Christmas Fun at the Great Wolf Lodge!

This year on my side of the family we (my parents and 2 brothers + wives+ kids) made a unanimous decision to do something different for Christmas. We decided that instead of giving gifts, we would just spend some QUALITY time together doing something out of the ordinary. So.....we decided to make a family fun trip to the Great Wolf Lodge!

We have decided it was a GREAT decision. We had a super fun time, and the kiddos had an even better time! We all live locally, which sometimes makes it harder to spend overnight times all together. We would all just drive the 15-30 minutes home and sleep in our own beds. So an overnight experience was especially fun for the kiddos. We had 4 rooms in a row. The kids all hopped back and forth from room to room. We claimed my parents room as the central room...mostly because my parents had all the good snacks and food and they brought games.

To start the trip off we all met at a yummy Mexican food restaurant for a late lunch on Monday afternoon. From there we went to the ICE exhibit at the Garlord Texan Resort. Then we went and checked into our rooms at the Great Wolf Lodge. Then we spent the evening snacking, gaming, talking, laughing...hitting up the kids arcade (3021 tickets won later--woohoo), and making memories. The next day we met for breakfast and spent the rest of our time there at their fabulous indoor water park. It stays a year round 84 degrees in the water park and we all loved it! There were slides, and rides, a lazy river and wave pool. We are absolutely hooked on this place now and plan to return for many years to come. It is a resort that is truly kid friendly.

Maggie loved her time with her 5 cousins and precious grandparents, aunts and uncles. She is a family kind of girl. Wonder where she gets that from...??? Ha!

We are so blessed to have such precious, unique, healthy and loving families on both Todd and I's sides. God is so good!

Merry Christmas! Enjoy some fun pics from our trip, below!

The 6 cousins at Cozymels Mexican restaurant


Maggie with her precious Gigi and Papa

Beautiful, huge Christmas tree in the center courtyard at Gaylord Texan Resort

This way to ICE exhibit.

My two cuties all bundled in their parkas...

The only parka pic I got of the kiddos...needless to say...Maggie was DONE with pictures. She had not had a nap yet and it was...ummm 5 o'clock. Ugh, she was a trooper...but so tired by this point. She literally fell to the ground and just layed there seconds after this snap shot. Ha.

Getting all bundled, ready to go in...

Later that night at the GWL arcade...Maggie checking out her tickets. Together the family won 3021 tickets, ha! Impressive, right? With it we got some real "made in china" treasures.

Daddy trying to teach Mag skeet ball game...there were balls flying all over. It was hilarious!

GWL Rudolph heading down to the lobby for story time and snow time. It snows in the lobby 4 times a day, there.

GWL super fun toddler slide...with our little fearless fish!

Can you tell she LOVES the water. She is a natural little water baby!

A fun view of the GWL water park.

Sitting on a "sea-doo" in the water park.

Loads of fun...splish-splash!