Disney - Day 1

We recently returned from Disney World! We had the best time and it was probably the best vacation I have ever had. The last time I went was 20 years ago and Rick had not been in about 15. The girls were the PERFECT age because they still were in awe at all of the princesses and characters but wanted to ride all of the rides. My parents and sister Sarah went with us which was wonderful. We had 8 days in the parks which was awesome! I was a little concerned that would be too many days but it certainly was not. I have decided just to post my favorite pictures from each day. I took about 200 so I'll spare you.

Here my favorite picture from Day 1 - Magic Kingdom:

This was the best picture I could get in front of the castle. We were having so much fun I never tried to get another one. I think this one is perfect though. They were a bit confused when we first got there anyway. They didn't really know what to expect or know what was going on. It took them about 34 seconds to get it and to LOVE it! This picture was taken on second 29.

Sabbatical

Rick works at a great company, Daxko! They give every employee a 4 week Sabbatical after every 7 years of employment. This is in addition to the 25 PTO days he has each year. We are half-way through his Sabbatical and I am LOVING it! We went to Disney World for the first 9 days (I'll post about that soon) and now we are just hanging out at home working on projects. I feel like I'm on a Sabbatical because I can go run all my errands by myself!!! We are really enjoying all of our family time and I get sad just thinking that he will have to go back to work soon.

MUCH more to come :)

When Momma gets sick

I was sick last weekend. I really was. But you all know, Momma's can't get sick. Friday morning after I returned from the doctor (bronchitis), Rick sat the kids down and gave them the Momma's sick speech:

"Your mother is sick. I need you all to show her you love her and be very calm the rest of the day. Let her rest and y'all just play and don't ask her a million questions."

Then said, "O yes sir" and proceeded to sit quietly until Daddy walked out the door. Then they all ran over to me, "MOMMY I'M HUNGRY. MOMMY CAN I PLAY A COMPUTER GAME. MOMMY CAN WE GO TO YOGURT LAB. MOMMY CAN WE PAINT. I'LL PAINT A GET WELL PICTURE FOR YOU!"

Somehow I made it until Rick got home. Saturday morning I woke up to feed Jack and then went back to bed. I woke up every 2 hours, would walk into the den, Rick would look at me and tell me to go back to bed. This went on until 3pm. That was very, very good of him. Even better, he cleaned out the microwave and the refrigerator and brought me these:

Ok, they are a little dead in this picture but they were beautiful when he gave them to me.

Laundry in a family of six is challenging to say the least. So this was what was waiting for me once I felt better:

I'm still working on it.

Claire - Ballet

Little Claire started Ballet this week. She LOVES it and thinks she's so big. She ran out of class and said, "MOMMY, I GOT TO DO A GRAND JETE!" Her teacher also gave her princess gummies so I'm pretty sure Claire will be happy in that class. Here are a few pics:

This is Gigi 2.0. The first one is lost forever.

As, you can see, this one works just as well as Gigi 1.0

Kate says "WAR EAGLE"

And here come the 2 pics that always happen when I pull

out the camera:

"TAKE A PICTURE OF ME HOLDING JACK"

This is normally followed up by, "Oh Mommy,

that's so cute. Put that one on Facebook."

We're Back!

I know I haven't blogged in a very long time. But we are still here and here's what we've been up to:

Wedding

Beach

Playing Inside

First day of School (Kate - Kindergarten, Claire - K4)

Playing Outside

Growing Teeth

Someone stealing my camera

Playing on the computer

First day of Ballet

Heavy Lifting

Ok. Guess that's enough for now! I'll be back soon!