Let the Madness Begin!!

MARCH MADNESS!!!!!

 It's that time of year again... only I'm not talking sports.  March is typically an insanely busy month for my family.

For example, it's birthday madness in the first couple of weeks - starting with me nephew on the 4th, one brother-in-law on the 9th, my son on the 10th and another brother-in-law on the 17th.  That doesn't even begin to cover cousins and friends.  But I love it - it means lots of time to celebrate with family and friends.

This is a special birthday for Jarrett... not because he's turning 3 (though he is excited about that)... but because his Aunt Jessie and Cousin Maggie are coming up from LA to help celebrate.  He is so excited to see them - in fact, he hasn't stopped talking about Cousin Maggie and how much fun they are going to have.  Gramma M and Gramps are coming up too - so he's pretty excited to see them.  We all wish we were going to have more time to see everyone, but it's a quick trip this time.  

We have his birthday party set for next weekend... at a wonderful place called JJ Jump.  It's literally a warehouse full of bounce houses.  Being that I will be 20 weeks pregnant and have a house full of family - I really didn't want to host a party at my house (I turn into a monster when it's crunch time with parties at home) - and we figured that this would be an awesome way to burn energy.  The downfall - we can only have 30 people max.  That's hard to do when you have 13 people just in family coming.  We're excited though - we know we are going to have a great time.  And as a bonus - Jarrett should sleep like a rock that night!! :) 

After that, we have the Shamrock Run... which seemed like a great idea before I got pregnant.  I started off saying I was going to do the 5K run and have now scaled back to the 5K walk - and I'm curious how that is going to go... baby is doing a great job at squishing all vital organs - including lungs.  Fortunately, it's only 3.2 miles... so I should be just fine.  We have several more birthday parties and fun nights planned with friends to round out the month - and while I'm exhausted thinking of it all... I can't wait for all the fun we're going to have. 

Another HUGE thing for us this month???  We get to find out the sex of the baby on March 7th!!!!  I am getting so anxious to find out - I almost can't wait (but do I really have a choice?? ;) )  I have absolutely no inkling as to what we're having... so I know it will be a surprise either way.  We would love a girl because it would be totally different and then I wouldn't be so outnumbered... but I love my little man and would love to have another one running around the house.  So - in T-minus 6 days, we get to find out.  

Happy March everyone!!!