Spring break has officially begun! We kicked it off by sleeping in this morning :) It was so needed after a long week!
Trips to the park and lots of board games are on our agenda this week :)
We are also heading here and here tomorrow for a few days...I'm turning off my phone and having some much needed away time with my family :)
While I'm gone, let's giveaway a $50 gift certificate or 2 to our website! 
Just for fun :)
Tell us something FUN you're going to do on Spring Break and you're entered! I'll hand pick one winner (for the most cReAtIvE spring break fun!) and randomly pick the other!
Blog it and tweet it (@thevintagepearl) for extra entries!
Both winners will be announced as soon as we get back from visiting Shamu :)
Have a FaNtAsTiC weekend!
Friday, March 12, 2010
tgif & spring break! (a giveaway!)
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«Oldest ‹Older 401 – 600 of 926 Newer› Newest»I just love your jewelry - it is beautiful and so unique! I got a necklace from my sister for my birthday & I have gotten so many compliments on it. There are SEVERAL other pieces that I'd like to add...! : ) Our spring break will be chaotic with everybody home from school. Our kids are 6, 4 1/2, 3, and 19 months old. Everybody home together is a busy crew!! Hopefully spring break will entail pretty days to play outside, lots of laughing, fun with cousins, and making fun memories! Enjoy your time away!
My family & I have all chipped in & rented a mansion in Tulsa, Ok to celebrate my mom's 50 Birthday! I'm so excited to get to spend some quality time with everyone & relax!
I am going to dedicate our spring break to some arts and crafts fun with my daughter. I have found so many fun projects to do from so many different and wonderful blogs, that I can't wait to share them with her. Everyday will be a different craft, photograph flip books, felt cuff bracelets, dough necklaces, painting, and so on!! We're two crafty chicas, so I know the time will just fly by! I hope you have a wonderful break with your family.
Not sure this spring break will be much of a break, but I am happy to at least sleep in for once! Here's to hoping our orange blossoms pop soon too, a week of sleeping in and the world smelling like heaven isn't half bad!
I'm planning my in-laws 50th Wedding Anniversary Celebration. I'm so excited and happy for them! Hope you enjoy yours! :)
Sounds like you guys have a lot of FUN planned!
We're not in the spring break years yet! Our "spring break" is going to be Dr appointments and surgery consults :( I think we'll try and squeeze in a fun trip to the aquarium, our little girl just loves to watch fish!!
I love your work!! Have a fun vaca!
I tweeted it :)
I'm going to Disneyland and the beach! Hooray! :) I'm most excited to just hang out with my kids and read some books and sculpt some playdoh.
Planning on, painting my little sister's room (from lime green to a wedgewood blue - transforming from a early pre-teen room to a classy teen room) and going for my first spa day!
I'm going to try to finish my first attempt at hand-quilting a quilt. Also, thinking of tackling an awesome-looking brownie recipe from the new Cook's Illustrated. Not expecting to be the hand-picked winner here... Thanks for the giveaway.
We are going to build sand castles on the beach with the boys. First Spring Break we've had to go as a family so we are taking them to the aquarium, soak up time on the coast and just be together as a family away from computers & our jobs!
We will be having 2 birthday parties over Spring Break...one for my oldest who will be 10 and my youngest(right now) who will be five. We are also going to have a 3D/4D sonogram of our 4th baby. Can't wait for all of us to "see" our newest family member!
I don't get a spring break, but I'm spending this weekend "creating" with a bunch of spectacular ladies - at a scrapbooking retreat!
Well I'm going to try like crazy to get our house finished so we can move in before the end of march, get family pictures taken, go to a Jason Alden concert, get my taxes done, all while spending some time with the family that keeps me sane...
I wish my Spring Break fun plans were more creative, but this working mommy is going to confine herself to the house to focus on potty training Baby Girl.
We took our Spring Break early. We went to Disneyland, Wild Animal Park, San Diego Zoo and Legoland last month. So we are going to have a stay-cation and go snowboarding at our local resort that we have season passes to. :) Lots of movies and snuggling too.
We are helping friends with a huge garage sale to raise money so they can go on a mission trip this summer.
sleep in. :o)
Ohhhh, my beloved spring break! Seeing as I'm a teacher, I love it for two reasons....time away from kids (my students) and time with kids (my own)! We're going to be spending a night in a local hotel to swim and hang out and going to grandparents for a couple of days. I'm trying to think of a "theme" for the other days to make them a little more interesting for my three active munchkins!!!
My baby isn't in school yet, so it's always spring break at our house! We do have plans to go to the zoo next week, though!
This might not sound like a lot of fun to a lot of people, but me and my son are going to work on his science fair project.
The reasons that I think it is going to be fun:
we will be together
Playing in the dirt
learning cool things
we will be together
Thanks for the opprotunity and have fun!
We're not really on spring break (monkey is only in preschool), but we're going to celebrate spring by attempting to tap our tree and make syrup. I'm not sure if it's a sugar maple, but we'll still have fun!!
