Countdown to Fun Parade!

One of our favorite things to do in Disney are the parades. They are so much fun and the kids really get into them. Disney nails these parades, right down to the music that stays in your head for days! Tommy was even singing the songs by the end of the week! This parade was the Pixar Pals Countdown to Fun parade at Hollywood Studios. It was really neat because we saw a bunch of characters you don't typically get to meet or see around too much. We actually watched this parade several times during the week because we liked it so much! Here are a few pictures. Before we attended the parade, we grabbed lunch at the 50s Prime Time Cafe. The restaurant seriously looks like a home from the 1950s. It was a lot of fun!

Lunch time at the 50's Prime Time Cafe

Popsicles before the parade, it was hot!

Ratatouille

Characters from Up

Mr. Potato Head and Cowgirl Jessie

Woody!

Our Disney Trip

We are back and sort of back into the swing of things at home! What a great vacation! The weather was picture perfect. Hot and sunny all day and then cool, breezy evenings. We stayed at The Boardwalk hotel which I highly recommend. It was so neat! I wish I would have taken more pictures of it! There were great shops, restaurants and entertainment right in our hotel. We could also walk to Hollywood Studios and Epcot which was awesome! Tommy got his fill of Star Wars, AJ fell in love with Cowgirl Jessie, and Chris got his fill of Norway. We have wonderful pictures to share, I don't even know where to begin! I think I will start with our first night and first official day at the parks. Then I will divide the pictures in future entries according to parks, and character meet and greets.

Our first night we hung out at the hotel. We went to Kat Cora's restaurant which was great and then went for an evening swim. The boys topped their night off with snacks and a movie in bed. The next morning we got up early and headed over to Hollywood Studios. Our favorite ride, Toy Story Mania is there and you must arrive early if you want to get a fast pass. I love Disney, but man, some of those people trying to get fast passes are just awful! Throwing elbows, cutting in line, and walking 6 across to prevent you from getting ahead of them. A little ridiculous, but worth it for the ride. We have so much fun on it! We also met Woody this day. Buzz was busy on a space mission! AJ was star struck. He couldn't believe his eyes! This year AJ got his own autograph book and quickly learned the routine of opening it for the characters and handing the pen and book over. He loved doing this! Here are the pictures from our first night and day at Disney.

Movie time!

AJ's first sighting of Toy Story Characters, he was glued to the window!

Meeting Woody!

Green Army Man!

Chip and Dale!

Disney World, Here We Come!

It's that time of year again! We are SO excited for our trip to Disney! Last year was so much fun with both boys, but I was a little more apprehensive last year because AJ was only 9 months old! But now we have an almost talking, always running, Toy Story obsessed AJ! I can't wait for him to meet the characters and do all the rides, he is just going to love it. Tommy has been keeping a countdown for weeks, the very first thing he does in the morning is tear down the number. He can't wait to beat Daddy at Toy Story Mania! I can't either! :) We will be gone for awhile, but tune back into the blog in June and I will have a ton of pictures and stories for all of you! Here are a few of my favorite pictures from last year's Disney trip! Have a magical day!

Back by popular demand!

The annual viking picture

Nothing like trying to eat Mickey's nose! Look at those legs on AJ!!

Song-A-Bration!

It's hard to believe that Tommy is almost done with his first year of preschool. It was such a positive year for him. He is excited to go three days next year, I'm excited too!!

A few weeks ago, his class had a singing celebration. I got a few pictures of it, but I was also video taping too, which is too big and long to put on the blog. It was very cute though. The kids did a great job singing!

Soccer Fun

Tommy's soccer season is in full swing. We are all enjoying watching the games. His team is great, and so fun to watch! They are kind of like the bad news bears in that they hate to practice and usually just goof off during practice. But game days they are just ridiculous! They always focused on game days. Chris has really gotten into the games, and even has nicknames for all the teammates! I think Chris will be very sad when the Maroon Dragons are done for the season. Here are some pictures from the games. One game we played his good friend, Brady, so I was able to get a few shots of them together!

Chris refers to these two as "team lightening." They are
pretty quick on the field.

Nothing like a little nose picking during the game!

The Dragon roar...something the team LOVES to do before the game starts.

Action shot of Brady, Tommy, and Mr. Jordan (Brady's Dad).

Excited after scoring a goal!

Brady and Tommy

Bike Fun

Notice AJ with the monkey. He will NOT go anywhere without it. We even tried to show him the little backseat thinking he could let monkey ride back there, oh no. He turned around and grabbed that monkey and put him right under his arm.

And I Keep Trying...

My quest for a nice picture of the boys together continues. Easter Sunday I wanted to get a decent picture of the boys together in their nice clothes. Well, that didn't happen. AJ cannot sit still for the life of him, he did not want Tommy touching him, he did not want his picture taken, and when AJ gets something in his mind that's the way it's going to be! Then Tommy got sick of me chasing him around for a picture so I ended up with a bunch of pictures with NO smiles. So my quest continues...