Spring Break Repeat

The kids were on Spring Break the past week.  We have been dying to get out of town ever Mike got finished with his busy time at work. One of the nice things about living where we do is that there are quite a few places we can drive to in a few hours.  Last year we went to Dallas for Spring Break, and we liked it so much that the kids voted to go there again.  Once again we had a great time. We headed down on Thursday morning.  We got there and checked into our hotel. Then we went to the King Tut exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art. There was a lot of really neat artifacts, and Megan was excited to see some of the stuff since she has learned about Egypt in Social Studies. Sammy and Noah did remarkably well there, even though they didn't have a lot of interest in what we were looking at.  

After the museum we headed to the kids favorite restaurant-Sweet Tomatoes! They loved going there when we lived in Utah, but we don't have one nearby anymore.  

On Friday we headed out to do some serious shopping.  We started at Bass Pro Shop, a place we thought Noah would enjoy.  Then off to the mall.  We pulled off a 7 hour shopping trip, with a break in the middle to go see Monster vs. Aliens.  

What 7 hours of shopping does to a kid!

Then to dinner at a place that Mike and I wanted to go - Pei Wei.  We finished our trip Saturday with a trip to the American Girl store for Sammy.  

There are a couple of other things we would have liked to do, but the weather was quite cold, so we will save it for next time.   

A Little Catch-up

I haven't had anything very interesting to blog about recently, so I thought I could just recap what we have been up to these last few weeks.  Noah finally started tee-ball practice a couple of weeks ago. He has been looking forward to it all winter long.  Unfortunately he was sick the first day of practice, but nothing would stop him from going.  Thank goodness for medicine!

A couple of weekends ago, Megan and I decided to go to the Twilight DVD release party at Borders for our mother/daughter date this month.  It was a kind of a strange scene.   I like Twilight, but I realize that I'm nothing like the die-hards that were there.  I wasn't brave enough to take pictures of them. They had trivia contests, and I can't believe the type of details that people remember from the books and movie.  They also had a scavenger hunt with Twilight questions. We actually did pretty well on that. It was a late night since they couldn't start selling the movie until midnight.  I exercised some poor judgement around 11:15.  There were a lot of people there, and I was thinking that it would take forever to pay for the movie once it was midnight since they don't have many registers.  So I talked Megan into going over to Walmart where they were also have a release party. When we got there, we realized that there were even more people there, the line wrapped around the store, and it would probably take even longer to get through it than it would at the bookstore.  So we got back in the car and headed back to Borders.  Of course during the time we were gone, they had let them line up there, so we were at the end of the line.  It went fast though, and we were home by 12:30. Megan wanted me to stay up and watch the movie when we got home, but I was too tired.  I'm not the night owl I used to be.  I'm getting old I guess.  

The end of the line

Patiently waiting

Finally got it!

12:45 - Ready for bed!

We finally decided to get a Wii Fit.  The kids have been playing on it so much, that Mike and I have hardly been able to try it out.