Crownover Family Blog: March 2008

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Visiting Friends

Despite the cold, these guys are playing outside together as much as possible. The boys anticipate their visits and definitely enjoy spending time with these out of state friends on those occasions. Now is one of those times...but a rare indoor moment!

Monday, March 24, 2008

MIS-happenings

It was not an easy week. Monday was not only green just because of St. Patrick's Day this year. Jesse got very sick that evening and stayed home from school Tuesday. Then, Wednesday evening that same bug "bit" me just after I got the kids in bed so I stayed home from work Thursday to recoop. It was a difficult choice what to do with our original Easter plans, but we decided to still travel up north. By then, Jesse had then developed a cold. He and I took it easy and didn't go on much but we all still took in Splash Lagoon. Grammy joined us with Joe on Friday and the boys had fun all over. That evening, Jon drove back to Pittsburgh to sing in our church's Cantata. Meanwhile, as Eric and Joe were watching TV and playing on Grammy's bed, Joe came down on Eric's knee and thought he broke his tooth off. For good or bad, he did not break the tooth off, it got knocked out! All were very surprised but we quickly came up with some benefits of this and he quickly became fine with it (plus the tooth fairy came that night). Jesse slept all this while and worked on getting better which he finally seemed to be Saturday. Surprisingly enough, although they had a little snow on the ground, they did not get any more while we were there. Unfortunately, there was enough on the way back up for Jon that spun him around and landed him in the median. He had to wait for AAA to pull him out and he was lucky that a police officer that stopped didn't give him a ticket. After that, he made it back to us and my car looked so bad that my sister-in-law paid for me to get it washed and the car wash attendant made fun of it as he pulled stuff off it beforehand.

We went to a sunrise service at my childhood church on Easter. The boys had an egg hunt when they got back to my Mom's house and enjoyed lots more treats along with a big feast. We headed back to Pittsburgh in the early afternoon. We had to get our jeep back which was having maitenance done...reminding me of another reason of why I have to get ready and go to work today (expensive). Anyway, it seemed like it took a week but we made it through and experienced the joy of Easter. The boys both understand and appreciate what Easter really means now and that is definitely worth the celebration it delivers.

Happy Easter!

Can we use this?

Building all together

REAL sweet stuff!!

More goodies!

Easter treats!

Is he SHOULDER high now?

Sunday, March 23, 2008

What are you lookin' at?!

Cousin Cuddlin'

The Cousin Crew

A Heap of Trouble

Twisted Up

St. Patty Pancakes

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Eric C. is Me

Hi, its me Eric C. Its always my parents who are always typing. I think my dad is loco,my mom is crazy and my brother is wild. I....................................well am like a dragon,wolf,and an Einstein combo.I always win at games. I do good in gym.

Your friend,

Eric C.

Time MARCHes On

Here we are in March already...it's about time for another update as we SPRING ahead. There was lots of travel this past month. Jon and I went to Vegas to share in a celebration of my Mom's 65th birthday a few weeks ago. This also coincided with Jon's birthday. We got to spend a little time with some friends and family from the west, saw some interesting sites, ate some great food at an Italian restaurant in the Venetian and yummy crepes "in Paris" (not as good as the real deal, but close and was fun to reminisce about that anyway). The shows we also checked out included Penn and Teller and Wayne Brady which were also great. The boys stayed back and on task with school and Grandma and Grandpa holding down the fort all week for us.

Just after getting back and trying to readjust to our time zone, I had to head to Chicago three days later for a training class. After that, Jon and I got to be tourists for a day. We trekked up and down Michigan Ave., went up the Sears Tower, and ate some deep dish pizza from Gino's. It was a nice day in the city. The boys didn't make this trip either, staying back to have fun with Grammy and Larry for the weekend.

The next weekend, I was happy to be a homebody. The boys, on the other hand, had a couple of days off from school so met Grandpa in Shaver's Creek for the weekend. It seems about that time - for spring and/or cabin fever??!! Everyone came back healthy though - whew!

This past week was our show week, checking out Joel Osteen and Bon Jovi. Our seats at the Igloo were excellent for both and Grammy again watched the boys for us. As this is unusual for us to "get out" so much without the kids, Jesse inquired as to why we keep going places without them. He seems okay with it, just curious.

This coming holy week, we are actually going somewhere AND taking the kids with us. I don't think they don't know it yet, but we're headed to Splash Lagoon for two days of wet fun and then spending the rest of the weekend with the family for Easter weekend. Let's hope their snow time is over as it should be about that time and I have now spotted a robin! Keep thinking spring!!!