March was jam packed starting with celebrating my new 12 month old, and ending with celebrating my big 5 year old! I sure love these boys and what sweet brothers they are. Cal is so aware of James and plays so great with him.
We wrapped up Madi's 2nd season of basketball at the beginning of the month.
Broke my heart to see her dread games and not look forward to practices.
We were glad to see the season come to an end.
Still loving our Sunday morning walks and not having Sunday morning meetings!
March was the month for birthdays. The majority of Cal's preschool class turned 5 this month. This is at his friend Luke's birthday party!
James and sisters loved the swing out back!
Madi gave a talk in primary - which she prepared for and wrote completely on her own - and did a fabulous job!
I also got to sneak in to hear her play the prelude before primary.
Spencer had 2 back to back trips in March - first to Oakland on March 8th and then to Chicago on the 15th. We celebrated dad coming home from his first trip with dinner at In-N-Out.
The girls are still going strong with knitting and have surpassed their goal of one per month. This month they knitted scarves for GrandPapa and Grandmother Rudd.
Then wrote the sweetest notes . . .
before we mailed off to Ontario.
And then we got to FaceTime with Grandpa and Grandma to see them wearing their new scarves.
We said good-bye to the Clegg's this month. It was sad to see them leave.
But boy are we excited to have Bob a part of our family!
Everyone loves him and he's a great addition to our family!
We had a gorgeous week of weather which meant dinner outside every night.
We celebrated beautiful weather with our first flat of Camarillo Strawberries . . .
. . . James' first ice cream cone . . .
, , , and lots of park outings!
Cal had a preschool field trip to the ZOO and the boys had such a great time that we went ahead and bought passes for the year!
All shades of green for St. Patrick's day!
St. Patty's Day park day was a blast!
Lots of brother play time! I love watching these 2 play so well together!
On March 21st I got to go to the Ellen show with my friend Jessica. She also invited one of her good friends from San Diego. It was a blast hanging out with these ladies for the day!
It was an awesome experience being on the Ellen show - Jessica and I got picked (with about 12 others) to be part of a focus group where we had to perfect our screams and practice our reactions to being called down on stage. It was fun, but totally stressful - thinking I might actually get called down for a game or something. That's just not me, so I was happy with just a walk by from Ellen.
We went home with a $250 gift card to PetSmart and $150 Visa card!
At the very beginning of the month Elle came home from school telling us about a "Rocks, Gems, and Minerals" show at the Ventura County Fair grounds that she wanted to go to - telling us it was all free, except for parking. We figured that would be a fun Saturday family activity, so we went.
The first thing they all did was color a dinosaur picture to enter into the coloring contest.
All the kids wanted to sift through the sand to find beautiful rocks - three scoops in the container and then they got to pick out a dozen of their favorites.
They also each chose a "grab bag" for $2 a piece filled with different rocks, gems, minerals.
It was fun to come home and see all the cool things they each got!
Which Madi later neatly organized into an egg carton.
The best part about the whole thing was that at the end of the month I got a call saying that Madi and Elle had both won the coloring contests for their age groups!!
They each received cute little envelopes filled with 5 different prizes!
Notice Elle already wearing the shark tooth necklace and carving out the dinosaur fossil as soon as she got home from school.
Madi quickly joined in . . .
Cal got in on it too!
The last Saturday of the month, Sister Sanchez (Madi's old primary teacher) invited her over to learn some painting techniques for the acrylic paints Madi got for Christmas (and has been too intimidated to use). Madi had such an amazing time and was So proud of her finished piece!
Papa was also in town this weekend - meeting with Spencer's partners at the firm to discuss financial stuff.
What a treat it was for us to have him here!! He arrived Friday morning after the girls had already gone to school, so the boys got some one-on-one time with Papa first. James warmed up right away!
Saturday night I got to take Madi out for shopping and dinner (she requested In-N-Out), then onto he General Women's broadcast. I love hanging out with my girl one-on-one.
On Sunday Cal gave the talk in Primary!
He did such a great job!!!
Then after church we had an early birthday celebration for Cal.
That evening we got to celebrate Cal with Jenkins cousins, aunts, uncles, Grandpa Al, and Boppi.
I loved this cute pop-up card Madi made for Cal.
Sorry so many pictures of it, I was just impressed with her creativity and skill!
We finished the month off with Elle celebrating Ella's birthday with friends. Such beautiful girls!
And a daddy.daughter talent show for Activity Days!
Spener and Madi pulled off an awesome magic show!!
Such a fun night and great end to the month of March!!
