I have nothing else to do..

Today I have sat here contemplating what to blog. And then I decided a good story about Little Miss would be the perfect thing to blog.



Little Miss is always happy. Always smiley. She is pretty even most of the time. And then there was today. Today she was happy. She had cute sparkley pink bows in here hair. She looked like an angel. She sat happily in Sacrament Meeting drawing.. coloring.. just being happy. And then she decided to start ripping papers oh so loudly. I quickly told her that it was too loud and to stop. She looked, smiled sweetly, knowing she was being disobedient and continued. I told her to stop again. She smiled and looked me straight in the eye and continued. Sweet girl. I decided the notebook was mine. It went away into the Church bag, and she pucked.. she cried. And I swiftly carried her out of the chapel into the hall. All the while thinking kid, you are 5. Almost 6. You don't do this anymore.



Once in the hall I had her stand with her nose in the corner. She doesn't get to throw fits like this. I stood there. She screamed. And screamed. And screamed. And then her nose started to run. I looked at her as her tongue was licking her lip and told her not to eat her boogers, that was gross. She looked at me and replied, "I have nothing else to do." I didn't crack a smile. But I really wanted to. I told her that she could stand there quietly so we could go back in but eating her boogers was not an option. It is gross and EWW!! She calmed down. We returned and life was well again. And she didn't eat anymore boogers, I guess she had better things to do.

Over.

I just got home from dropping Little Miss off at school. I had to fight back the tears as I drove away. It is her last day of Kindergarten. My baby is growing up and I am not ready. I realized this was my last day of morning with just her and me.

Little Man is finishing First Grade. He is thrilled. I am not. I am not ready for him to be THAT big. THAT old.

The school year is over. over. over. And Summer begins. I am thrilled that Summer is here. We are ready for a fun summer. I am hoping this summer is slow. I want each day to drag on. I don't want summer to fly by. I am already dreading school in the fall. I plan on enjoying every minute of summer swimming, biking, playing, laughing, running, jumping, swinging, painting, drawing, catching guppies, playing in the creek. Just having fun and making memories with my children.

Here I sit. Wiping a tear. Wishing that the clock moved slower. Wishing I had just a little more time. Wishing I could do it all. Wishing I was always the Mom I mean to be.

It Was Over!

The kids slept for just a few short hours. It was midnight when they hit the bed. We didn't hit it until after 1:00 AM. We were busy getting everything ready. The poor children were woke up a little after 4:00AM so we could catch the shuttle and then catch our early flight home. They were less than thrilled.

We realized we didn't have a single family picture at our resort, so we quickly snapped one.

Little Miss with her souvenir hat and Sleeping Beauty Doll. She still loves them.

Little Man with Pluto. The hat and the dog.

He still loves Pluto. And he sleeps with him every night.

We were happy to go home. We were exhausted. But we cannot wait for another fabulous family vacation and we cannot wait to go to Disney again. And it was over.

It Was Wonderful!

Saturday we were all so excited we were meeting up with my brother and his sweet family!! The kids were so excited to see their cousins. We have decided we need to do yearly vacations together so our kids get to see each other and we can have so much fun!! We spent the day at Magic Kingdom.

The girls in front of Minnie's House.

We went and waited to meet the fairies. They were so excited!!

I think Tinker Bell was the favorite!

And then we went and rode Splash Mountain!! We loved it!! The kids loved it. We rode it over and over.

We played in the Sprinklers again. The kids loved getting cooled off.

We saw Cinderella's Castle. The girls all loved it.

We rode the carousel. Once again Randy opted out of the spinning rides.

My sister in law and I rode Dumbo together. It's not strange to see two adults in the ride without any kids is it?

We met Ariel. And somehow Little Man decided he would get her autograph. I think it was the Sea Shells that drew him in.

But he didn't want to get too close to her.

We played in sprinklers again. This was one of Little Man's favorite things to do!

Jenni and I waited to meet more Princesses with the girls.

Little Miss had fun being the photographer! She was kind of bossy. Don't know where she would get that from! :)

Almost ready to see Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Belle again! They were stoked.

Three girls with some of their favorite Princesses.

We decided we should ride Barn Stormer a few more times. I sat in front of the girls and I turned backwards the whole time. It was totally worth it. Their faces are priceless!

We had to do it one more time so we could get even more pictures.

The last ride made me a little sick. It is meant to be ridden facing forwards.. not backwards. But it was a lot of fun!

We watched the Parade. Or at least part of it.

And then we watched the Fire Works. We loved them!

And then we said Good-Bye. To Disney World. To our cousins. And to our vacation. I will admit when I said Good-Bye to my brother and his sweet family I totally cried. Not in front of them, but as we went our separate ways. My heart broke. My brother has always been one of my best friends and it makes me sad to live so far away. We arrived back at our hotel shortly after midnight. The kids were out.. and we were exhausted.

It was Hot!

Friday we were tired. We were tired of walking. Tired of Disney. Tired of cooking on the hot pavement. We needed a change. We decided renting a car and going to Cocoa Beach would be a welcome change. The kids were so excited to go to the Beach and play in the Ocean. We bought buckets and shovels. It was time to build sand castles. Gather sea shells. And enjoy a relaxing day at the beach. *Beware. We are in our swimsuits. If you don't want to see that close your browser and run away.

The ocean was chilly. But still very inviting in the heat.

A sweet older couple offered to take our family picture.

Little Miss loved playing in the sand.

Little Man loved the sand, but he enjoyed the ocean a lot. He liked to jump in the waves and look for seashells.

When Little Miss was in the ocean it helped if someone was holding her hand. The waves knocked all 40lbs of her over without someone holding her hand.

She enjoyed Randy swinging her around more than anything.

And yet she still found her way into my arms where she prefers to be all of the time if I will let her.

The kids wanted to help make the ocean bigger. They decided to dig a hole so it would be a little bigger than when we arrived. Sweet huh?

Another family picture after we had been helping the kids build sandcastles.

This is one of my favorite pictures of Little Man. He is so happy and just enjoying the day.
We spent over three hours at the beach and then it was time to go. Randy and Little Miss were getting red, and we had 50SPF sunblock on them, and we even reapplied. Little Man and I wore 30SPF and we didn't burn. Sadly they did. Little Miss was quite heart broken over this. Even with the sunburn my kids loved the beach. They would like to live near the ocean where we can do this more often. Me too. It was wonderful.

We finished our day at Magic Kingdom. We rode a few rides, and bought the kids souvenirs that they had been wanting.

We waited in line to meet Cinderella. Little Miss was so excited to meet her. And I love the interaction in these next few pictures. She made Little Miss so happy!

And lastly Belle in her Princess Dress. She even remembered Little Miss from Epcot. It was amazing!

We loved our calm day. The kids were happy. We loved seeing Florida. It was our first time there and it was nice to see something other than Disney World.