We had a full Spring Break. Knowing that we would be leaving for our trip on Saturday, and that I had a big order of 40 pounds of chicken coming in on Friday that I had to process, I tried to keep the week unscheduled for the most part so I would have time to get things ready for our trip. But we still ended up doing a lot of fun things and had a pretty full week, while still leaving enough time to be ready for our trip.
Monday was Ryan's birthday party, then on Tuesday he had his doctor check up, and before we went to that we stopped at Barnes and Noble to use a gift card our neighbor had given the kids. They each got a new book to read on our trip. Ryan and Megan were both happy to discover the small stage at the store there and performed a song whose lyrics were "I love you Mom" over and over and over. It was great.
We came home from the doctor's appointment to have our weekly Spanish Club. We did a spring break version where we watched Coco to see some of the words we had been learning like tío/tía, etc.
Wednesday Grandma Knight invited us to go hike up Sabino Canyon with her. Before we left Grandpa gave the kids gummy worms.
The hike was beautiful and the kids had a good time.
The water at Sabino Dam was a nice place for our picnic.
We didn't bring swimsuits, but managed to play in the water spilling over the dam for a little while anyway.
Rachel didn't plan to get wet, but slipped, so gave in and embraced it. She wished she was a bit drier on the hike back to the car, and the rest of us wished we were a bit wet. It was pretty warm. Megan and Ryan had reached their limit, so they both got piggy back rides for a good portion of the walk back.
Up by the dam I saw this rock.
It looks like Moses was here, then someone put a faucet on the rock he made water come out of. :)
Our dryer had died spectacularly that morning before we left for the hike (big grinding sound, smell of smoke, and all), so I set up a makeshift clothes tree in the garage with PVC pipe I had, but since I was doing all the laundry in preparation for our trip that wasn't enough. We used our play set as a clothesline too, and we were able to dry everything Wednesday before we set to packing on Thursday.
Thankfully my dad was willing to come out and meet the delivery people while we were in Idaho so when we returned from our trip we had a working dryer to deal with all our clothing from our trip.
Thursday I decided to bite the bullet and get Ryan's bed that he got for his birthday put together. I made the kids pack everything they wanted for our trip to Utah and Idaho before we did it, because I thought my Friday would be pretty full, and they were happy to do it, knowing the beds were the reward. Before we could work on Ryan's new bed, we had to move everyone's beds around.
Rachel got Ryan's old bed, Megan got promoted from a toddler bed and got Rachel's old bed, which made it possible for Annie and Megan to have a bunk bed in their room. Luckily Grandma Knight showed up at just the right time to help me put the bed on top of the other one.
Ryan was super excited, not just to get a new bed, but to put it together. He loves tools and assembling things. (He also loves these reading glasses with the lenses popped out that he wears on a regular basis.)
The completed bed with a slide:
Super fun for everyone (except when Ryan exerts his rights of ownership and bans everyone from his slide or room).
Friday one of my visiting teachers offered to watch the kids while I did any preparations for our trip the next day. It worked out perfect because I had an order of 40 pounds of Zaycon chicken I had to process that morning (I realized how bad of timing it was after the order was already submitted). Without kids around I was able to cut the chicken breasts into manageable size and even bottle 3 batches of chicken for canning. I went to pick up the kids and Kim had made Rachel and Annie's day with a make over and pretty hair. And she made pancakes for lunch to top it all off. She's amazing.
Some of my canned chicken:
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