The Lucas Lowdown: Spring Break...a bit late.

Well, it's been nearly a month now since our much anticipated spring break. I figured it's better late than never to share some pictures from our decidedly low key week. The hope was to "accomplish" something but I'm afraid the only thing accomplished was a bit of laziness, lots of togetherness, a couple of picnics, some spontaneous out-of-the-ordinary cooking and art projects, and maybe a bit of laundry for good measure...in short, I'm pleased with our "accomplishments". Since the weeks preceding and following spring break have been the busiest yet, it was nice to finally just hang out with Molly.

Doesn't my baby look all grown up shopping in her heals:

We used some of our extra time one evening to finalize our family car shopping. We ended up with a Toyota mini van and, though I thought I'd never be a mini-van driver, I love it!

When evenings aren't pressed for time there's more room for this:

This is the playground at a public school less than a half mile from our old house. They've redone it since we lived there and it's nice, new, and empty.

Molly had her first overnight guest! We watched Bella for our friends while they had a toddler-free 24 hours to spend together before the arrival of their second baby (who just arrived 2 days ago now!)

It was a good time:)!

My favorite! The girls with Ryan's name artwork:

Listening to showtunes and making some bird's nest cookies:

This girl's a natural in the kitchen.

I told her to put three eggs in each nest so she'd count them out and then every other one say "oops, I put in four" and then eat one of the eggs to fix it...smart cookie;). My favorite girl:

We took a day trip to Tennessee to FINALLY meet baby Judah but of course I didn't bring my camera:(.

We ended up the week dying eggs and reading books about Easter (my next catch up post). We've accidentally made it home with one or two (or four) hospital gowns over the past 2.5 years. They make great finger painting and egg dying smocks!