Just like last year, with our big family vacation for the year already behind us, spring break for us was designed to be a quiet week at home. But we still had plenty of fun! Last year we purchased our Omaha Zoo membership at spring break, so we kicked off our break this year with one last visit before it expired. We went 4 or 5 times this year, which made the membership completely worth it. It's a really fun zoo- the aquarium, the jungle, and the Kingdom of the Night exhibits are our favorites.
Adam looks like a booger-picking punk in this picture!
Back at home we filled the week with equal parts adventures, playdates, and lazy days in our jammies. One day we headed over to Chick-fil-a for a free breakfast with friends, another day we gathered up all of our Book-It coupons and another random free pizza coupon to a local place and ate a free lunch before heading over to the jumping place for an afternoon of running around.
Truman came to visit us this week, which makes everything more fun! He is the best kind of dog for us- he comes to visit, we love him, snuggle him, get slightly annoyed by his dog-like ways, and then send him on his way until next time!
The kids made all kinds of music with our new chimes,
we played lots of board games and dress ups,
the girls set up a bakery one day,
and we celebrated St. Patrick's Day! Notice the annual box of Lucky Charms perched precariously on top of the light fixture-
and a really messy bathroom! The kids always love seeing what naughty antics the leprechaun will come up with next.
Some days the weather was great- it was warm enough to go to the park one day with friends,
but we also had two snow storms during spring break (why? why is spring break so early here??). Snow always seems to come when Jason is gone, and this time around Noah helped me shovel out.
We wrapped up our week with a tasty breakfast at IHOP (where all of the kids said they want to have their birthday dinner date with Mom and Dad this year),
and then headed over to check out this year's membership of choice- the science center. It's been a few years since we've been, and we got the membership that will give us access to the science center, the zoo, and the Living History Farms, which we've never been to in the five years that we've lived here, as well as the long list of reciprocal museums around the country that just may spur a trip or two this year. Free admission to the Field Museum in Chicago sounds good to me!
The dinosaur exhibit was everyone's favorite, and we'll have to head back before it leaves since it's a temporary exhibit.
Jason laughed at the final event of the day, "Bring them to a science museum and they play with the Legos!"
Most of all, the best part of spring break was just being together. No early mornings or afternoons of homework and music lessons or marches off to bed with the new day looming. We got to ignore the clock a bit- actually a lot since we basically ignored daylight savings until last night. That is one major perk of our early spring break. My favorite night was the one when we snuggled up and watched Coco and ate popcorn. Now today the house is quiet-ish (Noah is still here of course and is currently squooshing Play-Doh teddy bears in a vice) and clean-ish and the next week is stretching out before us. The joy of spring break is that it's the last major break of the year. Just 11 more weeks of school and then summer will be here for good!
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