Disney Day 1

Ok everyone, are you ready to hear about the BEST vacation ever?  I almost cried when we left because we had so much fun, seriously people it was awesome.  I've decided to take it a day at a time so I can try and remember all the fun things we did.  And don't worry, not every moment was awesome I'll keep it real, but overall it was spectacular!

So Monday Shawn and I packed up our bags bought a huge amount of snack food at Costco and hung out.  Really it was so nice just having him home I knew the trip would be awesome.  While packing our bags we were looking for Graham's swim suit and asked him to help look for it. So he went around the house yelling, "Swim suitee, where are you?  Its Graham Rodney Funk."  Shawn asked him if he thought his swim suit would answer back and he said, "well he knows me, he just doesn't talk very much."  He's so weird and hilarious.   We then took the kids out from school school early and made them guess where we were going.  Caroline guessed and they were thrilled, but when I told them we could see all the Disney princesses Devin yelled, "Ah man!"  He did not care about that at all.  Anyways after a long drive down to Florida we crashed at a hotel for a little while and drive into the park on Tuesday.  We woke up in time to get to the park right when it opened because we were bound and determined to have as much fun as possible and fun started when the park opened!  Ok are you ready for a picture overload?

Here is Devin on the bus to the Magic Kingdom, he was getting very excited.

Shawn making sure the kids keep up with him.  He walks WAY faster than all of us, it was hard to keep up at times. 

Our first ride was Space Mountain and since I had never been I got to take the kids.  Graham was too small so he hung out with Shawn and went on a Buzz Lightyear ride.  Dumbo was the first ride all together.

Caroline rode next to me.

And Shawn took the boys.

We met up with Sandra and her family a few minutes later and played with them the rest of the day.  My kids LOVED being around cousins.  Caroline even said that she had as much fun with Maya as she does with Mabel.  Its a huge compliment in her book.  

All the cousins. 

Graham getting special treatment from Shawn.

On the Little Mermaid ride.

Shawn and Caroline hanging out in their clam shell.

Devin riding by me.

Meeting Ariel!  Caroline actually really enjoyed meeting the princesses. 

In front of Rapunzel's tower.

I know this is lame but we really took pictures at the same time.  And we were having so much fun I don't care its lame.

Waiting for Splash Mountain!

Waiting for Thunder Mountain.  This was my favorite ride, I think.  And everyone was tall enough to go on it!

Devin driving the cars.

Graham and Caroline were so tired by the end of the night.  Devin wanted to keep going so Shawn took him on another ride and I took these two to the bus stop. 

  That night we went to Mickey's Christmas party and when I saw the crowds I"m sure my blood pressure was rapidly rising by the second.  I had all three kids around by myself while we waited for Shawn to finish his presentation at the conference.  I would highly recommend not taking three kids by yourself during busy hours at the park, unless you want to cry.  Once Shawn met up with us we had a blast again, I just needed him to help keep me calm!  

Caroline resting on the bench while waiting for the bus.  It was a great first day and we were all wiped out by the end of it, but the exhaustion was well worth it!  The lines were short, and the weather was perfect, we were in heaven!

Poodle's Birthday

Since Poodle was here for her actual birthday this year I thought it needed to be included on the blog. We had lots of fun celebrating with her this year.  We started out by eating amazing biscuits and gravy at Loveless Cafe.  Then we went home slept them off and took the kids to the park.  I promised Poodle I would go for a run with her so we ran around the trail at the park while the kids played.  It was a short run but, about all I could handle after eating so much in the past few days!  We then went back to my house I put together her cake we ate a little and then headed off to see Catching Fire (awesome by the way).  We stopped at the mall for a bit and I almost killed myself going down the up escalator, but at least it provided comic relief for Bethy and Poodle.  We also took a mini tour of the show Nashville and stopped by the Bluebird Cafe and one of the houses that is on the show.  It may sound lame but we loved it!  I'm so glad Poodle was here for her birthday!  We love her and hope her birthday will fall while she's here next year!

Here is Graham with Poodle, he snuggled with her A LOT!

Pretty Poodle with her pretty cake.  It was really good.

And Graham snuggling with Poodle.  He may like her more than me.  At the park he only wanted help from her.  I can't blame him, she's way nicer than me! Happy birthday Poodle!

Thanksgiving 2013

I LOVE Thanksgiving!  Its starting to rival my love for Christmas.  Mostly because my awesome sisters come to town and make me not hate that Shawn worked all week long when it was supposed to be a "light" week.  Lies!  I think its safe to say I made WAY too much food this year.  I know crazy right?  I would usually never say that but I feel like we ate a half of the food I made, and its two days after the fact.  I may need to ease up next year.  Strong words I know.  We love having family come and stay with us.  I really think I wouldn't mind how busy Shawn is if we were always this close to family.  It was so nice!  The only reason I'm not laying on my bed crying in the fetal position is because we're going on vacation next week so I actually have something to look forward too.  Enough of me rambling, here are some cute pictures of this week.

