March winds blew in The Collins Crew CHAOS!!!!  March 2 we began baseball practices.  All 3 boys were in 3 different leagues this season… 8U, 10U and 12U.  They LITERALLY practiced at the most Southern point and most Northern point of the city with one right in the middle of town!!  All 3 practices started and ended at the SAME TIME 3 days a week.  The boys would wear their practice clothes to choir and violin and we would leave there and go straight to ball practice.  By the end of March we dropped violin lessons.  It just became TOO MUCH for all of us.

We finished the book of Exodus in March and we built a Model of the Old Testament Tabernacle.  We moved right along through the books of Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy and Joshua in March. 

We read 3 different “read-a-loud” books by Patricia St. John this year during school and they were very heart wrenching stories.   Her books are wonderful examples of how God works in our lives IF we allow him  to.  Those stories we read brought my 9 yr old, N to tears every time!  To the point that he would just fall into my arms and sob on my shoulder!!!  He has a huge heart and I am more convinced than ever before that God has something wonderful planned for that boy when he answers God’s calling.

T is really enjoying READING!!  He read books in March about the Titanic and Sharks.  I am so happy that one of my boys LOVES TO READ!!

We don’t ever take a full week off for Spring Break but we did take a long weekend and go to Del Rio to check on my Dad & PaPa.  PaPa had an accident and broke his foot but it sure did NOT slow him down any!  We saw an Armadillo on the way to Del Rio.  That was the 1^st time any of us had seen one out in the wild.  On the way home I got a great picture of our beautiful New Mexico sunsets.  After that break we came back home to our crazy baseball schedules.

We had a PJ Nite at Kings Kids where we all wore our Pajamas and watched Space Buddies on the big screen.  The kids love those nites that we do something different.

One Saturday, Daddy took the boys Havalina Hog hunting.  They had a blast!!!  It was actually a friend of Daddy's that had the tag to hunt but they all had fun hunting that ONE hog!!

The boys learned a song on their guitars to play at 5^th Sunday Sing.  T & N played the music while S sang.  It was  so cute!!!!  Mom was just on the stage for support so S didn’t feel like he was singing all by himself.

For school one day I let the boys repair their go kart that my PaPa gave them.  Mechanics is a GREAT thing to learn!  They fixed it and made it run!!  We also planted lots of flowers in March.  Spring was just around the corner.

Now we blow into April…