All joking aside, we ended up having a great break home together, even if it was go-go-go!
In no particular order, I'll just start sharing all the fun we had.
We saw some movies over break! Some at home like Descendants 2, Captain Underpants, and Despicable Me 3. And some were at the theater. The boys and I saw Ferdinand and Scott and I were lucky enough to have a date night where we ate at Texas Roadhouse and went to see Star Wars.
We had several playdates planned with friends and family. We took the boys out to see my Grandma and Uncles that live in Macomb and on the way back home stopped in Rochester to see the lights and eat at the Mills. I also brought the boys to Somerset to have lunch at Chic-Fil-A and to meet up with my co-workers and their kids. I let the boys do a little shopping at the Lego Store and at the Disney Store, of course.
In case I wasn't out in the Troy area enough, we also planned a date for the kids to go build Legos at the Robot Garage with their cousins, AJ and Sydney in Birmingham and lunch at Griffin Claw. I met up with my mom that afternoon for some shopping at Somerset again and dinner at Mon Jin Lau. We definitely ate well over break!
On days where we stayed on our side of town, we did a few outings. We took the boys to Creatopia to paint a piece of pottery. Evan chose a crown and Sean chose an army vehicle. We grabbed lunch at Panera and went on to the library after that. We also took the boys to open skate one day using a Groupon I found. It was a lot of fun! Sean can skate independently now and Evan is still a work in progress using that plastic thing. Another afternoon I took the boys to Jungle Java to get some energy out and we ran into Sean's best friend Corey and his dad. Small world!
We tried to enjoy our days at home too since it was so cold outside. My hopes of doing a lot of sledding, going to the Toledo Zoo lights, and going back down to see the tree in Campus Martius changed real quick once the real feel temps were in the negatives daily. So, we read books, we played with blocks and Legos, did countless board games and puzzles, and let the boys play on the iPads and Playstation 3. After all, it was nice and cozy to be at home.
We updated Evan's room by selling his old dresser, mirror, and headboard that I had from college and buying him a chest of drawers. I think it opened up some space in his small room and it gave it a more masculine look. I painstakingly took down the vinyl words I had on his wall and put up his new wall calendar. He's good to go!
I got my hair cut! And actually, she cut quite a bit off considering my hair went to the middle of my back. Scott loves my hair shorter, so it was a win.
On our last day of break, we made the decision to ignore the cold temps and get our butts outside. We took the boys out to Alpine Valley for the first ski of the year. Sean wanted to be in a group lesson for two hours and Evan wanted to stay with me and Scott, so we all went our separate ways for a bit. After Sean's lesson, we ate our bag lunches we brought and went back out to try the chairlift. I'm happy to report that we all made several runs down the big hill and both boys successfully did the chairlift! Sean isn't too confident on his skis still, but we're working on it. Evan, with some ski wedges on the front, was cruising down like it was no big deal. Very exciting!
It was a great last day of break! We came home exhausted from all the skiing and fresh air and ready, as we were going to be, to go back to school and work. We accomplished a lot over break from all the activities we did with the kids, to having a date night, to spending time with lots of different friends and family members. We sold a few big items we'd been trying to get rid of, added a few new things to the house, and rang in the new year with hopes of losing weight, exercising more, and making sure I give Scott a kiss every night before bed.
It will be a relatively quiet month, as it usually is. Scott started coaching basketball and had his first games last weekend. The ice festival came and went last weekend (post to come!) and we'll celebrate Bailey's 11th birthday and our 9th anniversary the end of this month. And then it's...Tucson over mid-winter break! Here we go 2018!
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