The Dells

This year we got to take a summer vacation with all of Matt's family. We all decided to meet in Wisconsin Dells because it really is such a great little vacation spot. Melissa and Alan and their kids, Josh and Alli, drove over from Utah, and Jen flew into Chicago. Grandma and Grandpa drove over from Iowa with Jamie. We got to stay in a little cabin at the Wilderness Resort, which has a ton of both indoor and outdoor swimming pools and water slides. As you can imagine, we have a TON of pictures of this fun trip, but I just wanted to highlight some of my favorites. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for making these great memories possible!

Here is the cabin we were able to stay in. It was super nice and perfect.

Besides water-slides the Wilderness Resort had a great indoor playland and climbing area.

Here are the kids making plans for their "attack" in the ball pit. There are huge air-soft guns that you can load with soft balls and shoot at anyone in the play area.

I believe this is the "target," who is having just as much fun as the kids I might add.

The adults got a little grown-up game time in.

Aunt Jen was being a good sport---the kids loved wrestling with her.

Aunt Jamie gave many a piggy-back rides during our stay.

While we were all together we celebrated Josh and Emma's summer birthdays. Josh will turn 8 this year and Emma will turn 9.

Just takin' 5 (or maybe 20).

Of course swimming was the favorite activity of the day. I swear if we let them the kids would have stayed in the water all day and night.

This is Parker's kind of swimming. He had great fun filling up his bucket over and over.

Caitlyn is playing a little water basketball, with the help of Uncle Alan of course.

Alli is testing out one of the waterslides.

Ah, yes. No swimming trip is complete without a little (or big) water gun fight.

This is one of my favorite pictures....cousins make the best friends!

Emma getting ready to spend some time in the wave pool.

They emerged from the black hole alive!

The water skiers at the Tony Bartlett show were amazing! I mean who can do that?

This is the horn guy. He seriously could play any song on these horns placed all over his body.

"Patiently" waiting for swim time.

PS...I don't have a picture but we also went and got our pictures taken in one of those old time photo shops. We all got dressed up as old time "gangstas" and the kids had a ball. The pictures turned out so cute and fun. Definitely a classic.