Madison turns 3 - Part II

As part of Madison's birthday celebration, we decided to go to Sioux Falls and stay over night! We headed to the Clubhouse hotel by Johnny Carino's. We had been there before and it is such a nice hotel! We got there around 2 p.m. on the 18th. First things first...swimming! We had been there about 5 min. and both girls had their suits on!

They have a great pool for kids! They have a nice, small waterslide, a frog slide, a mushroom, and a hot tub for the parents!

Even Madison went down the waterslide by herself...with a life jacket on of course!

She is a little fish in the water! She has no fear.

Auntie and Kevin came with us for the weekend. Supper was at Texas Roadhouse...

a favorite of all of ours!

Silly faces!

The real reason the girls wanted to eat there was because of the saddle you get to sit on when it's your birthday! Plus the singing and dancing the staff does is fun!

Oh, and the free icecream is a plus too!

Next stop was Falls Park to see the lights! We went threw 2 times as it is so neat!

They have this awesome sign that we talked ourselves into standing by for some pictures. It was a cold night and we had to walk a little ways in the snow to get to it. It was worth it though! It says "Winter Wonderland!"

The girls were ready to get back to swim a little more before the pool closed for the night. Here are some pictures of round 2 of swimming!

While I got ready the next morning, Jason took the girls to swim one more time. We had a great breakfast at the hotel when they were done and were off to our next birthday adventures!

Our first stop was the mall...to get Madison's EARS PIERCED!!!

Here she is showing us her ears pre-piercing!

These are the earrings she picked out...they were flower December birthstone earrings!

Super cute!

I'm prepping her here by telling her they are going to put dots on her ears with a marker so they know where to put her earrings. She was not scared at all. She was actually really excited!

Here they go...

I'm skipping the pictures of the tears. She cried for about a minute after.

This was her with her beautiful earrings about 2 minutes after!

This was all of us just after she got them pierced! No more tears!

She was excited to go on to the next thing...Chucky Cheese!

I'm not sure what it is about Chucky Cheese...but our kids just love that place! From what I can tell, every kid loves that place! The next pictures are of the girls playing at Chucky Cheese!

After lunch that day, it was time to head home. Ok, we had to make a couple stops first to shop a little! It was such a fun weekend!