SPRING BREAK!! Day 1

Adventure!  That pretty much sums up our trip to GA last week.  Deanna and I had a great idea to travel down to GA with just the two of us and four kids 2 and under!  Most importantly, the girls and I (and hopefully Deanna, Kai & Demi) had a great time and had a lot of time to bond with each other!  But it definitly wasn't without adventure!!  We decided it would be best on the kids if we drove through the night...whoops...litte did we know that our kids would be night owls and stay awake virtually the entire time!  Wow.  Talk about altered sleep schedules.  (Little did we know that that trip was a piece of cake in comparison with our trip home...but that's another story!). The lack of sleep and change in schedules made for some cranky babies at times, but overall, they kids had a blast hanging out with Grandpa and Grandma vikki and their cousins!!  As usual, I took way too many pictures, so I will break this down by day! 

Here's what we did on day 1!

This was about 4am.  We still had about an hour and a half to go...



Grandpa taking the girls for a walk after a much needed nap



And we see dogs up ahead...what could be more exciting?

touching them!!  Apparently, Isabella was trying to lick his tongue!  Yuck!

Dad has new neighbors that have young kids...which equals fun toys!!  Yay!

Reading with Grandma "bikki"

We woke up from nap VERY cranky...so..Dora to the rescue!!

How cute is this liitle sweetie????

And a few bedtime stories!

River

Before I got home from work the other day, Cesar kidnapped the girls and took them to the river :)
He got some cute videos and pictures!!  They seemed to have a LOT of fun (even if mommy probably would have been a nervous wreck if I were there).

Today

Heidi just sent me these pictures while I am at school and I have to post them.  I mean...what else would I be doing while I have the same class of 6th graders  for TWO and A HALF hours this morning!!! 

Warm Weather

The weather the last few days has been awesome!  High 70's to 80's.  I guess if we aren't going to get a SINGLE snow day...this is a good way to make up for it!  The girls have been begging me to take them to the "other green playground" for days, so yesterday we took a walk to get there and took some pics along the way.  We have A LOT of playgrounds in our neighborhood and the girls have named them all.  It is kind of funny the names that they choose...sometimes it is hard for us to figure out since they don't always describe them as they are.  They do love their playgrounds though :)

Hitching a ride with Daddy

Bella's turn.  The ENTIRE time Leah was riding, Bella walked next to them saying "alright, Bella's turn" over rand over.   She probably said it 45 times in 3 minutes! 

Isabella's attempt at smiling for the camera

We stopped to play in this stuff and the girls had the best time!!  I couldn't get them to leave.

Practicing her karate moves

Leah was so happy to pull Isabella in the wagon.

These pictures are a bit deceiving...Leah was NOT happy when Isabella wanted to help pull.  She kept trying to pull Isabella's arm off of the handle.

Leah has a thing about sitting on benches.  She gets so excited when she sees a new one to sit on.

This is their new favorite way to swing "all by myself"

She thinks this is a camera and every time I break out my camera, she runs over and picks this up to "take pictures".

Such a teenager face.  "Mom...seriously...stop taking pictures."