Home for Spring Break

For the 1st time ever, as long as I can remember, even in my childhood, we stayed home for Spring break. Growing up, my family always went somewhere, and BS and I have enjoyed carrying-on that tradition with our kids. We love the long break from school...a whole week (and with 2 weekends, that's like 9 days)! Our annual get-aways usually include St. George, Zions National Park, Las Vegas, or Arizona (or Grand Canyon once, or some mixture of 2 or 3 places).

But, because of the pups, we were home-bound. We canceled our reservations at our hotel in Springdale, canceled our hotel in St. George, and canceled the plans we had made with our traveling friends. The kids thought they were going to die when we told them we weren't going anywhere. BS and I did our best to explain to them that we would still have lots of fun.

And, we did have fun. And we even got some spring cleaning done. Lucky for me, the weather was crap so we had good reason to stay inside one day and clean. Of course, there were rewards involved. The kids made a list of all of the fun things they wanted to do during the week. I made a deal with them that if they would help me out with whatever I needed in the morning, then I/we would take them somewhere fun. On Monday I had the kids all to myself because BS was driving to St. George and back for work. We met our friends, The Plummers, at the movie and saw "How to Train A Dragon" in 3D IMAX. It was such an awesome show!

Other activities for the week included:

-LOTS of playing with friends (don't get much time to do this during school)
-Jump On It
-Eating at Tepanyaki
-Grandma's Hot Tub
-Spring cleaning all day Tuesday (kids were actually great little workers)
-Lots of playing with the puppies
-Driving to Hildale, Utah and back in one day (mom - for hotch potch)
-Batting Cages
-Dance Competition - Millie
-Re-finishing wood floor - BS helping his brother Adam
-Open gym at gymnastics
-Ice Cream stops
-Brunch at Kneaders
-Swimming
-Bike Ride date (BS and I - something we've only done twice in 2 years)!

The week finished off nice with warm weather and a yummy dinner at Grandma Judy's on Sunday. Grandma and Grandpa Guffey were in Hawaii all week - so lucky!

We missed being able to go on our little trip, but despite staying home all week long, we managed to have a good time! It gets me excited for summer!

Here is a picture of our cute "Smurfette" at her 1st dance competition of the year.