Spring

One thing no one can ever complan about the military is the time off. 30 days paid leave a year? Awesome. The Friday off before every 3 day weekend even more awesome. We love it. Also there are some random things that go on that are good for a few freebie days off. Here they have a goal to reach 100 fatality (auto related) free days. They have a sign on the way off base that keeps track for all of us. In Feburary we finally reached 100 so everyone gets a free day off. David's commander scheduled it for last Friday. We originally had plans to go to Nauvoo but found out a few days before it was supposed to rain the whole weekend so we bailed.
We chose the next best option. Driving an hour to Chuck E Cheese (Target and Hobby Lobby were also worth the drive)!

Some parents are too good for Chuck E Cheese. They say it gives them headaches because it's so loud and dirty. We are not those people. I've got to tell you, I think David and I had as much fun as the kids. We brought our little $25 coupon and got pizza drinks and 110 coins that we couldn't even use all the way the entire 2.5 hours we were there. We played tons of games with the kids, basketball with eachother, deal or no deal, skii ball and had a blast.
This is David and the kids on a GIANT rocking horse. Check out how low the tables look beneath him. It was hilarious to watch it rock back and forth as the whole place stared. And you know what? He didn't care. Look at that grin he's loving it.

Then as if we didn't have enough fun about halfway home from our drive from Springfield there is this gift store and a giant candy store. David was feeling spontaneous and kept saying if we don't stop now we'll always wonder. So we woke up our sleeping kids to come check it out. We bought some candy and a used Peter Pan DVD to add to our collection.

This was Mallie about 2 seconds after we got back in the car. We left at 9:30am and got home at 4pm. I would say over all it was a successful day. Not to mention I revamped the kids summer wardrobe for a total of $30 at Target. Why can't it work like that for adults??

I used to think just Texas had crazy weather. Apparently Missouri follows the same weather pattern. Here was the hail storm. My kids love to eat ice so I was grateful we finally got a hailstorm during the day so they could go eat the ice like they did in Texas. If they happened to grab and eat a worm with the ice we'll call that protein.

We have two huge trees in our front yard. One has bright green leaves and the other is this brilliant purple.You can see the other purple trees up the street too and our bushes are all full of pink and yellow blooms. Spring makes me so happy.