I'm taking my daughter for allergy testing-not so fun, but necessary and with a full-time job may be my only chance without me missing work and her missing school. Then for the fun we are going to The Great Wolfe Lodge in Mason, Ohio. It's a huge indoor waterpark with kids themed rooms. We'll stay in the kids cabin room where the kiddos get their own cabin inside the room with bunk beds and a TV while we get a fireplace and balcony-not to shabby for a quick getaway. You get 2 days at the waterpark with only one night of staying.
everyone please feel sorry for me while i'm a tax widow (we own a tax practice and my hubby is MIA right now...), so there's no spring vaca here! but cousins/in-laws are flying in from out-of-state next week, so we are VERY excited about that!! it will be some fun family time!
My hubby is job hunting over spring break (since he's nearing graduation... finally) while I get to find projects for the kiddos. I can't wait to get my neclace I ordered a couple weeks ago- love your work!
We aren't on Spring break yet, I;m in California so we still have a few more weeks until the kiddo is out of school. I thought about going on a cruise if we got our tax return back in time. Much needed time with the family here too!
www.threeboogers.blogspot.com
Well, seeing as I just got back from the ER with my 7 year old, I'm hoping for a fun, peaceful, uneventful week! One staple in the head is enough for this week. The basketball goal blew over and caught her right on the head. Now on to the fun. Zoo, Botanic Gardens and a picnic at the lake while my oldest daughter plays in a national high school basketball tournament two states away. In between all that, dh and I are gutting our bathroom to the rafters, retiling and totally remodeling. I might need a vacation after all that! ha ha
To celebrate spring break and this gorgeous AZ weather we are experiencing, I'm heading out to the desert to my grandpa's ranch with my family for a dutch oven breakfast and some good ole' shot gun shooting. Gotta give the boys a run for their money during target practice! :) Ahhh, my favorite people and my favorite meal...It just doesn't get any better than that!
Tweeting @itsmelaniew
Well, this week was the real spring break, but we homeschool, so we're taking ours in April, after my DH gets back from Afghanistan. Woohoo for Disneyworld!
That was fun reading some of the plans everyone has! I vote for Lori who said her husband just returned from a year long tour in Iraq! I think she deserves someting special. =)
My plans are to spend some quality time with my precious boys.
Enjoy your time away!
I'm working most of it, truthfully! I think the most exciting thing we'll do is to go and visit my Grandmother's since it has been a while (since Christmas when I saw them last!)
I'll be going to a movie and having 2 date nights! That's about exciting as it gets. Oh - and hopefully winning one of your prizes. I've wanted one of your necklaces for SO long!
Our Spring Break is in twoo weeks!
Can't really travel because of $$ and my hubby's work so we have special days. Cooking day with the kids, then Zoo day, Kid's Museum day, planting our garden day, or just being lazy day and staying in our pj's all day and watching movies!
We are going to stay at the Tundra lodge to take our son swimming in their indoor water park.
veniceangel@hotmail.com
watch movies, eat lunch with daddy, and stay in our pjs as long as we want!
My 3-year-old daughter and I have been working on an exciting craft that will culminate the week of spring break. First we took several sheets of white paper and sewed them together down the middle to make her own "book." Then went to the paint store and collected free color chip sample cards in a variety of colors. We brought them home and glued each color onto a different page of her book. During spring break, we're going to take walks every day to collect things from nature that match her paint samples, like flowers, leaves and grass, etc, and we will glue these onto the correct color pages. When it's finished, she will have made her own nature/color book from scratch.
I'm spending spring break prepping for my son's 8th birthday party next weekend. The King & his Knights of the Rectangular Table will be designing shields and building catapults. They'll rescue a princess & go on a quest to find a dragon's nest. They'll break open geodes to see whether they've discovered "real" dragon's eggs. Then we'll use their catapults to storm the castle (fire marshmallows at the cake). Lots to do to & a cake to plan. Don't know who's more excited, me or him!
Hmmm, we already had our spring break. Not much excitement, but we did take in a Finnigan's at an Irish Pub along with some fish and chips right before a fan-tabulous John Mayer concert!
WOW! luck you! spring break is not here yet for us. But when it does come (end of March) we will probably stay local. My birthday lands on Easter this year so we will hit up the local Easter Egg Hunt and BBQ steaks for dinner. We are saving money for Disneyland at the end of May. We got 4 FREE vouchers for "Give A Day, Get A Disney Day" and we will upgrade those to a 2-Day park hopper:-)
Have Fun on your vacation!
nicolepipkin@gmail.com
I'll be spending spring break awaiting news that my bff's first baby has arrived. This would be the perfect way to gift her with a lovely vintage pearl necklace to commemorate becoming a mom.
My husband and I are having a grown up day in NYC by ourselves, eating out, seeing a play, just walking around, making time for each other without the dear children!
My kids don't have spring break this week but I am spending the weekend watching my oldest 2 (8yo and 6 yo) compete in their first Tae Kwon Do tournament.
