Hannah's 14th birthday!

I can't believe it but Hannah has is now 14 years old. Man, how time flies! My friend Julie went with me, Hannah and Hannah's friend Sarah to her birthday Disney trip this past weekend. We are completely exhausted but we had a great time!

We ate dinner at Chef Mickey's on Sunday night after spending all day at the Magic Kingdom. Here they are doing the birthday celebration song in hour of all birthdays. As you can see she was not excited that I made her participate.



We spent Monday at Hollywood Studios. We had lunch at the Sci-Fi. We rode the rides all day long! Our two most favorite rides are the Rock N Roller Coaster and Tower of Terror. In the Tower of Terror you ride up 13 stories in an elevator and it raises and drops you randomly. It is awesome! I took this video of Hannah on that ride. The first part of it is pretty dark because most of the beginning is dark but you can see Hannah during the most intense part of the ride when it drops you. Pay attention to her hair!


After the day at the park, before heading home, we ate our final meal at our new favorite place called the Whispering Canyon Cafe. It is located at the Wilderness Lodge. It is a very interesting place to eat! The food is great and the atmosphere is so much fun! In this picture, Hannah had asked our server for a fork. They brought her a 3 foot wooden fork! This fork she has to hold on to until someone else in the restaurant asks for a fork. Too funny!


Our server had help from some of the other children to come and sing to Hannah.


All in all we had a great time! We had a couple of late nights and a flat tire but we didn't let that stop our fun! I am so glad that we were able to spend that time together.

Old Friends

Last week Matt, the kids and I went to Disney to meet up with an old friend from high school. They live in the Atlanta, Ga area and had come down for a week long Disney vacation. It was so nice to see her and her husband to and to finally meet her sweet children, David and Noah.

This is Karen Burdette (now Greer) and her little man, Noah.

Fun with "Melmo"

I bought Luke this Elmo sprinkler toy today. The girls were just itching to take him outside to play with it. As you can tell he had a BLAST!!

You can hear him in the video say, "Melmo sissy! Sissy!". It was so cute!

Cheeeese!!!!

Luke has come to like getting his picture taken....here at home! With the people he knows! I recently took him to get his 2 yr old pictures taken and the woman didn't snap one picture. He threw a massive fit crying and snotting all over the place! Oh well, I guess we will settle for picture we take here at home for a while! I thought these were some cute ones that I would share.

Here he is sitting eating cheese and saying "cheeeese". Too cute!!


He took his first carousel ride last week at Disney World. I think he liked although you couldn't tell here in these pictures because it was WELL past nap time!



And this was on the train after the carousel ride! He loves his sissy!

Happy Easter!!

The kids woke up yesterday morning to dig into their Easter basket. I have found that making one big one works out better than to make five seperate ones.






Jacob....just too cool for all of this!!

I had even made Matt a basket. (filled with 100 calorie packs!)

Here are the kids on our way to church. As you can see, Luke is not interested in getting his picture taken but he did stay in his class the whole time. We are making progress!!

Birthday for Luke

On March 29th we celebrated Luke's 2nd birthday. Matt and I took him on a Disney trip that was just for him. We had a great time spending time with just him. We stayed at Coronodo Springs and had lunch with the Little Einsteins (and JoJo circus), dinner with Winnie the Pooh & Friends and we went to a new place, (that turned out to be our new favorite place) the Whispering Canyon.













I had got a Mickey Mouse ice cream bar as one of my snacks. I fully intented to share it with Luke but as you can see he totally took it!





And, this was when I took it away!













We had a great time while we were gone! I have tons of pictures so that someday we will be able to tell Luke about his special trip.

I can't believe how big he is getting! He is constantly changing. Since he has had so many problems with his ears, his speech is a little behind. He does say things like mama, dada, bubba, sissy, bye-bye and help. And lets not forget be best one...NO!!! Why do they have to learn that? He also says blankie and drink but only us who lives with him understand that! I have talk with the dr about it and she says that its ok. He will catch up eventually. He finally stayed the whole time in the church nusery and the KidZone at the Y on Wednesday. I am hoping that we have turned a corner. See, up until now, he had refused to stay anywhere someone in his family wasn't. I was always getting called to come get him because he was too upset. Today I am going back to work out so we will see if he has turned over a new leaf.

Girls only Disney trip

I think that I may have lost my mind! I agreed to take Noelle, 2 of her friends, Leah and Jasey and Hannah and her friend Meagan to Disney for 3 days. Am I crazy, or what?!?!?!


Hannah & Meagan


Jasey, Leah & Noelle

We went down to Orlando on Wednesday around lunch time. After we checked into our hotel we went and bought tickets for the girls who needed them for Thursdasy and Friday. We ate pizza in the hotel food court for dinner and I let the girls swim thinking we needed an early night with 2 long days ahead of us. As I say early night I have to giggle because I had to yell at them to go to sleep around 3am. One of the girls, and I won't say who, had some terrible gas and that was apprently a great source of entertainment for the rest of them. They laughed and laughed!! You would have thought I was in the room with a buch of boys!

Here they all are after showers. They are catching up on their gossip from the teen magazines.



On Thursday we spent the day at Magic Kingdom.







It was a VERY long fun day! We did everything they wanted to do. We even had lunch at the Crystal Palace with Winnie the Pooh and friends! I don't have that many pictures of Hannah and Meagan because they are older wanted their independance so thet were on their own.





Day 2 we spent at Disney' Hollywood Studios. Our day started out at Chef Mickey's for breakfast at the Contemporary Resort. My family always enjoys going there! We has to be up at 6am so we were sooooo tired!!






We got home around midnight last night. We were extreamly exhausted! Us girls slept throughout most of the day. Here are some pictures from the day at Hollywood Studios.