I was provided with tickets for my family in exchange for writing this post.
It’s summer.
I love summer.
Summer is all about fun, and this post is all about fun. I am SO excited to host this giveaway for a FOUR PACK of tickets to a Hawaiian Falls waterpark!!
Wahoo!!!
Hmmmm. How to relate this to cleaning?? Well, even if you forget to do the dishes the night before, you won’t see them all day because you’re at the park, and you won’t even think about them because you’re having so much fun!
Now that I’ve made it totally, completely relevant, let me just say that my kids and I love these waterparks. We go every summer. As you know, I’m mostly, kinda-sorta taking the summer off from blogging. Days like the ones we spend at Hawaiian Falls are the reason. I want to be fully there with/for my kids during these fleeting days/years while I have them to myself.
All to my greedy-mommy-self.
So, when I had the opportunity to go play on the ropes course at one of the parks with some other Dallas bloggers, I took it. I took it because it meant I could offer one of you the chance to be with YOUR kids one day this summer doing fun stuff together.
I maybe also took it because I got tickets for me and my kids.
Fine. I mostly took this opportunity because it sounded so fun. And it was!
I love water rides. I love swimming. But this particular park in W. Settlement, Texas (and one like it in Pflugerville, TX near Austin) not only has water stuff, but also an Adventure Park!
Adventure Park = ropes course.
Not only can you do the wave pool and the waterslides and the lazy river, you can play on three stories of ropes courses, each story with about ten challenges. That’s included in the price of going to the waterpark for the day. For an extra cost, you can also zipline across the entire park.
Like me: 
I did that. Across the park and back again. Waaaahhhhh!!! Lest you think I’m brave, I took forEVER to step off that platform and I asked and re-asked the worker sixty-ba-jillion times if she was SURE everything was hooked correctly.
Fun, but scary.
Needless to say, my kids have decided we’re going to this specific park so they can experience the ropes course. Just note that if you go to one of the two with an Adventure Park (W. Settlement and Pflugerville), bring close-toed shoes and clothes to wear over your suit. You have to be dry, and can’t do it in flip flops. If I didn’t know that ahead of time, we’d not be prepared!
But you’ll have fun at any of the locations, even without the Adventure Park. I (and all my mom-friends) love these parks because they are amazingly family-friendly. They are small, so it’s easy to set up a meeting spot and get back to it if your family wants to split up for a ride or two. There are also plenty of shaded spots, and sections for younger kids. They also play family-friendly music and offer unlimited drinks for the day for 4.99! Not bad!
Oh. And parking is free.
All these things give my mama-heart the warm-fuzzies, and these warm-fuzzies got warmer when the owner spoke to those of us at the blogger event. Hearing his heart for this business was so interesting and fun. He is in this business specifically to provide a place for families to have fun together. The comfort and happiness of the mama is top priority. The small size and other family-friendly features are purposeful.
So, if you’re in Texas, check out the locations and see if there’s one near you. Or maybe you’re heading to the Dallas or Austin area for a vacation this summer! All you have to do to enter the giveaway is leave a comment below sharing your favorite family summer memory.
Enter the giveaway AND go ahead and use these coupons for Mondays and Tuesdays! These are some great savings!
Prize Details
One commenter will win a four-pack of tickets that can be used for one day’s admission to any of the seven Hawaiian Falls waterpark locations, all located in Texas. Most are in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, plus one near Austin. Hawaiian Falls will provide the tickets and will mail them directly to the winner.
Giveaway details
You are allowed one entry. The prize is four one-day tickets to any Hawaiian Falls location, valued at $107.96. Tickets must be used in the summer of 2015. All parks are located in Texas. The giveaway is open to people living in the continental U.S. Enter by commenting on this post directly. The giveaway will close on Sunday, July 5th at 10 p.m. Central time. The winner (chosen randomly) will be notified via email, and will have 48 hours to respond to the email. If a response is not received in that time, another winner will be chosen. See all giveaway policies here.
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Hmmm…summer fun memory. Although we had a great time on our trip to visit family in Michigan (and the 20 hours of driving there and back), I love the mundane of summer – the afternoon trips to the pool, ice cream runs, and more.
I had no idea that location had an Adventure Park (which my boys would love). We might have to drive much farther to that location just to try it out!
We got a chance to go to the Mansfield Hawaiian Falls a few years back. We will be moving towards White Settlement this summer. Would be great to go check it out! Thanks for the preview!!
wow! I am in Texas (Houston area) and I had never heard of this place! It sounds SOOOOOOOOOO fun! Thank you for the opportunity.
