Spring Break Staycation

Yes, a staycation.  And it's been awesome!  We have really enjoyed just relaxing around here all week long.  Since the time changed last weekend, we've been staying up later and here's the best part--sleeping in!  I've slept as late as 9:00 and so have my girls!  It's been wonderful.  I'm not sure how we're going to make it to school on time this next week, but we'll worry about that on Monday morning.  For now, I will just bask in the greatness of waking up with my three-year old snuggled into me. 

 

Spring Break Staycation Recap:

 

We kicked off Spring Break with a little fiesta for Maria's birthday.  A great night, filled with fajitas and Luna de Noche margaritas!

On Monday, we took all three girls to the ranch.  Jackson stayed with Memaw and went on a shopping spree at Academy.  When I got home that night, he had just gotten back from dinner.  He was sporting a sweatband, two arm bands, his Texas Rangers hat and sunglasses, too.  Such a goofy kid.  He enjoyed his time with Memaw and Poppi so much that he asked to spend the night and since it's Spring Break, I said "sure!"

Amanda and her boys came to visit on Tuesday.  She finally got to meet Cami and the boys had a blast playing football, basketball and Xbox.

Wednesday was a pretty slow day, but the kids really enjoyed playing together.  They even got into Lila's makeup and made each other rock stars.  Rock on, J man! 

On a whim, I decided to take the kids to Clyde Warren Park in downtown Dallas that night.  We had never been, it was a pretty evening, and I just wanted to do something different.  Our friends, John, Kim and Henry Duncan met us there, too, which made it even better.  They had really cool play structures and my monkeys had no trouble getting to the top.  Monkey see...

monkey do!  She got up almost as high as he did!

He kept getting higher and higher and asking me to take his picture!

The kids slid down the grassy hills, played tag in the park and then we climbed the steps to the top of this tree house.

If you look closely over J's right shoulder, you can see the cars on the highway going underneath the park.  Way cool!  We ended our fun night with dinner at El Fenix and declared our adventure a big success.

Thursday morning the fun just kept coming.  We met Gigi, Maddie and Andie at the movies.  We saw Mr. Peabody and Sherman--such a great movie for both kids and adults!

We picked up Cami from Memaw's house and then met everyone at Schell Elementary to play for a while.  The girls did the monkey bars and slides...

and Jackson played lots of basketball.  He challenged Andie and Gigi to a game and still beat them.  The kid might be a tad bit competitive. 

That evening, J went with Gigi to take Andie back up to Papaw and Granny's farm.  They let him do all kinds of fun things, like climb this tree (oh, my that's high!)...

 

 

and visit with the donkeys.  He had a ball.

 

 

And somehow we ended up at the end of the week already!  We met a few of his baseball buddies at Top Golf this morning.  Here's the Fearsome Foursome.

Everyone had a really great afternoon.  The boys loved playing golf and goofing around and I really enjoyed hanging out with Julie and Shannon.  We weren't ready for the fun to end, so we went to Cold Stone for ice cream after the games were over.  A little cinnamon ice cream is never a bad plan, if you ask me.

While we were gone, the girls were giving Gigi plenty of help with Baby Cameron.  Maddie got to practice her diaper changing skills...

and then got an A plus for giving Cami her bottle.  They said she drank every last drop--all 6 oz!

2014 Spring Break, you've been so nice.  I will savor you for the last few days:)