Not so bad for 4.6 billion years old

In case you were stuck in a minivan running kids around all day (thanks Amy) or were visiting your Amish kinfolk in Pennsylvania, today was Earth Day.

Happy (Belated) Earth Day! Its hard to believe that you are so old. Many Scientists believe you are 4.6 billion years old and some Christians believe you are 6,000 years old. Wow, And I thought this lady was old:Here's to you Mother Earth. May you enjoy your remaining years as we continue to take advantage of all you have to offer. Here's to 6,000 (or 4.6 billion) more!

PB

Exercise night

The school my girls attend is currently doing a contest for all students to participate in.
No TV week!
Yes, that means that we have turned off our TV, computer, and Leapsters. We are having a great time thinking up creative things for us to do. Today when Cutie came home from school she decided we needed to exercise so she made stations with a different exercise at each location. What a great time! We spent the night in the basement playing hard. The kids were so tired from all of the exercise they were all asleep before 8:30!

This is the chart that Cutie made listing each exercise station. Each one was set up with the needed items.

Bowling!

Push-ups

Cartwheels (even I did some!)

Headstand

Jumping on one foot (Peach is wearing another one of her great clothing designs. Lookin' Good!)

Sit-ups

Playing soccer (Bubba put the purple headband on himself)

What a great night!

I want my strawberry shake!

I have a thing for In-N-Out burgers. I am not usually a fan of beef patties, but last year I experienced a cheeseburger there that was actually good and left me wanting more. They also have the most heavenly strawberry shakes to wash the delicious cheeseburger down. So you can just imagine how excited I was to be in Vegas where there are numerous In-N-Out burgers.

On Thursday night PB and I took the kids to a Panda Express for dinner (they share my dislike of cheeseburgers). PB decided that the Chinese food looked great and ordered for himself. I sat patiently waiting for the family to finish their meal. We then took off for In-N-Out.

I ordered my cheeseburger and fries with a strawberry shake. I specifically asked PB if he wanted to get a shake for himself or the kids. He declined. I decided to wait until we got to the hotel to eat. I have found that eating fast food quickly in a car leaves me feeling like I have not eaten at all.

As we are walking to the elevators at the hotel PB asks me: Do you want any of this?

I say: Any of what?

He then shows me an almost empty cup that at one time held my strawberry shake. What do I say to that?

(My cheeseburger was still great!)

On Sabbatical

We decided to jump on a plane and head to Las Vegas for the week. Come see us over at the Mobile Blog for daily photo updates.

Final Results for March Madness: Barack did not bring his A-Game

Barack, you really let me down this time. I mean, North Carolina for National Champs? I'll let you slide this time but you better use your "sound judgement" when it comes to making decisions down the road. For example, are you really going to answer the phone at 3 AM?

March Madness is over! That is weird to say now that we are going into week two of April.

Congratulations are in order to the big winner, ERIK. Attaboy, Gimp. Even with only one good leg you pulled through on this one. You fought a good fight (and probably cheated). No poor sports here. ERIK, YOU ARE THE MAN.

Here are the final results from our "office" pool:

1. Erik


2. Ryan


3. Missy


4. Steve


5. Grandpa S


6. Candice


7. Nortanicus


8. Paellaboy


9. Timmy


10. Amy

Oh yeah, and congratulations to the Kansas Jayhawks. I guess you guys played a great tournament too.


PB

Going for the Gold

I am usually not one to brag. Besides there's a big difference between bragging and blogging, right? I'm so proud of Cutie....


Our school recently held a reading fundraiser. The kids collected pledges for each hour they read. Cutie's goal was to read the most hours out of all the second graders. Her total for the week was 1,315 minutes read!

Our school read a total of 60,000 minutes and earned $14,000. Thanks to all of you who contributed and helped my children be inspired to read.

Whose turn is it?

Amy and I have been back and forth on this so I decided to be the bigger person (literally and figuratively) and post something on the blog today. Its been a while so there may be some catching up to do...

ST PATRICK'S DAY

BUBBA'S CUTE TOES

(He finally won. I swore I'd never give in.)

EASTER

Ok, dear, its your turn next.

PB