Halle's Birthday Part 1

To begin our celebration of Halle's 7th birthday, we decided to take her to Splash Village in Frankenmuth, MI (it's only about 30 minutes from where we live). We got all packed up and ready to go Thursday night so that we could leave right after Halle got out of school on Friday. On Friday, I had to work, so Brad took up McDonald's and ate lunch with Halle at school. He also took up cookies for everyone in her class. She was so excited to have him there. Halle also wore a "Birthday Girl" sash to school on Friday. Once school got out, we took off to Splash Village. We have been there before, so we were all geeked up about all the fun we were going to have.

Halle in her sash

We spent about 3 hours at the waterpark on Friday. Around 7ish, we were all starting to get hungry. Seeing as how it's snowy and freezing here, we had absolutely no deisre to go anywhere out of the hotel, so we got dressed and went down to the restaurant at the hotel. There wasn't hardly anyone there, so it was nice and quiet and relaxing. All of our food was good and Halle got a blue slushie as her birthday dessert. We had planned to go back to the room and watch a movie, but Halle opened up her birthday presents from us and then played with them the rest of the evening. We were all pretty tired and were in bed and sleeping by 10:30- which is super early for Brad and me.

Here's part of the park

At dinner




Halle opening up her presents in the hotel room-Parker wanted to helpShe got a disco ball!!

And of course, the blessed HSM 3 cd!!

On Saturday, we went to McD's for breakfast. Parker was hilarious because he was SO hungry. He kept stuffing his face full of food. I think he ate more than Brad. Halle ate all of her meal too!!! I guess all the swimming made them hungry. We then went back to the hotel and played in the waterpark for about 4 hours. Halle loved everything there! She was going non-stop!!!!

Parker wanted to play basketball in the pool the entire timeHalle going down on the slidesBrad and Parker
Halle enjoyed running across on the slippery lily pads...here she took a spill



Halle went down the 2 big waterslides a TON of times! They are super fun!We came back home mid-afternoon, went out to eat with the DeLanges, and then Halle went to see "Bedtime Stories" with Brad's parents and Jess. I made Hello Kitty cupcakes and got all the groceries bought for tomorrow's party (Halle's Birthday Part 2- look for that on tomorrow's blog).

Everyone had a blast at Splash Village!!! Halle couldn't stop talking about it all week long!! She counted down the days until we went! It was such a nice way to celebrate her birthday this year!!! We had so much fun, it might become a new birthday tradition!!!