Great Wolf Lodge

Last weekend, since we were unable to do anything fun during Fall Break, we decided to take a little trip to Great Wolf Lodge just past Cincinnati.  If you haven't been, you should definitely go check it out.  We had so much fun, and we really want to go again.  It's a cool hotel with lots of cool stuff for kids, and they have a HUGE indoor water park.  Our awesome friends Katherine and Taurean came with us, which made it even better!

Here's Parker and Taurean at the front of the park.

The boys in the little pool.
This is why you don't see me in the pool with them!

My cute little boys!

Parker must have gone down these kids' slides at least a hundred times!  He loved it.  In the past he hasn't always been that fond of water, especially water slides, but we were pleasantly surprised to see how great he did!
They even let the little kids go down all the slides, and Parker even loved all of them too.  The very last one we did was way fast, and he wasn't thrilled about that, but the rest he did quite a few times.  It was so fun to go down with him, because you could hear him giggling the whole way down.  Kaeson on the other hand, never cried or anything, but he never moved a muscle or made a sound.  I don't think he loved the water overall, but he was a real trooper.  
Parker going down one of the bigger slides by himself.
Poor little Kaeson in his life jacket!  He couldn't hardly move in this thing, but he tolerated it pretty well!
We are so mean, we even made him go down the slides by himself like five times.  But again,  although he didn't seem to care for it much, he put up with it!  He's such a good kid.

We definitely recommend this place to anyone who lives around here!  We can't wait to go back!  They even have storytime three times a day for kids, an arcade and game room, and a craft room with projects for kids.  They also had a lame haunted house while we were there, which we were told was going to be trick-or-treating, but it wasn't--just lame!  But everything else was great!

Happy Fall

Last week for FHE we had our annual pumpkin carving night.  Parker's is the painted one.  Our good friends, the Smiths came and joined us.  Thanks guys!  As you can guess mine is that ugly one in the middle! Mine's always the worst one.  I'm not so artistic, I guess!   

I tried to take a picture of Katherine and Taurean, but apparently the camera doesn't like Taurean, so this is the best we could get.  

Last week Parker and I went out and gathered all the pretty colored leaves laying around outside and made this beautiful fall tree out of them.   
Happy Fall Everyone!

Katherine and I also did a craft fair a few weekends ago.  Here is a picture of our sad little table!  The night before, when we were setting up, this sweet little lady thought we needed a doll for Katherine's hats, so she was so excited to bring one the next morning.  She brought this huge sad old doll with pen all over her face.  Lots of people that came by even thought that the hats were for dolls!  But look how cute her hats are.  I think every little girl needs one!  She even sells them on Etsy, so you can order them from her.  Her etsy site is cherrytreeroad.etsy.com, so check it out!  The fair was so fun and we are excited to do another one if anyone wants to join us!

Feeding and Chasing the Ducks

Ok, so I know it's been forever since I've posted anything!  Sorry!  We haven't really been up to much exciting lately.  Lance has been studying a lot this year, so things have been pretty boring around here.  

Quite a few weeks ago, we went to a park near us to feed the ducks.  It is such a cool park and the kids love it.  We actually go pretty often, but we don't take many pictures.  There are a ton of ducks there, and sometimes if you get lucky they will come all the way through the field to get the food.  One day, we started walking toward the river, and over a hundred ducks swarmed around us and literally ate right out of our hands for nearly an hour.  It was so cool and I wish I had my camera!  Kaeson started getting a little irritated at them, because they kind of bit his fingers a few times!  It was pretty funny to watch him try to shoe them away!  

So here are a few pictures from our last trip to the park.  Kaeson isn't much for feeding the ducks, he prefers just chasing them.

They have these walking/running paths all around  the park, so we went exploring for a while.  Parker loves to hold hands and walk with Kaeson everywhere we go.  Every time they do it, Parker just giggles with excitement.  I don't know what it is that makes him so happy, I'm just glad he still likes his baby brother so much.
Here's a picture of Kaeson trying to feed them.  They weren't as aggressive this day as the can be sometimes. It was a little hard to get them to come close.  That's about it for excitement with us the last month.  
I will post our pumpkin carving pictures soon.