Spring Break!

My kids are home from school on Spring Break this week so I've been spending more time with them and less time blogging!

So far we started the week getting the house cleaned from top to bottom (the kids helped tremendously)! For their work they each got some money to spend at Dollar Tree, their favorite store EVER!!

After we went to Dollar Tree (on Monday) I ran to JoAnn's next door to get more ribbon for the curtains/shades I'm making to go in Kayla and Rilyn's bedroom. Then we drove to Flat Irons Crossing, a mall in Broomfield near Boulder. We shopped at Old Navy, Claires (2 different ones), the Limited Too, Bath and Body Works, and a few others.

Before that we rode the Zip Shuttle across the Mall Complex to the other shopping district and stopped in the fanciest McDonald's I've ever been in to have some ice cream sundaes. This McDonalds had a nice fireplace and some leather easy chairs in it. I will post some pictures in the next day or so to show you. Then we rode the Zip Shuttle back to the Mall.

It was raining when we came out of the Mall. Mother Nature sending us some of her "Good Stuff" to hopefully keep us out of a drought so we won't have lawn watering restrictions this year.

We stopped and got some burgers at another McDonald's on our way home. It is a really old one. So old that it just has ONE arch. Can you tell where my kids like to eat? And I had to run into another Joann's to get more ribbon! (These curtains take 28 yards of ribbon!)

Then we came home exhausted!

Yesterday we had a picnic in the park. The kids played on the equipment and Kyle blew his Bubbles, a giant mega bottle he got at the Dollar Store. And we all flew these cool, triangular, 3-D homemade kites the kids made on Saturday with some of their friends. It was a windy day and so it was perfect for kite flying!

Today, my oldest daughter, Kayla, has a friend over and Alyssa, second to oldest, is at a friends house. Earlier we all went to Hammond's Candies for a tour. I forgot my camera but took some pictures on my cell phone. So, I'll have to see if I'm able to get the pictures from that. It was a fun tour, we got to see how they make the candy and actually watch them making it through the glass windows.

Then they have some free samples they gave to us at the end of the tour. But that was not enough for us! We had to go and spend $28.35 more on candy!! It was yummo though! We got a pound of chocolates (from the oops table -- otherwise they'd have been more than double that), this other yummy carmel marshmallow candy and the kids each got a round lollipop. It's not your cheap dollar store candy, but it is a fun experience and has yummy candy!

So, we're having lots of fun this week and enjoying our Spring Break!!