The girls were on spring break last week from school, so we planned to stay at home the first part of the week then head out for a little trip in the last part of the week. While we were home, we spent lots of time just playing outside. We took some bike rides, and happened to end up at Sweet Frog after a bike ride one day.
We also took a hike to one of our favorite spots. The girls always have fun playing along the river, and Cayenne is happy as can be running through the woods, chasing birds, swimming in the river, etc.
Nina found some ice cycles hanging from a tall part of the side hill, and being the little climber that she is, she made it up to the ice cycles to prove she was a “real explorer.”
Cayenne tried her swimming skills trying to catch some ducks, but she didn’t stand much of a chance in the river. The ducks seemed to swam easily against the current, so along as they swam up river, Cayenne wasn’t able to catch them. She gave it a good effort though!
Her other big excitement came in finding this weird skeleton in a hollow tree. She had been barking and circling around this tree, trying to get whatever was inside the hollow of the tree. I was somewhat hesitant to peek in the hole and see what she was barking at, but I took a little peek and realized it wasn’t anything alive. What we saw was this weird looking skeleton that we pulled out of the tree with a big stick. We couldn’t figure out what animal is was from. The head portion was pretty big, and the bone attached to it curved around in a semi-circle. It was interesting nonetheless.
On Thursday morning we left for Ocean City. We expected that we wouldn’t get “beach weather” in terms of shorts and swimsuits, but the girls really like the beach, so we thought it would be a fun little getaway for the family. I wouldn’t say that we had bad weather while we were there, but we had really windy weather. Thankfully, it wasn’t rainy, and we were able to get out on the beach quite a bit, but it was super windy on the beach and still pretty chilly. The girls actually didn’t mind the wind at all. It was definitely good kite flying weather!
They wanted to play in the sand as much as possible and collect sea shells, of course.
On Friday, we took in some go-cart family fun there at the beach. Lyla has been dying to ride go-carts, so she had been waiting for this activity. There was only one track that she could ride on her own. The others required her to be 8 years old, but she did her track a couple times and still had a great time riding with Mark and I in the faster cars.
Needless to say, there was a bit of competition brewing as to who was going to win the races. To be fair, the double cars seemed a bit slower than the single cars, but Nina was not the least bit disappointed that she smoked her dad and Lyla in the last race.
After the go-carts, we took on the batting cages. Nina and Lyla did the slow pitch softball, and Mark braved the fast pitch baseball. If we had a never ending supply of cash, we probably could have stayed here all day. The kids had so much fun riding go-carts, and the really liked the batting cages as well.
Aside from hanging at the beach and doing the go-carts and batting cages, we took our walks on the boardwalk, ate lots of junk beach food, and even did a little swimming at the indoor hotel pool.
On our last morning there, the girls really wanted to come back down to the beach one last time while Mark packed up the car. While chilly, the sun came out, and it was nice to just sit and take in the relaxation of a quiet beach morning.
We got home Saturday afternoon, so Easter was the next day. Our two lovely daughters sure are growing up fast!
After church we headed out to Mousey and Poppy’s house for lunch, the annual egg hunt, and a new tradition starting this year – a family kick ball game. Except this time, it wasn’t our family playing amongst itself, it was our family versus their neighbor’s whole family. The winners got to take home the coveted Faux-berge Egg Trophy, and I’m proud to say the trophy safely rests in Mousey and Poppy’s house for the next year!
With the kids having the Monday after Easter off from school, we decided to meet up with the cousins and take advantage of the last day off school and a gorgeous weather day. We picnicked at Great Falls for lunch then hiked until everyone was hot and tired. It was a beautiful day at the falls and a great way to finish up a fun spring break!
