thanksgiving

this year for thanksgiving we had a mini baldwin reunion!  kasee got home from her mission (yay!) the week before thanksgiving, so cody's parents surprised her with a trip to the Great Wolf Lodge is Dallas.  where we all met up for an awesome trip.  i have some pretty amazing in-laws, i am so blessed!

i decided to try my luck at making a craft with mae for thanksgiving.  it might have resulted in a meltdown when the paint had to be washed off hands and feet, but otherwise it went really well.  and i think it turned out cute!

get ready for picture over load.  i took a bunch while we were there (per the request of my parents).  it was such a fun trip.  the lodge was awesome, the best part was the indoor water park.

 the little kids area was mae's favorite.  and while she climbed on everything and went down the slides, her favorite thing to do was just float with her puddle jumper on.  she's gotten pretty good at it.

 

cody and i wish that we had an indoor waterpark in our backyard.  mae took the longest nap she has ever taken in her little life while we were there.  

 

she also really loved the lazy river.  she and cody took many a trip around it.

 

 

there was also an arcade.  she just wandered from game to game pushing as many buttons as she could reach.

 

she and cody won some tickets.  and she liked the tickets more than any prize she could have gotten with them.  she kept them in her little purse (which, if you look for it, you will see make an appearance in a lot of pictures.  she got mad at us because we wouldn't let her take it to the pool.)  and they are still in her purse.  cody also found a ticket in her diaper...we aren't too sure how it got there.

 

another wonderful thing...free soda and icee refills!  i'm sure i drank my weight in caffeine free diet coke.  and mae definitely had her fair share of icees (only on vacation right?)

 love this little kid

 

living the life...

 

mae loves her cousins.  noah was so sweet with her, helping her in the arcade, and playing games on the ipad.  during some down time, she and tessa watched frozen.

and of course yucee (that's how mae says lucy) was there.  these two crack me up when they are together.  so glad that we live close enough that she can grow up knowing her cousins.

 brittany designed some pretty awesome shirts for us for the trip.  and of course we had to have some shots taken while we all had them on.

here's grandma neely with the kids, i just laughed the whole time we tried to get pictures of the kids.  this is a crazy bunch.

 grandma with the kids.

 i'm pretty sure mae didn't smile for one picture that day.  every family has that kid, maybe ours is going to be mae.

 i love this picture.  no child is paying attention to anyone trying to take a picture.  there's a giant blow up crayon blocking half of them, and a stuffed animal mid-flight.  pretty much sums up trying to take pictures with kids.

like i said, i have some amazing in-laws.  i love each of these ladies so much!  and am so grateful for the relationship that i have with each one of them.

 thank you grandma and grandpa baldwin for an amazing trip!  it was so wonderful!