Catch up

Has it been a month??? I was doing so good with regular posts and then this last month flew by without any.

In the last month we had allergies, grandparents visit, allergies, spring break, allergies, dr appointments, school programs, allergies...

See something that's been a big deal? My allergy medicine that I had used for the last two years was taken off the market late last year and after trying the different options of medicines this year and still dealing with almost daily allergy induced headaches and other symptoms, I made the decision to start allergy shots.

So now twice a week I get to go and get a shot, and hopefully next year my allergies will not be a dominate part of my day to day life during the spring months.

Decorating

One thing that I find us happening now while we have been living for such a long time- the longest I have ever lived somewhere in my life (7 years in this house, 8 years in ok)! I find myself actually decorating more than I ever have in the past. Lately this space has been on my mind to figure out something to put up above the tv.

Snow White

Rich has been working on a project to put all our movies in a digital format to access on the tv's without having to actually put the dvd's into the dvd player...
So anyone that knows us well knows we are a Disney family.  Rich turned on Snow White to check the quality of the digital format he had it in... to our surprise the kids had never watched it!  How that happened and we never showed it to the kids- I have no idea... :) They've seen scenes from it, but never actually watched the movie.  Now I know what movie we'll have to do for our next movie night!  We own it, so I don't even need to go out and rent it. lol

Games we like

Our kids love to play games, board games, card games, any type of games.  At times it is great, other times I'll admit to being "gamed" out and another game of go fish (in any shape or form- Book of Mormon, Dora, Princess, Mickey Mouse, etc" just seems like too much to ask for a mom to handle...
About a year ago Alex had the game Farkle added to his stocking at christmas.  It has been sitting in our game closet that whole time, I think un-used.  I was introduced to the game when Rich and I went on a cruise with friends almost 2 years ago...

Tonight I pulled it out and taught the girls how to play it.  Another bonus is it get's them to do math without them thinking about it.  The girls were trying to add the numbers up faster than each other and even Angie can do the basic math of it.

Alyssa happily won the game- always a great game when younger kids have the same chance at winning the game as older kids.

So I think Farkle will become a favorite game for the moment.  Other favorites the kids always want to play:
Uno
Uno Attack
Phase 10
Skip Bo
Risk
Go Fish (in any shape or form)
Alhambra
Life

We have a game closet full of other games as well... I think we forget we have them at times because we get stuck playing the same ones all the time.

Chocolate Chip cookie time

There's nothing better for me than spending time in the kitchen baking... cooking dinner is fine, but baking is just my favorite thing to do.  Pulling out the ingredients and whipping up a favorite that I know everyone will love will always put me in a happy place... :)