National turn your TV off week

Briana came home from school on Monday and informed me that it is national turn your tv off week. And that includes no playing the wii, and using the computer all week too. Of course I encouraged her to do it, especially since they got a reward at school on Friday if they did it. It was a long week, but we made it through. I had to sneak my TV watching and computer playing while Briana was at school or in bed. That's tough to do! But since I am such a devoted parent, I had to set a good example while she was around.
Tuesday morning, Briana woke up and got out the scotch tape. She taped over all the buttons on all the tvs, all the buttons on all the remotes, and she taped the laptop shut! She even taped over the buttons on Mike's xbox (way to go, Briana!) and she taped the basement computer mouse to the table. And if that wasn't enough, she hid the taped up remotes! I had to spend quite a while searching for them after she was at school on Tuesday. Luckily, Sydney saw where she hid them, so she clued me in.
On Friday at school, Briana got an ice cream sandwich and a coupon for a free kids meal at Chili's (with the purchase of an adult meal, of course). So tonight, we are going to Chili's for dinner. Yay!

Star Student!

Briana is the Star Student at school this week! She is very, very excited about it. She gets to do all kinds of special stuff, including being Mrs. Bahe's helper all week. She also got to fill out all these papers about herself, and they are posted on a bullitin board in her classroom for everyone to see. She got to take four things for show and tell today, and she took, Tacky, her new teddy bear, her Baby Animals book and her yellow chick. Here are all her papers that she filled out about herself:

Today she gets to show them all to everyone in her class and tell them about them. Not only that, but it is spirit week at school this week, so she gets to have pajama day the same week as she is the star student. Very exciting! She is a star in my eyes every day!!

Happy Easter

It looks like we have survived another Easter. Hooray! We started off the weekend with some egg dyeing on Saturday morning.

Saturday afternoon, we went to Arlene's house for our first egg hunt. The kids got a ton of candy.

Their baskets were FULL!

The girls with Charlie

All the kids after the egg hunt.

Back row: Shaun, Charlie, Ayden, Morgan, ?

Front row: Jack, Lila, Briana, Sydney

This morning, when we woke up, the Easter bunny had been here! The girls already knew he had been here, because they heard him last night. Briana said that at 2:00, she heard something in her room, and then she saw the Easter bunnies ears. Sydney is pretty sure she saw him too. I guess he's not as sneaky as I thought he was.

Ellie also enjoyed her first Easter.

Then for our last egg hunt of the season, we went to Mamaw and Papaw's house.

All in all, a good time was had. I think the girls may have seriously eaten a pound of sugar today. They both had tummy aches at one point or another. All in the name of Easter, right?

So much to say!

I have finally cleared enough space on this tiny computer to download more pictures. I think I will start with Sydney's SUPERSTAR picture from preschool.

It's pretty much been the best week of Sydney's life so far. She got to have her All About Me paper put up on the bulletin board with lots of pictures of her, she gets show and tell every day, and on Friday, Mike and I get to go up to preschool for a special show and tell, which is going to be Ellie. Very exciting!!

Last week, Mike went to Breckenridge in Colorado to go skiiing with some of his friends from work. I think he had a really, really good time (I don't think I was missed!).

There's Mike on the slopes.

Mike and Rod Baumann on the slopes.

Rod, Dave Jordon, Brandon (don't know his last name) and Mike. That's the whole group who went, except Dave Jordon's wife who was taking the picture.

A black diamond slope? It looks like it to me!

It's April Fool's Day today, so I made this awesome pizza for the kids and me (Mike's out of town).

Isn't that awesome?! It's actually a cake! I am going to try to make a meatloaf for dinner and frost it with mashed potatoes to look like a cake too, but I haven't made it yet so I can't post a picture.

Finally, here is a cute movie of Sophie and Ellie's first meeting.