Watch movies!
We are going to spend the week celebrating our "Gotcha" day (adoption day) of our 2 beautiful children from Guatemala. My husband and I have both taken a few days off so that we can have a family day and both spend some individual time with our 2 amazing kiddos. What a blessed mommy I am.
We are going to spend our week celebrating our "gotcha day" (adoption day) of our 2 beautiful children from Guatemala. My husband and I both took a few days off so that we could spend a family day together and both spend some time individually with our amazing kiddos. What I blessed mommy I am!
Well my ex-husband is taking our boys on a cruise. We switch of every year who has them for spring break. The boys are the ones that have it made...between him and I, they go on a cruise EVERY spring break. We NEVER went anywhere for spring break when i was growing up. Did they even have spring break then????? We never went anywhere for summer vacation...and that I know we had. oh well, they'll be cruising...I'll be working. But don't forget to ask me again next year ;)
where did the little "K" and "A" hearts come from in the post picture? I don't see those in the store. How do I get those? I love them!
I love it when the kids are out of school! We can sleep in late, make a big yummy breakfast, and wear our jammies until noon if we want! We will play games, do crafts, read books, and try not to watch so much tv or video games!
Ahhh, Spring Break for us starts next Friday. So far my plans include a trip to OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science & Industry), a visit to gDiapers HQ, lots of cookie making/eating, and a trip to the beach for whale watching.
We don't have spring break until April but we will be going down to the beach for my cousin's wedding. Then back home to DC where we will hit up all of the museums and go to the zoo.
We aren't going anywhere for spring break because we are headed to my husband's hometown in England in early summer to show our 2 little boys where he grew up. We haven't been back to England in over 5 years and can't wait to show our 3 and 7 year old boys Big Ben, double-decker red buses, fish and chips, Platform 9 3/4 and everything else British :) xx.
I'm going to appreciate each blade of grass that I can finally see now that the snow has melted. :)
Oh, have fun!
My kids aren't in school yet, so Spring Break isn't that big of a deal.
But SPRING is! And to celebrate, we're taking walks and playing at the park and eating picnics on the driveway and planting a garden. Ah, the warmer weather is just fantastic!
Well, I'm a first grade teacher and my spring break isn't for a few weeks. However, my husband (also a teacher) has spring break a week after mine! Our breaks never seem to overlap! So it looks like we can't take a trip together so I am planning some much needed time doing things for me. Sometimes it's hard finding time for me. I also feel like I'm taking care of others all the time (which I do really love doing) But I would love to find time to do the things I love like scrapbook, actually print and hang our wedding pictures, sew a new table runner, or make a new quilt. Hopefully some of things can happen! Oh and I hope you have a fabulous time on your trip!
The hubby and I are going to pack an overnight bag and drive until we find somewhere we want to stay. Maybe Washington DC. Maybe the beach. Maybe the mountains. I like the unknown :)
we're celebrating our miracle baby's 5th birthday - she was a pound and a half at 29-weeks and the Lord saved her life big time! we're celebrating madelyn and all God has done in her life at a curious george party!
Oh, I always LOVE your giveaways. Recently moved to S. Korea, and I plan on venturing off the base, with my camera, and going on lots of "walk-abouts" and just going to "snap" away! Exploring is so much fun in a new place! Enjoy Shamu!
We're not spring-breakers, either, since my kids aren't old enough for school yet. However, I love your jewelry and would LOVE to get a necklace to keep my two kiddos next to my heart!
my spring break ends today! how sad is that!?! while the rest of the world is just beginning theirs!
but we're throwing a crazy cool basement dance party tonight! with lights and sound systems from the college! there is crazy wide open space to dance, and the backyard has three trampolines for jumping! it's going to be AMAZING.
:)
thats a good way to sign off the break, eh?
Our family is heading to Tulsa, Oklahoma for the International Soul Winning Workshop! Lots of singing, listening to people talk, meeting up with old (and new friends) and just havin a pretty awesome time!
(I tweeted {Sologirl2 is my username} and posted about it! http://morganofmiddle.blogspot.com/2010/03/vp-giveaway.html )
I tried to post earlier but I don't think it went through. We are taking our 1 year old to the zoo for the first time and then taking a girls weekend.
My hubby has taken our Spring break week off, so we plan on taking the kids on a family vacation - our first in 3 years. We are well overdue for it! Probably up the coast of Maine somewhere. The kids one request? It must have a pool. Hmmm yeah - swimming in Maine in April? Riiiiight....unless we can find a place with an indoor pool it's not happening lol!!
I wanted to say I am new to your site this week and I love your jewelry. It original, unique, and beautiful. It reminds me a little bit of Robert Redfords jewlery, Sundance..
This spring break I am hoping to get my husband and daughter away up north to my father in laws cabin for some much needed time away. My husband works over 40 hours a week, has a tax business on the side so as you know he is busy this time of year, and he is getting his MBA. I am so proud of him. I don't know how he does it :). I know he is doing it for us and I am grateful for him and feel very blessed. He bought a boat last year and hasn't had a chance to enjoy it so this spring, I am hoping he gets a much deserved break.
