Adley’s Sleepover

Adley got to have her cousins over for their first sleepover together!  We had lots of fun with Sage and Mavery!  Jaylyn followed after her sweet cousin Makenna’s footsteps and made a special spa for them.  They had fun, fun, fun!

 

Hot tub!  :-)

Some chocolate fondue and fruit (Sage was enjoying the chocolate)

Some face cream and cucumbers

Adley too (it was steamy in there and kept fogging up my lens)

Sage too!  

Nails

Mavery said she was moving so her nails got a little crazy.  :-)

Time for bed!

Flashback: Jaylyn’s Baptism

Back in October, we were able to celebrate a very special day.  There is nothing more exciting than seeing God’s saving grace at work in the life of your child.  Jaylyn really had started this journey back when she was five.  We had lots of conversations about sin and our need for a Savior.  One conversation with TJ was where God really began working personally in her heart.  She knew she needed God’s forgiveness and prayed that He would give her a new life in Christ.  Since she was only five, we continued to pray and discuss and guide and teach her about salvation.  After some maturing and seeing some friends baptized, Jaylyn finally said that she wanted to be baptized too, to show what God had done in her life.  Our great friend, Travis, was able to baptize her and we had a great celebration day!  

She’s ready!

Cheese!

Here she goes!

And up she comes!

All finished!

Celebrating lunch at Breadeux

Family and friends came to celebrate too!

Enjoying some sweet cards and gifts   

March Vacation: Wisconsin Dells

We wanted a fun vacation not so far away and decided to try out Wisconsin Dells: home of waterparks!  We found a deal at a great resort called Wilderness that had three (kind of 4) INDOOR waterparks.  The girls were excited!

The drive took under 7 hours, but we split that up and stopped near Chicago on our way and had some deep dish pizza.  Yum!  :-)  

Plenty of time for playing in the van

and learning to arm and finger knit.  :-)

Here is the view from our room when we first got there.

Then they had another good snow in the middle of the week.  :-)  Thankfully, during the snow storm, we didn’t have to go anywhere because most everything is connected in this resort.  So, we “warmly” walked from our room, to get food, play games, get ice cream or swim. Woohoo!  But, it did look like they kept the parking lot and roads pretty clear.  I think they are used to this up there.  :-)

We bought some lunch stuff to keep in the room.

Girls at one of the parksSwing!

Slide!

Splash!

Fountain!

Silly!

Big Raft ride!

Swim!

Play!

Made it down the slide!  (let’s not talk about how long it took her to go down it the first time!)

TJ and Jaylyn in the wave pool  

Play area

Ice cream!  I think Adley had Cherry, Leighton had Grape

Jaylyn had Kiwi

A little Uno Attack in the room with Dad

Some more play time

You can see Leighton through the slot.  These are nerf ball guns in a big play area that goes three levels.

Adley is quickly gathering ammunition for the guns so we can team up against Dad.

Loading and shooting!

       We loved the Wilderness Resort!

We had a little time at the end of the week so we decided we wanted to try to ski.  Another resort down the road included ski lift tickets with their stay, so we went there for one night.  It is called Mt. Olympus.  It has a cool outside atmosphere, but it didn’t live up to the Wilderness Resort at all.  It had a small indoor water park area and an indoor “amusement park”, but there wasn’t much amusement there.  And the whole place kind of had this weird creepy vibe.  Not sure how to explain it.  But, it wasn’t bad or anything.  Anyway. . . .

Here is the view from our room.  The “Colosseum” is the view from the road.

You can also see the HUGE Trojan Horse which is part of their “outdoor” amusement park.

Here is TJ and Jaylyn on go-carts in the indoor amusement park.  The only other things in there was a small type of roller coaster, train car type of ferris wheel for younger children, spinning tea cups and bumper cars.  They do have a climbing wall and some other nerf ball play area for an additional fee.  There were only so many times we could ride the tea cups.  :-)

The room was a nice size, but had almost no furniture.

They have cool bunk beds though. 

And crazy Greek wall decor.  :-)

The girls liked the bunk beds.

       So, our take on Mt. Olympus was – Go with Wilderness!!  (This was for winter of course.)

We took our ski lift passes and headed to Christmas Mountain.  We weren’t totally prepared with clothing and gear for this.  (for me and TJ anyway), so we just let TJ and older two go for it.

Starting toward tow rope  

All smiles

But then this is all Adley did.  :-)  Jaylyn did give one try, but the tow rope was not so easy and there were too many people on the rope too which she didn’t like.  So she fell half-way up and decided to just ski down the hill.  Apparently she did well skiing down.  I missed it. So, TJ enjoyed some more skiing on his own while me and the girls hung out in the restaurant.  :-)  We needed a lesson for them.  Oh well, next time. . .

Then, we headed home!  We did get to stop and have lunch with Brett and Rachel!  No picture. . .

Then, back to normal again.  :-)