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Afternoon at Disney

Thursday, February 7, 2013

2013 Family Trip to Disney

This past Saturday 31 of us went to Disney! We started the day off in Animal Kingdom and ended up in Magic Kingdom. It was the best 14 hours ever! Favorite parts: the safari, Expedition Everest, the new Little Mermaid ride, Space Mountain, and Thunder Mountain. The best as always: Cinderella's Castle lit up at night and the fireworks! 

Having dinner the night before

true story: I have gorgeous kids

Briella

part of our group

Heather and Robby

Big Tree









Even in the happiest place on Earth Harper has a meltdown

Line to ride Everest






Adam and Shane were so happy to be at Disney together














Some of the fireworks

some more fire works


The BEST show at Disney

Lion King



Little Mermaid broke while we were on there


Saturday, January 26, 2013

A little of this....a little of that....

So this is week 4 of trying to do something fun and special with the kids every week. We've had a pretty busy week around here. I had a super stressful few days at work, but in the end it worked out great! The hospital is super busy and full with lots of flu cases, I keep reminding the kids to wash and sanitize their hands and to NOT TOUCH THEIR FACES!!! Report cards came out this week and Cooper got straight A's for the second 9 weeks in a row! We are so proud of him. Baylee did great too and would have gotten all A's except for her science grade. Speaking of Science, her and dad spent the week working on a project of building a car that actually works out of just a battery and something else...a switch maybe? She they did great on it and got an A, it didn't actually go in a straight line, more like a circular line but it was still pretty neat. Harper's still staying busy with gymnastics and loving living her between her two best friends Abby and Kenzie, she's turned into a social butterfly and spends most of her time going from house to house to play. As the kids were playing outside tonight with all the neighborhood kids it reminded me how thankful I am to live in such a great neighborhood with such awesome neighbors.

Last night Cooper went to Chuck E Cheese with some other boys for his friend Dustin's birthday. Baylee and Harper went with the Vandenburgs to the Harmony Middle School basketball game so Adam and I found ourselves unexpectedly childless for an evening. We took advantage of it and ran into town to eat. We decided to try out Pete and Peg's Roadside Grill, it was awesome. So good in fact that we think we may take the kids back there next Friday night!

Baylee had her cheerleading end of the season party this afternoon, Adam took her to that. I stayed home with Cooper and Harper. We took Champ to the park with Cooper's friend Xander. It was so hot out today (78) that the kids and Champ played in the splash pad!

The weather is supposed to be great this week...mid 80's so that will be nice. We have our big family trip to Disney next Saturday to look forward to. Hope this week flies by!

Getting ready to go to Chuck E Cheese

Having fun at Chuck E Cheese

Champ likes the Splash Pad now

playing on the swings


Harper going down the slide

Cooper being too cool for me!

I love being across the street from the park/lake/playground/basketball court/splash pad/volley ball court

 Harper said "I just want to cool my feet off"

her and the boys ended up completely soaked!

I asked Coop why he and Xander were sitting so close, they said they could only find one remote and wanted to be close enough to share it and the chips! Too cute!



Ready for Family Game Night!

At 11:00 tonight Cooper got in our bed with Champ and announced he wanted to watch the Goonies! He knows I keep it on the DVR. Champ isn't that into it though...Love that my little guy loves 80's movies!

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Scottish Highland Games

Continuing with our plan of doing something extra fun and/or special with the kids weekly, we decided to go to the Scottish Highland Games today. Adam has been wanting to go for years and for some reason we always miss it....Well Not This Year!!!

Garrett and Levi spent the night last night so Heather and Robbie could go out for his birthday. Garrett and Levi are great to have over, they entertain the little kids and give Adam some good competition on Black Ops. All the boys fell asleep downstairs, I went down about 2am and Champ was curled up on Garrett's head, my phone was dead so I wasn't able to get a picture. This morning on the way to drop the boys off we saw the most beautiful rainbow!

The weather was perfect today, cloudy with a warm breeze. Great weather for being outside. The Games/Festival was lots of fun. I don't think I've ever seen so many men in skirts before... The food was awesome for the most part! I get the best apples in caramel sauce over a shortbread cookie, it was topped with the most incredible sweet cream and drizzled with caramel and nuts. So freaking good! Adam got a HUGE glass pitcher of beer, you got to keep the glass pitcher. It'll be great to put ice cold water in. The kids had a great time listening to the music and doing the kid games, and getting their faces painted. They loved watching all the Highland games....especially Harper! She really got into the Caber Toss! Also while we were watching some guy set the world amateur record for the Sheaf Toss....38 feet and 3 inches. Cooper was also pretty damn good at it in the kids games too. We finished the day up by stopping at Waterford Lakes, eating at Amigos and walking around and shopping. It was so nice and warm out. After we got home we all hung out in our room and watched a movie together. All in all it was pretty much a perfect day!


The spectacular rainbow that started our day!


 One of the many bands

The kids got a passport in the kids area and they stamped it each time you completed an area.



Harper after getting her face painted. The "lipstick" was her favorite part.

Cooper decided to become a pirate.





Harper and "Brave" as she calls her


Getting ready for a jousting match


Harper and the bagpipe she colored at the arts and crafts tent.

Baylee relaxing watching the games.

walking around Waterford Lakes