Monday, August 23, 2010

Great Wolf Lodge

We had a fantastic weekend at the Great Wolf Lodge for the Strong Bonds Marriage and Family Retreat paid for by Steve's battalion. Here is the outside of the lodge...
Here is the big attraction when you walk into the indoor section of the water park, Fort Mackenzie. The big bucket on top dumps 1000 gallons every 5 minutes...it is crazy when it comes pouring down. There is a sign that warns you not to hold your child under the dumping water.

Here is the back side of Fort Mackenzie. The slides you see on the side of it were the only ones that Trevor could go down that weren't baby slides...but they were super fun, good enough for me!
Steve and Trevor up in the tree house...notice the little raccoon and squirrel in the tree swing?
Trevor posing with his tough guy look next to the metal artwork on the wall.
Waiting for lunch at Camp Critter...
My little wolf cub howling after he got his ears :)
"Baby Wolf" and "Mommy wolf", as I was lovingly referred to all weekend.
Trevor coming down the slide...horrible quality picture. Between the lighting and how fast his little butt came down, Trevor had to go down a couple times and it still didn't come out well.
The hungry wolf pack...the buffet that was got for breakfast and dinner was soooo good.
The outdoor section of the water park.
This was the clock tower show that went on right before story time. This elaborate arrangement of mechanical animals, trees and people that sing and talk about nature is in the main lobby and starts at 8 every night. The kids were all dazzled by it.

I wish I had gotten more pictures but without a waterproof camera I wasn't taking any chances. This place was super cool and there is so much more to it than what I captured. They even thought through the water park fact and they give waterproof bracelets (that you have to cut off when you want it off) that have a computer chip in them and you hold it up to your door to get in the room...no carrying around a key card!

Monday, August 16, 2010

Crazy Boy

Trevor has been really into the Wii Sports lately and he is kicking butt at it!
Here he is taking a quick pause for me to take a picture. He said, "Mom, I am playing. I can't turn all the way around or I might lose".
On Saturday, Steve had a canoe race that he was doing with a friend for the Girl Scouts. While waiting for the first race to start Trevor noticed this dragonfly and made me take a picture of his little buddy...
I went out with a friend for dinner and a movie girls night out later that evening and when I got back, Trevor was being crazy. I asked Steve what he fed Trevor because he was just wild. This is his idea of a good outfit for playing around the house-Steve's shirt, Steve's hat and a backpack. He was also carrying around a bat pounding the floor.
I will take some pool pics this week at some point too since it will be closing in a couple weeks. We also have a retreat to go to this weekend. It is in an awesome water park lodge. We should all have a great time.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

A Hot, Long Weekend

It's been too long since I last posted. Steve is giving me a hard time about the "365" blog...I lasted longer than I thought. If I post once a week, I will be happy with my progress.
I watched a friend's little boy and their dog over the weekend while she and her daughter went to the competition that our husbands were in. It was a CRAZY weekend :)
Here is Trevor playing in the pool...


And here are both the boys...


Trevor had a good time with a friend to play with all weekend, but when the weekend was over I think we were all ready to go back to our normal lives.

In other news, it is SOOO hot here. It hasn't been below 102 degrees in the past 2 weeks. The average high has been around 105. It's getting a little ridiculous really. I like summer, but this is just wrong. I can't wait for it to get back down into the 90's...

Monday, August 2, 2010

The Ultimate Fighter

Here is my future MMA champion...
He decided to fight with Daddy...Daddy was scared :)