April 7 - 9, 2013 in Oklahoma

Making ice cream. Put ingredients in a small ziplock bag. In a large ziplock bag fill with ice and a cup of Kosher salt. Find Granddad and have him shake two bags for five minutes per bag. The kids were supposed to shake their own bags but that lasted about 15 seconds. They handed the bags to Ma. That lasted about 20 seconds and I handed both bags to Granddad.

You can eat the ice cream right out of the bag!

 Or, put everything you can find to embellish it and eat it out of a bowl!

Tuesday night we had Dance!  

 Anna Claire and this little girl (Scarlett or Charlotte????) were best friends! They whispered secrets in each other's ears and hugged each other the entire time. I am standing outside the room with my camera so the pictures look a little fuzzy. Everytime Anna Claire and her friend saw me they would stop and pose.

 

 

 

Earlier in the day Sutton found some duck decoys and a mud puddle. Of course, put the ducks in the mud puddle.  Makes perfect sense.

Anna Claire climbing trees. 

 Bennett climbing where he isn't supposed to climb, I'm sure.

 And, then Sutton started climbing. He said "Look Ma...look!"

 Gymnastics with Bennett. Anna Claire and Gary watching Bennett.

 Jessica and Sutton watching Bennett.

 

Bennett watching us.

 

And, that's not all they do. Anna Claire also has horse riding lessons and Bennett starts t-ball tomorrow. His daddy is the coach! Tuesday was absolutely crazy and I didn't even have all three kids. Gary and Brent had Bennett with them hunting. Here's how the day went, wake everyone up at 6:45 a.m. Eat breakfast. Anna Claire and Sutton get in the car. Drive to Oklahoma City to take Anna Claire to school. Her home schooling requires her to be in classes two days a week. Walk her to her room. Put Sutton back in the car. Stop at Target for groceries. Go home. Sutton falls asleep. Fix lunch. Wake Sutton up. Feed Sutton.Dress Sutton for the day at 1:00 p.m. Sorry! I was so proud just to have him dressed at 1:00 p.m.  Leave to go pick up Anna Claire. Have Anna Claire a snack in the car ready because we leave at 4:35 for dance and gymnastics. Arrive home. Hurry and change clothes for dance and gymnastics. Fill water bottles. Motivate Bennett to go to gymnastics. He's tired. Load everyone in car again. Jessica got home around 3:30 p.m. so after 3:30 I didn't really have to do all that but Jessica did. Oh, forgot, Monday night fix lunch for lunch box for Tuesday. And, after all this, they are adding another activity (t-ball) this week!

 

We ordered pizza Monday night so that's what Anna Claire had for lunch on Tuesday. I put two pieces of pizza, snack bag of goldfish, and a water bottle in her lunch box. I also put a special "I love you" note in her box. She wanted to take an extra snack because she said that there was always someone who forgot a snack. Sweet girl!