Riley's Birthday Celebration

For Riley's 6th birthday, we decided to go to the Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine. TONS OF FUN!! We got there around 1PM on Friday. Even though 3 out of 4 of us were on antibiotics and I was so very tired all morning from still being somewhat sick, we decided to go for it anyway. So glad we did! Yes, Riley played a bit of hooky from school on Friday. But technically, he hadn't been on his antibiotic for 24 hours yet, so he was still contagious Friday AM. So, I believe that makes it ok. Anywho, we were able to check-in to our room immediately and then off to the indoor waterpark.

Comin' down the slide ...

... and into the water!

Can't imagine how we get so sick 'round here.

Pure Joy!

Love this picture of Victoria and Daddy.

It took ALOT of convincing from Daddy to get Riley to go on the first tube slide. But after it was over ... there was no stopping him! He went on them over and over and over again. Because we were there during the school day, it was pretty sparce. We walked right up and got on every ride.

After a few hours of water fun, we were off to dinner at the Rainforrest Cafe. Riley and Victoria are crazy about animals, so this place was right up their alley. They just loved it when the animals would make noises and start going crazy.


Then party-time back in our room.

Helping his sister put together her un-birthday present.

We had a blast just the four of us together. We laughed because we found ourselves watching TV and putting together Legos in the hotel room last night ... something we can just as easily do at home.

Perhaps when Victoria is a bit older we will go back. She was a bit unsure of it all. Not much for her to do ... yet. She was warming up to it all by the time we got ready to go this afternoon ... go figure. But the birthday boy had an absolute blast!