Friday Night: Justin and Sophia (and girls) arrived and checked into the brand-new "Great Wolf Lodge" here in Charlotte (well, its actually Concord). For those that don't know GWF is a hotel + an indoor water park. Its pretty cool. So we did the waterpark pretty much all day Saturday.
Bella and Daniel in the hotel room.
Saturday: GWL waterpark pretty much all day!
Saturday night: All 6 of us camped out at our house. What a sight!! Keep in mind that Daniel and I live in a 1 bedroom condo in the city. Ha. It was a great time! Loved every crazy second of it. The girls "camped out" in sleeping bags on the floor in the bedroom. I should have taken pics.
Daniel "wrestling" with the girls on the air mattress.
Sunday: We went to our church, Watershed. Anna was in the "Diggers" class...she loved the name and told me all week, "Remember when I was in the Digger's class at your church...I never did that before." Daniel and I took Anna out on his parents boat with our other niece, Emma. Emma is our niece from Daniel's side. They had a blast together!! Later after dinner we took the girls to Ben and Jerry's for ice cream w/ sprinkles and a trip to the neighborhood park to get some energy out.
Daniel and Anna in the lake.
Monday. Daniel went to work in the morning. Sophia and I took the girls to the Lazy 5 Ranch in Mooresville. It was awesome. I had never been to it before, but what a great place. It is a "safari" that you ride through in your own vehicle. You can feed the animals too from your windows with the animal feed. We tried to "feed" the animals but ended up rolling up the window pretty much every time an animal got really close. What can I say, we were a bunch of girls. Ha ha...except the one time that the deer's head was all the way inside the van trying to eat the food.. We were all screaming and laughing so hard....later Anna said, "that was la-larious (hilarious)." She cracks me up with her expressions. The Safari and a trip to the mall wore us out.
I forgot to mention that we all went to Amelies (the local French bakery up the street) after dinner for desserts...here is Bella wanting everything in site...like Auntie, like Bella.
Tuesday: We rode the Light Rail train in Uptown Charlotte to the Children's theatre/library for a time...then rode the Light Rail again to meet Daniel for lunch at Pike's. Anna loved riding the "frain" (she can't quite say her t's yet...so cute). She kept saying, "I never rode a frain before!" We LOVED meeting Daniel for lunch. After lunch it was to Latta Park, a great playground in the city that has a "spray ground"...we changed the girls into their swimsuits and let them play in the water.
I had some throw-away cameras for Anna to take pics throughout the week (a Blog-girl in the making). She loved taking pics, but I think this camera was accidently left on the train...oh well.
Anna and Daniel at Pike's.
Wednesday: We packed up and headed back north to Virginia. The girls did great--I drove and made it in 6 hours flat with only one stop! :) Sophia and I planned it perfectly. We stopped at Dunkin Donuts for coffee on our way out of town around 10am, and a donut for the girls. That kept them occupied for a while. Gave them a little snack around 12:30pm and then stopped for lunch around 2pm, we were home at 4pm. Perfect!
Thursday: Thursday was Jeremy's (my older brother) birthday. The fam came over for a birthday dinner. It was great to see Jeremy, Teresa and Chloe too. I love seeing these three nieces interact together! They are going to be quite the Three Musketeers one day.
the best pic of all three of them that I could get.
Playing dress-up with Auntie on Friday morning...here is "Snow White" helping "Cinderella" put her shoes on. :)
What a week it was! I loved every minute of it!
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