Not enough time in the day!

Hey readers. Sorry I have been so absent in past weeks. I am quickly finding out that two jobs aren't for me! I have 15 more observations to do for UK before April 1st. Please pray for me! I cannot wait until I am back to just teaching and being a wife and mommy. I have photos and videos to show, but no time to blog about them these days. I will simply crunch a bunch of photos of a variety of February events into one big blog to save myself time.

I am so glad that March has arrived! I celebrated my birthday on March 1st this year (thanks to that elusive Leap day which escapes me three out of four years). I found that, for the first time, I really did not want to celebrate my birthday. I guess I have officially hit "old age" (I know my mom is chuckling as she reads that). I am more excited to see the end of the dismal winter season here in Kentucky. We have had below average temperatures here all winter. We even saw a 10 degree night on Monday night! Luckily this is all about to change. We will even hit 60 degrees by this weekend! This is just in time for Marua's birthday party, which we are excited to attend.
The past month was busy with many birthday parties. Sarah was invited to four parties last month (not counting my birthday)! Amy was nice enough to take Sarah to one and I managed to attend another with her. . Sarah had a great time at Avery's birthday party with many of her friends from church and preschool. I am sorry the photos are not great...I couldn't keep anyone still long enough for a good shot. I guess this is a mark of a great party!

This is Avery's cake. Her mom, Donia, is so crafty. She made this herself! She is also starting up a invitation and program creation business called the Blu Sash. Check her out at http://www.theblusash.com/. She is quite creative and has done work for church, birthdays, and weddings.

Here is one of the few photos I caught of Sarah. The kids spent the who time running along the "yellow brick road". Avery had a Wizard of Oz party and it was so cute.

Nico took a break under the table to escape the chaos for a moment.

Sarah decided that under the table was the place to be as well.

As you can see, watching the birthday girl open presents wasn't a priority for most of these three year olds!

Doesn't Avery look cute as Dorothy?
Here is a wide shot of the event. Thanks for a great party Simmons family! We love your little girl so much!

I have so few photos of Chris's mom and Dad, I thought I would include all of the ones I took this month. Sarah loves playing with her "Mamaw and Papaw from the street". They came by to visit one afternoon.

See the joy?

Mamaw and Sarah hugging.

We feel so blessed to have them living near to us now.


Now for the next of my random February post. We took a trip last Thursday to the local Mall and to my favorite restaurant, the Olive Garden. All Sarah cared about during the day was getting close to the mall play area. She is obsessed with this duck. Look at her triumphant face.

We also spotted a friend at the mall on this day. Nico! They seemed pretty ecstatic to see one another here.

More random thoughts... Sarah is obsessed with balloons. she kept this one from Avery's party. She spends hours playing with any balloon she can find. She seems to think she can blow it up bigger even though it is tied off. I wish my biggest problem of the day was trying to blow up balloons. Oh to be three again!

On my birthday weekend, we decided to drive up to Cincy to take a visit to my favorite hangout, the Cheesecake factory! We loaded up the family. (Mom went with us, Dad went with Jason and Ashley).

Sarah wanted nothing to do with photos in the car.


Mamaw was in a much better mood.
I am embarrassed to say that I took no photos of the trip other than in the car. I don't know what I was thinking!

I came to my senses and grabbed the camera at the end of the day when we stopped of at Totter Otterville in Covington. Mom, Dad, Jason and Ashley went on home.

We decided to give Sarah an hour to burn off all that energy she built up from riding in the car and shopping.

This is the view from outside Totter Otterville. I cannot wait until it is warm enough to play on the playground and let Sarah ride the train.
Inside, she immediately spotted the ball pit and slides. She was surprised when she jumped off the slide to see this gigantic elephant!
More sliding.

Here she is flying high above the crowds.

Then she moved on to the ballet room. She didn't stay here nearly as long as last time. Maybe her love of ballet is wearing thin.

She did spend a lot of time in the water area. This place is a lot like a children's museum. The best part is that adults don't have to pay!

This is another view of the outside area. They have areas to dig for "dinosaur bones." Come on spring!

It's time to say goodbye. We had an exhausting day, but plan to come back very soon.

Now, if I can just get one job out of the way, you won't be able to keep me from blogging!

Bye