Ice Skating and President's Day Weekend

We had an "ice skating kind of weekend"!! The weather was nice over the weekend so we decided to take the kids ice skating at Mahoney State Park because we had been talking about for a while. It is such a nice place to skate. It's outdoors but under a pavillion so it's not too cold. Ellie loves to ice skate and this was just Jack's 2nd time so he still feeling it out but he seemed to enjoy it a bit but was really a lot more concerned with when it would be time to go play in their indoor play structure :) Ellie is actually pretty good and now wants to take Ice Skating lessons thanks to our Brownie field trip on Monday night. So not only did we ice skate on Saturday but we also went on Monday night. I had set up a lesson for the troop at Hitchcock and the girls loved it! They got 30 min of instruction and then 30 min of free skate. It was a lot of fun and a great field trip! I never ended up getting a pic of the troop which I'm bummed about :(

Watching the Zamboni clean the ice--pretty exciting!

Mahoney State Park indoor playground

Indoor playground at Mahoney

Yikes!! Ellie wanted to try my wedding dress on when were at my parents!

Ellie, Jack and Claire at Bounce U

Ellie was trying to convince Jack to go down the slide--he wasn't having it! He refused so I had to go up and get him :) Love them so much!!

The kids are headed back to school today after being off 1/2 on Fri and then all day Mon and Tues for Presidents Day and Teacher work day. Monday Ellie had a friend over and Tues we took her friend Claire and went to Bounce U. The kids loved it---we were literally there for almost 3 hrs. We have been there several times before and normally they are ready to go after about an hour or so but not yesterday--they played and played! Overall we had a good long weekend and we are ready for some routine back!!