Friday, April 2, 2010

Spring Break 2010

For Spring Break this year, we didn't go anywhere, so I tried to come up with some fun things to do at home.  The first weekend, we got 10 inches (!!!!) of snow, so that Sunday was our pajama party day.  We had pancakes, watched movies in sleeping bags all day, and played in the snow.


We also had two dinosaur days.  We used a kit I got from T-Rex Cafe to make a glow-in-the-dark velociraptor skeleton and fossils out of plaster paris.  We read dinosaur books, drew pictures of dinos on huge paper, and ate dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets.  (Thank you, Tyson!)  We also made dino-shaped rice krispie treats and the boys decorated them with cookie decorating gel.  Needless to say, the boys LOVED dinosaur days!

On the Thursday of spring break, Nana kept Sarah Kate while Noel and I took the boys to Tulsa to the aquarium.  (We were hoping for the zoo, but the weather did not cooperate.)  We had a great time seeing all the fish and other animals.  One of the boys' favorite parts was putting pennies in the huge spiral thing and watching them roll down.  If anyone knows where I can find one of these in town, let me know!


The second weekend of break, we were invited to go with some friends to box seats at a Razorback baseball game.  It was super windy and rained a little, but we had a great time.  This is what happens when I ask the boys to "look at me and smile!" 

2 comments:

SpeasHill said...

That's crazy - both that you got 10 inches of snow and that you are so close to Tulsa. I had to check the map to make sure you were talking about Oklahoma! (If you weren't I'll feel pretty silly now.) :)

Marissa said...

Yeah, the snow was nuts. And we are close to Tulsa, OK--just a couple of hours! :)