Updating--Part 2

Birthdays!

Landon turned 1 on January 28th. We had a family party for him and the theme was blocks. Jenise made the cake and we all had a great time. Landon enjoyed his cake as well as it was pretty much the first time he had sugar!






Kietlyn turned 4 on February 13th and we had a princess party (of course)! This year she wanted to be Sleeping Beauty so Nana made her the dress and we had a fun time with all our family.






Caleb turned 6 on April 19th and we celebrated with a family and friends party at a place called Outdoor Adventures. It's here in Des Moines and it's a showroom for playgrounds so the kids had the run of the store for 2 hours and they had tons of fun.

Long Awaited Update--Part 1

Ok, so we've been back from Disney now for a few months and need to finish updating. We've had a lot happen since then so I'll have a few parts here.

Disney was great. The kids loved it so much. We had so much fun as a family and it was a perfect vacation. We went to Hollywood studios first since we only had about 6 hours or so till my conference started. It was also the park with the least amount of stuff to do for the kids. Our favorite ride was the toy story ride, Toy Story Mania. Caleb and I rode it twice. The wait was longest but only about 30 minutes. It was by far the coolest "ride." We also met some of the characters as well.






We also went to The Magic Kingdom and we took our time and went twice. We saw tons of characters and rode all the rides. Kids loved Dumbo and It's a Small World. Caleb rode the Goofy roller coaster all by himself and all but me and Landon rode the teacups. The teacups were a hit. It's amazing how some of the simple things can be so cool to the kids.






The third park we went to was Animal Kingdom. It was pretty cool we all loved the safari ride. We went to that first knowing it would fill up pretty quick. We saw all the animals and then were able to just walk through everything else. We also liked the Bugs Life 4D show.





All in all it was a great trip. We were able to use my cousins condo down there and that was nice to get back there and spread out instead of being cooped up in a hotel room. So this is my shout-out to them--Thanks!

Vacation Day 1 and 2

Disney World or Bust! Well we left 2 days earlier than planned due to a winter storm warning that spanned from Iowa all the way to south of Atlanta. We would have had to drive through all that snow and ice but we left on Saturday and drove through sunny days till we arrived at Bill and Sue's in McDonough Sunday afternoon.

We got unpacked and then loaded up and went to Matt and Sara's new house. They've been there for 5 weeks and we were treated to pizza, wings, and salad from Sara's restaurant (Vendetta's) and it was good. It will be lunch today also. If your in the area then make sure you stop in for a good meal. We hung out there for a while, watched some football and the kids got to play with Micah and Macie. Caleb loves Micah. They played train all night long and Caleb can't wait to play with him again today. On the way back to Bill and Sue's, Kietlyn said she loved the girl (Macie). So they have a playmate while here.

Everything shut down here today. School's are cancelled so Bill and Sue have the day off and I've never seen someone more excited for a day off than Sue. I knew kids liked having snow days but didn't realize that teachers love them even more. Plan to hang out with Aunt Lucy for supper tonight and then head the rest of the way tomorrow if they can get the roads cleared and de-iced. It's a lot different than Iowa and the reaction--it's actually quite amusing.

Enjoying the time though. What a vacation should be like.

Sorry no pics--we'll get some tonight.