Spring Break

 Monday was so relaxed and nice! The kids were up and ready for the day with all their chores done before it was even time for school. We stayed home ALL day and just hung out. The kids had play dates and we had friends over for dinner.

 Tuesday Grandma took everyone to lunch at the Meatball Spot and then to the movies to see The Great and Powerful Oz. Just the kids took up a whole row at the movies!

Afterwards Mavrik and Makylin came over to play. We went to dinner at Red Robin with Jordan and Amber and all the BIG kids got to have a sleep over with them.

 Wednesday I picked up the kids and we spent the entire day at the the park with friends. They were totally content running around together and playing. It was nice to be able to sit and talk with friends while they played for hours and hours.

That night we had little "Baby Sprinkle" for my friend Staci at CPK. I am sad I forgot to get a group picture. It was a nice girls night out!

 Thursday we spent the day at the ball field watching Nick play in his tournament. They had two games. They won one and tied the other. Nick was discouraged because everytime he was up he would hit the ball and it went right to the other team and he got out. As a parent I was so proud that he hit every time up at bat!

Nick is always asking to go on bike rides, so to cheer him up that is what we did that evening. We definitely need to do that more. I had so much fun riding with my kids!

 Friday we were at baseball all day again. My mom and I stayed for both games while Jenny and Katie took the kids to an Easter activity at Ethel M Chocolate Factory. They had fun and it was nice to be able to watch the games without distractions. The Rascals played really well winning one game and then losing the second one by one run in the very end. Nick played so good! He was definitely ON! He had some great hits, a double and had quite a few great plays out in the field. 

All the kids ended up going home with Amber to play and so Aubrey, Nick and I went shopping. He enjoyed his almost alone time with Mom a lot, and he got some new clothes too.

When we got home my mom, dad, Jenny, and Katie picked me up and we went out to dinner at Red Robin and to see Snitch. It was supposed to be a girls night out, but Mom let Dad come since he was leaving for China again on Monday. Fun, but busy, busy day.

Saturday started bright and early with Grandpa coming to take Chloe to the Spring Mountain Ranch egg hunt and the rest of us heading to an 8 o'clock baseball game. Rascals won their first game allowing them to play right after for the championship. They ended up losing by one point. They still received  trophies for coming in second, but those boys put up a good fight and were sad to have lost.

 After baseball we rushed home to get ready for Joey's baptism. We were happily surprised when we heard the news. At the beginning of the week Karen asked the kids to sing. They were a little nervous so I sang with them, but they did great.

Nick had his primary pizza party, I did some Easter shopping, and then we colored eggs as a family. 

Another LONG day, but a great end to a busy week. 

{Clark County Museum Field Trip}

 11.21.12

I went with Nick on his field trip to the Clark County museum the day before Thanksgiving.

I never even knew this museum existed. It was kind of neat to learn some history of  Las Vegas, Clark County, and Nevada. 

We started out at the wickiups in the top picture. They were Nick's favorite part of the trip. They are summer shelters made out of branches and brush  recreating a Paiute Village. Very interesting.  We then went on a half mile walk through the dessert kind of learning about some of the shrubs and bushes. We ended our walk in the ghost town with buildings and a jail from 1880 all the way to the 1950's.

My favorite part was Heritage Street. It is a street lined with houses dating back for the last century or so. They are fully furnished with furniture from that time. It was fun to see how not only were the houses way smaller but furniture was so small. 

Nice morning spent outside with one of my favorite boys!

Sad that I don't get to go on the rest of his field trips with him this year though.

 (I guess there is a one field trip per parent rule in the 4th grade!)

Mrs. Schladweiler's 4th grade class

"Field Trip Monday"

Because of scheduling at Krispy Kreme we had to push our field trip to a Monday this last week.

The kids were good with that since we had a 'Fun Friday' instead!

We learned a little about how donuts are made.

And then we got to have a taste with donuts and milk for everyone. 

Nice morning with friends and then home for naps!

FTF- Reunion Trails Park

08.03.12

I heard about this new park a couple months ago, so we finally decided to go check it out.
Definitely a fun one!  I loved how different it was and I loved the splash pad. Aubrey wasn't feeling too good, so she was super grumpy. We will have to do that park again.

FTF- M

07.27.12

FTF- Pump It Up

07.07.12

FTF- bowling

 Last Friday we went bowling for our "fun Friday" as Nick and Chloe call it now.

We picked up Ben and Hailey and met the Wong's at the Red Rock.

Cooper was an awesome little bowler! He beat everyone the first game.

Aubrey was pretty hard. She was grumpy most of the time. After she realized she did like bowling she had a hard time taking turns. We all had fun and I kind of enjoyed throwing a bowling ball again!

Only 11 kids today!
Aidan, Alex, Kegan, Josie, Taylor, Chloe, Cooper, Nick, Hailey, and Ben (Aubrey was NOT cooperating)

After bowling we went across the street and had lunch at Burger King. It was nice to let the kids run free for a bit and get to chat with Danielle. And what trip to Burger King would be complete without ice cream!!??

FTF- Anderson Dairy

 06.22.12

We went to Anderson Dairy again for another field trip this summer.

I learned a little bit more this year and I enjoyed watching the milk gallons on the conveyor belt be filled up. 

I think it is pretty neat.

Nick and Chloe were sure to let me know that they were getting too old for the talking animals and told me that it was boring because we went last year.
That is until they got their ice cream at the end and then it was fun again!

Thank you Staci for setting up another field trip for all of us!! 

FTF- CPK

 06/15/12

We went to California Pizza Kitchen for our field trip last week. 

I never even knew about this, Staci set it up for us.CPK does tours through the kitchen and let the kids make up their own pizzas.The kids LOVED it! They even got to fill up their own drinks like little waiters.

Jamie, Staci, me, Kami, Andy, amd Ashley

 And it was nice for the moms too! They were so good to us there. They brought out some extra pizzas for us and gave us coupons for the next time we eat there.

And if FREE pizza wasn't enough, it happened to be FLIP FLOP FRIDAY at Tropical Smoothie. So after Aubrey's nap we got our flip flops on and went across the street for free smoothies. The kids loved it beacause they got their very own big smoothie. Fun day and nice on my wallet too!

FTF: YMCA

My kids have been talking about "Field Trip Friday" for months now.

Making lists of where they want to go and who they can invite, so I was kind of sad when I had to have some tests on the first Friday of summer.

Luckily Chris had the day off and we still managed to have our FTF, family style.

We went to have dinner at Five Guys and then headed way across town to the YMCA.

They are very serious there, so anybody who wanted to go on the slides had to take a "swim test" and swim the length of an Olympic sized pool.

Chris, Nick, and Chloe, and Alex got their wristbands to ride. Alex barely made it because he was swimming with his eyes closed and wasted a lot of energy swimming the wrong way.

I hung out in the little pool with Cooper and Aubrey.

Jeremy and his family were there too, so that was an added bonus for the kids.

A fun family night!

"Field Trip Friday"- Bounce U

This last Friday we went to Bounce U with Jordan, Amber, Mavrik, Makaylin, Juli, Ben, Hailey, Will, and Lucy. The kids had fun and it was nice to sit and talk with Juli and Amber!

"Field Trip Friday"- Bowling

Last week we continued with our field trips, we met our friends at the Red Rock bowling lanes. It was pretty chaotic with so many little kids, but I think everyone had fun. Nick, Ben and Zach had a lane to themselves and bowled 2 games in the same amount of time that all the little kids bowled one game. To make the day even better we went across the street to Burger King for lunch and let the kids be free.