Spring outings, travels and playdates

Due to our extended winter we had to be creative when it came to our morning entertainment.  Lucky for us the Seattle Browders gave us a membership to the KidZone Museum in Truckee where the boys and I had lots of fun on the coldest of days.  The boys loved pretending to drive the tractors and create masterpieces in the Messy Art room.

And believe it or not, we enjoyed sledding into April with friends like Ashley.

In early April we traveled to Sacramento for Auntie Steph's baby shower.  I didn't get many good photos but did manage to capture one of soon-to-be big sister Julianna seriously watching her baby cousin Gabriel.  Since then her baby brother Bradley has been born.

We stayed with Auntie Beth and Uncle Pete over the baby shower weekend and the boys had so much fun painting their own wooden trains with Auntie Beth after a visit to the Benicia Book Store.

The week following the baby shower happened to be our spring break so we took advantage of the Sunday morning to visit the Explorit Science Center in Davis, CA.  The boys had lots of fun with their friends Jacob and Evan trying out lots of hands-on activities.

We welcomed some warm weather during the end of spring break and met with my friends Steph and Katie at Rancho San Rafael Park in Reno where we let the kids run wild and caught up with each other.  Between the three of us we had five kids and one on the way.  Julianna held her own as the only girl and Ben and JT hit it off as the "big boys."  JT had just celebrated his 4th birthday and Ben's was less than 2 weeks away. Sam and Cal, the little boys, had no clue they weren't the big guys of the day.  We enjoyed lots of playing and a picnic lunch before calling it a day.

And now that Ben seldom naps we find ourselves looking for quiet activities to do while Sam snoozes.  So we invented "Potato Parties" where we use our many Mr. Potato Head pieces to make the silliest creations we can think of.