Spring Break 2017

For our first official, we have kids in school who have a Spring Break we met Grandpa, Grandma and the Boettgers in Port Aransas, Texas!  We left Friday after school (and after David got home from a TDY) and drove through the night.   Here's a quick breakdown of our fun!

Saturday-We stopped for breakfast in San Antonio and arrived at the ferry mid-late morning, putting us on the island just in time for lunch! We played at the beach and had dinner at the house.

 Sunday-We had all day beach play followed by dinner out at Victoria's on the Bay

Monday-We spent the morning on the beach.  For the afternoon we cruised around and explored the city and beach on the golf carts we rented!  We saw dolphins, sea turtles, birds and lots of candy!

Tuesday-We hung out at the beach again (can you tell we like it there!?!) and then went out to dinner at The Crazy Cajun-only it wasn't as crazy as we remember it!  Never the less the kids liked eating with out plates!

 

Wednesday-We hung out at the house, did some chalk outside and then went on a Dolphin and Trolling Tour where we got to feel the sea creatures (shrimp, sting rays, flat fish, squid and more) that we pulled up!

Thursday-Half of the group went crabbing while the other half headed to the beach.  We spent the afternoon at the beach and went to dinner at Moby Dick's.

Friday-We played at the park, went out to lunch and spent some time finding hermit crabs and coquinas on the beach before having dinner out.

Saturday-We left for Fort Worth for an over night stop to see the Mills.  It was great to catch up with them!  And the kids were so happy to see each other!

Sunday-After a full day of driving we arrived home at about 8pm!  Talk aboutsqueezing every minute out of Spring Break!

Anderson's Rabbit Art On Display at the Lied Center

Kindergarten Music Concert

Staff Appreciation

My friend, Amanda, and I were co-chairs for this year's staff appreciation at school!  We had so much fun planning but boy was it more work than I ever expected!  We said it was a good thing we liked each other and didn't mind spending so much time together!  The theme for the week was farm.  Many of our friends gave us a hard time for choosing that theme but they just couldn't see the vision like we could!  In the end everyone loved it!   To involve the kids in decorating we had them turn in veggies with why they liked their teacher written on it (by the end of the week the amount of veggies had doubled!).  The rest of the decor was shabby, chic farm!    Each day also had a theme/event and each day the teachers had a little gift in their mailboxes!  They also had the chance to put their name in for drawings each day.  Monday was Rise and Shine It's Breakfast Time and popcorn was the mailbox gift.  Tuesday was a BBQ lunch and mason jar glasses.  Wednesday was U Pick Treat Cart and a $5 Sonic card and a free corndog coupon.  Thursday was Hay, Hay It's Pamper Day (complete with chair massages, hand scrubs, spa water and chocolate covered strawberries) with a stress relief hand sanitizer in their mailboxes.  And Friday we Dessert Trough and a $10 Target card!  Everyone said they loved it all which of course made us feel so good!  Those hard working teachers and staff sure deserve it!

Anderson's First Tooth

Anderson lost his first tooth!  It was loose for about week before it finally came out!  Apparently he had just finished telling Mrs. Gatewood that he was going to wait until the weekend to lose it but that tooth had other plans!  5 minutes later he was back at her desk with his tooth in his hand!  He lost it in the morning before lunch and when I picked him up he told me that he had been wishing it was an early release day because he couldn't wait to tell me!  Sweet boy!  He made out with $2 from the Tooth Fairy!