Yes, I'm really this far behind. For spring break we decided to head to Mesa and stay at the condo and save a little money this year. It was also my birthday and my sister agreed to keep my kids overnight so Scott and I could have some good quality time together.
We went down on Friday night and dropped the kids at my sisters. Scott and I went to dinner and then the next day spent some time shopping for maternity clothes for my birthday present since none of my clothes fit me anymore. We had lunch and weren't supposed to pick up the kids until Sat. evening but found that my whole family was hanging out at Heather's with the kids. So we headed over there and hung out with them for the rest of the evening.
On Sunday, my actual birthday we all went and visited Grandma in the hospital and had a BBQ at Heather's house with the rest of my family.
On Monday we took the kids and rode the Light Rail downtown and took the kids to the Arizona Science Center. I think we all enjoyed the Light Rail ride more than the science center but they did have some cool things. It was just way over priced for all you got to do.
There were lots of little quizzes to test your knowledge
Exhibit of the human body. They got to open drawers and find body parts inside.
Lincoln Logs! These were my favorite growing up.
Joey working on building a floor plan for a house.
This was pretty cool. The kids got to lay on a bed of nails and raise and lower the nails.
This had air blowing out of the gray holes and you could put the balls over the air and it would keep it in the air.
Gracie was so worn out she fell asleep as we left with her sucker still in her mouth.
After we finished up there we took the kids to Chuck-E-Cheese for dinner. They love that place I guess because they're kids. They had lots of fun spending they're tokens. Even Gracie got in on the action and rode the rides and kept going around stealing peoples tickets.
Ski-ball is a favorite for Joey
and Jackson spends most of his time and tokens on the basketball throw.
Jake pretty much wanders around and does whatever he can.
Gracie loved the slide and probably spent most of her time on it.
Tuesday was probably the most fun for the kids. We took them, along with my 2 brothers, sister, and 3 nephews to a place called Jumpstreet in Chandler that was wall to wall trampolines. They also had 4 or 5 big jump houses as well. The kids jumped for 2-3 hours straight and just had a blast. I didn't get very good pictures at this place mostly because they were all blurry. Here's a few though.
On Wed. we brought my sisters two boys back with us and they stayed and finished out the spring break week playing with the boys. My sister and brother-in-law came Friday night to pick them up. They stayed until Saturday and had a fun day.
I think all in all it was a pretty successful week.
