What's On My Happy List?

A Peek Into Our Week...

My baby is 8! Can you even?

Fun Fact: Kate eats breakfast in bed
{usually in my bed...haha}
most mornings before school!
Her birthday was no exception.
She requested Cookie Crisp Cereal!

Here's a flashback to 8 years ago
in the hospital...
To this day we still have a thing for
pink and cheetah...LOL
Kate STILL sleeps with the blanket I wrapped
her in on the day she was born.
And that pillow case Kyleigh sewed for me to take to the hospital
for the delivery...
is still kick'in around!
😌

Snowy Snowy birthday morn!

She was not too thrilled to be going to early church on her birthday. 

Just say'in. 

Most of the gifts she wanted were outdoorsy/garden inspired so I
went with a garden theme celebration for her...
{I talked her out of a friend party, cuz I secretly hate doing those 😜 
and we are going to go zip-lining instead when the weather permits...
as it's something she's been wanting to do of late.} 
👍

 

This kid loves growing stuff...has a thing for seeds....

she planted seeds in her fairy garden awhile back...stuff IS growing
in there...
😂

She now has her own root-vue farm..

{We planted radishes, carrots and green onion.}

and a kit to grow butterflies....

Arts and Crafts 

is one of her favorite things to do...

She had the day off of school on Friday 

for Teacher Comp day so we were

able to go see
Peter Rabbit!

Reminds me of my Peter Rabbit Easter celebration a few years back.

If you need any Easter-y ideas you can see that HERE

Emmsie made THE cutest card/book for her...

Kate and I love Hallmark Mysteries.
One of our favorite Mystery Series
is Murder She Baked...

Kate likes to bake AND she enjoys playing detective with her cousin Daniel
so he was thrown into the mix as her cohort...
see the cut out faces???
😂

 There was "evidence" left to help her solve
the "pretend" mystery of the missing cookies..

There was a rap sheet of possible suspects...

Emma even gave her recipes that are the titles of some of the Murder She Baked Shows...

One for the Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery, 

A Plum Pudding...etc.

This was the back cover of the card...

she was legit going to hide Kate's
special requested box
of Cookie Crisp Cereal
but couldn't quite figure out logistics with all that in time!
BUT seriously... so so cute and clever!

Kate has been wanting to go to Red Lobster
{for like two years now}...
cuz Seafood is her favorite, but she started hankering for ribs a few hours
before we were to leave...so she changed her mind and we went to R & R instead.
This place has been on my list of restaurants to try, but hadn't had the chance yet,
so I was super excited to try it out.

It was way YUMMY!

But I liked the wings more than the ribs.
I WAS DYING OVER THEIR
BAKED BEANS and HUSH PUPPIES..
SO SO GOOD!
I would seriously go back just to eat
those two things

 AND the SWEET BBQ SAUCE...out of all their sauces this was THE BEST!

Kate and the hubs share a birthday week!
{if it seems we are going from b-day to b-day 
WE ARE!} 
We have 4 birthdays in less than 
a month around here...
and another funny fact...
5 out of the 7 of us have our b-days in the first 6 days of our b-day month...

Poor Poppi's bday doesn't seem to get the hype 

as the others do 

but he is such a simple, no fuss kind of guy, and honestly doesn't want 

a lot of hoopla.

Too bad cuz I'm good at hoopla!

😂

While I was at work etc...

Emmsie went grocery shopping, cleaned, 

baked his favorite cream cheese chocolate cupcakes with g-ma, 

AND made a card for him! 

{I'm telling ya she's going to make a good homemaker one day...}

I LOVED his card. 

She put all of his fav things to do...

biking, fly fishing, shooting...it just needs 

a hammock! haha 

 

Birthday dinner out with my man at one of our favorite Mexican joints...

 *****
Kate and I celebrated Dr. Seuss' B-day!

{I got the Cat in the Hat
treat idea from fancyfrugallife.com}

Oreo's
red gummy lifesavers and
frosting...easy peasy!

 *****
In other family news.....

Emmsie helped our neighbor in her
Kindex booth at Roots Tech...
As of right now Emmsie is minoring in
Family History
so this kind of stuff is up her alley.

*****

Kyleigh was able to sell her apt contract down at the Y...

{or so we thought for the past 3 weeks...
I'm telling you, we have another housing fiasco on our hands 😡}

Regardless...we moved her back home!
Yay! 👏
She and Emma are able to commute to school together now.
Kyleigh is wanting to do a Rome Abroad
Cultural Exchange Program
in the summer...
so she is wanting to get out of her year-long
contract early.
*fingers crossed*

Kyleigh trying a new dessert place in Provo
with friends called
The Chocolate Dessert Cafe...

*****

Hannah asked 

to the next girl's choice dance. 

The boy is on the soccer team 

so she went with a 

soccer/St. Patrick's Day theme in asking him

as the dance is on St. Patrick's Day. 

She left him a Shamrock Shake and her name was on the gold candy!

His answer....

 *****

In entertainment news....

I must say I found the finale of the Bachelor quite entertaining...

😂

*****

If you are in need of a proper romance.

This is a good read!