Spring Break.....

I tried to plan an event for each day the kids were off of school. I was trying to embrace the whole concept of the staycation..... which I never understood..... I was trying though.....
So in typical Heather fashion I planned everything out and became excited.....
Like life for typical Heather changes happen, weather, kids, life, the unexpected........
So We had fun we accomplished a lot, it had elements of the plan it had new things.....The kids had fun ( the most important). I would not call this anything close to a vacation though so I have to say while I had fun I still think the concept of a staycation is bizarre.
That said let's delve into the week of fun.

Saturday we went to Lakeshore learning a fabulous store where you can find all kinds of learning toys and teacher supplies and great adventure.... The kids made pot o' gold banks, played in the model kitchen and then we went to meet and greet story hour with Clifford the big red dog over at Barnes and Nobel ( our second home). S was so excited to see Clifford even before he could get into the story she rushed up to hug him and the whole time waved and cheered for Clifford. I think she should be able to run for president of his fan club.

Sunday our weekend was even more exiting ! As many of you know I am a hockey fan.... really like hockey it is so awesome. We have a team here in San Antonio ( yes they play my beloved Milwaukee Admirals). We have been to a game for H's cub scout den and the kids really had fun. S is like me she LOVES hockey.
Well bless those anonymous people who donated tickets to military families. Truly THANK YOU !!!!!!! a block of tickets were donated to the base and the cub scout families were given tickets for their families to go to the hockey game ! We arrived at the center for the game and we were all set, coats, snacks, sandwiches, kids, super excited Mom. Then it became even more amazing...they told us where to go for our seats..... we were 3 rows behind the players !!!!!!!!!! in all my life I have never had seats that amazing !!!!!!
we were 3 rows behind the players !!!!! We could see the players faces the coaches dry board... those sent to penalty..... it was amazing !!!!!! The game was awesome S & I cheered like crazy that girl loves hockey as much as I do. The boys were super excited that because the Rampage scored 4 goals they would get free chicken sandwiches from the sponsor Chik-Fil-A........ it was just the perfect Sunday afternoon. The Rampage won 5-2 against the Peoria Rivermen. It was a great game...with amazing seats.

Monday we had to take a break..... remember the construction last week, the new wall for the new room, the flooring installed..... well there was dust furniture and stuff everywhere..... we had to stop and pull it all together....well as much as we could. The kids all have their own rooms now. P has his own room for the first time and he choose the paint ( twilight blue) and he picked a rocket theme. P is so proud of his new room. T loves his new room and has settled in quite well. I only have carpet cleaning upstairs and re organizing downstairs..... However all work and no play makes us dull or so they say so Tuesday it was back to spring break.

we went out and ran errands.... ( it was raining all day so we couldn't go to Sea World as planned) ok it wasn't exciting but, we did stop and eat at a Sonic for the first time ever. T had earned a reward from school so we took him to use his card. Sonic is not our thing..... but we tried something new !

Wednesday it really was back to fun we had planned on going to the zoo, one of our favorite hang outs. It was over capacity people were standing in the street for hours waiting to get in as others left..... luckily just around the corner from the zoo is the Japanese gardens ! So we took our picnic lunch and went to the gardens which were empty except for 1-2 people and the boys LOVED the rock walls and winding paths and the wonderful fish and ducks. The kids wandered explored and imagined the morning away in the beautiful sunshine. We had lunch at the picnic tables.... then the kids all went for a ride on the zoo train through Breckenridge park. It was off to home for a nap then because we had a really exciting evening ahead of us. Nan took the kids & I to see Disney on Ice for a St. Patrick's day treat !!!!! We saw Irish dancers outside on the green carpet before the show . Mickey & Minnie arrived in a horse drawn carriage and Minne came up the green carpet and S got a high five from Minnie !!!!!!! we felt like rock stars ! S thought it was really cool Minnie high five'd her from the green carpet. Inside it only got better, the show was full of all the kids favorite Disney characters on ice singing "dancing" . P saw Woody, H saw Buzz & captain hook, S was thrilled to see all of the princess'. It was a great show.


Thursday, the kids had a rainbow tea party here at home ( T & I had appointments all day) P made rainbow cupcakes which were extremely tasty.

Friday, we had planned to go see the snake guest at the children's museum..... however plans changed and instead we went to go see a rodent of unusual size AKA Chuck E. Cheese. My Mom loves Chuck E Cheese.... as much as the kids do so it was fun the kids ran around played laughed had fun.... went crazy and spring break went out with a bang.

This weekend will be cold and rainy..... rumor has it movie night will be the next Star Wars movie ( we started with the "old" Star Wars.... so this week will be Empire Strikes back !
Next week will be school, and work, and putting the house together and laundry..... but this week was silly fun.