Day 3- Day at Epcot, Breakfast with the Disney Princesses and much more!

On Day 3 we spent it at Disney's Epcot. Epcot has 2 parts to the park which are Future World and World Showcase. We spent most of our time in Future World because that is where most of the rides are. Epcot had the Flower Gardens and it was just beautiful there! I always wanted to know what was inside the big disco ball and it is actually a ride called Spaceship Earth. We kicked off the morning with a Character breakfast in the country of Norway. The restaurant looked like a castle, it was called Akerhus Banquet Hall (Princess Storybook Dining). It was the best! Check out our day at Epcot!


Disney's Epcot! So fun!


This is the Flower Gardens right when you walk into the park, it was so cool to see each of the Disney Characters made in flowers!


Akershus Banquet Hall-This is where we ate breakfast, it was so beautiful and one of the best character meals ever!


Epcot was OU day so we all dressed in are Sooner Red! It was so fun!


As you walk into the Banquet hall all the girls stand in line to meet Princess Belle and take a picture with her! Sharlee was in awe!

The most wonderful part of the breakfast dining was seeing the Disney Princesses. We bought the kids autograph books so that they could have the characters signatures and then their pictures. Each one of the princesses came to our table and Sharlee got to take a picture with each one. It was so magical, I was so happy that she got to experience that!

Here is Sharlee with the Disney princesses:

Sharlee with Sleeping Beauty!


Sharlee with her favorite princess (Cinderella) She was gorgeous!


Sharlee with Princess Ariel! So cute!


Sharlee with Snow White!


Sharlee in the Royal Chair


Brayden rode Test Track- a super fast car ride and after the ride he saw one of his favorite cars from the movie Transformers. Here he is inside of Bumblebee! :)



We rode the Finding Nemo ride which was super cute and here Sharlee is with Dori!


Brayden boy!


Epcot Character Spot- we decided to wait in line for 30 minutes for the kids to get their picture/autograph with most of the disney characters! Luke wasn't have it but Brayden and Sharlee loved it!


The kids with Goofy! He's one of our favorites!


Brayden and Sharlee with Donald Duck


Minnie Mouse with the kids!

Luke loved seeing Pluto, he was so cute with him!


Luke lit up seeing Mickey Mouse! So awesome! Such a great day!

To Be Continued.... More Epcot pictures later!

Day 2 Disney's Animal Kingdom!

On Day 2 it was our first full day at Disney's Animal Kingdom. We started our day getting a fast-pass (the best invention by the way) for the African Safari and then headed over to our first Character meal for breakfast at the Tusker House. Our character meal was called Donald's Safari Breakfast, one of the best! We saw Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy and Goofy! It was the best food and so much fun! We got to watch Finding Nemo: The Musical, the Festival of the Lion King, and experienced its Tough to be a bug~! Wow, now that one was scary for the kids. It was such a fun day! Here are some of the fun pictures from the day:


The Festival of the Lion King; this was one of the best shows! Very cool to see Simba, Pumbaa and Timon characters.


The fam in front of the Animal Kingdom! We spent 12 hours at the park, long day!


This tree was just beautiful, it is in the center of the park! Its so neat!


This is the view from the bridge of the best ride at Animal Kingdom called Expedition Everest. It is a one of the best rollercoasters ever, Brayden rode it 2 times! He is fearless!


Donald Duck came outside to greet all the guests for breakfast, so fun!


The African Safari ride, it was so neat to be so close to the animals! It felt like you were in Africa.


Jon and the kids with Goofy! Goofy is Jon's favorite disney character so he was so happy!


The kids and I seeing Miss Daisy duck, she was so cute with the kids! They were so in awe seeing all the disney characters, it was so unbelievable.


Brayden and Jon at the Animal Kingdom!


Sharlee wanted to see Minnie Mouse so we stood in line to get a picture with her; she is so sweet!


We went to the 3D show, Its Tough to be a Bug! It was from A Bug's life and completely scary for little kids but so funny at the same time! It freaked us out!


