Just mom and the girls waiting around and we thought what the heck we could take a pic. Dad was talking with someone else at the time (what's new) :)
Oh I am behind on some blogging items! On 1/31/09 we traveled down the road to the Bloomer Jump offs. Autumn had done a great job to get there and then didn't quite make it past the preliminaries to finals. But we commended her for doing a great job and she learned that jumping in front of a full crowd, in front of three counters and two back ups, on a gym floor all by herself was just a little intimidating. We took them up to Chetek afterwards and stopped at Gilligans for lunch. She was better after she ate something. We just thought it was a good experience and no matter what - she made it there. Autumn is warming up in the above-pic apparently I did a movie of her jumping and not one single shot of her actually jumping.
So mid-winter break was upon us last week and we took the kids to the Kalahari. We had a blast. We did just about everything the girls wanted us to do. Ambrea was dead set that she was going to make it up the rock wall. She had five rocks to go and they were out of her reach, but wow! Autumn wanted me to go on the rope walk high above the crowd (literally). I did it - did not enjoy it cuz once you are up there and started you must finish. Yeah - Autumn zoomed through it and was playing games again with her dad before I was even done. She then proceeds to ask me what the heck took so long -thanks! We did water slides I recommend the water roller coaster or as my girls referred to it as the "big blue one." At first, Ambrea went down with her dad and was done doing that the moment she stepped out of the water. She went on the other slides that one just wasn't her cup of tea. Autumn, on the other hand, was bound and determined to get her sister on it again. With a little coaxing - okay a lot of coaxing she caved and as long as she sat in the back of the tube all was well. They went down it 3 times in a row. Autumn's mission to go as many times as she could, full board, don't rest. Dave - well he just wanted his pic taken with the ape. So of course, we had to make sure we got that pic. I actually laugh when I look at it - that's all that matters. We played lots of games and the girls did a couple rounds of Lazar tag. They loved every minute of their time playing and by Sunday afternoon they were ready to go back to school (or maybe we were glad)
