March in a nut shell.

Wow.  How do you catch up a whole month and then some  These pictures are not in order but oh well!  Better here than not. :)

Back in Feb. Mark took all the kids on a date.  He took Sammy to the Kzoo Valley museum, Wilson out to the movies & games after, and he was going to take Zina ice skating, but she had different plans! She wanted them to go get treats (donuts and hot chocolate) and then park the car and watch Princess Bride in the back seat!  She's a girl with a plan and always has been. 

Haha, I think this was our Valentine's date (with Davey of course). :)

After some yummy Mexican food we slipped into Meijer for a few things. 

We took the kids ice skating......

Sammy would not even get on the ice. He sat on that chair and froze the entire time.  Wilson actually LOVED it and did not want to go home.  And obviously the rest of us are off skating. :)

A trip to the Air Zoo!  It's never complete without our free popcorn and Sammy was finally big enough for the parachute ride!!  (and Mark was a little to big...his bum didn't really fit in the seats haha)

Just a nice shot of Sammy learning to put his own underwear on. Looks comfy. :)

And his mad face.  He ALWAYS dances with a mad face. :)  While the others are leaping and dancing around Sammy is marching around with a mad face. So funny.

Maple Syrup Festival. 

This was SO fun I really really loved it.  It was cold but so worth it.  

Above is where they are cooking all the water out to make the syrup.

Below is as fresh as it gets Maple syrup!

Tapping the trees.

Wilson in a Michigan maple forest!

Nine Mans Morris - a game they used to play in the sugar bush. 

Wilson rocks this game.  It makes Zina really mad when she loses to him. 

:)

Face paint!  Mine is supposed to be a maple leaf.... seriously!!

Back in Feb. or March we had a FHE about Lehi's family leaving Jerusalem.  We acted it out and ended by putting the tent up in the family room and having homemade marshmallow smore's in the fireplace.  The kids thought it was the BEST and were sad when we took the tent down the next day. 

Of course St. Patricks Day happened.  Here are the kids homemade leprechaun traps.  They had a lot of fun making them and I loved how each one was so unique!  Zina's was the green one, Wilson's the rainbow ladder one and Sammy's the one with all the letters. He kept telling me what they said..."I wuv Momma, I wuv Wilson, don't cwimb the  wadder, I wuv Davey...."

The Leprechauns tipped over all the kitchen chairs, turned the Milk green and left the kids some Lucky Charms and candy in their traps.  Zina didn't want lucky charm's though so I made her some pancakes shaped like a pot and put scrambled eggs to make it look like a pot of gold.  Sometimes I feel like a run a restaurant....but I just couldn't bring myself to make her eat lucky charms for breakfast...yuck.

And one... ONE..sunny day in all of March!  We were outside in a heartbeat.

Davey tried some bananas and rice cereal and avocados this month. 

Not consistently though.  

His hair also grew a whole bunch. 

Check out the mullet!

so we gave him an impromptu haircut right before church.

Aww, why is that first haircut always so hard to do?

Can't forget 3.14! 

Pi Day!!

We had chicken pot pie for dinner and the kids helped me make mini apple pie pops for dessert.

Yum!

Doing a little Math on the computer. We use IXL for our homeschool math.  Wilson LOVES doing math on the computer. Zina hates it.  She would way rather work out of her curriculum book.

I swear Davey has been teething for months but has NOTHING to show for it!!  Poor baby. :(

An attempt to entertain the kids on a Sunday.  

A grey cloudy sunless Sunday. 

Boy are we glad spring FINALLY came to Michigan!

And last but not least.  We still love our Moby wrap. 

Mak'n dinner with my sweet love bug.