Trip to Williamsburg

 Earlier in March, we headed to back to Colonial Heights for the day. Brent decided to attend a conference  for pastors being held at Colonial Heights Baptist Church. He invited Matt Coiner, a pastor friend from nearby at Vesuvius Baptist Church, to go too. This meant Molly and Hannah came along with us too. We headed to Colonial Heights to drop Brent and Matt off for the conference and then Molly and I with our girls headed to Williamsburg for the day.

We headed by Great Wolf Lodge to show Molly and Hannah a little about it. We have been twice with Brent when he attended Student Pastor retreats there. It is an awesome primarily indoor waterpark and you must stay there overnight to be able to go into the waterpark. However, you can go into the lobby area and view the waterpark from there. The girls had fun watching all that was going on around them.

Bekah watching the giant bucket dump water everywhere

 Next we headed for Chick-fil-A for a great lunch. We sat at the glass window beside the playground so as you can see the playground was much more interesting to Rebekah than looking at me holding the camera! I thought this was a good picture of Molly and Hannah.

 Hannah and Rebekah are very close in age and Rachel is very good with both of them. However, she figured out another perk of being the oldest on this trip. Neither of the little girls was big enough to go through the Chick-fil-A playground on their own yet, so she got to take a few trips through while they watched her.

Can't you just see what good friends these two will be...

 We actually headed back to Great Wolf Lodge for a few minutes after lunch.
The last time our family went to Great Wolf was February 2011. Rachel was 2 and I was pregnant with Rebekah. While we were there, they do a bedtime story and the kids can meet the characters that are a part of Great Wolf Lodge. Wally is the wolf that is their mascot. Back in 2011, Rachel got her picture made with Wally and talked about this for Months!! We noticed when we stopped by in the morning that the characters would be out just after lunch. Guess who that character for that day was...

Yep, Wally...

After this, we headed to the outlets for a little shopping. I found a couple of cute shirts for the girls and matching sunglasses. Molly was looking for a jacket. We both found what we were looking for there but we didn't stay too long. What was supposed to have been a sunny 55 degree day ended up being much cooler and windy!

Soon it was time to head back and pick up Brent and Matt. After that we headed to "Father Abraham." This has been Rachel's name for Cracker Barrel since she was two. We are not sure how she came to call it this but "Father Abraham" it is for her!

We enjoyed supper with the Coiners' and were also blessed to get to see our friends from Richmond, the Reids. We had a great day visiting with new and long time friends!

Rachel, Hannah and Pastor Matt

Judy, Rachel, Rebekah and I