Spring Break!

Warning: This post contains lots of cute pictures!

If it's not a well-known fact that teachers and their families look forward to spring break, it should be! While we spent much of our break in a sleep haze from (finally) sleep training the kids, we did find some time to do some fun stuff too. By the way, the sleep training is going very well.

Lucy and Sammy "helped" me make strawberry freezer jam. Yum!

I took the kids to Spencer's mom's house where their HOA was doing an Easter egg hunt. I tried to take a picture of the kids with their baskets of eggs but all Sammy wanted to do was play with the eggs and all Lucy wanted to do was make sure he didn't. So here is what we ended up with as far as a cute picture of the two of them. Yeah.



I did manage to get a cute picture of Lucy with one of her cousins though.





We went to my dad's house for dinner the Sunday before Easter and celebrated Easter and my Grandma's birthday. During the evening, we taught Lucy the joys of Robin Egg lipstick!

Here are Grandma and Grandpa Mac with Sammy.

Sometimes it's the simple things that are the most fun!

We made little Easter treat bags and asked Lucy which friends she wanted to take them too. Then we went on a walk/bike ride to deliver them in the neighborhood. She is getting so good at riding her little push bike.

We decided to get out of the house and head down to Discovery Gateway. We got there with only 30 minutes left until closing. Oh, well! Thank goodness for passes! Sammy loved sitting on all the little trucks and cars.

And Lucy loved the shopping, as usual.

After the children's museum, we did something we rarely do - went out to eat. We had dinner at Marie Callendar's. Yum!

Even if we could afford to eat out more often, I don't think we would. It's a bit of a challenge to keep two little ones busy and contained that long! It was a nice, relaxed family date though!

The day before Easter, we went to another, much bigger Easter egg hunt at the school nearby. Lucy knew exactly what to do and got right in the middle of things. With so many more kids though, she didn't get as much. Oh, and a quick gripe about both hunts - a little thought would be nice when considering what candy to put in eggs would be nice. Both hunts had age divisions and at both of them, Lucy had bubble gum and jaw breakers in her eggs. Hello?!

We also went to Macey's where the Easter bunny was hanging out and Lucy got to decorate a cookie.

That night we decorated eggs.

We actually forgot to hide them on Easter but did it multiple times throughout the following week. In fact, we lost an egg and just found it today! Luckily, it hadn't started smelling yet!

On Easter, we had fun with the baskets, going to church, and then having dinner at Spencer's parents' house. It was nice to have some time with Spencer around. We made a lot of progress with the kids' sleeping habits and got to spend some family time together. My only complaint? It went by way too fast!