Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Those pesky leprechauns made their mischief again this year! It seems that it is tradition for them to come to our house and make a mess every year on St. Patrick's Day. They use our toilet and turn our milk green! This year they built a shamrock out of green legos, lined up all of Logan's green trains, and spread sparkles all over the house! They misplaced toys and managed to make the kids crazy this morning! We finally got to school after a wild morning, only to be met by more mischief from those pesky leprechauns. Owen's homework was to build a leprechaun trap - he did a great job - the leprechaun tripped his trap, but he managed to escape! Oh well... maybe next year we'll catch one! I hope so - I could use the gold and I'm tired of them making a mess in my house and classroom! Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Owen was very proud of his trap!

This is a picture of my colleague Jen and Emma's best friend Amanda - we all wore the same shirt - unplanned! We have Earth Day covered too!
Logan posing with his "figgers" as he calls them. That rotten leprechaun spilled them all over and lined them up in the toy room!

Logan showing off his green!

The kids after checking out the mischief!

Ewww...he even used our toilet! How rude!

Emma - looking half asleep and quite a bit skeptical! She's getting too old for this!

The boys getting ready to have some Lucky Charms and green milk.

Spring has Sprung

What a difference a week makes! Last Monday we were posting snow day pictures...now one week later, I am posting Spring pictures from an 80 degree day! Crazy March! The kids have been enjoying getting outside and riding their bikes, and playing on their swingset. I'm glad we had that last blast of winter weather...now I'm ready for Spring!!!

Owen hanging around!

Logan...showing some belly! Too cute!
He still loves his Indy hat!

Here's looking at you kid!

The crocuses have popped up-beautiful!

A tree bud - bursting with life...just a week ago it was a speck covered in snow!

Snow Day Part 2

Here are a few more pictures from today! We had a great time playing in the snow! Now...if only we can have one more snow day!!!!

Snow Day!!!!

We were all so excited to have a snow day. These are the days that I live for in the winter! The days when Jonathan has to stay home with us and we get to enjoy the day. The kids had a blast sledding and throwing snowballs. It was so cold and windy this morning, that we had to come in after a while...but we plan on heading out later to build a snowman. Hope you were all as lucky to have a beautiful day as well! Enjoy the photos!

Marine Corps Museum

Yesterday we went to the Marine Corps Museum with Owen's Tiger Cub den. It is a wonderful museum in Quantico, not too far from us. The boys had a good time and Owen wanted to look at everything. That kid (and his father) could spend hours in a museum! After the tour, we ate in the "Mess Hall" restaurant. It was a lot of fun.

Tyler, Joshua, and Owen...Three of the Tigers Owen and Daddy taking shooting practice...scary!
Owen tried to lift the back pack, but it was a little heavy!

Trying a few pull ups!Logan gives it a shot!
I think Logan has outgrown that shirt.Emma's turn!Jonathan and Owen upstairs in the museum.Owen outside of the museum with Iron Mike.

New Car

Well, he finally did it...Jonathan got a new car. His VW has been on it's last leg for several months now, so it finally got so bad, that he broke down and we bought a Honda CRV. He wanted something bigger than his Jetta, but smaller than the van. The CRV got excellent reviews and we absolutely love our Oddysey. The scary thing is...as we were sitting there (for four hours), it occured to us that this could be the car that Emma drives in a few years....ug!