March 2, 2009

Disney World

We went to Disney World for the 1st time!
The boys and I met Blair's parents out in Florida 4 days before Blair could join us for another few days (after finishing a test week)
















Some pretty Mickey flowers:











We stayed with Blair's parents at a nice resort for the 1st part of the vacation.  The 2nd part we switched over to a resort at Disneyworld.

The boys got spoiled and got to do all of the fun things they wanted to do there, like go swimming, ride on this 4 wheel bicycle, and go fishing with grandpa.

We went to SeaWorld one day:

The picture above was the dolphin show, and it was so good!  One thing I noticed that was different than the CA one, was that they had an alligator exhibit.






I was so glad when Blair joined our vacation.  We even got to go on an evening date to the parks while the kids played with grandma and grandpa.







Here's the castle at night.













Everyone in our group loved the fireworks at Magic kingdom.


We were so excited when Xander got picked out of the crowd for Jedi training.  He's the one front right of the Jedi instructor:

Here was the grand entrance of Darth Vader:

Here's a picture of Xander fighting Darth Vader.  We're glad that Xander survived :)


Here the boys were dancing during a Pixar parade at Hollywood Studios.









Here's a group shot.  We are so lucky that Blair's parents made this trip possible.  It was so much fun!




Mickey ice cream bars were the boys' favorite treat.


















Their favorite things at the airport on the way home.  Xander has his lightsaber, cowboy boots, blanket, and stuffed lamb.  Will with his blanket, and new favorite stuffed penguin from SeaWorld.

February 27, 2009

A pre-post to the real post

I'm sorry I haven't posted in so long.  Fortunately we were on a fun vacation for a week and a half, so I have a good excuse, but I've already been back for a couple of days and still haven't felt like I could sit down and blog yet.  I've been running tons of errands, and trying to clean up my house (we have some guests coming to stay with us later today) and I have to teach a lesson on Sunday too.  I'll have to wait until that's all over and then I won't feel guilty blogging instead of doing all of these other things on my "to do" list.  I can't wait to catch up on all of your blogs either!  But for now, excuse me while I go fold 3 loads of laundry.

February 14, 2009

Happy Heart Day

Yesterday evening my sweet husband set up a nice Valentine's surprise. He lined up a babysitter all on his own, and made reservations to take me to a fancy restaurant.  Not to mention he got me chocolate and flowers too.  Am I lucky or what?  
I hope everyone had a lovely day.