Disney World in June

Hee Haw, after a year and a half we finally made it back to our favorite family vacation spot.  Oh how we have missed this place.  Last year was a pretty slow year for Jon's business so we weren't able to take a Disney vacation or any vacation for that matter.  Thank goodness 2010 has been a much better year for us.  We booked a nice large house.  We got a good deal on it but it was still more costly than our previous houses we have rented but since we were going to be there for just under 2 weeks and thought this was going to be the only time we were going to be going to Disney this year and weren't sure when and what the economy would be like next year we wanted it to be a little more special.  That is also why we went for a longer time, 13 days.  Jon had been putting away money here and there to fund this vacation.  Come to find out as the days got closer to our vacation we added up our money and we found out we had saved more than enough for our Disney tickets and food (the rental house was already paid in full) that we decided to go ahead and buy a year pass. 
We asked a few families if they wanted to go with us since we had room in our house for more than just our family.  The only one who took us up on our offer was Jon's mom.  I don't know who was more excited us or her.  2 days before driving down to Disney Jon's mom entered the hospital from some reaction to her medication.  We were all sad at the news and thought for sure she wouldn't be able to go.  With the approval of her doctor she was able to go down but a few days later than planned.  She was going to drive down with us in our vehicle, but instead flew down.
We had a great time going to the Disney parks, swimming, eating, and just enjoying being together as a family.  The only real splurge we did this time was we ate at the new dinosaur restaurant at downtown Disney.  It is just like Rain forest Cafe but with dinosaurs.
After the 3rd day of being at Disney parks, Connor was getting slower and slower.  I think it was from the heat it was around 90 during the day the whole entire time.  Jon had the brilliant idea of renting him a wheel chair.  That was the best $10 a day spent on our whole trip.  He was so happy and the kids had a great time and often fought over who got to push him.  We will be purchasing a wheel chair for our next trip. 
It only rained once while we were at the Disney parks and we were at the Magic Kingdom going on a few rides before the night show and it just poured down rain.  They cancelled the show.  Which kind of bummed me out since they swapped night shows with Disneyland.  Disneyland now does SpectroMagic and Magic Kingdom does the main street electrical parade.  That is on our list for Thanksgiving.
Jon's mom didn't go to any parks with us she just stayed at the house and relaxed and swam.  Jon took her to the airport the day before we left.  She is flying to Muskegon, Michigan to move there.  Since her mom is in an assistant living place, she is going to move into her old house.  Which used to be her house and then her mom bought it from her so there is many memories in that house.  We will miss her but know she will be happy surrounded by old friends and family.
Now on to the pictures of our trip.  I wont go into detail on everything we did day by day.  We do the same routine every time we go.  The only difference is we split up our routine by days because we had 2 or 3 days at each park. 

Brenton, Connor, Kennedy, Payton, Hayden, and Talmage at Epcot

Kennedy, Hayden, Payton, Talmage Toy Story Mania

Talmage Epcot China

Hayden and Talmage Epcot China

Hayden Epcot China

Talmage Epcot Africa



Animal Kingdom Brenton, Talmage, Payton, Kennedy, Hayden, Connor, and Jon



Hayden Magic Kingdom

Kennedy and Payton girls night out

Animal Kingdom Brenton, Payton, Hayden, and Kennedy

Talmage T-Rex Restaurant

Talmage outside of the T-Rex restaurant

Payton Epcot outside Nemo ride

Hayden and Talmage outside Nemo ride

Kennedy outside Nemo ride

Payton outside Nemo ride

Payton, Kennedy, Hayden, and Brenton Epcot Mexico

Kennedy boat ride at Epcot

Bird Magic Kingdom Goofy Roller coaster

Payton, Hayden, Kennedy Magic Kingdom Transit Authority

Talmage as Captain Jack Sparrow

Hayden with Lego Woody Down Town Disney Lego Store

Hayden, Donald Duck, and Talmage

Talmage, Pluto, and Hayden

Hayden, Mickey Mouse, and Talmage

Brenton Epcot America

Brenton and Payton Epcot America

Jon and Hayden Hollywood Studios Toy Story Mania

Talmage Toy Story Mania

Payton and Kennedy Magic Kingdom Indy Speedway

Brenton and Connor Indy Speedway

Talmage, Hayden, Jon Indy Speedway

Jon, Talmage, Brenton, and Hayden Magic Kingdom Aladdin Carpet ride

Hayden and Jon Toy Story Mania

Connor Toy Story Mania

How could I forget

Before blogging about our June Disney trip, I forgot one thing on the June post.  Payton got her ears pierced for her birthday.  When I was growing up, the rule in our house was we had to wait until we were at least 10 to get our ears pierced.  I thought that was a good rule so that is what I told my girls.  I thought Payton would have been like me and chicken out and finally do it like me and wait till my younger sister turned 10 and I was 12.  She was very nervous, but did it.  I was quiet shocked that she did it.  We had the ladies do both ears at the same time.  She has been very good at taking care of her ears.  She cleaned them at least 3 times a day and now every time she puts on a new pair makes sure she cleans them.  When her 6 weeks were up and she could change her earrings, I took her to the store and let her pick some out.  I forgot to bring my camera to document this occasion.  

