Great Wolf Lodge - Kansas City, KS

We took the kids to The Great Wolf Lodge indoor water park in Kansas City, KS for a weekday getaway!  We had a fun time.  While we were there we were able to meet up with Cousin Tammy and her three kids and they had fun, we will have to get together again soon!  

Here is the KidCamp room we had, Syd and Gilly slept in a little room that looked like a tent, Syd really liked it.

 

Water park fun.  Gilly wasn't too sure about all the loud noises but eventually she liked it.  Syd was in the water and we couldn't get her out, she had a great time and made a lot of friends.

 Going down the kids water slides, you couldn't keep her off of them. 

 Gilly, taking her time getting in the water:)

 Sitting on the bench in the lobby.

 Standing by the bears on the bear bench.  Syd smiling and Gilly - "what you doing bear"

 Fun in the pool with dad

 HI

Dinner at the T-Rex Restaurant with Tammy, Finn, Kendall and Avery

Finn, KC and Syd

Syd and Finn by the triceratops 

The whole group

 Me with Finn and Avery

 Gilly, Syd, Al and Avery, Gilly and Syd both loved the baby

 We had some ducks that liked to come visit our hotel patio, Gilly loved them!!

 The last morning, waiting oh so patiently for the water park to open!

 Sisters

Gillian's 1 yr and Sydney's 3 yr pictures

Sydney Marie - 3 years old

 We painted her toes for her pictures! 

Gillian McKenna - 1 year old

She wasn't feeling the best on the day of her pictures but we got a few good ones.

 Look at my rocking chair, well I wouldn't sit in it but I would hang onto it.

 Grandma and Grandpa Hendrickson got in a picture with us

 Kerkman family

 Oh so pretty

Happy Birthday to Sydney and Gillian

Here are just a few pictures from the Birthday Party for the girls!  Gilly's theme was just First Birthday and Sydney's was Dora the Explorer:)

Gilly after having a cupcake on her real birthday, she liked it:)

 First Birthday Girl

3rd Birthday Girl

 Syd with cousins Chase and Caden (they came all the way from MN)

Auntie Jessie, Chase, Caden and Syd

 Syd with Mom and Dad

Grandma Mary, Syd, Al, Gilly, Charlie, Sam and Uncle Adam

 Syd with Grandma and Grandpa

 Sydney's own camera, on day one she took over 300 pictures:)

And behind her is the workbench that Gilly and Syd got from Grandma and Grandpa, they both love it!

 Happy Birthday Sydney

 My own baby, I love her

 A stroller for my baby

 Look at my highchair for my baby

After a long party day the two 3 yr olds didn't want to nap, until we put a movie on then they were both out on Auntie Jessie:)

 The party was a lot of fun, the girls had a lot of family that came to visit and spend the day with them!

Is it February already???

 Well we have been busy here at the Kerkman house!  Gilly learned to crawl at the end of December and so she is all over the place!  She has also started walking, with our hands and with the walker toy, so she is growing up.  Al had to re-do the sandbox, all the sand had blown out of it, literally!  Stupid OK wind!  So we made the sandbox smaller and put another set of railroad ties around it and we tarp it when it is super windy, who would have thought it would be this much work????  Sydney started baseball this past week and loves!  She told Al on the way home hitting and running are her favorites! We are getting set for the big birthdays, Gilly turning 1 and Syd 3, wow!

The girls love to lay on their pillows

 Coloring, Gilly likes to try to eat the crayons, we are working on that:)

 Guess who turned 11 months in January, yep Gilly!

 Gilly and Syd crawling!

 Playing in the new sandbox, and loving it!

 Loving her pizza, she is a true Kerkman!

 Playing legos