March Little Things

Emily attended a friend's birthday party at an ice skating rink.  The kids got to skate for an hour.  Emily spent 45 skating around the edge holding onto the side, but the last 15 minutes she was brave and ventured to the middle of the ice.  Only then did she realize just how fun ice skating was and how it wasn't as hard as she thought.  She left the ice saying she couldn't wait to skate again.

She also attended her friend, Aubrey's birthday party.  It was at an art studio.  Anything dealing with arts and crafts is right up Emily's alley.

Evan got to try out a new sports class at school one day.

We had our friends, the Gists, over for dinner one night.  I think all 4 kids had a blast playing together!

Emily had her spring break this month.  We had several fun outdoor activities planned and then it rained all week.  I was so bummed.  It ended up being a pretty quiet week for us because of the rain.  We stayed home with Emily 2 days and the other 3 days she went to Primrose.  Even with the rain, she still go to see the movie, Zootopia, with Shawn and go roller skating with Primrose.

Aside from our rainy week during Spring Break, it's been super nice outside.  One afternoon we got the water table out of the garage for Evan to play with.  Before we knew it, he was using it as a swimming pool.

Emily got to go on another field trip with school.  This time it was to Safety Town.  Unfortunately, I didn't get to go, but I did grab this picture off twitter (although Em is sitting behind someone so you can't really see her).

Evan had Dr. Suess week at school and one day in honor of the book, Wacky Wednesday, they got to wear wacky clothes.

Evan loves to be just like his Daddy and so one night he requested that he be able to take his grill outside so he could grill right alongside Shawn.  Who could say no to that?

One Sunday we took the kids to the Stockyards in Fort Worth.   We watched the cattle drive, Shawn and the kids went through the maze and we ate lunch out there.   Of course after several very warm days, this day we woke up to cold and windy weather.  The kids still enjoyed the trip though.

Emily has decided we need to start a new family tradition on Friday nights.  She has requested movie nights every other Friday night .  We kicked off our first movie night watching Shawn's movie choice. . Swiss Family Robinson.  It was a little long for the kids, but besides that they really enjoyed it.