Spring Break

We had a great spring break this year.  We started with the Spring game as you saw and then had a couple days at home.  We did a lot of fun things at home like arts and crafts and baking cookies and then took a little trip.  We decided to head south, and by south I don't mean Florida.  We went to Indianapolis.  I am sure someday we will head to Florida, but we did not think the boys would do that well in the car for that long yet.  Nick used to stay in Indianapolis when he traveled for work, so he knew a few things around there.  We stayed for two nights, but it is definitely a place we would like to go back to and check out a little more in the future.  While we were there we went to the Children's museum, which was pretty cool.  Out of the three we have been to, we decided that the Ann Arbor one is our favorite so far, but that is because it was the most hand on.  There were a ton of things to see there though.  They had dinosaurs, a race car, water to play in, a music room, and a lot of other things.  Something we did not expect to happen when we got home was Dominic to have a fear of dinosaurs.  Some how he is associating his blue night light (which we have had to stop using) with dinosaurs.  The first night back he looked at the shadow and said "no dinosaur", we then had to go down stairs and make sure daddy was ok and make sure that there were no dinosaurs down stairs.  He really is a smart little boy to put together that they had blue lights with the dinosaurs and the light in his room was blue.  We really don't know how he put together that dinosaurs are scary either.  Other than that the boys got to swim a couple of times at the hotel.  Vince loved it and Dominic was a little unsure of the big pool, he just sat on the steps.  Both boys loved running around in the hotel room and we were glad that there were a lot of other kids around, because they were pretty loud at times. :)  We had a great time.  On the way home we decided to stop in Coldwater and play a little putt putt golf.  The weather was great the whole time we were away and it really felt like spring!      

 Very cool entrance to the Musuem

 The inside

 The water area

 The boys got to "drive" the race car

 "Dad you don't need to see where you are going"

 That's better

 They had fun outfits in the nature area

 Dominic did not want to wait his turn :)

 The boys put the dinosaur together

 Rawr 

 Arts and crafts.  The glitter glue pens were the favorite and the messiest 

 Chocolate chip cookies that Vince helped make

Spring Game

My spring break was a little later this year than past years so the Spring game at U of M fell on the first weekend.  The weather ended up being great and the boys had so much fun!

 There were a lot of fans this year.  The last couple of years have been pretty chilly so I don't think the turn out has been as good.

 They both were very into the game for a little while, after a while Dominic wanted to just climb up and down the stands.

 They both loved the air plane

A very nice fellow fan offered to take a picture of all of us, I think it turned out great!

A few family pics and Aunt Jesi came to visit

We had not taken any family pictures in a while so before we went to the Spring game at U of M we took a couple.  It is so hard to get a good picture of the boys together now because one is always looking the other way or one is running away, but I got a couple of them :).  We also had a visit from Aunt Jesi a couple weeks before.  She came down to observe Vince for a project she had, but it was a great time to hang out and help with a few wedding things she had.  She is getting married in October and Vince is so excited for it.  After the three weddings we went to last summer, he loves weddings now!

 Being silly

 Both boys had so much fun

 Go blue

 Brother love :)

 More brother love :)

 I may have made them hold hands!

All smiles and looking the same way!

Grand Rapids Museum

This winter we decided to take a mini trip to GR because we had been cooped up for too long during our long cold winter.  The boys enjoyed the Ann Arbor museum so we decided to check out the one in Grand Rapids.  It was great!  The boys got to play with construction stuff, in a kitchen area, with Lego's, with instruments, and many other fun things.  We stayed right down town and got to walk around a little and we got to go swimming in the pool.  It was a great little trip and I am so glad we took it.

 Vince doing work!

 They had fun outfits too!

 The boys love Lego's

 Silly boy

Both boys loved driving the car.  

Traverse City Fun

We went up to Traverse City in February this year to celebrate our family Christmas and it also happened to be Winter fest too.  It was a little cold but we had a great time.  Vince got to go ice stating for the first time, which he had been asking to do for a very long time, and was pretty excited about it.  We had fancy hot cocoa at a cute little shop down town, took a drive out to the peninsula to see both bays, and got to see some good friends.  We don't get up north very often in the winter, but when we do it is always shocking at how much more snow they have than us.  I think when we were up there they had about 36 inches on the ground and it had settled some at that point!

 Grandma and Papa's house

 Cool new shades

 Doctor Vince

 Pretty vineyard and bay

 Ice skating!

 Really good hot cocoa

   Hanging out with Aunt Jesi!

Superbowl and Orchestra Fun

We continued the tradition of having a picnic in our living room for the Superbowl this year, but it was a little more tricky because Dominic was not very mobile last year at this time.  Allowing food in the living room was pretty exciting to him, but overall it worked out well.  We also have been attending a lot of "concerts" in our living room. :)  Both boys enjoys playing music for us and even make us buy tickets to the show.  Taking Vince to see Trans Siberian Orchestra really seems to have made a lasting impression on him.  Most times they play along to songs on their "instruments".  Vince usually plays air guitar and Dominic usually tries to do what Vince is doing.  Sometimes they will play drums or conduct too.  We get to listen to the CD often.  For Christmas we bought Amy and Eric the CD as well, and now they get to hear it almost daily too.  Ha.  

 Picnic in the living room

 Superbowl

 Dominic found some stickers :)

 Like father 

 Like son

 We love stickers!

 Playing along to the concert

 Conducting

      They made Nick use a stick to conduct :)