Our Family get-away

A couple weekends ago our family took a mini get-away so to speak. Nils had to attend a quick Reinke meeting on Saturday for his job in Layton so we decided to just go down as a family and make it a fun outing. We went down Friday and came back Sunday afternoon. It was a blast. We let the kids swim, went to Chuck E Cheese, did some shopping with them and just had it be about the kids. We thought the kids probably wanted to get away just as much as mom and dad. :)
Chuck E Cheese was a very fun time for them. Dang me forgot my camera though so I didn't get any pictures.:( We had a coupon that allowed us a large two topping pizza, 4 soft drinks, and like 300 game tokens. We had never been there before so we hoped 300 tokens would be enough. WOW. To say the least!...we had TONS of tokens. lol We figured the rides and games there would be like 2 or 3 tokens each. NOPE. They were all just one token. :) So you can imagine it took us a few hours to use them up. It got to the point even the kids had done all of them pretty much so Nils and I were putting tokens in machines just to be done. Once you play a game you get tickets then the tickets can be used to get toys or prizes. The kids each got a slinky. Ryder then picked out some sticky bug thing. Then Brook got a braclet. They did have a lot of fun and for our first time Nils and I felt like we really got our money's worth and it was great most of all to see the kids just have fun.
The kids were sad to come home and have been begging ever since to go again. We thought maybe making it an annual get away as a family because just staying in the big hotel was fantastic to the kids. Nice to just relax a little and not have things at home bugging us. I did get a few pics from swimming so enjoy those and maybe next time I'll remember my camera when we go other places.
Here is Ryder floating all by himself. If you know Ryder you know how scared of the water he gets. Here he finally realized it was fun to float and kick around!!

Brooklyn was put in a sitting float thing. She had arm floaties too but would get too daring and try to slide them off or dunk herself. This way we could watch her a little better. She did dive in once without anything and THANK GOODNESS her dad wasn't far off and opened his eyes under water to see her sinking!!! Crazy girl is just too brave and daring for me!

Here is our little Gavin floating. He LOVED the water and would reach his arms over the edge just to splash and feel the water.

I finally got all them together for a quick pic in the water. What fun it was to let them swim around and play. They all just loved the pool!!

This next is my favorite. So cute. Little Gavin got tired right out and the next thing we knew when we looked he was asleep in his floatie! When we took him out to get back up to the room and dressed boy was he upset at us. He wanted to float in the water and sleep. What a fun little boy he is.