Savannah had another fun-filled Keepers meeting this past Saturday. The activity: decoupage. Neither of us had done this before so it was definitely a learning activity.
Each of the girls got to decorate the first letter of their names. Afterwards, there were yummy treats along with a lot of talking and laughing. We love our Keepers group and the wonderful friendships we have developed.
Time just seems to be flying by and the holidays seem to have a habit of sneaking up on me. I vowed to myself that Easter was not going to do that. So, for our Family Home Evening Activity we decorated the house with the small quantity of Easter decorations we have and then made a fun Easter craft. The kids just love all the holidays so we try to do lots of fun things to celebrate, even if it's just in preparation.
The kids found the bunny ears and wore them the rest of the evening.
In the Pierce household we are SO ready for spring! We are tired of all the cold weather! We were so grateful to have such beautiful weather this past weekend and the kids spent most of Saturday afternoon outside playing with their friends.
Xander and Noah are ready to go cruising for chicks.
Such cute girls!
Noah was not happy unless he could drive; we had a few meltdowns in the middle of the street. Other than those it was a really pleasant afternoon.
The phone call I had been dreading came at 10:58 this morning. Even though I was expecting it, it was still hard to hear. My dad called to tell me that I was in last place in the family March Madness Tournament. Yes, last place! Even behind Kelly!
Teams that helped make my last place position possible? Dayton...Arizona beating my Utes...Cleveland St...I mean, who picks these guys? Okay, so Kelly picked Cleveland St. but with Kelly that's just pure luck (sorry, Kel, but you know it's true!) I'm hoping today that I gain some ground and get back into the running.
Dick, baby, help me out! I thought this was my year!
The kids carefully prepared their leprechaun traps the night before...
and left coins and even some Lucky Charms cereal...
but those sneaky little leprechauns still caused mischief and mayhem around our house! They turned couches around and even flipped one over, they threw the pillows all over the floor, the kitchen chairs ended up on the table...
and the worst was they put Xander's and Savannah's underwear on the stairs! Can you believe the nerve!!! Maybe Mommy should have put the laundry away instead of leaving the basket of folded clothes in the family room...that was just asking for trouble, according to Savannah. Well, as Xander pointed out, at least they didn't throw our TV on the floor.
The kids didn't catch a leprechaun or a pot of gold but they did get 4 shiny quarters each as well as a wee little pot for planting clover. For our St. Patrick's Day dinner we enjoyed our traditional corned beef and cabbage...yummy!
My little Noah...he's so much fun (other than at church!) The other day at the library I was picking out some DVDs and handing them to Noah to hold for me. I handed him "The Incredible Hulk" and the next thing I hear is "Ewww!" I looked at him and he was pointing at the Incredible Hulk on the front cover and kept repeating, "Ewww, ewww!" over and over. I had no idea he even knew the word or its correct meaning. The past couple of days I have heard him use it quite frequently...for the zombies in the Scooby-Doo book, the dead worm on the sidewalk, and for Darth Maul (Xander would be upset if he heard Noah dis his hero that way). It's so cute to see his little crinkled nose as he says it. What a cutie he is!
Savannah has always loved stories...stories from my childhood, the day David and I got married, the day she was born, how Grandpa got his huge scar, etc. I should have known with this love of stories that she would show an interest in history. Could I be more excited? This is right up my alley! After President's Day she came home regaling us all with stories of Abraham Lincoln; she was especially interested in his assassination and asked David and I for specific details. Okay, a little morbid but she was obviously enthralled. We have a book in our bookcase about John Wilkes Booth that she pulled out and looked through though unfortunately for her there weren't that many pictures. Later that night on The History Channel there was a program about the assassination so I DVRed it thinking I could show some parts to Savannah. Well, the next day I told her about it and she insisted on watching it right away...and she watched the whole 2 hours! Every once in awhile she would turn to me and report little facts that she was learning. I was amazed and so excited that she is finding history exciting and wonderful. Her newest interest is Harriet Tubman so I went to Barnes and Noble the other day to get Savannah a book about her. She has been carrying it around for the past few days and even took it to school for her "Share Time". I am so proud of my little historian!
Thursday night Savannah and her basketball team got together one last time for an End-of-Season Pizza Party. Savannah has really enjoyed playing basketball this year and has really improved.
Savannah had some really great teammates and we loved how fun her coach was.
I was 13 years old the first time I saw "Gone With the Wind" and I was absolutely mesmerized. I loved Rhett Butler played by Clark Gable and thought Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara was one of the most beautiful and talented actresses I had ever seen. A couple weeks after I saw the movie I came across an advertisement for a new series of collector's plates for "Gone With the Wind". I knew that I just had to have these plates! So, with allowance money as well as babysitting money, I purchased every single plate at about $35 a plate (there were 12 in all - a pretty hefty price for a 13 year old)...and thus my collection began. Since that time my collection has grown to include figurines, music boxes, more plates, dolls, snow globes, and anything else related to GWTW. Yes, I am obsessed! I even wanted to name my daughter Vivien Leigh but David nixed that...I still got Leigh for her middle name, though.
A couple of months ago, I noticed a sign at our local library asking for people to display their collections at the library. Due to lack of space in our townhouse, my collection has remained in storage for the past 4 years. This gave me the perfect excuse to get some of my pieces out, dust them off and show them off. Every time I walked in the library I just loved seeing my beautiful GWTW items in the display cases. Two days before I had to take my collection down, I ran into a friend of mine at the library and she was sweet enough to take some pictures of me in front of my things. Okay, so yes, I'm a total nerd when it comes to GWTW but hey, it's one of my passions!
Yes, it's true...we finally got some. Snow, that is. It started Sunday night and snowed most of Monday. It was such beautiful, white, powdery soft snow, the kind you want to run out and play in. The kids and I were looking forward to building a snow man, throwing some snowballs, and making some snow angels. But that just didn't happen due to the horrible wind! The wind was blowing so hard that snow was whipping around everywhere and it was hard to stay outside for very long without being completely miserable.
Noah was so excited about the snow and just stood looking out at it forever. He kept pointing and saying, "Sno, sno."
David braved the wind and shoveled our front walk.
Later in the afternoon the wind had died down a little so the kids headed out. They weren't out long, however...it was just too cold and windy. After about 45 minutes they came in to warm up with some hot cocoa.
Poor little Noah...he turned into a popsicle.
Sunday Xander gave his first talk in Primary. His talk was about how family members each have important responsibilities and he did a really great job. David said it was a little hard to understand him at times because Xander, like every other child, spoke with his mouth very, very close to the microphone...but at least he did it!
