march

March already?!? Summer vacation will be here before you know it and I am sooo not ready.  If anyone has any good websites/books with activities for 3,5, and 7 year olds please let me know!

Okay, lets get to the long over due photos...

 

February was filled with a ton of fun things. First was Jack's 7th birthday. To be honest, I had no motivation to throw this party whatsoever. It went just fine but with no frills by any means. This is why I need Lori to plan my parties =)   We were so lucky that Katie and her daughter Grace were able to come for the weekend and we finally got to meet the baby.  She is super cute and probably the best baby I have ever seen. So easy going and go with the flow--probably because she's a girl.

Mom and Dave came up quite a bit last month and helped with the boys. They loved it and we loved it too because it allowed us to spend a night away for my birthday (29 and holding, dammit!) in the Dells. So nice!

Hockey wrapped up last weekend and Alex got a metal and a certificate. He was so proud! They got their picture taken and are going to be in the "news" (local paper). Didn't see it in this weeks, so maybe next.

In an effort to be more efficient and to not have to go all the way back into the store, I have made up a grocery list template.  Hopefully this will work and I can be more organized in the store and get through my shopping quicker.

We shop mostly at WalMart so I organized the categories in order of aisles.  I found  some templates on-line but they weren't set up how I wanted and they were all full sheets. I don't want to carry a 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper through the store.  The one I made has the categories we mostly use and the Misc. is for the household items, toiletries, light bulbs, Twizzlers ect. that are on the other side of the store.  I put 2 lists on 1 sheet of paper so hopefully this will be big enough. I'm not sure it will work for big-time shopping but it should be good enough for the week-to-week stuff.  It's a Word doc so I can tweak it if need be. And of course the reminders on the top to use my coupons and bring my re-usable bags. We'll see if it works!