.where did march go.

.my gosh. 

.this year is just flying by. and im not quite sure what to do about it. 

.im going to have a 3 year old in 26 days and my little man will turn 2 -two and a half months later.

.craZy.

.march has been good to us. we have been figuring out family plans for this upcoming summer, and christmas. booking flights. registering for 5k's and considering ragnars. with family plans comes booking flights...and paying off those flights. so we have been hanging at home, or doing cheap/free entertainment and having some much needed family time. 

.at the beginning of this month andrew had another campout with the scouts. i survived the night alone on 4 hours of sleep, and met up with our good friends kailee and trent and their kids at seaworld saturday morning. thank goodness they let us tag along. we stayed for about 4-5 hours and came home, cleaned the house, and than andrew got home. it helped make the day go by faster, and it totally wore the kids out/and entertained them.

.the kids had one HELL of a time, turning into one HELL of a day for me. I called andrew and told him he was getting off work early and he was taking me out to dinner. i had already set up a babysitter and had my bags packed for the rest of the month to get away....alright, not totally. but we ended up going out on a day and away. MUCH needed. here is what my little monsters did in ONE day.

It's been "one of those days" that it's safer to have both kids take a shower with you, than leave them playing in the game room. Today they have 

**decorated their bathroom with 3/4 a bottle of baby powder

**sprinkled "confetti" aka 200 mini rubber bands in with the baby powder

**made a "pool" in the bathroom sink and drew artwork all over the mirror I just cleaned with their grubby hands

**got ahold of candy and probably down 15 pieces each before finding them

**gotten ahold of play-doh and scissors and cut it in mini pieces all over the tile and tracked it up a few steps and in their blankets. 

**came to me with RED hands saying "it won't come off" to find she thought it would be awesome to play with food dye

**drew on the back of their new chairs (luckily with washable markers)

Needless to say they are now playing in the tub behind me while I get ready for a DEMANDED date with the hubs. 

Amanda- my the force be with you as you watch my two monsters. 

.of course with it being march, it meant MARCH madness. i stayed up WAY too many nights watching the basketball games. b stayed up WAY too many of those nights right along with me. there was one weekend andrew and i were just grumpy with one another. i said i was leaving to run errands. i ran a couple, picked up lunch and milkshakes and came home and watched some basketball games. parker has already learned. he was GLUED to the tv watching basketball, and would NOT share any of the milkshake. just like his mommy.

.we had the carpet i scored for cheap installed in our family room, and guest bedroom. our living arrangements were changed up a bit, and everything was squeezed in the kitchen. 

.it was our turn to watch our friends kids for 4-5 hours (since they did it for us the month before) and she texted me the night before saying she didnt think she could do it. she was stressed about her little man not taking a bottle or eating any rice cereal and him starving. i reassured her he would be fine, and really all was going to be swell. HE WAS GREAT. no crying. he was happy. he played and played. we took all 4 kids to chick fli a for lunch and ice cream. you should of seen the looks we got when we walked in with (2) almost 3 year olds (1) almost 2 year old and (1) 5 month old. Hil.ar.ious. we also fell in love more with our van as we loaded all of us up. it was such a breeze. i could totally have 2 more...but still need another year...or two...or possibly 3 years.

.andrew got recognized at work again. we are SO proud of him. he works 50 hour weeks as a normal now-a-days and still spends time with his family. he barely works weekends too. he is usually out the door by 6:45am and home by 6:30. we enjoy sleeping in together on the weekends. anyways....when we came home and told me he got recognized at work, i told him we were going out to celebrate for FHE and use the rest of our cold stone gift card. 

.this last week, my friend kailee and i went a little crazy. we had TWO big days in a row. one day we met up at the zoo and took the kids from 4 hours. the kids had a lot of fun, and she could get us in for FREE. they had a little petting zoo and the kids got to brush the goats.

.the following day we met up at seaworld and survived that. poor kailee lost ella at one point while i was in taking b to the bathroom. i saw the worry on her face and KNEW that she was panicking trying to find ella. been there. awful. your gut drops down to the pit of your stomach and you just want to vomit with how sick you are that you cant find them. we did find her. poor ella was scared and cried, as kailee did too as she hugged her tight. but, we did survive and called it a day soon after that. we still had a really fun time, and alway love hanging out with them.

.while we were at seaworld, my other friend, mandy, called to ask if i wanted march madness tickets. of course!!! i called andrew to tell him i would be picking him up for a date night. i found a babysitter last minute, and off we went. we spent WAY too much money that night. but it was something i have ALWAYS wanted to do. i LOVED the experience of being there and being with good friends, and watching some march madness basketball. i was in HEAVEN. besides paying for parking (puke). seriously, if andrew every needed an idea for my birthday...hello march madness the next month. i LOVE watching college basketball.

.i threw a favorites party at my house last weekend. it.was.a.blast. we had 20 other ladies over and ate cafe rio and shared our "favorites things". so much fun. of course. i worked on a few easter crafts to have up for it, as well, as got my curtains up. (thanks to my very good friend denise for doing them for me and saving my buns.) i LOVE them and they just make the room so much more inviting. i think the family room is finally how i want it, now to move onto other rooms of the house....slowly. 

.saturday andrew helped a guy move for almost all day. so i took the kids to a carnival fundraiser for a local school. b got her face painted (and than my phone died). they played games, they ate pizza, they ate snocones, they had cotton candy, played more games, won cupcakes, jumped in the bounce house. it was fun. we met up with andrew, helped them for a bit, and than took off. than i left the kids with andrew and went with 2 of my favorite people ever and ran a 5k. (i barely had a voice beginning with the race...and sunday i had NO voice. it was pathetic.) we had SO much fun though. im seriously thinking about running a ragnar with my friend stephanie.

.ragnar- different types...this one is a trail ragnar. basically you and 7 other people on your team run a total of 120 miles in 24 hours. you camp and take turns running. you end up running a total of 15 miles....3 miles, than 5, than 7 all throughout the 24 hour period and taking turns with others on your team. we will see if i end of doing it. im mixed about it.