Hollywood Studios

We decided to hop over to Hollywood Studios before heading home for our favorite ride Toy Story. We only waited 15 minutes for the best ride in the park and was greeted by Disney Year of a Million Dreams team when the ride was over. We were awarded Dream Fastpasses for 7 of Hollywood Studios top rides/shows. A dream fastpass allows you to skip over the line and right onto the ride/show. We thought we were going to leave early but now having these passes we stayed the day. The top rides for the day were: Star Wars, Tower of Terror, Rock N Rollercoaster, Toy Story, Little Mermaid, Lights Camera Action stunt show and Indiana Jones. So we nixed Rock N Rollercoaster due to height and nixed Lights, Camera, Action due to time. So we split up and Vinny and Sal got to ride Star Wars twice and Nick and Kelli got to see The Little Mermaid. Everyone but Nick and I tried out Tower of Terror and we all got to enjoy Indiana Jones and Toy Story. What a fun and surprising day!

Disney: Magic Kingdom

We bumped into Stitch at the Magic Kingdom and he took Nick's Quackers! Stitch thought it would be super funny to put Quack-Quack on his head when he took a picture with the kids. Kelli was not to sure she thought Stitch was as funny.

Disney was beautifully decorated for the fall with pumpkins and scarecrows. The boys gave their best baseball poses with Baseball Scarecrow and Kelli had her teacher face on with Teacher Scarecrow!

Epcot: Food and Wine

This year Epcot's Food and Wine festival all the kids tried the food! WOW! Each country had a station set up with the most yummy food. We "visited" Latin America via Santiago, Chile and had Shrimp with Cilantro Salsa, next Buenos Aires, Argentina and had Grilled Beef with Chimichurri Sauce, finally Mexico City, Mexico and had Quesadilla con Chorizo and a visit with Donal Duck!

After a short walk to Bologna, Italy the kids had the Sausage Pizza while we had Spicy Tuna Rolls from Tokyo, Japan. Next we were off to Louisiana for Crawfish Etouffee. Lyon, France we all sampled Escargot Persillade en Brioche and Milk Chocolate Creme Brulee. But our favorite foods were found in San Juan, Puerto Rico! Mofongo and Plantain and Beef Casserole was a crowd pleaser for our nest!

In between all the countries we visited Pearsville where the kids posed as giant pears. We learned if you feed a sheep green pears for one year their wool will turn green!

Sal and Nick are "Fairy Pears", Vinny is "Captain Bartlet Pear" and Kelli was "Bose Bear Pear"

Tuesday Treasures: Hot Stuff

Nana and Nicholas

Today Nick had a *deep* conversation with Nana about being born. Nick has been fascinated about this subject for weeks and I do not know who put this seed into his three year old head. Nick and Nana were not doing anything special when Nick climbed into Nana's lap and said: Nick~ Nana I use to live in mommy's tummy
Nana~ yes you did, I am so glad you came out...
Nick~ yeah!
Nana~ What did you do in mommy's tummy?
Nick~ I swam and ate in there.
Nana~ What was her tummy like, was it light or dark?
Nick~ dark
Nana~ Was there alot of room in mommy's tummy?
Nick~ no it was small
Nana~ Well I am so glad you are here.
Nick~ I really liked it there
Nana~ Do you like it here?
Nick~ yes I can't go back into mommy's tummy I am too big
Nana~ yes
Nick~ Okay.....

And he jumped off and walked away. Hmmmm Not sure why he has been turned on to the subject of being born but I will keep you updated if he thinks of any new tid bits of my pregnancy.

Tuesday Treasures: Just Horsing Around!

Twirl Me This...

Kelli is taking Baton lessons! With her two best buddies Sadie and Madison at her side, the girls have started these lessons with hopes that they will perform in two Christmas Parades, a madi gras parade, St Patrick's Day parade and the show at the end of the year.
She is also selling raffle tickets for a $1.00. If any friends or family would like to support Kelli's team and have a chance to win $300, please let me know how many tickets you want. I will also let everyone know when her parades and performances are! We are so proud of her for trying something new. She needs positive encouragement to help with her self esteem issues and quite her performance anxieties. Can you believe this is the same little girl who came to us 10 months ago..... Never would I have thought she would be taking baton lessons and lecturing the boys how batons are not weapons!

