SPRING BREAK!!!

Oh how I love Spring Break! This year we will be going up to Coeur d'Alene, ID and hanging out our Worldmark resort. We plan on visiting our favorite indoor water park, Triple Play. We are super excited that our cousins Krysten and Tomas along with Doug (Ken's brother) and Melissa are going to meet up with us this year at Triple Play. It will be so much fun!

We spent several hours playing in the water. The kids loved the water slides. I only got to go down once since Afton had a ear infection (although we didn't know it at the time). Some of us played mini golf and laser tag and all of us played games in the arcade center. We had the best time.

The rest of spring break was spent enjoying watching tv, eating, swimming in a regular pool and sleeping. I believe we spent most of the time watching tv. I must say that the whole family misses satellite programming and we made the most of it soaking in all of the shows we miss the most (we had 4 tv's in our suite). I must also mention that we were able to reserve the penthouse suite at our resort and boy was it NICE!! I hope we get that opportunity again.

Kaley's New Haircut

Kaley searched through an entire hairstyle magazine to find just the right new haircut. A big thank you goes out to our friend Kristin for her fabulous skills! She really loves her new haircut and it surely gives her a more grown up look. It was a big hit with her friends too, so that says alot. She is definitely becoming a "teenager" right before our eyes. It is a delight to watch, but Ken doesn't understand her sometimes. I remind him that it's because he's a guy and it's natural for guys and dads to not understand teenage girls (hey, sometimes they don't even understand themselves right?!). She is quite an obedient and helpful girl. I'm very proud she's my daughter. Kaley is enjoying the freedoms that come with middle school. She is playing the flute and violin and those really take up any electives she might otherwise have, but she finds so much more to get involved in. Kaley decided this spring to try her hand at acting. She was in a play called "Bugsy Malone". She absolutely loved it. I loved helping her get her hair and make done for each show. It was great fun to be at each show and see the excitement and joy of all the kids. Their enthusiasm is catching. Kaley also loves to play basketball and softball. She just finished her third season of basketball and is getting ready to play her second season of softball (she had two years of little league baseball before switching over to girl's fast-pitch softball). Her dad will be her coach again this year. I believe Ken likes coaching his kid's teams as much as he likes playing them too!

St. Patrick's Day Cupcakes

Here's a picture of the cupcakes we made on St. Patrick's Day. They are chocolate coconut cream filled cupcakes. We also made green candy molds to put on top. Can you say rich and yummy?!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Well, those tricky little leprechaun's did it again. They got us good! Apparently they painted 50 rocks gold in our yard and only a few had some yummy gold coins underneath. Their card was yuck! It had boogers in it.

I made green mash potatoes, green gravy, green beans, and green chicken bundles for dinner. We also had mint chocolate chip ice cream cones for dessert. A good time was had by all.

For those who don't know, the leprechaun's visit our house every St. Patrick's Day and play tricks on us. We also like to eat food that is green or dyed green somehow.

My First Blog Ever!

Wow, can you believe it? I'm actually going to join the blogging world. I know, I know! I think it will be a great way to keep in touch with family and friends. It's also going to be my way of "keeping a journal". I am so bad a that. I think it will also serve as my "scrapbook" since I don't make time for that either. Please bear with me as I learn about blogging and how to organize everything here.