We went back to the Penitentiary with Grammy and Pompa.
We decided to leave them there...
Kathleen really wanted to practice braids on my hair. And since I couldn't see them, she took pictures of all her styles to show me. I must admit, I am impressed. I think my 8-year-old braids better than I do.
I took a weekend trip to visit my sister Alyssa. We got pedicures while we were together.
This didn't happen during spring break, but I am a little behind. We babysat for a friend and Cody was in love with her. He insisted on feeding her and enjoyed every minute of it.
Kathleen had her 3rd grade singing performance. She was so cute.
Cody and I were running to Costco and he asked if he could bring a snack. I told him that was fine, but when I turned around, this is what he had (a gallon sized ziplock with some cheese and crackers):
Brandon built a cup tower.
Now back to spring break, Ryan and the kids made monster sized cookies while I was gone.
When I got back, I took the kids to the local penitentiary. Then I left them there.
Just joking. But then we went out of town as a family to Utah to visit Ryan's Granny. While visiting her we went to a dinosaur museum.
Cody played the "drums" on some of their displays. I know, we really need to teach that kid some discipline. But in his defense, these stones did all make different sounds when you banged on them.
The kids call Granny by the name of "Blue Granny". A few years ago when we visited her, we called her "white-haired Granny." At the time, Kathleen and Brandon's favorite colors were both blue (tells you how long ago that was). When we left, they said they loved her so much that they didn't want to call her white Granny, they wanted to call her Blue Granny. And she has been Blue Granny to them ever since.
We visited Aunt Marsha and Uncle Jim on their farm. It was so much fun. The kids got to see animals...
Ride on 4-wheelers...
And even help Uncle Jim plow the field on his new tractor.
Then Brandon got the flu, so we came home a day early. But we had a ton of fun, so it was all good.
And my cute big leprechaun, sending me a picture text of himself while he is talking to me on the phone at work:
We had our annual green dinner with our good friends.
I realize it isn't much to look at, but it is tradition.
On the morning of St. Patrick's day, we wake up to a mess. The leprechaun has been through our house and pulled out the kids toys and left them all over with little piles of candy and gold coins. It kind of isn't the best tradition since you have to clean up all the toys first or you don't even notice a difference. But then you get mad at the mess you have to clean up all over again. What we do for our kids...
They were really surprised to see the their books were out of their rooms and on the floor in the hall. The best part was when Cody saw the reflection of a rainbow on the ground in the kitchen as the sun hit just right through the window. He thought it was awesome that the leprechaun left us a rainbow on the ground. 
Kathleen has many good friends, but for Brecklyn's birthday she got her a Best Friends necklace that is a mood necklace and is magnetic. They thought it was the coolest thing ever.
Eating green eggs and toast with honeydew melon:
Ryan and I have been really liking the show Psych. In it the main guy is always giving away pineapples as gifts. So of course, I had to get Ryan a pineapple a couple weeks ago just for fun.
The kids had Dr. Seuss week at school. Can you guess who they are?
Cody is way into coloring and stickers right now. I just love when he likes doing something that doesn't involve electronics.
How much do you love your brother? As much as I can squish him!
Cody got to go on this fun field trip with some of his buddies for their preschool to a pizza place. He loved it. They let the kids make their own pizzas. Cody accidentally tried to eat his before it was cooked. 
And here is my child that is a holy terror at the dentist. We switched him to a special dentist for kids because I couldn't abuse our family dentist any more. He is a good friend of ours and was so patient with Brandon, but Brandon is terrible any way. So we had to try something different. They had toys there and look at this...a smile. That is right, he is smiling at the dentist. Who would have thought it possible. Of course, he didn't have any work done this day.