Some of my favorite summer memories are us tent camping in Oklahoma. Now my kids are older and we don’t go very much anymore. We would love to win the tickets. That would make for an awesome summer day.
Thanks so much for the chance to win! 🙂
If you asked my boys what their favorite summer memory was it would be the roadtrip we took to Utah with my mother a couple of years ago. We basically borrowed a motor home and headed west without too much of plan other than to see The Grand Canyon along the way, and visit Zion National Park and Goblin Valley State park. Before the trip was over 4 weeks later we’d hit up 6 National Parks, and a dozen or more State Parks and seen, hiked, or biked some of the most beautiful country we’ve ever seen. But what I treasured most about the trip was getting to spend time with the boys – the longest we’ve spent together since they were infants. We were all pretty sad when they headed back to daycare and I headed back to work. It’s one of the hardest things about being a working mom – missing out on the little day-to-day things.
Our favorite summer memory is going camping at the Lake Proctor, but with all of the rain, camp sites shut down until the end of July! We love Camping in our 5th wheel, it is Texas, we need the air conditioning! We swim, fish, read, and play games. We just have a great time with family and friends.
I live in Texas, too, and had not heard of these parks. I need to plan on checking one out, whether or not I get the free tickets. We are moving the weekend of July 4th, so this would be a great reward for the family after all the hard work is done.
I live right up the road from the waterpark and would dearly love to win this and take my Grand daugters this summer.
What a fun giveaway! It looks like you had a great time there!
This would be a delightful time either for DD and me when I get back to Texas or for her and a friend. Thanks for the opportunity.
My favorite summer family memory is spending time on the lake together!
Thanks for the great giveaway. I wanted to take my kids out somewhere this summer. This would be awesome. My kids love being outside playing and they love swimming.
Now THAT’S what I call summer Fun!
Glad you had some ‘selfish’-mommy-time!
My favorite memory as a child was going to Dogpatch in Arkansas with my grandparents, but that park is long gone now 🙁 With my own kids, we’re so busy for most of the year that we like to have a lazy summer without much to do most days besides go swimming and hang out with friends, with a few fun activities that we don’t usually do sprinkled in. This summer, we’ll go to a minor league baseball game and to Six Flags, and it would be great to spend a day at Hawaiian Falls as well!
We’re in Texas and could easily drive and make it a weekend trip. Win or no win, thank you for showing us this super fun waterpark. Noni, you are so much fun! I hope your kids appreciate you!
My favorite summer memory is beach vacation with everyone in the same beach house! Texas isn’t too far from us. We could definitely swing a trip!
We try to make a good memory every year. Last year, we road tripped through Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas and sang silly songs while eating food out of a cooler at rest stops. The kids talk about it all the time.
Pick me! Pick me! Favorite summer memory… Going to the lake with my family when I was young. Nothing like soggy ham sandwiches on a boat!
A favorite summer memory for me is going to St Augustine Fl. It is a great city.
My favorite summer memory is spending all day at the base pool. Even more so, I loved watching my mom make 12+ sandwiches and put them in her Tupperware cake holder. They were so good a few hours later!
I am currently living in S. Korea with my husband who is in the army here, but I have family and friends all over Texas. I am wondering if I could enter on behalf of my family? It is tough being able to get meaningful gifts for them being so far away, but this would be a great gift.
If they can be mailed to the person living in the U.S. That will work!
I love making memories with my kids, especially during the summer!! I think our favorite trip was when we went to California for my brothers wedding. It was the first time 3 out of 4 of my kids had been to the beach, and on an airplane!! We did sea world and the hubby and I were soo proud of ourselves and the kids! We opened and closed the park in sand Diego, in July, with 4 kids 7 and under with no major meltdowns, no sunburns, and no lost children!! So much fun!!
I also love the simple things, sprinklers, the pool, the drive in!
We love HF! My son had his first experience last summer and has been asking nonstop when we can go back. Favorite summer memories for me always involve the pool, because it’s too dang hot here to do much else. In particular, my kids love having Popsicle breaks by the pool. 🙂
Good luck to everyone entering. I probably won’t ever make it to Texas, but if I did, this place would be awesome.
We live in Texas. It is such a big state every summer we do a mini vacation we call The Tour of Texas. We pick an area of Texas we haven’t been before,research it and go visit. We would lI’ve to visit one of these parks this summer!
This looks amazing! I live in California but my 12-year-old daughter and I are flying to Texas for a long weekend this summer. This would be perfect. Thanks for the opportunity to go for free. We’ll be going either way.
