Young Party of Four

This weekend has been fun. And with it, we have officially finished up with our Spring Happenings list for the most part. We have actually done just about everything we set out to do. The only thing we didn't finish 100% was visiting all the Disney parks. We missed Animal Kingdom and Magic Kingdom (with the kids as Steven and I went alone one day). Granted, we have a couple of weeks left before our blockouts begin but I don't know if we will have time to make it back. We shall see. This weekend we had plans to make a Cinco de Mayo style dinner on Friday. We ended up making tacos, quesadillas, and Mexican rice. We all sat down to watch a movie together with our dinner. We decided on The Secret Life of Pets. I was curious if it would hold everyone's attention but it definitely did. Super cute movie. The kids loved it. We are finally moving out of the style of movies that have a lot of singing in them and onto "bigger kid" type things. The kids thought most of the ...

I remember writing a similar post to this last year. (Anyone interested can read it HERE ) Kenzie had been in school for about a month and we were all settling into our normal, everyday routine after adjusting to such a big change (even though it was only 2 days a week.) This year, it has been an even bigger adjustment but we are finally at a point that we are settled and back into our "routine" on school days. I wanted to write a similar post detailing what our days are like mainly so I can see how things have changed in the last year. This year, Kenzie is in school 4 days a week. So, she is at school more days than she isn't and our daily routine has been altered quite a bit. Not only because of school, but also because of the wants and needs of our family at the stage we are at now. School days are Tuesday through Friday now. On those days, we all get up at our normal times. Our kids are early risers and they always have been. We learned long ago that regardless...