Trampoline

On Saturday we got the boys a trampoline. They love it! We should of gotten it years ago. It's going to be countless hours of fun!

Yesterday was such a beautiful day! You would of thought it was summer it was so warm. The boys played out side most of the day. I tended my friends’ kids then we switched and she tended mine so I could run errands. It was so wonderful! Thanks P!

Here are some of my tulips that are starting to bloom. I got them last year for FREE from the park near by (they pull out all the bulbs and people can take them) anyway, I had no idea what color they would be, most are yellow (I was hoping for pink) but what can I say they were free and they are still pretty. The only problem is that most of them are SO small. I don't know if it is my soil or if I planted them to deep. I think it is the soil / lack of water. We still need to install a drip line up there. I probably planted 125. I hope I can get some more in May for next year. I got some two years ago and most of them were pink so I was happy! Why do I love pink?

I have been couponing a lot. I am focusing on getting food storage and stocking up on things. The economy is scaring me, so I am just filling up my cupboards and my freezer.

Today it is back to cold again. There is a storm rolling in, but it will warm up again this weekend. The boys don’t have school this week because of spring break. Yesterday gave me a glimpse of what summer will be like. I think it is going to be a good summer.

So I have to share what I have been doing with my boys. They are addicted to a computer game that they call "The castle game". Tyler wants to play it ALL day and cries and whines and cries some more to play it. So I tried a couple of things, like taking away the privilege if he peed his pants (which was happening a lot) but that didn’t really work. So then I decided to make some "tickets" for a ½ hour of computer playing. On Mondays they get 3 computer tickets and 2 movie tickets. Anyway, last week Tyler used all of his computer tickets by Tuesday morning and Trent had used one but when he got home from school that was all he wanted to do. I told him that he had to eat lunch, do his homework and put away his coat, shoes and backpack before he could use his ticket. He cried for like a ½ hour saying why do I have to do 5 things just to do 1 thing. Finally I said that he could earn an extra minute for each item. I was just throwing that out there, and surprisingly he said o.k. So then Tyler wanted to earn minutes too, he cleaned up his room, made his bed, cleaned the living room and sorted the laundry. He kept asking me how many minutes do I have now? And I would say 15 , and then he would pick up one toy and ask now how many minutes, 15, I kept doing this and he never caught on, it was hilarious. They both kept saying mom what else can I do, what else? It was a great way to get them to clean.
That night as they were going to bed Tyler told Ray that he was going to mess up the house tomorrow so he could earn more minutes – AAHHHHHHHHH not the point! I told them we could find plenty to do and not to mess up the house on purpose.

So we are going on week two of this ticket stuff. I think it is working great. Tyler wakes up in the morning willing to eat, get ready, make his bed and clean up. This is a big deal because that kid usually wakes up whining saying "why do I HAVE to?" They also are doing better about listening to me because I take away minutes if they don’t do what we talked about them doing.

On to Kara. She is a funny little girl. I think she is going to be a very clean person. The other day the boys got cracker crumbs all over a chair in the kitchen. Kara saw it and started saying "Ahh Oh" like she had spilled her milk, I went over there and she was pointing to the cracker crumbs and she wanted me to clean them up.

The other day she also got into the babywipes she brought them out to the kitchen and started wiping down her baby’s face – funny funny girl!