I Found Them!

 The missing pictures from Great Wolf Lodge, Concord, NC have been found!  Jenna was all into the Magiquest game this time.  It kept her busy for hours and she didn't even finish ALL the quests!  We had to MAKE her leave after defeating the dragon.

 Slaying the dragon, with a little help from Dad!

 The dragon, just before he died!

Great pic of TWO of the kids!  Here, Jenna is mad because we are leaving and her quests are not completed!

NO pictures from inside the water park since they are all way to dark. You'd think I could figure this out as often as we have  been to the GWL!

Great Wolf Lodge and a Quick Trip to DC area!

Hmm.  Cant find any pics from Great Wolf.  We did go there for 2 nights for vacation this year.  Shawn had 2 weeks off, but didnt really want to go anywhere else.  So my friend Julie, from San Antonio who now lives in Kansas, was passing through the DC area the following weekend.   I decided us girls would go see her and hit the American Girl store in VA also.

                                           Jenna and McKenna, this year's Girl of the Year

                                    Is that a shopping bag or Santa's sack on Jenna's shoulder?

 The Virginia branch of the Air and Space Museum

The girls have no idea how impressed they should be!  Actually seeing a space shuttle!

Some weird statue thing in the parking lot of the Air and Space Museum.  Guess its suppossed to make the $15 parking fee worth the price?

Anna, Megan holding Emily, Jenna, Alyssa and our awesome power ranger Patrick!

Weird July Fourth

July 4th was weird this year.  I say that mainly because it fell on a Wednesday and no one seemed to know how to handle it.  Make it a FIVE day weekend?  Take off just Wednesday?  Take off the entire week?  And as a result, all the festivities were smaller than usual.  The pic above is from the Whispering Pines Fourth of July parade.  It was HORRIBLY hot.  Shawn and I did take the girls and drove them in the parade. All 12 cars.  And of course there was lots of candy to throw.  Gabby Wood, Beth Bazinet and Jenna.

After the parade, we had ice cream in the park, with most of the rest of the Whispering Pines residents that were in town.

Later that evening we went to the Harness Track over in Pinehurst and watched the fireworks.  No rain this year, so that was a good thing.  But the bad thing was everyone had to work the next day, so no one was celebrating too much or staying out too late....