I'd love to enter! I don't have anything creative planned for spring break, so the only way I'll win is to be picked randomly! :)
I have one biological son and two adopted daughters (one with developmental needs and one with both physical and developmental needs), and my 3 y/o starts her first week of school next week (she's in the post Early Intervention program, so it's a special Childhood Ed thing), and then she's already off for spring break! We're going to take all three kids to the zoo--our youngest is completely visually impaired but just "found" her sense of touch and is LOVING it. I don't know who's more excited--my husband and I or the kids. :-)
Thanks for the chance to win,
Courtney
gumdrops.and.saturdays@gmail.com
I'm starting to take dance classes!
stacy marie 82 at gmail dot com
We are escaping the hotter weather to enjoy some snow! Going from southern Utah to Brian Head ski resort in Utah! How about that for a strange way to spend spring break! I hope you all have fun whatever you do!
I wish we had spring break, but of course that would mean I had school aged kiddos and I don't want my little ones to grow up that fast yet. ;) We might go with my sister's family to their cabin when they have spring break though! :)
I am making a drastic change & throwing caution into the wind.
I am hoping for good weather and maybe take in the zoo, plenty of running around and hopefully just able to be outside after a long winter! No trips or anything just fun with the kids!!
I don't really get a "spring break" per se with a 15 month old at home, but I am going to be spending this week knitting up a storm in preparation to sell my wares online. I'm taking a deep breath and jumping in! Any advice??
Spring break fun....cooking with my daughters, burn pile with the family, celebrating my dads 85th birthday, having meals out in the Texas sunshine!
My sister is coming from another state, and we're going to help our mom with her kitchen remodel--new flooring, tile bewteen the countertop and cabinets, and of course painting. I can't wait to see how the finished product looks!
Thanks for the generous giveaway. Enjoy your spring break!
I will be working on my newest story ("Fire"). I will probably also be babysitting...
You can look at my blog and find a post about this giveaway there!
I'm getting married! Oh, wait, that's not for spring break, just May :). For spring break i'm zoom-zooming home to VA from NC to SURPRISE! my Mama and Daddy who think I can't come home again until May because of work and school. I took off... *shhhh* don't tell. :)
I tweeted!
http://twitter.com/sharonjo2/status/10402412991
I am hoping to win the Coolest Mom Ever award by painting a rocket ship, moon, stars and magnetic chalkboard in my 3 year old's room! Then we're taking off for New York and Myrtle Beach for some much needed R&R with great friends!
Well my girls are grown and I don't really get a spring break anymore since they are out of school. But....I do have a beautiful grandson Gabriel that I intend to spend as much time outdoors with him this spring as I can! He is 19 months and he is just loving exploring this new world of playing outside! So...I will be spending it with him and I would love to win so I could get a necklace representing him! I love your jewelry and am looking forward to the next 'special occasion' to purchase something special for one of my daughters!
Lisa
our spring break in the first week of april...woo-hoo!!!
we'll be headed to florida. the big boys are then going to north carolina with the grandparents and me and the little ones are going to see shamu too!!!
i'm so excited!!!
hmhm.. this spring break, i will (hopefully!) be moving to a new home!
hangin out with my girls...
*18 year old home from her first year of college
*pregnant daughter
*1 year old grandaughter....
does it get any better than that?
:)
Last weekend was my husband's and my spring break. We went to St. George Island with 3 other couples. All empty nesters. We partied long and hard-eatting, drinking, fishing, shopping and walking on the beach. We had beautiful weather but more important is the bond of our friendships-going on 25 years. Love these friends like family.
booharts@comcast.net
we are going to rip apart wood palates, stain them and put them on a wall in our youngests room! how much fun is that!!
I will spend spring break scouring the house to get it ready to sell because we have a new house being built right now!
well if i had spring break i would go on vacation!!! i miss spring break so much!
My husband and I don't get to enjoy spring break this year :( So instead I will be spending the time cooking up all sorts of goodies and yummy dinners. Then I will be making sure that he has the time to enjoy with our two month old son Alexander. So much for spring break.
As a busy wife, mom of 4, and full time teacher of grades 4-6, I am sooo looking forward to spring break, which happens to be in just under 4 weeks! woohoo! Anyways, I'm looking forward to the "not so busy" time, resting, relaxing and spending time with my family. I'm sure I will find some time to fit in some much needed spring cleaning as well!
Thanks for the opportunity! Cute stuff!
We're going to teach my 5 year old daughter to ride a bike! Woohoo!!
Pick me! Pick me! Haha, ok so I don't really have anything creative for spring break since we don't have one (no school age kids yet) but I've been dying for one of your necklaces and my birthday is too far away :) Love your stuff Erin!
