Spring Break with the Sommerfeldts

The University of Illinois had a week long spring break. Although Ryan still had reading, studying, and research to do, we took a little bit of time off to do a few things and let him catch his breath before the last half of the semester. Here are a few things we did with the time off:

Ryan made good use of his chainsaw birthday present, and we cut limbs off our trees in the back and our tree in the front. We're hoping this will cut down on the number of pine needles we get in our grass as well as help our grass grow better (especially in the front yard.)

We originally planned to just work in our house and yard the whole week - and then we decided that was a bad idea and that we needed a little break. So we took a two-day trip down to St. Louis. We had so much fun! We took turns attending the St. Louis LDS temple, visited the zoo (twice!), went to the Science Museum, and walked around the Gateway Arch. Our hotel was a Homewood Suites and it had two rooms (awesome with kids!!!) as well as free breakfast AND free dinner! Their pool was closed for the winter, but they gave us free guest passes to the YMCA a few miles away, and we went and swam in their pool. We had a blast and will definitely visit St. Louis again.

St Louis LDS Temple

Jack thought the blue airplane was SO COOL :)

Will is a budding photographer

We finished up the week by getting Dragon Fire Pizza for the first time, and it was literally the best pizza I have ever eaten. Our neighbors own it, and everyone in Champaign should definitely go try it out!