These are a few of my favorite things...people...things!!

These are just a few of the over 200 pictures we took in the happiest place on earth...Disney World! We went for the week of thanksgiving, spent one day as a family of four then tripled our numbers by Tuesday:) We spent the week in a big ole' house with our Destiny's family of 8! Destiny played ball for Mick and quickly became a part of our family. She graduates this year from college, and somehow we have blended into a pretty special extended family with theirs. They (Cindy, Des' mom) had been coming every other year since Des was 2! To say they knew the ropes would be an understatement. There are so many things I want to remember for our trip but no real neat and tidy way to record them...so I will just bullet list them. Beware the next few posts will consist of more pictures, but don't worry, facebook world was subjected to all of them, but my blogbook would not appreciate 200 here.
So here are some things I learned in the place where dreams really do come true:
~Going with 6 twentysomethings and 2 children is a really good idea.
~Doing so inevitably will remind you that you in turn are NOT twentysomething anymore:(
~While it is nice to stay in a nice place, the amount of sleeping and staying put you do, a rat motel would be just fine, you'll be too tired to notice.
~OR you could just go for EIGHT days, then you could enjoy the big house AND Cinderella's Castle.
~Napping at a park in the middle of thousands of people, IS possible, if you have blankie.
~My two year old is not afraid of characters. In fact, she is obsessed. The way she interacted with them was so amazing.
~My four year old could care less about characters. Unless you bribe him with a roller coaster, he ain't even gonna smile.
~If you spike your shorter four year olds hair into a mohawk he is indeed tall enough to ride those coasters you promised him.
~If your child is obsessed with the Mouse and his friends a character breakfast is so worth it. Although, the characters are way more accessible than I expected.
~You can go days without saying anything to your spouse other than "You got that one?"
~You shouldn't go days, but you can.
~Wishes there was a way I could magically guarantee that my kiddos will be as kind and compassionate when they are twentysomething as the ones that we traveled with.
~I am indeed too old to ride Mt. Everest or any other roller coaster. I am unfortunately not too old to puke in the middle of the road as lots of tourists pass by.
~Mick and I enjoyed Disney just as much as the kiddos and they enjoyed it alot.
~Epcot and Animal Kingdom could be combined to one day so as to spend way more time at Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios. (totally a personal preference but there was just so much more to do for us at those places)
~Disney gets the whole good and evil thing in EVERY ride. And while biblical, my two year old would appreciate a few more bright spots and a few less dark ones.
~To see any parade or event you must get there way ahead of time and then fight for your space until the time of event.
~People from anywhere other than the south do NOT get the personal space thing.
~In my opinion, we will leave disney everytime wanting to go back soon!
~Ok, there are way more pictures and a few more stories to come.

The Final Feast for Micahbird

Micah and our favorite Mrs. Giles! Love, love, her.

Jaxson and Micah

Sophia, Micah and Alexa singing Five Fat Turkeys are We.

Praying.

Me and My boy.

SayJ and her Bubba.

Today we celebrated Micah's Thanksgiving feast at the ELC for the last time. Next year he will have to leave the bubble of his last three years and enter the real world of school. Oh, don't make me think about it any longer! Today he did a great job singing and eating. Just like the last two years we love his teachers and everything about school. We are surely blessed. Micah also happens to really like two of the girls in his class and always wants to sit beside them, they happen to be bff and don't want to be separated, even by my sweet boy. BUT lo and behold the boy got his dream come true, because for the performance he was in the middle! Such sweet girls he loves too. Hope he always makes such good choices. But like always I know it wont always be sunshine and roses.

