believe it or not

I'm pregnant. totally joking. sorry. Believe it or not, stuff has happened around here since we visited Grandma Young. Spring break being one of them. I'll be honest, I was dreading it a little bit having the kids home all day for a week. When they are used to being at school all day, I find that they get bored at home and it also makes my routine harder. Grandma's to the rescue. I'm not even sure if I had all 4 kids for more than 2 nights. And it was also wonderful to sleep in!! We had a good time and all agreed that we can't wait for Summer.
we stayed up late, went swimming, played outside all day with friends, and went to the book store but here are the highlights, our favorite things we did.

This was the most fun my kids have had all year. They thought pushing their own carts through the store was the coolest thing ever. "Mom is this what it feels like to be a Mom?" "Mom, can we go back to that one Smith's with the small carts? please?" They wanted to go back every day. I personally was in fear for my ankles the entire time.


We headed up to SLC to visit the Church Museum. They have a great kids area and it's free!


Cloe was pretty good at Mexican dancing

Brody and Sage built a tower

and then destroyed it.

The cousins and Ryan's Christ painting in the background.

On the last day of Spring Break April 16th, I ran the SLC half marathon. It was a great race with a little too much excitement for my liking. We were told to take Trax to the start line. I got to the stop at 6:20 am, the train never came until 6:55. I got to the starting line at 7:15 and the race started at 7! But we had chip timers so it didn't really matter, just very nerve racking. And I had to stop to go #2. I hate that in a race. Great course though and I beat my last half marathon time by 15 minutes.

This wasn't during Spring break, a little impromptu egg hunt with some friends.
Cloe took 3rd place in the 200m race out of the 3rd graders at the Hershey track meet.
On early out Friday we went to Hee Haws spring farm. I don't recommend it. They are much better at doing Fall farms :) But the kids still had a lot of fun, especially holding the baby animals.