Florida Beach and Going Home

We played at the beach for a day...

Brigham

Sarah

Matt and the kids playing in the sand.

Sarah and her cousins

Pa

Some of my cousins and my Aunt.

Matt being refreshed.

Carseat, Headphones, Ring Pop, Sippy Cup, Favorite Blanket, Pillow Pet and lots of other stuff not pictured all carried onto the plane to just to keep her under control and happy. Traveling with kids is so complicated! Oh yeah, we kinda barely caught this flight too, that was a little stressful.

Thursday- Magic Kingdom, Day 2

Day 2 at Magic Kingdom

Brigham at the Mickey breakfast.

Mickey and Brig.

Minnie and Brig.

The girls at the princess breakfast.

Sarah and cousin Mollie.

I'm telling Sarah to stop dipping her fingers in the OJ and to sit down in this picture. We are working on "princess" manners...

A picture of some of our chaos in our cool smurf colored shirts!

We took up a whole boat for It's a small world!

Matt and Brig.

My cousins with Sarah and Lucy (who are cousins).

Race car ride.

Sarah on the teacups.

Matt and Brigham stayed late for the parade and fireworks. Brig was sooo tired!

Wednesday- Magic Kingdom, day 1

On our first day at Magic Kingdom, it poured rain.

Nate got stuck in it without a poncho.

While we waited for the downpour to end we ate for like, 2 hours! Here's Sarah being picky, only eating the meat out of the sandwich.

Brigham and those too cute Mickey ears. It made him a ton easier to keep track of too!

Thanks Matt for putting your family in jail with Zurg.

Sarah Jane on one of her favorite rides, her other favorite was the flying Dumbos.

Me and Brig.

This is us being dorky.

Yeehaw!

My parents.

Sarah loved this picture of Belle.

Tuesday-Disney Hollywood Studios

We threw ourselves back into the fun at Hollywood Studios and had lots of fun.

The girls keeping Pa busy!

Sarah had to walk down the whole line in the street.

To the rescue!

Brig anxious to go on the Toy Story ride.

Sarah was scared of the robotic Mr. Potato head. Who can blame her?

3D Glasses.

It was absolutely tragic when Brigham and Sarah missed meeting Phineas and Ferb! The look on Brigham's face still breaks my heart!

My brother, Nate. He smiled only twice on the trip: Eating his turkey leg, and taking my mom's jazzy for a spin in the hotel's parking lot.

Yum!

The girls ready to watch Belle.

Weeee!

Darth Matt

Me and some bad guys.

My mom couldn't pass up the tacky and touristy Orange world store on the way back to the hotel.

Entertaining ourselves while my mom is shopping...

Wow, Matt is soooo strong!

Silly Brigham.

Monday- Disney Animal Kingdom

We started off bright and early with Disney Animal Kingdom Park. I never got caught up on my sleep from the traveling so I was pretty exhausted for the whole experience. The kids enjoyed the few rides we took them on, and the highlight for Brigham was seeing all the different lizards, frogs, spiders, snakes, turtles, bugs, etc, they had there. He couldn't go past one without having me read the full description of it. Sarah enjoyed the petting zoo the best.

Ready, Set, Go!

I felt just like this guy.

We all found relief from the heat/humidity by getting into the Finding Nemo show, the show was better than I expected, it was as good as a Disney on Ice show, maybe better? I was amazed that they did such a good production for a theme park show, though all I cared about was getting into some AC, no matter how lame a show I'd have to endure!

The end of the day was spent letting kids play at the dinoyard playground- rope bridges, slides, climbing, and of course they had a little waterfall Brigham had to get in. Sarah was a little too young to let loose in there. I was done with accompanying her on my third time down a super sticky curvy tube slide that you had to climb down because it was so gross and sticky. Being awkward and pregnant added fun to that!

Ironically, the $1 sunglasses we scored from our family California trip the year before didn't make it out of the park alive. My glasses fell out of my pocket on the train ride and Megan and Grady's glasses both broke. We may have to make a trip back to California just for more!

Another sad thing that happened on the trip- my sister's hair got caught in a fan! Ouch!

Our grand finale for the day was eating at CiCi's all you can eat pizza. It was my brother Nate's request because he fell in love with it on his mission in Ohio. The pasta there was terrible and the pizza was okay, I thought it tasted like Totino's frozen pizza with a fluffier crust. Thank heaven their dessert was amazing, the cinnamon rolls and dessert pizza tasted great. The brownies were out of this world! They were cooked all the way but they tasted like brownie batter straight out of the bowl! If I knew this before I probably would have ditched the whole pizza thing so I had room to eat straight brownies. I am a great example to the kids...

Finally in Florida!

While my dad, Matt and Brigham were already enjoying Florida, the rest of my family (8 of us including me and Sarah) spent our day traveling to Florida. We had a three hour long layover in Minneapolis where me and my sister managed to figure out what state we were in, without cheating! The layover wasn't too bad with Sarah because she had her two girl cousins, Lucy 3, and Mollie 2, to play dress up the dolly with. It's really good Sarah can have girls in the family her age to play with. Playing girl stuff with a brother doesn't work.

By the time we got to Florida and picked up the rental van and all our stuff it was late. We went to TGI Fridays for dinner and unfortunately their service was slow, so our dinner was even later. Starving tired people and kids was a bad thing. Everything was better after the food though. We all shared a place (three separate rooms sharing a kitchen and living area). Unfortunately for me the first thing I saw when I turned on the light to the bathroom in the hotel was a scampering cockroach which I had Matt squash. I had the worst sleep that night, waking up twice that night from dreaming that a bunch of cockroaches have gotten into my bed!

Pa, Mollie, Sarah and Lucy @ TGI Fridays

The girls playing with a magnetic dress up doll.

So cute that they wanna do everything together!