Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young—a place near your altar, O LORD Almighty, my King and my God. Psalm 84:3
Vinny's school sent home a flier on who stole their mascot Mighty Manatee. We played CSI to help solve the crime.
All this was taking place during the science fair. Vinny's class project was about jellybeans. After solving the 5 clues (fingerprint patterns, measuring footprints, solving a letter puzzle, learning about ph levels and reactions to baking soda and vinager) we thought it was Ms Hoffman the princple. We were right! And Mighty Manatee was found.

To end our Spring Break fun we had the kids first sleep over party! Wow, thanks to Jen and April the boys have had sleepouts never a sleepover, so April volunteered her kids to try it out. Sal, Vinny and Micheal camped out in the boys triple bunkbed while Kelli and Jane watched movies in Kelli's room. Nick wanted no part of the sleepover and stayed in the playroom surrounded by his Elmos. Sal wanted to sleep (something the older boys did not do until 4am) and left the sleepover to sleep in my room. Jane and Kelli chatted away until 11pm when mean old mommy separated them and then there was sleep. The second everyone opened their eyes (8am) they went swimming. Vinny and Micheal have made plans for the next sleepover while Kelli gushed that she has so many friends now. Sal only wants a sleepover at Ty and Jason's new house and has demanded his own room. Nick thinks he will wait for his big sleepover weekend at Jen's house (June).
Thursday for Spring Break we went swimming at our house. Madi and Nick took the pool balls and stuffed them into their shirts. So this is what Madi and Nick will look like when they grow up. Big boobs and a beer gut!

Wednesday during Spring Break we made the fieldtrip down south to th Palm Beach Zoo.
The closes that the kids will get to the streets of NYC
Disney has a new dinner theme Pirates and Princess, well at $40 a person we thought we would skip the dinner and just take the pictures!
5 Annual passes to Disney World--$1800.00
"Breakfast" snack at the Magic Kingdom--$13.50
Lunch at House of Blues --$100.00
"Ice Cream" snack at Hollywood Studios--$15.95
12 Hours at Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios--Priceless Nicholas!!!!!
Off to another Disney adventure! This time Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios on Sunday, March 30. We had a late start because one of our family members was left at the breakfast table back at the hotel. No not one of the kids...but Mr Quackers! About half way to MK Nicholas and I realized Quackers was not in the car. Now as some of you may know this is the second time Quack-Quack has taken off on his own. First time was in Alabama at Target where I was frantically calling for an Amber Alert. Amanda did calmly find Mr Quackers at the women's fitting room since a nice Alabamian turned Quack-Quack in. Sad for us this is not Alabama, this is Orlando and I was sure our vacation was over with the loss of Quackers. We ran back to the hotel lobby where Mr Quackers was posed on the chair eating breakfast. Thankfully we always stay at this hotel and we had a safe return! Since Nicholas was traumatized over this notice Quack-Quack is in every picture! We love taking the boat over to Magic Kingdom rather then the monorail. The kids got to see some ducks out in the water. We went on the Huck Finn/Tom Sawyer riverboat and went exploring for the first time. The kids loved the barrel bridge which Ed made sure was extra bouncy!

We went on almost every ride since there was no lines and still had time to hit another park. We left MK and headed to Downtown Disney to House of Blues for lunch. Since this is Orlando tourist town of the south, we where asked to take a picture at the front door. Hello we have been at Disney for 6hrs we look like what the cat dragged in. Once we finished eating House of Blues offered up our pictures for $20.00! Needless to say the pictures stayed there. After lunch we went to Hollywood Studios where Vinny, Sal and Kelli had to go on Star Wars for the first time which bothered Nick, so next we had to go over to the stunt show where Nick got the last laugh at Vinny, Sal and Kelli for getting all wet on the ride!