Sunday, March 27, 2011

Living and Laughing to end Spring Break


So half of our house is in mourning since our dear Jayhawks have found away to yet again work themselves out of a national championship... losing (again) to a mid-major team. And not just any mid-major team. But, rather, one who by all accounts on Selection Sunday should not have been in the tournament at all. WOW! It sucks to be a KU fan right about now ;(

But... in other news... at least we have had a relatively fun and relaxing end to our Spring Break! Exploring on Thursday. A morning trip to visit Great-Grandpa, followed by lunch with Grandpa and a trip to the zoo on Friday. And then visits with Auntie K and her crew on Saturday and a baseball tournament (in 40-degree weather, of course) today has rounded out the end of our extended weekend. I have never in my life thought I could be a stay-at-home mom... however, the past four days have been so much fun that I think, given the right conditions, I would actually entertain the thought.

I don't have baseball pictures to share yet because Dalton is still playing for the championship... but here are some other photos from the remainder of our Spring Break. (Notice the boys managed to evade the camera this time around!).

Kalix... So Innocent Looking... ;)


Emmalie, Kalix and Bethanie
take a break from the playground.


Em- One sad girl holding her Daddy's hand...


... But snow cones cure all sadness, right?!


Bethie enjoyed her snow cone, too!

Daddy and his girls
get in some laughs at the zoo.



A number of months back, I introduced Tony to one of my favorite "Daddy-Daughter" song (Cinderella by Steven Curtis Chapman). He then introduced the girls to the song... so, of course, they now believe they are living, dancing, singing princesses! So, Auntie K helped the girls pick out their Easter dresses over the weekend. And, you know us.... we just couldn't let the opportunity to take some more photos pass us by! (Before Bethie and Em wear out their dresses!).

All smiles and growing up so fast,
our precious little Bethanie.

This is as serious a look
Emmalie can purposely give!

Then Em follows with a photo like this!

Bethanie playing "peak-a-boo" with her floral prop!
Only Bethie would think of that... :)



That's it from our wonderful world of March-end events.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Away We Go to Explore... :)


Okay, so it is now the end of Day #1 to our extended weekend close for Spring Break 2011. Too bad Tony had to work. But the kids and I had a wonderful time today. First, I taught the girls how to make icing flowers for cakes (or in today's case, cupcakes)... which was a messy blast! Then it was off to take the Rupp-Haag quartet (plus our future addition to the family, Sabrina) for a day of fun exploring the Megalodon/Shark exhibit. Then on to baseball practice, dinner and NCAA game watching. What a fun day ;-) And we can't wait for tomorrow's plans!

I will leave you with images of our relaxing and rather eventful day...













Friday, March 18, 2011

A Break is A Break... Right?!



Ahhhh! Spring Break has finally arrived. I don't know who is more excited about it... the kids or the parents! For us, it signals the fact that we get some time together to worry about anything else but work and school. I'm so looking forward to spending a couple of days enjoying quality time with the kids. Even the days Tony and I do both have to work... the boys will be enjoying extra time at the YMCA and the girls will be living it up on field trips with their daycare classes. It's an all around winning situation that we all desperately need!

Our motto for the week of Spring Break 2011:

"A good laugh is sunshine in a house!" -William Thackeray.

In fact, we're already starting to follow our saying of the week... as we've had a great deal of laughter (and some NCAA basketball fun, of course) to end Day #1 off of school for the kids. Now if I can just manage to get some pictures of the boys, too...!





Hope everyone has a wonderful and safe end/beginning (whichever this weekend should be) to your Spring Break time ;-)

Shelia, Tony & the Gang