Birthday Boy! Wyatt turned 6

Well our little Wyatt turned 6 this year. He is growing up so fast and at this point the only little one in our family that has school on his birthday. So we decorated the room with streamers and the night before and got up to let him color his birthday crown. Then we headed off to get his birthday donut. 

Since it was his birthday and I had to drive them straight to school after getting donuts I let Wyatt get a drink too. He was so excited and generously let his brothers get one too. haha 

While he was at school I ran some errands and picked up some balloons for him. I had spaced going the night before so I went that morning. The dollar store didn't have any helium so I had to run to party city. It all worked out in the end. When I showed up to school to pick up Wyatt with the balloons I had gotten for him he was so happy. It was truly priceless the joy in his little face seeing me running up with Birthday balloons for him. He was so happy and it made my heart happy. 

Such a cute kid! 

Then we went to firehouse for lunch. I had a free medium sandwich and figured me and Wyatt and Emmett could all share it. At first Wyatt said he didn't want the sandwich I got for him and said he didn't like it. However, once he tried it he changed his mind and was super happy I had gotten that one for him. haha Mother knows best! haha 

The rest of the day was spent having him want to open presents and me telling him "not yet". I don't remember what else we did that day until his Dad got off work but probably watched a movie because that is what Wyatt loves to do. haha 

Once everyone was home we took off to go play mini golf. 

The kids had a lot of fun and then were ready to go grab some dinner and then open presents and have cake.

Wyatt got some cool presents!

I didn't make Wyatt's cake this year. One reason was that he wanted an ice cream cake. The second reason was I was not feeling up to the challenge and in general not feeling great. Thankfully Dairy Queen was able to get the cake done in less than a day and we had an ice cream cake to give Wyatt on his birthday. He loved it!! Plus we bought a little paw patrol figure to put on the cake which he thought was awesome.

Wyatt also got some money from Grandparents, a shirt from Great Grandma huntsman and his own Checkers game and boogie board from Grandpa and GG.

It was a good birthday and I hope he felt how much we love him and how grateful we are to have him in our lives!! 

Great Wolf Lodge

September 21st we headed down to Colorado Springs to spend Thursday and Friday at Great Wolf Lodge. I picked up Wyatt at 11:30 as usual and then grabbed Ethan as well. Ethan was super sad because later that day he was supposed to have a read aloud cuddle time in class and he was super excited for it. So when we pulled him out early he started crying a little. He wasnt even super excited when we told them where we were going. He did eventually cheer up when we got to our destination. Then he said it was better than doing his read aloud at school. We were glad he was finally happy about it. They gave us wolf ears and the boys were so excited about that too.

We got a suite this time that had bunk beds and another twin bed as well as our bed. Our bed was in its own separated bedroom.

Emmett was terrified of the wave pool at first. Which I believe was because of his experience at the beach in California when he and Brandon were taken down by a wave. So at first he was super scared of the wave pool and didn't want to go in farther than his ankles. haha After a while of trying to get him to conquer his fear he was less scared and had more fun with it. Still didn't really want to go very far unless he was being held but at least he wasn't crying when we went in by the time we left. haha

The most ginormous ice cream Sunday ever!! haha We barely ate any of it. The kids didn't care to eat it they just wanted to play. Brandon and I ate some of it but man we are lightweights. haha We didn't even eat down to the cup. It was pretty funny! Oh well.. It was fun and the kids thought it was awesome except for not really wanting to eat it. haha










Wyatt was super excited to do some rock climbing.

I love Emmetts nervous face. He gets so shy and when the guy was putting on his harness he was super nervous. 

Look at that cutie pie!

They had a lot of fun. Emmett got higher than I anticipated him going. Wyatt was not going to give up.

After climbing that rock wall a ton of times Wyatt was getting pretty tired! haha

Ethan loved the ropes course. He wanted to keep doing it over and over again. He like the ropes course way better than the rock wall.

Wyatt almost didn't get to do the ropes course. The first night he tried it the person working it said he was too little. One of the guys that worked there told us to try again the next day when someone else was working the station. So we tried the next day and they let him off no questions asked. He was so happy to get to go on the ropes course. He had been super bummed the night before because he wasn't able to. So we were happy someone new was running it.




So much fun bowling! 

We all had a blast. The boys had so much fun and we got an adventure pass this time which gave us unlimited bowling, rock climbing, ropes course and mini golf. It was a lot of fun and Wyatt had a blast climbing the rock wall. He was very persistent and wouldn't give up till he made it to the top. Then he would do it all over again. Emmett even tried it once. Ethan liked the ropes course better then the rock wall. Ethan also got brave and tried out the wolf tail slide which is a drop off in the very beginning. After going on it one time he wanted to keep going on it. Wyatt had fun going on the slides that he was big enough to. Next time we will have to go when Emmett is tall enough to go on the bigger slides too. By the time we left the kids were all tired and ready to sleep in the car on the way home. We had a ton of fun as a family and were able to spend some time with the Willey's. It was a great weekend.