No School

I've always thought that Mid-Winter break is kind of a joke, I'd much rather have the kids get out of school one week earlier. Maybe it's because we never plan a big trip or go anywhere fun, and usually the weather is rainy and cold.

This year, it was different. It almost felt like Spring. My kids happily buzzed around doing their daily chores so that they could go outside and play with all of the neighbor kids. It was beautiful everyday and everyone was happy and cheerful. I'm sad to see the week come to an end.

Linsey perfected her rollerblading skills riding around the block numerous times. I'm always amazed with the creativity my kids have. I love it! See Tara's blog for an amazing chalk city they came up with. Today, Linsey created a dragon costume for Emma to wear. I'll have to remember this for Halloween.

Here's a close up of the wings. Pretty amazing!

My favorite is the hair do. She had to have spikes!

and, check out the shoes.

While we were cleaning out my brother's old room last weekend, he came across an old piggy bank of pennies that he gave me to give my kids. It provided for a whole afternoon of fun.

Here are the kids dumping the pennies into one of those machines that counts them and gives you the cash.....pretty cool.

They divided the money up and everyone got to pick out a new toy. Emma had decided that she wanted a monster truck, and not just any monster truck, she wanted a Dalmatian one. We knew it existed because she had seen it once before, but after searching three different stores and heading to a fourth I announced that this would be the LAST place we would look for it and to cross her fingers. She did, all the way there.

As luck would have it, we found it!

We even had a little money leftover to get popcorn and Slurpee's! Thanks Anthony!


On Friday I had my sisters-in-law over for lunch and we made these cute watches. This one is Linsey's.

Somehow the stars aligned and we all got our babies to nap at the same time which allowed us to have a great visit too.

It's been a fun week and now that I'm finally deciding that Mid-Winter break isn't that bad after all, the district has decided to do away with it starting next year.