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Disney Memories 2008 Friday the 28th of March-

Editor's note- The writing entries for the Disney portion of this blog came from Gentry's journal of the trip and it gets a bit wordy and long, but it captures it all!!!

The trip is finally here! Finally the time had come for our trip to Walt Disney World, as a Family we had been looking forward and planning this trip for months. It was going to be extra fun because Cortney and his family where going to join us in Florida. Nikki and I worked 1/2 days and we picked up the kids from school and daycare and left for Disney World around 2:00. The kids were very excited! We only stopped once for food and a potty break and arrived in Orlando about 9:00, Cortney and his family had arrived earlier and where at Disney getting in some rides when we arrived. We checked into the Pop Century Resort and went to get something to eat for dinner. Cort, Mandy Austin and Olivia soon met us at the hotel and the kids had a cousin reunion! Each cousin got a Disney package with a Mickey/Minnie Mouse T-shirt, Disney PJ's and some treats. It was great to see Cort's family again. After several hours of catching up, we made plans for the next day and went to bed. Disney Here We Come!!!

Soccer Anyone

Brenner started out not liking soccer very much the first year. Now he loves the game, and he is very good. I think Cay Cay is at the place Brenner was and I hope he turns around soon and will like it as much as brenner does, we will give Cayden a few more season to see if soccer is for him.

Brenner's always going for the ball.

Go for the ball Cay Cay!!

Cayden is a very good little soccer player, but his favorite things are the snacks and drinks at the end of the game and the sand box at the soccer field.

At the end of the soccer season they have a party and get a trophy. Brenner and Cayden are being silly and have the cupcake toppers in their mouths.

Easter morning the kids were very excited to hunt for their Easter baskets. The easter bunny every year hides their baskets and they have to find them. Mia's was in the oven. It was a good thing Mommy didn't wake up early and make breakfast and turn the oven on by mistake and burn up Mia's basket.

Here comes Peter Cotton Tail

Easter 2008- We had dinner and an Easter egg hunt over at Patrick and Stephanie's house. It was lots of fun.

Scary Easter Bunny

I think this hands down is the scarest looking Easter bunny I have ever seen. Mia would not even get close to him. We had a Easter party in our subdivision and one of the teenage kids tried to dress up like the Easter bunny. As you can see it didn't work out very well. The party was still fun. We had an Egg hunt, snow cones, popcorn and of course prizes and candy for the kids.

Green, Green, Green, Everythings Green!

What a wonderful tradition that we continued that started with Claudia. Every St. Patrick's day we have the green dinner. We had green alfredo, green punch, green garlic bread and of course green cake. YUMMY!!

Cayden's fifth Lego Birthday Party

Cay Cay's
1st friend party. He had picked out small lego fire truck sets to give to each friend as a party favor and they all spent time "LEGO BUILDING". After LEGO Cookie Cake eating it was time to open the pile of pressents- Guess what.... More Legos!!!




Yes, we wrapped his presents like legos. How cute is that, and yes those are legos inside that box. Like he needs more legos.

Wow this is a cool cake.

There was no question what kind of party little Cay Cay was going to have. He loves his legos. His traditional cake was also easy to make, and he loved it as you can see. Our little Cay Cay is five years old. He has gotten soooooooo big!!!! We love you Cayden.

Happy Valentines Day!

I think this Holiday is one of the kids favorites. It must be all of the candy and love letters that the boys get from the cootie covered girls in their classes, who knows. Can you say sugar high. Brenner and Cayden are holding their Valentines boxes that they made at school. Mia lached on to a Singing Hallmark Dog that Grams sent in her Valentines package to the kids.

Mia's addictions

Mia has two addictions at an early age. Her first one shows up quite clearly in the video, her beloved blankie. This was the cutest video, until somehow the first part of it got deleted. It is still cute. In the first part that got erased, Mia had realized I had taken her blankie from her while she was asleep and washed it. I found her crying at the dryer wanting her blankie out. This part you saw was just after I took the blankie out for her. Silly Mia.

Mia's second vise is her passey. All my kids have been passey babies. I think that is better than thumb suckers. You can take away a passey but you can't take away the thumb.