Spring Break - Day 1

Day one of spring break started out a little later than normal. We were all tuckered out from such a busy weekend. Everyone was up at 7am and we all had our normal breakfast. Then it was time to do chores. Tori had to clean her room because she was having a friend come over.

Most of the day was spent cleaning, feeding kids, and doing little things here or there. There were two highlights of the day. One was making our first Peep diorama. If yDoou have never heard of making a peep diorama, then you have never seen the Washington Post Peep show. I highly recommend it. We look forward to it every year. It's online if you do not subscribe to the Washington Post.

I thought it would be cute to tackle a Arizona desert theme. Our diorama is plain in comparison to what the Washington Post comes up with, but I am happy to say the kids did alot on their own. The main focus was on cacti. Tori colored a prickly pear while I fashioned a pencil cholla out of straws. Merrick insisted on including a peep snowman in our desert. Don't quite know how that fits in, but he made it himself. While some peeps disguised as quails (towards the back), a littlest pet shop toy filled in as a tarantula.

I realized later we should have included coyotes and javalinas somehow, but we did include alot of 'sweating' peeps. Tori made the sweat out of hot glue.

My favorite part was making the 'melting' peep by microwaving it. The kids loved watching it blow up.

After our diorama making, I was tired. I layed down with Bubsey (aka Stefan) on the couch. Just as I was about to doze off, I got a text message. The new playhouse I ordered for the kids arrived at Wal-mart --over a week early! This was totally perfect since it was the first day of break. So I packed everyone up and off to Walmart on Speedway we went.

It took a while to get there and when we did, we found out the box was too big to fit into the car. No biggie, I did some car seat shuffling and had them take the item out of the box. I knew I was keeping it and I made sure every part went into the car. Besides, who needs the huge box, it was ripped to heck anyway.

On our way home, I got a call from Tori's friend's mom asking if I could come pick up her friend. So I stopped home, unloaded the house and went off the pick up the friend.

Pretty full afternoon...but it made for an exciting second day...