Day 8

All of us at Chef Mickey with Minnie and our mouse ears!!


Each night when we came back to the hotel the maid had a new scene in the window waiting for us. the kids couldn't wait to see what it was each night!
This was coming home. Once we neared the airport in Bloomington Kait looked out the window and said "Ahhhhhhhh, sweet country livin'!" It was so funny!

So we are home safe and sound, wishing we were still in Florida!! We had a great time! This year Disney's "theme" was The Year of a million Dreams. Well they exceeded my expectation a million times over! It was a great time with great food and I can't wait to go back!

I'm hooked!

Day 6 & 7

day 6 we spent at Typhoon Lagoon. They had a water coaster! That was fun. They also had a saltwater tank that you could snorkel and see the fish and sharks!! Khloe screamed they whole time and had to be hauled out by the life guard!

Day 7 we headed over to MGM to see some shows. Drew and Daddy went on the Tower of Terror!! Then we saw the Doodlebops in concert! That was fun!
After the Doodlebops we headed to Beauty and the Beast. This was a beautiful show!

We also got some pretty good seats for the parade at MGM. This was the only parade that we made it to.

After the parade we headed over to Epcot for our dinner reservations. We ate at the Coral Reef, which was neat. The main wall was a huge aquarium! There were sharks and huge turtles! Kait had salmon and loved it! We went on Soaring! Khloe and I were scared to death but the boys and Kait loved it! Khloe was crying and the lady next to us said if she was a big girl she would give her Princess ears to Khloe. You can see Khloe in her Ears below!

Day 5

It was another busy day in the world that is Disney!

We headed to the Magic Kingdom and enjoyed a day with few people and lots of entertainment!

We rode many of the big roller coasters today!

Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain, Space Mountain!!! YAY us!

All of us girls were scared!

I didn't let it show though! I was the brave Mommy that told the girls that it wouldn't be so bad when really I was trying to convince myself!

It was a lot of fun, there were no lines, it was great!

We also toured Mickey and Minie's houses...

This is Minnie's fireplace.
This is a show that we watched in front of the Castle.
This was taken with all of our mouse ears in front of Mickey's house.

These next pictures loaded weird, but I didn't want to have to redo it. This was probably my favorite part of our trip. The kids all got dressed up for our dinner with the Princesses. Drew was Peter Pan, Kait was Belle and Khloe was Tinkerbell. The were all so cute! The girls got matching dresses for their American Girl Dolls. Walking through Epcot all heads were turning to look at our cute kids and their dolls. We had many comments and people stopping us! Kait said she felt like a movie star!

We had dinner at the Akershus Royal Banquet Hall.
There is just somethig magical about the princesses! They are so beautiful and their dresses are so beautiful, it is like the just stepped out of the pages of the storybook!

This is the kids with Belle.

Kait & Felicity

Khloe & Samantha

and Mr. Drew.

I just love this pictre of my litte Princesses!! (left)

Here are the kids with Cinderella.

(below)

This was Jasmine. (Yes, her breasts were hanging out.)
Ariel, The Little Mermaid. She was soooo beautiful!! They all had these tiny princess voices! They were all so great and talked to the kids, the did not rush like other places that we have been.
The kids with Aurora, Sleeping Beauty.

It was another magical day at Disney.

Disney Days 3 & 4

Our third day was sprnt at the waterpark Blizzard Beach.

I locked the camera up this day, and so I don't have any pictures.

Our fourth day we spent at The Animal Kingdom. This was a beautiful park!

The kids enjoyed all of the animals.

We went to the Finding Nemo play. Finding Nemo is my favorite Disney movie, and so I enjoyed it very much! The acting/puppetry was wonderful! We have enjoyed all of the shows we have gone to here. They have all been very well done!
We went on a ride that takes you through "Africa" on a safari.
It was fun to see all of the animals up close.

This was our first picture with Minnie!

We had breakfast at the Animal Kingdom. We ate with Donald, Pluto and Mickey.

Walt Disney World Day 1 & 2

We were actually in the air before the sun came up on Saturday morning!
Everything went well with the flight. The kids were excited to be flying again!

This was the first picture I took in Disney World.

We arrived at our resort late in the afternoon. We had not eaten, and it was pouring down rain, so we decided to get a bite to eat. We felt much better and ready to explore!

We did not want to use our park passes on just a few hours in the park, so we headed down to Downtown Disney. This picture was taken at Lego Land, these people are made of Legos!

We did not get into The Magic Kingdom until Sunday morning. The girls and I couldn't wait to see the castle!!! This was our first peek!!!

As we entered the park, we headed for Fantasy land... and Alice and the Madhatter were waiting for us there!!! The girls got to ride the tea cups with Alice!! What a way to start our vacation! They were very excited, and when I asked them later that night what their favorite part of the day was, this was Kait's!

We had brunch with some Playhouse Disney friends at MGM.

Drew was excited to see some of his friends from TV!

We participated in a Pep Rally for the High School Musical.

This was a street show and it was really fun! The girls loved it!

We had a really great day hopping between MGM and The Magic Kingdom! It was such a busy day I din't even remember what all we did. The kids have enjoyed getting autographs from all of the charactures. This one was actually taken at 1am as we were leaving the park!!

Can you believe it!? 1:00 in the morning!!! Our day started at 6:30am! It was a long day, but boy did we have fun!

That's not to say that the kids weren't tired! Check out these shots of Khloe and Drew waiting for the fireworks at 10pm. Khloe is laying on my leg in the middle of Main Street and Drew was sitting up!!

Here are some great shots that I got of the castle durring the "Wishes" firework presentation...

Happy 6th birthday Drew!

I can't believe my BABY is 6!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday to Drew!

Oh my how time flies!
Opening presents.

Lots of friends were here. Colton and Carson from church, Noel, Katie and Justin from the sitters, neighbor Tyler, cousin Gracie, Grandma Jaeda, Grandma & Grandpa Penny, Great Grandma McCoy, Uncle Andy, Uncle Chris & Leslie and Papa Dixon.

For the theame of his party, Drew wanted a Six Flags slide and swimming party!
The slide has gotten lots of use this summer!

Drew wanted golf clubs for his birthday. He has played with Rich's, I guess that is where he came up with the idea. This is not his club, but it is Drew playing his new favorite sport...Golf! We took him to the driving range and he bought his clubs there. Then we bought a bucket of balls and we all hit some. It was fun!

Bad blogger

I have been such a bad blogger! So much has happened in recent months, so much to catch up on... let's see... Khloe's 8th birthday, my 30th birthday, Kait's 10th birthday, Drew's 6th birthday, our Recommitment ceremony, vacation and back to school. Stay tuned for updates while I locate pictures!

I guess I'll work my way backwards. I haven't downloaded 1st day of school pics yet, so let's start with vacation.

Our final destination was Branson. We left Monday and stopped in St. Louis for a Cardnials game. I forgot my camera that night!

Then we went to the Merrimac State Park for some camping activities.

We went on a 5 mile float down the Merrimac River. That was so fun!

The water and the surroundings were beautiful!!

This was on a nature hike. There were caves that you could stop at along the way, but the kids would not go in!

Roasting S'Mores in your bathing suit! You don't see that everyday!

This was our campsite. It was hot, but we survived. I was proud of myself for making it through my first campout that wasn't in my backyard. It was a lot of fun!

We met my parents, two of my brothers and Tim's girlfriend Amy in Branson. We stayed at the same condo complex. It was really nice traveling with them. I think we all had a great time!

This is everyone at dinner.

Everyone waving from the boat.

My parents rented a pontoon and we rented a speed boat and

then were able to share the boats all day.

Those that wanted to take it easy hung out on the pontoon while the boys tore up the lake!!

Drew and Grandma & Grandpa tubing!

Tim & Amy

This is Uncle Andy wearing Drew's sunhat!

I will start working on the Recommitment Ceremony. Stay tuned!