March 2012

March - this month was actually pretty busy.  I got really busy at work as it picked up a lot as students started turning in taxes and financial aid applications, plus at home, doing all the fun adult stuff like filing taxes and filling out financial aid applications, and keeping the apartment somewhat clean and organized, and getting the bills paid, and trying to keep us mostly well-fed ... lots of fun. -_-

Danny spent a lot of time studying and writing essays between prepping for ROTC drills.  But amidst all this, we did get to do some fun stuff too.  Danny's spring break was in the middle of the month, and we celebrated practically the whole week.  Our friends hosted a Pi Day party (3-14), then it was Danny's 24th birthday (3-16), and then some other friends held a St. Patrick's Day party (3-17).  It made for a really busy week, but it was a lot of fun to hang out with friends, especially since many of them were moving at the end of the semester.

Anyway, I've actually got several pictures for this month, given all the parties.

Mar 14 - Pi Day

Pi Day party - you've got to celebrate Pi Day with pies - we had apple pie, lemon meringue pie, cherry pie, coconut cream pie, chocolate M&M pie, and cheesecake (we let that one slide, lol).

Chow, our host, also came up with this whole Pi Day decathlon of games.  We had to solve math problems that required formulas that used pi.  (You can see one guy ended up just turning his circle into pacman)

Danny hard at work ... only to just realize he'd used the wrong formula, haha.

Other events included: running around the backyard 3.14 times; a pi trivia contest; naming all the pies at the party while doing jumping jacks; singing the Pi Day song (Chow and Hilary wrote it to the music of It's Friday and sang it and even played a guitar too... we have some pretty wacky friends, but they sure are fun).

... and the last event, for those daring enough to do it, was to draw a pi mustache on your face... here are the ones brave enough to win this event (l-r) Heidi, Jeff, Philip, and Jeremy.  And the winner of the entire decathlon, Jeff, won a pineapple (a "pi"neapple, haha).

 Mar 16 - Danny's Birthday

Danny's 24th birthday - I made him a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, just like last year.  ... not sure if you can tell, but there are 24 candles in the shape of the number... pretty cheesy, I know.  Anyway, we had a nice and quiet birthday celebration together at home.  Our apartment complex even tied balloons to our front door to wish him a happy birthday.

showing off one of his many new books -- all military a/o history related (we have nearly a whole bookshelf devoted to this topic now, and he really does read *all* of them)

... and of course, something a little fun :D

... showing off his mad nerf skills.  and I will admit, they're pretty fun and good at letting off steam now and then.

and a few movies ... and yes, he specifically asked for each of those titles himself.

Happy 24th Birthday Danny!

 Mar 17 - St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day party - everyone actually wore green (yay) and we celebrated the holiday with a potluck Irish dinner with cabbage and potatoes and corned beef (actually not that bad), then played some croquet and watched this really cheesy St. Patrick's day old disney movie with Sean Connery about leprechauns, lol.

And the highlight of the evening, Brittany (who's part Irish and threw the whole party together) taught everyone how to do some Irish couple step dances.  It was a lot of fun to learn and watch each other try and do all the moves without running into each other, or for the taller people, into the ceiling fan, lol.

... we had to take turns since the room wasn't big enough, and between dances we also took turns holding Chow's 3-month-old daughter, Phoenix. ... doesn't Danny look so excited? haha.

The whole st. patty's day party gang (top l-r) Chow, Danny, me, Jeff (bottom l-r) Michelle, Brad, Jennica, and Brittany