Disney World!

I am 1 month late on posting this, but better late than never.  We took a dream vacation to Disney World in June.  My entire family was able to go at the same time.  We had a great time despite the very hot and humid weather.  Many thanks to Mom and Dad for making it possible. 

 

Lunch at the 50's Café.  The chocolate shakes were awesome!

Audrey on the Jungle Cruise

Admiring the princess dresses.

Audrey riding the bus on the first day - heading to Magic Kingdom

Super excited to meet Mickey!

We stayed at Caribbean Beach Resort.  Sand to play in, but no swimming in the water.

Seeing wild animals on the safari

Evelyn on It's a Small World

Evelyn was not interested in meeting Eeyore, but wanted to pull his tail

Wearing our team shirts.  Also happened to be Father's Day

Frozen!  Sing-along.  I don't know about the girls, but I was singing very loud

The girls met Doc McStuffins while I rode on the Tower of Terror - a certain someone refused to ride...

Evelyn and I at Cinderella's castle

Cinderella herself.  This was the princess breakfast.  By the fourth princess that visited our table, Audrey just wanted to eat her breakfast.

July 4th weekend

We had a fun-filled and busy long weekend.  Started with a buffet and fireworks at the country club on Friday night.  Then in a parade Saturday morning, followed by a great nap for myself and Audrey, a cookout and more fireworks.  Ended with a day at the pool. 

 

Hanging out before the fireworks.

Audrey got her face painted, but smeared it soon after

Audrey on the float before the parade.  Her job during the parade was swimming in the kiddie pool - which she did, the entire parade

Evelyn fell asleep halfway through the parade route

An all-American theme

Getting our exercise

We needed a change of scenery this weekend, so we went to the park and took a long walk to and through the woods.  Got a few mosquito bites but took great naps.

 

Evelyn is getting very brave with her climbing

Found out Evelyn is not a fan of mud

Showing off their muddy shoes

Rain, humidity and heat!

Give Audrey some paint on paper and she gets creative

Evelyn also painted her hands

Got the sprinkler out this morning

We couldn't resist playing outside after the rain

It was HOT last Wednesday, so the girls and I went to the pool

Helpful Family

The opportunity for free fencing was offered to us and we jumped on it.  It just took a quick trip to bring it back :)

 

Break time.  This is only a small portion of the wood.

Actually it was a lot of work as it involved taking the fence down; nails, screws, posts in concrete, loading it on trailers and then unloading everything into our shed.  I'm very thankful that my wonderful father, brother Mike and nephew Chuck came down to help Brian out.  It was an all-day adventure, including a flat tire on the trailer.  It will be just as much work putting it back up, but we'll save that for another day! 

Audrey is also thankful that she got to play with her cousin.  Here he is reading her a bedtime story.

Chuck pulling Audrey

Evelyn almost ready for tricycle

Please note, the above pictures were taken today, May 31st - and we are wearing winter hats!

One night, Audrey wanted to sleep with Evelyn.  After 1 hour of messing around, they finally fell asleep next to each other, on the floor.

Memorial Day weekend

Audrey enjoys picking flowers and putting them in a vase.  Lucky for her, we have plenty of dandelions to pick.  The field has gotten a little tall, though nothing close to the 6-foot tall weeds we had the first year we were here.  Finally got it mowed today.

Evelyn found a mud puddle but then got very upset when she fell into it.

The girls riding the John Deere.  Audrey is pushing the pedal for Evelyn, who is steering. 
Yes, Audrey is wearing a housecoat :)

We took Great-Grandpa Stevens out to lunch and then stopped by the cemetery to visit our relatives/veterans.

The wind was fierce this morning but only a short rain and then it was beautiful this afternoon and evening.  I even got some time in the hammock :)

Bowling fun

Audrey helping to make my favorite special k treats

Last weekend we went north to bowl for charity.  We are terrible bowlers, but had a great time!

Evelyn specialized in the ball return job

Brian proved he's the #1 Dad when he won Audrey another stuffed animal from the claw machine.

We even got a visit from Fun Brian - here he is rolling the ball with his feet.