This week was our Spring Break and though the weather didn’t cooperate all that well, (we had to cancel our zoo trip due to rain) we managed to get some real fun in.

On Monday the kids started off their break doing what every kid wants to do on their spring break.  Spring cleaning!  We thoroughly cleaned the basement and they were so excited to help clean and beautify our home that they generously refused my offer of lunch at Burger King if they helped.  Ok, so they totally needed a bribe and who wouldn’t on spring break, but it worked like a charm!  They each got their OWN milkshake, which is something they never ever get. 

Then we headed to the river for the first time this year.

The kids skipped rocks and played happily for two hours by the river.  I love that it’s so close and that there is so much to explore.  Even Liberty tried to skip rocks, but you can see by the size rock she has in her hand, that she was not very successful.  She just enjoyed the big splashes.

Tuesday the older boys went over to a friend’s house to make these awesome paper Marble Runs. 

Wednesday the kids watched Frozen for the first time because, yes, I am the only parent in the WORLD who has not shown their kids Frozen. 

I don’t have anything against the movie, it’s just not my favorite Disney movie of all time and is really not worth all its hype.  But the kids enjoyed it.  Honestly, the bigger reason we didn’t take them when it was in the theaters was because I did not want to waste the money on Reagan who would, I figured, just make gagging sounds the whole time.  Turns out he didn’t gag.   Olaf helped gloss over the yucky romance. 

We finished up Johnny Tremain, a Newberry medal book about  a young boy living in Boston at the time of the revolution.  One day it was even nice enough to read outside under the cherry tree.

Yesterday we started up Co-op again after a two week break and Levi is taking a class on the human body.  The kids got to put this whole x-ray skeleton together and label it.

And that was Spring Break 2014.  No, it wasn’t Disneyland, but hey, we watched a couple Disney movies…..