Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Summer Squeeze

We recently hit that point in the summer when we say 'HOLY COW! SUMMER IS ALMOST OVER!!' And have tried to squeeze everything in to these last bits of summer while it lasts!

Jolie's been digging her strider bike. Although if she could just grow like one more inch, I think she'll really dig it. Of course by the time this happens it will probably be too cold out! Well, at least we'll be ready for next spring!

I wish this picture wasn't blurry because her face was awesome--sooo excited!

Jolie showed Grandma and Grandpa the lake and cabin at Summer Haven and fished with Grandpa.

Tanning! Just kidding, but we did check out one of the pools and it was great! Jolie really liked it! Josh got a nice little sunburn even though I suggested sunscreen, but he declined. Haha!

We also went to Kansas City with the Wulf Pack, Grandpa and Nana, Uncle Brett and met the Culley's--Brad, Kim and Syndey. It happens to coincide with Hannah and Sydney's birthdays so for some it's been an annual trip. Josh and I have had to miss a few years but we were super excited to take Jolie this year.

Due to the flooding and road closures our usual route to KC was closed so we had to take some other roads, plus stopping for Jolie...it ended up taking us almost 7 hours!!!! Yuck-this is usually a 4 hour trip. But Jolie did great thanks to the Toy Story movies and our trusty DVD player! :)

We stayed at Great Wolf Lodge, which is an awesome indoor water park. They had SO MUCH to do there! We sent Jolie down the little slide a couple of times and she kind of laughed and cried at the same time--like that was scary but fun! She enjoyed watching everyone probably a little more than swimming! And one of her favorite things was playing in this drawer in our hotel room. Sure glad we drove all that way and spent all that money to stay here--good grief! :)

Trying to get a picture with the Candy Bear. He was a little scary.

Cruising in the lazy river with dad.

Catching up on current events with Brett. (again, NOT in the water!) hehe

We also went to Dave and Buster's one evening and the guys played some video games. Great parenting here as Jolie was fascinated with the shooting game! :)

I also probably jumped the gun and purchased some potty training items. Quite a few mornings, Jolie wakes up dry so we've been tossing the idea of potty training around. I think we'll wait awhile but I thought we could at least have the little potty out so she could see it and get used to it. She was quite excited to have a new 'toy' in the bathroom and wasted no time 'getting used to it.' :)


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