Grand Bear Lodge

What a FUN weekend we had!! We left Friday evening after all the daycare kids were gone - the drive was only about an hour and a half. The boys were busy playing their Nintendo DS's and Lexi was starting to get one of her headaches which worried us because whenever she gets one of those she has to throw up to make it feel better and we didn't really want that stench in the van! She was able to keep it all in until we made it to the cabin, but once we got the van parked she flew out of it and immediately went into the cabin to find the bathroom. The original dinner plan was BBQ, but with it being Friday and us being a Catholic family - our plans changed to tuna salad, grilled cheese sandwiches and mac 'n' cheese! After dinner, Tracy & Joanne took the kids up to the pool that first night for a bit while the rest of us stayed back. Lexi also didn't go that first night - she was feeling better, but not 100%. Joanne ended up coming back early with Patrick & Tyler. Patrick stayed with us during his Spring Break and a couple of days before we left he had not been feeling well and coughing really bad. I guess he started to feel bad again so Grandma brought him back and he took some medicine and went to bed with Grandpa. By the next morning he was feeling much better!!



Saturday morning started out with a yummy breakfast of pancakes, biscuits and gravy, bacon and eggs. It was so good! Later on in the day we all got ready to go back to the indoor waterpark. This was going to be Maddie's first swim!! I had to try her swimsuit on her before we left because the one that I bought was a 3-6 months suit and she's been wearing 6-month clothes for awhile now. It fit, but barely! Travis & I took Maddie into the pool with us - the water was MUCH colder than I thought it would be so I was afraid she would get upset, but she didn't! We kept her in the pool for a decent amount of time and when we finally took her out and I wrapped her up in towels, she fell asleep in minutes. Not too much longer after she fell asleep, we took the kids back to the cabin for lunch. After eating, Travis & Maddie went back upstairs for a nap and Maddie slept for about 4 more hours so swimming must have really tuckered her out! In the meantime, some of us took the kids to the indoor amusement park to ride the rides and then over to the waterpark to play some video games. They all walked away with some of the cheapest little prizes that were just awesome to all of them. :o) Later on that evening, Travis, Tracy & I took the kids back over to the pool to swim. I started to notice that Maddie was starting to cough again - I was just hoping that it wouldn't turn into what it did the last time!



Sunday morning we woke up to probably 5 inches of SNOW! Of course this got Travis going and we took our showers, packed up and started to head back home in case he got called out to plow. We didn't have near as much snow here at home, but he still got called out around 11:00 or so to get the slush off the roads. So Sunday was spent doing laundry and getting the house ready for Monday morning! That night Maddie started running a fever - 99.8. By Monday it was gone, but she does have a cough and yucky nose so we're back on breathing treatments again. The cold never seems to bother her - she sits with Travis in the recliner and just cracks up laughing at him all the time! She's so funny....The kids had a GREAT weekend though and wished that they could live there! :o)



I've got a short work week - I'm closed all day Friday to take Lexi to a skin specialist in Blm. to see what we can do about the warts on her feet. Then we're leaving Friday to go camping at Dawson Lake for the weekend. The guys will be at the racetrack by the time Maddie, Kiegan and I get there. This will be Maddie's first camping trip - I'm sure it'll be fine. She's such an easy baby!