Where are you going?

What could that logo mean? Are we are going to church?
Are the religious chameleons actually attending a Sunday morning service? Well you might guess yes and you would be right and shocked I am sure. The kids have decided that they enjoy Sonkids (an every other Friday night event at our local church) that they wanted to try Sunday School. Well they are hooked. We have gone two Sundays in a row and they can't wait to go back. Nick is in his own class with other 3 and 4 year olds and is in love with the caregivers. Vinny, Sal and Kelli are in the K-2nd class and look forward to what is going to happen at the next week and really have learned alot. They check to make sure I am learning too, so we won't have to ask Jen all of our religious questions anymore.

A Day Out

Today we went with Crystal's family to Lyngate Park, where Operation Christmas Child had a fair. The kids could play 5 games and have their card stamped to win a prize. We had to try out the "Hole in One". Sal, Nick and Vinny tried with all their might, but that ball just would not get in the hole....

Kelli, Eli and AJ went next and to Vinny's surprise (he is our "Tiger Woods") AJ got the Hole in One!

After golf, we tried the Ring Toss, Bean Bag Throw, Frisbee Race and Water Throw the kids saw Face Painting. We had half want painted faces while the other half wanted bounce house fun.

Eli wanted a Baseball, Vinny wanted a Golf Club and Sal wanted a Snake! Nick and Kelli said it was way to hot to be painted up and headed for a haunted bounce house. What a fun day!

Walking Walking

WOW Jen and I are having an adventure on our walks not to mention all the miles we are racking up!

Week 1: 8 Sandhill Cranes and 15 miles

Week 2: 6 Sandhill Cranes, 1 walking catfish and 11 miles

Week 3: (only 3 days in) 7 Sandhill Cranes, 1 black racer, 13 miles and........

An alligator tail? No, a bike tire that looked like an alligator that scared us! We will keep our walking post updated with miles and creatures!

Tag I am It!

Krista from Bits and Pieces has tagged me! For this tag I have been asked to name 6 things that are unspectacular about me.

1. I started eating Special K 2 weeks before my sisters wedding (in June) to lose those "10 pounds" and somehow gained 10 more and continue to eat the "gravel" every day in hopes that I will lose the weight it says you can.

2. My favorite shoes are sadly Mary Jane Crocs followed by High Heal Crocs. Both that I own and proudly wear, (Thanks Ty).
3. I thoroughly enjoy buying and reading books. I can read a novel in just a few days. (Calling Dork 1: I cried at chapter 3 The End, can't wait to find out when he is coming back. Love Dork 2)

4. We are zoo fanatics and have been to multiple zoos in FL, SC, AL, TN and MS. We also plan vacations around zoos...

5. Even though snakes, frogs, lizards, spiders etc creep me out I can name them faster then you. Ohhh the joy of having 3 boys.

6.I love music, I can get lost to a different time or place or memory when a certain song comes on.

Okay I would like to tag a couple of my friends~ all of which are pretty spectacular ladies:

Crystal

Tyrene

Trista

Grandparents Day!

Sunday was grandparents day and K-8 schools celebrated by inviting grandparents to lunch today. (Nicholas will have grandparents day in November) Nana got to see how a public school lunchroom works and eat lunch 3 times @ $3.00 a meal! Kelli had a chicken sandwich, peas and fruit ~ Sal had a corndog ~ Vinny had a cheeseburger so basically Nana got nothing.
Nana, Nick and I had lunch at a restaurant when she was finished at the school. Hmmm this could be why we pack our lunches everyday. Happy Grandparents Day!

Thanks

Thanks to Storing Up Treasures in Heaven we have a cool new "family" at the bottom of the page! It was sooo cute I gave one to Tyrene's Tales and Growing Up Garcia..... Go get your family one!