Our tradition of eating pie and watching Elf.  I love this tradition!

These weren't even all the left overs. Insane I know!

Caroline and Mabel writing and performing their own music.  It was really cute, and funny!

And now putting together some sewing project. 

Having so much fun at Cumberland Park.

Best buddies!  They never left each others sight.

They are so cute!

Devin and Annie have a great time together too.  They had lots of fun building legos and puzzles.

And of course eating pie for breakfast.  I really hope we get to live closer to these guys someday.  They are so sweet and fun.  Leah even gave me a huge goodbye and it almost made me cry.  We love the Petersons!  And of course Poodle too, don't worry I didn't forget about you!

Devin's Birthday

Sorry for the lack of posts lately!  I was busy getting ready for guests and baking like crazy getting ready for the guests I had little time to blog.  Don't feel bad for me though, it was amazing and I'm sad its over!
Anyways, time to play catch up.  First off Devin's birthday.  He was very lucky this year.  His birthday was the last day of school before the Thanksgiving holiday so he got to wear his super hero cape at school and have cousins over for fun.  It really doesn't get much better than that.  He loved every minute of his birthday, well maybe not when he forgot to take off the super hero cape and brought it home instead of giving it back to his teacher, oops!  But after returning it to the school he was as happy as could be again.  He was completely spoiled by his grandparents this year and cousins.  He played and built legos ALL week.  I"m not kidding, everyday was a new set and he was in heaven.  Seriously he didn't want to leave the house or eat because he was too busy playing with his legos.  It was adorable and slightly frustrating when we wanted to leave the house.  I'm so glad he had a great birthday, he's such a sweetie he deserves it.  Love you buddy!

I forgot to add his Thanksgiving program at school.  He did such a great job and even preformed a song for Bethy and Shawn later in the week.

Enjoying a birthday cupcake at school.  And the red thing is a super hero cape that says, "Happy Birthday" on it.  We love his teacher!

And more cake that evening.  Is it selfish that I made this chocolate peanut butter one because I wanted Bethany and Poodle to try it?  I promise he didn't care. 

Blowing out his candles.

And playing with his new lego set.  He and Shawn took all day on Thanksgiving to set it up.  It was great one on one daddy time.  He loved every second of it.  We are so lucky to have family here for his birthday.  We love you Devin!

Shawn's Birthday

Last year when Shawn's birthday rolled around my ankle was broken and I thought I'll do more next year.  Yeah, that did not happen.  I'm pretty sure that I did more for his birthday last year.  I did make a cake and calzones, but last year I made two and some amazing stuffed mushrooms and chicken cordon bleu.  Yummy!  Anyways, Shawn has been having some long weeks at work so he did get to sleep lots which was what he really wanted to do.  Hopefully one year I'll be a good wife and do something special for his birthday.  We really do appreciate how hard he works for our family and love him lots.  And being the awesome husband he is, he let me make any cake I wanted to.  So I had my eye on one and whipped up a red velvet cake with chocolate frosting and cream cheese/marshmallow fluff filling.  Personally I liked the filling more than the frosting but being the chocolate lover Shawn is he was very happy with it.  He didn't even mind that I covered it in flowers. What a sweetie!

Up close it kind of looks like a mess, but move back a ways and I liked it.  Hopefully with more practice it'll look better.

Happy birthday, maybe one day you'll get enough sleep to enjoy your birthday!

Camera Pictures

I've had my phone for about 2 1/2 years now.  And its just about time to get a new one, I just don't feel like spending money on one.  Before we get rid of my phone I wanted to make sure the pictures on my phone weren't lost.  So Shawn being the nice guy he is went ahead and did it for me.

First picture ever taken with my phone.  I thought I was so cool. 

Graham was just a baby!  Look at him!

Caroline and Devin at Cheekwood.  I want to go back there.

He looks so cute in this, I couldn't resist.

Here we are hanging out with friends, and feeding ducks.

Caroline went to a birthday party and they had these mini four wheelers.  I was jealous!

Her first day of school.

Love his face!

Devin freezing at a soccer game.

And helping make Thanksgiving.

And dressed up like Mario.

Being weird.

One of the only times I've gone out with friends. It was really fun.  

I have a ton more on my phone so sorry if I bore you guys and just post a bunch of pictures from my phone.  Lame I know.