My favorite summer memory? Last summer I drove my 5 kids from SoCal to Bountiful, UT with several stops along the way. Our faves were Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, UT and Zion’s National Park.
The long hot days of Summer has begun and a visit to Hawaiian Falls would be a great way to relax and enjoy the park.
My favorite summer memory is making homemade icecream and enjoying it on the patio with my family.
We are in the Texas hill country. My favorite memories are spending 4th of July at the lake with kids and family.
I loved going tubing with my extended family on the Guadalupe when I was a kid. There’s a place under a bridge where you can go over a little spillway/dam as often as you like, but when I’ve gone tubing as an adult, I have never gone quite that far down. That, and just riding my bike all over my [small!] hometown all day.
In addition to taking the kids to the pool, I love going to the ocean! There’s this cool place in Corpus Christi where there’s a shallow pool between the beach and the street. Its free and helped get that last bit of sand off the kids before we got back into the car after a day at the beach.
P.S. I live in Fort Worth. Pick me! Pick me!
There are a few in my family who would really like this. I would go just to watch them having fun.
As a kid, my grandparents took all 7 of their grandkids camping in the Arkansas mountains. It is a fond memory for all of us. Now as an adult, my parents have began taking all of us (kids & grandkids) on a beach vacation every year. It’s such a fun time to spend together.
Favorite summer memory is spending time on the lake with family. We would love to try Hawaiian Falls!
I have 5 girls, and one of my favorite summertime memories was taking them canoeing on the Brazos river! We were hot, sunburned and exhausted when it was over, but it was such a blast!
We live right down the road from a Hawaiian Falls, and I would love to be able to take my girls this summer! 🙂
Well, we are crazy year-round homeschoolers, so our favorite “summer” vacation was when we rented an RV for a week. We did a tour of several Texas State Parks. We drove from DFW to Wichita Falls, to Quitaque, to Canyon and Amarillo, to Quanah, and back to DFW. We saw some of the best places in Texas. And for the record, Palo Duro Canyon is awesome. 🙂
We live in DFW and hope to make it to HF very soon. Both my kids are water babies and I can’t wait to have some summer fun with them!
Oh that looks like such fun! My little family has been up in Dallas for about a year but we haven’t been able to go on many adventures yet as I was finishing up my degree at UT Arlington (with a 4 and 5 year old…. I’m trying to figure out how to wrangle the mess at home that grew and grew while I studied). I graduated in May and this would be so great to be able to take the kids and hubby to before I start my new career! Thanks for the opportunity!
One of my favorite summer memories is the time my sister, our neighbors and I used the water hose to make a mud-based slip-n-slide in the front yard. (No trip to the store required!) We spent what seems like hours getting as muddy as humanly possible, until my grandmother opened the front door to call us home and saw the new mud pit where the front yard used to be. We were grounded from playing outside for a week, but it’s the only day I remember precisely from the whole summer!
My favorite summer memories from childhood are catching fireflies with my cousins, attending summer camp and swimming in all the lakes back in Michigan. Now that I live in Texas, summer is all about swimming pools and cool drinks to beat the heat. My boys would live to go to HF! Thanks for hosting this fun contest. Fingers crossed! 🙂
Oh Oh Oh. I hope I can win. This would make my summer.
I would love to surprise my wife with this prize!
I am near Dallas! I can do this….
Love your blog and podcast. I live in Austin and we were thrilled when Hawaiian Falls opened nearby. So much fun!! I’d love to bring my daughter and a friend.
LOVE HF! My faborite vacation was a trip to Branson. Even the kids had fun!
Pick me! 😉 We drive past the one in Mansfield a lot and my kids will love to go! That’s just a pricy day for a family of 6. I’d love to do the non wet stuff, too! I had no idea they did that!
My daughter has been begging me to go to this particular park, so winning these would be perfect! My favorite summer memory is when we went to Arizona a few summers ago and visited Tombstone, The Musical Instrument Museum, and the Grand Canyon. We alsovisted Holbrook(the place where the Disney Cars cartoon is based), as well as various other locations on Route 66………….
My favorite summer memory was 2 years ago when we took our 3 kids to the lake for some camping. We went with some friends and camped, boated, swam, grilled and talked late into the nights. It was a wonderful family outing. We like to do these things with our kids as often as possible. We were sunburned and water logged at the end of 3 days, but it was an amazing time.
We are close to Hawaiian falls and this is just the type of thing we are looking to do.
