Happy 3rd Birthday Son

Aaron Gabriel ~ son of my heart. He fills my day with laughter, my arms with hugs, my house with pitter patters and dinosaur growls. He loves Thomas the Train, McDonald's French Fries and Chuck E Cheese as if they were the main thing the universe evolved around. At the age of 3 he knows his ABC's, colors, shapes and can count to 13 and even 18 by skipping 14 of course. :-) He loves to read to himself but not be read to. He loves music and his guitar but can't sit still in a music class. He spends mass amounts of time digging through books and playing his guitar and using anything he can for railroad tracks. Some days he naps and other days he turns his room upside down but he always sleeps through the night. He's always happy to see me. He loves his bath and thankfully because he literally rolls (and I mean rolls) in the dirt and mud. He is all boy. He is my boy and I am blessed.

Summer 2009 Memories

Here is the last of our NYC pictures. This was the night life. I have chosen 7 of my favorite photos to share with you. Just check out the kids faces. They have spectacular smiles!

Summer 2009 Memories

More photos from when my family visited us over the summer. This is 12 of my favorite pictures from New York City.

You know I just love our kids. They are so cool. We had 6 young kids walking for 12hrs straight on a hot summer day in the city and they were so good! They loved the city and it was a thrill to watch their faces light up at all the things the city as to offer.

Summer 2009 Memories

My mom, along with my baby sister and little brother, visited us for two weeks. We made some great memories. I have several post to do of our visit. I will post them over several days and not necessarily in order.

Today these photos are from our last day in New York City, visiting the Empire State Building. My mother is terrified of heights. I was very proud of her overcoming that to stop and take a picture. She had quite a few photos on her camera but they accidently got deleted.

Here are 10 of my favorite photos from the ESB.

Pre-Christmas Celebration

For our Pre-Christmas Celebration, we like to go to "Celebration", Florida. Since it never snows in Florida, Celebration does a great job of creating a Florida-style Winter Wonderland. They shut down Market St and have snow (aka soap bubbles!) blowing in every hour. We love to sit outside at the pizza parlor while the kids go back and forth playing in the snow. The girls were so excited to be going back this year. The funny thing is, is as soon as Autumn hits Market St with the snow, she decides she doesn't like it. But she is excited before and after. We love to walk around, get a snack & coffee or cocoa afterwards and ride the sweet little train they have pulled by a golf cart.



Afterwards this year, we went back to the hotel and sat around the fire pit. The next morning we woke up to these beautiful hot air balloons out our window.

Dinosaurs & Goats!

This weekend we stopped by Animal Kingdom since we've never been able to spend much time there. We saw the Dino-Land area for the first time and the girls enjoyed playing in that arae most of the day.






Then we discovered they have a petting zoo. Autumn and Kya both pretty much went right up and started petting the goats. Kya was just a tad more timid but only for a split second....






And then it happened....Autumn kissed the goat! That's our Autumn!

A Beautiful Weekend

For Mother's Day we spent the weekend in Central Florida. We seem to go there often. We love most everything about the area, except my husband works in 'South' Florida, so we can only visit Central Florida. One day maybe we can relocate but for now hubby has his dream-job. Anyway, we went to Epcot for the flower show but it was so very hot and humid. We spent most of our time at inside activities. We had lunch with Mickey Mouse and some of his friends.






















The heat was unbearable. The girls ran through the fountains fully dressed and had a blast. Kya has always been too timid to enjoy play fountains and today she broke free from her shyness and had an aboslute blast! Autumn was her normal goofy self enjoying every minute of life to the fullest.











We stayed at our favorite hotel. The hotel has so much to do "inside". The inside of the hotel is a huge atrium with 3 distinct areas. It has boarwalks going over fish ponds with live palm trees planted through out the entire atrium. Another area has alligators, then there is the Key West area where there is a huge sailboat. We were lucky enough this time to have reservations on the sailboat. The girls were mesmorized by the fire dancer and Lily was in a trance over the balloon guy on stilts.

The Kids First Trip to Epcot

We were at Disney the weekend of March 8 and 9th, on the way home on Sunday we had time to take the kids to Epcot for the first time. Autumn enjoyed several of the rides, while Kya sat back and relaxed this particular day. They both really enjoyed the photo stop that Epcot has with several characers all in one location. That was the highlight of the day for both girls.