Spring Break: Springs & Skiing

 Our first couple days of actual Spring Break were so fun in Colorado Springs with the Baileys. Games, exploring, cave tours, Garden of the Gods, and just fun being together!

Plus setting up St. Patrick's Day was so funny -- my favorite thing was trying to put green mustaches on our sleeping children with Jamie. Everyone tolerated it (too well?) except Asher, who was not going to allow such a thing, even in his sleep. Green milk, rainbow fruit, Lucky Charms, coins in shoes, and green pee in the toilet (!) plus some leprechaun traps that might have better luck next year!

Garden of the Gods is such a gorgeous place. Seeing an emu there was unexpected. I'll probably never trust one again after being chased last time I met one. But this one was well-behaved.

We made it home Tuesday night and then spent Wednesday skiing with the Schmidts. The older boys had so much fun skiing together all day! Their lesson went well again and Camden is totally a natural. Truly he's better than I am, which is not hard to be, but still impressive after just a couple trips. He got bored with me and wanted Michael to take him on some more exciting runs :) I'll probably never keep up super well with my family on the ski slopes but we'll always have the lift rides! And I did fine on all those slushy blues today so it's all good.

After skiing we were BEAT. We went from one trip to the next to the next, and we were ready for a couple down days of Spring Break. We had one pretty empty day and one day full of make up tennis lessons before our last lessons on Saturday. Jamie took my kids to the Greeley Library (which is a total destination, I never knew!) one day and I got some much needed work done, so I was grateful for that.

In the end I just laugh at our "empty" spring break -- it quickly filled up with friends and fun even though we had planned on not traveling anywhere since our year has been busy with family plans and our Florida trip. This break was so fun! We all loved it.

Sleeping Queens, classic.

Cave of the Winds tour

That time Joseph was chased by a goose.

Setting up St. Patrick's Day

These pictures will forever make us giggle.
They just accepted this, 
but no one woke up with it still on :)

Asher was NOT having it. He's just rub it off instantly every time.

Walking her Emu. ?????

Meeting the Emu!
Wild.

What a warm winter.
This was a slushy ski day but still so fun!

We love the Schmidts!

Greeley Library.
I had no idea it was such a happening spot.