spring break re-cap

well i was planning on doing a slower style day-by-day breakdown of spring break, just so i could post a million pictures, but since it's been almost a month and i still haven't done it, i think i'll just put a few things together and see what happens:

silly kids playing around one morning, i just love the smiles :D

 we did spend one day with our friends at the arboretum. we love that place! so green and living, and not so crowded that you can't let the kids run free a little bit. and they have these cute little houses that change each year, this year they represent painters, so this bridge was over a little pond by a cottage, and it all represented monet, cute huh?



i think this table was behind the surat house, but i can't remember for sure

 

kung fu pose anyone?

i can't for anything get these kids to pose in a normal smiling all together pose, but if i say 'kung fu' i get a great pic... go figure ;)
let's see, we also went to a special library day about the magic tree house books, anna recommended them for afton a few months ago, and she's devoured them (we'd heard about them from a few other friends too, but i love that we can occasionally get the books on cd so she can listen to them at bedtime when i'm getting rayna to bed and trying to calm malachi down too, handy!). it was a fun little hour, with all kinds of activities: digging for dinosaur bones (which isn't much like any of the books, but still exciting), wrapping eachother in TP to be mummies, writing in code (backwards letters) like di vinci, making a sundial, etc... the girls had a great time, and i was sorry i'd forgotten the camera, afton made a great mummy!

 we also played and picniced at the park a couple times, again with friends, everything's better with friends!



i just love this picture of rayna and joshua, great smiles! joshua is actually afton's 'boyfriend' but really all the kids play great together.

i wish i could say every day of spring break was exciting and special, but it was mostly a normal week, with the added excitement of no school. we did try to do some extra things like this with friends, and we did still have our normal library story time and such, but the only really exciting thing we did was st. patricks day. more on that soon!