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Spring Break

We love to make homemade pizza around here.
 

Brynn got these cool glasses to look at different light sources with at school.



On Tuesday Dana started the drive to Wyoming with his uncles and cousin for a snowmobiling trip. Sounds like it was a fun time!




Meanwhile, at first chance once the snow started melting around here, the girls and I dug out our bikes.

On Wednesday night we didn't have time to set a leprechaun trap, so unfortunately he was up to some shenanigans around the house and dyed our milk green! Clara was pretty surprised and was a bit skeeved out by the green milk. I had to use it up, though, so we've been having some unusually green foods this past week. Ha.


The girls had Thursday and Friday off of school for spring break, so I took both days off work as well. We didn't really have too much planned. Clara wanted to do some baking, so we started out with muffins and scones.


Brynn had plans for a sleepover with her friends.

Clara really had in her head this vision of a huge bunny she wanted to make out of cardboard. So, we worked on that together in the afternoon.

Clara and I went out to snow mountain on Thursday night for what is probably the last time now that we've had a lot of melting this past week. We didn't get out very early, so we didn't end up coming in and eating dinner until almost 8:00.





Our neighbor, Barb, dropped off a St. Patrick's Day cookie decorating kit from Jen's Bakery. So good!

One thing the girls had wanted to do over spring break was check out the new arcade, bowling alley, laser tag, escape room place, Kingpinz. We had planned to do that on Friday, but by the time Brynn got home from her sleepover, she was pretty tired so she opted to stay home and rest.

Clara has been wanting to try and escape room and so we chose the easiest one that gave us a 30-minute time limit to complete. We failed miserably. I don't care for escape rooms myself and now that Clara tried one, I think she's moved on from them.

Next she wanted to play some games in the arcade, so we did that for a bit before she chose a small prize with the points she had racked up and we got out of there. It was sensory overload for me (and I already had a headache going in), so I had to lie down for a rest once we got home. :-/ 






It was a super nice day on Friday, though still a bit chilly. Clara set us up for dinner out on the deck, but unfortunately we didn't last too long out there.

We did go on a nature scavenger hunt after dinner and checked more items off our list than we thought. Clara was surprised to have found a feather; I can't remember what else we saw that she didn't think we would.


I love this pic of the girls that I snapped for my photo of the day (for my 365 challenge), so I had to cross post it over here too. 💜💜








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Tessa said…
So many great photos! Looks like a wonderful spring break (minus Kingpinz :P)
March 24, 2022 at 11:11 PM
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