Drive-In Movie Day

June 6 was Drive-In Movie Day.

Jet got to sit in a box "car" with paper plate wheels, with a pillow and a Switch steering wheel inside. He got to "drive" into the living room (thanks, Nichole) 

and ordered the Deluxe movie package, which consisted of watching a movie and snacks: pizza, nachos, popcorn, candy, lemonade. 

He had a blast. The food was brought out to him (I made the other kids serve themselves), and the kids and I enjoyed a movie, the animated Disney Robin Hood. I enjoyed most of the movie. I fell asleep before it was over.

It took some effort (mostly preparing the food. Nichole put toppings on the pizza, Jr. made the popcorn, and Lucky made the lemonade) but the car was very simple.

We love finding reasons to celebrate. 

Mommy, Look

Jr.: I seem to have found myself inside a box.

Other Narch thins

Sometimes on my phone I will make a note of blogworthy things or just ways we celebrated. Besides the holidays, I wanted to talk about some of the other things we did in March so I wrote on my note quickly "Other March Things" except that it came out "Other Narch thins." It doesn't matter if I have typos on temporary notes so I left it but then as I was about to start this post, I thought it was funny so now I'm permanently putting it on my blog. Tee Hee.

So... other Narch thins:

I did RootsTech online again to get some ideas about family history. Someday I'll actually put into practice things I learn.

This is me joining in with the "selfie" in one of the presentations.

Tee Hee.

Lucky did outside service for a school thing.

I try to menu plan in advance and sometimes there are last minute changes based on schedules or how tired/motivated I am to make dinner, etc. etc. Sometimes, however, there are last minute changes because I see a recipe that I just want to do so I set aside what is on the plan to do what I want.

In this case Our Best Bites posted about Cheeseburger Salad Bowls on Instagram and I wanted them and they were a lot quicker than what I was going to make and I do not regret it. I had the ingredients so it was easy to toss together. I will definitely make them again.

Jeremy got some things shipped in a couple of BIG cardboard boxes which Jet loved. He and Lucky had some fun playing ("Pop Goes the Weasel" Jack in the Box- you know the one) and it was a good "nest" for watching movies. Jet even fell asleep one night in a box. 

My niece had a birthday in March and Jet insisted that we make a cake to celebrate. We put one candle on and whoever wanted to got to blow it out. Then we sent the video of us singing, "Happy Birthday," to my niece. She got a kick out of it.

Jr. and I went to an event at UVU and got a picture with Willy the Wolverine. Man, I'm short.

 

Some of our kids were having trouble with school work so Jeremy set up an area complete with snacks to create a comfortable environment for them to work in.

 

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A Room of One's Own?

January 25 was A Room of One's Own Day. I got maybe an hour or two total to myself in my room that day. I had such plans, too.

We got a new microwave delivered and Jet was so cute playing in the box.

He found some tongs and sat on my lap in my room to play with them.

Jr. decided to do homework in my room.

I just had to go out and see Nichole's artwork she was working on. She's taking a printmaking class this semester. If you give Nichole and medium...

"Reverence Is More Than Just Quietly Sitting"

We got a package that came in a nice sized box for playing in. 

One night, Lucky decided to play in it but it became time to have family prayer. I reminded him several times that it was time for prayer and I couldn't figure out why he wasn't coming out. He was being so quiet, I knew he could hear me.

I said, "I think you'll be more reverent if you come out of the box." His reply? "I'm folding my arms." Ha Ha Ha Ha. That's why he was so quiet. We explained that it is more reverent actually out of the box.

Mommy, Look

Isn't it great that we're really entertained... by boxes?

The Last Couple Weeks

Let me update you on the last couple weeks.
Lucky's feeling better after being sick.  From time to time he's still somewhat clingy which makes it hard to do some things.  And he hasn't been sleeping as well at night.  Oh well.
We have been able to do some celebrating but not much blogging.
Sunday, January 31 was Backwards Day.  For dinner, we had dessert first.  Jeremy made a S'more Pie.  Then we had pizza which we ate crust first.  Our home teacher stopped by and brought us cookies which we also ate before dinner.

