Spring Break

For Spring break this year, I surprised the kids with a fun "outing" every day.  They knew they'd be going somewhere, but they didn't know where until the morning of.  As usual I was terrible about taking pictures, but managed to get at least 1 at each place, except for Friday. 

Our week in a nutshell:

Monday - Bowling!

Tuesday - Sky High (The trampoline place)

Wednesday - Roller skating/roller blading--definitely the favorite activity of the week.  The kids have asked us on a daily basis when they can go again.  It's funny that it ended up being their favorite because Alyssa and Kylie were both pretty nervous about going.  Alyssa was just a little nervous but Kylie was reeeally nervous.  She cried for about 20 minutes that morning because she did not want to go.  The minute she got those skates on she was all smiles and everyone had a BLAST!

Thursday - Bounce-U -- This is Trevor boxing with ginormous boxing gloves.  It was so funny!

Friday - Mark took the day off and we took the kids to see Mirror, Mirror.  Alyssa and Trevor liked it but Kylie was really bored. 

We had a fun week!  Now they're back to school for 3 weeks, then Disney World, then 2 weeks of school and it's Summer vacation?!?! 

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom

Look how much fun we all had!

Sherwood

Today we went and saw my Grammy's horse, Sherwood. The kids have been so excited to go see him, and luckily we're having a mild weather week, so we took advantage of the nice weather and got out to the stables! Alyssa couldn't wait to ride him. She started horse-back riding lessons at summer school, and is really taking a liking to horses! Sherwood was so nice to let everyone ride him. :-) At school, Alyssa actually rides little ponies, so she was nervous about getting on Sherwood, who is much larger than she was expecting. So this picture is her "nervous" smile. Click on it and you will see what I mean. :-)

Kylie surprised me and wanted to ride Sherwood too!

(I walked right next to her and held on to her leg. She's just so little on that big horse!)

At first, Trevor didn't want to ride Sherwood because he thought he was too big, but after Kylie rode him, he decided it would be okay. Couldn't let his baby sister show him up!

I'm a little nervous myself around large animals, but the kids were all like, "Mom, aren't you going to ride him? C'mon Mom! Ride him!" So, I took him for a little spin. :-) Alyssa was a great photographer and snapped lots of pictures for me. :-)

Thanks again Grammy and Sherwood for a fun morning!

Fun in the Snow!!!

First of all does anyone else have issues with getting the order of your pictures right on blogger? They should really make it easier. Anyway, we went sledding today and it was SO much fun. The kids had a blast and so did we! Here are a million pictures from the day! (and videos below)

Kylie wasn't sure about it at first.

She did start having fun though.

Kind of.

I couldn't stand how cute Kylie looked in her little snow outfit.

Trevor and Daddy

Kylie having fun.

Trevor was so funny. The second we got to the hill, he dove on to the sled and went for it. No hesitation whatsoever.

Alyssa and Ky

Alyssa didn't want to wear her hat anymore so I put it on, it was a little small but it kept my ears warm!

Trevor's 4th Birthday!

We started off the day opening presents, even before breakfast!
Then he got to choose breakfast and he chose bacon and eggs. He seriously ate like 2 bites. Then we played around the house with his new presents and got ready for the day. He also got to choose lunch and he chose Burger King. Again, he ate like 2 bites. Then we went to Heritage Square in Golden where we went on the Alpine Slides. The kids were a little nervous about it but they had so much fun. Kylie and I went together and she hung on for dear life, but seemed to enjoy it, or at least not hate it.



The kids painted pumpkins...

and jumped in the bouncy house...




After Heritage Square we came home and rested for a few hours and then went to Chuck-E-Cheese for dinner and games. Again, we had to force Trevor to eat even one small piece of pizza! (Even when they get to choose exactly what they want to eat, they don't eat!) We brought some leftover cupcakes (leftover from taking them to Trevor's preschool class) but nobody wanted to eat them, so we just sang him happy birthday and he blew out candles...

On the way home we stopped at a grocery store to get a few items and Mark ran in to Baskin Robbins and got him a cake since nobody wanted the old cupcakes. So we sang happy birthday and blew out candles again!

It was a fun day!!! Happy Birthday Trevor!!!