A day at the Beach

On Saturday, we took the kids over to our favorite beach for the afternoon. Honeymoon Island is a State Park. If you have a full day, you can take a ferry over to Caladesi Island. Caladesi was recently voted the most beautiful beach in the US. Here are some photos I was able to take.

PEPE LePeu

The kids were napping and I heard Katie was up, so I ran downstairs to say hello. As I was coming back up to my office- I smell something very strong. It smells like men’s cologne. Oh no! I run into our room and Brady is laying in bed spraying himself with Rob’s cologne. I asked him how many times he sprayed and he said “8!”



Ahhhh- my nose won’t stop itching!

The Bag Lady

Yes, I know, I should be working right now.

Since I am a WAHM (work at home mom), I am blessed (I think) to have the kids home all day. While Daddy takes them out for lots of activities during the day so that I can attempt to get my work done. Most of the time its nice to have the kids pop into my office to tell me what they are doing.

Right now, I am now listening to the most exciting conference call! There was just a knock on my door and since I am have nothing to say or really contribute on this conference call, I opened the door.

It's Daddy and Katie. Katie is eating a brownie. Mind you, we finished the brownies I made on Sunday (today is Wednesday).

Mommy: What are you eating?

Katie (with a big smile): A brownie

Mommy: Where did you get a brownie?

Katie: In my PURSE!!!

Oh my, we have a bag lady living in our house!

P.S. The purse in question is a red striped bag from Grammy's trip to the Longenberger (sp) factory. Mommy used it for awhile, but somehow it became the Princess' favorite. She calls it "my Striped Purse" and carries it pretty much everywhere.

Happy Mother's Day to All Our Mommies!

Our own Visa commercial

Last weekend, we took a long weekend and visited the land of all things Mickey Mouse. Since we are on a tight budget, we stayed at the All Star Sports hotel, which was very nice and had everything we needed. On Friday, we spent the day at Hollywood Studios (formerly known as MGM Studios). The monkeys really enjoyed the Playhouse Disney show. Katie wanted to hug all the characters on stage and asked each time a new one appeared. Here is a video of them enjoying the bubbles.

They also loved meeting all their favorite characters- especially Buzz Lightyear and Woody. At the end of the day, they got to meet Mickey Mouse.

After lunch, we visited the playground designed after "Honey I Shrunk the Kids".

We finally went to visit Mickey!

Hollywood Studios has a spectacular nightime program called Fantasmic. We met our friends the Martin Family for it. Everyone really enjoyed it.

And then we crashed!

On Saturday, we spent a long day at the Magic Kingdom. We enjoyed Story Time with Belle, the Buzz Lightyear Ride, and the Dumbo Ride. Katie's favorite was the same as Mommy's "Its a Small World." Although, she called it the "Dolly Ride" Mimi and Papa joined us in the afternoon. We stayed for the very crowded parade and watched some of the fireworks before making our way back to the hotel. At the beginning of the fireworks, Tinkerbell "flies" from the castle down into the park. Brady kept asking me where she went, so I finally told him that she went to get a snack. He said "Did she go into the water to get a hamburger?" We all agreed that she did and that was the last we heard of it.

Here are a few of our favorite photos:

SUNDAY:

Cost of 4 Day Park Passes: $400

Two nights at a hotel: $215

Souveniers: $100

Riding the FREE bus, boat and monorail: PRICELESS

All Disney Resorts offer free transportation to the parks- the All Star Sports busses all their guests. By Saturday afternoon, we determined that the monkeys would be on overload and that it was probably not a great idea to do a third day at the parks as we didn't think it would pleasant for any of us.

So we opted to have a low key day. We rode the bus from the hotel to the Magic Kingdom.

Took a boat to catch the monorail to Epcot.

And the bus from Epcot back to the hotel. I think Brady enjoyed the "free rides" more than the parks themselves. We then packed up the cars and checked out of the hotel and went off to Downtown Disney for some lunch and a little shopping. Brady and Katie had a terrible meltdown in the van and when we put them in the stroller, they both passed out. Mommy and Daddy got to enjoy Rob's belated birthday lunch with Mimi and Papa while they slumbered.

Why Mommy?

We are in the why phase with Katie and sometimes it makes us a little crazy.

This morning, Katie was in full force with the why questions. I asked her "Why do you ask so many questions? She replied, "Wow Mommy, that's a very good question!"