Facts About Disney

Disney World really does make all your dreams come true. At least it did for our family. Thanks to Ty's older brother, Jason, we had a week far beyond magical. 

Epcot

Tyler's favorite part of the day was watching the fireworks with Luke on his shoulders. My favorite part was the homemade sugar cone and vanilla ice cream. Fact 1: I had ice cream at 4/7 of the parks and ate a Blue Bell ice cream root beer float 6/7 nights.

 Fact 2: I have to fight for Ty's attention when Bell's around.

 One of them is the father it's just real hard to tell which one he is. Also, fact 3: the flexing brother has been working hard on this pose.

Animal Kingdom

My favorite part was watching Lucas use his pointer finger ALL day long.

Ty and Brandon have some serious moves that look even better in their matching outfits. Fact 4: these two brothers accidentally matched 3/7 of the week.

 Fact 5: Patty is the greatest mother-in-law around.

 Fact 6: Lucas is WAY more wild than his two calm and collected cousins.

 Hollywood Studios

If there had to be a bad day this was the one. It was freezing cold, I shattered my iPod screen, Lucas fell on cement stairs and scraped his chin, I didn't get to see the Fantasmic show due to cold weather and a sad, sad baby and I got the lowest score out of all the other 18 family members on the Toy Story ride. Fact 7: I was at Disney World so there really is nothing to complain about.

SeaWorld

Fact 8: This is the only picture I took on this day. 

Fact 9: SeaWorld had the best grown up rides.

Fact 10: There is no one more fun to ride a roller coaster with than Christina. I had tears from laughing so hard by the end of the coaster and she had tears from screaming. I thought it was the "little girl" behind me yelling her head off. It was tiny Christina!

Fact 11: The employees at SeaWorld are the one's who got rejected by Disney. They were not so kind.

Magic Kingdom

Fact 12: I bought this shirt at Forever 21 before the trip instead of paying 35 dollars for one at Disney. I am still proud about it.

 Fact 13: Up until that point Lucas took his most consecutive steps RIGHT in front of the Disney castle. What is more magical than that?

Blizzard Beach

 Fact 14: Luke played in the sand for 3 hours straight.

 Fact 15: These dads waited all week to take their shirts off and compare. My observations are that Ty needs to work on his farmer's tan and biceps and Brandon needs to work on his mid section.

Fact 16: No one loves being a dad more than these two.

 Fact 17: Walt Disney was a genius!

I promised to update the blog at least bi-monthly. The only new thing around here is that Lucas is getting FOUR teeth at the same time.

As a result our day has been real, real sad. I snapped a pic each time he started crying. 

It's been a rough day.

He's a little bit naughty, but mostly cute.

Enough said.

Tie Tying With Ty

This is a late birthday/christmas present for our dear friend Bishop/Dr/Brother/James Lamoreaux. Anyway else who struggles with tie tying can also enjoy.

Since we were in Utah for almost 4 weeks over Christmas break, Tyler was worried that I wouldn't want to go home with him. He thought I'd get too caught up in the family festivities and remember the luxuries of being around family that I would forget the quite happy life we had in Tennessee.  To help persuade me to go home he started, "chalking up points for Tennessee." Unfortunately for him I then started, "chalking up points for Utah." Here's part of our running tally.

Chalk one up for Utah: A white Christmas (my dream come true)

 Chalk one up for Tennessee: Our church building is closer to our home than it is in Utah. We had to walk 3 blocks in Utah instead of 2.

 Chalk one up for Utah: A full cast for the Christmas nativity

 Chalk one up for Tennessee: Lucas caught the horrible cold that was going around. He was sick Christmas day and the following week. Had we not been in Utah he wouldn't have been around all that sickness.

Chalk one up for Utah: Luke was never left to play alone. Plus he had way more than 2 adoring fans.

Chalk one up for Utah: The mohawk was tamed.

Chalk one up for Utah: Lucas had a bonus birthday party with cookies & milk and several gifts.

Chalk one up for Utah: Lucas had his best first Christmas ever! Thank you family.