Spokane (tons 'o pics)

On Monday the 16th I woke up super early, loaded the car, bought a large coffee from Zoka's, and drove to Spokane. Levi and Claire came along of course! Josh, unfortunatley, has exhausted his two and a half month vacation and had to return to the rigors of the final months of education.

Why Spokane? Well, after four hours of driving and a speeding ticket we arrived at Will and Luke's new house! We had not seen them for about a month, so needless to say, it was quite exciting.
Lesley had tons of fun things planned and here are the pictures to prove it.

The afternoon we got there, we took the kids on a long walk to the neighborhood park. It took forever, but the boys loved walking on the snow.

That night we had movie night with dessert. On the menu: air popped popcorn, orange slices, apple slices, and pear slices. Total Super Mom moment.

The next day we went on a super outing to downtown Spokane. Here is the river...

And here is everybody walking on the bridges over the river.

Lesley had the wonderful idea to bring bread and let the kids feed the ducks.

However, we did not really count on the geese. They were rather aggressive! Lesley did a great job of keeping them in check though. Another Super Mom moment!

Claire just liked being a T-Rex and scaring all the ducks and geese away.

The boys displayed plenty of masculinity by playing King of the Hill and doing some Snow Beam Climbing.

Also at the park, a vacuum goat. It is kinda neat, this goat sucks up your garbage, thus resulting in a cleaner park. Well, it also results in cold hands, as the goat sucked up Will's glove along with the garbage.

Will was really upset. Lesley made him feel better by telling him that now that he was minus one glove, it was a great excuse to go buy him a new pair of mittens. It worked!

This was also at the park

Later that afternoon we all made cookies. Lesley found a recipe called "Aggression Cookies". All ingredients go into a bowl, including softened butter, and you just mix away with your hands. The kids kind of liked it. Claire was not interested in getting her hands dirty. What they really got into was decorating the cookies with sundrops, craisins, raisins and chocolate chips.

For dinner that night we were truly super moms: mini-pizza's made on whole wheat english muffins, corn on the cob, steamed green beans, carrots and peas. Of course, aggression cookies for dessert.

Also that night, we played dress-up safari with the kids. This was an attempt to draw out all excess energy so that bedtime would run smooth. Kinda worked.

Will was a dinosaur (his sweatsuit actually has stego spikes down the back and tail), Luke was a Viking, Claire was Bat girl, and Levi was Buzz Light year.

A better picture of Claire.

And, last but not least, the best picture of the trip: