Day 31: Beans, Bears and Nuts

It was a really busy day. Which, for once, is a good thing. 

Brad took leave today since his folks are still here. He and his dad started working on a couple big projects in the garage this weekend (a bike rack for the kids, and a fence for the backyard to keep our stupid dog from jumping over the completely worthless three foot tall fence we currently have. So this morning, he had the boys help sand some of the wood. I stayed out to watch for a while but then they started talking about angles and math and I'm like "I'm outta here." and did an about face back into the house. 

Let the men do the math stuff. 

Then this afternoon we took them up to the Jelly Belly factory in Fairfield. We have done this little tour before last month, but his parents hadn't been and we thought it would be a fun (free!!) thing to do. 

Unfortunately unbeknownst to us, half of the factory tour floor was closed due to remodeling, and it won't be fully open again until summer. So we only got to do maybe 1/3rd of the tour. 

See what I did there? That's a fraction. I can do the math stuff too! 

No, I really can't, beyond that. You can keep your maths. 

Brad's folks still had a fun time and luckily the tour is free so we didn't lose out on anything. And of course you get free boxes of jellybeans and who doesn't want to drive an hour for that?

No taking pictures allowed! Only if you catch me. But look at all those BEANS

Post Jelly Belly we drove over to the mall for the grandparents to take the kids to Build a Bear. They've never done it before and got to pick whatever they wanted. The whole Build a Bear process is super cute and the kids loved it. 

Except for the pile of hearts. That's creepy.

Making their bears. That carton full of hearts is creepy.

Once we got home and the kids had eaten 750 jellybeans each and were bouncing off the walls, we put in a new movie that cruised us right into bedtime:

FYI: Peanuts is super funny and cute and even my kids who think that the original Charlie Brown Halloween and Christmas specials are boring loved it. 

I'm tired. I thought spring break was supposed to be a break? 

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