So it is spring break here at Temple and it came just in time! I had just come off of a 3 streak test and was super stressed out. I don’t have any plans for the rest of break except to work for a geology grad student. And I just want to stress how much I love spring break; I woke up at 8, took the dogs for an hour walk, napped with them until 2, and have been watch How the Earth Was Made since then. Now we’re on Krakatoa!! I’m such a nerd.
So home is always an interesting time. The store where my mom works, Hurr’s Dairy, just reopened and are having crazy busy days. So my sister decided she would work which left us with most of her kids! And I think they’re about the cutest things ever so I have to put up some pictures of them.
Morris had the great idea to go to Fort Discovery so here are pictures of that!
Jacob!
Abby and my mom
Going down the slide! (Abby just got the boot off from me coming down!)
The other two were off playing with friends so I didn’t get pictures of them.
So time for some fun stories from the park! We started off playing wiffle ball and Mike threw the ball to me right as Haley was running in front on me and the ball hit her right in the head and ricocheted off. Her reaction was to just stand there and make a funny face. I almost died laughing!
Then I took charge of Abby and we were running around and I lifted her onto the higher level and started to climb up. Well by the time I got up she was already down the slide so when I went to look for her I couldn’t find her. Then I hear this “help!” and it’s not panicked or flustered, it’s a demand. So I walk over to where I got up at and there she is with her hands in the air. And this girl is so shy. If you talk to her she stops what she’s doing and drops her head (like below, but I took this picture from in front of her so just imagine being taller than her). I was very shocked.
Abby being shy after I complimented her shoes.
Jake with his pretty earrings.
And a family picture taken by Haley. When I asked her how it looked she said pretty.
And then on Saturday my mom and sister went to work and my brother-in-law took the two babies so Morris and I took the older two bowling. Boy was that an experience! They both really liked it but Haley was just terrible. The lightest ball they have is 6 lbs and the girl is only 40 lbs so she could barely do anything. This one time it took so long for the ball to get to the pins that the machine lifted the pins as if the ball had already gone by. Hysterical. Ironically she got a strike.
Mikey and his bowling ball
Then on Sunday my parents took Morris, the older two, and I to the Row of Shoppes is Lewisburg. It was amazing! There was so much! Anyone from central Pa needs to get themselves there. Morris found me a piece of Alexandrite!! It’s this mineral that is really expensive because in different light, the mineral color changes. It’s so beautiful and I got it for $5! And there is a bunch of antiques that are all fabulous looking. There were so many German Steins! Like huge steins that are very expensive anywhere else. I was so tempted because they were so cheap, but there was way too much to pick from. And of course, pictures!
Haley talking to her new doll
This place had the most AMAZING boots!! Unfortunately they were not my glass slipper and I was not Cinderella.
My mom and Mikey
So there’s another really funny story. After bowling Morris and I took the kids out to eat and to the mall. Haley has the nickname “Lazy Daisy” so she was already annoyed enough about the mall. Then we had to stop by the grocery store before we went home for the night and as we were leaving I said, “Haley, do you want carried?” and she stops, makes this terrible face and goes, “Carrots!?” And we went to a store in the mall and we both got some body spray and lotion and she told the cashier that she wanted a separate bag. So she gets this bag with pretty tissue paper and a sample and mine is just the bag. I told my mom about this when we got home and Haley goes, “That’s because little girls are special.” This girl is too much.
So that was my exciting weekend! Next week I have a paper, presentation, and test so I’m going to get an early start on that! Take care!
