Spring Break

I'm going to start off by saying this post might be long and tedious and it will have NO pictures! GASP! I know! I thought several times that I needed to get my camera out and even took it out, but I never once snapped one picture in all the days I was home with the boys. We were too busy soaking up the days I guess :) I do want to write this all down so we have a memory of it though- even though we did nothing exciting we enjoyed being together :)

Friday (the 23rd) we went to Clint & Vanesssa's for supper. The big boys played outside while the little boys played toys and ran around being crazy. Now that they say each other's names I think that is sooo cute to hear them call out for each other! We didn't stay too late because Ryan had to get home in time to watch the IU game of course :)

Saturday morning my cousin Brooke and I went to Edinburgh to the outlets to shop :) My mom was in Martinsville visiting my grandma so she met us there. We shopped and ate and shopped some more. Brooke and I had a good time visiting on the way up and trying not to fall asleep on the way back. We actually got back pretty early (around six). Brooke and I are both "go in get it get out" kind of girls...We laughed and said we're ALWAYS waiting on my mom (which is so true!). My grandma watched the boys while Ryan was at work that morning and then he came home and took over- they went to the woods to look for mushrooms but didn't find much of anything except a bunch of ticks all over--eeek! When I got home Ryan wanted to go into town to eat BBQ & rent movies. We got our BBQ to go and went home to eat and watch our movies. Pretty sure I fell asleep before our movie was half way through!

Sunday we went to church and enjoyed our day around the house not doing much of anything except playing outside!

Monday Brycen went on a "date" with my mom to Evansville. They met up with my brother and went to the movies and out to eat and did a little shopping. They saw The Lorax and ate at Red Robin (both B picked out). He also just HAD to get a new Under Armor shirt (bc Uncle Joe thinks it is cool, lol). He is so rotten. Corbin and I spent the day at home trying to get stuff done around the house. Outside was calling our name though and so we did play outside a couple hours before nap time.

Tuesday we played outside ALL day long and most of the evening too :) We ran into town and picked up lunch and took Ryan some lunch because he forgot his in the fridge (I think he did on purpose so he could see us;) lol!

Wednesday we once again played outside all day long. B had baseball that evening for a couple hours so we went to that- I love watching him and Corbin loves playing in the dirt so even though Ryan's at every practice coaching and I really wouldn't HAVE to go- I still want to because we (Corbin and I) enjoy it!

Thursday Ryan once again "forgot" his lunch. I got some more house work done in the morning and then got myself and the boys ready and took Ryan his lunch and ran a few other errands like going to the bank and then we went and got WalMart out of the way. The boys were so good it went quickly so that was nice. We went home and spent the rest of our afternoon/evening outside!

Friday morning we got up and met Vanessa & her boys at a yard sale in town that we were both wanting to hit up. I got Brycen some really nice stuff for next winter :) I love a good yard sale! We then went to the park for a couple hours that morning and let the boys played while we chatted. I went home to do some laundry and of course we played outside more. I will say that it is SO much easier to let Corbin play this year and I don't have to hover over him. For one he is a year older and can do much more but for two we have grass in the front yard which makes things so much nicer. All week the boys played basketball (B played while Corbin tried), baseball (same thing again), dug in the rocks and the dirt, swung from tree vines (yes like Tarzan!), rode bikes/trikes etc. I got some time to sit & relax in the swing and read while they played so nicely. I also got myself a nice farmers tan haha! Anyway when Ryan got home we headed to Evansville to get an quote on the deck for the back of the house (can't wait until that is done!). We ate at Red Lobster & looked around at a few vehicles. Corbin hadn't had a nap so he fell asleep early... I was wanting to go to the mall to run a few errands, but we decided to skip it that night since we were all pretty tired.

Saturday morning B had baseball again from 10-12. We got up and relaxed awhile and then went to baseball (it was pretty chilly!). Ryan had rented some digging machine to work on dirt work behind and beside the house so he worked on that most of the day while the boys and I played outside. They loved watching him work with the digger :) That night we went to Princeton to Rural King to get some more grass seed, we ate at Sonic and looked at a few more vehicles (we weren't really ready to buy a new vehicle, but my van has been doing some crazy things soooo we figured we better start looking). We have put a ton of miles on it the past few years. We didn't find anything so we just headed home.

Sunday Ryan worked on dirt work a lot more while he had the machine rented. We were outside all day until I drug Corbin in at six to take a bath and so I could get everything ready for our day back to work/school. I gave C a bath and he went and sat on the couch and fell right asleep as soon as I had put his pj's on him. He hadn't had a nap in two days and had played so hard outside- he slept right through the night :) Ryan and B got home from the taking the machine back a little later and we just had sandwiches for supper and then it was back to a normal 8pm bedtime for Brycen. He said he wasn't ready to go back to school, but yesterday morning he kept talking about his friends so I think he was :)

Back to work I went yesterday morning. I will say it was tough pulling myself out of bed at 5am and it was even tougher to drop Corbin off at the sitter, but we made it. Ryan and I both left work early to go look at another vehicle in Jasper (which we actually purchased yesterday).

This morning it was even harder to get out of bed. My body is still getting used to getting up that early again. It's amazing that a week off will get you out of the habit of it so quickly!


We had a good spring break just staying home and playing, but we are all looking forward to our vacation coming up in about a month (Brycen has a count down going on!). It is nice to ease back into this since it's a three day week for me with a four day weekend. Our kids get Mon. off too for a snow day they didn't use. Yippee for more days off :)

Well, I've rambled long enough hopefully next time I'll have pictures to share :)