Great Wolf Lodge 2

The slides were definitly the most popular thing at the water park for our family, that is for everyone except Calista.  She was not a fan of us carrying her down a fast slide with water splashing her face the whole time.

She was a fan of the shallow water and walking around and slipping on the wet floor.  She was just getting comfortable walking and thought she was pretty cool for walking on her two little feet.

This lily pad net thing was also pretty popular.  We even had some adult relay races across it that were pretty exciting.

Right before we left we all gathered in the lobby and quickly played the magic wand game.  I forgot what it was called but Ben scored a free one for everyone to share from a cleaning lady.

Overall, it was amazing.  I would love to take the kids again.

Great Wolf Lodge

While at the family reunion we all went to Great Wolf Lodge.  We have never been before but have heard good things and were all really excited to go.

I made the kids take pictures in the lobby while we got all checked in.

Those wolf ears are so cute!

Ok, this is skipping around a bit, but I just wanted to post all of our non swimming pictures here and then tomorrow I'll post the rest.  I love that they had little activities to do besides swimming.  The first night the kids all sat and watched this show where the animals talked and in the end I think most of the kids said it was weird but it did keep them entertained for a bit.

There were a few restaurants there so we just sayed and ate.  The buffet breakfast was delicious.

There was a drawing activity that the kids enjoyed.

When the kids saw the swimming area through this window I think they were floored.  They knew it was a swimming place but didn't really have any idea what it would be like.  I think this blew away all of their expectations.

More Fun at Grandma's House

Calista had no problem at all making herself right at home at grandma's house.  In fact there were plenty of new things for her to check out and play with.  She was quicker than we were used to because of all the walking.  Scooting on your bum is not the fastest mode of transportation, and I did not mind at all her being slow to go places.

We are lucky to now have a hair stylist on both sides of the family.  Jacee spent time giving the girls fancy updos. 

The kids all made picture frames and had a lot of fun decorating them.

One day we went to Aunt Nancy's house for a movie and candy.  Lots and lots of candy!

Here are the girls baking with Anna. 

We were even treated to a music show in the basement.

There was plenty of baby cuteness.  It is always fun to see the different personalities of babies.  All three of them were super different and even liked different toys.

Scarlett was thrilled to pick out some new jewlery.  All the other cousins passed until they saw the treasures Scarlett found.  I had to limit her and Penelope both on  how many things they could bring home.

Because of the way the flights worked out we got to stay a couple days longer which meant time for bowling!

And of course all you can eat ice cream sundaes with the left over candy.  Can you even see the ice cream in there?

Reunion Part 2

There was a lake at the place we camped and the kids loved it.  I usually prefer a pool, which they had, but everyone else was at the lake so we decided to go where the action was.  My brother brought this fun giant island floaty thing.

We finally got Calista to sleep and Bob and I took nice relaxing rides on the air mattresses my parents brought.  Leon pushed me around for a long time and then I got out and took this picture.

My brother told the kids a scary story about a swamp monster who was coming that night and going to steal a boy to be her husband.  They were pretty scared.  Leon even wanted to go home.

The three legged race was awesome.  The best part was Leon and Penelope's attitude.  They were laughing and having a blast even when they fell down and started crawling to make it to the end.

Bob and I were consistently second.  We will have to practice before the next reunion to beat Isaac and Kim.

The potatoe sack race was way to hard for me.  I gave it a couple practice jumps and then quit.  

Calista was an angle the whole time.  Siiiike (or maybe psych), she was up a lot every night and I just got tired of holding her constantly during the days.  Scarlett was busy playing and so she didn't hold her as much as she usually does and we had no where to set her down, not that she would go down anyway.  So bob and I took turns holding her the whole time.

We did a group hike near the camp ground.  It was hot, and had no shade.

One day we dressed up in Hawaiian clothing.

This reunion was perfect timing for us because we got to see everyone right before we move to Japan.