Last Sunday night, we headed out to Mt. Pleasant for a little "staycation" with the kids. We got another great deal at the Soaring Eagle Waterpark and we just couldn't pass it up. For about $120, we got a 1-night hotel stay, 5 water park passes, and a $20 voucher for lunch. The kids just love it when we do this.
On Sunday night, Rob took the kids down to play for a little while. I stayed in the room with Kaiton and hung out with him. The next morning, I ran to Meijer and picked up donuts and milk for the kids to eat for breakfast. I love how excited they get over a hotel stay and a junk food breakfast. They were so thrilled! We spent almost the whole day at the water park on Monday. The Soaring Eagle water park is just perfect for our young kids. It has several slides for little kids, and lots of fun stuff for them to play in. Brooklen was the only one tall enough to go on the big water slide, but the other kids didn't really seem to mind at all. Even Kaiton had a blast! He thought the water slides were so much fun, and he loved the Lazy River too. We ate lunch at the restaurant in the water park and then play for a few more hours. We had to leave at about 3:30 because Brooklen had to get home for hockey.
The rest of the week were filled with baseball practices, hockey practice, gymnastics, and quite a bit of rain. The temperature dropped quite a bit and it felt extra cold because we've had a few warmer days. Since each day wasn't super monumental, I'll recap some highlights from everyone's week.
Rob: His softball practice was canceled this week, but he did get to help Brooklen at Baseball Heaven on Wednesday this week. We met for lunch at Qdoba on Wednesday, and he also had a work lunch on Monday.
Me: I had to rearrange some things because of the kid's sports, so I taught four piano lessons on Thursday and Friday. I've definitely decided that I don't like teaching that many lessons in one day and I ESPECIALLY don't like do them all right in a row. I didn't make much time to work out this week. I need to be ready for the Dow 5k in a few weeks; I ran for a while last night and it was NOT good. I guess I'll have to add in a lot more runs in the next few weeks. I think my biggest challenge with running is that I don't like it. I can push myself so hard with HIIT workouts, but it's hard to get my mind in the game to run.
Brooklen: Brooklen had another busy week again with sports. He got to play hockey several times this week with Jake. They are so cute. Today I watched them for a bit and they commentate their entire game; they even do post-game interviews!
Hurley: We went to the library this week to checkout books for Hurley's animal report. She is going to be researching the beaver. She is excited to do this and we've already read through several of the books. I got to sit in on Hurley's gymnastics class this week. She is doing amazing; you can't even tell that she just joined that class. I was pretty amazed at the workout Lori puts those girls through. They spend about the first 45 minutes just doing strength training. They mostly do exercises that Rob and I use.
Zaya: Zaya enjoyed preschool this week. She also got to play with at Kate's house and she had Jack come over on Friday. She is such a fun girl. She enjoys making up songs and doing crafts.
Kaiton: Kaiton is completely obsessed with balls and dogs. He points to the garage and makes barking noises when he wants to go see the Nyman's dog, Laney. Jenny Larsen watched him for me during Hurley's gymnastics class this week and she said that he cried for 20 minutes until he noticed her son, Ben, playing basketball outside. She took him outside to watch Ben and she said he was happy from that point on. Kaiton also learned to wave this week. He loves to stand in the doorway and wave to the kids as they get on the bus.
Tonight, we had the sister missionaries come over for dinner. We had a nice dinner with them and the kids enjoyed that they got brownies and ice cream for dessert.
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