Great Wolf Lodge

At the end of January we went to Great Wolf Lodge for the first time with our friends, the Laugesen and Bestafka families.  The kids have been wanting to go here for awhile now (after hearing about all of the fun from others) so for Christmas we gave them an ornament of a wolf and told them that we'd take them in January.  They were pretty excited but definitely so much more excited when the time came and we arrived!  We had such an awesome experience here and they loved every minute of it!

There was a professional development day on the last day of January which we decided would be the perfect day to go-hopeful for small crowds since it would be during the week and it was!  Rich took a half day and we headed up around 2:00 on Thursday, getting us there around 3:30.  After checking in and putting our things away we made our way to the water park immediately!  

They had a great "baby/toddler" section where I hung with Julia and Charlotte pretty much the whole time.  I didn't mind hanging with just the two of them because they were SO much fun to watch!  The two of them loved the water slides and would go down side by side and just come up with the biggest smiles on their faces!  I didn't have my phone on me that first day and that is my biggest regret because, honestly, their smiles were picture perfect every.single.ride. The big kids hung with Daddy and the rest of the crew and loved it all, too!! 

 Ella joined us for a little bit every now and then, too, which they loved!

The kiddos inside the water park!

 It was loud in the waterpark but thankfully really wasn't crowded, especially compared to what others have told me, so we got really lucky and everything just worked out really well.  Char was such a trooper and had a blast!  She totally hung and loved it all!

 Although at bedtime she was so wound up that she was just talking and talking and talking!!!  I left the arcade earlier with just her trying to get her down earlier but she was so amped up about everything that it was close to 10 by the time she went to bed.  I'm pretty sure she was up later than Julia! She did look pretty cute in her wolf ears though!

 Such a fun group with all these kiddos!

 Loved this experience with our family!

 We stayed until about 3:00 on Friday which was perfect, it was starting to get more crowded and after a full day there I was good! I truly felt that one night was plenty-by Friday afternoon I was ready to go-felt like we had an amazing time and could leave on a high note.  So, we finished off by celebrating with "tipping buckets" for each family which was a perfect ending.  Charlotte was asleep by the time we got on the freeway and they were all asleep for the majority of the car ride home.  We picked up dinner once we got back home, ate and then everyone headed right back to bed!  Lots of fun over the past two days and such sweet memories!