Sprig Break

This week was Spring Break and even though we didn't leave the state of Arizona, we still had PLENTY of fun!!! Here is a breakdown of the week:

MONDAY

Lucky for us our neighbors didn't go anywhere for Spring Break either, so our kids played together practically the whole week. They invited Cooper and Ella to come over to their house and swim. Yep, it's March! And yep, it's in the 80's! The pool was too cold for my comfort, but the kids had a blast and would jump in, jump out, warm up in the sun, and repeat the pattern.

Then the kids took a break from the pool and came and played on the swings in the backyard and ran around our caterpillar sprayer...

TUESDAY

We woke up with the sun and found out it was going to be in the 80's again. What better thing to do then call up the neighbors, jump in our swimsuits and bust out the slip n slide?

I couldn't believe how much Addi loved it!

While the kids were taking a popsicle break, Tyler called from work and said he got tickets to the Phoenix Suns game for that night and if I could get a babysitter? I said, "Of course!" Then he told me the seats where 1st row, middle court!!! I said, "Absolutely!!!" So thanks to one of the Beehives in our ward, we were able to go to the game and have BLAST!!! (and free minus babysitter date night)

It was the Gorilla's birthday so his friends (other mascots) came to celebrate with him. Since we were on the front row every time one walked past us I would grab them and ask them to take a picture with us. :-) It was awesome!

Barbosa - I think this was his 1st game back since his injury.

It was awesome to see him play!

Yep, the famous Steve Nash. He gave a kid next to us a high five. He's a good guy, and great basketball player!

Hill

During a time out the mascots were running around throwing t-shirts out to the crowd. I was begging the gorilla for a t-shirt and instead of throwing me one he grabbed me out of the crowd and told me to throw one. If I had been thinking I would have just thrown it to Tyler, but I was too excited to be at center court so I tossed it up as high as I could. :-)

And in the end...instead of a t-shirt the gorilla handed me a random backpack. (I ended up giving it back to one of the employees it belonged to.)

Good night!

WEDNESDAY

Today was Addison's 2nd Birthday!!! So with the beautiful weather and Tyler able to take a 1/2 day off of work we opened presents in the morning and then loaded up the minivan and went to the Phoenix Zoo!

This girl is so much fun and all smiles! She was our little navigator with her map.

We checked out the new Komodo dragon.

We have had a zoo pass for the past 4 years and I think this was the first time that we had ever seen the rhinos standing up. Kodak moment!

Tyler running 11 mph

Snow cones!

FRIDAY

We were hoping to go camping sometime during Spring Break, but it didn't seem to get planned. The kids were bummed so to try and make up for it we did the next best thing...camping in our backyard!

All in all it was a fun week! Happy Spring Break 2010!