Spring Breaks

Each year my mom and aunt's spring break lands one week before ours because they are on the collage schedule so my little ones have gotten two spring breaks the last two years. Enjoy it while you can little ones, because those days are numbered. Sunday my mom and aunt picked up Caden and Ella and wisked them away to the coastal town of Birch Bay (all the way up by the Canadian boarder) where they wiggled their toes in the sand while finding baby crabs under rocks, ate ice cream on the board walk, swam in the resort pool, and did craft projects which could only have been conceived of by my very creative aunt. In the mean time Jon and I were ripping out two of our three bathrooms and redoing flooring, vanities, hardware, mirrors, painting, ect... Hey, what else are you going to do with three practically kid free days? By mid week the house was totally torn apart (why is it that every project takes at least 3 hours longer than you anticipate?) and baby Danali and I headed up to the coast, along with amazing rain showers. When we got there we needed some good indoor activities so the group decided to explore the town and found the best little used book store with train tracks on both sides of it. After an hour of perusing the thousands of books lining every wall of this adorable sandalwood scented store, we lightened their load by 22 books and were on our way.

Next we put together a scavenger hunt that took the kids all over the resort. The funny thing is that while I was putting over 30 clues here and there and everywhere a small group of kids caught up to me with a handful of bright pink sticky notes really excited for the next clue. Needless to say I had to do some back tracking and became a much better hider with the clues.

The scavenger hunt ended with a play bowling set and a sling shot, which is now my son's favorite toy. In our rain induced need to find activities, we found that setting up the bowling pins all through out the room and running around shooting them down like an old fashioned shooting gallery was quite entertaining. The only problem was that the adults loved the game so much that Caden had to fight for his turn with his sling shot. Sorry dude. The week ended and it was time to take my kids home to start Spring Break part #2.