Vacation!!!

We just returned from our annual trip to Traverse City.  It was a fun time, although the weather wasn’t the best, we made the most of it and we were able to get a beach day, no sun but it was a bit over 90 degrees.

My niece Nicole joined up to help out with the twins.  She is 12 and it was nice to have an extra hand getting the little ones dressed and undressed and just an extra hand to hold.  Her older brother is 7 years older and our oldest nephew and Ed and I took him everywhere when he was little and by the time she came around were busy with college, jobs and had several other nieces and nephews.

This year my bil Bill and sil Michele and their kids (Billy 12, Brenden 9, Matthew 6, and Melissa,3) joined us.  Billy and Nicole are best friends, so I was a bit torn on having her help/letting her go have fun with Billy.  Braeden’s best friend Matthew is their son and they had fun too.  Of course Liam and Brenna love Melissa, so that made them happy too.

My bil got there before us and sweet talked the lady at the front desk into upgrading us to a Kids Cabin so we could be near them and she did.  That was a nice surprise, although once you get a nicer room with the kids, it will be harder to go back to our basic one next year. Although, I think just going to the Great Wolf Lodge should make them happy enough.

The little ones were so cute, every time we left to go to dinner, etc.  Liam would say, “Bye-bye Hotel” and Brenna would say, “we come back”. Well the last time we left (for good) they said it, I said “Nope, we are going home”.  And Brenna says, “we come back in two weeks”.  Sorry…not gonna work!

I have lots of pics to share, so will be posting a few different posts.

Geocaching, the box was under the skeleton in the potty hole….bleck!

Brenna in the Kids Cabin, they loved these windows!

                                 Liam in the Kids Cabin

Snuggling with Braeden at bedtime.

Liam WAS sleeping before this picture was taken….Brenna jumped up and yelled “tickle. tickle”.  Then he woke and they had a ticklefest!

             At the ball diamonds, Brenna and Melissa share a hug. 

Fashion Statement!  Actually, she fell in a HUGE mud puddle at the baseball diamonds and we hard to make do with what clothes we could find.  A dress from Melissa, Brenna’s sweatshirt and I forgot she snuck her boots into the van when we were leaving and she found them.

Some of the cousins taking time out for a big hug!

                    Liam chose to hang out with his gatorade….he became attached to this bottle of gatorade after someone let him have some (thanks guys!)  He carried it everywhere, the next day at the beach he carried another bottle around the whole time.  Like a security blanket or something.

                            Liam and Nicole (and Liam’s gatorade!)