Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Hello Great Wolf

Last week we made a family vacation out of a required work trip for Hubs. We couldn't pass up the opportunity to spend the week at The Great Wolf Lodge. It was a little piece of heaven on Earth for my kiddos. They LOVE to swim and that's pretty much what we did non-stop for 4 days. There is an entire water park inside the hotel.









Hubs' parents live about 4 hours away from where we were so they came to visit. They even got in on the water park fun! Daddy Bob did one of the big water slides and Grandma Judy braved the wave pool :)

This was C's attempt at taking a picture of us eating dinner by the pool. As we were checking in the first afternoon there was a lady checking out who stopped us and gave us vouchers for 8 free meals that expired the next day! We used 4 at lunch and 4 at dinner and ended up saving close to $60!!

Each night there was Pajama Story Time in the lobby. We were able to catch it one night, then have our picture made with Wiley the Great Wolf mascot.

Saturday night we went out to eat to celebrate Grandma Judy's birthday and a belated Fathers Day for Daddy Bob. I love this pic of the kiddos waiting outside the restaurant.


Sunday morning we met up with the grandparents one last time for breakfast before we hit the road.It was definitely a fun trip. C almost started crying when we had to leave Great Wolf. He wanted me to promise that we would go back some time :)

Now we are home and gearing up for our next road trip in 2 days!!

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Freedom, Friends, and Fireworks

This weekend has been full to the brim with celebrating our freedom, fellowship with good friends, good food, boat rides, and lots of fireworks!

Saturday night our small group from church came to our house for a cookout.









After dinner and lots of fun playing with our friends we drove over to the park (or as close as we could get!) to watch our town fireworks.

Then Monday afternoon we met up with my aunt, uncle, and cousin to ride the boat down the Cumberland River and watch the Nashville fireworks downtown.





















We had lots of fun playing on the water trampoline, listening to Darius Rucker who was playing on the riverfront, and watching the fireworks. Nashville's fireworks were amazing!! I don't think I've ever seen anything that compares, especially the finale!