Mother ~ Daughter trip to Florida!

We had a wonderful loooong weekend together in sunny Florida!   Faith stayed home with daddy and the brothers while Kylee and I had some girly bonding time.  We got to visit Cocoa Beach, Universal Orlando and Disneyworld. We were there a total of 120 hours of which we only slept 25 hours. ( Yes we need a vacation from our vacation) We played non stop! Here are some of the highlights from our trip. They are not in order because I am too tired to mess with blogger at the moment.

Some cute pictures of Disney and Kylee

We met many characters, and Kylee almost killed her boyfriend Spidy's nemesis, Green Goblin!  Go Kylee! ( and yes she really does have a huge crush on spiderman...watch out MaryJane!

Driving from Miami to Orlando, we stopped at the Ron Jon surf shop!  So fun.  Also we had a great rental, a Nissan that was an automatic, but shifted like a stick...so fun to drive!!!

Harry Potter, Butterbeer, and the best fish and chips I have ever tasted...and that is a big deal since we live in Seattle and have the freshest fish around!  They win!  We got to eat in this really cool wooden cottage ( The Three Broomsticks)  that had a spiral staircase.  It was lovely!

Universal Studios - I thought I was going to die on that red rockin rollercoaster!  You can program whatever music you want playing in your seat during the ride...I listened to Glamorous by Fergie and Kylee listened to Stronger by Kelly Clarkson. It was amazing by the way!

Disneyworld never disappoints!  The Tiki Room, Splash Mountain, Pirates, fireworks, a magical light show on the castle, princesses, the Electric Light parade and us!  It was Magical!

Here are the few pictures I happened to be in.  I carried the camera the entire time, and we just never got many opportunities to get someone else to take a few of us together.  We did make some attempts with our reflections.  OH and I got to feel Captain AMERICA'S Muscles! 

See I told you Kylee had a crush on Spiderman ~  We were shopping in his store when he snuckup from behind and surprised her! He threw a football and she caught it ~ He took a quick picture then went off to his duties of saving the world.  Kylee stalked him, and found him taking pictures against a green screen, got another 5 minutes with him, where she told him to leave Maryjane for her ! 

Cocoa Beach and our Ron Jon beach blanket ~  Loved the beach,and the weather !  Perfect !

A sweet picture ~

Faith and her big sister were coloring together when Faith asked Kylee to draw a picture for her. This is what Faith wanted Kylee to draw. She was so excited to come show me the picture of her in my tummy. I was a little sad. I missed out on so much with my sweet little peanut. I explained to her that she was born in my heart, and that I love her very much. I don't want to overcomplicate her sweet idea, to soon. I am not sure when the time will come for me to explain to her about adoption, but right now she is still in the bubble, and I am content to let her enjoy as much of that as possible.

Dress Up ~ Wedding Bliss

Faith came home from school and announced she wanted to get married.  I said to whom?  She said Gage...a boy in her Sunday School class.  He is pretty darn cute.  So her big sister Kylee took her upstairs and helped her get ready for her big day!  Watch out Gage, she is one determined little girl!

President's Weekend

We had a relaxing long weekend with the kids out of school on Friday and Monday.  Dallin had soccer on Saturday, we had church on Sunday and Monday we went to the Nisqually Wildlife Refuge with our friends.  After the refuge we went to pizza and Cabela's, every man's dream store.  Dallin is our outdoor man and loves fishing and the idea of hunting, he has been begging me to take him to this store for years.  It was close to the refuge so he got lucky.  I was actually happily surprised at the store, it is so cool.  They have displays inside the store that are set up like a museum.  We saw every kind of wild animal and they even had an aquarium. 

Having a sense of humor, I found it quite funny that the first place we went to was to protect and preserve wildlife, and the second place we went to was all about the hunt.  Opposite ends of the spectrum on our all inclusive nature day.  :)

Me taking Dawn P's picture

while she takes mine :)

the group

Dawn P. walking with the girls

Faith getting a peek at nature up close

Dallin enjoying the experience

Picture by Dawn P.

This guy found an owl's nest with the owl...we got to see it through his camera...so cool!

Found some treasures

Faith

Lucy

Kylee and Lucy

overexposed picture, the boys are not as white as this, but close:)

another opportunity to get the umbrella out ( we get alot of those)

leaves and mossy tree

Playing with my focus, wanted to have the front branch blurry and focus behind it...

fuzzy trees

Loved the barns, had some fun editing this pic.

Love the water and the barn reflection

Washington or England?

We know one taxidermist is staying busy...

grrrr

Display in the center of the store

Airplane in the middle of the store

And we even got to shop, she is a trendsetter!

More or Enough?

In a world that is always promoting " More" I found this sweet expression priceless and wanted to share.  I definitely have enough and count my blessings daily :)