Spring Break Entertainment

Last week was Landen's spring break and in an effort to entertain the boys, I took them to the Dallas Museum of Nature and Science with a friend of mine and her daughter.  They had a great time.  It is a really great museum- actually three museums in one.  There's the Science and Nature Museum, a Planetarium and a Children's Museum.  The boys really liked the Children's Museum and the dinosaurs (especially Nate)!  They loved digging for Dinosaur Bones and seeing the big dinosaur skeletons.  There were lots of hand on activities at the Science Museum- building things, playing with magnets, doing experiments with light, etc.  At the Children's Museum, they had a farm where you could shop for fruit and veggies, ride John Deer "tractors", milk a cow, etc.  They could also dress up like firemen and play in the fire truck.  Basically, they all had a blast!

Leprechaun Hunt

For Landen's Preschool, they had a Leprechaun Hunt/ Party.  We had to make Leprechaun traps.  I had no idea what a Leprechaun trap is, but we figured it out.  

Here's Landen's trap.  See the Lucky Charms are the bait and the Leprechaun tries to get them, pulls the bag and the pencil will fall and the lid shut and he'll get trapped in the box.  Pretty clever, huh!  

The kids all set out their traps and then went back to the classroom to see if they could catch a Leprechaun.
Here they are all playing games waiting to catch a Leprechaun.

Then, they put on their special leprechaun hunting glasses and went back to check on their traps to see if they caught a Leprechaun.  Well, the leprechauns came, but no one caught one- they just made a big mess and left glitter, gold coins and shamrocks.  Those sneaky leprechauns.  

Landen was very disappointed that he didn't catch one.  I think he honestly thought he was going to catch one.  He kept asking me if the leprechaun could be our pet and if we needed to get a cage to put him in. 

Then, the kids went back to the classroom and the leprechauns had been there also and made a mess of the classroom, leaving glitter, shamrocks and gold coins everywhere- even in the bathroom. The kids loved the toilet- made all the disappointment of not catching a leprechaun magically go away.

 

Lastly, they all got cupcakes for their treat.  So, by now, all disappointment is gone!  Landen had a great time!

Time Out for Women

This past weekend, my cousin Summer and I and her friend Sharla all drove down to Houston to go to "Time Out for Women."  Summer is from Houston, so my aunt Mary Ann (her mom) went with us with one of her good friends.  We all had such a great time.  It was such a fun "Girl's Weekend"!  (just what I needed after finding out I'm having a 3rd boy)  On Friday evening, Sheri Dew spoke (who was awesome) and Wendy Watson Nelson (Russel M Nelson's wife).  They were both great!  Jenny Jordan Frogley and Abe Mills (member of Jericho Road) were the musical guest and they were so good!  Then, we had it all day on Saturday too.  Kenneth Cope was the musical guest and sang different things all throughout the day.  The speakers were Mary Ellen Edmonds (so funny and good), Brent Top (great!), Wendy Ulrich and Chris Stewart.  They were all so good and very inspiring.  All the messages were very hopeful and optimistic.  Then, after TOFW was over, my uncle Brad took us all to Pappasito's- my favorite!   The, home to watch Mamma Mia and have Blue Bell Ice Cream!  What could be better!

**Thanks Ben for watching them on Friday afternoon.  I REALLY appreciate it!

***Thanks Phil for watching the boys all weekend so I could go!  It was great and I loved it!  I know the boys had a blast with you!  

A Three-Peat

ANOTHER boy for the Gee’s. I would have liked a girl; Phil wanted one too but isn’t complaining about another son. Landen wanted a little sister but Nathan said he wanted a little brother (I’m not sure if he understood the question but that was his answer).

Most importantly the baby looks healthy and everything on the ultrasound was good.

One of Phil’s sisters has three boys, and her advice was just to pray for the third boy to be calmer than the first two. Her first two boys, like ours, were wild animals. Her third son is much calmer, so we can only hope ours will be too. Nathan was calm for this first year but has since come out of his shell to say the least.

One thing is for sure, a boy will be much cheaper and we certainly have experience with them. Look out for the Gee boys!

Disney World and Orlando

Last week we took the boys to Disney World and spent a few days in Orlando. All of our family vacations last year were to Utah, so we wanted to do something different this year. All the Disney parks are offering free admittance on your birthday this year so we went on Phil’s birthday. That meant we only had to pay for two of us since Nathan is still free (until he’s three in May).

We were there to open the park and left when it closed on Wednesday and had a great time! For the first two hours and last two hours we basically walked on the rides. However, it was more crowded than we expected but wasn’t too bad. The weather was perfect as well.

We were disappointed that the Buzz Lighyear ride was down. That has been Landen’s favorite ride at Disneyland and he missed not being able to go on it. This time his favorite ride was The Haunted Mansion. Nathan liked Small World and the Tea Cups. Actually, he seemed to love every ride he went on, expect Pirates of the Caribbean. He’s probably too young for that one.

Overall I think we’re still Disneyland people. We loved Disney World but nothing beats the original. They’re very similar, but we missed our churros, corn dogs and frozen lemonade.

On Thursday and Friday we spent the day at a Marriott Vacation Club resort (thanks to my cousin Eric who got us a great deal). There was so much to do there; we didn’t really even need to leave. We did go to Downtown Disney to do a little shopping (and more walking) but that was really the only time we left the resort.

The boys loved the pools, and taking boat rides across the little lake/pond.

Phil’s parents were able to come with us and the boys had such a good time having their grandparents there. Phil’s mom is from Florida and was able to see one of her childhood friends for the first time in 31 years on Thursday, which was fun for her.

Besides being really tired from being in a constant state of motion, we had a great time and can’t wait to go back…someday.