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?!?!

Country Livin'

All summer long the boys have been watching the field behind the house grow taller and taller. Finally the day came when it was time to cut it all down and make it into BALES! They were SO EXCITED!

They had so much fun! The bales were so tall. I think they thought they were super heroes standing up there! I mean, They are super heroes!

I Remember When...

I remember when I was a little girl, I used to do this all the time. Makes me smile to see my kids enjoying doing the same things at my parents house that I did when I was a kid. I also remember these "ramps" being A LOT bigger when I was little!