Disney Day Three... Animal Kingdom

We woke up early today to go to Disney's Animal Kingdom. When we arrived at the park we found that we had seriously underestimated the cold weather and froze our tushies off! We did our best to keep the girls warm and headed over to the Safari ride... It was AWESOME! We saw elephants, lions, giraffes, gazells, hippos, alligators, and many many other real live animals! It was SO much fun! We had many adventures throughout the day. We rode our first train ride, met so many characters and at the end of the day ate at the "Rainforest Cafe." It was great but Melissa was TERRIFIED of the thunderstorms that come and go while you eat. All in all, it was a wonderful, cold day!

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Day Two "Ahhh... A Day of Rest"

We did not have to get up until 9:00 this morning and it was wonderful! Melissa woke me up at 7:30 to point out that the sun was out and it was now time to get up... but she soon went back to sleep and I followed shortly. The girls would have probably slept longer, but on Sundays the breakfast "goes away" at 10:30... and well, we wanted to eat! We went to the BEAUTIFUL Orlando Temple to walk around and feel the wonderful Spirit that is there. It was so peaceful and I had ALMOST forgotten how pretty everything is there. It was nice. We took a picnic lunch and Melissa and Kayla had fun dipping their fingers in the Ranch dressing instead of the carrots! I am currently sitting on the floor in the laundry room waiting for our clothes to dry so that I can go upstairs and spend some more time with my family. Ray is currently watching the girls "swim" in the bathtub since we are having some ridiculously cool weather today and the water in the "outside pool" is way to cold. All in all, today has been wonderful! Tomorrow we are off to Animal Kingdom to see the fun things there. Until tomorrow...

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Disney Day One... The Adventure Begins

Our Disney Vacation actually started FRIDAY night around 11:00pm when Melissa woke up puking and puking and puking. It was EVERYWHERE!!! (Kayla slept through the WHOLE thing.) After a bath, change of clothes, change of sheets, a snack and drink, re-brushing of the teeth, and a blessing, we were all finally back in bed by 12:15. At 12:30 Kayla woke up crying and eventually went back to sleep. I think Ray gave up and just stayed up only to wake mommy up 3 hours later to get up for our trip.... Wonderful start, huh??? We left for the airport at 4:30am and arrived at 5:30am (with both girls STILL awake!) We checked in, ate some breakfast, and 2 HOURS later were on the plane. Melissa could hardly wait to "be a bird" and Kayla was a little scared of all of the sounds. Eventually we "became birds" and the girls LOVED flying so high. The trees looked like "marshmallows" and we think we say our house!! Both girls were soon asleep and Kayla cried and cried during the landing because her ears hurt... Melissa just kept asking for more gum because hers was not "working" :) We rented our car, checked into the hotel, gave up on trying to get the girls to sleep for a nap and were soon on our way to The Magic Kingdom. WOW! It was AWESOME! Kayla fell asleep as soon as we were on the Ferry and Melissa could not believe the castle was so "blue"hee hee! We met Princesses, ate Mickey Mouse ice cream, played and rode our first "roller coaster!" It's a Small World! ( WE know Grandpa LOVES that one!) The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh... THAT was fun! WE had a blast! Daddy-O was sneaky and arranged for a special dinner at the infamous Tony's Restaurant! (from "Lady and the Tramp") They decorated our table with Mickey Confetti, and made a big fuss announcing our anniversary to the WHOLE room! We had a yummy ice cream sundae after dinner. Oh, by the way... Melissa LITERALLY fell asleep standing up while waiting for our table! After dinner we headed to Walmart to buy some supplies and FINALLY returned to the hotel around 10pm where everyone CRASHED after showers. The girls were troopers. Mommy and Daddy had a blast and all in all... it was VERY successful! More updates later!

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The Children's Museum

As you can see... we had SO much fun at the Children's Museum last Friday! We can hardly wait to go again!

Visiting with Friends

We had SO much fun with Eliza and Sadie today! They are such good friends and we haven't seen them in so long. Enjoy our video of our day... the first picture is of all 4 girls watching the snow. They were plastered to the door for at least 5 minutes and Sadie kept commenting on how hard it was snowing!

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Our First Parade

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pictures from Thanksgiving

Butterfly Angels

It has been so fun unpacking all of the Christmas stuff this year. We have so many little angel statues that people have given us over the years and Melissa can not understand why they all have wings! She has renamed them, "Butterfly Angels!"

The Girls Met Santa!

Tonight, as we were walking through the mall, it happened... Kayla yelled, "Santa!!" and there he was! He was talking to a security guard at the fence and when he heard Kayla he waved to us and drew the girls right in. He knelt down and asked the girls if they have been good. He asked if Mommy has been good and lucky for me they said yes! He then asked what they wanted for Christmas and Melissa said a cat. He asked if she wanted a real cat or a pretend cat. It was my lucky night because she said a pretend cat! He was so sweet to the girls and really took the time to talk to them (even though we didn't pay for the visit!) and they have been talking about it all night! Melissa tried to change her mind once she was with just us and say she wanted a real cat, but I told her that Santa already knows that she wants a pretend one and we probably shouldn't change her order! She said, "okay." They are in love with Santa.

Decorating the Christmas Tree...

...and dipping pretzels. We had SO much fun this past Friday making chocolate covered pretzels and decorating our Christmas Tree! The girls were SOOO cute and really made everything magical. We are so blessed. (The videos are a little dark as usual, but you will get the idea!)

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