The McKean Family ~ This is our often crazy, but very blessed life!: March 2011

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Spring Break = Disneyland!!

We decided pretty much last minute that we would attempt to ditch the rain here in Oregon and drive down to Disneyland for Spring Break. It is a very LONG drive and we were pretty worried about Addi, but both girls did really well under the circumstances. However, when I put her back in the car yesterday to take Ella to school she did start crying and saying, "NO!!" I don't think she was ready to be in the car again after 2 days of driving home....poor thing. We enjoyed the sun, dry days (for the most part), and 4 days of playing in Disneyland and California Adventure. We all had a blast, but Ella was definitely in heaven to say the least. We rode tons of rides, ate cotton candy, saw shows, meet and danced with princesses, stood in LONG lines, but best of all we just had fun being together. It may have been impulsive of us, and people thought we were nuts (the rain will do that to you!) but we are so glad we went ahead and did it!

Sorry for the picture overload, but we took about 200 and this is the narrowed down version! :)

Monday, March 7, 2011

Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming....

The last few weeks have been very busy and there seems to be no end in sight until Spring Break. Here's a little glimpse at our lives and sorry ahead of time if it bores you to death! ;-)

1. We, and by we I really mean mostly Andy...although I did help with the wallpaper and frames, FINALLY finished our gallery wall project that was started over 2 months ago! We also threw in painting the kitchen in the middle of all this....we ARE crazy!
2. Andy's evening meetings are increasing as well as deadlines for budgets, etc. for next year. It's not fun having him gone a couple evenings a week. :(
3. Ella has had a lot going on in preschool (can't imagine once she starts kindergarten) She has continued to take ballet and now swimming lessons....I swore I'd never have her doing more than 2 activities at once, but here I am!

4. Addilyn is just into, and I mean this literally, EVERYTHING! At church when Andy picked her up yesterday they said something like, "Well, she was into everything and climbed just about anything she could and we couldn't keep her off the tops of the tables." It wasn't said in a very complimentary way....kind of funny because I think and you're telling us this because ??? Are we expected to go home and have a serious talk with our 2 year old about her behavior?? At least she's cute, right? :)

5. I gave a good friend a baby shower, hosted my bunco group, still tutoring twice a week, and subbed quite a bit. I also went on a massive spring cleaning spree and reorganized and cleaned the office so you can now see the carpet again! Silly, but that kind of stuff makes me soooo happy! :)