A Week Full of Saturdays

Having Jeremy in law school does have it's perks. Two words: Spring Break. We've had his full attention and time for a whole week! It's been wonderful. Last Friday, we drove down to Oklahoma City one last time for a visit with grandma Dee.

We actually saw SPRING! Daffodils were popping up all over the city. At first glance, they were thought to be fake, which would be a typical deduction from Alaskans (we don't see flowers in bloom until June). There were trees in bloom, green grass, and even crops were growing!! It was actually spring during spring break.

Dee treated us to dinner at The Spaghetti Warehouse. We had so many leftovers and we were stuffed. Yum.

After dinner, she treated us again to a horse drawn carriage ride around Brick Town.

Maddie snuggled right up to her grandma the whole time. The girls really loved seeing all the city lights.

We disembarked our carriage near a fountain and started to walk over to a creamery to get some ice cream. However, Jeremy was having an allergic reaction to the horse. A very, very bad one. Poor thing, he was wheezy, sneezy and miserable so we called it a night and got him some medication...while us girls enjoyed ice cream at Dee's instead.



On Monday, we had a picnic at Gage Park because the weather was amazing. We walked over to the playground and finished off the afternoon on the swings and slides.

Tuesday included a drive over to Lake Shawnee where Maddie went on a short bike ride (she ditched her bike about 100 feet from where we started). We all walked down to a dock and the girls put their feet in the water.
Abbie watched her sister splash for a bit before she took her shoes off and decided that it was warm enough to dip her toes into the water. We all donned sunblock that day it was that warm.

Brayton sure loves being carried around in the Snugli. He enjoyed being out in the sun too.

That evening, we had friends over for a St. Patrick's Day dinner (corned beef, cabbage, etc.) and then Jeremy took half of the crowd flying. They got to see all the city lights.
We decided to use our coupons to Cage Gymnastics. They offer an open gym on Wednesdays for the 2-5 year old age group. The girls LOVED it! Nothing was off-limits so they got to play on all the equipment...all of it.

Abbie was fearless on the bars, beam and rings. Madeline was a bit timid, but enjoyed the trampoline and the foam pits the most.

This is the foam pit over the high bar. Maddie liked "digging for treasure" in here.

Abigail saw the other kids (who were obviously in gymnastics classes) chalk up their hands before going on the bars & rings and followed suit. She got right into the chalk and acted like a pro at putting it on.
We went to Sonic after all that playing and grabbed some slushies. Madeline set up a lemonade stand in the living room and served us all $4 drinks (she named the price even though Jeremy tried to give her an economic lesson on supply & demand).

Here's how Madeline wrote "lemonade" on her sign, with a bit of "sound it out Maddie" coaching from mom once she got half-way through writing it.


After all this busyness, we've had to make time to get some grocery shopping, chores and errand-running done. And it's all been done together as a family. Jeremy is now on a Boy Scout camping trip this weekend. When he left this afternoon, I was a bit nervous to have all 3 kids by myself again. Bedtime is always more difficult when it's 3 against 1. We're truly grateful to have had such an enjoyable week together....especially when we're really seeing signs of SPRING!