Spring Break

It was so nice being on Spring Break this week! We started last Friday so we could spend one day with my sister & nephew who were off last week for Spring Break. My mom joined us too. We went to Frank Buck Zoo and had a fun day there.

Our Spring Break started out rainy which turned out to be okay. We stayed inside and played, read, watched tv. We had a few playdates with some friends. The weather got nicer as the week went on. Jake was able to get to days off. We used one of them for a family zoo trip. Then over the weekend he & I got to go on a date! Yay! I got some time to read, work on my scrapbooks and do some lesson plans for school. Sarah played in the sandbox. A lot! She and I planted some flowers outside. We went to the library. We took lots of walks. It was just a nice week! I'm not really ready to get back to our normal routine tomorrow but I guess now we can start counting down...8 weeks until school is out for summer! That doesn't sound so bad! :)

St. Patrick's Day Fun!

We had a fun St.Patrick's day weekend.
A leprechaun stopped by and left the kids all kinds of fun green treats!

And Sarah is so excited that the sand box has been refilled and is ready to play in! The girl could stay in the sand box for hours...actually I think she did. :) It's a good thing we had such pretty weather over the weekend. We are on Spring Break this week and storms are headed our way...

I should be used to this by now!

Rainy Weekend Cuteness

Our Week in Pictures

Adam hurt his ankle early in the week. It's fine now but he was out for a day and had to do his work on the couch.
(You have to be pretty sick to get a sick day from homeschool!)

Chase played with play-dough

Working on letters, gotta love a big box of crayons!

Jake had a mid-week day off. We enjoyed having him home for school time.

We had silly sock day at school for Dr.Seuss' birthday.

The weather was beautiful this week.
Adam thought it was probably warm enough to go swimming.

I convinced him that it wasn't and we settled for some outside play time
in the backyard instead.

We reviewed the "only stamp on paper" rule.
Also followed by the "don't color on the baby" rule.

Jake had a tea party with his little princess. Such a sweet daddy!

The big kids had a sleepover and I got some sweet snuggle time with
my little guy and some of his favorite books.
So precious.

Another fun, busy, crazy, week for our little family.

Tooth Fairy Time!

Adam is so excited. He lost his first tooth today!

He is getting too big. My sweet boy!

Hopefully the tooth fairy will pay him a visit tonight. :)

On a random funny side note: We were talking about a Bible lesson and I said that in the book of Acts the apostles prayed for boldness. Adam said "Boldness? They prayed that they wouldn't have any hair? Like Daddy?" He cracks me up!

Sweet Saturday At Home

We had such a nice day today. We didn't have anywhere we had to be or anything we had to do. It was the first day like that we have had in a while and it was wonderful. We hung out in our pj's most of the day. I made white donuts for breakfast...

Jake and the kids played with their volcano.

We cleaned some, we fixed some things that were broken.

We took naps.

We played.

We read books.

I loved today!

Weekend Cuteness

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Better late than never, right? I don't think I've done anything on time since having baby Chase (just ask the library, I pay their salaries with my late fees) so why start now?

So we are old now and spent New Years Eve at home playing Wii. Then got up like responsible adults and went to church the next morning. We went to my parents house on New Years Day. My mom always makes a nice meal and has the family over. This year she even had a chocolate fountain! Fun!


So...did you make some New Years Resolutions? How's that going? I made a few like I always do. I call them goals, it sounds like less of a commitment. :) My goals for the new year are the usual eat healthy and exercise more, get better about daily Bible reading. And one that I'm adding this year is to be better about staying in touch with my friends and family. Since having Chase I've gotten terrible about calling my friends and getting together with people. I'm working on that this year! Happy 2012 to you!