Disney World- EPCOT Center

This is the great big ball that is at EPCOT Center. In the day time it is silver, but at night it is multicolored from all of the lights. Pretty Cool!
These little kids performed their acrobatics at the China Pavilion. They were amazing!

Getting ready to get on Test Track. Corden was a little bit nervous about getting into a "fast car" that didn't have a top on it! He ended up liking it, except for the part when we went really fast around the corner!

This was where we waited to get on the ride, MISSION: SPACE. There were two- One that was less intense, one that was more intense.

First we did the less intense one. It was great! Then we did the more intense one.... we all felt a little uneasy in the belly region when it was over! Not sure how many G's... but we all felt it.

There are so many awesome and unexpected things at Disney World! We were just walking along when we noticed that the ground under our feet was twinkling with lights. It was so wild!

This is outside of Turtle Talk with Crush. It was an interactive show.

Crush talks to the kids and asks them questions. He had found this and wanted to know if any of the kids could tell him what it was. They laughed SO hard!

During the show a couple of kids got picked by crush to talk with him and ask him questions. He picked Corden and had him talk like a turtle! Sweet! Totally Sweet Dude!

After the show you go out and there is a play area for the kids where there was this huge Bruce! So the kids got in. Kyler was holding Bruce's mouth open with his brute strength so that Corden didn't get his arm bitten off!

We had an incredible time at EPCOT!

Disney World- Animal Kingdom

This is just one example of the awesome parade floats that we got to see at the Animal Kingdom.
Stan, Me, Kyler and Corden at Animal Kingdom. Some nice man took this picture for us.

There was a ride called Kilimanjaro Safaris where you get on a safari bus and go for a somewhat wild ride while viewing wild animals right by you. We had to stop and wait for this Rhino because he was right in front of us! How awesome is that!?!

The giraffes were stunning! So beautiful!

There was an area that had all different kinds of bongos set up that the kids could make music on. The boys really had fun playing on them!

Stan and the boys had so much fun on the Triceratop Spin ride! Check it out, Thumbs up from all three of them!

Stan and the boys in front of the Tree of Life.

Me and the boys in front of the Tree of Life. That tree is huge! There is a movie theater inside of the trunk of it where you watch a 3-D show with characters from the movie, It's a Bug's Life.

This roller coaster ride is called Expedition Everest. You get on the "train" and start heading up... up... up... when you come to a quick stop because a giant yeti has torn up the tracks! Then all of a sudden, you start going really fast backwards! It was awesome! You do end up turning around and finishing the ride going forward. It was so much fun!!

I took this picture after we went on Kali River Rapids. Kyler got soaked from head to toe! Corden... nice and dry! But don't worry, Kyler wasn't cold because it was a nice 80 degrees! Such a nice break from the 30 degree weather we were having the morning we left for Florida!
We got to watch Nemo the musical at Animal Kingdom too but the pictures didn't really turn out since it was dark and there was no flash photography allowed. It was so good! The kids didn't know what it was going to be like, (I think they thought we were just going to sit there and watch Finding Nemo or something) because they didn't seem too excited about it when we walked into the theater. But it was incredible and they really enjoyed it!

Our Disney World Trip (Day One)

We started out on a very early, very foggy morning! After we boarded the plane, we had to sit and wait for 45 minutes because the fog was to heavy to take off. We were a little bit nervous because our layover in Denver was only a 45 minute layover! Luckily our pilot made up some time in the air and we caught our connecting flight to Florida with a couple of minutes to spare! Check out that fog! That's our plane... the boys were so excited!
When we got to the airport in Orlando, we got on a bus (Disney's Magical Express) and were on our way to DISNEY WORLD!!! We were able to sit in the very front and got the best view as we drove through the entrance to Walt Disney World.

Our hotel room had a Nemo/Under the Sea theme. The bed spread and wall border were Nemo, and some of the walls looked like waves in the water.

After we got checked in and settled, we went to the Magic Kingdom. First we ate dinner, then we watched a night time light parade. It was a great way to start out at Disney World! After the parade, there was a fireworks show right behind, above, and to the sides of Cinderella's Castle. It was amazing!

After the fireworks we went on some rides. This is Zurg (Buzz Lightyear's enemy/Dad). He was waiting at the end of the Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin ride. The kids thought that he was really awesome.

And so did Stan!

Goofy!!! This is one of my boys' absolute favorite Disney characters! They were thrilled when they spotted him! High five on both sides Goofy!!

I think this was one of Corden's favorite rides- yep, that's right, he likes the slow moving ones!

I kinda liked it too! It was one of the only rides that Stan and I got to sit by each other on!

This was pretty fun to watch. They pulled pretty hard and then Kyler said, "man, it's really stuck in there!" I don't know why they thought they'd be able to pull it out, they've seen Sword in the Stone about five hundred times! Stan and I didn't even try, we already knew that neither one of us were meant to be King!

I took about 260 pictures while we were there, so I am dividing my next few blog entries up so they don't seem so long.

I need to give a big THANK YOU to ANNETTE and to my PARENTS for taking such great care of Ryker while we were on our trip with Kyler and Corden.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Pay It Forward

Okay, so I went on over to my cousin Tammy's blog and she is doing a "pay it forward" game. What a great idea!

Here's how you play:

I will make something for the first three people who comment to this post.

Those three people need to have a blog and post the PIF game on their blog so the fun keeps on going.

I then have until December 31st, 2009 to get your something delivered to you.

Looking forward to playing the game with you!

Pac Man, Inkie, Pinkie, Blinkie and Clyde

Every year in October our FHE group has a Halloween Party. Well, Monday was the night. It was a blast! The kids had so much fun and so did the adults! I forgot to take my camera so Pam took this picture for me- THANKS PAM! This is the first time we have gone as a family costume. It was really fun. We went as Pac Man and the Ghosts (Inkie, Pinkie, Blinkie and Clyde).

Ryker loves to do his letters. Corden wanted to ask him "which letter" so I got out the camera. Such a cute little smarty pants!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... already!!

We were definitely not ready for this! It's October 5th, and it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... already!!
The leaves haven't even fallen off the trees yet...

which made the branches covered in snow a bit heavier than they normally would be on the first snowfall! We had a few broken branches like this in the yard today!

The trees look so sad being weighed down by all of that heavy snow!

I could hardly believe the view when I looked outside this morning!

We figured, if it's going to snow, we'd better get out there and play in it! The trampoline doesn't bounce as good when it's being weighed down by all of that snow! But the boys still had fun bouncing each other around!

The snow was the best packing snow!

The boys worked together to make giant snowballs to build their snowmen!

Ryker thought the snowballs made perfect snacks!

Kyler by his snowman. (The biggest brother snowman!)

Corden by his snowman. (The second biggest brother snowman!)

Ryker by his snowman. (The smallest brother snowman!)

Notice where his snowman's nose is!

The boys by their brother snowmen!

Even though I think it's a bit early for this kind of weather, I have to admit that we really did have a great time playing in the snow together! We may have to go out and play again this afternoon too! (After the snow clothes finish drying out!)

Happy Holidays Everyone?!?!