Late nights on the floor

My kids look forward to 'late nights' on the weekends. They get to stay up late and watch movies out in the family room. Jackson always sleeps out on the couch for late nights but lately he's done more sleeping on the floor! I started moving the coffee table away from the couch and putting a couple pillows on the floor under him as a precaution since he kept falling off the couch! After it happened 3 or 4 times in a row, it just became funny. One morning I went out to the family room and while I was using the computer he started to stir. He was laying on the floor and rolled over in his sleep, hitting his arm on the coffee table, waking him up. I sat there trying not to laugh but then he said, "not again", and I couldn't help but laugh. 

These pictures still make me laugh. I pulled the blanket off his head when I walked out to the family room that morning and the next morning he was sleeping with his legs still on the couch but his body on the floor. Lucky for Jackson, he hasn't fallen off once since we got the new couch. Haha

Parents & Pastries

Jackson's school had a unique activity before school last week. Students and parents were encouraged to come to school and hour early and met in the gym and read together. There were fun questions set up around the room about reading (what type of book do you like best? fiction or non-fiction. If you wrote a book, what would it be about? Etc.). After they answered the ten or so questions, they got to take the answers to the center of the gym for a doughnut then sit and read with their parent.

The school had ordered over 20 dozen doughnuts and they ran out! I was happy to see so many families there and nice to see some neighbors.

St. Patrick's Day

When we woke up in the morning on Saint Patrick's Day a couple weeks ago, we found out a leprechaun had visited us overnight and left a pot of gold!


A leprechaun visit is very exciting as a toddler but one of the saddest parts of your kids growing up is that they don't buy into the fairy tales anymore. Even though Jackson kept saying it was me that left the pot of gold, he was quite taken back when he poured a glass of milk and it was green!

He was questioning it all day because, of course, Mom could never have done that. It must be magic.

Ashleigh wanted to make sure Copper was in on the festivities too. She put one of her green t-shirts on him. He kept tripping over it as he ran back and forth playing in the house though, so Ashleigh opted for a green strip of fabric tied to his collar. I think he was much happier with that option!

I was glad to see St. Patrick's day fell on a Saturday this year and it just happened to be a weekend I had off from work! We had fun all day, especially with our meals.

Breakfast was green pancakes, oranges & kewi. For lunch, we had pot pies which ironically had  peas and  carrots which I found very fitting. Dinner was Irish chicken and dumplings, complete with turnips and we enjoyed pistachio pudding parfaits for dessert. Yum!

I think mother nature has a sense of humor. After a few beautiful days earlier this month we got quite a few inches of snow overnight. It felt like we got a little taste of spring, enough to get excited about, but then woke up to this:

        

 So, I gave in and made be best of it. 

I must admit, it turned out to be a great day after all. 

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I bet you didn't know we are secret agents. Haha Rusty discovered a fun application on his iPhone called, Field Agent that we've had fun with. Jobs are listed in our area by a market research company to gather information or provide feedback. Each job shows the location, description and how much it pays. If you accept a job, you have two hours to complete it and they money is deposited directly into his Paypal account.

The first job we accepted was for Walmart. All we had to do was count all the registers at the front of the store and of those registers count how many had chapstic of some kind, how many were out of a certain flavor, and take a picture. It only took us a few minutes and was kind of fun walking around, being sneaky to gather information and we got $5.00 for it!

New Couch!

I had been wanting to buy a sectional for my family room for over a year. I've looked off and on at furniture stores and checked the classified section on KSL since last year. With two growing kids already fighting over who gets to sit where and a hundred "they're on my side", I wanted to get something that worked better for us. After Rusty moving in last summer and now a puppy added to the mix, it is defiantly time for more seating so after getting my tax return I decided I was going to find the perfect couch.

 It needed to be large enough for all four of us to lounge, watch movies, and guests to sleep on. Presidents day weekend the four of us took to the stores with all the sales determined to find our couch. I knew I wanted an "L" shape sectional with a chaise at one end. It seemed every one I found was either to big, to much money, or ugly fabric choices. We ended up finding this beauty at RC Willey and I LOVE it. It's perfect!

Now the rest of the room needs to be updated to match. I took down all the old curtains and will keep an eye out for some new ones. A fresh coat of paint is on the horizon and updating the fireplace. For now, I'm really enjoying our new couch. No fighting and plenty of space for everyone.

 

Thankful Thursday

Of the many blessings I have, I am thankful for:

• Stepping out of my comfort zone and having a great time (I'll have to try it more often) 
• Music that brings people together and makes you want to dance
• Learning new things in unexpected ways
• Things just working out
• Days when work is fun
• Unexpected appreciation 
• Finding the seeds for my garden I've been looking for
• Spending a lot less than anticipated for my new windshield