A week off

It has been nice to take this week between the holidays to relax and spend time all together as a family. On Monday we met up with cousins to go ice skating. The girls spent the entire first hour giving me a MAJOR upper body workout by clinging desperately to my arms as we made our way around the rink. Finally I convinced them that they would have better balance if they would just LET GO. And of course I was right--they did great after that. So then Ryan and I decided to take Lincoln around the rink. I was frankly tired of going so slow and decided to pick up the pace a little. Then...TOE PICK! One minute I was up, the next I was down, HARD, right on my knee. I have an enormous bruise to prove it. I dragged Lincoln and Ryan down with me. Lincoln pretty much lost interest in ice skating after that.

We then decided to trade kids for an impromptu cousins sleep-over. So the girls got to go up to Firestone and we had Ross come spend the night with us.

The next day we took the kids to Ikea for dinner...and dessert.

We have played games together...

played lots of JUST DANCE 3 and Wii Fit (in hospital gowns just to keep it interesting...)

played with Christmas presents (this is some of Lincoln's homemade play-dough, which has been a massive hit with all of the kids...)

gone to the movies, redecorated the office (pictures to come) and cleaned the house (that was mainly just me.)

It's been a good break. Now I'm ready for the kids to go back so I can have my life back!