Spring Break Report

Firstly, Spring Break meant Spring Cleaning. My evil plan for the kids this week:

Day One: De-junk your dresser
Day Two: De-junk your closet
Day Three: De-junk under your bed
Day Four: De-junk your "hiding places" (yep, I'm on to you...)

My job was to supervise/train all kids in proper de-junking techniques, then work on my own projects:
De-junk the basement storage areas
Inventory and then huck half of our food storage (because it expired like six years ago)
Organize Rob's and my closets.

Then I had the awesome idea that the kids should rotate making lunch for the crew. See? That was awesome, wasn't it.

To prevent all out rebellion, we made sure we had some fun. Rob met me and the little kids and friends at the big new park after work one day. One night, he took Getty and Mia and friends to "Hop."

Getty, Cam, and Elle built a snow cave for like 3 hours.

MK and I shopped for her Prom dress with the todds. Man, was it easy to pick that dress. We lucked out—as soon as she slipped it on, we knew it was the one for her. And Mia has agreed to wear it at some point, so we get our money's worth. (Oh ya, we haven't told her that part yet.)

MK made sure she kept in touch with her friends while we shopped.

Why does MK have both the kids on her back? ... Because that's how she rolls.

Cy and Aaron took pictures of each other jumping off the balcony into an XXL cuddle bag. (Cy was so excited he almost wet his pants.)

And why does Cy's mom allow him to perform such reckless stunts? Sometimes mom's are not aware such shenanigans are going down...until they see photographic evidence.

Mia went to Disneyland with her friend's family, while MK took off to St. George with her friend's family to stay in a home with it's own bowling alley and lake in the backyard. Nice.

The topper was touring "Make-A-Wish." What an awesome experience. Rob and his siblings decided to donate to charities instead of give each other gifts for Christmas. It was Rob's turn to choose the charity, so he chose his stand-by favorite. We wanted to get the kids involved, so we planned to tour the place before Christmas. Or after Christmas. Or sometime around Spring Break in April.

After we learned about how to play the special wishing board game, we crossed the "moat"...

Cam unlocked the Wish tower...

And we entered a mystical room.

Cy followed the lit path to the wishing torch, where he inserted a wish into a golden token and then continued on the path to the wishing cone. The torch fits upside-down, and off the golden token goes to those wish wizards.

Fun facts: Jim Carrey spends an entire day with his Wish kids, but stresses out so much about fulfilling their expectations, that he gets physically sick the night before.

Michael Jordan, Miley Cyrus, and Robin Williams, were just a few of the celebrities our host mentioned that regularly grant Wishes, while Kelly Clarkson does not.

John Stockton was very nervous the first time he was requested, so he asked Karl Malone (who had granted many Wishes) for advice. Turned out, the Wish kid got two for one—both John and Karl.

The most popular wish place is Disney World. Most wishes involve some sort of travel.

The most popular celebrity request is Jeff Gordon.

Then there are shopping spree wishes and bedroom make-overs.

Make-A-Wish, Utah chapter, is most popular for skiing wishes and for meeting the Prophet. High School Musical II was a hit while they filmed here, too.

So, now it's Sunday night. Time to Spring back to the ol' routine. Looking forward to it.