Day 1 of Spring Break

Monday morning after breakfast and Bryan left for work we had a movie morning. The kids and I cuddled on the couch while watching, "The Princess Diary." When that was finished, we loaded on our bikes to ride to the park to play. The park is a couple of miles away so I hooked the bike trailer on back of my bike so Courtney could sit in it when she got tired of biking. Her little bike fits nicely on the bike trailer too so it isn't a problem. The problem came when we were about a mile from our house and Ethan started to get really tired. His bike is WAY TOO SMALL for him and I knew this but didn't realize just how hard it was going to be for him to ride a small bike so far. He was so tired by the time we got to the park. And Courtney kept hopping in and out of the bike trailer. One minute she wanted to ride her bike and the next she wanted to ride in the bike trailer. We almost turned around about 10 times, but we finally made it.

The kids got their snack and then played for a while on the equipment. But then a day care van showed up with a ton of kids on it and Courtney and Ethan wanted to go home...but neither wanted to ride their bike. So I put both Ethan and Courtney in the bike trailer, both of their bikes on top and took off for home. Now, Ivins is kind of a bowl shape. The park is on one rim and our house is on the other and you have to go through the bowl to get from one to the other. Luckily, both kids finally wanted to get out before we had to really start up the last incline, but I got a pretty good work out. Then they ended up walking their bikes the last 4 blocks because they were exhaused.

We ate lunch, Courtney took a nap, Ethan played games and then Bryan came home. When Courtney woke up we went to Fiesta Fun to play miniature golf. This was pretty funny because a) Courtney kept switching balls with me because she couldn't decide between pink or purple; b) Courtney kept trying to hit the ball sideways instead of down the green; c) Courtney missed most of the time she tried to hit it so she would just pick up her ball, put it next to the hole and hit it in from there and then give herself a little cheer; d) Ethan did really well and it was fun to watch him really try and concentrate on the shot; and e) we were playing as a family without pressure of anyone around us because we were alone on the course!

Then we went to Applebees for dinner. We each get to choose 1 restaurant during the week to go to for dinner and it was Courtney's choice. Luckily, Ethan's choice was already on our list because we have a coupon.

Then we came home, had FHE, played as a family and went to bed. It was a good day and Ethan said he even had a lot of fun riding to the park...good thing for short memories!