Graduation

My baby graduated from preschool today. He's so big and has brown up so much, sniff sniff!

At the ceremony the director asked each of the graduates what they wanted to be when they grew up. Mason said that he wanted to be a construction worker. I thought he said a circus worker. I about died of laughter! My kid the "carni". OH my, I was so disruptive, my shoulders were shaking with laughter during the prayer, I am so bad. But dang, it was funny! Anyway, he's all done with pre-school. Kindergarten here we come!

We're baaaack!

Man, I need a vacation from my vacation.

We had lots of fun, but it was waaaaay busy. Here is a synopsis:
Thursday: flew in, checked into the Nickelodeon hotel (it rocked) and hung out by the cool pool.

Friday: relaxed by the pool all day, it was awesome! The pool is made for kids around 5-6 years old. They can go on all the slides, they just have to wear one of the provided life jackets. We had a blast!

Saturday: We checked out of the Nick hotel (it was terribly expensive) and into our other hotel. It wasn't ready yet so we had to just walk around for 4 hours. The kids were miserable and complained the entire time. We hung out for a an hour or so at the nicest McDonald's on the planet. Seriously, flat screen tv's, waterfalls, pretty trees inside the playarea, the booths looked life furniture...way nice! We got back, settled into our room and went swimming in the pool.

Sunday: We went to Magic Kingdom. It was fun, but VERY HOT! The highlight of Mason's day was going on the Buzz Lightyear ride, then actually seeing Buzz. We went on the Stitch ride that everyone hated. Addi actually started crying and wanted to leave. We refused to wait in any long lines to see the characters so we didn't get photos with Mickey, Minnie or Donald. Bummer! We rode a few other rides and saw the Princesses in the Cinderellabration show.

Monday: We went to MGM. It was way hot then too. We went on the backstage tour that was awesome. We also went to a stunt car show that was great! Met the Power Rangers of course! Addi was quite bent that we didn't see the Pink one.

Tuesday: We woke up to a thunderstorm. The power went out in our hotel room and stayed off for 2 hours. We went to Animal Kingdom. It was COLD! I did bring sweatshirts for the kids but not for me so I complained until I got one there. We all wore our ponchos and ended up having a pretty good time. We went on a African Safari that was my favorite part! There were elephants, crocodiles, giraffes, gazelles, a lion, a warthog and even zebras that came right up to the van. Super cool! Oh wait, my other favorite part was "The Festival of the Lion King." It was like a broadway show. The people were in full make up and costume, it was the closest thing to broadway I've ever seen. I loved every second of it!

Wednesday: We got up, caught out shuttle to the airport and came home.

It was a great time, but I am so happy to be home! Now to just get caught up on all my projects:
end of year scrapbooks for my kids' pre-school teachers, planning a first aid program for a church activity, getting caught up on laundry and house stuff and getting used to the idea that my kids are going to be out of school FOR THE SUMMER IN LESS THAN A WEEK! aaaaaaaahhh! That is scary! Anyway, better go get some of my projects done!

Disney

We went to Disney today. We are all so exhausted. It was fun though!



more to come...

Florida, here we come

I don't really have much to say tonight, except WE ARE GOING TO FLORIDA IN 2DAYS! I don't know who is more excited, me or my kids. OK, yes, Mason is way more excited then me, as evidenced by his literally bouncing off the walls today. No joke, the kid was nuts. But super cute! I'm thinking Benadryl might become our friend in the next few days. He just can't relax. I'm taking Betty (my laptop) with me so hopefully I'll have internet access at the $200 a night hotel we are staying at...ouch! As long as the kids have fun- that's all that matters. That's all for now! See ya in a week!

just for laughs

Ok, SERIOUSLY, you have to check this out! It is THE funniest thing I have read for a long time. Tonight the whole "Tom Cruise flowbee" comment had me snorting, laughing loudly and brought tears to my eyes for a good 5 minutes. I even woke Chris up from his narcolepsy slumber. So dang funny!

CKC Nashville

Was lots of fun. Bought tons of great stuff...yet I stayed on budget-go me!!! I met and took classes from Michelle Hill and Donna Downey. They are just as great in person as they seem in cyberspace. Donna totally cracked me up and I would pay lots to take more classes from her. Check out her blog, there is a pic of my class. I didn't make it to the lss she taught at in the area ( I really don't like that store) because I doubt Chris would have been too happy about that after

















I was gone for 12 hrs on Saturday. It looks like she did cute projects though.




Michelle's Lil Davis class was awesome. We used all their new stuff that hasn't shipped yet. It's all glittery and lots of fun. Even the rub ons have glitter in them. Fun!! The page was super cute.

Michelle then had a thing at my scrapbook store. Lil Davis did a cross country RV trip and made a stop at my lss. She did a great make n take, taught a class and had a page contest (that I didn't win AGAIN!).

All in all it was a great day!