Spring Break as told by Lea

Lea made a book about her Spring Break. I couldn't have told it better myself.

"My Mommy had a birthday party"

"Two of my friends slept over"

"I went to Chuck E. Cheese with my Grandma (although she may from here on out be Gramu cause I love that new name!)

And then she drew her favorite things. We don't own a cat. She's only been ice skating once and she bruised her face and we don't have perfume in the house because of Dan's allergies. What terrible parents we are not allowing her to have any of her favorite things. What a sad life filled only with Barbies, bubbles, bikes and candy!

Spring Break by Mommy

Ok so I maybe I can't tell it better, but I can add a few details.

I turned 40 and had a party. It was my Fo'ty party and we had 40oz beers with specially designed (by me) labels. Oh, and I cut 17" off my hair.

On party day, we started at the St. Pat's parade.



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Hey that's Bret Hull behind me! Grand Marshall of the parade.



 Then it was back to the house for bbq, beers and loads of great company.


Great shirts with my invitation logo. Dan and his dad conspired to surprise me with shirts!



Loads of food and hand labeled 40 oz.




Michael, Teddy & Andrew sporting some awesome party shirts.





Again Lea said it best!



Oh and as my mid life crisis I dyed my hair pink. Sadly it didn't take on my first try so it wasn't pink for the party. My mom tried to help me dye it, but even with my beautiful light blonde, I had to bleach it to hold the color. Dan helped me bleach and dye it on Sunday.

Lea stayed with Grandmu for the first couple days of Spring Break after the big birthday party. We met up at Chuck E. Cheese to play a bit and then take off and do a bit of birthday shopping. Lea had a blast at the Cheese. I think we spent 20 bucks and Lea walked out with a pencil and eraser - woo hoo. 

On the tail end of Spring Break we did a kid exchange. We had two little girls stay over at our house. They couldn't wait to play restaurant where one girl is the customer with a menu, one the waitress and other is the cook and cashier. It was fun for about 15 minutes and then interest started to wane, but they were great and had a great time. Then the next night Lea packed her bag and went off to her first sleep over (other than family). We tried to prepare her with her blankie, kitty (who turns into a tiger to protect Lea at night) and Uni (Pillow Pet Unicorn who turns into a dragon to protect Lea). But when it came time to sleep at their house, the other girls sacked out right away (surprise they didn't sleep much at the first sleep over), but not Lea. The mom & dad came in to find a wide eyed Lea clutching Uni & Kitty. She was holding it together until they asked if she was ok and then the dam burst. So at 8:30 we got a call. Fortunately we were so stuffed with sushi that we bailed on our plans to go to a movie so Dan dashed over and picked her up. We'll try again when she's a little older. She said she wasn't scared, it was just "... too different." 

And that was our Spring Break.