SayJ, Workin' It. (ad nauseum)

This child is the squirreliest, unpredictable, doesnotperformondemand, will only laugh if something is truly funny, loves her Momma, independent yet codependent, sweetest little thing that God could have ever entrusted to me. Which is why she can rock the pink hello kitty jacket with black cuffs along with blue pants with stars, busted up lip, pigpen like hair with the bow falling out, and I still thinks she is cute as pie...well maybe not pie, but cute she is to me. Don't miss the heart panties creepin' out the top and the ever full belly of jelly.
I have been working with her to put her hands on her hips and smile and we have had some pretend photo shoots. So while watching the CMA's the other night, she traipses in with high heels on and wants me to take her picture. The pictures above are what ensued. Micah and Mick wanted in on the action too. For those who know me and my love for the camera it made my heart SO happy. Had she been sporting a somewhat matching outfit or had brushed hair, it might have been brought to tears.

cleaning up.

In true softball fashion the girls got us good this year. Not before Mick and I scared the living daylights out of them...because thank you facebook newsfeed for alerting me some softball players were headed out to a "secret mission" on Monday night. Right now I feel that facebook is the devil most of the time for so many reasons but for that time it was a real blessing. Sprinklers, scary lights, music and Mick screaming met the girls in the front yard. But then, they came back and got us relatively good, considering our sad trees to roll. Micah was a little upset that they messed up our driveway but SadieJane thought it was awesome. She kept saying "Girls...toilet paper...yard!". Still no article adjectives for our girl.
Speaking of cleaning up, I should be doing that right now. The blog has taken a backseat because I have found out that I actually CAN'T do it all. Sad. I know. Seriously it has been a really hard October in that I thought I would have finally gotten a groove and balance doing both preschool work and chicken apartment work. But to no avail. I have less time with my babies and am working hard at both my jobs but feel like I am barely keeping my head above water in those things and then with relationships I feel like that I am almost under the water since I rarely have time to maintain those. Ugh. The bright side is that I can continue to see that God is at work and teaching me things. My relationship with Him is growing and changing because clinging to Him to get it all done is my only choice. Hmmm...I guess He knew that and wanted to have me get there. In all this I have had to "clean up" my timesucking activities and unfortunately the computer tends to be one of them. I do miss it though. But not near as much as I miss my family, friends and general downtime.

backseat blogposting.

So the blog has taken a backseat. I just can't seem to get my laundry done, to wipe all the noses, get to all of my jobs, or spend time as much time as I want with my family these days, so to say I don't have time to blog would be an understatement. Unfortunately I still find time to waste time on facebook, but that is a whole nother blogpost in itself, one that I don't have time for right now...so just fill in about that however you wish. But life has been happening all around me and I have yet to document it. This makes. me. twitch. So here is our weekend. After almost two weeks of sickness, things are looking up, and people in this house might can breathe!! Hallelujah! We spent Saturday night celebrating Devon and Will's engagement and then spent time watching football (was there a game on? I was to busy TALKING TO FRIENDS...that were GIRLS...it was amazing!!!) Anyways, we headed over to Aunt April's and had dinner with good friends. It was beautiful. The pictures might not look that way but all four of us needed a night out and we loved it. Micah and SadieJane might have also needed a nap...but they didn't get that:) Until next time my friends...know that the blog can't stay in the backseat forever. Can it??

Happy Harvest All the day long.

SayJ with her class, minus a few boys.

Micah with his class, minus all the girls:)

Our Hamburger...

and slightly blurry watermelon.

Most of the crew! I think this was our biggest group ever!

SayJ so tired, with Sunny and Aunt April

One of our better pics, Pirate Princess Aunt Amy:)

How big is that cookie??

We had a busy day yesterday. Since I teach now, I had THREE parties to attend yesterday at school and Micah and SadieJane's happened at the same time. Boo hiss. But after running around I got some documented photos that proved I was indeed in two places at once. Then we came home to clean and decorate for the 5th Annual Harvest Party. We had about 40 or 50 people over to our small little get together. Our neighborhood may need to buy more candy next year if our party gets any bigger. It was a great time. Mick even did a bonfire with smores and all. So thankful for our friends and now our kiddos friends that made this years party so much fun.