The Crow's Nest: May 2009

we love spring & summer. love the warm weather & love being outside. not much gets done in the house (projects, straightening...), cause you can never get us to stay inside for any length of time. we like doing projects outside, in the yard & with the house. daniel & brenden started it last night-we got top soil for our grass to make it more full & so it can grow better...and i was about to go crazy with my allergies. we had gone to home depot earlier in the night & i think it all got to me. i was miserable!!! love his faces...

and what better way to finish off some hard work-but with an ice cream treat! i bought those mini drumsticks & they are the perfect size! i think it may have been the first one brenden had ever had, so he was trying to find the yummy chocolate at the bottom ;)...

We spent this past weekend at Great Wolf Lodge! I think the best part of the mini vacation was having to drive only 20min to our destination :) Not really, but it was a plus! This place is so much fun. And, everything you need is there, so you never have to leave. Daniel plays on a Christian Hockey League & they were having a tournament this weekend, so they hosted everyone at Great Wolf (at a discounted rate)! Teams came from Chicago, St. Louis, Minnesota, around here...so it was pretty neat having everyone come here.

We got one of the rooms with a 'Wolf Den' fir Bren. Here is his little cave that he slept in (it had a bunk bed & his own flat screen)...

Painting a snake at one of the activity places(tongue always helps)...

Following are some pics from the indoor water park at the hotel. Sorry-they do not do this place justice. My camera is awful!!!

Brenden & I went to the 'Clock Tower' before bed one night, while Daniel had a late game, to hear story time. Here is the wolf...

At the arcade...

can you tell im really not into this post. i think thats why it has taken all week for me to put it up. just new it would take a while to upload all the pics. whatever...the weekend really was a lot of fun though!

Bubba & Bren playing hockey. Bubba played in the tournament too, on Daniel's team. It might as well be a family team. daniel, bubba, and my twin cousins play on it.

Brenden & his second cousins playing. They stayed at the hotel as well, & had a blast swimming & playing together.

The teams pray together after each game...

Daniel's team. If you can see through the darkness of my flippin' camera. Daniel is standing up on the far left, Bubba is on the ground second from the right, my cousin, Evan, sitting to the left of Bubba (he is the goalie), and my other cousin, Justin, standing fourth from the left. It was a nice weekend & a good tournament-they got second place!

A couple side notes...friday & saturday night, while we were there, brenden woke up around 1:00 in the morning. he did not know what was going on. he would not respond to us when we talked to him. he got upset when i tried to move him or lay him down-we found out he was sleep walking both nights! even though he stayed in his bed, they still call it that, & it can be caused by being so exhausted. so, that was interesting. he has not done it since :) and, daniel bought a brand new stick the thursday before the tournament & the second game, he broke the thing! now, this is one of the new one piece composite sticks, so he couldn't go replace the blade or anything like that. my heart sank when i saw it happen. this thing costs almost $200! the second it turned 10:00am, i was calling the hockey shop to see if there was a guarantee or something-there is!!! yay!!! we had to ship the thing to the manufacturer & will receive a new one. whew. and what else...oh, my grandmother went to the hospital saturday night, thinking she may have had a heart attack. at 5:00 in the morning they found out she had a stomach virus & anxiety :) we were very happy to hear that's all it was.

hope all you mommies have a blessed mother's day!