We Survived Disney!!!!!!!!!!!

Well it is official...we survived DisneyWorld. We were off to a great start, ran a bit late for the flight out of Houston and rushed through checkin, but hey we made it. Thursday we arrived in Orlando very early...so we checked in to the hotel and off we were to Animal Kingdom. What a great time we had.
Ricky started to feel bad, but sucked it up and kept on going. Richard started coughing as we were getting ready for bed...which can only mean one thing, asthma. We did the treatment every 4 hours, but no relief. So we called our Pedi in Houston, who called in Orapred, an oral steroid. WOW what a difference it made, he slept great the whole vacation.


This is our dinner with Cinderella...the kids got her autograph. As we went into dinner, Emily got a wand and Richard got a sword. They were so excited. The food was wonderful. Definitely an experience to remember.
We will have more pictures to come...I am hopefully going to figure out how to do a slideshow on the blog.
You all keep in touch. Let us know what is going on in your lives.

Our Days at Disney

Well blogging nightly didn't quite work out. The internet connect (wireless) is very good. It takes forever to get anything done. We have now been to all the parks, tomorrow we are going to the Interactive Indoor theme park. This is a new park...so we will tell you.


This is Emily and Richrd with Scully and Mike from Monsters, Inc. They didn't get to get an autograph, but did get pictures. They loved it. The characters were the best part for them.

This is the kids with Piglet. We had a character breakfast at the Crystal Palace. This was the breakfast with Pooh and friends. We got everyones autograph and had a really great meal as well. The kids ate waffles shaped like Mickey Mouse.


This is the kids with Pluto. We were in Hollywood Studios. Richard had a Pluto hat and it was signed by him...very unexpected. We did all of the rides in Hollywood. I believe Richard's favorite part was the Indiana Jones show. We sat right in the front and saw it all.

Here is Emily with Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable. Emily was thrilled...Rufus was in Animal Kingdom getting feed.
More to come later.

Disney Animal Kingdom

Well we survived our first day of Disney. We went to Animal Kingdom and did the whole park. Both Ricky and I were surprised that Richard didn't complain at all...except when he wasn't tall enough, then he would just shake it off. Emily didn't complain, but wasn't always happy...guess it is the age.
Emily and Ricky rode the huge rollercoaster "Expedition Everest 2008", Emily wants everyone to know that the Yeti destroyed the track and they had to go backwards. While they were riding that Richard and I hung out on the side and saw his friend Dean from school.


This is Emily at the "Its Tough to be a Bug" show. It is a 4-D show. Very cute...her favorite part was the grubworms and other dirt crawling bugs going under our bottoms.

This is Richard with the Bug Eyes. He really enjoyed it as well and I think liked the same thing Emily liked about it.

This is the kids getting their autograph books signed by Goofy. This is really neat...they get one on one time with the characters. So far we have gotten Mickey and Minnie, Donald and Goofy's autograph. Keep posted...we will blog more tomorrow.

On Our Way to Disney

Well we are 1 day out from our family vacation to DisneyWorld. The kids are so excited they can't stand it. We leave tomorrow at 5 am. Emily is worried she won't wake up...Richard says he will. I think that Emily will do just fine getting up. Today we have lots of little ends to tie up before we go, so we will be running all day.

Richard is worried about his pet fish. So we called the infamous animal sitter...Shelley. Hannah and Kayleigh will help her care for the fish.

By the way, Richard finally swam across the pool. He kicks his legs and moves his arms...we stop several times along the way, but he can do it. We had to call Daddy to the pool last night to come see.

I will try to blog each night while we are at Disney...depends on internet access. If I have access, then I will update nightly and hopefully have some pictures.

Awards Day

Emily had her award day on the 3rd of June. Her End of the Year Party was before the ceremony. Her class had Chick-fil-a cater lunch with chicken nuggets and fruit. They all had a great time. The students had to pick one of many awards that they were most proud of...Emily chose being a Good Citizen Award as the one she was most proud of. Today, the 5th of June was the kids' last day of school. Emily's report card was absolutely wonderful...she had all As. We are proud of her...so I guess she will be going to 3rd grade next year.

Richard had his award ceremony on the 4th of June. Kindergarten performed a few songs for the parents and did a great job. He was also presented an award, however the teacher choose it. Richard got the Best Friend Award. He also excelled on his report card. He didn't get grades this year...we were just informed if he was keeping up with the curriculum. Naturally he did, but needs to keep practicing over the summer. His teacher has family that live around the corner from us, so she will be making stops over the summer. He will go on to 1st grade in the fall.

Olympic Play Day May 30, 2008

This is the infamous Olympic Play Day that occurs every year at the end of the school year. The kids get to be out of dresscode and compete with their gradelevel. Emily's class ended 6th out of 6, howevever, her class had the best sportmanship. They cheered everyone on, even those who had trouble. That is what we were proud of.

Here is Ricard, midair...pretty good picture if I do say so myself. He had to jumprope 5 times and then trade to the next person. He did great.

Emily doing her jump roping. Because she was bigger, she had to jump ten times. All the girls helped count for each other.


This balloon race, like the egg in the spoon, was difficult. I think Richard had an idea on how to get the balloon across the field faster. The kids had a great time.
Daddy picked them up from school along with Shelley's kids. I guess they all had loads of fun.

Pajama's at School...What????

This is Richard in his Dog and cameo jammies. All the kids got to take a comfort item or two as long as they fit in their backpacks. Richard wanted to leave "Blue dog" his absolute favorite at home so it didn't get dirty.

Here is Emily with a few girlfriends signing their yearbooks. The kids are all lounged out in class.

Emily took her cat and pillow from Ms. Kim's as her comfort items. Very silly what they pick.

Richard trying to get some work done, but who can concentrate when we are all in jammies.

The kids had to read a bunch of books in order to wear jammies to school. Wasn't a big deal to me until I had to do something afterschool in my jammies.