Bikes, St Patricks, Cake Auction

Last week all three of our kids learned how to ride a bike!!! After all these years of practicing, they could do it so quickly this week. I really think the balance bikes helped a ton.St Patrick's Day

We had our ward's cake and service auction on St. Patrick's day this year. It really bummed me out because we usually do a fun dinner for St. Patricks. But, Rob was the auctioneer, like he has been the last 4 years, so we needed to go. So, I decided to do a fun St. Patrick's day lunch.

I did a leprechaun quesadilla, rainbow fruit kabobs, and rainbow goldfish.I also made rainbow cupcakes.

I wanted to make sure everyone had a little bit o' green for St. Patti's day. Isabelle decided she would rather have a feather boa than a green shirt.
Austin was quite the little leprechaun at Old Navy. I did give in and get him the tie. P.S. Austin tells me his favorite things right now are presidents, fancy clothes, and the color red. He says he wants to be a president someday and is obsessed with George Washington. He also told me the other day, "Robert says that kissing girls is gross, but I don't think so...."

That night was the cake auction. Here is Rob the auctioneer.
Some of the teenage boys in our ward made a huge cake of the bishop. It was awesome!Here are some other cute cakes that were there....

Homeschool-plague, James Madison, Isabelle's play, Joan of Arc

To start off, we studied the Black Plague. The kids reactions to it were so funny to me. Robert was like "That's gross mom, you are creeping me out."

After I told them that the "Ring around the Rosies" song was about the Black Plague (and yes, I had explained it at this point), Isabelle said "Mom, can we play ring around the rosies right now?!"

These outfits are similar to what doctors used to wear during the outbreak of the Black Plague. They would wear a bird mask, a hat and cloth to cover all of their skin. We just used hooded sweatshirts for this.
For our homeschool group I taught a lesson on James Madison. For our activity we made feather pens and traced the preamble.
The papers on the wall were people who attended the Constitutional Convention.
Isabelle took an acting class and performed a Veggie Tales play entitled "God is bigger than the Boogie Man". She was "Little Lucy" who got to jump out and scare some of the other girls. She did a great job acting, singing, and dancing. :)
We learned about Joan of Arc, then acted out the coronation ceremony for Charles the VII of France (Joan of Arc made this happen). Isabelle loved acting out Joan of Arc.Here, Austin was being Charles the VII.Then we did it again, this time with Robert being Charles the VII.

Friend stuff

Our friends the Clements came to play a couple weekends ago ( I just realized how behind I am on my blogs!)
Here is David and Austin. They get along so well!Same with Robert and Nathan!Thanks for coming up, we had so much fun!

We got to go to a Swanger Star Wars Party as well. Even the baby got into it!

Cub Scouts-Blue and Gold, Pinewood Derby

Here are my pics from the Blue and Gold and Pinewood Derby.

Robert led the pledge.
I ended up getting a fat lip that night, but I gave out some awards.
The boys were given a box of miscellaneous stuff and were suppose to make things out of it.There was a display table for things that the boys had done.This was Robert's car for the pinewood derby. Rob was the announcer at the derby.

Robert placed in his age group for the Pinewood Derby.

V-day, Robert's 10th B-day, Our 12th Anniversary

This week will be a crazy week for the rest of my life, and this year was no different! But, I did the best I could doing, basically a party, every other day of this week.

Here is Valentines....For breakfast I made pink, heart shaped cinnamon rolls.
Here are the kid's Valentine's.
The ones for Rob and I. Rob also got me a dozen red roses and a running GPS watch :). He also did really cute Valentines he made on the computer and then door bell ditched to make it fun for the kids. This is how I did Isabelle's hair for Valentine's.

Auntie Robyn and her kids sent us fun Valentine's with mustaches and suckers that the kids loved.Talia had fun coloring the walls on Valentine's day. She is too much like her mother!Luckily for dinner all we had was heart shaped Papa Murphy's pizza and some salad with red dressing.For dessert, I made Marbled Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownies I found on pinterest.

For Robert's birthday here are his presents.Now Robert and Talia match with their hot chocolate shirts.
I did my best with a Phineas and Ferb cake for Robert.We did a really small party. His best friend moved last week.For History this week I had the kids go on the "Silk Road" like Marco Polo, through our house. Each city, desert etc was labeled. In the play room, I had the couch set up like a little market stand with things to buy. Isabelle thought it was beautiful and asked if she could sleep there a couple of nights in a row.For our Anniversary, I got 12 balloons and printed a picture and memory from each year of marriage and put it on the balloons ( I also got this idea from pinterest). Also, I had gotten a jacket for Rob a while ago, but he never wore it because the sleeves were too long. So, I had the sleeves adjusted for our anniversary.
Rob got me a new pencil sharpener for homeschool! This may not sound romantic to you, but I was so excited!

This was our dinner- cordon bleu, asparagus, plum bread, and rice.The dessert I made was such a pain! It took over two hours to make. I made individual triple chocolate mousse cakes. I don't know if I will ever make it again, but it did taste very yummy! The top layer was not suppose to be drippy like this. Oh well, at least it tasted good!