I am COUNTING the days until Spring Break! No alarm clock to wake up to...no HOMEWORK! I have nothing planned but relaxing with my 3 kids, while I still have 3! #4 will be here soon! :) We'll probably go for walks to the park, draw, go out to lunch, and to the lake where the kids love to feed the ducks! I live in a small town...there's not much to do here, but we will enjoy the break from our normal "scheduled" routine nontheless! (is that supposed to be one word or 3?)
.....PS.....my blog is private....but I have mentioned Vint.P. on there! :)
Spring Break for the kids means spring break for mom. Out to eat for dinners, lounge around the house and watch movies at 11:00 in the morning.
I am going to see Alice in Wonderland with my brothers and sister. And we're gonna goof off in the back row and see who can take the best picture of us with our phones. And then when the movie starts we'll behave...maybe. And then when the movie is over, I'll act like a grown up again and take care of my sweet babies. :o)
I am going snowskiing for probably the last time this winter with my Skibuds to kiss Winter goodbye. It has been a glorious one and then I will be able to celebrate Spring and the Resurrection!!!!
I am getting the bumper on my van fixed! I have been waiting for "warm" weather so I can get it done right!! YAY!
our spring break is about 3 weeks away...and we are going to Jamaica...kid free!
Relaxing with the kiddos, sleeping in, and baking a ton!
This is the first week in years that we won't really have a Spring Break, my hubby used to be a teacher but has moved on to a different fantastic job. I hope to spend the week with my little boys-playing, cuddling and seeing friends after 2 straight weeks of colds, pink eye, ear infections and laryngitis! It's time to have some fun!
Hubby and I are getting away for a little R&R before our twins arrive...and our 2 year old is staying with my parents :)
My Dad will be visiting from NY!
(I'm in NC.)
No actual spring break for me or my husband. We do have some fabulous plans though. We'll be hopefully finishing up painting our place and since we don't have kids yet and the timing is just about right, we'll be trying for the 16th cycle to get knocked up! Lol. Sorry! TMI, right? Gotta love infertility. Hee hee. ;)
Well, we dont' have Spring Break here until the end of April. I know, weird. So, not sure what we'll be doing then. BUT. We are baptizing our baby girl this weekend and that makes me all kinds of Happy! :D Thanks for the chance!
my tweet: http://twitter.com/elainea/statuses/10405661753
Well, I don't have much of a Spring Break, but I AM getting engagement pictures done this week! (Which I think is very exciting!) And we have a lot of family birthdays to celebrate! (Mine included!)
No spring break for me either...I will be working, although I may take one day off to hang out with the kiddos (they are all older, so they will probably be sleeping late every day anyway :) I WILL be taking photos everyday anyway though!
The whole fam (Ok, so that's 3 of us) is flying to Oregon (we're in MN) to spend a week at a beach cabin.
My 8 month old son will be getting some quality time in with his grandparents and the Pacific Ocean.
I unfortunately will not be doing anything for spring break. My baby is only 8 months old so it will be normal grandpa daycare for him & work for me! I did pick up an extra shift so my coworker can enjoy spring break with her highschool daughter. Here's hoping I win the random selection! I hope y'all have/had a great time at seaworld!
For spring break, I'd really like to catch up on sleep! I'd also like to get together a bunch of my friends and have an art & photograph party. We all can be creative and draw & paint & take pictures and have a whole lot of fun! :D
~Melody
Our break isn't until after Easter this year and when it comes we will be hitting the beach baby!
I am flying across the country to visit my sister in law! We are going to shop, and let our babies play! :)
I am going to celebrate my birthday during my kiddos' spring break! We will be staying at home, but we'll have lots of fun outside as our weather is supposed to be absolutely perfect!!!
mcleskeys@yahoo.com
I am going to celebrate my birthday during my kiddos' spring break! We will be staying at home, but we'll have lots of fun outside as our weather is supposed to be absolutely perfect!!!
mcleskeys@yahoo.com
Wish I could say I was going to do something spectacularly fun, but I will just be working...
I wouldn't say we exactly get a legit spring break! I homeschool my 3 kiddos and our program runs 4 weeks over the public school system calendar so we have lots of extra to squeeze in, but we do manage to skip a day here and there. For fun lately we've been practicing photography with my new strobe lighting. So far my kids have been willing and have been spilling lots of smiles. Enjoy your spring break & thanks for hosting yet another fun giveaway!
No fun for me. I work for a CPA firm and it is TAX SEASON during Spring Break :(
This is our first time in years that we aren't going to Florida for spring break. I don't think it has sunk in yet for my three kiddies. To keep everyone happy, an activity will have to be planned for each day which will consist of a little bowling, a movie, lunch dates at our favorite restaurants, etc.
I'm dreaming of beaches, sand and warm weather.
Have fun on your Spring Break.
I don't get a sb, I plan on taking long walks in the park and just enjoying life with my toddler. Might see Shamu on Sunday after church.
I am going to brazenly pass diaper duty to husband since he will also be home for Spring Break! (One of the perks of having a professor for a hubby.)