This looks like so much fun!
We’ve recently moved to McKinney from Lubbock–this water park looks like a lot of fun for my two girls!
My favorite summer memories are the weeks my sister and I spent at my Grandma’s house in Pennsylvania. We would help with yard work, learn about the plants in her garden, play with the hose in the yard, pick apples, and make the smoothest homemade freezer applesauce I’ve ever tasted.
We are so close to the Roanoke park but I have never been!
My family went to six flags and hurricane harbor in California one summer! it was awesome.
I went to Maui with my husband and daughter a few years ago. I loved watching the surfers navigate fifteen feet faces! Amazing!
My most favorite summer memory is the year my husbands job raised money for us to be able to go to Great Wolf Lodge. We are a family of 9 so very hard for use to do anything. This would be a big help for us all to get to go.
I don’t live far from the pfluggerville location, but haven’t had the opportunity to visit yet. Would love to check this new water park out!
I drive by Hawaiian Falls almost daily and my kids always ask for me to take them there. Would love to win tickets so that I can take them.
Looks really fun! I think my family would have a great time!
We have one not too far from here!
My family and I recently moved to Houston and we would love to try this place out! Sounds like a fun way to cool off!
I’m 30 weeks pregnant with our 3rd and final baby! My husband and I would love to take our girls out for a fun day before the new baby gets here!
I would love to win some tickets. The drawing ends on my son’s birthday and this would be a great treat for him!
This looks like more fun that I can ever remember having as a kid! Would be fun to take the grandkids – we live between San Antonio & Austin so not a long drive at all.
White water rafting
My favorite summer memory was from two summers ago. My four kids and my mom and I traveled from Texas to WA state for a family reunion. Most of the family traveled to the family cabin and spent the weekend hiking, swimming in the pond, cooking over the camp fire, and it was awesome to watch the next generation of cousins meet each other and become fast friends, and take them swimming in the cold pond for the first time! It had been over 20 years since the family had gathered together at the cabin, and it was such a fun time together! It was also bittersweet, because many hiked together up to the top of the cliff that overlooked the meadow and cabin and pond and we scattered the remainder of my brother’s ashes. He had died just eight months before, and we were still reeling from his death. We spent some time sharing favorite memories about him, and also be able to laugh about some of the crazy things we all did together. It was a wonderful weekend!
We love HF and I had no idea that White Settlement has the adventure part! My kids would absolutely love that!
Our favorite summer memory involves any time spent in the water. Lol. My youngest just learned to swim and he is a fish! So we spend as much time as we can in the water or anything involving water. We have made our own water toys for playing outside, so fun to make things with them no matter what it is we are making.
We just moved to the North side of San Antonio. I’m glad to hear about this place! Summer memories at its best!
One of my favorite summer memories was going to New Orleans on a band trip with my son.
We just got home from a weeklong trip to San Marcos for a baseball tournament. I passed that water park in Pflugerville and had no idea that they had one there. Nor did I know about their ropes course. So cool!! My favorite summer memory just happened last summer. My boys are baseball loving fools. We have decided to become ballpark chasers. This means that we will visit all of the MLB ballparks, hopefully. They even journal their entire time there. And we get to the ballpark early enough to walk around the entire ballpark. Last year we had the opportunity to go to 4 different ball parks. I absolutely love doing this experience and watching it their eyes. What better defines summer than baseball and waterparks! Happy summer y’all!
I can see the White Settlement location from my house but haven’t been able to go yet.
My favorite summer memory involves riding in the back of my parents VW bus with my 3 siblings, no AC, from DFW to Colorado to visit Grandparents. Of course that is being eclipsed with the new memories happening right now with my 9-month-old son who is happiest while playing in water of any kind!
Dana,
OMG! Can I say I have never met anyone as much like me as you. I just started listening to your podcasts last week, and am up to about 12. I also love your site here. I am ADD and the things you say are exactly like me with cleaning. As I listen, I just burst out laughing a lot. I was out of town last week as I listened to the first few podcasts . It got me so motivated. Your tips are right on. I have been home four days and my family is looking at me like “What has got into you?” I am decluttering and cleaning like a madwoman using your lists a!! I wish I could get you to come to Alabama and speak at our Parent Day at the school I am the media specialist with . I am one of the ones to get the speakers. But I am sure you don’t want to travel that far!!!
I am hoping I can stay motivated once school starts back and I am out of the home most of the day> I guess I need make sure my list are organized to fit around it. I may make Sat. my laundry day. I love the all day way. THANKS FOR HELPING THIS SLOB! I love the decluttering questions too. That works for me!
