Spring Break

Tonight is the end of Spring Break. The kids are in bed, and most of them are asleep. Ainsley is excited to go back to school, Kaylee is mad that she's not going back to school, and Landon couldn't care less. We had a fun week. Here are the highlights:

Uncle John visited us from March 8th to the13th. The kids had a blast with him and he had a good time too. He brought a Wii game with him called Carnival Games for the kids to play. They also played Smash Brothers. Needless to say, many hours were spent playing Wii. The first few days John stayed with us, we hung out at home.

On Wednesday we headed into Austin for the day. We spent the afternoon at Zilker Park and then headed back to Round Rock for dinner. We were going to try to eat in Austin and then go to the Children's Museum but it was the first night of a huge music festival (SXSW) that's held in Austin every year and there was absolutely no parking anywhere.

Thursday was a fun day but a sad day. We played outside for awhile, played a little Wii, and then it was time to take John to the airport - the girls bawled. Later that day we found out John's flight had been delayed an hour and a half and then when he finally got on the airplane, the pilot backed into a fuel truck. His flight was delayed another half hour. We were bummed that he could have stayed a little longer and we didn't find out until it was too late. I talked to him about it later. He told me he was really mad but then the superstition that bad things always happen in threes entered his mind. His thought was, "what if the plane goes down? I don't want my last thoughts to be angry ones." So, he stopped being mad. Although, my mom did say he told her he'd never fly American again.

After John left I started a big project. I tend to start big projects right after we take someone back to the airport and have come to realize it's a coping mechanism. Usually it's rearranging furniture or something. This time I built a garden box in the front yard.

A couple of years ago my dad helped me build a garden box in the backyard so I put those skills (and tools) to work and built another one. The weather was nice so the kids enjoyed playing outside over the last few days of spring break while I coped - we did take a break to try out our newly built community pool. The weather was in the 90's but the pool water felt like it had ice cubes in it. Our crazy girls actually swam in the frigid water while Chris and I cowered on the pool's edge. Chris did have to go in more than he liked to rescue Landon and I did get in up to my waist to keep Landon from falling in completely. He was as crazy as his sisters and is showing no fear of the water much to my dismay. Later on, when he knows how to swim, the fearlessness will be good, but I think this summer is going to be a tough one.

In summary, we had a great time with Uncle John, spent a fun day in Austin, and have a better looking front yard thanks to my little (or big) quirk. We haven't quite finished planting in the garden box but I'm liking our spruced up front yard. Now if we could just get our ugly grass to start looking better!

And tomorrow it's back to the grind . . .