Great Wolf Lodge

We received a gift certificate to the Great Wolf Lodge for Christmas from Grandma & Grandpa Stockwell and the boys couldn't wait to use it. We've never been before and it just happened that they were invited to a birthday party there the weekend before we went and stayed the weekend (while I was in Nashville). So they had already tried out the waterpark and were ready for more - but they were especially excited to stay in the "Wolf Den" - bunk beds with their own TV.

The Waterpark was a lot of fun. Both boys were able to go on all of the big slides - it was really amazing for me to see them not even blink at these rides. They hopped into the inner tubes without a care and these were big slides that went into dark tunnels with lots of movement. It might be a whole different experience for us at the pool this summer!

They even had a big "kid hot tub." It was nice to hop into warm water and not worry about whether the boys could go in or if it would be too hot. It really was like bath water and amazingly it was never that crowded so the boys were able to swim around quite a bit. On Sunday Brett decided he was going to go under water and look at us so I got their goggles out. Both boys loved looking around with these - I'm sure a lot of kids do, but this was such a huge breakthrough for Brady. Little brother has been good for him when it concerns being brave at the pool!

Every night at 8 they have story time. It was a popular event!

Grandma & Grandpa Stockwell came for pizza and brought us cake to celebrate Brady's 6th birthday. Yum!

(Notice him eating AROUND the frosting. It was all I could do not to take a big swipe of frosting with my finger! :)