March Part Uno

The first weekend of March was a busy one for us. R's school had a sock hop Friday, March 2. Followed by a Saturday full of baseball to kick off the spring season.

W and L had Western day at school March 7 to kick off Rodeo season in Houston. Only the toughest cowboys can pull off the green pacifier look.

I'm going to break March up into a couple of post so be sure to scroll down so you don't miss anything. 

March Part Two: Spring Break

Aunt JoJo and our cousins came to visit us for spring break. We spent most of the week dodging nerf bullets, rodeoing and being silly.

March Part Three: Strawberries and Baseball

Fresh picked strawberries and baseball are two of our favorite things about spring. We made our yearly trip to our local Farmer's Market March 18. No matter how many times we tell Wyatt not to eat the strawberries he just can't resist their juicy goodness.

The day Wyatt's been waiting for all his life arrived when he was finally old enough to play baseball just like Rhett. Three year old t-ball has to be one of the cutest activities on the planet. W was on the YMCA Red Sox and he loved his Coach Kenny.

March Part Four: A Camping We Will Go

We woke up Friday March 30, with an amazing 8 year old in our house. I let him pick out his birthday breakfast the day before. This was the first time I let him go into a store by himself, pick out whatever he wanted and buy it. He was so proud of himself and his powdered donut purchase. Our sweet little guy said he picked them out because there were enough in the package for each of us to have one. You can only imagine the pure delight in his eyes when I let him know they were all his.

We all needed sugar to make it through our first ever slumber party we were about to experience. Rhett invited eight of his friends to camp at Camp Rhett.

We grilled out hot dogs, made s'mores then strapped on our adventure packs and embarked on a nature scavenger hunt. (AKA an excuse to run energy filled boys around the neighborhood before bed time...haha!)

I was actually really proud of all the boys. All of them but one made it outside in the tent all night. Jason may or may not have been the only one to pack it up and call it quits in the middle of the night. Jason, Wyatt and myself were sharing a tent and full size air bed. Around 3:00 in the morning daddy "went to the bathroom" never to be heard from again...haha! I finally rolled off the air bed and ventured inside to check on him, because I just knew he must've been in serious medical distress. I mean come on, the love of my life wouldn't have purposefully left me outside in a tent in charge of two tents full of boys by myself, Right?! Wrong! The big stinker claimed he was giving me more room on the air bed by going inside to sleep in our big comfy king size bed. What a true gentlemen I have huh...haha! He totally redeemed himself when we all woke up to find him in the house bearing Shipley's donuts for breakfast. Donuts cover a multitude of sins! Once we were all full of donuts the boys slipped on their "I Survived Camp Rhett" shirts and thankfully we all actually did SURVIVE CAMP RHETT! Barely! ha! 

March Part Five: iPhone Wrap UP

March is always one of our favorite months and this March was no different. We made a couple of more trips to the Rodeo and just had a super-fun month. These are all the iphone pictures I wanted to include to wrap up March.

We went to a Mardi Gras Crawfish boil and concert with our dear friends the M's. We had such a great night singing with The Spazmatics, an 80's cover band that rocked it out!

I mentioned in my January post that I'm still clinging to one of my resolutions. Well that one little resolution/goal was to run. So Jason signed us up for the first race his work team was running which was March 24. That little race happened to be an 8K which is 5.19 miles. I didn't really start training until a couple of weeks before the race and I think I officially only ran seven times before the actual race. I was so nervous about the whole thing, but I did it! I was a little bit proud of the fact that I ran the whole thing without stopping or walking! Now we are hooked on running and are training for a half-marathon in November. I never in my life thought I'd be a runner but it has changed my life. I have a serious love/hate relationship with it but I'm addicted to it.

One of our best discoveries came in March. I drove by this tiny red trailer emitting the best bbq smell ever. So I stopped by, picked up some ribs and we were all hooked. Everyone in the house does some serious chowing down on the ribs but none are quite as cute doing it as our little L-man. 

There you have it another March is in the books!