We headed to The Free Babysitter's for the weekend. AKA Grandma. I'm going to sit on my butt, watch TV, read blogs, and let my mom "enjoy" my perfectly angelic children....
I'm beading during my spring break! Hooray for being a teacher and getting spring break as an adult!
We learn at home so our spring break will be traveling with my husband for work in Wyoming and Utah. Since we get to choose when our break happens this year it will be the middle of April. We hope to stop by Yellowstone, should be fun.
We are going to sit around the house and be lazy. We are going to build all the forts two kids can handle and set up our tent right in the living room (thats what you do when your parents are hotel people and not camping people). We are going to laugh, eat popscicles, play golf, sleep in, and just have FUN.
I am spending the time with my wonderful 3 month old little girl. She amazes me everyday with the new things she is doing and I do not want to miss anything!
SO excited for Spring Break! My hubby & I are heading west to Utah to enjoy a mini family reunion. It may not sound fun BUT I LOVE my hubby's fam! We will have a blast playing games, giggling with our nieces & nephews, sight seeing & sleeping in. Hope yall have a fantabulous Spring BREAK! :)
Having a baby...hopefully! Love your shop.
I am traveling to MN to meet my newest nephew Kyler! He is about 2 months old and has been keeping my sister pretty worried with his many health complications. I can't wait to hug my sister and hold her sweet baby boy!
Since my babies are only 3 and 1 we don't technically have a spring break BUT the weather is warming up and we plan to spend A LOT of time outside! We are fortunate enough to live in a city with a wonderful zoo so we'll be there often, too. I think they have some energy to burn, I am looking forward to spring!!! I hope you all enjoy your week together!!!
Spring Break plans....the ancient sites of Portugal with the fam!
(I'm super excited!)
We're going to Legoland! Honestly I'm a little nervous, but the kids sure are excited:)
I have an amazing staycation planned with my three kiddos. We are going to make super hero capes this weekend, then every day we are going to put them on and pretend that we are flying to far away places. We are going to keep a journal about all of our pretend missions, then at the end of the week we will send our journal, some pictures, and a super hero cape to our six year old daughter who is waiting for us in China.
I've planned a week of fun for several of our close friends:
Day 1: moms and kids to garden center for lesson on growing vegetables
Day 2: moms and kids to my house to make bird feeders, a picnic, and making homemade ice cream in coffee cans
Day 3: moms hired 3 babysitters to take kids to indoor pool for pool games and crafts with a swimming instructor/fine arts teacher (2 hours) while moms get manicures/pedicures
Day 4: Cook-out in evening (weather permiting) with moms, dads, kids
Day 5: Dads took off work to golf while moms take kids to indoor waterpark
We have a busy week planned!
I am going to be hanging out with my family because they are off! I will be going to second hand shops with my mom to find some clothes. Also, my mom, sister and brother are in a play, "Gypsy" and I will be seeing they're awesome acting. So I am excited! I am also going to be learning to crochet!
Looking forward to spring, my trees are showing signs. But no spring break trips for us
I plan to spend as much time exploring, snuggling, reading, laughing, dancing, cooking, playing, and just enjoying my niece.
I am going to update my bucket list and re-evaluate what I have on there and what I want to add/remove...let the daydreaming and planning begin!
Unfortunately my husband works. We LOVE spring break though because that means more time with the hubby/daddy. My middle turkey turns 3 this week so we will be celebrating with a monster truck cake. He is very excited which makes me VERY excited!
I plan to make my daughter a handful of cute new dresses, and jammie bottoms for my two boys. And if I get really carried away, I would LOVE to make slip covers for my dining chairs. (My mom has offered to take my 3 young children for a couple of spring break days. Lots of park time when they return.) I ADORE your beautiful jewelry! Enjoy Shamu!
Paula in Phx
No school on Spring Break so I won't have to teach, but I will have rehearsal for the play I am directing! It's a lot of fun though.
Keeping my fingers crossed the magic random picker chooses me!!
Tweeted it! @slkooiman
Had a great time at Spring Training....got some sun, autographs, and spent time with my hubby!!
We're going to realize our dream of combining our family and moving to the country over spring break! We're going to be tired, but it's going to be awesome!!
Just back from spending 2 nights with the family in Vancouver BC! Great time :)
I'll be hanging out with my three kids. Having sleepovers, playing games, watching movies, just relaxing!!
Headed to Minneapolis for a few days of family fun, then catching up on some sleep!
Our spring break isn't until next month, but I'm hoping to paint the bathroom!
We are having a completely clean-the-house free, park playing, library visiting, playdough molding, paint slinging, bubble blowing good time. We might even go camping in the backyard if the weather permits. Roasted marshmallows and all!
For our "spring break" we are going to have our first baby due in May. :) That, I think, will take up all the time of our 'spring break' and summer break and fall break.......
No big spring break trip for me this year, but one of my favorite recent spring breaks was spent on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera. Decadent. Wonderful. Relaxing. Why did I come home again?
I also tweeted about your giveaway @kateinparadise
Thanks!!
