Fun at the Great Woolf Lodge

 

Last week my kids had a few days off of school and we spent two of them at the Great Wolf Lodge.  My sister in law Laura told me her family was going there and invited us to join them.  Since our whole family doesn’t like waterslides, I just took the three big girls and left Melissa and Nathan home with Scott. They didn’t feel left out though since they got to go to Toys R Us and get some new toys.

My girls had a great time going on the waterslides with their cousins.  There were four big waterslides that you had to climb the stairs to go down.

This is what the indoor water park looks like from the top of the stairs.

The scariest (but also most fun) waterslide was called the Howling Tornado.  Your four man tube drops into a giant funnel and you go back and forth on the sides until you reach the bottom.  I only went on it once but I went on the other waterslides many times.

The wave pool was also lots of fun.

Here are my three girls with cousin Rachel waiting for the waves to start up again.

Our hotel room was right across the hall from our cousins hotel room (we arranged this) so our kids had lots of fun running back and forth between the rooms.

We all went out to dinner together at the Country Cousin Restaurant in nearby Centralia Washington.  The restaurant was very old fashioned looking and had this cute photo prop outside. We had to wait a long time for a table big enough to seat us all but the food was good (at least the adults thought so).

The kids mostly enjoyed coloring and fooling around with each other. A Grandpa sitting near us was very entertained by one of their flying straw wrappers that hit him and the many times they spilled their drinks.

Today I am thankful that

*Emily did such a good job on her sacrament meeting talk about faith.

*Holly found her missing science presentation documents on her flash drive.  That was a catastrophe averted.

*Holly enjoys playing the piano and has been finding new piano songs on the computer that she can print out and play.

Pom Pom Creatures and Holly's Birthday

Yes, we made these aren’t they cute?  They have foam hearts for feet, puff balls for bodies, and beady eyes.  I glued everything together with a glue gun and I did burn my fingers several times gluing on those eyes. 

On Saturday Megan and Melissa both worked hard to label all of their valentines for school.  They were very serious about it and did a great job.

For a recent family home evening we made love hearts for each other.  We wrote on hearts the things we loved about each other.  After I took down the Christmas cards the cabinets looked so bare that I wanted to put something else fun on them.

This is a close up of one of the hearts for me.  So sweet!  My kids do love me.

Holly recently celebrated her birthday. She got lots of nice presents and those fun balloons are from Grandma Moulton.

Holly wanted homemade cinnamon rolls for her birthday treat and she made them herself, way to go Holly!

For dinner on Holly’s birthday we went to Arby’s per her request.  If would have been perfect if only the Arby’s wasn’t 30 minutes away.  Car rides with all the kids tend to bring out the worst in them.

Today we had class Valentines parties.    Megan got this cute juice box robot from her crafty teacher.  I saw the idea on pinterest.  Nathan also exchanged Valentines at his preschool.  He opened all the candy at once and promptly got sick of it.  You’ll notice three lollipops (3 were already in the trash) and a lick a stick.  He was acting like a pirate while he put frosting on a cupcake.

Today I thankful that

* The two Valentine school parties I helped with are done.  Even though I enjoy helping with them they do add stress to my life.

*Scott and I went out on a pre valentine date (to avoid the Valentines day crowds) Tuesday night.  We ate at the Cheesecake factory which neither of us had ever been to.  We were so stuffed that we didn’t even get a piece of cheesecake.  Then we went to the movie Life on Pi in 3D.  The last movie I went to was a few years ago so this was a real treat.  The best news is Holly and Emily babysat the kids and the house was clean when we returned.

*My little boy Nathan who told me he didn’t like hugs and kisses (for about a year) now likes them again.  I love this little guy!

Sweet girls

 Our house is all decorated for Valentines day and it inspired my little girls to do a Valentine project all on their own.

They were upstairs for two hours being quiet and this was the result.  A few of these signs were posted around the house.

And everyone in the family got a heart Valentine envelope.

Here is a close-up of my heart envelope and it is already filled with some sweet notes and candy.  I sure have sweet girls.

This week I am thankful that:
*my parents live nearby and are willing to tend their grand kids.  Nathan loves his little cousin Oliver.

*Nathan made these T Rex dinosaurs by himself and they were awesome.

*the little girls had a half day and we got to eat lunch with Scott and see his new office.

*Holly is so creative.  She made this cake for a Social Studies project.

*Occasionally all I find all of our kids playing nicely together.  It makes me so happy!