Our trip to Great Wolf Lodge

We took a fun family trip to Great Wolf Lodge in the Wisconsin Dells this last weekend. We had a GREAT time! I didn't take a ton of pictures because most of the time was spent in the waterpark. This is an excellent place to take the kids...they have so much for them to do and the whole resort revolves around entertainning kids of all ages!

Here are the girls wearing their wolf ears that we got at dinner our first night and in their jammies all ready to head down to story time at the clock tower. This is a nightly event on the weekends, and the girls LOVED it!!


Here is Mikaiya showing off her new swimsuit in the water park. This area both girls did not like though because there is a HUGE bucket that fills with water and then dumps all over everyone! We could not get Braenna in there without her screaming the whole time!

I love this one of Braenna! She is having a blast on the pretend jet ski squirting water at the target...notice the pink tutu swimsuit (she picked it out herself!):

Mikaiya's turn!!

Here are the girls posing with the bear in the sweet shop where we grabbed ice cream on Saturday night:

And here is our only decent family shot...a self portrait we took at story time. Notice Braenna is not looking...this is her new favorite reaction whenever she says "cheese"...she must look away from the camera!!

This is the clock tower. They put on a little show here each night followed by story time:

And who can resist the sweetest picture of all? Braenna adores her big sissy!!

January and February Pics

I apologize that I'm late! We were very busy both months, although I'm not sure what all we were doing! There are not a lot of January pics at all, but here is the link:

January Pictures

February was pretty busy. We had a Superbowl party, WAY too much snow and a visit to see mom and Great Grandma Harms. It was a fun month. We are all ready for winter to be done here...hopefully March brings spring! Here are the February pics:

February Pictures

So Many Pictures!

Wow, we have a TON of December pictures! It was a busy month filled with a new dance class, cookie baking, Emily's birthday party, Christmas, Braenna's transition to a big girl bed and bowling with Uncle Mike's family! What a blast!

Here are the pics: Click here!

Christmas 2010

We had a really fun Christmas this year! It was definitely white, with lots of snow on the ground and flurries all day Christmas Eve. Here is the best we could do at a family pic:

There were a TON of gifts this year for Christmas Eve. We had my parents, Teresa and her family, Casey and Mike, and Mary and Ray all over for Christmas Eve. It was a lot of fun for all!

Here are the cousins, all wanting to open the same gift!

And here are the girls putting out their reindeer food before bed time. They wanted to be sure that Rudolph could see our house!

We thought this was just the sweetest thing. Mikaiya wrote her own little note to Santa (we had to help with spelling!), but still very cute. And Braenna specifically put the center cookie in just for Rudolph:

I guess the reindeer food worked! The girls woke up Christmas morning to LOTS of presents! Santa (and everyone else!!) was very good to them this year:

1st Snow

We had our first snow this last weekend! Amazing that we made it all the way to December before getting it. Here's the view out the back windows:

The girls stepping out for the first time:

Believe it or not, Braenna LOVED the snow!

Mikaiya's snow angel:

November 2010

November 2010...A month that will forever be etched in my mind. What a crazy month it was. We said good-bye to a lot of amazing friends as we packed up and moved to WI. We bought and moved into a new home. We sold our home of 9+ years. Mikaiya and Braenna started at a new school. I started a new job. We celebrated our first holiday in our new home and we decorated for Christmas. What a whirlwind it has been! Here are some pictures documenting our month:

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Christmas Decorating at Our New Home

We got the joy of decorating a new home for Christmas this year! It's actually pretty tough to start from scratch again and ended up taking us most of the three day weekend to finish up! The girls had a blast helping out, as usual! Here is Mikaiya posing with the "princess" (angel) for the top of the tree:

And Braenna took the term tree "skirt" literally...and wanted to wear it herself!!

Each of the girls picked out a special ornament to put on the tree first. Then they went to town on getting the rest of them up! It was like speed decorating!!

Here is the finished product on the tree. And so far we've only blown the fuse once, what an accomplishment considering the tree has 42 strands of lights on it!

Jeff worked really hard on the outside as well. It's always hard to get a good shot, but here's the best we could do on the outside lights: