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.