March Activities

I realized over the last couple months that we hadn't gone to Thanksgiving Point. And with how low key things have been, I realized we should start making use of our membership again

-The 14th was a really busy (but fun) day for us. Cara had date with dad (they went to the arcade and Zupas, naturally). Gwen had a friend's birthday party. And I decided to take Lucy and Pierce to the curiosity farms at Thanksgiving Point. Which was fun except it was colder than I expected and we could only stay an hour before we had to go get Gwen again. It was nice that everyone got to have their own fun though.

-Gwen got to have her 1:1s. I took her to Barnes & Noble to get some books (which she ended up choosing some that she just recently got from Library and then a Kpop Handbook) and cake pops. Larry took her to get some Froyo after dance one night. Unfortuantely, we had to squish them a bit (normally they get a night just them and the parent, no rushing) since soccer was starting up and we knew we didn't have enough time to do these separately like we usually do.

-Cara participated in her school's Battle of the Books this year and the battle happened this month. Cara got 16th place on the first battle, but because she read 10 or more of the 20 books (she actually read all 20) she was an "All Star" participant. This means that whe got a necklace with "brag tags" that were all the books she read on a chain AND she got to battle the teachers on the 2nd day. Larry and I actually got to go to an assembly the 2nd day to see her do the battle. It was every one on the All Stars VS the 3rd and 4th grade teachers and the All Stars won so they got an award ribbon and pictures (and bragging rights, of course). It was cool to see (but did take longer than I expected). She's so excited she got to do this.

-We had the Silver Lake Art Night on the 12th. We had to rush over after soccer practice, but Cara had SO many cool art projects to show off. She also just HAD to stop at any friend's pictures or siblings of friend's, haha.

-I got to try out a lymphatic massage on the 24th. I think I'm coming around to massages. The couples one we did last month was better, but this was relaxing too. Only problem was the room smelled a little like B.O., but it wasn't too horrible. I think I want to try a normal massage next time just to see if I will like that one.

-Soccer AND Dance is going again. We'll probably lose our minds haha. We have lots of early games this time and lots of big spaces of time between games. I did decide to take Tuesdays off of work (or only working 1 hour) so I have those days to not feel so rushed or crazy, which has helped. I will say being at the fields on Saturdays during the Spring has been so nice (I think being cooped up all winter made me appreciate being outside again). And we do have fun taking the kids to the playgrounds during practices. It's crazy, but I think it'll be a bit easier than Fall soccer.

-Favorite pics of the kids:

St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day this year was a lot of fun! I tried to do it a little more low key than I have the last few years (really trying to find my rhythm with the "smaller" holidays), and I think I did pretty good this year.

Normally, I would have gotten supplies (or a kit) to make a leprechaun trap, but when the Home Depot workshop this month was one, I figured that would be good enough. We have our gold coin decorations that we put around them to lure the little fella towards them and Cara made a silly "Free Gold" sign to put next to them.

Larry and I got things put together and then hid the scavenger hunt cards. I had a few sets from previous years I figured I'd mix and match, but then that ended up being more trouble (one of them was numbered so I had to use all or none of those and my other set was missing some so I just had to do the best with what we had. Definitely going to have to order/make some more for the next few years).

For the end, I just got them each one fun thing and some chocolate/gold coins and nerds rope (a rainbow item, I figured). So it wasn't as much, but it was fun still!

For the morning, I decided it would be fun to make rainbow pancakes. I even made sure to get food coloring early so we wouldn't be getting anything last minute and the stores would be out. Unfortunately, I got some pretty weak coloring, because while the pancakes looked colorful, once they were cooked, they were looked like normal pancakes. So that was a fail, but the kids still enjoyed eating them.

These were supposed to be yellow, green, and purple pancakes

After school we decided dinner should be beef stew with potatoes and carrots with potato rolls (a favorite of mine, for sure!) And then for dessert we made banana pudding and put skittles in it to be like the rainbow with gold at the end. I wasn't sure about mixing the skittles in the pudding, but it was honestly pretty good!

So overall, there were things that could've gone better, but it was still a fun day. It's a little harder when it's a school day, but the kids had a lot of fun. We made sure to have everyone wear their green (but I missed getting a picture, of course) and we talked a lot about why the day is a big day in our world, which I love making sure we cover so the kids understand the celebrations. 

Anyways, Happy St. Patrick's Day out there! Hope you had a bit of luck o' the Irish on your side!

Kpop Demon Hunter Laser Show

Okay, this KPop Demon Hunters craze is a fun one in our home. The girls have been OBSESSED with the movie, and I really love the music in it, so when I saw our local space center was doing a themed laser show for it, I knew we HAD to go!

I had heard a lot about this place, seen a lot of flyers for things they have, but we hadn't been so I was also excited to check it out and see if it's a place we'd like to go more often. The place itself is MUCH smaller than I expected. It's attached to an elementary school and they call it a planetarium, but I think space center is a much more fitting name. I'm not sure if there was more on a different level, but all we saw it was, was a theater area with the big dome screen and then while you wait in line, there's a wall of screens with space facts that you can watch.

The show itself was really fun. I hadn't ever been to a laser show so I wasn't sure what to expect with that either. They said you could take pictures and videos, but we were having so much fun watching it, I didn't get too much. There was a birthday party going on the same day so there were LOTS of kids in the theater with us. It was really fun (and funny) when you could hear everyone sing along to the songs, especially when the parents got into it (yes, I was one of those parents, haha)!

I know this place does have a lot more events so I may have to check some out this summer and see if those are as fun. It may be small, but they know how to entertain!