The last of the pictures :(

The last of the pictures from our Disney trip.  The first two are from "It's a Small World".  We didn't have to wait one bit to get on that ride!

These next few are from "Tom Sawyer's Island".  I liked it a lot!

Another of my favorites...waiting with the 3D glasses for "Mickey's Philharmagic"

The girls waiting to meet Mickey and Minnie...with the fair trophy

(this was right after Kaylee had gotten one of her big boo-boo's of the weekend, so I was surprised she smiled so big!)

This is what our "maid" did with Kaylee's borrowed toy from Nursery school

And this is from Downtown Disney.  They had tons of HUGE things made out of Lego's, but this was my favorite!

more videos...

These videos are from our first night at the resort. We were walking around the lake after dinner and stopped by the pool. Back behind the pool was a play area. These videos are two of the shorter clips of the girls playing on the playground. When we came back later that evening, we saw a racoon running through the playground (I know, yuck!). It wasn't very scared of us either! We also saw a bunny and Kaylee got about 6 inches away from it before it ran off into the woods. There were also tons of gray squirrels around the resort and the girls kept calling them Sandy. But the playground was fun!

I think I'll do more pictures today

These pictures will be from our flight to Orlando and our Resort in Disney World.

Here are the girls at the Indianapolis Airport waiting for the shuttle to take us to the terminal:

 Here are a couple of pictures of the girls on the airplane.  They were so excited and they both got really loud during the take-off:

 

 

The girls in our room:

Some pictures around the Resort.  It really was beautiful!

This one is perhaps my favorite picture of the whole trip:

And the girls...tuckered out from our day of travel; preparing for our big day at the Magic Kingdom:

More Video

This is a video of the water slide at our resort-Coronado Springs. Kaylee is the 4th kid on the video, followed by Alexis, then Ryan. The funny story is, they had just rotated life guards in that area, and as you can see, the sun was beginning to go down and it was starting to get chilly. So, I held up a two showing the girls they could slide two more times before it was time to go. Well the life guard saw this and called Alexis over to him. He told her to come and tell me I had to go down the slide. I totally would have, but we had dinner reservations about half an hour from then and if I got my hair wet...well...we wouldn't have made it. So the girls settled for Daddy, but the life guard wasn't happy. He said "I wanted you to go down." (if you listen carefully you can hear him talking in the background) Sure he did;-)

But, the girls had so much fun on that water slide. They even made a new friend named Kaitlyn. I would guess they probably went down the slide at least 25 times.

I just could not get over how friendly and happy all of the employees were both at Disney World and our resort. I don't think I ever saw any worker who was not smiling. Even the people that cleaned the restrooms!

Well, I probably have enough material for a post a day for about a month! So keep checking back!

The Flip

We got back from our trip to Disney World yesterday afternoon. Let me just say, it has been a whirlwind since we've gotten back to Indiana!!! But I just wanted to take a moment to post a video. This video is of the girls riding the Carousel at Disney World.

There are quite a few other videos for me to post, but they take a long time, so bear with me!

Disney World

Our internet connection is tempermental...so hopefully I can post a couple of pictures=)

In Minnie's Sunroom:

Meeting Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse (this was something Kaylee was VERY excited about):

And the girls in front of the Castle.  It was very beautiful when it was dark and all lit up with the Christmas lights!

We have some great video and some more pictures, but I'll post those once we are back.  Let me tell you...November is the time to go to Disney World.  The weather is perfect...not too hot...not too cold.  And the wait time for the rides on average was 5 minutes.  There were several we just walked up to and got right on, especially in the morning.  Very nice!  We did spend a long time waiting on one ride, but it kept breaking down.  That was our longest wait...about 1/2 an hour.  But we have had a great time.  And if you ask them, the girls will tell all about their favorites=)

Good ideas!

So, I decided to give Alexis an outlet. She now has her own blog...authored by her! It should be a lot of fun to read and see. Instead of writing something today (she didn't have time before school) we recorded a video (with my new Flip UltraHD). Anyway, here is the link to her very own blog:

Alexis Tells It All

Add it to your favorites and check back often. She may post things more often than I do!

In other news...yes I think I like my new camera! The main reason we bought it was so Ryan could get video of homes he tours while he's in Spain, since I can't go on every trip with him to help find us a house over there. But, our other video camera is so old...it takes TAPES!! Can you believe it?!?!? And I never have been able to upload those videos onto the computer. So, that was another reason. The Flip is nice and tiny and takes HD video. I made sure that I got it in time for our Disney trip!
Anyway, enjoy Alexis's blog!

More fall fun

We had our annual halloween get together with the usual suspects.  We all have an awesome time together:

Alexis was Cleopatra

Kaylee was a witch

Friday, we finished up Kaylee's family birthday celebrations

Last night we hosted the St. Andrew's Cross Softball party

And Alexis got to hold little Keegan Tatman

He's such a cute baby!

Our pretty tree

So this spring, we had a 'big' tree delivered and planted in our backyard.  It is an October Glory maple and my goodness is it ever pretty!