New experiences...
Did I mention slowing down in my last post? ...we'll I guess if you know the Gehrke's, slowing down is really not in our vocabulary! We had two short days to recover and then decided to head down to WI Dells for the weekend with Randy's best friend Jason, his wife and two kids for the weekend. The kids loved every moment of going to the hotel, the fun of the water park, the ropes course, the arcade and even the Packer game... Well, maybe that was more the adults. On Saturday we packed and drove down early to get to the Wilderness by noon. We reserved a 3 bedroom condo with full kitchen, it was great! On the way we planned to eat when we got to the hotel but I don't think Randy could wait any longer. We did it...we took the girls to their first McDonalds trip ever! We ordered a variety of items... hamburgers, chicken selects, fries, coke (I know they love Coca-Cola!), chicken wraps.... they looked at us like we were crazy but they seemed to like it.
Between Sat and Sun we spent about 10 hours in the 3 waterparks. The girls really loved the wave pool and the huge waterslides. It was so fun to take the 4 kids down all the BIG tube slides. Before we left today we went to the arcade/play area. We let the kids go on the ropes course, and they loved it. Although I think they were exhausted, hungry and thirsty by the end of the 30 minutes since they had spent the whole day visiting the 3 different waterparks. We arrived home tonight about 7pm. It was a great day.
We are definitely getting to experience the real side of teenage girls. They tend to get moody when they don't get their way or don't like what Mama or Tato (dad) is telling them. Hmmm, I don't think I was ever like that? They have started pouting during these challenging times, good thing it doesn't bother Randy and I. We just wait it out until they are ready to start participating with the family again. It's just one of those things that goes along with teenagers, at least that's what I assume since this is my first experience parenting them. I do feel bad when one of them is crying though. Since we can't speak their language it's hard to tell if they are just being stubborn or really are needing something from us. So we just parent with love as we would with any of our other children and pray it works!
The days seem to be running short on us. By next week Tuesday we will be heading to Minneapolis to get the girls to their flights early on Wednesday. They are definitely changing our lives. We laughed as we talked about them the other night...they just dropped into our lives 5 1/2 weeks ago and now we're not sure we want to send them back, it feels like their home is here. God is Great, but maybe crazy too? We're not sure of His plan but we haven't been sure of His plans for the last 4 years and He continues to bless our socks off every day!
Did I mention slowing down in my last post? ...we'll I guess if you know the Gehrke's, slowing down is really not in our vocabulary! We had two short days to recover and then decided to head down to WI Dells for the weekend with Randy's best friend Jason, his wife and two kids for the weekend. The kids loved every moment of going to the hotel, the fun of the water park, the ropes course, the arcade and even the Packer game... Well, maybe that was more the adults. On Saturday we packed and drove down early to get to the Wilderness by noon. We reserved a 3 bedroom condo with full kitchen, it was great! On the way we planned to eat when we got to the hotel but I don't think Randy could wait any longer. We did it...we took the girls to their first McDonalds trip ever! We ordered a variety of items... hamburgers, chicken selects, fries, coke (I know they love Coca-Cola!), chicken wraps.... they looked at us like we were crazy but they seemed to like it. 
Between Sat and Sun we spent about 10 hours in the 3 waterparks. The girls really loved the wave pool and the huge waterslides. It was so fun to take the 4 kids down all the BIG tube slides. Before we left today we went to the arcade/play area. We let the kids go on the ropes course, and they loved it. Although I think they were exhausted, hungry and thirsty by the end of the 30 minutes since they had spent the whole day visiting the 3 different waterparks. We arrived home tonight about 7pm. It was a great day. 
We are definitely getting to experience the real side of teenage girls. They tend to get moody when they don't get their way or don't like what Mama or Tato (dad) is telling them. Hmmm, I don't think I was ever like that? They have started pouting during these challenging times, good thing it doesn't bother Randy and I. We just wait it out until they are ready to start participating with the family again. It's just one of those things that goes along with teenagers, at least that's what I assume since this is my first experience parenting them. I do feel bad when one of them is crying though. Since we can't speak their language it's hard to tell if they are just being stubborn or really are needing something from us. So we just parent with love as we would with any of our other children and pray it works!
The days seem to be running short on us. By next week Tuesday we will be heading to Minneapolis to get the girls to their flights early on Wednesday. They are definitely changing our lives. We laughed as we talked about them the other night...they just dropped into our lives 5 1/2 weeks ago and now we're not sure we want to send them back, it feels like their home is here. God is Great, but maybe crazy too? We're not sure of His plan but we haven't been sure of His plans for the last 4 years and He continues to bless our socks off every day!
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