Family Pictures Sept

We had family pictures while my parents were here (taken by Lisa Velez, an awesome photographer). Check out her website listed under my websites.

A day for princesses!

We took an actual vacation two weeks ago to Orlando. We live so close and yet never take a vacation there until now. We stayed in a nice hotel with separate living room. Great for putting the kids to bed and not having to tiptoe around them. My friend works at Disney, so she gave us free tickets. How awesome is that!!! Thanks, Chelsea!! Wednesday, we did a half day of Magic Kingdom (Chelsea let us in before she had to go to work). It was so much fun. The day started with the Mickey parade with almost every Disney character in it. Macayla was waving and blowing kisses to all of the characters in the parade. Then, you should have seen how excited Macayla was to see the huge castle and to meet her favorite princesses. She was jumping off the walls with excitement.

It was awesome to meet the princesses, Cinderella, Belle, Sleeping Beauty, and Ariel. Ariel is her favorite princess. They each sat and just talked to Macayla and Mariah. Macayla hugged each one.


She also met Mickey and Minnie. She ran to Minnie to give her a hug. She loved walking through Minnie's house with her table and tea set.

When night fell, the castle was lit up in Macayla's favorite colors pink and purple. We enjoyed our day so much.

The next day we spent the day swimming, eating out, and shopping at IKEA (our first time there).

On Friday, we did another day at Disney. Epcot for half of the day and then to Animal Kingdom for part of the day. Some of the rides were really cool.

The next day, we had thought about doing Universal but decided it was too much for all of us. So we relaxed, swam, packed up, and headed home. We stopped at Busch Gardens for a few hours (we have season passes). We arrived home exhausted, but so excited that we had an actual vacation. Our first vacation with two children. The girls did really well. We were so thankful that we were able to do it!