Ending

Well, after 4 years, I think I am going to quit blogging! I started to blog when we lived in Panama, and it was a way for me to help our families and friends feel closer to us! Now it has become a very infrequent activity, and mainly for posting pictures. Anyway, I am still debating but pretty sure this chapter of my life is over! On to new ways of preserving memories!

Tree Shopping!

3 is GOOD!

Annie Beth

Trac

a very serious birthday boy

Cheeeese!

MG & Coop

the long awaited tractor cake!

sweet Kaler

Cupcake, the baby

learning at home!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SIMON!!!!!

Halloween!

Roger Federer & Queen Annabelle before the school parade
Queen Annabelle with an outfit change for trick-or-treating

Halloween was so much fun this year! Simon trick-or-treated for the first time, which was hilarious! He walked into almost every house that would open the door for him, yelling "Trick or Treat!!" at the top of his lungs, of course! He has asked to go again almost every day since Halloween. His favorite part was his orange pumpkin. We went with about 40 kids from our neighborhood and school, which was so fun!

Down Time!

Inbetween days at the Disney parks, we hung out at the pool and relaxed!
This is where we stayed!

Making new friends!

new mermaid friends "Shimmer" & "Pearl"

The kids trying not to be sad to be going home!

Thank you for a great vacation, Pops and Cheech!!!

Downtown Disney

Simon was in awe of the Lego store!

Annabelle decided to build a "dino" for her treat from Cheech & Pops, while Max built a car! Simon got in on the action and built his own dino, complete with camo underwear!

He did so good and was surprisingly engaged!

Max showing Bubba how it's done.

What a fun last night in Orlando!

Magic Kingdom

Max getting on the Monorail for Magic Kingdom!
take 1...

take 2...

the Peter Pan ride-Simon's favorite of the day!

the wicked stepmother and stepsisters

While Darren, Sis and Si rode the kiddie rides, Max and I shopped!

This one looks good!

Max was mad because he actually did pull the sword out last time but couldn't get it to budge this time!

We accidentally ran into Buzz and Simon told us he wanted to touch him, so we did! He couldn't stop touching Buzz's buttons!

Simon COULD NOT believe he met the "real" Buzz!

on the Buzz ride!

Our last stop was for balloons! The only sad thing was that Space Mountain broke JUST as Max and I were getting on, but a blast of a day otherwise! Annabelle rode her first roller coaster and we somehow made it around the whole park in 1 day!