Spring Has Sprung

At least I hope it has....if I see a forecast of snow I might lose it :-)  Beautiful weather here lately, and this week is promising to be a record breaker....high 60s to mid 70s all week.  LOVE.  I saw two robins and one cardinal on my run OUTSIDE this morning. They seemed to like the mild March weather, too.

Hannah, Griff and Mike were outside playing catch after dinner.  Griff starts coach pitch baseball in a few weeks. Working on his arm....and attention span. He is much more interested in the dirt divots in the yard......  Hannah actually has quite an arm on her. Thinking she should be playing, too.

 Dirt Divot......

Abby collecting sticks for her lean-upon....whatever that is....something she learned from Laura Ingalls Camp I'm sure.

The kids had last Friday off of school.  Abby has been asking and asking to go to the Minnesota History Center so we decided to go. She went as a field trip in 2nd grade. I was under the misguided impression that it was a history center located in Minnesota, hence the name.  Nope. It was a history center of the history of Minnesota. Interesting, maybe, but not what I had in mind.  Certainly not the Natural History Museum or the Museum of Science and Industry.  These Minnesota kids are missing out.  Anyway....it killed a couple of hours.  Here are some pics.....

1950s Soda Shoppe

Assembly Line Education.....8 hours a day assembling these shells. They lasted 10 seconds.

 TVs from the 1950s

 Capital Building in St. Paul

Pin the Tail on the Donkey. They had a house replica from the 1950s, complete with kitchen, family room, dining room, bedrooms and the back yard. The kids thought pin the tail on the donkey was silly!  I told them I had it at every birthday party when I was little!