5 Days of Fun!

The kid's Christmas vacation started with a trip to the Great Wolf Lodge with our friends.  This was Nolan's first time and he loved everything about it!  I wasn't sure how Nolan would do at the enormous water park since he hasn't wanted water in his eyes during swimming lessons.  He did amazing and didn't notice the water at all.  I didn't get any pictures in the water park since I was playing too.  Keaton's favorite part was the giant wave pool.  Nolan went down a big water slide (that he was probably too young for) and LOVED it!

The place was all decorated for Christmas.  It was really pretty.  It snowed in the lobby throughout the day!

 

They had a giant (and real) gingerbread house you could eat in.

The kids did yoga!  It was one of the cutest things I have ever seen!  They have tons of different activities to keep them busy.

Nolan fed Colesen a lollipop!

They found gold!

After the Great Wolf Lodge we headed down to Portland to visit Uncle Jason and cousins Crystal and Emerald who were at their grandparent's house.  We planned to stay two nights but had so much fun we stayed a third night.  Grandpa Morgan met us down there which made it even more fun.  The kids always have SO much fun when they get together!  It was so cute to watch Nolan wanting to be just like them.  If they had their coat zipped up, he wanted his zipped up.  If they were eating with a spoon and he had a fork, he wanted a spoon instead.  I'd tell everyone we needed to go to the bathroom before we left and I'd find Nolan in the bathroom with his diaper off trying to go.  He was just old enough to hang with the other kids and thought it was pretty cool!

We made gingerbread houses and Christmas cookies at Grandma and Grandpa's house.

I took the girls for two days so their would be some peace and quiet at the grandparent's house.  I was very proud of myself for taking care of the 4 kids and having everything go smoothly.  Very proud.  And then I remembered a friend I have who has 4 kids and does it everyday. Guess I wasn't as great as I thought I was :).
We went to a really fun indoor swimming place.  It had a giant wave pool with inter tubes and water slides and sprinkler things to play with.  I had 4 kids who can't swim and nothing went wrong!  We went to Target and we only ended up buying a few extra things.  We went to the Portland Children's museum and spent almost 5 hours there!  I asked Keaton and Nolan what their favorite part of the trip was.  Nolan said "his blanket."  Keaton said "that Emerald knew about Plants Vs. Zombies."  I think my favorite part was all the smiles and laughs.  And that every time we were in the car they wanted to play the quiet game.  But instead of peace and quiet they paused the game many times so they could talk.  And they were always getting second, third, fourth chances if they accidentally talked.