Spring break simple moments

Spring break has come to an end.

Tomorrow the kids go back to school.

I tried to make the most of everyday.

I planned activities we have never done or

I have been wanting to do for a while.

It was kind of like we had a little staycation.

Here are some of my favorite simple moments from the week.

Monday we went to a local field full of daffodils to pick some

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Tuesday Jordan had baseball camp for the day and

I took Michelle and friends to divergent and menchies

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Wednesday Jordan has his friend/class mate over for his first friend sleepover.

We went to a local bouncy house place where they bounced the day away.

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Thursday we road our city bus to go get lunch and play around at the mall.

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Friday we had younger nephews over and went for donuts

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Saturday Michelle and I  returned to Bellingham again to go shopping at Costco

and Walmart. Jordan got to hang out at my parents house. Josh was down south for an 

all day softball tournament. He left at five in the morning and didn't return until after midnight.

We decided not to go along because it was supposed to pour all day.

That evening we watched movies. Michelle and I had picked up birthday cake pops and

then we saw that DQ had birthday cake blizzards so got two mini blizzards too.

Today we slept in, had a big brunch, played outside, went to an one year old birthday party

and now everyone is vegging out. The kids are playing minecraft together {that is amazing}, 

Josh is taking a late cat nap and I am writing up this post. It was a super busy week but also a lot of fun.

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Spring Break day five {Lynden tourism}

Friday had my two younger nephews while my sister worked.

I had already planned out that we would go for donuts at the Lynden

Dutch Bakery. Afterwards I wanted to walk down to the windmill which is called

the dutch village mall to look at the fish. Our poor little "mall" has nothing in it right now except a

restaurant. This is also very nice because the kids can walk all around and not

worry about them getting into stuff. 

Along the way to the way we stopped into an used book store to look for

Bad kitty or Magic tree house books for Jordan. 

When we got back we played toys and I showed Cohen how to make 

a monkey tree. He loved hanging the monkeys on the tree. 

Michelle was even around to get some cousin love in too.

That afternoon Michelle went to a movie with my parents while the 

kiddos napped. Jordan was snuggled up by me on the couch barely staying awake.

At one point he feel asleep for about 5 minutes before he woke up with a jerk.

He told me he was dreaming about riding his bike. He ended going over a cliff 

and he jumped off his bike and that is what woke him up.

After Michelle got back from the movie Jordan went to spend the night.

Michelle had plans to go roller skating that night with some friends.

Spring break day four {city bus ride}

Wednesday night I asked the bus if they wanted to ride the city bus the next day.

They of course said Yes! This is something Jordan has wanted to do since he was 3.

I knew I wanted to make it happen this Spring break. I asked if they wanted to

ride in Lynden or go all the way to Bellingham. They wanted to go all the way to 

Bellingham and have lunch at Mcdonalds with the big play area! I checked out the

schedule and off we headed on an adventure. 

After lunch and playing at McDonalds we headed back over to mall where

the bus would pick us up to get us back to Lynden. We still had some time so they played in the

kid play area for a while then we went to a game place called Tilt. I had brought a bag full of 

quarters for us to play with! They played mainly skeeball until all the quarters were gone. They 

each picked out a prize with their tickets and we headed to the bus stop.

When we got back we went and picked another friend/class mate of Jordan's to play.

Michelle also had a friend over. Since both Jordan and Michelle had

baseball practice that night I took all 5 kids to Milts pizza for dinner.

I brought more quarters with us so they could play the games there as well.

It was a super fun day but I was very tired by the end of it.

Luckily I was able to get a little quiet time with the kids gone.