Hollywood Studios

This may have been Roy and I's favorite day. There were so many things the kids loved. This was the first day that Audrey started getting a fever, so by the end of the day she was dwindling. But other than that, it was a blast.

There was one thing we were bummed about going into the park. We knew the following week at Disney World was going to be Star Wars week and that they were launching the new Star Tours ride that week. I have tons of memories of riding the original Star Tours and Roy is a huge fan. Evy and him watch Star Wars: The Clone Wars together almost every Friday night. When we got to the parking station the parking attendant told us that they were having a "soft" opening of the ride this week and that we should in that direction the first chance we got. Let's just say that we ran to the ride. We walked right on in. Roy first went with Evy and then I went on her when they got back. While I was waiting I got chatted up by one of the employees at the Star Wars ride. He was spouting off so much Star Wars info that I almost fell asleep. I believe that a couple of times he even started speaking in a different language. It was pretty funny. Evy came running off the ride to come get me and she said I just had to go because it was the coolest thing that she had ever seen!





Next Roy and Evy headed to the Tower of Terror. I was a little hesitant to let Evy go on the ride but she was certain that she wanted to go. Audrey and I just hung out. In the end, Evy ended up loving it and Roy was a little shaken.




Next we headed to watch the Little Mermaid. We sat in the very front and Audrey loved it. She kept on saying "Hi" to Ariel and pointing out the bubbles! Evy took the picture of Audrey and I.




We went to the playground of "Honey, I shrunk the kids". Honestly, it kind of freaked me out. I was kind of panicking that we would lose one of the girls. We literally were only in there for 5 minutes until I ended it. Roy and I got a kick out of the San Francisco picture. Now all we have to do is show our kids the picture and tell them that they have been to San Francisco. It kind of made me miss it......well, that's a whole other post!





Then we went to the Indiana Jones Stunt Show. It was awesome. Sabrina got chosen to be one of the participants. Unfortunately, the pictures of her turned out blurry. I would like to think that she was just moving to fast for me to capture :).



Then we headed to the Playhouse Disney show. The girls have really been into the show, "Jake and the Neverland Pirates" and that just happened to be in the show. Evy had a blast. They showered the audience with Gold Deblooms and Evy started grabbing as many as she could. I think she thought they were really gold. She was bummed when we said she couldn't take them home. Audrey kind of already started to "check out". We headed to the Toy Story ride before we headed out for the day. Toy Story was seriously awesome.




The one thing I wanted to make sure to buy were Mickey Mouse hats for the girls. I just love them and I hope they keep them forever!

Disney World: Magic Kingdom

I have been a slacker when it comes to blogging. I know, I know. So I plan on attempting to redeem myself!

We had the funnest time at Disney World. We were there for a week and my whole family was there. The weather ended up being just fine. We hit Magic Kingdom first. I knew we were going to be there for 2 days so I figured we would stay late the second day to catch the light parade. We ll what I didn't know was that the parade was only on the weekend. I was so sad I missed it but we did see an amazing firework display. During the middle of it, Evy turned to me and said, "This is the best vacation of my life!" Tears came to my eyes because I was so happy. By the end of the week I was so grateful for how hard Roy works so that we can do fun stuff like that.






Evy loved taking pictures by these murals. They were doing a ton of work there. You could see the castle from Beauty and the Beast being built. A whole new attraction area. I was bummed it wasn't done but it just gives us another reason to come back!

Audrey has a hard time keeping her eyes open in pictures!



The reason we all look wet in the last couple of pictures is because we got on a boat to go on to Tom Sawyers Island. Once you're on, you have to stay on until they take you to the other side. As were waiting for the ok to start the engines, it started raining, I mean like pouring rain. They wouldn't let us off to wait under the canopy, so we had to sit there with no cover in the rain. Needless to say, I was not a happy camper. Our ponchos were in the stroller and we could not get to them. So for the rest of the day, we were kind of wet!

One of the last rides we went on was the Buzz Lightyear ride where you shoot at aliens with a gun. The first time around I did terrible. Evy even did better than me. The competitive side of me was upset at how terrible I did. I think I only got 7,000 points. So the second day we went to Magic Kingdom, I wanted to do it again. I got 180,000! Let's just say, I whipped it's butt! I beat everyone in the group! What was my strategy, you ask? Well here it it: to not look or "try" to shoot anything. Move the thing around like a spaz and shoot the gun as many times as possible and center your "chi". I'm thinking about writing a book about it :).

Day 2 of Magic Kingdom:
The first day we went on Saturday and we came back on Wednesday. Audrey had a ridiculously high fever so she stayed home with my parents. I was a little sad that she couldn't come, but would have been miserable. We got there around 1:00pm and stayed until closing. We had a blast.





These pictures are Evy playing model at the restaurant. I don't know what got into her. But she did look super cute. Sabrina braided her hair and Mom put her earrings on her.



Roy and I making funny faces. Surprise, surprise!


Evy and Bryce showin' some love. On a side note, the kids were great the entire week. No melt downs or fights. It seems that some magic rubbed off on us, because that is a definite first. Evy was great and so happy to just be there.




The epic sword and the stone. No kings made that day!




Here are some nice family pictures. In the last pictures with Bryce and the "mystery woman", we'll just call her Snow White, there's quite a funny story about it. She was walking across the bridge with her Mom and Sabrina really wanted Bryce to have a picture with a princess. She asked politely if Bryce could take her picture with her and she said yes. They posed and right before the flash Bryce stealthy grabs her hand. He's already workin' the moves!




These are the last pictures of Magic Kingdom. It was truly Magical!

Pic from the Birthday

I was feeling like death warmed over that Day, and looked like it. I still wanted to take some birthday pictures with her but never got to. I guess there's always next year. We got her a Sesame Street cake. She happens to love Sesame Street and Elmo. Which is funny because she has never actually watched the show. One day we were in target and saw a Tickle me Elmo doll and screamed Elmo. Ever since then it has been a love affair with Elmo. My parents got her a Tickle-Me-Elmo doll. I can' decide if it is creepy or cute. It literally throws itself around and stands back up. I don't think Audrey can decide either. One minute she says it's funny and the other she's running away screaming. The jury is still out on that one. But thanks Mom and Dad! She got a couple of books from us. She loves shoes, so one book was about shoes. And the other one was a "Llama Llama" book. She loves that series! She also got a Sesame Street Sticker Activity book. I have already started to find stickers all around the house in places where they shouldn't be! Happy Birthday Audrey! We love you so much!

Aurey's 2nd Birthday video

Make Up Afternoon

For a while now Evy has been begging me to do her makeup one afternoon when Audrey is taking her nap. So last week, we did. And then she insisted that I take her picture......I should really get this girl a camera!

That same afternoon, when I went to check on Audrey after she had been in her room for 3 hours for her nap, I found her dead asleep on the floor. I thought it was funny. By the time I ran downstairs she had woken up. But at least we still get this sleepy-eyed picture of her!

Isn't she so dang cute?!?