Schools Out for Summer!

Spring was definitely a busy time for us filled with trips to visit family, finishing up the school year, and LL's aunt and future uncle graduating from college. We are already in the 2nd week of summer and I can hardly believe it! We headed south for Memorial Day weekend (plus a few extra days) and had a blast! We ate at a lot of yummy places (the mister and I were even able to have a date night) and shopped, shopped, shopped! We also had a blast swimming with some of our faves! Last weekend, we headed to the lake to have some girl time with my best friends from college. It is so fun to watch all FOUR of our little girls interact with one another! Some great stories were shared and awesome new memories were made. This week, LL started a new venture---DANCE!!! She will be taking a ballet/tap combo class and let us all wish for the best on that one!!! We definitely found out that baseball isn't in our future after we tried that out this spring. I can't wait to see what all summer has in store for us!! Hopefully I will be better about posting!!

Running Around

Please don't think that I have once again neglected the good ol' blog due to nothing to talk about....
It has been quite the opposite! Since tax season has been upon us for the past few months, LL and I have become the duo that never stops!
We have had birthday parties and other events EVERY SINGLE WEEKEND. We have taken on the venture of playing "t-ball".
We had an absolutely wonderful Easter, although a few days before we had to say good-bye to one of the most incredible men that I have ever met, the mister's grandfather. I hope that we will all be able to live like him-to the fullest and selflessly.
We only have a few more weeks of action packed spring and then summer will be here-yeah!

Character Pics Day 3

We headed back for a full day at Magic Kingdom on Day 3. Here are some of the awesome characters that we were able to meet (many that we had never met before):
We started the day off with the AWESOME Rope Drop Ceremony!
Here is the great lineup of characters that we saw:


The first character outside of the castle that we saw was the Fairy Godmother-hopefully all of our dreams will come true!

Later, we were able to join in on the Street Party with these few:



Pretending to be shy while meeting one of her faves:

Next we were able to meet two of the fairies (who even gave LL some pixie dust!):


and then waited in another long line to meet the newest princess:

It was so much fun watching these two interact with everyone:

And on the last day, we were only able to have one character interaction before we left with this cute fellow:

Oh Disney, how I already miss you so!!

character pics Day 2 (part 2)

Here are other characters that we saw on Day 2 of our trip:
Pocahontas:

Thumper and Friend:

Daisy again:

Chip and Dale:

Pluto:

Minnie:

Goofy again!:

Mickey:

Brer Bear:

Rafiki:

and a few pics from the parade (which LL slept through):

Character Pics Day 2 (part 1)

Although we had not planned on doing a lot of character greetings, we hit the jackpot while visiting Animal Kingdom on Day two! We started off the day with breakfast at Tusker House with Donald, Daisy, Mickey, and Goofy. Later, we lucked out by being able to walk up to several characters around the park with little or no wait at all! If fact, after looking through these, I am going to split them into a few posts since there are SO many!
Here are some of the character photos from Day 2:
Donald:

Mickey:

Daisy:

Goofy tickling boyfriend:

Ms. DiVine:

Baloo and King Louie (a little blurry):

Pooh:

Eeyore:

Tigger:

Pluto and Goofy:

character pics Day 1

After looking at how many character pics I took, I have decided to split them into 2 different posts (plus, it will encourage me to do another post since I have been such a slacker).......
Of course, we had to meet this famous duo first.....I think that they remind LL and boyfriend of their future together;)

Boyfriend was such a trooper as LL pulled him along to meet some of her faves..I LOVE this expression of boyfriend!

and LL was thrilled to meet one of her absolute faves:

However, Belle thought LL and boyfriend were siblings, so we were hoping and praying that she didn't think that future MIL and I were a couple!
And of course, what trip would be complete without meeting Cinderella, herself!

Boyfriend melted our hearts when he referred to LL as HIS princess:)Hopefully their dreams will come true!
Those were all that we had time to meet on day one, although we saw a TON of familiar faces in the awesome parade!
more character pics coming soon!!

Lately

I can't believe how quickly January came and went. We had a lot of fun during the month of January playing with all of our new Christmas toys, celebrating my birthday, having a quick girls' weekend to Market, and spending time with friends.
February is already here and we started this month out with a bang! LL's future mother in-law and I decided to take the kids on a LONG surprise trip this past weekend. It was so funny to see how they have no concept of time as their guesses included trips to the aquarium (boyfriends) and a trip to play at boyfriend's house (LL's guess). We drove several hours and stayed at a hotel that evening, and then woke up to finish the last leg of the trip.
Once they saw a famous welcome sign, they knew immediately where we were and they were SO excited!!
Here are a few photos from the trip:










I will have to do another post highlighting all of the characters that we were able to meet. I was SO excited that we were able to meet so many characters that we had never had the opportunity of meeting before!