Spring Break this year was a full one, and it was great! Clark unfortunately had to be in Georgia that week for meetings, but me and the boys focused and filled almost every minute. The weather this year has been less than ideal, but the good days we spent outside and the not so good days we stayed in and watched movies and played.
Braxton worked on some Lego projects -- he loves to design new ways to make Lego sculptures. He can be downstairs in his "Lego Office" for hours working on his latest idea. This is one of the Masterpieces that came out of a really rainy day. If he can't play some kind of sport...that is where we can find him.
We also spent one day with Grandma Mercer. She is such a neat lady and I love her so much! We ate lunch, went shopping and then came back to her house and hung out for a while. I am so lucky to have my Grandma, she has always been such a fixture in my life. We have such good conversations; everything from the latest season of Dancing with the Stars to how we feel about our purpose here on Earth. I love her so much and respect the woman she is. The boys and her also have a cute relationship, it really takes some coaxing to get them to want to leave to go home - especially Jantzen. He would move in I think if we let him. We all count ourselves very blessed to have her in our lives.
Clark was able to make it home on Thursday that week so that made it extra fun! One of his greatest friends was in town for an educators conference and we were able to spend Friday with him. Joey Goodman (or Dr. Mr. Goodman - depending on what he wants you to call him) is such a special part of Clark's life, and the rest of our family as well.
They were able to meet while Clark was serving his mission in Mississippi. Joey was a stubborn one, but after time and lots of prayers he came into the waters of Baptism, and Clark was able to be the one to do that. They have kept in close touch for all these years. He and his sweet wife Tresa came to our wedding, and have come out to visit a time or two through the years. They are such wonderful people, they have 2 beautiful teenage children, Elizabeth and Ryan, who inherited their parents strong faith and killer sense of humor. We just love anytime we get to spend with them, and hope that soon we will be able to travel back to Illinois where they live now and see all the Church history sites that surround them.
Joey is such a crack up! The boys just love to be with him, I don't think they stopped talking to him the whole time he was here.
These two are just big kids - I was just waiting for one or both of them to fall off and hurt themselves! How do you explain that at a doctors office..."Well, Doctor, I was playing on this Rock Wall - yes, I know I am in my 30's"
Talk about ending Spring Break with a BANG! We got to have our sweet cousins sleep over for the weekend!! Check out those smiles, I think they say it all...
We went one of the days to Trafalga and the bumper boats were definitely the big highlight.
BEFORE...
DURING...
AFTER...
They got completely soaked and had a blast doing it. Braxton and Cooper got cornered by a boat of girls (they probably thought they were cute!) and Jantzen and Colby had their own boats and tried to get each other as drenched as possible. A couple times Jantzen even turned his squirt gun on the line of people waiting for the attraction - way to attack the unarmed buddy! Good thing the sun decided to pop out for a minute so they didn't freeze.
Addy was a good sport to cheer them on from the sidelines, another few inches and then look out boys!
The last night we had a fire and roasted S'mores and Starbursts, then it was 5 showers and off to bed. These 2 are so cute together, they were excited that THEY looked like twins this night!
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