Great Wolf Lodge

Sydney, Wolfie, Jason & Howler

Since I suspect that I may have some people checking for pictures, I thought I should get these up. We spent Sunday/Monday at Great Wolf Lodge with the kids & although for the first hour I thought it was going to be a horrendous two days it turned out to be fantastic. The kids were not ready to leave, but Brad & I were exhausted.

The last month or so the kids started taking swimming lessons at the Y & the results are good. (so thankful that I switched from the city rec program). Jason is again warming to the water & enjoying himself, but he still hates splashing & getting his head wet. So when you walk into a water park where there is splashing everywhere & people spraying water at you as you walk around...what do you think Jason does??? Brad of course was off with Sydney having fun on the slides that she could go on while I was stuck with the boy who didn't even want to go near anything. I knew that if I could just find Brad & Sydney & that if she played with him he would get over the fear hump & start having fun. Once that happened it was all good!

We took advantage of most everything: meal plan, activities for kids (except the 8pm story time- figured we would have meltdowns the next day if we tried that, good call), kids got stuffed wolves...it was great! So thank you to my friends at TU for the gift card...I finally used it & I know that we will go back again.

I think one of their favourite parts was having a t.v. in their room.
Enjoy it on vacation, because it won't happen at home!

See, once he got over his fear he had a blast (& I did too!)
I don't have a good pic of Sydney on the water slide because she was going too fast!

Another of the kids favourite.
I think Brad wishes he had the video on when I was crossing the lily pads.

Sydney & I coloured a pillow case for her and

Jason & Brad (mainly Brad) coloured a bag for Jason.

Life size Connect 4 in Kid Club

The firetruck in the arcade moved without you putting tokens in!
Worked great when we only had one token left.

Egg hunt, egg hunt, egg hunt...

Easter for us was filled with many, many egg hunts which equals A LOT of candy. Since there are many sweet teeth in this house, it is amazing how quickly it disappears. We had Brad's family for brunch on Good Friday & the kids all participated this year in the egg hunt. It was pretty cute. Later that day we took the kids to see The Backyardigans & although I think they really liked it, the show was pretty lame. There was no "story", they just did some songs. I guess that is why the tickets were so cheap.

Sunday morning we of course had to find all the treats that the Easter Bunny hid around the house. Sydney was up before Jason & could hardly contain her excitement. She decided this year that she was going to dress up as a bunny, but when she made ears at school- they were all she wanted. We give the kids 'stuff' at Easter & it usually consists of different things that they may "need" at that time. One of the things I thought they needed were some more dress up clothes to match what they typically play- so Princess Sydney got a cape & Jason got a T-rex costume (which is really supposed to be a dragon costume- but you can't tell him that).

Sunday afternoon we headed to Uncle Ron & Aunt Lois's for more time with family & of course ANOTHER egg hunt. Thankfully our time there was as "sweet" as all the loot we brought back home.

Jason & Grace were putting in time waiting for the egg hunt to begin. These two are hilarious together (most of the time, the other time they can be trouble ;))




Remember Hayleigh's long hair from Family Day?
Some lucky person will be getting it now.
I love this cut on her, very chic.