Saturday, May 10, 2014

Spring Break Stay cation fun

We stayed put this spring break, but we found something fun to do each day.

dye easter eggs

Holland Aquatic Center

They had this inflatable, a slide, a zip line, a diving board, a water log, a playground with a tire swing, and a circle pool that had whirlpool action in it - you literally floated around in a circle.


Easter cut out cookies

feeding the baby goat at Critter Barn
Critter Barn - Its a family owned farm that allows people to come and visit, complete with sack swings from the trees. There were peacocks, horses, kittens, rabbits, goats...... and so much more. But oh the goats. 19 baby goats that all needed to be fed, so have the visitors do it. It was a riot to watch them jump and play. They are penned up during the day and let out at feeding time, and they make the most of it. We watched for a long time and then help herd them all back to their pens. The farm is set very much in a residential area of Zeeland. I laughed when I looked at the other houses and wondered what the reasoning was behind putting a residential development in an area where a large farm is literally your back yard, but each to his own!



The baby duck pen


We spent a few hours at the Grand Rapids Childrens museum making bubbles, forts, music, legos and other things!


And then we went swimming and wall climbing at the Grand Rapids YMCA!



The final day was a few hours at a water park called JJ resort.  Lots of trips up and down stairs, and some time in the hot tub!  But a great week all in all!



Jessica's art work


Jessica's art work was chosen to represent our school at the local art museum. There are 16 different school districts in our county (don't even get me started) and for one month, they choose art work from each school to be displayed at the Muskegon art museum.  Jessica's was one of four chose from MCS. We had a fun night there as a family. They had a reception for artists, including juice and cookies, and a scavenger hunt for kids that took us through the whole museum.  The art work is back at school and its next stop will be Grandpa and Grandma's fair this summer!


Indoor Soccer

Indoor soccer is done and gone, but I found these pictures and decided to post them! Both Brandon and Maria's teams played indoor and now they are off to the grass outside!





Thursday, March 20, 2014

Green supper


Matt and I celebrated St Patricks Day supper with a true Irish meal on Saturday evening with friends... corned beef with boiled cabbage and potatoes.
On Monday night, I made a green meal.... pesto with chicken on noodles, lime and pear jello, shamrock shakes, olives, pickles, cucumbers and broccoli.

Story book character day


Please meet Bink and Gollie (books by Kate DiCamillo) and Harry Potter.  Don't you just love reading month!?

The Easter door

Yes, the p's and the s is backwards.  Jessica is sure we need to change it. I'm not!


Do you want to build a snowman?

So, for these snowmen, we stayed in the house and used marshmallows, frosting, chocolate chips and candy corn!