Saturday, April 30, 2011

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!