Halloween Style Birthday Party.

Annabelle was invited to a costume birthday party.

She decided to go as a rocker, she looked great! She played the role too!

Arts and Crafts.

Annabelle in her new baby jammies. When we were shopping for her new cousin Christian, she found these, and had to have them.....






Later she pretends she's over them.


Then tries to act like her mom made her ware them.....

Scooting and Icecream.

Jack on his new scooter.

Taking a break to wave at Annabelle's second grade teacher.

Later it was ice cream time, always a happy time for Annabelle!

Jack loves his ice cream too!

Bath time. Gotta get to bed, it is a school night after all!

Third Grade Here I Come!

I quickly realized that in third grade, Annabelle has insisted that she do her own hair.......

She is not into taking pictures, because she is over it, and way more!

But finally comes around for a good picture.

Beautiful Pictures.

Photo Shoot in Black and White.

Colored to follow in next blog!

Cookies and Milk !

Great Wolf Lodge.

We went to The Great Wolf Lodge for a few days to relax before school/work begins.

The first problem we encountered was that Jack didn't want to wear his life vest anymore....

Annabelle taking care of her brother.


Slide action.


Jack loved this slide outside, but not as much as the indoor one.


Annabelle was very patient...


She wanted the big slides, but took some time to hang with her brother.





Back to the wave runners...

There is a phone in the bathroom, I love it, who can I call?

Dinner time.

More dinner time waiting fun!!

Waiting for the show to begin and eating ice cream.

Annabelle pretending to be excited about the show.

She is over it!

Waiting and waiting....

Hooray, the show begins.

The next morning we went on a duck ride.

That's the car that can drive into the water and become a boat.

We loved it.

Lot's of fun.

Jack was astonished.

Annabelle in the car/ boat!

We got to see some beautiful sights.

Annabelle and her dad after she ate a blue ring pop.

Mom and Jack, as you can see he is still eating his ring pop!

Jack wondering if his tongue is red...

Yes it is!

Later at the water park my boys took a water stop.

I love this picture!

Annabelle and Jack under the water mushroom.

Basket ball time.

It wasn't pretty, lots of tears.

Jumping fun.

Annabelle had the highest and longest jumps.

She is really good at jumping.

That only made Jack MAD!

Later in the machine that dries your wet suits.... not so sure!

They both loved using the magic quest wands around the hotel.

Pictures by the camp fire!

The kids enjoying a virgin margarita.

They couldn't get enough of it.

Yikes!

Look at me!

Can you do this?

Stomp stomp, clap clap, auwwwwwh!

The Great Wolf call.

Jack and his friend Wiley.

Later, back at the room, Annabelle with one of her crazy new hair styles.

Jack watching a blues clues movie.
Sleeping with wolves!

Swimming in the am.

Frog hopping. Jack was cautious, while Annabelle was not!

Small slide fun.

Going on the big slide for the first time (this visit).

Happy smiles from the top.

Jack loved it and did the slide four more times.

Good job Jack!

Annabelle is a pro and did it solo.

Jack and Jeff in the lazy river.

Standing waiting for the bucket to tip....

It's coming, just wait!

Jack was sad and mad and scared... he didn't know which emotion to show first!

Later, showered and clean eating a lot of sugar.

Tubes filled with their favorite flavors of PURE SUGAR!
Then taking a picture with the bear that looks good enough to eat...

They tried!!!

Sharing pure sugar some more.

What a kind brother.

Playing one last time at the arcade.

Boy did they make a fortune from us...

"I wanna play boing boing one more time, please."

How could we say no... he said please!

Last game, racing together to see who wins.

Annabelle had her right foot on her gas and her left foot streched all the way over pressing his gas, because he couldn't reach.

Sisterly love!

Meanwhile, my other baby played games too!

Later we put all of our tickets in the ticket counter, picked prizes, and hit the road.

We had fun at Great Wolf.

Can't wait to do it again!