Sunday, March 31, 2019

Mom Tired

We have had a great Spring Break as a family, but I will be honest... this is what I'm feeling knowing what lies ahead in the next nine weeks.


Let's see...

nine weeks of teaching this school year
 five weeks of teach at the college
six weeks until my Go Gray in May Brain Tumor Awareness Event 

Yes... I am Mom tired.
 
 

Saturday, March 30, 2019

About Right

Well this is about right for the weather we've had this week...



Great for a family spring break.
 

Friday, March 29, 2019

Family Selfie

We took a drive on our way home from swimming and enjoyed the mountain views.  Our burb (suburban) got really muddy but we had fun.

 

Lee Lee even spotted a moose...


 

Thursday, March 28, 2019

Adorable and Artistic

Caroline loves taking pictures on my phone these days... 
 this one is adorable and artistic...



 

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Spring Break Day 4

Yesterday we had such a great family day in Grand Junction.  We piled our crew in the burb for Toddler Time at the Trampoline Park where all our kiddos (and Hubby and I) had a blast.

They open the entire trampoline park to just little guys ages 7 and under and its a really reasonable price too for two hours of fun.

I snapped some pictures, and then took some movies... so a lot of these pictures are taken from the videos.











Caroline spent at least 20 minutes hiding from this zebra... and then little by little kept saying she wanted to talk to him and wanted to give him high five.  We were not pressuring her at all to play with the zebra, but our other kids were loving him, so it was really awesome to watch Caroline conquer her fear... and the she ended up having so much fun chasing him around and playing with him for another 20 minutes.







Tracey had fun realizing that if you do a running somersault on the trampolines, it is almost like doing a flip, and she had so much fun running and flipping over and over.  It made me wonder if gymnastics classes are in our future...
 







Then, we were all hungry and so we went out to lunch... ran a few errands and then headed home.



I still had to teach at the community college on Tuesday night, so we needed to get back so I would be on time to my class.  But that is good because the kiddos need regular bedtime routine and bedtimes... because tomorrow is another great day of family fun!

We are having GORGEOUS weather this week, which makes the family fun even more special! 
 

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Spring Break Day 3

Sunday I was down for the count with the congestion, fever, and nose issues the kids had last week... so I didn't take many pictures.

But Monday we were all healthy and had a great day!

Open gym gymnastic time in Glenwood with a friend from school...










A picnic at a park...


We came home and Daddy had started cleaning out our garage... as I drove up to our house and saw the doors open and the cleaning process well under way, I fell in love with him all over again!  :-D


We had a great afternoon hanging out in the front yard while Hubby and I cleaned out the garage!



Here are the kids learning how to crack walnuts... that kept a few of them busy for awhile.



The finished product...



 

Sunday, March 24, 2019

Spring Break Day 1

Yesterday was our first day of Spring Break... and both Hubby and I were still sick with whatever the kids had last week.

Everyone is still congested with coughs... I have all the pressure in my head and sinuses and it is miserable.

So, day 1 was spent with a quiet day at home.

I actually drove up to Eagle to see a friend of mine from college who was just in town for the day for a funeral.  So she and I went to breakfast with her dad and her youngest baby girl... and you can see from the pictures, that I didn't get very close to them.


Other than that -- cuddles, pjs, naps, and fun at home.




Right before bed, everyone wanted to be wrapped in a blanket and pretended to be snakes... even Lee Lee.