Hmm, first of all just thinking of SPRING makes me all giddy and excited!!! The last bits of our snow is melting this weekend and I cannot wait to SEE some signs of spring! As for our break, the BEST thing is NO SCHOOL for my cherubs...we'll be at home but I'm hoping to squeeze in lots of snuggling & reading, trail walks with puppy, enjoying some SUNSHINE, playtime with family and friends, and maybe just a bit of organizing around the house!! Here's to a FAB Spring break...I hope y'all enjoy yours!! :)
I'm not on spring break yet so I will be working on homework this week as usual! But when spring break rolls around, then I am ready to play tennis and read all day long!!
I'm writing past stories and the one of spring break I remember is my daughter giving a bath to our dalmatian Daisy with Red food coloring so when I got home I had a pink and black pokadot dog. I'm just sorry I do not have any pictures of it.
Would love to get that giveaway and get " i'd pick you" for this daughter of mine who is now 24.
Blessings Dominique
I have 3 boys. When we have Spring Break at our house we will have Adventure Days. Each day will have its own theme. For example -
Dinosaur Day: watch Dinosaur Train, go to the Rock & Science Museum to see fossils, march around like dinosaurs to the "we are the dinosaurs" song, make and eat "dinosaur food" (no-bake cookies with the ingredients labeled as dirt=cocoa, crushed bones=sugar, etc)
Reading Day: have a read-a-thon, complete with a visit to the library, yummy treats, and pillows (and most definitely a pillow fight!).
I figure that if we're too tight on money to travel somewhere exotic, we will still be able to make Spring Break fun and full of memories as a family!
I also blogged about this giveaway at http://enjoytheride4.blogspot.com/2010/03/oooolala.html
Tweeted!
http://twitter.com/kristenmason/status/10411574353
Amazing giveaway. Thanks for the chance to win.
For spring break, I will single handedly be driving my kiddos to my parents' house! Can you think of anything better than 8 1/2 hours in a car ride with two toddlers? Me neither, well, except the 8 1/2 hour drive home a few days later . . . wish me luck:)
I hope I'm chosen as the random winner cuz I'm sure as heck not going to be chosen for most creative....we aren't doing anything - I'm too uncomfortably preggo. Hopefully we won't all lose our minds stuck together at home! ;)
susan
ozthecat at gmail dot com
In Italy we don't have spring breaks, sigh and sob! :-(
In the next days I'll stay at home studying for my university exams... Isn't that REALLY FUN???
alida_87@hotmail.it
Hopefully we'll be welcoming baby #3 via a home birth!!!
But if not, we'll be at home nonetheless, enjoying the company of kids #1 and #2 and planning our upcoming assault on our overgrown garden in preparation for the quickly approaching spring :-).
My girls are young yet for spring break, but they are looking forward to getting outside more now that its warming up!
I met my boyfriend in Hawaii for a week! (He's stationed overseas. We only get to see each other every 2-4 months.)
I've got a crop today so i'm going to scrapbook! Have a lovely time together
It's not spring break here (UK) for another couple of weeks, but we've got fun planned! We're taking our little boy to a children's interactive Science Museum called Eureka! and Going to visit his faraway grandparents.
tweeted too! @caitieru
No spring break here, but I will be spending lots of time in my craft room! Your jewelry designs are absolutely fantastic!
I'm an expat American living in England, this spring break we are flying to San Fracisco (where I grew up) to visit some close friends, take our 6 year old to the Jelly Belly Factory (he is obsessed by the show How It's Made/Works on Discovery) .. after bumbling around all my old haunts (where I will probably blubber here and there while twitching from coffee overload) we will be flying to my parents in Northern Idaho for two weeks of pampering and coffee and getting all giddy at walking around Target, Safeway and the Mall... its not very exciting but we havent been to the US since last spring and its been a very very long year. I think I may be babbling now. thank you and good luck!
we're off to a 1st birthday party, lots of cake and games hope you have a good weekend
Our spring break isn't for another couple of weeks...we don't have any big plans, just spending quality time together!
Have a great week, and thank you for the opportunity to win one of your beautiful creations!
no one is allowed to say the A(utumn) word down here... we're still soaking up the sun and pretending the air isn't getting crisper... X
With a one year old our whole lives are one big beautiful spring break! But for all thoes of you with official spring breaks. . . We are going to spend the sunny days in the park watching the ducks swim in the pond with the koi fish, play in the sand and climb through the big green tunnel, lay on the grass and watch the clouds and planes fly by. On the rainy days we will stay in our PJ's, play with animals, build with plastic containers we save from yogurt and cottage cheese, eat yummy homemade chocolate pudding, and laugh.
We moved to the D.C. area recently so we will be going to the Cherry Blossom Festival. I am obsessed!
http://onelittlewordsheknew.blogspot.com/2010/03/vintage-pearl.html blogged about it!
I'm going to teach English to middle-school children from rural Thailand.
