The Carters: Great Wolf Lodge

At Costco, before we left on our trip Grace was loving on and begging for the nacho cheese Doritos. Haha. She loves these things. Lucky for her it was her birthday so she got them :)

Grace told me that for her birthday this year she wanted to go to the beach. With her mama being large with child that just wasn't going to happen, so instead we decided to take our summer family vacation to Great Wolf Lodge - a great getaway only 30 mins from our house. It's neat because it's a lodge/hotel with a huge indoor and outdoor waterpark attached. You can see some of the indoor waterpark in the picture below taken in the lobby of the hotel. It was so much fun!

Every night they do a story time for the kids

(Benji has started posing for photos - he thinks it looks really cool to have one arm up and the other down?)

The next morning the kids did a Wolf Walk and learned all about the different forest animals displayed in the lobby.

After the walk we got our swim suits on and played and played and played some more. The girls and Rob stayed in the waterpark all day until dinner. Ben and I went back to the room for a (much needed) nap then headed back down to play. Ruby could go on all but one of the slides and she and Grace and Rob had a blast riding slide after slide. They were apparently really fun, but sadly my pregnant self didn't get to experience them.

That night we had dinner at Rainforest Cafe. The kids were absolutely exhausted but it was fun!

Friday was Grace's birthday!!! Here's the bright eyed and bushy tailed birthday girl who actually slept in until 7:45!

Ruby wasn't thrilled that none of the presents were for her, but she was a good helper getting the gifts to Grace to open.

Can you tell she was pretty excited to get her very own bag of Lindt truffles?! She was very sweet and shared with her siblings and/or paid them in chocolate for doing jobs for her :)