Spring Break 2011

View of over Riverside and the San Gabriel Mtns. from the Botanic Gardens

We survived spring break okay but  I'm already starting to stress out about summer. We started out the week really great. The kids were still making their beds in the mornings. They got to lie around and watch cartoons and movies in the mornings in their pajamas. We only required them to catch up a bit on their piano practice as they have not kept that up very well and to do some reading daily.

Caitlyn with a craft from the library

We broke up each day by taking them to the park, the library and the botanic gardens. The girls each got a turn to go to work with dad for a couple of hours. They love to go and do little experiments in dad's lab and come home with a couple of little test tubes and stuff. They get to play with stuff like dry ice and they get to each spend some time alone with dad. Plus, they can spend some time apart from each other. Which is really good since by mid week, they were getting a bit sick of each other and fighting more and more often.

We originally thought to take them camping since we missed out on the desert trip due to the weather. But we were all sick prior and during general conference weekend. Then Christian could not get time off work as he had a lot to do that week. So that didn't work out too good for us.

Christian did manage to take Thursday off and we drove down to San Diego to take the kids to Sea World again for the day (pictures to follow I haven't sorted through them all yet).

The Botanic Gardens is our second backyard it seems. We went to look at all the flowers currently in bloom, the kids love to play garden bingo, and they got to run around and get some energy out and climb boulders. We had to stop under a tree for a little while to escape a little bit of rain, but the rest of the time we had good weather.

They also went to a baptism for one of their good friends and a birthday party that followed. We had a full week.

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