St. Patrick's Day and Spring Break

Eating Lucky Charms on St Patrick's Day

Looking for clues from the Lebrachaun

Found a clue!

Sneaky Leprachan left a clue in the bathtub!

Found the Pot of Gold in the dryer!! (how did the Leprachan find the dryer in the messy laundry room!)

Thanks Leprachaun!!

St. Patrick's Day 2012

Zoo--March 18, 2012

Zoo

Cute kids! Creighton Women's and Men's Basketball teams were both playing in the NCAA tournament hence the CU gear!

Lincoln Children's Museum--Spring Break 2012

Lincoln Children's Museum

Lincoln Chilren's Museum--Jack loved the water area!

Face painting!

Train table!

Astronaut Jack!

Astronaut Ellie!

Eating McDonald's on the way home from Lincoln with Leah and Emmy!

I am sitting outside as I am typing this! We have had the most beautiful weather the last couple of weeks (minus the last 3 days of rain of course during Spring Break but oh well!). We have have had a nice week! It started with St. Patrick's Day on Saturday. The kids got up and had Lucky Charms waiting for them (it's the only time I buy Lucky Charms during the year!) and of course the Leprachaun had come and left clues to find the pot of gold. They searched for their clues and then found their pot of gold in the dryer filled with gold coins, gum, Tic- Tacs and green nail polish! I wanted to go somewhere Irish to eat but Dave quickly squelched (sp ??) that idea and said everything would be crazy so we ended up eating outside at Sonic (not very Irish of us but we aren't very much Irish so I guess it's fine!) We got ice cream at Dairy Queen and called it a day! We had our traditional corn beef and cabbage for dinner and that was about as Irish as we got! Sunday was a beautiful day so after church we headed to the zoo! We spent a couple of hours walking around and enjoying the Spring weather! Good thing because then it rained for the next 3 days so we were stuck inside. The kids' Spring Break started on Monday and we've had a fun week so far. Monday we went to our friends Abby and Sophie's house for a playdate (Abby goes to school with Ellie and Jack goes to school with Sophie) and then headed to get Jack a haircut. Monday night we rented movies and had popcorn. Tuesday we drove to Lincoln to go to the Children's Museum with Leah and Emmy Hoyt and their mom. We also met a couple of Jack's friends there. What a fun day that was. The kids played for hrs at the musuem! We had a great time. We stopped at McDonald's on the way home and headed back to Omaha. Wednesday we went to my friend Michelle's house and Ellie and Payton got to play and then we headed to Bounce U with them for the afternoon. Today (Thurs) Jack is spending the day with Aunt Julie and Trevor and Ellie has her friend Chloe over and we are finally playing outside! Tomorrow Ellie is going to "Super Star" day at Saddlebrook with Emma. I think all in all it's been a fun week even though we didn't go on a Spring Break vacation! We found lots of fun things to do right here in Omaha! It's back to school on Monday and then summer will be here before we know it...can't wait!!! Love, love, love this time of year!!!