June 2010

June was another busy month for us even though we were only at home for 1/2 the month. 

June 3rd  Tennessee Aquarium

The kids were getting a little antsy from being out of school for almost 2 weeks now.  We decided to make good use of our aquarium annual passes we purchased over Christmas.  My mom went with us.  We didn't get there as early as we had hoped.  We stopped along the way for some lunch.  We ate at KFC and Payton asked if it was tattoo day there.  When we all looked around, almost everyone in the place had at least one tattoo.  She thought they were giving something away free if you had one.  How funny!!  When we got to the aquarium, we were pleasantly surprised that there was hardly anyone there.  Maybe it is because that area was still in school since our school tends to be one of the first to get out of school.  Whatever the reason, we were lovin it. 

Talmage and Hayden with the scuba diver

Talmage giving the scuba diver a high 5

Feeding time

These little otters are way fast.  I had to just keep clicking my camera and hope for the best.  Gotta love digital

Hayden

Kennedy, Hayden, and Talmage next to the humungo crab

Hayden Finding Nemo

Hayden and Talmage

Butterfly Garden



Butterfly garden, I love practicing my up close shots on these guys

Talmage's favorite part was the scuba diver.  Since we went to Sea World for Spring Break that is what he wants to be when he grows up.  Just as long it isn't with the killer whales.  I don't really like taking pictures of things behind glass.  If you use the flash, you can see the flash in the picture and if you don't use the flash it is too dark to see. 

June 4 National Donut Day

Who knew there was such thing.  Not me until I saw some advertisements in the local freebie newspaper we get once a week and on our Internet home page.  We decided to go to Krispy Kreme instead of Dunkin because Krispy Kreme was giving out one free donut per person no purchase necessary and Dunkin was giving out a free donut if you bought a drink.  So we met the Tady's, my mom and I think Taylor was back from visiting Morgan out a BYU Idaho.  After donuts, we went to the pool to swim those yummy things off. 

June 7  The Beach

The kids are really ready for our Disney trip and to keep there minds off of it we decided to take the kids to a nearby beach.  There was one kid with a net catching fish that the kids thought was way cool.  Of course, they all want nets for next time we go so they can catch fish too. 

Talmage

Hayden

Payton and Kennedy

fish the boy caught with his net

Talmage

June 8
Thomas and Melanie Trebilcock and kids moved back west.  We knew this day would come.  They miss the mountains, the snow, the hunting, the country life.  As for me, I could do without any of those things, I could live with mountains though but that's about it.  But, I know how they feel.  I was way home sick a short while after Jon and I moved to Michigan 6 months after we were married.  Life is too short to live in a place where you aren't really happy.  Not that they weren't really happy, but would be happier in those surroundings.  We will miss them, but are grateful for the 5 years we had with them.  I wish them the best in Oregon. 

June 12th-24 
Disney World
I will do a post on this next since this post is starting to get long.

June 20
Happy Fathers Day, Jon.  I can't think of a better place Jon would rather be on Father's day than at Disney World.  The kids made him a card at one of the places at Disney World. 

June 24th
Happy Birthday Payton.  Yeah, what a way to celebrate her birthday with a 7 hour car ride.  Payton is 10 years old.  We gave her the majority of her presents before we left for Disney World.  She got a camera, camera, case, and memory card before we left.  When we got home, we had a couple other presents for her to open.  She had a great time taking pictures and videos of our trip. 
     

Payton the morning of her birthday with donuts just before leaving Orlando

Payton opening gifts

The family party Kennedy, Payton, Sonoma, and Eliza

Payton with her red Velvet whoppi pies.  She isn't really into cake.



Hayden exhausted from all the fun


June 25
Jon and Gretta's 16th wedding anniversary.  Can it really be that we have been married for 16 years.   Some days it feels like only a few years while others it seems like an eternity.  In another 3 years I will be married longer than I have been single.  How crazy is that.  Well it has over all been a great 16 years.  Of course there have been times when I wish I could just be single again with only me to have to worry about but I know I wouldn't be truly happy, but rather truly lonely.  As long as I could remember when asked what I want to do when I grow up it was an easy answer a wife and mother.  And to be able to do both of those things makes me so happy.  I wont get too carried away there are days when I want to get in the car and just drive away. I never seem to make it to the car though just a little time out and I am good to go again.  We celebrated by going to Outback Steakhouse.  It has been a long time since I have been there and I love that place and we had excellent service.  Well here is to another 16 years.

June 26

Connor's 12th birthday.  It was a busy day. We had Connor and Payton's family birthday party at 12:00 pm today.  Connor doesn't like to pose for his birthday pictures so I wasn't able to get a good one with his gifts. 



Connor

Right after the party we had to drop Brenton off to the meeting place for scout camp.  He will be gone until Friday.  Luckily for me, he love Scouts so I didn't have to threaten him too much to make sure he attended all his merit badge classes and got everything passed off all but the few things you have to do at home. 

June 29
Dive in movie
Every year our community pool does a dive in movie.  They play a movie on one of those big blow up screens.  This year the movie was Planet 51.  The kids love watching the movie while in the pool.  And I love sitting on the side talking with family while stuffing my face with goodies.