March 2011

We started the month off with a garage sale. I want to get rid of everything in our house so we can comfortably fit all 7 of us in a 3 bedroom house. Teana and Derek moved to Alaska and were only bring what they could fit in their car. Here in Mesa they have yard sales on friday and saturday. It was craziness on Friday morning.


It was Quinton's birthday. We started with presents under the blanket. He got star wars legos from Isaac, a Fablehaven book from Stacia, shirt and pants from dad and soap from mom for carving. The kids have spent hours carving soap. Even Levi uses a potatoe peeler to carve soap.


Quinton wanted to go bowling for his birthday. We invited a friend. He wanted to go to someburros for dinner then we had cheesecake at home.




Quinton and Isaac are playing basketball. So I didn't have to attend to practices and two different games on saturdays I moved Isaac up to the 8 & 9 year old team.They haven't won a game yet, but they are having fun.


It was Teana's birthday after Quinton's. We had Teana and Derek over for dinner and cheesecake. We decided not to get Teana a gift since they were trying to get rid of stuff.


Troy went on the mountain man rendevous with the teachers. Troy had been growing out his beard for 4 months for the occasion.

While Troy was gone we had a girls night at our house with Teana and the Tolmans. We painted our nails and played candyland. The next day Teana moved to Alaska. The kids and I did a little clothes shopping then went to our friends hotel in Scottsdale for the night. They have dinner and breakfast. They also have a heated pool the kids swam in.


Troy got home from Mountain Man on Saturday night and we drove up to Michelle and Greg's house for a couple of days. They have little lambs.


They have a sword that the kids always fight over when we are there. So uncle Greg made a sword for Quinton, Isaac, Stacia, Levi and Tillanie. Troy and Greg knighted the kids and gave them their swords. We left the swords there for next time.


I took my activity day girls (and my kids too) to a farm to learn about horses.


It was pinewood derby. Here is Quinton's car. This is the second one we made. The first one broke somehow. Quinton did most of the work. He only asked for a little bit of help. Quinton did win 5 races (out of 18). Troy got in trouble at the pinewood derby. Half way through there were about 4 or 5 boys who had never won. (It was very heartbreaking to see those boys walk up there time after time after time to lose. Troy tried to help one of them and got busted.


Troy and I took a turn at homeschool co-op for Backyard Ballistics. We used Liquid Nitrogen to make a cloud, blow up a watermelon and make icecream. Blowing up the watermelon was really cool. The ice cream was really good.