Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Feburary Catchup

Catching up on a few missed posts over the past few months.  Bear with me as I figure out the best way to sort thru the 1000's of pictures we take.

The kids have loved playing with our old Guitar Hero stuff as pretend toy's but Carter has really enjoyed the pretending.

Laura and Sara took the girls to go see Disney on Ice. 

 Carter has remained being Carter.  Which is often a lot of fun.

 Easton and some college friends came up for a weekend at the house.  It was a bit of chaos with 8 kids and 10+ adults in the house, but a lot of fun catching up with everyone.


 Carter and Avery went to the dentist.  Here Carter is casually telling his friends about his trip to the dentist when he got back to school.

The kids got to go outside in shorts.  Then it snowed.  Then got hot, more snow, hot, more cold, etc.
 Carter finally achieved his dream of being an elephant. 

 Uncle David came to visit one night and one little guy was upset that he was gone in the morning when he woke up.

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Pizza Break

The upload feature seems to be broken again with the software that I use to create this blog, so while I figure out how to fix it, please enjoy this picture of Carter eating pizza.

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Happy Birthday Carter!

Happy 3rd Birthday to Carter Bear!  He entered the world with a bang and there hasn't been a day that he doesn't make us laugh since.

Tell me this kid isn't going to be an actor some day...





Friday, March 16, 2018

Happy Birthday Avery Jean!

Happy 7th Birthday to our Boogie Bear! 7 years ago we first got to meet the person that would change our lives for ever and someone that will have an incredible positive impact on the world.  It is amazing to see how she brightens the lives of people she interacts with and what a sensitive caring person that she has become.  While I wish she could stay little forever, I can't wait to see what she becomes.  We love you so much Boogie!

Could this baby have been any more happy?!
Nope.  Happiest baby ever.






Carter couldn't ask for a better big sister.


Monday, March 12, 2018

Disney Day 6

So there is one more day at Disney.  We woke up early again and headed over to Animal Kingdom.  We didn't have any fastpasses there so we headed to the Mount Everest roller coaster first.  Turns out everyone was headed to the Avatar ride, so we got to go several times.  
 It's hard to see us, but trust me, we are on it.  Avery got to ride it 3 times (twice with me and once with Laura).  At that point she said it was her favorite, but when we got home she ended up settling on a top 6, which consisted of 4 roller coasters, the Minions ride, and the Mission Space ride.

 After the roller coaster, we headed out on Safari. 
 The lions were just sitting out ready to have their picture taken.  Carter was doing lion roar's the rest of the day.
 No one in this picture was seriously harmed during the safari, although the guy in the picture behind us did lose part of his arm trying to feed one of the lions.
 Drum break!
 Next up was the Lion King show, which both kids enjoyed.
 And the Finding Nemo show.
 They also loved the playground at Animal Kingdom with multiple slides and climbing things.  It was good for them to burn off some steam in a chaotic way.  The place was slammed with kids going crazy and parents catching their breath from pushing heavy strollers long distances.

 Avery was so cute watching out for her big brother.

If you asked Carter what his favorite part of Disney was, no matter what answer he gives, he was lying.  The handrails were his favorite part.  If you gave him a penny for every foot of handrail he touched, he would be set for life. 
 Next up was Epcot!
 The kids definitely needed a sugar boost.  The parents did too as apparently the picture taking dropped off significantly.   We did a few rides and walked around, but apparently didn't take a lot of pictures.  Epcot was really busy that evening as it is a good park to end your day at with the restaurants and the fact that they serve booze.

We had a princess dinner scheduled for Avery on the last night for being such a good sport keeping up with Carter.  She met Belle and Cinderella.  Carter was very particular on which princesses he would get his picture taken with.

 He did like Aurora though.

 Snow White was a pass for Carter, but Avery was happy to meet her.
 Ariel came by when the girls were in the bathroom, so Carter had a good time flirting with her 1 on 1.  He is telling her all about his pizza. 
 When Avery came back, he didn't want to share his princess attention, but did get a hug in at the end.

 We did a few more rides and played some games in the big Epcot ball (princess dress still on!)

 We survived!!!  The 3:30am wakeup call the next morning for the flight home was brutal, but we had so much fun with the kids that we will consider doing Disney again at a future date that is not this year.