Our daughter is flying home for spring break, at the same time as our high school son's spring break. We are going to Sanibel Island to lie on the beach, and to Disney world. Can hardly wait!!!
I tweeted @treadingwater
I have three preschoolers so we don't really have Spring Break, but I am looking forward to spring! I plan to take the kids outside whenever the weather permits and soak up the sunshine! They are already excited because they were able to pull out their shorts and flip flops two days! We wake up hearing the birds chirping and with the sunshine streaming in- it's a great way to start the day! We are also making a trip to see the grandparents for the weekend. It's a great way to celebrate!
Each year on Spring Break, our family and extended family on both my side and my dh's side go out for dinner together. There can be pretty near to 20 of us! This year we are going to celebrate my youngest's 2nd birthday. Sniff, sniff. Good thing we're expecting again! :)
Our Spring break is not for another two weeks and we have decided that we will hope in the car, drive south and see where the road takes us! We will have to make up some sort of plan because when you cross into the US, the border patrols don't like it when you have no idea where you are going!!
Have a great break!!
We're going to be hanging around the house..... nursing a sick girl back to health.... and playing soccer, biking around the neighborhood, playing in the park, and the pool at the Y!
We intend to do some day-tripping! One day to visit some friends who tap trees and make maple syrup. One day to a farmers market then to the outlet mall to play at the Lego store! Plus games, making cookies, going to the park and planning a birthday party! Thanks for a chance to enter!
annaed_2 at yahoo dot com
My parents will be visiting from Canada during our Spring break so we will probably do some daytrips around the Atlanta area with the girls. My family is heading to Tybee and St. Simon's later on for a much anticipated extended beach vacation. Can't wait. I hope your spring break is ultra fabulous! Thanks for the giveaway.
Help! :) Trying to leave a message for Erin or Cathe concerning my "win" over a week ago. I've been sick & just found out! DUH! Can't seem to make a connection, soooo, I thought that I'd go this route. Sorry all, for this!
Color Me Embarrassed!
Patti
beacuae of all the snow we have had, the school district took away our spring break...sigh...but I am planning on some fun and simple after school activites.
I'm spending time with my husband (who is away alot) and daughter, just family stuff.
We as a family are going to get back to the basics. Donating our time to our local homeless shelter as a family is a great experience for the kids to learn to give back.
Spring break.. well I am 7 months pregnant and due the beginning of June so hubby surprised me and is taking me to the Outer Banks for one last get-away before baby comes! So sweet of him! Oh and our 4 yr old is staying with Grandmom!
Yahoo!! Even better!!
I don't know what we're doing! I'm trying to think of fun things. Baking cookies? Crafts? Movies? Snuggles? Chick fil A? :) If it's warm enough, the zoo (Iowa here!!!)
I'm also sure we will have a jammie day or two where we don't get out of our jammies all day!
We don't have an official spring break - but we are having family visit soon and we are excited about that!
I am just going to spend as much time with my kids as I can, since I will have a few days off from work :)
My husband has taken a team of young people on a missions trip so I am holding down the fort! The kids and will do things like: Make costumes, find animals to pester, make up stories, and do dishes...A gift certificate here would go a long way to make the weeks go quicker! ;-)
melissafed@shaw.ca
I'm having a baby!!
Let's see.....I work for most of the week but Grandma has planned some fun things for the kids. Then we'll all go the local Garden Show and my kids get to pick out their own plant to take care of. I have plans to take them bowling and fishing towards the end of the week too! Fun stuff, right?
I would sure love to win and get Grandma a necklace with the grand-kiddos names. She would love this and she deserves it!!
I hope everyone has a blessed spring break week.
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground! - anonymous
My best buddy from college is coming to stay with me for the last weekend of spring break!!!! We've been friends for over 20 years!!
I'm flying with three kids (one in a wheelchair, one older girl, and one baby!!!) to see my mom! It's a pain but worth it when I get there :-) We'll be sewing, cutting, snuggling new fabric. We always make matching quilts and it's so fun.
Love your creations!
Christy
christywhetten@yahoo.com
Our spring break isn't until the end of March, but I plan on taking the kiddos to visit my cousin who lives on Nantucket. It won't be quite beach weather, but it will still be fun to spend some time with her and explore the island during the off season.
Been looking forward to this since we went back to school in Jan =) Plan to spend lots of time with my kiddos, snuggling, watching movies, playing games, giving kisses and just enjoying our time together!!!!
Have fun!
My school doesn't give us spring break. So I'll be working nights on my internship. Who needs spring break when you can deliver babies all night? I'm studying to become a midwife and I'm loving every moment of it! Seeing the joy on the faces of the new mums and dads makes me happier than any break can :)
My three year old and I are going to try to catch moles that have overtaken our backyard. He gets out his binnoculars and tries to look in the hole and find them. So I am going to enjoy the simple things like a three year olds imagination.
We just went on an awesome family vacay, so our spring break will be spent (hopefully) enjoying the weather at home in IL and having lots of playdates and local adventures.
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