{a long overdue family day}

Hooray!  Busy season is almost over!  It really is something to cheer about--we've missed Rick a lot since the beginning of January, and we're ready to have him home--especially on the weekends.  This weekend was one of the first he didn't have to work, and we decided to take advantage of it by going on a day trip. I told the girls about it a couple of days before, and all they could talk about was our "adventure".

We arrived in the early afternoon, and of course everyone was starving (I think my kids are always hungry--no matter when they last ate), so we stopped at one of our favorite family restaurants.  We actually ended up having to order a second kids' meal for Henry---we should have just bought him an adult meal, it would have been cheaper, lol.  Emma was thrilled (and I was thrilled for her) because they had gluten-free hamburger buns, which meant she was able to have a hamburger in a restaurant for the first time since she was diagnosed.  Happy day! The kids did pretty well, but I don't know why I forget how much of a spectacle we can be, lol. 

With tummies full and happy, our second stop was a really fun children's science museum that was featuring the Magic School Bus "Kick's Up a Storm". We love the Magic School Bus at our house, so this was pretty darn exciting. Winters are always so long, and it was so nice to be someplace where the kids could feel a little freedom. 

 

We promised the kids that we would get ice cream at the university creamery afterward--which is the best creamery ice cream I've ever had. It's probably a good thing it's so far away.  :) Jack is a boy after my own heart...he ♥'s ice cream, and polished off his, Henry's (I can't believe he doesn't like ice cream!), and some of Kate's too. 

 

We didn't get home until late, we missed baths for the night, and we didn't get any projects done, but no one minded. 

It was exactly what we needed.