Spring Break Remix day 2



For today's spring break activity (since we didn't get to have spring break together) we went swimming at Francess Meadows Aquatic Center with Stacy, Anthony, and Julianna.  The kids have been very excited about going.  They love it there! We swam in the heated pool, and for some reason, they just begged and begged to go to the cold pool.... and you know if we were in the cold pool, they'd be begging to go to the warm pool.... oh well, we all had a BLAST. We didn't stay all that long, but we sure did pack a lot of fun into the short time we were there :)

Tyler swam and swam for the longest time with no life jacket, but after he got tired, he got out a life jacket and swam some more :) 

This sweet girl wasn't quite ready to go, but she didn't argue at all when I said lets go, she just dried off, got her flops, and headed for the door, and Tyler did the same :)

Have I mentioned I LOVE THESE KIDS?!?!?!

Fun in the Sun

We didn't get to spend a lot of time with the kids over spring break this year, so since they'll be with us all week this week, we are going to throw in a few fun afternoons :).  Today was lake day.  I brought food to eat in the car when I picked them up from after school, then we swung by the house to get swimsuits and daddy, and headed to the lake.  The sun was warm and the breeze was cool.... but the water was FREEZING, but that didn't stop my little waterbug from heading straight in.... look at him go :)

Then he decided to bring in some water to make a moat for sister's sand castle. (is it mote or moat??)

 Body Surfing??

Tyler was running around like he'd never been to the beach before.  He was SO precious!!! I love watching them play.  They are so creative and sweet and funny and wonderful :).  The didn't even put up a fight when Dad said it was time to leave.  They cleaned up the sand toys, rinsed off the sand, dried off and headed to the car.  I'm so proud of them :).

Tyler likes to get wrapped up with his arms tucked in.  Daddy even buckled his arms in.  He loved it :)



Harry has some competition!

Tyler has VERY recently overcome his fear of dogs by becoming friends with Lindsey and Matt's dog, Harry. Harry is very calm and sweet, and after a year, Tyler has finally decided that he's not deathly afraid of him.  WELL.... hopefully, this has started a new trend with Tyler and animals.  We visited my cousins' the other day, who have 3 dogs, and Tyler made friends with 2 of them.  They're peewee's compared to Harry, but Tyler was still very afraid of them at first.  But by the time we were ready to leave, he wanted to sit on the couch with one in his lap. And he would follow them around when they'd get up and leave him.  TOO FUNNY! And just like before, Olivia followed suit by warming up to the dogs after a while too :).

This is Oliver.  He's about 10 years old.  Olivia came in the other room and asked me how old he was, then when she walked out and saw him, she holds up both of her hands, with all her fingers out, and says, "Hey Oliver, are you 10?" haha... I guess she didn't believe me.

A great Sunday

A couple of weeks ago, my sister asked if she could take our Aunt Mary out to lunch, and what started as a date for Lindsey and Mary, ended up being a family affair.  Milton and Mary, Lindsey and Matt, Junior and I and the kids all went out for a delicious lunch at IHOP. We had a great time, and a great meal.

We had to pick up our Uncle Milton at New Horizons, and Lindsey was kind enough to bring him his scooter. (he later rode the kids around the parking lot at IHOP...lol... great times :))

After lunch, Junior, Matt, and the kids all went home to take naps.  Lindsey, Milton, Mary and I went for a joy ride, stopped for ice cream, and stopped by Milton and Mary's house for a little yard work.  Uncle Milton put Lindsey to work with power tools, and I have to say, I was extremely impressed!

I supervised (and captured the moment), while Milton and Mary enjoyed the BEAUTIFUL Sunday from the comfort of their front porch :) they are SO SWEET!!



PLAY BALL!!!

Olivia has started Tee Ball this year.  Sometiems she loves it, sometimes she can take it or leave it, but we'll see how it goes from here. This year, her team is co-ed, and she's the ONLY girl :( she doesn't seem to care, though, she's better than half the boys on the team anyway :).

So, how do you entertain a 4 year old for an hour while his sister practices tee ball??

well, we found an inch worm...

We made friends with the inch worm (although, we didn't give him a name)

and then we built a house for the inch worm, out of leaves.... and it took the rest of the practice to get the darn thing in there... haha.

I think next time we'll just hang out at the playground! ha

PS. the worm was still alive when we left him in his house at the back of the fence where noone would step on him.



Happy Anniversary to Us :)

So, our anniversary was a few weeks ago, but the celebration was this week. Here are a few highlights :)

Strolling around seeing the sights :)

Sliding down the rail in Caesar's Palace... I know, I couldn't believe it either, but the boy does keep me laughing.

Seems like everywhere we go, we find racing games to race each other.  This was at the arcade at Circus Circus. I won a free race on mine because I WHOOPED JUNIOR'S BUTT! but I got up before I realized it, and Junior stole me game!!



Winning a few chips never hurts :)

The Paris's Eiffel Tower: view from the bottom...

And, the view from the top!

A little side trip to the Pawn Shop featured on the History Channel's "Pawn Stars"

Holding hands on Freemont Street :). (I know, my eyes are closed, but I liked the picture other than that :) and I was having some serious contact issues)

Our hotel pool, or as Junior says "Motel."  He cracks me up; no matter how big or how nice the resort or hotel is that we stay in, he always referrs to our room as our "Motel Room"... I think he even called our cabin on a cruise we went on our "Motel Room." LOL!!



We had a TOTAL blast!!!!!! I'm so glad I'm married to my boyfriend :).

Trains and Triangles

This morning, we made our pancakes on the griddle, so we got to make shapes.  Olivia requested triangles, no problemo.  Tyler, "Thomas the train"! Really?

Here's what I came up with.

the colored sprinkles he put on helped a great deal :)