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Spring Break with My Lovlies

My kids had spring break this week. We toyed with the idea of all of us going to Panguitch for part of the time, but Destry will have to take some time off next week, so grandpa picked up the boys on Wednesday. So the girls and I had some fun yesterday afternoon and all day today.

 Yesterday afternoon we went to The Living Planet Aquarium in Draper. My awesome mother-in-law, Caludia, bought us a family pass for the years' birthdays. We have really enjoyed it and it expires this month so we decided to go one more time. 

 Next we drove to IKEA, a favorite hangout of ours. My girls love to play house in the house set ups they have. The try out the beds and other furniture too. We ate dinner in the cafeteria; we usually like doing that on Tuesdays because kids get to eat for free, but we didn't make it until Thursday. It is still a pretty cheap place to eat. 

 The girls wanted to watch a new version of "Annie" again after we got home. I rented it from RedBox the night before. It was good, but I didn't want to see it again so soon, so they watched it with a couple of friends before we had to return it. 

 Today we started a bit earlier, to go to the Zoo, but our plans changed for the better. When we arrived there was literally no more parking and there were all kinds of cars driving up and down the isles. We also spotted several buses and decided we would not be going to the Zoo right then. We had driven all the way up their and it seemed a shame to go home; remembering that my mom should be at the Family History Center, we decided to go surprise her there. 

 Surprised she was. When Emma went up behind her and gave her a hug and said, "Hi Grandma," she thought someone had gotten the wrong grandma. It was fun to see her at work and we did a little work ourselves. We had packed a lunch for the zoo so we found tables outside the Gateway Mall to eat at then we got a treat at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. Yum! 

 We went on a tour of the Beehive House. I remember going there several times as a child, but the tour was much smaller now. We were only allowed to view a few rooms. The best part of going there, however, was that I ran into a high school chum who was there with her kids! She lives in Lehi and our paths have crossed a time or two since we graduated from high school a couple of years ago--haha! We walked through the Joseph Smith Memorial Building and through Temple Square. It was a beautiful spring day! 

 It was close to 3:30 when we got into our car and I asked if they wanted to go to the Zoo. Sarah said yes; Estelle said no, and Emma asked if I was kidding. We really had had a wonderful, full day, but I figured it didn't hurt to head up there since we were still there and there was still daylight. I knew that at least the school buses would be gone by then. We found a parking spot and went in. It was still quite crowded, and we went through quite quickly because Emma had been invited to a party that she was already late for and Estelle was hosting a party that she still had to finish preparing for. 

 I promised to help with the party preparations. Everything was ready to go when the first guest arrived. Estelle is the cutest party planner ever! She used her own money to buy party favors at the dollar store, planned out games and made invitations. The girls are having a ball! Estelle reluctantly let Emma make a treasure hunt to lead to the party favors. She is getting that ready with her friend right now. 

 It has been a great spring break! 

 I haven't heard from the boys, so I'm going to assume that no news means good news.

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