Best summer memories…..any trip to Galveston or Corpus Christi as a kid, camping at Lake Whitney with my grandparents, hanging out at Surfside with my husband, kids and mom
Awesome!! Thanks so much for the giveaway!
Thank you for the chance to win! I just heard about your blog from a friend and I desperately need this in my life.
I’m a mom of two and feel totally overwhelmed by the mess and clutter in our house. I feel lazy and have mom guilt. I don’t want them to learn these habits! Anyways I’m on the road to becoming organized little by little.
I’m trying to take one day at a time! Happy fourth to you and yours!
I live in North Texas but have never been to any of the Hawaiian Falls parks. My kids would go insane if we won tickets! 🙂
Perfect timing! My husband and I were talking about this place just before school let out. My youngest and I have never been. Who doesn’t love free parking?
My favorite vacation story happened four years ago as it was the last vacation I had.. it was terrible we broke down at the campsite on fri and had to wait til monday to get part we needed so the weekend was spent together and ended up pretty great.. it was last vacation I had all my kids at home and ended with watching baby kemps Ridley turtles being released back into the gulf of mexico and seeing my kids catch their First fish..
I like about 2 minutes from Hawaiian Falls and have never been! This would be an awesome day adventure for us!
I love Hawaiian falls in Mansfield but I’m going to have to try that one in white settlement with the ropes course that looks fun
I think my favorite Summer memories are setting off fireworks in the country. So much fun!
We just made my favorite summer memory last month, actually. We took our 6 year old daughter to Walt Disney World. We ate breakfast in Cinderella’s castle (with princesses!) and then got lucky with a short line to meet Anna and Elsa. My daughter was dressed as Elsa for the breakfast, therefore to meet Elsa as well. The look on her face when she saw her was just filled with awe (so was mine to an extent, her costume was AMAZING). Of course Elsa fawned over my daughter’s dress and it was so magical for her to get to talk to this ‘magical queen’.
I personally really love visiting Disney World, and was so excited to get to share it with my daughter. I just wish we lived closer so we could go more often. 🙂
What a fun giveaway. I have been to that same HF last year and it was a blast! Would love to go again, but we are in the middle of buying our first home so the budget is tight.
The rope course looks amazing! Then after getting all hot you can just relax and cool off. LOVE IT!
Every summer I take my kids to the DFW area and it has been our tradition to seek out age-appropriate water fun. They are just this year finally old enough to venture to Hawaiian Falls, so it would be super fun to go for free! This Dallas trip has become one of the most fun trips of summer – we play, eat, sing loudly in the car, giggle, and try new things! Would love to win!!!
My sister lives near the Hawaiian Falls in Plugerville and we have been wanting to check it out so I would love to win this one!!
Our favorite family vacation memory was when we went to Disney three years ago. Seeing my kids and husband experience the magic of Disney for the first time was priceless!
Would love to win these! Favorite summer memories are always made when we can get away on a road trip to Galveston 🙂
My favorite summer memories are trips to Branson relaxing with the kids and just enjoying them. I have been so busy with a move I haven’t gotten to spend much time just enjoying the kids this summer. I would love a chance to spend a day of fun with them.
This looks like fun! Especially the obstacle course. We are in Texas and would definitely use these tickets. Hope our family wins the tickets!
My sister and brother in law are visiting U.S. In Austin this summer so this would be a great place to take them. I hope I win!
My summer fun memory is the year that the children and I traveled from Texas to my hometown in Massachusetts. We created so many wonderful memories 🙂
My family would love this. We live in Austin and have been wanting to go. Would be great to surprise them with tickets.
We live in Garland, a Dallas suburb. My son and granddaughter would be thrilled to go to this park! I don’t think they’ve ever been before. Sounds like fun!
My favorite summer memory is our vacation to Lake Palestine this summer. It rained on us every day, but we still had so much fun anyway!
Oh my goodness! My sister just moved to Bastrap, Tx (8 hours to far away for a sister to live) and we have driven past the one in Pflugerville many times! It looks so fun! I am currently a wife of 18 years, mother of 2 girls and a full time college student. This would be such a welcomed and awesome get-a-way, and a wonderful reason to visit my sister and brand new nephew!
Last year we were able to spend several days at a lake in Arkansas. We had about 60 members of our family there from 3 different states. It was great to just relax, swim, and play games with everyone. In a couple of weeks about 40 of us are meeting at a water park to spend the day together. We would love to try Hawaiian Falls next!