Spring Break

So we headed to Yuma for our annual spring break (Matt is actually getting better about letting us leave...it used to be pretty painful to try and sneak away during tax season, but thankfully he has taken up exercising (better positive outlook on life, shorter time at home after dinner) - and I can always coerce good friends into feeding him (20 minutes or less) and watching out for him while we're gone.)

Yuma was sunny and warm and we even got to celebrate St. Patricks day with my mom. The St. Patricks day meal was definitely in the top five meals of all time growing up. I looked forward to March 17th every year - just so I could have corned beef and cabbage and green pistachio pudding salad. (Not sure what that says about the other meals that made it into the top five category???)

We also went swimming at my friend Jill's house (aka "cookie") where Laina was able to practice her "teddy bear teddy bear turn around..." (she's mildly obsessed with jump roping right now-I've been whipped a few times by a wandering carefree jump roper...must be a kindergarten thing?) Jill ran around making everybody happy and comfortable (and fed with ice cream and grapes) and sunscreened! I talked some little girls into doing some modeling for me...not bad for their first time eh?

Check out the hops we have goin' on:

I had fun playing around in PS with these ones:

**Okay so there were so many good ideas on the blog book, that I'm going back and printing 2 more so that each kid can have their own library! (Not to mention I want to add a few more things that were left out)