Our Special Day With Gage

Somehow over the last few years we had simply neglected to take our little Gage to the zoo. His older brothers are just not interested anymore and we almost never have just Gage. Yesterday Sandra had the older boys, Chili, Beppe, & Mason, and she took them skiing so we decided to have a 'special day with Gage.' We did a lot of things with him... first we went to the zoo, then to eat a special lunch out, then we helped him ride his motor cycle, we let him play his favorite video games, we even played a couple rounds of 'Candy Land' and then when we were too exhausted for anything else we talked him into watching a couple movies with us. At one point in the day he turned to me and said 'Mom, I love Spring Break.' We are so thankful for our Gage!!!

I Need My Monster

So I just couldn't resist a quick post about my new favorite kids book... A friend from our ward at church wrote this great kids story about a little boy who misses his monster from under the bed... Now I know what you're thinking Tab has a friend who wrote a book and now wants us to believe it is actually good... well while I understand how usually we just 'humor' our friends and their 'cute' little projects I assure you that this is definitely not the case this time... I had a chance to sneak peak it about a month ago and bought it last week on Amazon and have read it to the boys probably once everyday since I got it... so basically I am saying this book is great, the story is great, the illustrations are just amazing and I highly recommend you all add it to your collection!!!

St Patricks Day

So for St. Patrick's Day traditionally, though I am pretty sure that I am not of Irish descent, I prepare all of our food green. The boys simply love our silly little tradition and we are all so amazed at how much my food looks like vomit once it is tinted green.

Green Eggs

Garlic Toast, Punch, and Shepard's Pie

and below we have added some celery with green cream cheese as our after school snack!

Mmmm... does anyone want to come over for dinner!!!

Beppe's Glasses

Funny story... so I get a note home from the school nurse that tells me that apparently Giuseppe had 80/20 vision in one of his eyes and 20/20 in the other. We were shocked to find out that our almost 11year old son has been walking around with what the eye doctor had deemed a 'lazy eye' all of these years. When the doctor confirmed his need for glasses Giuseppe promptly turned to me and with all seriousness said, "I don't need glasses, I only have a problem seeing when I close ONE of my eyes." Yes, he is a boy isn't he! I sure do love how he looks in his glasses! Now he looks as smart as he actually is!!

Our Biggest Wrestler... Jeremy

Chili and Beppe both got 3rd last weekend and Jer did VERY well and brought home a 1st place medal!!! Not bad for a guy who was told by the Doc... no wrestling or grappling pending an MRI... Sorry I should clarify... his exact words were no 'serious' wrestling... so Jeremy said "Good then I won't take it serious!" Glorya... where were you to stop him on this one!!!

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