Orlando 2009

We went to Orlando a couple weeks ago and had a blast! I had no idea Orlando would be so much fun. I guess I just always figured it was only for Disney World revelers. We stayed at an amazing resort and are planning on going to the same place next year. The twins had a great time. Reagan was not too fond of all the water to begin with but she warmed up to it. Hunter couldn't get to the water quick enough!

The first day we just hung out at our hotel pool. They had fountains and a kiddie pool for the twins to play in. The fountains were their favorite. On Thursday, we went to the Sea World water park called Aquatica. It was the neatest water park I have ever been too (wait.. next to Schlitterbahn of course). Hunter even went down a water slide twice, the first with Ryan and then with me. I sat in the back of the inner tube and Hunter sat in the front slot and held on tight. I wish we had a picture of that! Friday,we drove about an hour and a half to Clearwater to go to the beach. Unfortunately, by the time we got there at noon there was NO parking to be found. So we like to say we drove to Clearwater to eat at Chili's:-)

I can't even count how many pictures we have. I picked some good ones but it may take you awhile to get through them all:-) These pictures aren't going to be in a very organized manner, but it would take me forever to get them in the right order and I just don't have that much time right now:-)

Ryan really takes issue with how small his head looks here!

Hunter with all his airport/airplane paraphernalia Reagan was very daring on the LAST day of our trip

Nothing better than that 1st margarita on vacation!

Hunter on our way to Orlando

Jr's car at Citywalk

Right after we got to our room. They couldn't get to the balcony fast enough!

Our first night at dinner. Our 7th wedding anniversary!

Miss Bathing Beauty

Hunter's best girl on the plane-Miss Christy

On the bridge at our resort

On our way to Orlando.

Universal Studios Citywalk

Universal Studios City Walk entrance

Aquatica

His face here kills me!

The fam at the resort

Reagan ready to GO HOME!

18 Months Old!

Hunter and Reagan turned 18 months old on May 28th. So scary. I wish I had pics to post right now but honestly, I'm really too tired to get them downloaded. I will get some on here soon though. They had their checkup and not much has changed percentile-wise. Reagan is still in 75th percentile for height and 10-25 percentile for weight..WOOHOO! Hunter on the other hand is in the 50th percentile for height and 50-75th percentile for weight..HA!! I took him for his 4th haircut today and we are still waiting for Reagan to grow enough hair to even trim. It's getting there though and is beginning to curl. I wonder where she gets the curly hair from?!

We leave a week from tomorrow for Orlando. We are so excited we can barely stand it. The only plans we have so far is to visit Aquatica (waterpark owned by Sea World) and the beach in Clearwater. I'd LOVE to visit Sea World but I think that's really asking alot of the twins since we'll only be there 5 days. I'm sure we'll be back soon enough though. We'll celebrate our 7th anniversary (June 9th) while we're there and my impending 30th birthday on June 16th(EEK!!!!). I shouldn't even admit that. I remember when I thought 25 was way too old.

Ryan is in Nashville right now for "work". I call this his annual party week since it's just his entire group getting together for "meetings". Funny... I don't recall any work "meetings" that lasted into the wee hours of the morning and ended with a bit of a headache and nausea. Maybe I just wasn't that lucky to have a job like that... This week I am volunteering for Vacation Bible School at our church which leaves my poor mom to watch Hunter and Reagan every night for 2 hours. I came home this evening and seriously have never seen my house in such disarray. There were dining room chairs in the living room and another chair on top of the table. There were toys EVERYWHERE and she was slumped on the couch barely able to move. She told me she has never been so worn out and has no idea how I do it. It seriously took her 15 minutes to be able to get up and go home. She even wanted me to drive her home (she lives 3 blocks away!!). I just laughed. I really don't know how I do it either.. I just do.. And I love it:-)

Sweet Summertime..

Yesterday we bought the kids a new pool. Hunter wouldn't even let us get it full before he climbed in. I attempted to warm up the water with buckets of hot water so Reagan would get in but her brother's splashing was really annoying her. She did get in for a bit and thought everyone should be very proud of her for doing so. It wasn't long though before more of Hunter's water fascination prompted her to get out.

