The Weekend!

And just because we had a busy week last week with school starting, the weekend was also full of plans too! 

Gracie had a birthday party at this place called Bear Paddle.  It's in Fox Valley and it's totally cute.  It's a little pool and they offer swim lessons and birthday parties.  It was for her friend Amber from Kindergarten.  Lots of her other Kindergarten buddies were there but now they are in different first grade classes.

 

They got to play tug-of-war with the raft.  Gracie won!

 

Then the instuctors were moving the raft and they had to try and stay on.  She did good.

 

And of course swimming isn't swimming without a noodle ride!

 

All the kids had so much fun.

 

Then they all got to clean off by going throug the "car wash."  The pool here is actually saltwater.  

 

It really was a neat little place.  I got some information on it.

 

Here is Gracie with her friends...of course Lacey, her BFF was there, but so was Kate, Marin, and Allison.  And they are all in my Girl Scout troop too!  They are the cutest little bunch of girls you've ever met.  I got to hang out with their moms during the party and they are cool too!

 

Amber's mom wanted to do what we did at Gracie's party....sit by Amber when she is opening your present.  Gracie picked out some Lego Friends.  In fact, she got lots of them!

 

Today we went on a nature walk and brought a scavenger hunt too. 

 

The kids were so excited.  Everytime we found something on the list, I would stamp it.

 

Walking on the bridge was one of our favorite parts.

 

Grandpa came with us and Presley made sure he didn't get left behind.

 

And everytime we passed a bench, we had to take a break. I guess it was deserved because I didn't realize how far this little hike was.  When we got back to the car, we realized we hiked 2 miles!  No strollers. No wagons. No bikes.  Just our feet!

 

We also found a little pond.

 

So of course we had to go throw rocks.

 

It was fun.

 

It really was nice and the kids loved it. We found everything on our list too!  We even found buried treasure on the path because we found 2 spraypainted X's!

 

The kids did good considering....there were some complaints but we agreed that next time we would bring our bikes.

 

It was a busy weekend for Daddy too because Uncle Frog and Uncle Chad came up to go the Cubbies game.  They even had a limo come pick them up!  But first the kids got to go sit in it.

 And Friday night was also our ice cream social at school. The kids got some pretty yummy ice cream!

 

Such the cutest pic!  Although all my pics are out of order.  oops!