Monday, January 28, 2008

disney world 2008

our first look at disney world and the castle

pluto welcomed us...sorry susanna, daddy cut you out :)

caroline trying to figure it all out

our first ride...buzz lightyear

she loves buzz lightyear!

made it about an hour and a half and she sacked out

lunch with pooh and friends on the first day

love this pix of caroline and piglet...piglet is one of my favs!


grandma, grandad, eeyore and all the grandkids


john's favorite, tigger...he asked me to take this :)

john getting some lovin' from kaitlin

once again, it was all too much for susanna :)

2 beautiful girls havin' fun...connie and kaitlin

her first ears

abby, kaitlin and caroline



caroline in her minnie glasses




her first encounter with cinderella


she liked belle just a little :)

her self proclaimed favorite, sleeping beauty/princess aurora


hanging out in minnie's house

the little girls enjoying disney

hi!!!

could there be a prettier 11 yr old in the world??

could there be a prettier 6 month old in the world??

playing in the "honey i shrunk the kids" playground

i love this pix of caleb...paint and all!

just a little tired




breakfast with the princesses at cinderella's castle













posing on the castle steps

too cool!

aunt connie and caroline riding dumbo

grandma and kaitlin riding dumbo

aunt rachel braved the teacups with the little ones

watching the parade



aunt rachel and abby

aunt connie and kaitlin

grandma and 2 very tired girls

animal kingdom

too cute!!!

asleep on the african safari


asleep at the rainforest cafe...seeing a pattern?





watching the parade with grandad

uncle david and kaitlin

dale at our dinner with minnie and friends

goofy...he was SO much fun!!!

who cares about the characters...i have this strap on my stroller :)

caroline and minnie



chip signing caroline's book


dancing with pluto

caroline dancing with one of her favorite guys in the world

the little girls swimming on our day off


helping to "co-pilot" the monorail


checking out the view from the front seat

chicken little...or as caroline says, "it's chicken doodle to me"




see you next time!!

we got back from our first family trip to disney world and boy was it awesome! caroline is not going to come down from her high any time soon and is ready to go back. mommy and daddy are still exhausted so we'll have to wait a while on that one. we took over 300 pictures so it is hard to narrow that down, but i tried. susanna was a champ, spending all day in the stroller or on me in the baby bjorn. she could not have been better!! we went with john's whole family and soaked up every minute of fun we could together. don't think we left anything undone. thank you grandma and grandad for making the trip possible for us...caroline (and both of us) will never forget it!!

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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

garbage truck

why oh why does the garbage truck have to come to our house and sit in front of it loudly crunching up trash literally forever while my two girls nap in their bedrooms located at the front of the house?????? it must be b/c they want to wake up my youngest who is in desperate need of a long nap today b/c she has a cold. it must also be b/c they don't want this mommy to have any time to do anything today. that must be it!!!

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Friday, January 11, 2008

cole christmas, christmas eve

waiting "patiently" for her cousins to arrive

aunt lauren and andrew

susanna and aunt kristen

susanna, luke and sarah

the whole crew

the kid table

holiday stress is taking its toll on her :)

the beautiful tree

trying to wait patiently to open gifts

luke and papa cuddling


so excited about her ladybug luggage


andrew in his new ride



running out of room for the grandkids' stockings

precious girl!

digging into the stockings

what's he got mommy?

happy b'day jesus cake

the kids eyeing the cake

papa reading the story of jesus' birth


we celebrated with my family on christmas eve and had a wonderful time! my sis and her crew came and we spent the whole day eating, opening presents and making awesome memories. it couldn't have been any better!

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