Christmas tree fun

Maggie loves the Christmas tree! Here she is playing with one of her favorite ornaments- a big red bell!

Great Wolf Lodge weekend

Last weekend we took a little vacation with our friends, Chris, Amy, & Asher to the Great Wolf Lodge in the Wisconsin Dells. The lodge has a huge indoor water park and we reserved a 3 bedroom condo so that could all stay together. We had a great time, despite a bit of a rough start!

We arrived around 9 pm on Friday night, got the kids settled and in bed, talked with Chris & Amy for awhile and went to bed so we could be ready for our big day at the water park. Soon after we got to bed, the 'fun' began. Maggie threw up 3 times during the night! Needless to say, the next morning we were trying to figure out what we should do and when we would leave to make the 3 hour drive home. We decided to let Maggie have a nap at the hotel and let Aaron enjoy the water park for awhile. Maggie perked up after her nap and seemed to be feeling better, so we stayed longer. We had a great time at the water park and Maggie was having fun being carried around and watching the boys, so we ended up staying. We came back to the condo to eat lunch and take naps in the afternoon and then enjoyed the water park for the rest of the evening. They had a story time before bed and they even experienced some 'snow' in the lobby.

On Sunday we spent the morning enjoying a last trip to the water park, got packed up, and then headed to a nearby restaurant for lunch. The food was delivered to your table by a train, which the boys loved! As a grand finale, the daddies took the boys to the attached game room/small indoor amusement park for a quick ride on the "Train coaster". (A small roller coaster that gave a pretty rough ride!) Then we all headed back to Chicago. Just to keep us on our toes, Maggie threw up as we were rounding the corner to our house!


Tim & Aaron had a great time going down the water slide on this tube together!




Amy & Asher share a ride

Chris, Amy, and Asher on the lazy river at the bottom of a big water slide


Aaron had a great time crossing this, with a little help from Amy!



Maggie is sporting her purple polka dot bikini!

Asher and Aaron enjoying some lunch in the condo. It was decorated really cute like a lodge, with all of the furniture looking like logs and twigs.

Maggie took a little nap on her Daddy!

Chris was running down the hallway carrying Asher and Aaron!

Aaron's first movie theater exprience

While we were in Fort Dodge over Thanksgiving, Aaron went to a movie at the theater for the first time! Amy got us all tickets for a free showing of the movie Despicable Me at the Humbolt theater. Aaron loved everything about it- sitting between his cousins, the big movie screen, the popcorn, soda, and candy, and the funny movie! When you ask him what he liked the best, he says "My favorite thing was ALL of it!" He did a really great job watching the movie and stayed pretty quiet until the end. There were a couple of times towards the end of the movie where he was repeating the lines that everyone laughed at over again and then laughing at himself. It was pretty hilarious! We'll look forward to taking Aaron to more movies at the theater!

Maggie's first biter biscuit

Here's a look at Maggie's first experience with a biter biscuit a few weeks ago. She likes to keep us on our toes and is currently refusing to eat baby food most of the time! She's a little lady who knows what she wants and she wants what we are eating!!!

Mr. Handsome

Seriously- how cute is this little guy?!?! Pretty much the cutest little boy I have ever seen!