it's a dopey, trekkie, potter, potter, asian costumed sharpay halloween

At the Fall Festival the Missionaries asked Brian what he was dressed up as and he answered

"I'm a poor sport."  He's not a big fan of costumes, but is going to be a super duper Professor Snape for our 'Halloween at Hogwarts' party my sister is planning for us.  THAT will be something else. 

Will report next week. 

fall break 2009

On Wed. when I stayed at the hotel with my feverish girls, the boys went out to Universal Studios and had a grand old time.

I was looking through the pictures they took when they got home and found these.

Maybe I was a little stir crazy after being home all day,

but I laughed so hard.

It looks like they are little poops.

Like it's a Mr. Goodbody tour and they got to experience

what it was like to be in a colon.

Come on! It totally does.

Obviously it isn't really a colon. It is a Coca-Cola mister.

But still...I laughed so hard.

*

So, now we see Erin on Tylenol and riding our first ride.

The only one she had been excited about.


She liked it and we managed another happy picture on another ride.

The excitement was too much and this was poor Erin

for pretty much the rest of the trip.

She would get out of the stroller once in a while and manage a few rides and smiley pictures and then she would crawl back in and endure. Poor girl.

Madeline was funny the whole trip.

She got a fever our third day on which we decided to stay home,

but she managed to stay pretty chipper the rest of the time.

I know she wasn't feeling fantastic.

Nash tried a few more rides this time and enjoyed a few of the faster things.

More than last time anyhow. He's loves the ambiance of the parks.

Carter really braved up this year. He was scared to ride Space Mountain last year (don't blame him!) but this year he went on anything he could.

I'd watch for the pictures they take while you are on the ride (and try to sell them to you for CRAZY amounts of money!) and Nash would be screaming and holding on for dear life, Madeline would be trying to make some funny face and Carter would be sitting there all calm, like he was taking a Sunday drive!

This is a new roller coaster that Brian took Carter on. It goes upside down and twisty turns and all kinds of insane things.

Carter loved it.

Carter was also the messiest eater in the whole of Florida.

He couldn't eat anything with out it getting ALL over his face.

I don't know how he does it.

This next photo is of something in our near-ish future.

The next time we go will be when this wing of Islands of Adventure is open.

SOOOO excited.

All in all we had a good trip.

The boys and I stayed pretty healthy,

as you can well see by the clean state of my nostrils.

No boogies there.

I never ever thought that we would like

Disney World and Universal Studios as much as we do.

It's a good vacation.

But our kids are getting older and

I think our trips to the parks may be coming to an end of their days.

Not yet, though.

happy again

K- I'm happy. It is amazing what a good night sleep can do for the attitude. I went to sleep and woke up in the same position when my alarm went off. No roll over and back to sleeps. No peeking at the clock and being glad I still have 20 minutes.

Or it could have been the Duggars. They are now grandparents you know. After I put the kids to bed and got a few things done I rumped down in front of the telly to zone out for a few minutes before I turned in for the night. Brian has been out of town (I only mention that now because he is coming home sometime tonight so I am not putting myself in any kind of stranger danger!!! Eeek!) so I could watch whatever I wanted and somehow ended up on those Duggars. I've never watched them before. Before I knew it I had been voyeur-izing there goings on for 2 hours! ugh. two hours, gone forever.

But I had a great night sleep - two hours shorter than it could have possibly been. Or one hour shorter and a few chapters in my book. A good night sleep nonetheless.

So! I was going to post some funny pictures of our fall break trip, but I think Brian has the camera. I can't find it right now.

We went to Orlando and the great land of magical happiness. And I am only telling you now because we are home. I didn't want some troublemaker to break in and steal my grand collection of Civil War books, Star Trek memorabilia, Survivor table or my Kitchenaid. My sister "inherited" my Bosh mixer so if I lost the Kitchenaid I would be up a creek! I'm telling you.

My girls got ill on the trip. Fevers. They were not their normal cheery selves, so it wasn't the super funnest trip we've ever had, but it was nice to have Brian all to ourselves and another week of summer. Seriously, it was in the 90's every day we were there! crazy. I have a fancy farmer tan. Super cute.

Soooo...I'll put some pictures up when I find that camera. I hope Brian has it.

i think i caught something from my little grump-a-lump

'Cranky' may be as contagious as the flu.

I'm gonna wait till I'm in a better mood for my next post.

rubble, rubble.

dumpster diving isn't for everyone

Nothing too exciting to post about right now,

but I was looking through our Washington D.C. pictures and came across these two.

Apparently you are NOT allowed to bring food or drinks or even empty water bottles or containers of any sort larger than a chapstick (or something like that) into the Capitol Building. I don't remember the exact rules, but the security guard made us throw everything into this dumpster before we could go in.

I was kind of sad because those water bottles are pretty cool. And we had some yummy snacks waiting in there for us that we would have to go the whole rest of the day without.

But we complied. Of course.

When we came out I was curious as to how our bottles were doing there in the dumpster. Brian went to have a look see and seed that the bottles were sitting right on top where he left them perched nicely and somewhat mostly uncontaminated. Other than being IN a dumpster...

So we grabbed them.

In the second picture it looks like Carter found a bag of Cheezeits or something.

We didn't let him keep those.

When we got home to my brothers house we promptly gave those bottles a good washing and sanitizing in the dishwasher.

All I can say is - we are still alive and we saved ourselves a good 30$ by not having to replace our neato waterbottles.

Was it worth it? At the time - definately.

Now?

Now that I am looking back at these pictures?

I don't know.

That IS kind of...well, ick.