The Finding Nemo: The Musical Show; it such a great show!


Brayden and Sharlee with Flick from A Bug's Life!


Brayden and Sharlee with Mickey Mouse!


We decided to let Brayden and Sharlee try on some of the fun hats of all the characters. Here is Sharlee wearing the Goofy Hat.

Sharlee as Minnie Mouse!


Sharlee wearing the Alien hat from Toy Story!


Sharlee wearing the Minnie Mouse hat, that we surprised her with for the Fantasia show!


Brayden wearing Mickey's Fantasia hat!

And that was our day at Disney's Animal Kingdom! It was a great first day and the kids were wiped out! But they still had enough energy to want to come back to the hotel and go swimming so that is what we did! :)

Jon and Luke in the pool, it was kind of chilly! But lots of fun! ;)

Day 1-Arriving in Orlando, FL (Downtown disney and our Disney Resort)

We have been home for one week now and it is has been hard to get back into the swing of life again. We had the time of our lives the past 2 weeks and it has been a trip that we will never forget. The kids and I flew from Dallas to Orlando to meet Jonathan who was already there for work and spent 8 days at all the 4 major Walt Disney theme parks.

The first night we decided to take the kids to Downtown Disney and see all the fun shops, Disney Lego store and have dinner. We were so happy to finally be in Disney!

Here are some of the pictures from our first day in Orlando:

Sharlee and Brayden were so excited to fly in an airplane, it was their first time and they loved it! Sharlee kept telling me that their were Care Bears in the sky and Brayden thought we were going to Space! :)


Luke finally calmed down and enjoyed being on the plane!


The kids watching a movie on the plane!


Me and Luke on the airplane, it was one long day!


The kids were so excited to finally get to our resort. We stayed at the All-Star Movie Resorts which had different themed rooms such as Toy Story, 101 Dalamantians, Herbie the Love bug, Fantasia, and Mighty Ducks. So fun for the kids!


We stayed in the Mighty Ducks themed room; it was so cool!


Downtown Disney had a huge Lego store, with all sorts of Lego displays! Brayden was in heaven!


Brayden and the T-Rex Lego display!


We saw a display of the Pirates of Carribean and Brayden wanted a picture on the pirate wheel!


Sharlee saw Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella statues in front of a disney store and had to get a picture!


Sharlee saw her favorite princess-Cinderella for the first time! Oh just wait for the REAL ones!


Me and My Princess!


Brayden's first Mickey Mouse icecream snack! :)


The kids all tucked in and ready for bed! Disney's Animal Kingdom in the morning!

The Olympics and YW's!

2010 has started out to be such a great year serving in the Young Women's Organization. This year's theme is Be Strong and of A Good Courage... Joshua 1:9, every year we kick-off with New Beginnings and recognize those girls who are "Pre-hives and welcome them into the YW family.

Well the Winter Olympics happened to be this year and I found a wonderful theme on (of course sugardoodle.net) and incorporated the Olympics into our New Beginnings program. The girls' were so excited; to make the evening special we made the girls' gold medals with the value colors and wrote the mutual theme (Be Strong and of a Good Courage) to remind the girls to not only Stand For Truth and Righteousness but to strive for the Gold (the temple and ultimately return and live with our Heavenly Father again)!

It was a great night and I am so blessed by these YW! They have changed my life and I have learned so much about myself through them and serving the Lord! I can't think of a better place to serve than being with the YOUTH!

Here are some of the pictures from the evening:


Our group of YW; I love them so much! The girl on the bottom row was whom we recognized that evening! She was so excited! :)


Our Olympic Decorations; I bought a white sheet and the girls traced the Olympic rings and painted them with all the value colors. It turned out great!


Heather (the best 1st counselor ever) and I at YW New Beginnings


One of my counselors ordered 5 dozen glazed donuts at the Wal-mart bakery and then she frosted and dyed the donuts with the value colors to turn them into the Olympic rings. Genius idea! :)


Here are the Gold medals that I made for the girls so that they would remember the evening! So fun!