so busy, i forgot...

i was so busy today that i forgot to update my blog for the day. i still have shots from out Cali trip and some more shots from what we did today too. it started with working out in the morning, swimming lessons at noon, costco until 2:30, then off to Gateway to meet up with nic and shop/play in the fountains until 6. now i am home, have eaten dinner, and vaccumed a couple of rooms. i am done. i am finished. i am tired. hopefully tomorrow i will have a better memory.

i am now ready for retreat and escape...

Disneyland, day 2

so i have soooo very many pictures from this day that i am breaking it up into two. on the second day we started out going to see tinkerbell cause we were told it is a long wait to see her, and it still was even going there very first.

one of the tinkerbell fairies

tinkerbell herself

at the ride for alice in wonderland (my favorite old school disney movie)
tessa got car sick on the way there so she got a brand spankin new shirt to wear

we finally got her to semi smile

while we were waiting for ky and walter to go on splash mountain (brenton and i had just gone) we ran into these two. and i also took him and tessa on the winnie the pooh ride, again, while we were waiting.

the B E A utiful pink castle

waiting for the dumbo ride. whilst i was waiting i received a text from my brother stating that MJ had died. i felt like turning around and yelling to everyone what i had just found out...but i didn't.

kylee rode with T and i, she got to do all the controls. tessa was cracking up laughing the whole time. it was fun.

Brenton was so excited to find out that now that he was 8 he could fly one ALL BY HIMSELF!!

while we were doing the dumbo ride i made walt wait in line for the storybook boat ride.

i really love this ride

it is so relaxing and calming

to just float along and look and the cute houses

i am pretty sure

the kids enjoyed it too.

look ma, i have freckles

i am so busy today i don't have time to do our second day of disneyland post but i will give you this gem..

kylee has given herself freckles
with a marker. she loves her NEW LOOK!!

wordless wednesday

YOU ALL LOVED HIM...AND YOU KNOW IT...NOW JUST ADMIT IT!!!

letting kids light fireworks...

and letting kyle take over your camera can turn into this...

brenton lighting one of his many fireworks

a night shot of a firework

kylee lighting a firework with tessa walking away
kylee running away from the firework she had started (jelly shoes and running away from fireworks do not mix)

sparklers,

sparklers, and

more sparklers!!

tessa doing her impression of holding a sparkler

and the following photos were shot by my brother, kyle...

making grandma help light sparklers

ummmm...doing something...with a lighter of course

a shot of kyle and his fiance laura (i almost posted the one where you could see up his nose but, decided to spare you all)

kylee and i lighting yet...more sparklers

a shot of kyle and tessa...with laura in the background

making grandma light A BUNCH OF SPARKLERS

kyle and tessa...with my mom giving him the bunny ears

HAPPY FOURTH OF FLIPPIN JULY!!

a little independence this year

i am giving you a break from vacation talk and will have the next two posts be about our 4th of july activities.

i let my children pick out their own clothes this year, they just had to be red white or blue. Ky picked out the dress and Bman picked out a red transformers optimus prime shirt.
a great family photo op!!

this year my sister (and i, i might add) are a little anti, considering the situation my dad has been put in due to our lovely american judicial system. i should have taken a picture of my grandmas face when she saw this instead of the jello (thanks molly for the wonderful laughs of the confederate jello flag).

getting ready to watch the family firework show (put on by kylee and brenton). sorry laura i know you will hate this picture.

sparkler in one hand and a lighter in the other...does it get any more 4th of july than that?

she had to wear some boy pj's for the fireworks cause her new tinkerbell nightgown would have caught fire.

the new pj top my mom got from us from disneyland...i made her wear it when her and the kids changed into pj's.

my new 4th of july croc flippers. yep neon orange and pink for me!!

tessa attempting to hold a sparkler...

i think she held it for like two seconds...look at my moms face...i love it!!

cheesin it up with daddy

the two sisters who were home...nic and scott's fam were out of town...we missed them alot!

more firework pictures to come tomorrow...