It's Spring?

I know they say it's spring but got 4 1/2 inches of snow last night. The kids knew when the first day of spring was and now they insist on wearing shorts every day, Dillon and Makenna especially. Pretty much every day I am having to send them back upstairs to change. Hopefully it will warm up soon and we can all enjoy the outdoors a little more. Saturday morning, Hendricks had their annual Easter egg hunt at the park. It snowed during the night and for a little while that morning. At our house it wasn't too cold but the park is right by the lake and there was some pretty cold air blowing across that frozen lake. By the time we were done half the kids were crying because they were so cold. Makenna opted out of wearing a jacket and just went in her swaet pants and sweat shirt. Then she decided it would be fun to go down the slide. Of course there were puddles at the bottom of the slide so she ran around literally freezing her pattutie off. To make the hunt fair, the people in charge count how many kids there are and then tell them how many eggs they can find. That way every one gets the same. When we started we were all allowed to get 12 eggs. Well, Zane's 12 filled his basket a lot more than everyone else's 12. Then towards the end they told us we could get 5 more, so Zane some how managed to squeeze 5 more in his basket. Well, some of the other kids didn't get 5 more (because Zane had them all) so we started taking out some of his so the other kids could find them. He kept telling us that "those are my five more. They said I could get five more!" He managed to get away with several "five more". They all had fun though. By Sunday they were so out of control because of the fun weekend that i had to take away their candy and hide it. Sunday night Michael had to go to the foaling barn to spend the night so I was left with the kids. We had out them to bed before he left but they would not settle down. They were jumping on the beds, yelling, playing, throwing toys - you get the picture. I finally got all their baskets and emptied them into a big bag and hid it. Then I umped out all the grass and put their baskets away (they had been warned that this would happen. Once a warning, then there had to be a follow through.) Then I went upstairs and told them what I had done and that it was time for them to settle down. I never heard a sound the rest of the night! Who knew it would work so well? Yesterday I took the boys and Olivia downtown to collect all their prizes from the Easter egg hunt. They were in heaven. We started at the pharmacy and collected 9 candy bars. Then we went to the hardware store and got 3 more. The we went over to the bank and got $1.50 in quarters. They took their quarters to the grocery store and got some juice. They still have 4 ice cream cones and a malt to get. We decided to save that for another day. Anyways, it was a fun weekend but we are glad school is going again and we have our schedule back.