Wisconsin Dells

We'll folks, it's official.  We survived our first family vacation.  We spent a week in the Wisconsin Dells in late April.  Overall we had a sucessful trip with only a few bumps a long the way.  One recommendation, don't put a 2 year old and a 7 month old in the same hotel room and expect them to go to bed easily.

We spent most of our time at the hotel swimming.  Olivia had the place pretty much to herself, being that it was off season.  By the end of the week she was jumping into the pool and going down the slide herself.  You could even catch her going face first when the life guard wasn't looking.  Yes, my little dare devil got yelled at for doing that!

We also spent some time shopping, eating at the local restaurants and even visiting a brewery that Scott's college roommate opened.

It was definitely a vacation to remember.  Olivia is already asking when we are going on vacation again.  Hopefully she can talk dad into going to the beach next.

My Little Lobster

Someday he will thank me for this hat.  Okay, probably not.  But I thought it was too cute to pass up.

All of that sun and excitement wore him out.  He was too tired to drop his bottle before falling asleep.

Sunday Funday

I finally participated in a Sunday Funday.  However, it doesn’t mean what it used to in college.   Once the rain finally decided to stop we moved outside to plant some flowers.  Olivia thought it was mighty fun to dig in the dirt.  She even found a wiggle worm to play with for a whole 30 seconds.  Once she looked at mom and saw her face she promptly threw it down and screamed yucky!

  

When we were done planting flowers Emmie came over to play.  The girls received some pointers from Papa in hopes to improve their softball skills and golf game.  At least they are both using the right end of the bat to hit the ball now.  They may need some extra attention in the future.

After they were finished with the sports they moved on to hunting for bitsy spiders (hunks of dad’s grass) only to whack them with the golf club.  Those spiders didn’t stand a chance.

After a few hours of outdoor fun Emmie went home and we had to wrestle Olivia inside to take a nap.  Finn finally decided to join the fun; he slept the entire time Emmie was over.  After Olivia fell asleep he was indulged in some Mommy-Daddy alone time.  Something he rarely gets. 

To finish out the day we packed the kids into the bike carrier and rode down to the local ice cream parlor.  The whole way there Olivia was screaming “this is fun”.  The kids enjoyed their ice cream, even Finn!  I think he liked mom’s better.