The Kimery's: Lads to Leaders and Great Wolf Lodge

Every year our Church attends a youth conference called 'Lads to Leaders and Leaderettes'. Although our boys are not old enough to actually participate in the events, we were asked to go this year because there was an extra room. Todd and I were both very excited to go because we had both been wanting to know more about what goes on at the conference. We stayed at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine and had a fabulous weekend. Blaine even got to 'lead' a song (after the real competition was over), and they let him have a medal! He had a great time playing with the big boys and swimming in the pool!

Here he is with his medal!

Here he has on his monkey back pack. He would put it on himself and ask us to take him for a walk! It was too funny!

After the conference was over, we decided to stay an extra night in Grapevine. We had been wanting to check out the Great Wold Lodge. Since we were there, it was right across the street from our hotel, and they offered us an awesome veteran's discount, we couldn't resist. I can not say enough good things about this place! The kids had a blast, and so did we!! It is such a perfect place for families with kids of all ages. Blaine really came out of his 'water' shell in the 24 hours we were here. He went from not getting off the step or out of the shallow area or even wanting to go down the little slides, to jumping in the water unassisted, going under on his own, and wanting to go on the BIG slides instead of the little slides! Bryce also had a good time playing in the kiddie area. He really liked being able to climb on and off the canoe, and he would willingly go under water to 'swim' (be pushed) back and forth between Todd and I. Here are a few pictures of the boys playing in the water!