Sand and I decided we were sick of spending a ton of money buying Christmas presents that the kids would either break or stop playing with after a couple months. We felt they were loosing the spirit of Christmas which I think should be family and being together. So we packed everyone up and headed to West Edmonton Mall in Alberta. We spent 4 nights there, had a blast and left with some awesome Christmas memories that will last forever...

Merry Christmas! The first day we spent at the World Water Park.

Charity and I watched from the sidelines...

...and Sand took the kids out on the monster waves!

Jaxson on one of the tube slides. He had so much fun this day that he wanted to go back again the next day and was quite mad about it. But we still had 2 fun filled days left!

On Boxing Day, Mayson, Tyreed and I had the amazing opportunity to swim with Sea Lions. It was pretty amazing how well trained they are! We spent time with 3 of them. Pictured with Tyreed and I is the male, Pablo, and he was probably double the size of the females. Pictured with Mayson is Kelpie, one of the females. It was definately something to do!

This incredible day was only just beginning!

Sleeping during shopping! I gotta get this girl trained up!

Grabbing a quick bite...

petting the sting rays...

riding the segways...

... mini golf...

Charity was so hungry by the time we got to the resturant, she tried to eat the table!

The third day we spent at Galaxyland. The kids loved it!
Everyone was thinking they were all cool, no problem, until they got up there!

The clear winner rings the bell.

Charity's first Carousal ride. She cooed and giggled, it was the cutest thing ever!

There was a big version of this one -- but they wimped out at did the little kid one!

Sand tried all day to get Mayson and Ty to ride the "big" ride with him. It was the fastest, biggest, loopdy loop of a ride and finally at the end of the day they did it! They looked a little green after, but that's okay, dinner was cheap that night!

Hey guys, look what I have for dinner!