PJ Day!

Sydney's school got to have pajama day. Her teacher asked me to come in a take a picture for them. This is Sydney's class!

Irish Dance Festival

For the last couple of years we have celebrated St. Patrick's day in St. Paul with their parade and big celebration. This year it landed on a Tuesday, but the weekend before they were have an Irish Dance and Music Festival. We decided to try it! Sydney thought it was great. She and I loved the dancers and music. We watched and listened to music for a couple of hours. Sydney tried her hand at her own made-up Irish dance.


She was pretty cute. We then ventured over to Cosetta's where they make fabulous pizzas! If you sit in the second level you can watch them make them.


The kids loved watching them throw the pizza crust in the air. Sydney ate a piece of pizza (without the toppings of course) bigger than her head.


I couldn't even finish my piece. All-in-all a great way to spend a nice Sunday. We did decide we enjoyed the actual St. Patrick's Day celebration better because they have kids stories and crafts and a lot more options of things to do!

A better cake

Here is the last cake/cupcakes I baked and frosted...It took about as long as the last one, but I think it turned out cuter. It didn't require as much free hand (which as you saw...isn't my thing) ...only the balls.

My skiiers

We've been trying to get the kids out skiing all year, but just haven't gotten out. I finally was able to bring them this week during their spring break. I was so proud of them. They did so good and tried so hard. Jordan is completely on his own. He goes up the chair lifts by himself and skis down by himself. Sydney needed help skiing most of the day. About the last 2 hours, she finally got brave enough to figure out how to do it on her own. She would go down most of the bunny hill by herself. She figured out how to stop (snowplow) and was starting to turn really good. It was a ton of fun and very exhausting for me, who doesn't use those muscles every day anymore. It's not just skiing, but holding and bending over for a five year old to help her all day. Yep...I'm definately getting old! Today my legs, arms, back...pretty much everything aches :)

AHHH GROSS

In the car....

Jordan: "Mom, did you know that in the olden days they used to take old teeth and throw them in the fire?"

Me: "That sounds kinda gross, Jordan"

Jordan: "Not as gross as putting them in a bag under your pillow!"


You got me there :)

Fun in the Sun

The kids were on spring break this week. We wanted to do something that wasn't expensive, but still fun for them and we didn't have a lot of time to do it. Arlie was able to take one day off, so we rented a room at the Roger/Elk River Holiday Inn and Water park. If you get a room there, the water park is free. It was great because we were able to swim for a couple hours on Wednesday night and a couple hours on Thursday and the kids thought it was great. Sydney absolutely LOVES hotels. She would move to one and live there if we let her. The whole way, she laughed and said "This is the best night of my life...I sure do love hotels". Unfortunately then, she was up late and up early because she was so excited...but it was worth it! It honestly felt like a mini vacation and it was 30 minutes from our house. It was perfect, the kids got to do something special. We got to do some family bonding and spend some great quality time with them. They had three large water slides. One of which is like a bowl at the bottom. You come shooting out into this bowl and go around a couple of times and then it drops you out the bottom. You could go on that as many times as you wanted and it was the same rush every time. They had a lazy river, whirlpool tub (that made you swim in circles), log walk, basketball hoop and open pool to play in, zero depth pool with lots of fun things for younger kids, slides, watershooting things..etc. The kids favorite is a hot tub that they are allowed to go in :) I highly recommend it.

The Works

Last weekend for our playgroup we went to a place called The Works. One or two weekends a year they have a big day where everything is free. The Works is a place for kids to show them how things work. They had robots, hovercrafts, blocks showing how to build things like arches and other shapes, places to make little cars and race them, light experiments, air density experiments, planetarium and so much more. The U of M sponsors it and puts on a great little show of how air density works and what it is. The kids loved it.


They made straw rockets and hovercrafts. They went to the planetarium show, watched robots doing their different things, tried almost all the experiments and hands on displays within The Works museum and to top if off, they had free snacks! You can't get much better than that. It was a ton of fun and we can't wait for next year!