A Park or Maybe Two!

Okay, so today was the first official day of Spring Break and it was a great start to the week. But if it is any indication of the days ahead of us, it is going to fly by! We started the day at Rachel's house to try on Lincoln's new Easter clothes and determine which shirt to keep. (The 4 was a little tight so we went with the six! This is my 2 1/2 year old we are talking about!! He is not supposed to be getting so big!) He of course took the opportunity to jump on the trampoline, and basically spent an entire hour trying to convince everyone else to stay outside with him. (Anytime he was the only one left he would come in side and ask each kid to "jump with me trampoline?") Rachel's kids are pretty good sports so he could usually find a sucker to jump with him! :)

After Rachel got back from learning what her keys opened at the church-she is the new second counselor in the Relief Society- we ran to Sears to exchange the shirt for Camp to a larger one. And we ended up saving my Mom about 6 dollars, because the shirts were on sale. And we learned that if an item goes on sale within 30 days of when you purchased it, Sears will give you back the difference! How great is that, and since we had the receipt with all the shirts on it, they refunded her the money!

From Sears we headed back to grab the kids and some stuff to have a picnic. We were going to meet Justin's family at the park out at Mountains Edge. (Justin and I discovered it one day as we were driving around the area on our way to the Bass Pro Shops but it was raining so we didn't get to play and decided it would be fun to go back.) It is a pretty cool park, and has a old western town theme running throughout the park. The play area itself is made to look like the different buildings you would find in a old western town and it's huge so there is plenty of room for everyone. Which is good, because it was quite busy today! But even though it was busy, we didn't feel like it was overly crowded, we got a table so the adults could sit in the shade and the kids were able to do everything they wanted without too much worry from the adults. Although I did follow the two youngest ones around just to help them get up on things and make sure they didn't come zooming out of a slide or something.

We also talked the kids and most of the adults (Lorina and Carole stayed behind to tend Afton) into trying out the hike that traveled out from the park to the top of the small mountain the park is nestled next to. Lincoln walked the whole thing by himself, and basically ran the entire first part of the trail! And everyone made it to the very top- great job Aunt Tina!! We didn't come very prepared for a hike, but we were able to get to the top and back without too much difficulty!

We ended up spending almost 3 1/2 hours at the park and I think I should have thought to put sun screen on- my face is feeling a little warm right now!

But as if that wasn't enough park time today we had already made plans yesterday to meet a family from our ward at the park this evening. So after only being home for about an hour and a half we packed up our drinks once again and headed over to the park across from Bonanza. And even though Lincoln had been at the park pretty much all day, you never would have known it. He was totally loving it again! We spent another 2 1/2 hours at the park running and sliding! So although Lincoln doesn't seem to be any worse for wear, I am exhausted! :) Here's hoping that maybe he will go down early today!

Oh, and I might have a future photographer on my hands. Lincoln took this picture today of Mabry while we were on how hike! Pretty Impressive if I do say so myself!