Jeremy told the kids that to really make it backwards, they should make dinner and I should play video games all evening.  That didn't exactly happen.

In the book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Willie Wonka invites the five ticket holders to his factory on February 1.  To celebrate we had some Wonka candy on Monday, February 1.

Tuesday, February 2 was Groundhog Day.  We watched the movie and ate our traditional imitation groundhog burgers.  Instead of making fries this year, Jeremy made potato chips.  Yumm.

Since we'd been cooped up with Lucky not feeling well, we decided to get some fresh air on Wednesday, February 3.  Jeremy and I took the youngest boys for a drive around Utah Lake.  It was beautiful.  The roads were clear and we were able to see lots of birds.  Here is a list of some that we saw:
bald eagle, golden eagle, American kestrels, magpies, ravens, red-tailed hawks, rough-legged hawks, northern harriers, house sparrows, ring-necked pheasants, northern flickers, white-crowned sparrows, spotted towhee, gadwalls, great blue heron, American white pelican, Canada geese, Cooper's hawk

 golden eagle and rough-legged hawk

 red-tailed hawks

 American kestrels

 ring-necked pheasant and white-crowned sparrow

 gadwalls and Cooper's hawk

 American white pelican

   
Thursday, February 4 was busy so we completely forgot to celebrate Create a Vacuum Day and Thank a Mailman Day.

Friday, February 5 was Nutella Day.  Jeremy made us treats- nutella and marshmallow cream rolled up in a tortilla.  Yumm.

Saturday. February 6, Jeremy had a show in Spanish Fork.  After his show the kids and I met him down at Salem Pond for some birding and fun.

There was a bald eagle sitting in a tree right in the middle of the park so we were able to walk all the way around it on the walking trail and look at it from all angles.

Before we went home, the kids got into a snowball fight being very careful to avoid Lucky and Mommy.

Sunday, February 7, we went for a nice relaxing evening drive down to the southeast of Utah Lake and back.  We saw a few birds, some deer, and the sunset.

 
Monday, February 8 was Chinese New Year.  We ate food and fortune cookies.

 chow mein and stir fry veggies

egg rolls and orange chicken

white rice and fortune cookies

Lucky's fortune was "You have a natural grace and great consideration of others."  Except in the middle of the night when he won't stay asleep since he was sick.
Jr. Jr's fortune said, "You will soon bring joy to a family member."
Jr.'s said, "Your dreams will bring you into a profitable venture."
Nichole's fortune was "You could do well in a technical field.  Think creatively."
Daddy's was "Next Tuesday will be one of success and pleasant surprises."  Hmmm, sounds like we should go out birding on Tuesday.
I can't find mine but it said something about a vacation.

Since then it's been mostly cleaning/organizing and birding.  Jeremy's been on a few walks with the binoculars and camcorder.

  Eurasian collared dove and Western scrub-jay

We found a new place not too far away that's right next to the lake.  Jr. Jr. got to try out his new scooter he got for Christmas as we followed the walking/biking trail.  On the way back, Jeremy took a different path and we met up on the other side.

As of this blog post, we've identified 56 different species of bird since the beginning of the year.

 American coot and common goldeneye

 mallard and ring-billed gull

This weekend is the Great Backyard Bird Count.  Looks like another excuse for birding Friday, Saturday, and Monday.  That and Saturday is Bald Eagle Day at Farmington Bay of the Great Salt Lake and Monday is President's Day with no school.  Remember what we did last time there was a day off school?

We've been doing so much lately that every day I'm too tired to blog.  So now I'm caught up.  Phew.

Oh yeah, and the kids are having their Valentine parties at school today so they each made a box for their Valentines to go in.  Jr.'s was a collage box.  He cut out pictures of things he liked from magazines and glued them on a granola bar box (which he also likes- granola bars, not just the box).

Nichole made a sorting hat sitting on a chair.  It has a poem on it.  "I am the Sorting Hat, I like to eat.  Feed me your Valentines to give me a treat." 

Good job, kids

O.K.  Now I'm caught up.