Spring Break!

This week really should have been called Winter Break since it snowed on Monday. Since I really can't travel at this point we were home bound. Before the week began I crossed my fingers for beautiful weather so our days could be full of parks & picnics BUT the weather played a different role & we tried to find an activity to go out and do each day. Sometimes it was something as simple as McDonalds & Pizza Hut but we did do a couple of things this week that were fun.

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On Thursdays a gymnastics place here in town has a two-hour open gym that you can take the kids to. Unfortunately, during a regular week the time is right when I pick up Jaden from school and during Landon's speech so it was a treat for the boys to get to go this week. I really thought it'd be an activity for Landon since he does tricks & somersaults all day long but Jaden thought it was the greatest thing & keeps begging to go back. If it didn't end after two hours I know they would have stayed all day. On Saturday Chris had to work at the dealership so during Saturday conference the boys and I went to the fish hatchery with grandma & grandpa at Henry's Lake. They are spawning right now so there were lots of fish. They had a fountain that sprayed water up & the fish loved to jump into it. Jaden couldn't stop laughing at the fish jumping into the air. Afterwards we were treated to hard ice cream...my favorite!!!!! During priesthood we met my old college roommate and her two kids for dinner. Usually I don't do the whole sit-down-dinner thing with my kids but rather opt for place with play lands so that they can go get their wiggles out while I sit back and eat. Jaden doesn't play with girls as much anymore but really enjoyed her little girl Ella (she's two days older then Landon). He and her had fork wars...probably a little unfair for Ella. Landon does what Jaden does & decided he too needed a fork war with Ella. This was more of an equal match:) This would be one of the many reasons that we don't eat at restaurants with the kids. They got a balloon when we were done eating! Although my boys can be wild it was still fun. It's kind of hard to get back on a schedule next week but it's good too! One of the special privileges Jaden got this week was to sleep in the basement and watch movies each night. This is usually reserved for Friday night ONLY so that was probably his favorite part of the week...it's nice when some of the simplest things are a treat.