Friday, February 22, 2013

best. week. ever.

According to Ben and Micah.  I am grateful for their rose colored glasses!  We have spent many years with Phil heading off around the country (and world) to attend meetings for work.  We finally decided to tag along and spent some time in the sunshine this week in Orlando!! We loved being with him and even convinced our travelling cousins to come with us.  The problem was all of the other people there that we didn't invite!  Rude!!  We waited in lots of long lines, but still had a great trip and Ben and Micah both called it "the best week of my life!" 
We started at the Animal Kingdom and loved the safari with real animals!! When Disney does it, they do it big!
 Racing a rhino...
 Micah helped this cute lady out (don't they look like bossom buddies) and she let him go make a wish on her magic bell.  Cute!
Next day: Magic Kingdom.  Do you know they built an island so you have to cross by ferry to get to?  I didn't!  Crazy! 
 I didn't get many great pictures, but our favorite time was when dad showed up at the end of the day.  We finished with a few rides on Thunder Mountain - no lines hooray!!
 The day the boys had been waiting for arrived: Harry Potter World!!
 It was worth the wait!  We loved the castle roller coaster,
 the wands,
 Honeydukes,
 Hippogriphs
 And the delicious butterbeer!
 Take us away to platform 9 3/4 any day!
Our other stop in Universal was Dr. Seuss land.  What can I say, I'm preschool teacher, I loved it!

 Our last day was at Hollywood.  Indiana Jones saved our day with his amazing stunt show!
 There's my rose colored glasses kid, singing in the rain!
 And no lines at Star Tours!  Awesome!!
 A great week to get away and spend time together...
 We are all exhausted!!
Back to the grind...and snow!!  Really?!?!
 

Saturday, February 16, 2013

be mine

I was happy to squeeze another year out of the boys making their own valentines.  I will be sad when that is over, but these turned out really cute this year.  Jacob made an army tank box with parachute guy valentines.  Ben made a cut-the-rope (some free app?) box with Omnom valentines.  Micah also made an Omnom box with monster valentines.  Seeing them draw is one of my favorite things!!  Hope your day was sweet!
(and a happy groundhog to you too!)