Last weekend we went to Omaha to visit some friends and spend some time on a little mini-family vacation. Omaha is perfect cause it's only a couple hours away and we have some old college friends that live there with kiddos the same age as Colin and Maggie.
We didn't tell the kids about the trip until a day before because neither one of them really understand the concept of "time" and what "one week" means. So, they were pretty excited to learn that we were going on a special trip, which Maggie immediately began calling an adventure, and in 3 year old speak, that was a "benture".
We left around noon on Friday and checked into our hotel and then made it to our friends, Nick and Gina's house around 4. The kids played a while, we had dinner, and then made it back to our hotel by around 8:30 or so. Nick and Gina's family are coming to KC in a few weeks, so we can return the favor and can hang out at our place soon!
Maggie refused to sit on the couch with all those boys (she was the only girl!), so we convinced her to sneak in the picture by standing behind the couch. She is so funny!
There was Maggie, Bennett, Nolan, Colin, Colin (again), Sutton, and Jackson.
The kids table at dinner
Then we recruited the kids to take a picture of all of us adults - I think Colin did pretty darn good!
On Saturday, we spent all morning playing at Coco Key water park, made it to noon mass on Creighton's campus, ate some lunch and took a nap, and ended the day with more swimming.
We ordered pizza, jumped on the beds, ate some popcorn and watched Elf on TV.
The kids thought they were in heaven.
We spent more time at the water park on Sunday before heading home around lunchtime.
It was a quick, really busy few days, but we all had so much fun!
Out of all the things to do at the waterpark, this was one of the kid's favorites:
They would climb across this hanging rope ladder and just get right back in line again.
They were the smallest kids in line, by far, but both got really good at it.
Maggie even attempted jumping from pad to pad at one point, it was pretty funny to watch!
Colin loved doing all the slides - you can barely see his arm sticking out while going around the curve
Maggie liked the smaller slides - and especially liked going down them with Brian!
Mags and I held hands going down the smaller slides - she thought that was awesome!
I, on the other hand, got really good at sliding into about 12 inches of water without hurting myself.
Here we are eating pizza in bed!
Being silly and jumping on the beds
Colin took a video of Maggie and I going down the slides holding hands
Overall, we had a wonderful "benture" :)
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