March is O'Leary month....and what a month we are having!

March is always our holiday month with Luck of the Irish. It's also very special because it is Natalie's and Sean's birthdays as well. Sean just turned 10 on Friday the 14th. Pat and I took doughnuts and juice to Sean's class that morning and made sure we sang Happy Birthday followed by a good ole birthday spanking by me. The kids thought it was great. He has such a wonderful teacher, Meredith, who allows us to do special things like that for the class. Sean and I also decorated the teacher's door for the month of March. We had such a good time doing it and believe it or not it turned out cute, but I am glad they do not have door contests.


Natalie turned 14 on Sunday. We decided not to embarrass her at school so we didn't do anything at the Jr. High, I am sure she is very thankful. We did take the family out to dinner on Friday night and on Sunday we celebrated with friends, BBQ, cake and gifts. Here are few pics.
Natalie is very much into spiderman for some reason so we surprised her with a spiderman theme and cake. I know for sure Lou Lou could have done a much better cake but I gave it my best shot.

Let's see also this weekend, the 15th was my LAST official day in the U.S. Army. It's a weird feeling but it did help that I had saved up so many vacation days to help with the transition. I am now an officer in the U.S. Army Reserves. My first drill weekend will be in April. I am excited that we figured out a way for me not to throw away almost 18 years of Military service. I'll get an Army retirement even if I do have to wait a few years for it. I know at that point I will be glad I joined the Reserves to finish out my time. We are still working on Pat getting into the Reserves as well but since he totally separated his process is not as easy as mine but it can be done. I am actually meeting with the Reserves tomorrow to do some final paperwork and start some in-processing so at least I'll get paid in April. My medical insurance for our whole family is through the Reserves too and that has also saved us quite a bit of money to which we are both grateful.

Work is going really well for us. We completed a Floyd Wickman training course today and Pat was one of the top producers over the past 6 weeks so he actually got an individual trophy. He is out 3 nights this week on appointments and hopefully he'll get all 3 listings.

The boys are doing great and currently healthy. We had ear infections and colds but for the most part I think I have been the sickest with sinus and upper respiratory issues. None of us are currently on any medications...yeah.


Here are some pictures of the family drawing. Colby gets very serious when he is drawing and he doesn't like to work in one corner but right in the middle of the mat which totally frustrates Austin.

Austin is very proud of his master piece and has announced he is done.

Austin is learning to put words together to make phrases...not quite sentences yet. I was taking him out of the room the other morning and he turned to Pat and said "bye bye Daddy" and when I left for work that morning he told me "luv you Momma". He is out little chatter box. He talks non-stop. Some of his favorite quotes are "oh man", "oh my goodness", "who is it", "come in", "no bite" (wonder why he says that one), he is still counting to 10. Colby is starting to talk a lot more than he use too. He can count when he wants too, and can say things like luv you, bye bye, night-night, help, park, outside, swing and many more that I can't remember right now.

We enrolled them in the Bountiful Montessori school last week. Their first day will be July 1st. I am already planning to not work that day....I hope I actually leave the parking lot. Heather will be with us through June and after she returns from her course she'll be here to help with the boys when we need her. She has been such a blessing to our family and the boys love her so much. They are really going to miss spending time with her each day. On weekends when we first come downstairs in the morning they say "Heddah" and look to see if she is here. I guess they get so use to seeing her Monday through Friday that Saturday and Sunday they expect to see her.
Yes, Austin is still wearing his Halloween bucket as a hat. I tell ya, it's the best .87 cents I've spent.


We hope you are each doing well and getting ready for spring. We can't wait for spring here in Utah. It has been a long winter with a LOT of snow and personally I am counting the days until we leave for Cancun in June.