Shawarma Day

October 15 was Shawarma Day.

Mmm, lovely easy chicken shawarma from a recipe from themediterraneandish.com along with tzatziki sauce and arugula (from the grocery store) and 3-ingredient Mediterranean salad. I tried to make homemade pita bread to put them in from a recipe from melskitchencafe.com but they didn't puff up so we adapted. It was all yummy, though. And I was only a week late in making shawarma so we celebrated Shawarma Day Observed.

In the meantime we celebrated World Food Day on October 16 by having an at-home potluck.

We had stroganoff on National Pasta Day, October 17.

October 21 was International Day of the Nacho. We had nachos.

Monte Cristo Day (Observed)

September 17 was Monte Cristo Day. We observed it over the next two days. One day we watched The Count of Monte Cristo. The next day we made Monte Cristo Sandwiches, a recipe from The Food Nanny.

That's an amazing big sister and multi-tasker, holding a sleeping baby and eating her sandwich. Love her.

Groundhog Day and Groundhog Day Observed

I realized something recently. January and February this year have the same dates on the same days of the week as back in 2014. It of course will change in March since there is an extra day in February this year. In the meantime, some of our celebrating in January and February of 2020 parallels that of 2014.
For example Groundhog Day. As in 2014 we celebrated Groundhog Day Observed the day before since February 2 was on a Sunday.
Jeremy made imitation groundhog burgers again. This time he made salmon burgers.

The boys watched the movie.
In 2014, Nichole brought home a groundhog puppet from school. In 2020, Lucky brought one home.

And like 2014, we have a new baby in the home. What a joy. (comparison- first picture Lucky, second picture, Jet)

One thing that is different is that this year the date was a palindrome date. 02-02-2020. Those types of things are always fun.
And since we did imitation groundhog burgers the day before, on the 2nd, I tried out a new recipe to go along with dinner- sweet and sour chicken. It was from a Relief Society cookbook I got years ago in our old ward. There are some recipes in there that are our favorites. And this sweet and sour chicken?- Craveworthy! At least for me. Mmmmmmmmmm. Jeremy can't stand pineapple. More for me! I love pineapple!

Spouses Day (Observed)

We learned another new holiday from the national days calendar. Spouses Day was January 26. Jeremy and I planned to play a game that night since we haven't been able to do any activities like that together for a while (It's a good thing we went on so many dates last year before the baby arrived). I got tired and fell asleep and Jeremy let me... because he's a great spouse.
So the day after Spouse's Day we celebrated it. We watched a movie and ate popcorn together (we haven't done that for a while, either). Jet was there for part of the time but I made it through the whole movie without falling asleep.
I don't have any pictures from that holiday or holiday observed. But speaking of spouses, when Lucky was born, at the hospital they told us we could get a complimentary meal for Jeremy so he and I could have a meal together, a little date before the baby and I went home. Unfortunately, two of our children got sick so Jeremy spent most of his time at home taking care of sick kids while Lucky and I were in the hospital. We never got our meal together.
When Jet and I were at the hospital, none of the kids at home were sick so Jeremy and I got our meal together since that hospital had the same thing with the complimentary meal.

Woohoo. Love time with my husband.

Catching Up- March

Plenty happened in March.

March 1 was National Pig Day. Great excuse for hot dogs with sauerkraut.

It was also Share a Smile Day. And it sure makes me smile when my kids do service.

The kids and I went to a performance at the Orem Library one day. The Woodwind Family Quintet from BYU was showing different woodwind instruments then they did a performance of "Peter and the Wolf." Ah, music.  I love music.
Afterward, the kids and I sat down to some book reading.  Since Jeremy had work during the performance, we brought along "Daddy" so he wouldn't miss it.

Surprise.

For Dr. Seuss' birthday on March 2, we had green eggs and ham.

Jeremy and I got out with a friend and headed up to Alta, not for the skiing, but for the birds. They have bird feeders up there that attract different kids of birds. We got to see some birds there that we hadn't seen other places. It was cold and snowy and worth it.

Jr. registered for junior high classes and got an idea of what it would feel like to play the cello.

March 5 was National Cheese Doodle Day.  Mmmmmm. Queasy puffs.

Nichole delighted us at another orchestra concert at the junior high.

I had a girls' night with some friends from our old ward.  It was so nice to see them. Love those gals.  The person hosting suggested we make treats like an English tea.  I contributed cucumber sandwiches.

Of course I forgot to take a picture of our impossible cheeseburger pie that we had for dinner on Pi Day, March 14, until it was almost gone. Oh, well.

The kids helped make dinner on the Ides of March, March 15. Caesar Salad again.

Since the boys' school was going to be no more (combining with another school to become a brand new school next year), they had a big gala to say goodbye.  They had a red carpet with photo op on the way in, we had refreshments, and we got to watch the kids do dances and see presentations of the school over its last 65 years.

Lucky and I got out for a nice walk on the first day of Spring, which was March 20.

Nichole put a lot of work into a National History Day project about the extinction of the passenger pigeon and we were able to go to see her display.

Great job, Nichole. (Click on the picture to see a bigger version of it)

Some friends came to visit during their Spring Break and the kids put on a show for us.

For Harry Houdini's Birthday on March 24, we ate pigs in a straitjacket.

On International Waffle Day, March 25, we ate... waffles.

March 28 was Something on a Stick Day. I put out different foods and let people go at them with toothpicks. Creativity did come out.

Jr. Jr. competed in his first pinewood derby. He put a lot of work into designing it, and sanding it, after dad helped carve it, and painting it all by himself.  He won an award for best paint job.

Jeremy and I got to go on a date to a local play where we supported some friends in our ward, some of whom got their first acting experience in this.  They did a great job.

We started off our Spring Break with a slumber party in the living room (Mom and Dad slept in our own room).

We went to our ward talent show. We thought about putting a juggling routine together but things were so busy we didn't get around to it. We had fun watching everyone else's acts, though.

March 26 was Make Up Your Own Holiday Day. I chose to celebrate some other actual holidays on that day. So I guess you could call it Celebrate Other Holidays Day.
Here's a list of some of those holidays:
Video Games Day is July 8 and National Video Games Day is September 12.

Walk Around Things Day is April 4.

National Oatmeal Muffin Day is December 19.

National Chocolate Pudding Day is June 26.

National Gumdrop Day is February 15.

YES! I did it! I am done catching up with March. On to April.

Observed

February 6 is the anniversary of when Alan Shepard hit the first golf ball on the moon.  We celebrated it (observed) yesterday along with February 5th's holiday, World Nutella Day.  For dinner last night we had astronaut sandwiches made with Nutella.  We also drank Tang.