Friends and Birthdays!!!

Getting together with friends from high school is usually very hard to accomadate when everyone's lives are going 100 mph. This past Tuesday me and 2 of my best friends from as far back as elementary school, Brandi and Krissy, got together for about an hour or so to let the kids play. We went to Krissy's in-laws farm so the kids could run wild!!!

Tripp (Brandi's), Cayson, Brandon (Krissy's)

 Anna is use to being with a bunch of boys since she is the only girl grandchild in mine and Casey's family!!

My sweet baby girl will be turning "9" on Saturday the 22nd so we let her have a few girlfriends over this past Friday night for her birthday slumber party. I use to love slumber parties when I was little so being able to do the same thing for my little girl makes me just as happy as it does her. They had a blast and so did I!!!

Some of the pictures that are pretty terrible where taken by one of the girls.... They stole my camera when their "fashion show" began!!! I love it!!!

Our magnolia tree that is the perfect "climbing tree"

 Anna and Raine

 Paige

 Lindsie (LuLu) and Raine

FASHION SHOW!!!!

Cake and Presents Time!!!

I tried to calm them down about 10 but when I woke up at 12:55 from a noise, it was 3 of the 4 giggly girls still up watching tv and playing board games. Poor Paige passed out, but the other 3 weren't giving up just yet. I have no clue what time they finally passed out but I had to wake them up at 9 the next morning!!!

I love being able to enjoy stuff like this with my kids. I had a cool mom that all my friends loved so I hope my kids will say the same thing about me!!! It makes life a whole lot more enjoyable when you can act like kids again!!!!

Have a great Monday!!!



DISNEY WORLD!!!

Yes, we have been back from Disney World for almost 3 weeks and I have just now had the time to sit down and share this extra long post.... there will be LOTS of pictures!!!! We had a MAGICAL time with 10 of our closest family members. 14 people is a very group to travel 12 hours with but it really was wonderful. Trying to find time to post these days are few and far between... normally the only time I can find to post is during a slow day at work (dont tell my boss!!), which is usually about once a month..... although I did skip September!!!
For those of you that don't know the whole story, we did not tell our kids we were leaving for vacation much less to Disney World until about 30 min before we left the house. Keeping this secret for 6 months was EXTREMELY difficult but was well worth the wait when we got to see their faces!!!

 Before the news.......

 and after the news......

 My mom got them all Mickey Mouse suitcases for the trip.

Packed like sardines and ready to go!!!! We drove from 10:30 p.m. till 9:00 a.m.

Casey and Roy were struggling by 7:00 a.m..... Me and Lacy drove the final 2 hours (fair I think??)

 Our first "Disney" day was a relaxing day by the pool!!

 Let the park hopping begin!!! Here are all 7 kids!!!

 On the monorail

 Character Breakfast

My mom and Pat with Mickey!

 Best part of the trip were the strollers!!!

 Sci-Fi Restaurant - you eat in old cars!!

 Anna was so excited she conquered the "Expedition Everest"

In order from left to right.... Cayson, Blake, Cruz, Lane, Bryce, Jax, and Anna

 Digging up dinosaur bones was definitely a hit!!

 We took a family outing (just us 4) one night and went to play goofy golf at the Christmas Winter Wonderland Course... It was definitely not winter temperatures though!!!

and yes if you are wondering, it was a bad hair day EVERYday we were there... HOT and HUMID!!!

 Test Track!! :)

Lacy's Birthday celebration at Planet Hollywood...
Her friend Tori that lives in Gainesville came down for the day.

Riding the buses

Our Mickey Ears!!!

Their cute painted faces.

Cinderella and Princess Anna

All 14 of us in front of the castle.

My favorite.... All the character pictures!!!

My step sister Amber and her 2 boys

The Pickerings

The McCarthys

Probably my favorite picture!!! My sweet babygirl and Minnie!!

The Sullins

Me and Cayson at our "mommy and son" character breakfast.

Daddy and sissy went to Harry Potter's castle and the Sullins went to Seaworld

Our last night in Disney chilling in the guitar shaped pool!!

It was a vacation with LOTS of memories!! It was hard to pick from 950 pictures but I am sure you can tell that everybody had a great time (even the adults). We hope to do this again in about 5 more years!!!

Have a great day and I am going to try and post later this week!!! We are having a small slumber party for my sweet Anna Friday night for her birthday so I am sure there will be several interesting pics!!