Wisconsin Update!

Oh I love Wisconsin every time I go there it MAKES ME WANT TO MOVE THERE! I just love being so close to my family. I told Tait every time I go up there I want to move there… but of course I probably won’t but it is sure nice to dream.

Well we had another VERY nice vacation. It was so wonderful. We traveled up to Wisconsin on Thursday night and go there about 10:30 there time… 11:30 their time… which both girls had fallen asleep so they were ready to go for another time around the block… which was annoying b/c after driving there I just wanted them to go to bed so I could unwind. So Maya was the toughest bird to put back to bed but after about an hour or so she was ready to sleep.

Maya and the Window (this was a hard picture to capture just so you know)

On Friday we relaxed around their house and just played with the girls. I think mom enjoyed herself Terry had to work so he went to work. Then about 4 we left to go to the Wisconsin Dells. I definitely recommend the Dells it was really fun. We have always talked about going there and we were able to finally go. Mom chooses the best hotel it was such a cool place. I have pictures which I’m attaching that you should check out. We had a hot tub IN OUR HOTEL ROOM it was in the living room so everyone watched you sit in the wonderful bubbles but that was a TON of fun, and my mom she loves me so much she took both girls into their room. So Tait and I got two nights of peace and quiet it was so wonderful. So thank you thank you thank you mom and Terry that was so wonderful!

Picture of the Hot tub

Another picture of Hotel Room
But we also had like a kitchen in our hotel room it was seriously like its own personal apartment it was really nice. Then Terry caught up with us that evening. We had been in the hot tub once so we then went to bed. Lehna wasn’t her full self this weekend. She didn’t feel really good while we were there so she was crappy off and on, more moody then anything.

Lehna Smile
On Saturday we went down to the indoor water park. Now Maya seemed to enjoy herself, Lehna on the other hand was a bit more difficult. She really didn’t want to go in the water so we had to do some forcing. She is not a water baby in a big pool she was fine in the hot tub in our room but when it came to have multiple people in the pool she didn’t like it. So she had a life jacket on her and we were in the shallow pool and she cried and wanted to be picked up and stuff. So I held her and Tait held her we tried to play with her to release the death grip but she didn’t really care for it all that much. So we wondered around a bit trying to get Lehna to play and they had this big tower thing that was like a massive jungle gym. So we all went up that and played on that a bit. They did have a lazy river which Tait and I went on. Then Terry took Lehna on she cried at first but she went around twice and by the second time she was fine. I don’t know how much of it was Lehna not feeling well and how much was Lehna being Lehna she can be SOOOOO stubborn sometimes. But we got in the big hot tub down there and stuff. It was fun. Tait and I went on these two big slides, for two people. The one slide was like a big windy slide that was like green so you kind of glowed as you went down, but it was REALLY fast by the time you got to the bottom. Then we went on this one slide that was REALLY busy so we thought that it must be fun, but you got to “choose your own adventure” we only went on it once so we don’t know if you actually did choose your own adventure or not. But the slide was really dark then you got in this big pot type thing and it just swished you round and round until you came down the end and then you went down into the big pool it was interesting to say the least but I think the green glowing one was better. It was fun.

Lehna's Birthday Suprise
(We celebrated her birthday a bit early)

Then after the water park we changed and let the babies take a nap. Maya was REALLY tired, and then after Maya woke up Lehna fell asleep so we let her sleep for about an hour. Then we woke her up and took her to WIZARD QUEST. Now I have to admit it was a bit dinky but it sounded like fun. You can play the “game” two different ways. You could either play the easy way this means that your goal is to local your wizards and use your “magic wand” and let them free, or you have to gather the magic by answering questions and going to different stations then you have to have enough Magic to release the wizards. Well we did the easy way so our goals were just to find the wizards. The first Wizard was EASY to find he was in the first tunnel we looked in. Even the third wizard was easy to find he was in the first portal. But the other two wizards were HARD to find. There were slides you could go down, little houses you went in, mirror mazes, a seaweed maze, and just different things. Well the stupid wizard in the Earth realm was really tricky, we looked everywhere. They had this BIG castle that had these different locked doors that we tried to open but they had this slide that you couldn’t get too. So Terry said “well I guess you just have to go up the slide” Well Tait stood in front of the camera so the people wouldn’t come up and yell at us. But Terry climbed up the slide and we waited at the bottom, Tait could hear him talking and he kept saying things like “there’s a potion room but no scanner” so finally he came back down the slide the right way after a few curse words later. And we still continued to look. We kept walking round and round looking in the same tunnels and then finally we were in the mirror maze again I was looking through this door and I could see the wizard through this little hole. Well we could get the door to open we pushed and pulled but it wouldn’t open… Well Terry came over and he pushed on the door like the wrong side and that finally opened the door. It was crazy. It was fun over all my favorite part was listen to Terry grumble but he was hilarious he just was funny to listen too. Like I said it was dinky but it was fun overall I laughed and had a good time. I really think my older brothers would have enjoyed it; it was kind of up their alley.

Lehna Sleeping

THE WIZARD QUEST!
After we went to the Wizard Quest we headed back to the hotel we wanted to eat and then my parents let us have the night off. They watched Maya and Lehna and we headed to the Casino! The Casino was only like two exits away and that was fun. It was PACKED! It was the Casino Ho Chunk! Which personally the name was a bit a turn off but it was okay, my mother in law would have drooled they had a BIG bingo hall. It was funny there was sign that said Bingo was closed due to renovations then we walked by it and it was open… so I don’t know if it was an old sign or was just a warning of things to come. We won $50 bucks on a machine but that was all we won on. When we first came in we played this slot machine that was racking up like 30 bucks… (It was quarter machine, so that’s A LOT of wining) but we walked away from that machine and that was about as best our luck was. We played this one game that was BIG wheel a fortune that was like a penny game… well we put $20 in the machine and it was gone like in really fast!!! You had to play all 40 lines which is like 4.00 bucks a spin… so it went quickly. The first time we sat down we won like $30 bucks but we pissed it all away. LOL… It was fun we were only gone like 2 hours but it was a nice break. Mom played with Lehna in the hot tub they didn’t go back down to the pool again but Lehna was happy with the small pool, but the time we came back both babies were fast asleep. That’s the good thing about vacation is they always are tired in the evenings.

Maya in her PJs
On Sunday we had breakfast stopped by the outlet mall so I could get something new for my new Nephew and the girls have pictures coming up for the yearly pictures. Soo I wanted to get them done and then we came home. The hour shift has been kind of crazy I must say loosing and hour really just sucks. I feel like by the time I get unwound from work it’s time for bed… so not so happy about moving times… I liked it better when we stayed the same the ENTIRE YEAR! Crazy Crazy!

Maya and her Nana!
That was our trip it was really fun. I really had a good time and I hope we can go back to Dells again b/c it was a ton of fun. I think it would be fun for all of my brothers and sisters in law to go up there, especially in the summer b/c there’s lots of things to do. So keep that in mind… maybe not this summer since Marcus and Jackie are expecting a new baby but maybe next year it would be fun for all.

We came home to our house and it was all picked up. Trent picked up the toys while we were gone so that was nice. Of course it only took seconds for Lehna and Maya get it back messy again… but it was nice not to have to step over toys. I usually like to pick up the house before I leave b/c it makes coming home really nice, but I didn’t have time to get that accomplished.

Steve and Maya (and Earlier event)

Picture of Vince Gill (from last post)