Spring Break!!

Our week started off on a sad note.  Our 11 year old lab, Sasha, died on Monday.  We are all very sad and miss our sweet girl!!  We are thankful for the time we had with her!
We had a great spring break!  We have been talking a lot about growing plants and making a garden.  We hit the library for some books about gardening.  We are also trying to grow a sweet potato vine.  (We placed 4 toothpicks around the middle of a sweet potato and rested the potato in a glass jar, with one end submerged in water.  We are supposed to see growth in 1-2 weeks!) We planted some marigold seeds in a small indoor greenhouse.  We are SO excited to see the results of our hard work! 
We braved the cold and headed downtown for the St. Patrick's Day parade on wednesday.  We met up with some friends and hade a great time dancing to the marching bands and cheering on the floats.  We ate a picnic lunch while sitting on the curb on Broadway!  So much fun!
Ava and I had a date this week,and we really enjoyed spending some quality time together.  I surprised her with tickets to Disney on Ice and Matt bought her a new Cinderella dress to wear.  She even wore a tiara on our date!  We started out with dinner at Winstead's (YUMMY!) and then headed down to the Sprint Center.  Before the show we were able to meet some Disney Princesses (Cinderella & Tiana) and see some princess gowns on display.  Ava was very impressed and was SURE that they were the REAL thing!  We really enjoyed the Disney on Ice show and decided that we would have date night more often!

We had a playdate on Friday morning with some new friends, and then the girls headed to Gramma & Grampa McCluer's house for a sleepover!  They had a blast, and were super excited that Gramma bought them "The Princess and The Frog" and some Easter crafts.  Matt and I enjoyed having a quiet evening!!
Matt and the girls are headed outside to play in the 9 inches of snow that mother nature dumped on us this weekend.  I have promised them hot cocoa on their return.  Let's hope this is the end of snowmen and hot cocoa for a long while.

March Madness

We are counting down the days 'til spring!  We cannot wait to start spending our days at Deanna Rose Farmstead and the park and pretty much anywhere but INSIDE!!   We visited the Kidscape exhibit at the JoCo Museum this week.  It's like a small town with a hospital, theatre, city hall, boutique and book store.  In the park you can play mini golf, go fishing or play wii sports.  In the hospital you can perform surgery or take care of the babies.  Ava & Sophia put on quite a show for me and Graham on the theatre stage! Each room is filled with activities that spark the imagination!  We also went to the carnival at Stanley Elementary this weekend.  Ava was very excited to see the school where she will attend Kindergarten in the fall!  Ava was quite talented at the games and amazed me with her superior skills!!  Sophia was LUCKY and won the Book Walk and the Sweet and Salty Stroll (both versions of a cake walk).  She also chose the marked sucker on the lollipop tree.  I am going to have her buy me a lottery ticket!!
Dan turned 30 on March 1st, and we had a BBQ party at Grammy & Papa's house.  It was tons of fun and good to see everyone.  Baby Danny is getting SO big!  He and Graham are just about the same size and doing many of the same things.  Those boys are gonna be tearing it up together very soon!
A BIG shout out to Aunt Meg for watching the kids Friday night!!  The girls were so excited and cannot stop talking about their new coloring books and playing Duck Duck Goose with Meg!  Matt and I met some friends for dinner at the Blue Moose and then hit the bowling alley.  We had a BLAST!  It was much needed adult time!
Finally, Graham got his first tooth this week!  My baby is growing up!