march insta update

(1) Dinner with my favorite girls!  (2) Lunch with Auntie Janne  (3) Presenting at Learn, Create, and Share night!

(4) Snowy drive to church  (5) Fun night with WWP  (6) Fun at the touch tank

(7) Started my morning with a massage.  Now, Starbucks and Target-- All. By. Myself.  I think it's gonna be a great day!!

(8) The kids left out old shoes for the leprechauns to fix or replace and were so excited to see new shoes and Skittles this morning!  (9) Festive girl 🍀🍀

(1) They're sooooooo excited!!  (2) Of course she had to wear her Belle dress  (3) Celebrating Lexie's NINTH birthday!

(4) Waiting patiently  (5) Celebrating at On the Border  (6) Happy birthday, sweet girl!

(7) Lunch with the birthday girl  (8) Make a wish!  (9) Beautiful day for a tennis match!

march randomness

Jacob took the boys camping for the weekend and the car was packed to the brim!

While the boys were gone, the girls went out to dinner and watched movies!

We had a fun lunch with Auntie Janne when she came into town.  Spring is the time of fun school things like crazy hair day and Learn, Create, and Share night!

We had a late season (at least for us in North Carolina) snow and woke up to a couple of inches on the ground.

It was a snowy drive to church and by the time we left, it had all melted (which I totally forgot to take a picture of)!

St Patrick's Day fun-- green ice cream at Chick-Fil-A and green tea at Target.

Randomness: Ellie loves all of the displays at Target... and she also loves napping in the car!  Fun dinner at Duckworth's and spring flowers.

Always the journalist, Christopher took pictures for the school news and yearbook while waiting for his tennis matches.

Christopher decided to try out for the tennis team this year and had so much fun learning the game and growing as a player.

happy birthday, lexie

To celebrate Lexie's birthday this year, we went to see Beauty and the Beast at the movie theater.  While Lexie was definitely looking forward to it, Ellie was excitedly counting down the days and insisted on wearing her Belle dress.

Fun at the movie theater!  The kids were excited that we went to a theater with reclining seats!

After the movie we went to On the Border for a birthday lunch.  Lexie got to stand on her chair and twirl a napkin while being serenaded and thought it was absolutely hilarious.  And Ellie clearly enjoyed the chocolate syrup on her ice cream!

That evening we had birthday cake with our neighbors and the kids played outside.

On her official NINTH birthday, we brought lunch (and donuts!) to school and ate with Lexie and her friends.

That evening she opened up her presents-- mostly new clothes!!

And we finished up the birthday cake!  Happy birthday, sweet girl!!

greensboro science center with wwp

We went to a Wounded Warrior Project event at the Greensboro Science Center and got to enjoy the new aquarium expansion before it opened to the public!  Ellie was completely enamored with the penguins.

Checking out the otters.

Playing with the rays and fishies.

Ellie had a blast exploring every nook and cranny-- and the big kids were excited to fill up their plates!

Checking out the sting rays.

More sting ray fun-- even Ellie tried to touch them!

We love aquariums AND all of the wonderful opportunities that WWP affords us!