As it turned out, our floors took a little longer than we bargained for and the kids and I ended up spending the whole spring break in Irrigon with my parents. We literally did not come home until last night, just in time to let the kids slide around on the new flooring for a bit and then send them to bed. We are so thankful for everyone who came and helped, but especially my dad for coming up almost every day and working late into the night with Riley. They just worked and worked and the floors look great! All that's left to do is just touch up a few spots and paint the baseboards and put them back on. Easier said than done though, it will probably take longer to finish those than the floor did! Ha.
I was feeling kind of lame that our kids weren't going to get to do anything for spring break, but they ended up getting pretty spoiled while we were there. A few of the fun things they did:
-Went to the "How to Train Your Dragon" movie with my mom
-Helped decorate Easter cupcakes
-My mom bought Alvin and the Chipmunks the Squeakquel which they've been DYING to watch and I think they watched it at least ten times.
-Went exploring with my dad to the river, the park, and the fish hatchery. They had so much fun collecting shells and being with grandpa.
-Had lots of yummy treats including root beer floats.
-Kendle got to hang out at the school with my mom for a while on Friday and go to their book fair where grandma treated her and Morgan to some cute books. (I think this was Kendle's favorite day of the whole week.)
-Morgan got to go the farm with grandpa a few times
-Morgan played outside every day, even when it was cold and rainy. He had a blast jumping on the trampoline, pushing the wheel barrow around, and occasionally chasing the neighbors chickens out of the yard. He is an outdoors type of boy for sure.
Every morning when I would start to hear the babies fussing, I would get up and go out to the family room and there would be my parents already feeding and changing the babies. They are nothing short of amazing people. I know they were pretty tired from helping with all of the kids this week and I think they deserve a vacation themselves. One thing is for sure, Cooper and Kale absolutely adore grandma and grandpa.
I enjoyed the parts of
General Conference I was able to watch over the weekend and hope I can recap the parts I missed. I also
loved this movie that played after Saturdays session.
Sunday morning Kendle and Morgan woke me up around 5:30 to see if they could go look at what the Easter Bunny had left them. I made them go back to bed for a while but finally by 6:45 or so I couldn't stand listening to them "pretending to go back to sleep" anymore so I let them get up. Here are a few pictures of them:
As you can see there aren't any baskets in these pictures. I decided to do something a little different this year. Morgan has really been wanting a back pack and since he has been kind of obsessed with the "How to Train Your Dragon" movie, I bought him a cool dragon back pack and made that his "basket" with his cool stuff inside. I found Kendle a cute Eiffel Tower bag from Forever 21 that I knew she would love as her "basket" and she could use it for piano books, going to the library, or short trips to grandmas house. I think they got pretty spoiled by the Easter bunny.
Now we're back to school, routine, cleaning house, and all that jazz.
