Springtime Is HERE!!!

My favorite season here is spring. I love the weather (minus the violent storms that occur at times). Well, on the first day of spring this year, we got 6 inches of snow. Snow is supposed to be for Christmas time. NOT March. HOWEVER, 24 hours later, it was 65-70 degrees and back to my ideal weather today. So, today we popped open the windows. I made a nice springtime dinner that included fresh strawberries, raspberries, spinach salad, broccoli and tuna casserole.

Let's talk dinner for a moment. We've developed a new routine around here. If it were up to Reese and Hailey, they would eat strawberries and bananas every meal and skip the casserole or main course. Well, they'd skip the main course and try to go right to the brownies that is. So, in order to get them to eat, we've developed a "thing." Whichever kid takes a big bite of either veggies or the main course gets to have the rest of the table start chanting their name while pounding the table over and over....moving faster and faster until you can't say their name anymore. It works. Even Landry has joined in. Side note: we do it for Landry just to make sure she isn't left out. She had NO problem helping herself to three servings of tuna casserole tonight....I....LOVE....HER. So, needless to say, our dinners now consist of lots of table pounding, over and over again, but the girls think it is so funny AND they eat. Mission accomplished.

Since the girls did so well at dinner tonight and the weather was beautiful, Trey told Hailey and Reese he'd take them fishing. They were pumped. And this is the picture I received from him about 5 minutes after they started fishing:



A four pound fish. Not too shabby. WELCOME SPRING!