she had them participating moving their hands with the movements in the book.  Thankfully he was with Curtis, Landon and Zayden's group. 

In the second room I sat with Molly and Sabrina's mom and played with Sabrina while the book was being read.  She was playing with my phone and turned on Instagram.  I asked her if she wanted me to take a selfie, which I just did anyway.  But I did not post it any where but here.  

The last room we went into was Mrs Healy and apparently all the boys adore her.  I had to shame Baylor into voting for his teacher's decorated door because he was going to vote for hers.  All the doors were decorated in the theme of a Dr Seuss book and we all were able to vote, students and parents. 

I voted for Mrs Anderson's of course.  Class pride you know. Looking back I guess I should have let him vote for his choice. He is not going to make me vote for his choice in any elections.  Lesson learned. 

After voting, the teachers were serving milk and cookies for the kids.  It was fun seeing Baylor in his element and enjoying his time with his friends.  And just being with him of course! 

Tubing 2016

Gloria's work gave tickets again this year for Ski Roundtop for tubing.  My friend contacted us about going early because she said it was always quiet when you go early and you don't have to wait in lines.  Well, we can do 9 am when it is only four miles away and we were the fourth car in the lot.  The first few runs were great and we made it almost to the end of the lanes.  Then the sun started to warm up the snow making it a mushy mess.  But it was still a great day tubing.

I promise he was happy to be there, just missed his smile. But I looked good so it was okay with me.  

Silly faces out takes!  

Zayden and his mom joined us.  I gave her Gloria's ticket so he just had to pay for Z to get in.  I think we will look into season passes next year and make an effort to go more often as it was $32.00 for him.  Our friends brought donuts and shared them with us.  After a few runs the boys were excited to eat one.  

Since we stopped so far up the hill we had to pull or push the tubes down the rest of way.  In mushy snow, it was not fun.  

Ginny took some photos of me while I was with the boys and she was resting up. 

The boys coming down the tracks, Baylor has the orange tube and he is hanging on to Zayden's orange tube. The boys did great tubing and for the most part Z could handle his tube going up the hill.  Once Baylor went to get a drink on the deck where Ginny was and when we Z and I came back down she said Baylor must have gone up by himself.  If it were crowded I would have been a bit worried but it was still very empty and as I was going up, I saw him going down.  He waited for me at the bottom.  I think he was proud of himself for going it alone. 

Finishing their fun by walking.  

Ginny came down by herself and was spinning and spinning.  Too funny.  We stayed for four hours and did about 10 trips.  Last year we were there for 3.5 hours and did four!   

We brought Zayden home with us to play for the rest of the afternoon.  The boys had a good, long day!  

March Aunts Meeting

The Aunt's Meeting was at Meghon and Lauren's home which is only 30 minutes away from us.  We were the first there which is good for us as we often roll in late. I brought my usual biscuits and my bar cookie for March was Salted Caramel Butter Bars and I threw in a Peanut Butter Pie just for fun. Actually Lauren and I were talking about them earlier in the week and we decided to come up with an ultimate recipe for Peanut Butter Pie and we had to start somewhere. Baylor was excited to see the kitties and while we did manage a few cuddles and pet-me's, for the most part they were hiding during all the commotion of the family invading their home.  One of Baylor's projects was to drum up some change for Children's Cancer fundraiser at school.  After he collected his money, his new best friend DiAnn helped him to count it.   

First they sorted it into piles and then into dollar piles.  

Lauren is DiAnn's oldest daughter and helped out. I love seeing him with his family and being so comfortable with them.   They are an amazing group of people I am lucky to call my family. 

Meghon found Jetta and brought him out for Aunt Betty to pet.  

I got to snuggle with Eli while Baylor was counting his change.  With the change we had given him and the change collected today he had $19.74 so far.  

The older people were hanging around the table and I brought out the foam crafts for them to do.  Joan and Betty loved doing them last year and had fun with them again this year.  I had another foam craft going in the living room as well.  

I was taking photos with mom and they just looked odd, so we traded sides and it looked better.  Which is odd.  But we will just work with I look better standing on her left.  

Mom and Dad came over to our house after the meeting and I whipped up some amazing Shepherds Pie Baked Potatoes.  They turned out amazing.  

March 4 Photo Round-Up

Since I have been trying to post an Instagram photo a day, I then feel obligated to put it on here as well.  That is a post a day and I cannot keep up with that so I am going to have a round up day for the daily photos.  I should be able to better keep up with that.  

3-1 I have LED snowflake lights in the window in the kitchen.  I think it may be time to bring out something more spring-like! 

3-2  Gloria picked Baylor up on Monday and they went to get his hair cut.  It is now out of his eyes and spikeable!  

Mom forwarded me a photo of Presley holding one of the cups I gave her with another one to her right.  She is a cutie-pie!  

3-3  The bottle tree did not survive the last snow.  Thankfully the bottles did.  I am looking forward to some bottle tree shopping!  

More early spring flowers are popping up through the leaf litter.  Pretty little snow drops I am sure are from Grandma.  

And my field of yellow acconites grows every year.  

3-4  We had a light snowfall and it is too early to be an onion snow.  Not that the gardens are ready for any onions to be planted.  It is a disaster out there!