The Ides of March

I'm not really sure what an "Ide" is but it sounded like a nifty title.  

March 2nd Titus and Amber had a FIAR field trip to Walnut Creek.  This is an inner city wetland sanctuary.  Thankfully they had loaner boots for everyone, as it was still wet from the recent rains.  The kids had fun exploring, looking for and learning about different animals in the creek and wetland area.

March 3rd Lance and Amber had a "date".  They went to the ballet performance of one of Lance's friend.

March 4th was the beginning of Titus' baseball season.  Chris was bamboozled into to managing both the Varsity and Junior Varsity team and coaching the Varsity team for Titus' middle school.  It was a lot of work leading up to this day and will be till mid-May.  Titus has been playing a lot of outfield so far this month and had some serious ESPN catches, again this year he is often one of the only guys to make it home.

Titus also spent a lot of time with Frank this month rebuilding their chicken coop/run, taking down and putting up sheds.

Amber in turn spent a lot of time on horses.  I'm continually amazed at how she keeps improving.

Titus, Amber and I also started going to the park on Thursdays with a group of old friends.  We all weren't sure how it would work out but its been awesome for everyone.  These kids are great, they just play and play hard just like my kids needed.  It's hard for us to leave each week in order to get Titus to his Writing Class.

March 11th Lance and Jared went to an English Country Dance.  I'm so thankful for these events, they are such a great outlet for young people to have safe fun.

March 16th we had a FIAR field trip to the Raleigh City Museum with some interesting city history and building activities  After we went to a new (to us) park with an incredibly large slide and other challenging equipment the kids had blast playing on, while we moms enjoyed the beautiful weather and talked.

We picked up 20 new chicks on March 22nd.  The chicks arrived four days earlier than we expected so we had to scramble to get a place set up for them.  We decided to go back to the Comets we first got when we began our chicken raising journey and so far we are very pleased with our choice.

Mid March Titus decided to master the art of making Schaum Tortes, they are one of Chris' favorite deserts.

March 25th was a busy day.  Titus had a TKD event and performance at Ting Stadium.  The crowd really went wild after their performance.  

 

Then I took him to the Mc-Family for an Air-soft party I had already dropped Jared off earlier in the morning (Notice the nice air job he did painting his gun).  

In the middle of all this Amber's friend came to the house for a playdate.  Chis and Lance went to USA baseball to watch Caden play with the Collins.  When I got home I was thankful the girls play so well, it allowed me to just enjoyed the quiet till it was time to start picking people up and getting others home.  It was hectic but so thankful everyone was able to do something this Saturday they enjoyed.

Jared finished out the month taking a CPR/First Aid Certification Class at the fire department for work.  He said the class was both entertaining and informative.  Those are skills good for everyone to have.