Lions, Tigers, and Bears--Oh my!

We spent a fun day at the Zoo with the Clark family. These are a few pics of our time spent there. Gage had more energy than I have seen from him in a while. He was definitely in his element. We kept track of him by walkie talkie. He loves his walkie talkies. It was a successful trip by Clark standards. No one got lost (for too long anyways) and no one fell in the water. It was a great way to end Spring Break. Thanks Mommer and Papa!!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

It's been a fun morning at our house!! Last night we set the trap to catch our leprechaun and went to bed. This morning when we went to check the trap we found a note saying, "better LUCK next year"!! The kids were a little disappointed until they started looking around the house and found all of the little michievious things the leprechaun had done. He turned our milk and water green, colored on our faces with green marker, and spilled gold chocolate coins all over the place!! We used the green milk to make pancakes which turned our pancakes green. Gage declared St. Patrick's Day his most favorite holiday-- even better than Christmas!!
Setting out the leprechaun trap.

That darn leprechaun got away!! But not before spilling gold chocolate coins everywhere!

Not even the baby was spared. The leprechaun colored her nose green too!!

Amberly devouring her green pancakes

Carrigan taking a big gulp of green milk

I can hear!!!

I took Gage to get his hair cut today. Not just a trim, but all chopped off! Most of you know that Kimball lives vicariously through Gage's thick, long, full bodied hair. Needless to say Kimball is not too happy with me. Gage couldn't be happier!! He has been wanting his hair cut short for some time now. All that hair was high maintenance. Getting ready for school in the mornings will be much easier and I think he looks great. As we were getting in the car to come home Gage excitedly says to me, "Mom, I can hear!!" Poor kid-- all that hair was blocking his hearing!!

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I LOVE Fridays!!!!!

Friday has got to be my favorite day of the week. It is the day I can breath a little easier and just enjoy my family. The kids don't have homework, there are no strict bedtime routines, no extra curricular activities or practices, and Kimball is usually around in the evening. We have dubbed Friday as "family fun night". The kids (and me) can't wait til dad comes home and the festivities can begin. It's nothing major-- just simple stuff like games, movies, pillow fights and of course treats!! It has to be simple or I probably wouldn't enjoy it as much, ya know! Anyway these are pictures from our last "friday fun night". We are looking forward to another in just 2 days!!

Making pizza for dinner. The tricky part was getting the pepperoni's onto the pizza instead of straight into the mouth!

Kimball and I realized that we don't have many pictures of the two of us so we let Carrigan take our picture. She did pretty good minus the missing top of our heads.

Playing games and eating a little (okay alot) too much candy. Our kids LOVE to play games. Tonight was Disney Yatzee.

Pillow fight!!! We are hoping that Kimball's shoulder is still on the path to recovery after this but it sure was fun!

It's not a good pillow fight unless someone gets hurt. At least that's what my Dad always said. So this must have been a good fight because everyone was crying in the end. Ahhh fun times!!!