Testing out Camping

This week was rather cold and blustery.  We only made it to a park once and it was too cold and rainy to even think about swimming!  So we had a lazy week indoors and did lots of coloring, cleaning, and playing.

We did get to celebrate Brandon's birthday on Thursday.  The kids stayed up late until Brandon came home from work and we had birthday blueberry muffins with ice cream.  On Friday Brandon took a half day from work, and he decided that Kylie could come in to work with him for a few hours.  She was so super excited.  I love seeing her pack her backpack and talk about how she gets to go to work with Daddy.  Hayden was, of course, terribly sad, but all he did was sleep when they were gone anyway.  Later that night we set up the family tent indoors and had a mini campout.  We have been wanting to take the family camping, so we wanted to see if we all fit in the tent.  Well, we do!  But not comfortably.  Especially when Brandon put the blow up mattress in there!  The kids loved it, though, and we stayed up late and watched a family movie, and we even tried to get the kids to sleep in the tent for the night, but they both opted to sleep in their beds instead.  (Much to my relief, actually!)

Saturday Brandon had a class all day, so me and the kids did a little shopping and made pizza and started our spring cleaning!  Such fun!  Our cleaning and packing is getting into full swing now that we have been approved for a housing loan and are now on the prowl for a new home!