Spring Break 2016

I love the fact that Spring Break is a whole 2 weeks long!  I love that the kids actually get a break and if we want to, take a vacation!  So for the first week we stayed and played our days away at home with friends/playdates. bike rides, and lots of Wii/Xbox (something the kids only usually get on the weekends). They were in heaven!  I even threw in a few surprise trips around town to do some of their favorite things, like....

Park day and picnic at Tumbleweed Park with Julie Roberts Family

 A morning at Flipside playing Laser Tag,

 Arcade games,

 Max's favorites were skeet ball and air hockey

 

 Cole loved driving the motorcycle

Kate and Lizzie loved this jump rope thing and Kate even played Deal or No Deal.  She liked that one a lot!

 Bumper Cars - I did them as much as I could until my stomach couldn't handle the spinning anymore!

 Max was even able to figure out how these crazy things worked and loved being able to drive his own!

And some miniature bowling.  Cole blew us ALL out of the water on this game.  He has got one strong arm, that's for sure!

 We did lunch out - Lizzie and I did a one on one lunch date to Chick-Fil-A.  Gone are the days when she would have half day kindergarten and this would be a favorite thing of ours to do together.  I loved being able to spend that time with this little one.

 Spring Break also included a trip to play miniature golf at Golfland.  These kids had never been here before and it was a real treat!  It was a little on the warm side, but that didn't bother us too much.  I think they did really well, despite the fact that we had a few water hazards, ha!  And I'm not talking just about the kids either.

 Silly kids

 Then we stopped on our way home at Bahama Bucks where I exposed them to what real Shaved Ice is supposed to be like.  Yum!

 And last, but not least, we got to go to the Easter Pageant as a family.

There's no better way to start the Easter season then with a performance all about the Savior, his life, and the sacrifice He has made for us.  It makes me remember how important and precious life is and where my focus should be each and every day....

 On my cute little family and making the memories that last a lifetime.