Alikah's waterpark birthday vacation

waiting in the van for Gramma Gail to arrive

WE'RE HERE WE'RE HERE!!!

Bodhi did NOT like it. 

Harper got really sick the 1st night. He pooped and threw up in 2 pack and plays. Spencer and I stayed in the room with him for most of the next day. 

bad picture but one of the only ones of us. I need to start remembering/trying to get family pictures when we do things like this but its always so crazy and every ones all over the place haha

about to leave :(

•We all had so much fun!! Even when Harper was sick...when he wasnt throwing up or pooping he was still in a pretty good mood. 

•It was SUPER packed but thats what we get for going during Spring Break!

•Alikah was in heaven at all the waterparks. I didnt swim much because of how my skin has been lately, but it was nice to watch the kids play and to just relax. Even tho it says they do online, we found out the Villas are the only places in the whole damn resort that dont have wifi? So I spent my "relaxing" time uploading pictures and such. 

•We went to Marley's the 2nd night and Field's the last night for supper. Field's is kind of fancy & pricey and it was our first time eating there. It was nice though they put us in our own room so we could shut the door and the kids couldnt escape, etc. They brought Alikah a big bowl of ice cream at the end too :)

•Cake, presents, play place, arcade, lots of treats, lots of beer, lots of fun :) 

cabin

We left at 9:30 on Tuesday (July 3rd) and got there around 1. Our GPS cord broke so we used directions from Google and ended up taking some crazy back road. It was very beautiful, and Im sure if it had just been Spencer & I and I was not pregnant I would have enjoyed it.

But, driving down an insanely curvy road 5 months pregnant was making me nauseous on top of already having the normal panic attack I have every time I am in a car. And this was the last half an hour, so Harper was getting cranky and starting his high-pitch squeaks. Harper really likes the ABC's, so eventually were all just half-singing/mostly-yelling, "A! B! C! D! E! F! G!" just to keep him quiet. 

It was good to finally get to the cabin.

Alikah takes one look around and goes, "Do we live here now? In this dirty house?"

My dad, Heather, Joey and Luke were already up and out on the boat but they came to pick us up. We dropped all our stuff on the floor and got our suits on.

Alikah loves tubing. Watching her from the boat she has a very serious face the whole time, but she never wants to stop. She had a lot of fun. Whenever we went to the middle of the lake so we could all jump off the boat and swim for awhile, Heather would hold Alikah or she could sit and float on the tube. She does NOT love being "let go." When she is floating on the tube, someone has to be holding the handle. The rope doesnt count. If someone isnt holding the handle she is freakin. 

Harper, surprise, loved the water and the boat rides. His life-vest really ruined his fun though. He wanted nothing to do with it. We went to swim at the sand bar later in the day and he could swim around with us without it and then he was just in heaven. 

He stayed dirty the whole trip. He got into everything. We have a small sand area off our pier which was great because every 5 minutes when Harper got really filthy all Spencer had to go was splash him around in the water and rinse him off. 

Spencer, my dad and Joey were up every night til 12:30 or later drinking and talking. Our last night Spencer was up with the neighbor Diana until like 2:30. I would put my ear plugs in around 10 and pass out. 

My dad always wakes up really early, and everyday he would come in and get Harper without me even noticing. All the sudden Id wake up, take our my plugs and be alive to the world and realize it was already 9:30 and everyone was up! It was really nice, I slept great. I did have to get up 2-3 times a night though and wander all the way down to the outhouse to pee. By the 2nd night I definitely thought about just going in the little potty we had brought up for Alikah.

On the 4th we drove into town for fireworks. 

We parked, got out, and it instantly became clear that it was going to storm.

They lit of one firework before it started raining and everyone started leaving.

At one point on this trip Alikah was getting restless and I took my camera tripod and started using it as a microphone. This started the "talking show" game, and Alikah loves it.

A conversation while we were sitting in the truck trying to wait it out...

Heather: "Are you in school?"

Alikah: "No, Im in a truck."

Heather: "Are you up north?"

Alikah: "No, Im at fireworks."

Spencer attempted skiing for the first time. He was way too drunk.

I put my head under the pump a few times to cool off. It was ice cold. I got a brain freeze from the outside. It felt great.

I have so many more pictures from the trip. [I think I took around 600] I do plan on posting more eventually.