Family, Firsts and Fun

Our Spring Break was taken a little later than everyone else around here. We were waiting on the arrival of my MIL or Oma as the kids call her. She is a school teacher( a really fabulous one at that) in Colorado and her Spring Break fell on the last week in March. We picked her up from the airport on Saturday, I forgot my camera, in Dallas. We ate lunch at Saltgrass and came home for a quiet first evening with some Bluebell Mint Chocolate Chip and catch up time. Sunday we slept in and went to late service. Lunch was our treat or LETU's treat, at the new dining hall so Steve could show off what he was busy doing all of last year. Because Oma's Spring Break was after ours here, she was able to enjoy all of normal weekly activities. So Sunday night was AWANA and Wednesday was ELO. I forgot to mention that her bag was not on the flight with her and we struggled to find it for 3 days. On Tuesday, however, we learned that her bag was put on a plane to Cabo San Lucas and had a 2 day beach vacation without her. Since Steve grew up in Longview and his family moved back to Colorado after we were married, we always have to eat at all of the Longview favs when the Hill's come down. So we ate ALOT!! Papacitas, Bodacious, Dudley's were a few. We even managed to plant all of our grapevines in our newly expanded vineyard. We ate dinner out with my parent's and my mom, Oma and I made dinner for the boys while Steve. Ethan, Isaac, my dad and Uncle Mickey planted. The week was full of fun and family. The boys were terribly sad to see her leave on Thursday but a quick trip to the Galleria and two bags of candy from Candyland helped eased the pain some.

Last night we had our ELO open house. This was a really fun way for all of the families, really just the dad's, to see what the kiddos have been doing every Wednesday for the past year. Ethan's group (3rd-6th grades) put on a musical "Splash Kingdom". It was really cute and all of the kids did a great job! After the show we went over to the gym where all of the kids work was displayed. Nanny and BB came and both were really impressed with the work the boys had done.

I am going to leave you with a few videos of our past week!!

Isaac's first solo bike ride....



Opening Song in Splash Kingdom.....



And... I may get in trouble for this one... but I couldn't resist!! Jessi looked like she was having so much fun, I had to share... this is why we love her, she can make anytime a blast!!