Having a few time management issues around here. There seriously are not enough hours in the day to get everything done. Daily cleaning. Feeding the herd. Washing clothes. Taxiing the herd to respective camps and dr. appointments. Feeding the herd. Folding all washed clothes.  Swimming pool. ( I really like that one!)  Taking the herd grocery shopping, which is always an adventure I assure you! Feeding the herd. (Seems like Ive already mentioned that one)..anyway. Im swamped. Not in a bad way, just very busy.  By the time my day is done, well it never really is, but by the time the kids are in bed I'm headed to my "cubby hole" as J. calls it.  My cubby hole is my bed with pillows propped up behind me and Ipad in my lap. I check email the read on my Kindle app. By the time I get there, Im pooped! too tired to think of something cute and funny. Too tired to WAIT on our slooow internet service to upload the pics and then publish what I write. So, with that being said, please understand why i'm going to take a break. Just until school starts back. Just a month and half.  When I come back, I'll have a whole summer to share. :)

While Im "breaking" I want to organize all our old digital pics into photo books.  The kids love to look at old pictures. i have started scapbooks for all of them. You think any of the books are finished..not even close! Making a digital photo book is way faster and then they will have something to look at!  They dont read the blog, mainly due to the fact that there are several Santa, Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy spoilers in there!! So they dont see all the pics everyone else does.  i want them to enjoy the pictures too.  So, my computer guru is moving old pictures from our big computer to my laptop so i can get that job finished for them.  Another task to do is get all the bolg posts published into a book.  My goal is to have all 645 posts in a book. That way, when I start back after school, I can post then turn around and upload into a waiting book and not get behind.   Proof that I don't have much time..I sat down at 3:50..in the nine minutes its taken me to post this Sister had come in four times asking if Im done yet so we can play playdoh! :)  see you soon!

 

As any good theme park go-er knows, the first thing to do, is map out the day…they wasted no time time in doing just that:

The first character we saw was Pluto.  Sister would have NOTHING to do with getting his autograph or posing for a picture.

Here we all are posing for the very orginial group shot on Main Street.  Noboby ever does that.  Weren’t we creative!?

Sister is getting her first glimpse of the castle up close….

 

Magic Kingdom! Day two and we were ready to go..

The Mouse…

The opening ceremonies end with some impressive confetti explosions and many popular characters singing.

I loooooove Main Street , USA.  One of these days I am gonna spend a day on just Main Street and go into each and every single shop.  Just to see and say I did.  I love everything about it.  The Victorian look of the buildings is my absolute favorite thing. I think I could go every year and never get tired of it.

On to Epcot.  I was so disappointed when I looked through the pictures to pick out the ones for tonight’s blog.  First of all, I didn’t take that many while we were at this park (that alone puzzles me greatly) and secondly, the ones I did take were too dark so they got deleted.  *sigh*  So, this post should just be deleted as well, but, I don’t have the heart not to post a few..

The kid carriers….

That the biggest dang golf ball I’ve ever seen!

Sherriff takin’ a siesta….Two parks back to back makes for a very long day!

While the boys and I were being jerked and spun around and regretting our decision to ride the Primeval Whirl, J. and RA rode this:

Nice, easy up’n down kiddie ride.  J. definitely good the better deal!

It was hot as blazes by this point and we all felt a popsicile was in order..

After our ice cream treats and popsiciles it was time to say good bye to Animal Kingdom and hello to:

Just like the other Disney Parks, Animal Kingdom is divided into different areas.  After the Yeti rollercoaster we got outta dodge and headed to DINO WORLD.  Here we encountered the mini-rollercoaster called Primeval Whirl.  It’s a cross between a roller coaster and a Tilt-a-Whirl.  It looked really cool with  all the bright colors and blinking lights.  It had kind of a time machine feel….

RA wasn’t tall enough for this ride, so I went with the boys.  We breezed right through the waiting area..

Out time machine was waiting for us…kinda resembles the tilt-a-whirl in shape without the rounded top…

We got settled and C. was pumped!  He had just said he was ready for something not so scary..about that time D. noticed the hill we were about to go up and wasn’t as pumped as his bubbie. In fact, D.’s exact words were..”I’m not so sure about this anymore Mom.”

This is said hill that had D. tied in knots…

My plan was to get pics of their laughing faces, to document all the fun they were having on the kiddie coaster. Right after we topped the hill and began the ride, which was a tad scary due to all the herky jerky movements, the camera was stowed on the seat because the only way I could keep both of them calm was to stretch my arm across both  and continually say, “It’s almost over. We really aren’t going that fast, look at the car in front of us, see how slow they are going?” 

I thought this was fun…  May 2012.  C. is 9 and D. is 7..

August 2007.  C. is 5 and D. is 2 1/2…