Fun times...

We filled our calendar with loads of stuff to do during Pumpkin's break from school. The district she is in has a 2 week break in the spring. It is great, but can get long if the calendar is not full! Luckily, I am still a part of a great local club for moms and have lots of stuff to do and connections to great activities. One of the scheduled events was a tour of a local fire station. We try to do this every year and it is always a great turn out of kids (and moms!). The kids had a great time climbing in the truck and sitting in the drivers seat.

They did not get a chance to see the guys get dressed in their full gear since they had to go out on a call. But...it was still a great deal of fun!

Luckily (for hubby's sake) neither of them said they want to be a fire-fighter....they want to follow in Daddy's footsteps instead! :) Don't know how happy that makes me, but I also know I don't have too much control over that one...

My crazy kids....

At least I now have proof that my children climb the walls with their energy! I just never figured they would figure out how to actually climb the walls! :)

Not sure how Pumpkin figured out how to do this...but she did. Then she taught her brother. I also never figured I would have to make the rule in my house "You must ask me before you climb the walls. And please make sure your feet are not dirty before you climb the walls".

Some of the craziness of our house that I never expected! :)

Green...

Many blessings and smiles on this day o'the Irish! :)

Our eyes are twinkling :)

Gotta love a day filled with smiling, steak and Guinness pie, potato pie and a chilled Guinness to wash it down! Hope it was a beautiful day...I know it was for us!

Traveling back in time...

My aunt and uncle from the east coast came to visit. We wanted to do something outdoors and different with them. What is more different than traveling back to the Renaissance! :)

We headed out to the Festival. We have never been before. The kids were super excited.

We were lucky, our knight won the joust! The kids got a kick out of that. It was a warm and sunny day...luckily we had seats in the shade. It would have been a much shorter day had it been any hotter!

It is hard to describe how funny the kids were on this ride. We gave them a limit on the number of "extra" things they could do. They were rather thoughtful with how they used up those rides. They took turns making the "bat wings" fly. When one was pulling the rope, the other was pretending to relax and wave. They were making the funniest faces! For something so simple, they had such fun.

This is the face Pumpkin kept making each time around at us. She would put her feet up and make this face...while trying really hard not to smile. Usually she ended up laughing at herself! :)

Thanks to grandparents...they both got to do the bungee cord jumping thing. They were super excited. Pumpkin was a little nervous...can you tell! :)

This is one of the few pictures i have of her smiling. The other ones she looks a little freaked out. Afterwards she said she did not think it went quite that high. I was pretty amazed at how high they went! I will tell you that she had a death-grip on those sides. She would not let go!

Critter was so excited for his turn that he ran up while sister was still getting unhooked!

He was so excited to be bouncing. I did feel bad for him though. He really wanted to flip while jumping. He saw someone doing flips while in the air. He kept either moving his feet or his head. He could not get the motion of moving both in order to flip. Luckily the guy who hooked them in and out grabbed him to stop him and flipped him. He was so excited about that! He is usually my more cautious kid...but not with anything regarding gymnastics! He is then a little dare-devil :)

It was a really great day. Critter and Hubby even split a turkey leg. I did not get a good picture, but it was really cute. Critter went to town on it. He loved it! I don't know if we will go back next year...but it was a great time.