Great Wolf Lodge

Saturday was my birthday (34) and I got an amazing surprise from my mom and Stace. They sent our family to a night at the Great Wolf Lodge. We had never been and had been wanting to go. This place is amazing! We got there early afternoon on Saturday and stayed until late afternoon on Sunday. After we checked in we immediately went to the water park. They have an awesome section for babies and Ella loved it!


Here she is getting ready to go to the pool. That girl just loves her boots!!!







Grey helping Ella.










Both kids also loved the wave pool. Greys favorite part of the water park was the big slides. I wish I could have gotten pictures of him! Funny thing tho, I was so impressed because the lines looked kinda long but Grey would go thru so quickly, I thought the lifeguards were keeping the lines moving. Nope. Grey was cutting. Whoops!!

After swimming we found out the hotel had trick or treating and the hotel conveniently sold costumes (lol) so we got Grey wizard robes and Ella a fairy princess dress.









Then we went to dinner at the Loose Moose before story time. Story time at the hotel was amazing. Ella could not sit still and Grey was so intense in listening! It was so fun watching them!





















After story time we did MagiQuest. This was truly one of the funnest things we did. The hotel has a game set up where you get magic wands and go around the hotel to find objects to fulfill your quest. We had a blast doing this as a family!









After a while, Ella and I were exhausted so we went back to the room and the boys hit the arcade.



There is nothing quite like skeeball in your jammies! After a great nights sleep we got up and went down to breakfast (in our jammies). The hotel has a huge, great breakfast buffet. Yum!





After breakfast we had another fun filled day with several hours at the water park, lunch, and more MagiQuest. This was one of the best birthdays ever. I actually can't think of one that beats this! I can't wait to go back to The Great Wolf Lodge again! Thanks Mom and Stace. You did awesome!!! ;0)

Fall Frenzy

We went to Fall Frenzy at Greys school and the kids had a blast. Ella mostly ran around, but Grey enjoyed the games and bounce houses they had set up. It was a fun family night. Before we left, I made these cute shirts for the kiddos.

Go Chiefs!

For Billys birthday, my mom and Stacey scored the BEST birthday gift for him. Billy got to take Grey the Texans vs. Chiefs. Billy has been a Chiefs fan his whole life (he grew up in Kansas) and since Grey has been born Billy has dreamed of taking Grey to a game. So this was a huge deal. We had a fantastic weekend. We spent a lot of time in the pool. We cooked out over the fire pit a lot, and made smores. We got to see family and I had a photo shoot with a old friend from high school. It was a wonderful weekend!







Smores in the pool.

Labor Day Weekend

This weekend my mom came up for the weekend. We had a great, relaxing weekend. We did some shopping on Saturday and Sunday we spent the day in Ft Worth. We had lunch at Joe T Garcias and went to the stockyards. Grey rode the mechanical bull (twice), did the maze, and did a pony ride. But the coolest thing happened as we were leaving. A man was riding his personal horse down the street and Grey had stopped to watch him. The man stopped and let Grey ride his horse. It was so cool. He just led Grey up and down the street and talked with him. His horse was so calm and great for Grey. What a special memory!

1st day of 1st grade

Grey was so excited to start 1st grade.  Just kidding!  Grey really wasn’t so cool with going back to school.  He was ok with going back to school, but he wanted to go back to kindergarten, back to his teacher from last year, back to the same classroom with the same classmates, etc…  Until, we got to his new class room and guess what he saw???  He got his very own locker JUST like Shaelin and Alaina!  That seriously turned his entire day around!  Grey wasn’t difficult about starting back to school, he just wasn’t that into all the school shopping and new clothes and new supplies like his Momma was!  He did great with everything and I am sure he is going to have a fantastic year.

 

last weekend of the summer

This starts out with a bit of no fun…what kid wants to end summer with FOUR cavities??? So in order to make a no-fun situation better, we went to Kansas on the last weekend. Billy sister was able to get Greys dental situation corrected and since he was seeing Aunt Anna, a dreaded dentist trip became a great time! He loved being spoiled and actually came home smiling! But, we had a great last week end! We got to go to Grey’s cousins school and had lunch with Shaelin and Alaina. Grey thought that was sooooo cool. Shaelin and Alaina have lockers and Grey really thought those were the neatest thing ever. We got to see Alaina play soccer, which is always fun, and got to attend a bridal shower with most of Billy's family. It was a wonderful weekend and a great way to end the summer!

paisley – 3 months

While we were in Kansas I had the pleasure of photographing Paisleys 3 month pictures. She is such a sweet baby. I had a really hard time putting her down to take her pictures because she is such a snuggle-bug! She is so laid back, I seriously don’t think she cried except to say “Hey, I’m hungry” and that was about it! What a doll!