Spring Break is over.  We had fun. We stayed up late. We played hard.  I am tired.  

Spring Break is always a good practice run through for summer for me. You know, to see what I need to change to make sure our summer days run more smoothly.  I learned I need a no TV/ipad rule until an entire list of things is done, I need to implement my ticket system again, and I actually need to force children and myself to do our chores so our house isn’t in a constant state of disaster.


The weather kind of sucked for the most part, but it didn’t stop us from playing hard.   

I always have slight anxiety about going out to public places during spring break here, because the entire area had spring break at the same time and there are just a lot of kids in Utah and I don’t like crowds.  

We ventured to the Riverwoods the first day.

I felt like a boss, because I even got some shopping in at my favorite boutique with 4 children in tow and no one broke or stole anything and I didn’t even have to yell at the boys.    


As a reward for the 5 us, we all got blue bell icecream and french fries for lunch.  And yes, I took my 4 kids to lunch in a public place alone, during actual lunch time.   This is huge for me people.


On one of Miles’ 3 bathroom trips during our time at the Riverwoods, we spotted a ladybug.  This made the hauling of children to the outside public bathroom much more worth it.  

We went to the Rec Center Pool with the Everetts.


 My kids were in heaven with some of their favorite big kids to play with.  And, the only tricky part for me was the locker room afterwards. It was much more difficult trying to keep them contained while everyone got dried and changed than I anticipated.  I got a lot of sympathetic smiles during this 25 min ordeal. :)

The highlight of the week was our slumber party with The Browns, they know how to have fun.  

Michelle borrowed a bounce house for the basement and this proved to be very entertaining for all ages.  Plus, it kept them from getting out every toy in the entire house.


 We took them on a sweet walk to wear them out.

Had an egg hunt, baked and decorated cupcakes, made candy necklaces, did a treasure hunt, and watched a movie in the movie theatre room.

We even ventured out in public to the Bean Museum (where we had to stalk people for parking spaces) and then took all kids to Wendy’s for dinner.  


Crew and Liam cracked me up with their random conversations and antics.  Ruby and Lottie finally got to have some real play time and I loved watching them crawl all over each other.  And the girls kept reminiscing about going to St. George, you know, when the boys weren’t there to bug them. :) Miles even had a blast, even though he kept complaining about doing too many girl things and having to sleep in a pink bed.  

We also got to go to the Zoo with some more friends.  Miles was very happy that these friends were boys, as he’d had his fill of girls for the week. :)

There’s a new baby orangoutang there that I could of watched all day, if it wasn’t for boys that kept wandering off.


For the first time since living here an icecream truck came into our parking lot!


I was in the basement doing laundry when I heard Miles outside screaming.  I ran out to see what was going on, to find him running in circles screaming “ice cream, ice cream!”  When that amount of enthusiasm is showed, there is no way I could turn ice cream down.  

To end spring break, we finally got some nicer weather to enjoy over the weekend with Paul.    


Only 46 more days until Summer Vacation!!!!