Life As We Live It.....: Spring Break…..For Some Of Us

Spring Break rolled around once again. I was really bummed to find out that Michael had to travel for work this week for two reasons; he would miss out on all the Family Fun and I knew that with having all 4 kiddos home with no break for the week (school) it would be really long and I would be burnt out. We stayed pretty busy! On Monday, Michael left us around noon and fortunately enough, my sister Kenna offered to take the three older boys while Mason slept and I had some quiet time! It was awesome! That was my Spring Break! Smile I had a chance to get ahead with some cleaning which made me feel better later on during the week! Tuesday we started bright and early and head up to the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake. It’s been a few year since we had visited and Scott couldn’t even remember it! He kept saying thank you for being taken to the zoo! I think they had lots of fun! I did! Unfortunately, Mason serves as a little stopwatch for us and we only lasted the morning. We barely made it home before he was passed out! We were singing “If You’re Happy And You Know It” loudly and clapping and putting windows down….you know what happens if a baby falls asleep in a car just before naptime! That night my friend Evelyn came over and watched a show and painted nails with me.

Wednesday we had piano lessons in the morning and after that we went to our old hang out we frequent; Gardener’s Village. We love to go there and feed the Koi in the pond and the geese. This was Mason’s first time he was able to help feed the animals and get out of his stroller. It was pretty cute to see him get excited about it! Then, of course, the kids wouldn’t let us leave without stopping by the “Naborhood Bakery” and getting a cookie! That night, Kenna and her boys came over for a movie night. We watched “Tin Tin” while Brad took Melissa out on their Daddy-Daughter Date. It was another fun, late night!

Thursday we decided to try out the “Living Planet Aquarium.” It was our first time there and it was better than I thought it would be! I’d seen the Aquarium from the outside before and assumed it would be really small. We go regularly to the Long Beach Aquarium, whenever we visit Michael’s parents, so we’ve been spoiled. But, I wasn’t disappointed! This time my mom hung on to Mason for his nap time and since Kenna had to take Melissa to a DR appointment she had in Salt Lake, I took her boys with us to the aquarium. The boys seemed to think the Eel zapping simulator was pretty cool and the Anaconda eating a Guinea Pig. Boys, boys, boys….. I thought the Octopus was pretty cool. Walking by and turning around to be stared down by this massive eyeball was funny! The highlight of the day though, for me, was Michael coming home from his trip that night! I missed him.

I was excited about Friday! Michael was home and could join us for another adventure. He worked a half day and we had a babysitter come watch Mason that afternoon. We surprised the boys and took them to “The Peaks” ice arena for some ice skating! They have never been and honestly, I don’t think I have either since I was something like 17, over at the Icoplex in the valley where I grew up in California! We had a fun time there too! I’d never seen before, an arena with walkers for kids. What a great idea! This way the kids could get more comfortable on the ice! Truthfully, I was looking for my size of walker, but they were nowhere to be found! So, as an alternative, I volunteered to be Scootie’s partner. I have to laugh! How someone could manage to almost fall down not once, but twice, holding onto a walker, pretty much sums up that experience. I’m so not coordinated! Fortunately my boys didn’t inherit that trait of their mothers. It was fun to see Jared and Gavin zooming around the rink like their Dad. No fear. I was proud of myself too, for not quitting! I stayed on that ice for at least an hour and a half, hunched over Scott, skating us around that rink. Boy am I feeling it today though! You know that lovely feeling where you can’t even sit down to go to the restroom and your legs give out on you about half way down; yah, that’s me. Smile I know, lovely visual, eh? It was a success though and everyone came home uninjured and happy! Our neighbors were there too celebrating their daughter’s birthday and that made Jared’s day! Rayne is his best friend in the world, and that’s a whole other post of its own. I had to laugh as I watched and observed……is 10 years old too young to flirt, ‘cause I swear I saw some of that! But, I’m pretending I didn’t!