Just an awesome day in May...

Saturday we went over to Ryan's dad & Jan's house and finally just got to hang out outside... all day long! It was so nice. We had great food and Brett's signature margaritas so you really couldn't ask for a better day!

Reagan and I

These 2 love their ranch dressing! Any food is fair game for dipping! Hunter's a little dirty from all his gardening (see below) LOVE the buttcrack!! Reagan and Grandpa dancingHunter with his new toolbench from Grandpa & Grammy
Reagan just chillin' out Mmm.. food's all gone! You know he's serious about eating when he uses TWO forks!! He's sowing something in there. Only he knows what it is though:-) Here's the reason they ended up with only a diaper on! Someday she really will not be happy with me for putting this one on here..
Hunter ended up finding a dog brush and "un-planting" all of Grandpa's veggie plants. Sigh...
Here's one tired, little man.


Time to clean up! Thank goodness for the mudroom sink!!
Reagan's turn All clean and pretty!

He had a long, hard day. Zzzzzzzzz....... (Again, I promise he has blue paci's but he really isn't picky with colors. Whatever he finds first he takes:-)

My 8 Things

My blogger friend Bern, (and I'd like to consider her a real-life friend too...) tagged me with "Eight Things". I love reading these, therefore I have to oblige so I feel like I'm doing my part. :-)

So here are the rules for "eight things": Mention the person that tagged you, complete the list of eight things, tag eight of your wonderful blogger friends, go tell them you tagged them!

Eight things I look forward to:

• Summertime!
• Hunter & Reagan waking up in the morning.
• My alone time at night.
• Ryan getting home from his trips. Especially the looooong ones!
• Church on Sundays.
• Any vacation, big or small, that is planned. I wish those happened more often!
• Cool down time in spin class.
• My coffee and toast in the morning while checking email and Facebook.

Eight things I did yesterday:

• Went to church.
• Took a nice, afternoon nap.
• Visited with my father in law who brought me some tomato plants. He's so nice!
• Ate pizza with Mom, Ronda, and all of the kids.
• Well... looks like I need to do a bit more with my Sundays. I could only come up with 4?!?!

Eight things I wish I could do:

• Play the drums.
• Sing. I mean actually sing well without the tone-deafness I have going on normally.
• Go on more work trips with Ryan. Yes. I'm still whining about not being able to go to Spain.
• Spend more money. I am such a cheapskate. I guess that's a good thing in these lovely economic times we're in!
• Spend more time with my friends I miss the most.
• Eat healthier.
• Speak another language.
• Go shopping; whatever type of shopping that may be, with the twins alone without having a major breakdown!!

Eight shows I watch:

• I'll just tell you right now that there is no way I have enough time for the few shows I actually do watch, let alone 8! Those days are LONG gone!!
• Grey's Anatomy
• Desperate Housewives
• Family Guy
• America's Most Wanted
• 90210
• Well 5 isn't too bad! It's usually just music on all day long. Nothing better than watching the twins dance!

I tag: Amanda R, Susan (come on Susan!!!), Chelsea, Melissa, The Kelly's (Paul or Malia.. take your pick!), Alison. That pretty much sums up my blogger friends!! I know.. it's not 8 but that seems to be the trend with mine. Maybe I should have renamed it "My 5 Things"...

It's just not fair!

Ryan left this morning for Spain. I'm not talking an inner-city grody part of Spain. I'm talking beautiful hotel right on the even more beautiful white beach and turquoise water outside of Madrid. He'll be there until May 13th. I'm going to be a lonely momma on Mother's Day but I'm sure I'll survive;-) I was going to try to go with him but a plane ticket was over $1300 and it would have taken 105K airline miles. We're kinda stingy with the miles because we want to use them for multiple trips so we didn't do that. Obviously, we don't have $1300 lying around for me to just take a short trip overseas! So... I guess I'll just keep looking forward to a trip to Missouri to visit Amy & Weston and a trip to Texas to visit all my southern homies:-)