Spring Break

The kids had this week off for Spring Break….which was heaven.  Well, it didn’t start out that way.  On Monday the kids woke up around 9am and by 11am I sent Christopher an email and told him homeschooling was OFF!  They had been home two hours and I was ready for them to go back.  We had a little chat, worked out some kinks, and made it a great spring break.

We have finally found a food Zack likes.  Can you guess what it is?

One of the things we did this week was explore the kids love to cook.  We made a menu with each child taking a night to plan, shop, cook, and serve dinner.  They did such a great job and it was so cute to see them get so excited about making the meal.

This is Andrew and Kallie waiting for Andrew’s cookies to get out of the oven.  This is the kind of teamwork I love!

Notice the little thumb prints in the cookies?  We used those as our testers instead of taking them to our friends house.

We took the kids to our friend’s house in Sandia Park up in the mountains.  The kids had so much fun and just disappeared into the yard.  They live on ten acres and loved playing in the forts, barns, play house, slides, and a hundred other fun things.  I loved it because I was actually able to chat with my friend!

Andrew loved this cool bow on of the bigger boys let him have.  He was stomping all over the place shooting the bows and got really good at it!

Our friends have five boys and one girl.  Ben is in heaven whenever we hang out with them!  They pulled out their army gear and set up into the pitch black night to do whatever boys do in the mountains in the dark.  They had so much fun and invited Ben to stay to campout in the yard.  He was elated!

He kept telling everyone how his Uncle Mike was a real army guy.  He loved all the knives, guns, pockets, sticks, and all the other boy stuff they had!

The mom sent me this picture of the boys the next morning.  Ben said they had so much fun and didn’t go to bed till early in the morning.  They heard coyotes, told stories, just chatted, and froze.

The next day we met up with them again to get Ben back at an awesome park by the temple.  We had a little picnic lunch and played for a little while.  Ben was so sleepy he actually was begging me to take him home so he could take a nap.

Zack carried this balloon everywhere.  If it is round and can pass as a ball he is all over it.  Shopping in the produce department is a nightmare with him!  Cantaloupes, tomatoes, oranges, apples, and kiwi are torture that he can’t have them and throw them!  I once gave him a watermelon to hold in the cart and it drove him crazy that he couldn’t pick it up and toss it out. 

Zack in the swing pointing to the balloon I was holding.  He wanted to hold it while he was in the swing.  Look how happy he is when he gets it back!

Kallie loves to swing and do monkey bars.  This park had both, and GRASS so she was in heaven!  Benjamin and Trey swinging.

Kallie was so sleepy we fell asleep like this one day.  Out cold.

Every time Zack goes into the backyard he puts both feet in the dog water bowl then goes about his business playing.  Socks or shoes – it doesn’t matter.  He’s such a crazy little man.

It’s getting pretty hot here in NM.  Andrew’s soccer coach brought the boys a cold tent to rest it.  It was so cool they didn’t want to get out and play!  The coach had to force them.  it was really adorable!  They kept asking if it was their turn to be out so they could go into the fort.  Andrew scored a goal too!

Our soccer star is Zack.  He is so hard to take to the boys soccer games.  He only wants the balls he can’t have.  Like the balls the bigger kids are playing with or the kids on the other field.  He is quite the ball thief!  I spend the whole game chasing him and apologizing to other parents for taking their soccer balls.  When half time comes he runs onto the field and kicks the ball around all by himself.  He is amazing!

tonight we got together with some of our friends for Sunday dinner.  There were a ton of kids there and everyone was having a blast.  Then someone knocks on the door and asks if the child on top of the car belongs to anyone.  Any guess as to who that child was?

Yep, it was Andrew.  He decided he was just going to chill out on top of the car.  Very proud parent moment.  I didn’t know if I should get mad at him or be proud at him for getting all the way on top of the car!  I can’t believe this little man will be five on Wednesday!

So that’s a quick rundown of our week.  Hope you all had a great week!!