Snow Day

So we had a snow day in January, okay okay, I have a lot of catching up to do. Anyway here are some pictures from the day. Shaelyn loved it! She was constantly wanting to go out in the snow. Winston enjoyed it for about 30 seconds and he was done, he especially didn't like the snow fight that Shaelyn wanted to have with him. I think it was the snowball(snow dust) to the face that put him over the edge and said he wanted to go back in. Here is Shaelyn having so much fun, and Winston not wanting to pose for the picture that Mommy is making him do. So when you think of snow, what comes to your mind? Snow angels of course, we tried to make a snowman but the snow wasn't sticky enough. There was no way Winston was going to lay down in the snow.

I think we have a natural.It was great to get some snow. We hadn't had any snow that actually stuck since the first year we lived here.

Disney World Day 3, Animal Kingdom, December 12, 2008

We went to the Animal Kingdom on our last day. It was such a fun experience. Okay, so the coolest thing that happened to us while we were there was that we got to stay in the park an extra hour after it was closed. How cool is that? Disney World was celebrating a year of a million dreams, and they gave some passes to a family of 6 so that they could stay and hour late, but they planned to go to a different park that same day and weren't able to use them and just happened to be in line with Walter and the subject came up. They offered their passes to us and who knew that it would be the right number of passes. Talk about being in the right place at the right time. Anyway, it was a pretty sweet treat, the big rides were all open and some of the shows. Below is a picture of Shaelyn hanging out on a bike that was in the park. Here are some pics of the animals we saw in a walk through.

At first I thought this tiger was fake because he was sitting there so perfectly. I think he just likes to show off.

This isn't a very good picture but it is a picture of some beautiful ducks that were swimming around. This was in the aviary, were they had lots of exotic birds, they were all beautiful!

So these next pictures are from the African Safari Ride you can go on. The only problem is that the vehicle we were in didn't stop at all so it was very hard to take a steady picture.

We were in the back of the vehicle so I was able to get some pictures out the back.

I think those are rhinos, Winston was having a great time on the ride, he LOVES animals.

This is how unwild these animals are, they were sitting right next to road and didn't budge.

This next picture is probably my most favorite that I captured of all the animals, I think giraffes are so beautiful.

That is the end of the pictures, sometime I forget I have a camera and miss a big portion of the day. Sorry!

Disney World Day 2, Hollywood Studios, December 11th 2008

So our first day at Disney World was Awesome, minus the Time share "tour". Just a little bit of advice for you if you ever go to a time share dealer, Never buy them, you can find the same thing on the Internet for way cheaper. They were trying to sell us one for 20,000, Walter found the same one for 5,000 or less, I don't remember exactly but it was a crazy cheaper. Anyway, the first ride we went on was Toy Story Mania! We loved it, the line to get in was even entertaining.I think I tried to get a picture of the ceiling along with Austin and Winston but it just didn't work out that way.

Here is Austin and William bonding.

Walter is SO happy to be here! Ha ha. The things he endures for me! I love him.I don't remember why Winston was doing this but it was cute.Oh, Shaelyn and Shaelyn. What fun!What a great Uncle, I think William has a new best friend.Not sure what this picture is all about, I was on the "tour". :P

So it kind of rained, or shall I say poured, while they were at Hollywood Studios. They picked up some ponchos and went to a show. And got some sugar!
I am guessing this is just a view of the wetness.

I really like this picture. So sweet. Yep Walter and I are still on the "tour" at this point.
Oh hey, we are back. My absolute Favorite Ride hands down had to be the Tower of Terror! So Awesome!
A nice person offered to take our photo for us.

Just a little beat.

It was a long and eventful day!
Good Night!

The kids were so spent by the end of the day, if you couldn't tell.

Disney World Day 1, December 10th 2008

While my brother Austin and my mom were here in NC visiting we decided to go down to Florida and go to Disney world. The day before we went to the park, we planned to go to one of the dinner and a show type events. We chose to go to Arabian Nights. It was a wonderful show and William got really excited when he saw the horses, more excited than the other kids. We all really enjoyed the show, and the dinner wasn't bad at all, I really liked mine. So here are a few snippets of William watching. I only got video of him because he was right next to me. Anyway, the video below isn't any good but you can hear William making noises at the horses.
Here is some video of William getting a little excited. Again the video isn't great, the lighting wasn't very good. :)
William excited and chewing his broccoli, don't worry you don't see it.
Just a quick video of Will hangin' out and watching the show.

We had some pretty good seats.
Here is William just loving it.
The show was Christmas Themed and the riders were amazing. It was so fun.
Shaelyn and Austin. Here comes Santa Clause.

Winston! Can you see Grandmama in the background?Here is the finale, they let all their horses run wild at the end, it was so cool. The horses were so pretty.Here is Austin and Shaelyn close to one of the riders in the show.Here is Shaelyn and Shaelyn by another horse. This rider was part of one of my favorite acts.Here is a very large door, you can see the comparison to the kids.We are standing in front of the door.Nice close up!

William Walks

Wow, I didn't realize it had been so long since I had posted on the family blog. I think it was kind of crazy over the holidays and we had lots of fun with family. We have lots to share about the past month or so. Anyway, William has been taking steps for about a month and a half, and has been walking for about a week now. I finally was able to catch it on video. You will even see Shaelyn in part of it. She loves the camera, if you couldn't tell.

Here is some more video of William walking. He is doing a pretty good job getting into everything, as usual. He keeps me on my toes.

Enjoy!