"Silver Leaf Staycation"

This week is your Spring Break from school, Landon. Today, Miss Jodie invited us to go with her, Dalton, and Chloe over to Tyler to the indoor waterpark at Silver Leaf Resort. After a two hour drive with plenty of 'are-we-there-yets,' we arrived...an hour and a half before they opened (The lady on the phone clearly told us they opened at 10:00). So, once we finally got in, you and Chloe went straight for it. Little slides, tube slides, tall slides-you slipped down all of them with great delight. Chloe helped you out with the lazy river, floating around in the soft current in big inner tubes. But I think your favorite was the wave pool. You loved having the water splash up on you, but I think the real reason was that the water was a little warmer, and although it was a balmy 80ish degrees in there, you were cold. That didn't stop you from going non-stop for six straight hours! We had a really fun daytrip.

"Three Taking a Bath"

We had a fun lunch at Joe's Crab Shack down at the Boardwalk with Nathan and Cooper and their mommies. You all played on their playground for about two hours. And when we were through, you all were covered in dust from the pea gravel that surrounds it. As soon as we got home, we got in a bubble bath for two, which quickly turned into three once Nola jumped in! Here are some precious pics of our bubbly fun...

"Shamrocks and Shenanigans"

What a wonderful St. Patrick's Day we had! First thing this morning, Chloe rang our doorbell to get you, Landon to go check the leprechaun trap. Unfortunately, there was no leprechaun, but there was plenty of evidence that some had been there! The lucky charms were all eaten, and there were two green glittery buckets full of gold chocolate coins, shamrock beads and stickers, some cool green sunglasses and a green glow stick! We thought surely we would have caught one, but they are elusive little boogers! I think you may have been disappointed.

Peering in to see if we got one

You and Chloe discuss how he escaped such a well-engineered trap. Conclusion: magic!

Trying on the loot

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After I sent you to school with shamrock cookies in hand, Shelby and I picked you up to join Miss Suzanne and Nathan and Miss Marianna and Sante for a playday at the duck pond. Shelby was very silly in carline!

The weather was absolutely beautiful as you and your buddies romped from swings to slides and climbed on the monkey bars like wild little...well, monkeys! We brought a lunch and picnicked under the pavillion. We brought lunch for the ducks too. They enjoyed a little of our bread, but the fished really grubbed down. Across the pond, there were a whole slew of turtles, one of whom we are certain was Myrtle.

Once we were all pooped from the park we headed over to Krispy Kreme to grab a donut and hopefully get to see them being made. When we got there, a batch was just starting out on the long path the dough travels to become a donut. We decided we would defintely have to come back to see the complete process. In the meantime, we enjoyed delicious chocolate and green and white sprinkled donuts together.

You and Sante spy the sprinkle ones.

Checking out the long journey of the donut

Shelby is thoroughly enjoying hers!

Oh yeah!

"To Catch a Leprechaun"

Well Landon, we decided to make another attempt at catching a leprechaun this year. We had some help from our next door neighbors, Chloe and Dalton this time. And a spectacular trap we made. We used an oatmeal cylinder and decorated it with green paper, shamrock and all things St. Patrick's Day stickers. We carefully constructed a twig ladder that they could climb to reach our Lucky Charm bait. Little would they know that there was a big hole cut out of the lid, where they would fall right in. Dalton even rigged a "trap door" so there would be no escaping. That evening, we found a lovely patch of clover to sit the trap in. We made a trail of lucky charms leading right up to the ladder. Can't wait til top o' the morning!