Most of March

Zane did a biography project at school - he wrote 5 pages about Ben Franklin, and then got to present with a speech while dressed up like him. Our sweet friend lent us an awesome costume, and we added glasses and a kite and he was transformed. He stayed in character - pretty serious face. What a cutie.  I'm so proud of all his work on it too - he was so passionate about checking out books, researching, writing, working on the computer at home, etc.  We all learned a lot of Benjamin Franklin!

 Little Ben.  (Smith had to try on the costume too)

 We had friends over for dinner and last minute decided to keep two of the kids for a sleepover. Clare and Gray are such sweet friends to Emmy and Smith (and Zane too). We decided on a girls' room and a boys' room.  They were so excited and actually did really well!

This spring break was a weird one.  We had plans to go to Glenwood Springs for a few days at the end of the week, so we just took it easy at the beginning of the week.  Hung out at home, went to the park, went on walks, etc. What we didn't know is that instead of going on our trip, we would end up snowed in at home for the end of the week.  BUMMER!!
Here are before and after pictures of our blizzard we had over spring break. This is the day before it snowed - we were wearing shorts and short sleeves that evening, playing outside for hours.

 THEN, we woke up to this, on the morning we were going to leave for Glenwood.  We knew it was going to snow, but figured we could make our way there slowly but surely.  Nope!  We ended up with about 2 feet of snow and roads were closed in the mountains, etc.  We were snowed in big time.

 We played inside.

 We played outside.

 We finally dug our car out and got out the next day to go sledding.

 The next day, we went to the Museum of Nature and Science to see the new Robots exhibit and the Chocolate exhibit...

 The kids got to play tic-tac-toe against a robot.  Smith beat him once - it made his whole day!