My New Best Friend

As much as I complain about my kids growing up so fast, there are perks to the ages they are at right now.  Since Jordan goes to middle school in a different school district as the elementary school, we had separate spring breaks; one for the little kids and one for the "big" kid.  Since my sister was in town for part of the little kids' break, there was much fun to be had.  When it was time for Jordan's spring break, we still had school for Kya and Tyson, and no visitors in town, so we had to entertain ourselves.  Good thing Jordan and I like to do a lot of the same things....like shop and eat out...and we fit in a few work outs too.

 Jordan and I at a BYU Volleyball game...yesterday

 Shop

Jordan could shop all day, every day, even if she didn't need to buy anything.  I, on the other hand, hate shopping UNLESS I have something specific that I need (and it's not groceries).  So, luckily, I had a long list of somewhat "fun" things to buy. 

Cotillion dress shopping started out fun.  We found a huge selection of party dresses at JCPenny that we fell in love with.  After trying on a handful, we soon realized they were all way too SHORT (oh, and strapless, but we though a shrug could solve that problem).  So disappointing.  After 3 hours of searching, we came home and ended up ordering 2 online.  Hopefully they will get here in time and they won't be too short!!

Swim suit shopping was fun too (because it wasn't for me).  We found a lot of cute ones, but when we got them home (they were for Kya), we soon found out they were all a size too small.  Jordan ended up giving hers to Kya and we went back to return Kya's. 

We were successful in finding a new vacuum though...which I have been wanting for years, yet I have still not taken it out of the box:)

Recognize this dress anyone?!  

I wore it to a school dance in Gr. 9...don't worry, Jordan will NOT be wearing this to cotillion, she just wanted to try it on and laugh at it:)

Restaurants

Jordan has been waiting patiently for her first trip to The Cheesecake Factory (although, I swear she has been a couple times when she was little, she just can't remember).  Since Jordan and I are the only ones in the family who actually like cheesecake, I thought spring break was a perfect opportunity (sorry Lisa, I sill wish we could have fit it in while you were here!!).  We shared a sandwich for lunch to save room so we could each order our own cheesecake, but by the time we finished our lunch, we were getting kinda full.  We (I) decided we should just share a piece of cheesecake.  This made it near impossible for Jordan to pick a flavor!!  We ended up with the Tuxedo cheesecake and it did NOT disappoint.

This was HALF!!

Work Outs

I downloaded an App on my kindle that is circuit training program.  Ever since I told Jordan about it, she has wanted to try it.  The first day of spring break we did it.  At the end, I was beat red and sweating and she didn't even look tired.  I am claiming it's because she did "stretching" for half the strength training stations!!

We also did "Just Sweat" on our "Just Dance" video game.  I'm sure if someone had seen us, it would make for a fabulously embarrassing YouTube video, but luckily they did not:)

Everyone is back to school Monday.  I will be anxiously waiting for summer break.  I love hanging out with my kids...especially when they aren't fighting!

After a (glow in the dark) silly string fight