Great Wolf Lodge

Ever since their first visit last year to Great Wolf Lodge, Annalee and Grace have been dying to return! We finally made it happen last weekend and with cousins to sweeten the deal! 

Grace was terrified of all of the mascots, except the girl wolf. I guess she looked friendlier than the others?! 

The water park was a hit of course! Grace was brave enough to do a medium sized slide (thanks Aunt Kandi!!) and Jack conquered his fear of the Tornado ride! Annalee's favorite was the wave pool and Lily hated all of it! Too cold! 

While Micah and Jack had guy time at the arcade, the girls snuggled in for a movie and snacks. 

It was such a fun mini vacation! Thanks for taking pics Kandi!! 

Lily's First Birthday

 

 

Lily had quite the celebration for her first birthday!  We originally planned to just cook out and hang out with each other, but I started thinking that the big kids might get bored, so we ended up renting a giant inflatable water slide.  It was taller than our house and packed enough fun for the girls to swim in it for 7 hours straight!  Money well spent!



She enjoyed her cake!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lily and Uncle Blaine's birthdays are only a day apart!

 

 

 

What a great afternoon celebrating our sweet Lily Kate!  





 





Kindergarten Graduation

One year down, 12 to go!  We are so proud of Annalee!!  She did such an amazing job in kindergarten this year.  She absolutely loves school and never once complained about going!  She loved her teacher Mrs. Fuqua and all of her sweet little friends!  She had the biggest smile on her face during the entire ceremony.  Way to go Annalee!

Happy 4th Birthday Grace!!

 

I still can't believe Grace is 4!!  She has such a sweet, fun spirit!  She loves her sisters to pieces, is always up for a good time and cracks me up every single day!  Her favorite things are My Little Ponies, anything sparkly, peanut butter crackers and headbands.  She wanted a jumping party with a princess carriage cake.  I had a hard time getting any pictures of her because she never stopped jumping and playing!  We love you Grace, happy birthday!!

Earrings

Annalee has been asking to get her ears pierced for months, so we finally decided that this weekend would be a great time to have them done-just in time for kindergarten graduation!  We made sure she knew that it would probably hurt and we told her that it was her choice, we weren't making her do it!  She was determined and excited! I'm not exaggerating when I say that her face did not change one bit when they pulled the trigger.  She was smiling from ear to ear the entire time!  It was amazing!  Of course, everyone she sees now she points out her new earrings!  So cute!

Before:

After: still smiling!

Experimenting

Ok, I'm trying out the app that is suppose to let you post to blogger from your phone. If this works, I'm sure to be a better blogger, right?! Let's try posting a picture of my cuties!

Easter

We had a fabulous Easter together. Lily enjoyed her first Easter basket.  

 

 

Annalee and Grace raced into our room at 2:30am exclaiming that the Easter Bunny had visited!  They were so excited and it was cute for about 30 seconds, then we ordered them back to bed! 

 We headed over to JoJo and Papas for lunch and egg hunting!

Look at all those adorable Beck kiddos in blue! 

Between Jeremy and I we took probably 50 pictures, and not one of them caught all 5 kids looking the same direction with half way pleasant faces, oh well!

Serious hunting going on.

We also celebrated JoJo and Rachel's birthdays. 

Annalee is 6!

 

 

We celebrated Annalee's 6th birthday on Saturday.  I can't believe she is 6!!!  We had  her party at a kid's art studio.  It was the greatest!  JoJo made the artist pallate cake, Annalee made her invitations to match and the studio did the rest!