THE FAMILY. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck

Monday, April 09, 2012

Spring Break 2012

Let me just say that I love my little sister Jill!  Spring Break was a few days away and the kids and I had no plans, but Drew was working.  So I called my sister Jill to see what she was up to.  After some convincing she agreed to drive her three kids the 7 hours from her house to mine, to spend the week with us.  And we had a GREAT time!

There wasn't much to do here except hang out, so we did a lot of that.  One of the days we decided to let the kids "fish" in the kiddie pool in the backyard.  It was about 65 degrees.

It started out innocent enough.  Some of the kids in swimsuits.  Some not.


 Then somewhere along the way, it became more of a dare to challenge the frigid waters.  Everyone (except Eli - bless his heart, and Mia)  took the challenge head on.











Mia was more interested in playing "Draw Something" then getting wet.


Little Ella wore herself out.

1 comment:

Jill said...

That really was a fabulous time! Thanks so much for inviting us. We would have just sat at home being bored all week. Thanks for posting the awesome picture of my BTW