Spring Break Part 1

We were fired up for Spring Break around our house for several reasons.  First, the week that Grace was on break, we had BEAUTIFUL weather and spent most of our time outside playing or at the park having a picnic.  We have become quite the picnic-ing family this spring.  Why not when it's warm and we have an extra hour of daylight in the evening!  YAY!
Second, we had LOTS of visitors coming to Tennessee!!  We hadn't seen family since Grace's birthday and we were anxious for their arrival!  First up was Grandma.  She came at the tail end of Grace's Spring Break.  Believe me when I say the ENTIRE town of Knoxville knew she was coming because Grace told EVERYONE we saw!  We went to Walmart the day that she arrived and Grace honestly told at least a half a dozen people that "Grandma is coming today!"  HAHA!  We stayed around the house on Friday and Grandma got to play, play, and play some more.  On Saturday, we headed to Grace's tee ball practice which can bring anyone to tears from laughing so hard!  She got to witness the little Red Sox in action and Grace even gave us a couple waves when she was supposed to be paying attention to her coaches!  WAHAHA!  Saturday night Grandma did something for Matt and I and we cannot say thank you enough...........we got to go on a DATE!!!!  WHO HOO!!  We were so excited we could hardly stand it!!  We got to enjoy a hot meal, take as long as we wanted to eat, have a FULL conversation, and even watch Butler win a fantastic game!!  Yes, we still like to enjoy some sports while we're out.  It's March Madness baby!!

Sunday we decided to visit the Oak Ridge Children's Museum.  They were having free admission during Spring Break and we had never been there before.......so why not!  It may not have been close to the Indianapolis Children's Museum BUT it had a pretty fun train exhibit and a life-size dollhouse AND it was FREE!!  After Grace's nap, it was still warm outside so we loaded up and grabbed some ice cream!  Oh Sonic, how we love your orange creamslush treats!!!  YUM!!

Grandma headed back to Indiana on Monday morning and, while we were sad to see her go, we were already planning her next visit!  Come back and visit us again soon!  

The good thing about living in Knoxville during the month of March is that we usually having a constant revolving door of visitors!  This tends to make goodbyes a little easier for us.  Next up, we were getting excited for our round two of visitors........the Townsend's!!!