An Awesome Weekend

We just got home from an amazing weekend at our friends house on the Gulf Coast. They invited us and the Kuhn family to stay for the weekend--9 houseguests!!

We got to try tubing, jet skiing, paddleboarding, kayaking, and boating! We swam in the gulf and spent some time on the North Sand Bar, which is a beach about 3 miles out from the mainland. The kids had a ball in Ryleigh's paddleboat and just generally enjoyed spending time together.

I will add photos soon!

It was an amazing weekend!

Mis-SHAKES

We stopped for lunch at Steak-N-Shake on our way to our friends, the Morse Family, house. The waitress accidentally knocked over Emily's shake. Emily looked very upset about it, so the waitress said, "Don't worry, sweetie, I'll get you another one."

Bailey said, "Yeah, it's okay. Everyone makes mistakes!"

And then Liam piped up, "But when you make a mistake here, they call it a mis-SHAKE!"

I thought that was very funny and clever!!

Bailey is 9!

We celebrated Bailey's 9th birthday with a small party after school on Friday with her best friend. Then we had the family over for swimming and cake on Saturday! She's also asked to go to Universal Studios to get a Harry Potter wand, so we'll plan to do that in the next few weeks.

I can't believe she's 9--it went REALLY fast!

Here's Bailey and Lydia...

And the whole gang of kids!

She asked for a chocolate cake with vanilla frosting. I took the liberty of making the frosting purple, which she absolutely LOVED. It was a fun cake to make!

This one is from the party on Saturday. Ice cream cake this time around. I didn't make that one!

Color Run!

Emily and her best friend Isabella decided to participate in the Winter Springs Color Run this year. It definitely wasn't the best organized race we've done, I'll say that much. But the girls had a lot of fun. It was a small crowd and the kids got to run the course as many times as they wanted to. The girls did it twice because they hardly got any color after the first round.

 Before...

After a second lap around the course (and after they found some color and threw it at each other, LOL).

It was certainly an experience. If Emily wants to do it again, I think I'll look into the ACTUAL color run. Maybe I'll do it, too.

THIS IS NOT HOW BAILEY DIES!!!!

Bailey and Liam have been playing Minecraft this morning. Do your kids love that game as much as mine do??

Anyway, they were playing really well together for a while but then I guess Liam started doing something Bailey didn't like, which apparently ended up killing off her character. So all of a sudden I hear her yell: "THIS IS NOT HOW BAILEY DIES!!!"

Oh, boy, did I get a good laugh out of that one!

Easter 2017

How is it that Easter is already here?

My kids are getting so big. I took them out into the back yard for our annual Easter photo shoot. These are my favorite pictures!

Now I just have to get them into bed at a decent time. The Easter Bunny has a LOT of work to do tonight!

EPCOT

Yesterday I had the opportunity to spend the entire day at EPCOT with my mom and my aunt. It was a real treat for me not to have to worry about anyone else for an entire day! We had so much fun. We did several rides--Mom even rode Test Track!--and looked in nearly every shop in the entire park. We ate or drank something in most of the countries and thoroughly enjoyed the many beautiful gardens and displays they have set up.

Mom and Aunt Joann tried on every hat in the whole park. I have to download all of the pictures but here's a couple fun ones!

By the way, the Nine Dragons restaurant in "China" is super good! I've never eaten there before but it was really excellent. And the prices weren't too outrageous, either!