While we took a ton of video during our trip, that doesn't mean I didn't capture plenty of photographs, too. Since you've already seen most of the important parts, I thought I would share a few (ahem, thirty seven) of my favorites from throughout our stay. This trip was a little different than previous years -- we worked hard to say YES to all requests from tiny humans (when safe and feasible, obvs) and to be more relaxed about what we tried to fit in. We went to less "fancy" restaurants and got takeout a ton. We avoided the outlet mall altogether, but we did spent a significant amount of time in the souvenir shops. We rode our bikes and climbed trees and played mini golf more than all previous trips combined and did our best to sooth a mopey Sophie, who suffered from a migraine for the ...
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Beach Vlog | Volume 3
I'm back with volume three and it's kind of my favorite thing ever. We welcomed our cousin Kalli back to the mainland, so there was a lot of on-camera anticipation for that. She moved to Hawaii last October and we've been missing her like crazy. In case you haven't figured it out yet, my entire extended family is super duper close and we always vacation together in the summer. We were lucky enough that she was in a wedding an hour away, so we got to love on her for exactly 48 hours. I wish you could see how excited the girls were in the moments before she appeared -- that is all they talked about for hours and they couldn't stop staring at the door of the restaurant! Also, in this episode, Sophie breaks down how to use her made up word in a sentence and apparently I've been doing it all ...
Beach Vlog | Volume 1
Sure, it's been a month since we got back from our family vacation, but I still like to pretend it isn't over yet. Those two weeks in June are some of my favorites of the entire year and after looking forward to them for months, it's really hard to let go. In fact, I've already made my reservations for next year and have a running list of things I want to update in the trailer before then. Does that make me crazy? Every summer, Josh makes fun of me for the endless photographs I take and reminds me that ya'll don't want to see us posing in front of those same favorite places every summer. As a mom (and keeper of the memories), I can't resist capturing all of those moments, but I do understand where he's coming from. Since we vlogged our mini vacation last summer, I've been dreaming of ...
Another Beach Post
Remember back in June when I blogged about our disastrous Father's Day experience? It seems that is as far as I ever got with the vacay recap, so here is a quick tour through our annual camping trip. There was a lot of DVD watching and iPod playing, plenty of beach sitting and ray catching, a few serious faces thrown around, lots of smiling and laughing, some white powdered donut breakfast-ing, some beach sleeping and ice cream cone eating, sunset watching and cousin talking. There was even some dancing and tank top wearing by these two, and lots of goofing off by these two. There was splash pad playing, and picture posing, daddy burying, and even some mommy burying, couple cheesing, and family loving. ...
Girls of Summer
I love to travel with my husband and there is nothing like introducing your children to your favorite places on earth - but, there is something to be said for weekend trips with your girlfriends where the only person you are responsible for is yourself (and your friend, but only if a man in a bandana tries to pick her up on a Harley). I had the immense pleasure of spending this past weekend in Gulf Shores with four of my favorite friends. There is no possible way to recap the entire weekend and I'm not sure I would want to if I could. We waited two plus hours both nights for dinner, we danced, we misplaced debit cards, we walked miles for an ice cream, got kicked out of the pool by a security guard, got pulled over and yelled at by a real cop, bought clothes, had a couple of near-death ...
Insta Disney
To wrap things up I thought I'd share all of my Instagram images from our wonderful week in Disney. Yes, you may have seen most of these if you follow me on IG or on FB, but since it's been six whole months, I thought we could run through them again! This was honestly one of my FAVORITE trips of all time. The girls had a blast, Josh & I enjoyed every moment, the surprise factor was unmatched and nothing beats being in Disney World during the holiday season. Mark your calendars, friends, because we will be doing this again in the near future! ...
Walt Disney World | Day Six
Our last day at Disney World was kind of tragic, in all manner of ways. What a fitting ending to a wonderful vacation, right? The first characters we spotted on our way to the World Showcase in EC were Jasmine and Aladdin. They were so much fun and engaged us more than any other character except for Ariel. They were hilarious and Aladdin got really upset and corrected me when I referred to Jasmine as his girlfriend. Obviously, I forgot that they married! While waiting in line to meet them, my camera lens met a very unfortunate end. It was hanging on the back of the stroller (where it had been all week with no issue), when Tax threw herself onto the ground and the stroller fell backwards. Onto concrete. Where my camera lens took the brunt of the fall. The camera center in EC had no real ...
Walt Disney World | Day Five
Since MK is clearly the kiddos favorite, we spent a lot of time there. It was especially easy to spend a few hours there on the days we did EC and HS since those could be covered in a relatively short period of time. When Ella & Molly posed for the picture above, the Disney photographer didn't tell them what they were so excited about. They loved it when we pulled the photos up that night in our room! Since our first attempt with Ariel was such a disaster, we decided to try again. Sophie was still pretty timid at the beginning, but she eventually warmed up. They talked about Flounder and Sophie FINALLY sang for her. It was adorable and worth the five day wait. We also managed to catch Peter Pan on our way to Adventureland. Sophie would have nothing to do with him. The only man ...