Spring Break 2009

My very favorite thing about having a teacher/coach for a hubby, besides his awesome paycheck ha ha ha is his vacation time! I love having him home for spring break. We managed to squeeze in quite a few things along with plenty of r&r. We started the break off right with a fun day of pickleball with a few friends. Then we headed out for Beaumont to visit Daniel's parents. Even though we technically live in "grandma's" house its been really fun to still get to go to grandma's (other) house. Every time we go visit I feel more spoiled than the children. I prop my feet up, read, and get to eat delicious food. We got home late Monday night, I went to the gym on Tuesday and due to a cold front coming in decided at noon to head out for our camping trip early before it got too cold. Basically we threw all the clothes out of the suitcase then packed some play clothes and bought some hot dogs on our way there. It was so fun to have a little get a way with the kids. They were so excited about setting up their own tents and chased every creature we saw. Olivia kept calling the squirrels "Bear". Kolby was sooo adorable helping his daddy build the fire. He called it his "fireside". They gather leaves adn sticks and blew on it. Unfortunately olivia seems to be a pyro...or perhaps its just this "I will touch everything and get into everything esp when you tell me not to stage". We tried roasting our hot dogs but olivia was too curious and kept dropping the done ones in the dirt. Then she tripped and her hand landed in the hot ashes. She balled, I got all teary. I put some Melagel on it (da da da da...Melaucea saves the day) and a sock and gave her some tylenol....add that to a skipped nap and my worries of her falling alsleep were history. She fell alsleep in my arms and slept all night in her very own tent (inside a shelter with the door closed and me sleeping right outside it...i do not leave my children alone to fight off wild beasts...) Daniel and I got to stay up alone sitting by the fire, me finishing my book and daniel enjoying some quite time. The weather was perfect! Not cold, not hot, just right. We ate cinnamon rolls for breakfast and then dropped daniel off at track practice. While we waited I took the kiddos to an awesome park where we saw geese, doves, squirrel and beavers! Then Daniel threw his back out so we ended up watching a bunch of movies at home while the cold front moved in and it poured the rest of the week. We ended the break with a suprise date night. Daniel's meet got finished early so Holly and Tom watched the kiddos while we had a "couples night out" at the church. We watched Fireproof and ate wedding cake and chocolate covered strawberries. The thought of returning back to our usual schedules is depressing but now I can't wait til summer!