Spring Break

So, two weeks ago was Spring Break for LSU. Mike got a whole week off and O and I thought it was the best thing ever!

We started off our break with General Conference and Easter, which were both fantastic!

Mike's friend Tim invited him to watch the season opener for the Cubs with him, so Sunday afternoon we headed for Mobile, Alabama. Tim's parents invited us to have Easter dinner with them, which was so nice! They thought O was so sweet and fun, which was good since he actually threw up at the dinner table right before dinner started, darn texture issues. We're still working on that, obviously! They were super sweet and patient about it though.

The Cubs lost, so that was a bummer.

We spent the night at Tim's and then toured the USS Alabama the next morning. It was such a neat experience. O eats up everything that has to do with trains, planes, cars, and boats, so he was pretty much in heaven the whole time. I can't believe how huge the ship is! I was so exhausted by the time we got done, and we were only able to do one of the three tour routes! We'll definitely have to go back someday and take some snacks with us. We could spend hours and hours there!

 This is inside one of the artillery rooms. Those yellow cones are the shells that go into the biggest gun. I couldn't believe how huge they are!

 The bow of the ship.

After this we had a delicious sea food lunch with Tim, and then took our time getting home. We stopped at Bass Pro Shop, of course, and saw all the critters there and fed the ducks and turtles. O loves checking out the fish in their big tank and then feeding the ducks. Mike's pretty much just in heaven whenever we step in there. I'm becoming accustomed to the fact that war museums and sporting goods shops will pretty much be our tourist destinations with all this testosterone in the house.

We took a couple days pretty easy after this, although I don't know that Mike would agree with that statement. He was really awesome and helped me vacuum under all the furniture and take care of some other things that I usually do, but need his help with due to my growing belly. O pretty much played outside all week, it was so great!

 This is just a couple hours after we gave him a bath. We had to strip him down and hose him off before he could come in. Who needs bath time anyway?

Our garden is growing, sort of. After we planted it rained for 3 weeks straight and most of our seeds didn't make it. It probably also has to do with the fact that our soil isn't that great and we should have tilled it. We mostly just wanted to see how things would do.

 This is our lettuce. We planted a row in front and a row in back. There's a couple stragglers and that bunch in the back. We did find out that the best place to plant in closer to the house, the ones in the front row really struggled to grow at all.

 We planted six pea plants and ended up with two, one of which has started to die since this picture, poor little guy!

We planted two rows of carrots, too. We have two or three that came up in the front and that sparse row in the back.

We're not too disappointed, and we have a plan for our fall garden, so we'll see how that goes.

Half-way through the week we went to the Swamp Center, which is one of our favorite places! Just as we were about to start up the trail our friend's the Sparks happened to show up and we had so much fun going through the trail and getting eaten by mosquitoes with them!

Here's O playing a little golf. Please excuse the roughly played hymns in the background, it was apparently during my practice time.

Our last tourist outing was to the USS Kidd here in Baton Rouge. It was so interesting and, once again, O really loved it!

 Mike says this is an "action shot." Apparently waddling counts as an action, lol!

 Those chains hold the anchors. They're so huge! On the USS Alabama they were even bigger, O had to climb over them.

 The bow of the ship.

 Mike climbed out to a lookout spot to take these shots of the entire destroyer. O and I are the little people sitting on the steps in the bottom of the picture.

 The Mississippi

What a great week it was!

Here's one last photo and video for you of our silly kid.

Our silly little kitty cat. Just as a side note, this is usually totally unacceptable, but we must be getting lax in our old age, lol!

Now we're just getting ready for this baby to come. Tonight, I was working on getting O and I's journals caught up so I'm ready to add another one to my journal keeping. The crib's up, the baby clothes are out, and my deep cleaning to do list keeps getting shorter, so I think we're getting there!

We can't wait!!