Family Day Weekend

It has been about 7 weeks since Christmas Break when we decided to take the kids with a couple of other families for an overnight in the city. We all had such a great time that we decided we needed to do this again on our next long weekend! And Family weekend couldn’t have been a better weekend to pick, especially when this part of Winter usually gets us all down!

To give a little update first, it has also been about 7 weeks since I first picked up the book “Year of Yes”. I knew I wanted my year to change long before I picked up that book, but it told me all of the things I needed to hear to give me that nudge! I have now read 4 books and I am currently over halfway through my 5th called “Daring Greatly”. I LOVE audio books! No more silence waiting the in school loop or waiting at dance or driving alone on my way back from the school, etc. I love listening to the books at the gym as well! I can’t believe how much I am enjoying books again! We also loved the gym so much in January that we purchased a year long membership. I look forward to that little bit of exercise and stress relief each evening!

I have realized that it really only takes an extremely small chunk of my day to have a little me time and it has benefited all of us! I love all of my time with my children and I am thankful again for these little getaways with family and friends.

Before we left for our getaway we had an evening at the Fisher’s. They had dug out their firepit from the snow and created a great seating area! It was awesome! We enjoyed supper at their place and then outside for some s’mores and fun in the snow for the kids! We all headed back inside after for a game before heading home to pack!

We decided to go back to the same hotel since we had such a great experience last time. We went up a little early to treat the kids to a Cora’s lunch since we had more gift cards from Christmas to spend. The kids also had a little shopping they wanted to do and we had a little more time before check in so we had some “Roll up the Rim!” hot chocolate and then we met at the hotel at check in for a before supper swim!

We really love this hotel! Great pool and water slide, spacious suites, great location and an awesome breakfast! After the swim, we enjoyed a pizza supper and then spent the evening playing games! Ella had picked out an early birthday game while we were shopping called Skribble Heads so the kids had a blast playing it. The adults had 2 new games to try out, Ticket to Ride Europe and Citadels. Both were great games, but I am definitely loving the Ticket to Ride series of games, so that was my favorite!

The kids slept in a little so once they were up we headed down for breakfast and a morning swim, followed by more games before check out! We headed to the Natural History Museum to check out their Dragon exhibit. The kids had a blast and I definitely enjoyed the new exhibit. The museum was also free for Family Day, so that was an added bonus.

We headed home after some lunch and had an easy afternoon / evening. It was nice to get out, but also have some down time for me. I had bruised my ribs earlier in the week so some movements have been rough for me. This weekend was what I needed! We ended our evening with a family game of Skribble Heads. It is a great game and we had lots of laughs. It was such a great weekend, it is always hard to come back and start the week again. I really am thankful for the wonderful families we have in our life. We always have so much fun together!