Key Lime Cove

Nana came up with a grand idea for us all to meet in Gurnee IL for a little winter birthday celebration for Grady and Eddie (Uncle Dusty too!). Gurnee was sort of central for all of us, and February seemed to be semi in the middle of all the birthdays. With Grady's birthday being the end of January, we haven't gotten together to celebrate because we get together at Christmas time, and with snowy winters, MI is a bit far for us to travel in January, and with Molly being pregnant, they won't be able to come to Eddie's birthday party, therefore it was a great idea. And it was something fun for the kids too!

So we all met at the Rainforest Cafe for lunch on Saturday before heading over to the waterpark for the afternoon. We could start using the facilities at 1pm. And the kids had a blast.

Here is Kieran! He was the master of the waterslides. No fear at all.

Then there is Rowan. She would only do the little yellow slide all day Saturday. I got her to go down a little bit bigger pink one with me a few times (which was illegal, you are supposed to go down single). But it wasn't until Sunday morning when we got busted going down together that I talked her into going down alone. And she loved it from then on! She even graduated to the green one and didn't want to stop going down!

Poor Grady wasn't feeling well. Wasn't quite himself and had a fever, so he didn't enjoy himself like he normally would have if we was feeling 100%. So he didn't get in the water much. He was okay with the lazy river, but even then he was just laying on one of us.

And Eddie was a bit young for most of it, but he too relaxed in the lazy river a few times with us. Otherwise he hung out with Nana and Julie who didn't get wet at all. He seemed to be okay with that. We didn't get any pictures of us in the lazy river because most of the time when we were in there we were all in there, and Nana and Julie we watching our things and table. So no pictures of that fun. Kieran and Rowan thought that was pretty cool too. They would sit on the tubes, then hang off the side, then climb back in. They were busy.

When we could finally get the fishies out of the water, we had some pizza for dinner and cake to celebrate the boys birthdays! Went with a construction themed cupcake cake for the occasion.

Here is Ed introducing Eddie to the cupcake for the first time. Eddie really wasn't overly interested. His dad was way more interested.

Here is Grady (2) and Eddie (soon to be 1) checking out the cake and candles. Can't wait to see Eddie attack his cake on his birthday at home! Easier to clean up at home than in a hotel.

And of course, what is a birthday without presents. We were trying to see how many people we could get on the bed at one time! Everyone except the men of the group! Eddie was more into the tissue paper than anything. He got some travel trains and backpack to carry them in and a new helicopter by vtech complete with balls. He loved it all!

Sunday morning we had some breakfast in our room, then hit up the arcade for a bit while waiting for the waterpark to open. Spent a couple hours in the water then changed and packed up to head home before check out time. Had to get home because I was on call in the afternoon. The kids were exhausted! I think we were too. Luckily we didn't all sleep too bad. But still isn't the same as your own bed. It was a fun weekend and fun to see everyone again!