A game of hide and seek

Spring

I love spring, not my allergies but Spring.

Kaleigh caught a caterpillar and tried to wait for it to turn into a butterfly (or moth) but he never made is cocoon, she named him Jaden, he lived 2 weeks before he drowned in too much water in his jar. Truthfully she lost interest after the first week.

Love my rose bush, this was small plant I bought from Costco two years ago, a little pruning at the beginning of spring and its still blooming.
These are the Rhododendrons on the side of my house, I love when they bloom, just wish it were longer.

Great Country Farms

Many of our friends have told us about Great Country Farms, it's a farm about an hour away where you can pick your own fruit, feed the animals, playgrounds, wagon rides, mini golf, rope swings, a track to ride these big tricycle like things and a petting zoo where you can feed the animals. We decided to purchase a season pass since we wanted to come back for the strawberry festival and bring Michael and the entrance fee would cover two visits for 6 people. So glad we did. We have gone back twice and I can't wait to go again, it was so much fun. I did not get pictures of everything, even on all our visits.

Took a while for them to get comfortable to feed the goats but eventually they did and they loved it, Jaden just decided to throw the food at them.
Not sure who liked this playground best, but I'm pretty sure she did since she loves monkey bars.
Big Jumping pillow, everyone loved except Jaden, he's so light he was being bounced off.

Back to Blogging

So I haven't Blogged in a while mostly because of time, but also because our computer caught a virus and we lost a lot of stuff and Michael had to take time rebuilding it and even once he did he didn't want to put too much on the computer so I waited. We have a little more time now but we are more cautious about what is on our computer. Still trying to figure out where our pictures are and import them into Picasa. So here are some I recovered from Easter.


The last two are from when we colored Easter eggs, they really liked it but they were more interested in taking pictures of each other. Kaleigh took the one of Michael and Jordan and Jordan took the one of him and Kaleigh. They did a pretty good job if I do say so.

Spring Break - Thursday -Disney World

After we picked up Michael from the airport on Wednesday, which Wed was a very low key day spent by the pool, we had decided early on to take the kids to the Magic Kingdom on Thursday, since we would be driving back Friday and being in Orlando kind of hard to miss Disney, we wanted to do it before we headed home.

We decided to go early and hope for the best (forgoing afternoon naps for our younger ones...always a questionable move) to try and see as much as we could, the kids did great, we stayed until the electric parade at 9:00 at night, although they fell asleep watching the parade in the perspective arms of their carriers.

Taking the monorail to the park, you can see everyone is pretty hot already...the weather was in the 90's.

Always have to have an entrance picture.

Because it was spring break we had to do a lot of waiting in lines..which was fine for some of us
and some of us got to ride and rest..A double stroller is a must if you have little ones, it helps them to last a lot longer. We had some of the kids try to sit in it when the little guys stepped out, which they caught on pretty quick they would lose their seat if they moved.
Character time is a favorite for any Disney trip and they were so excited to see Buzz Lightyear, I know it won't always be the case.
We did some of the rides with my nephew and some of the bigger rides he got to go by himself with Papa. Like Pirates of the Caribbean. My kids would not like that one.
This is the welcome parade which happens early on...thats' Cinderella's float with the Evil's.

Faces while waiting in the dumbo lines.

This was definitely a highlight for all of us. The kids were excited to see Mickey and we were excited to see their reaction.... it was so great.

We had a really great time at Disney, everyone loved it, we got to go on a lot of rides, some we had to save for next time...but I was glad we got to experience this time together. I only wish I got more pictures with the grandparents.

Spring Break Tuesday

Tuesday was a laid back kind of day, it was actually really good to kind of just lay low and let the kids enjoy their time at the pool. For dinner we went to the Grand Floridian to have dinner with Cinderella. We've had dinner before with Cinderella and it's always a favorite.

Unfortunately the wait is a little long, but at least the grounds are beautiful to visit while we wait. This is one of the pools at the hotel, the kids wanted to see it.

One of the evil step sisters. I think this one is Drizilla

and this one is Anastasia.

Prince Charming of course.

And the beautiful Cinderella.

All these actors really get into character, the kids love it. Jaden refused to take a picture with the evil step mother unless Papa held him, and even then.
While we waited for our cars at the valet service,they have these old fashion carriage and car for people to take pictures with.

The Grand Floridian is a huge wedding place, so everything is made for that purpose.