Why would they sell Napkins......

When you can get them for free??

A couple weeks ago (when we were in Florida actually), we were sitting in Arby's and Olivia asked Why would they sell Napkins in the bathroom when you can just get some out here for free??

I laughed so hard!! That is a great question why would you pay for something you could get for free!! Maddie and her friend were laughing pretty hard too, so we had to have a womanly talk Olivia and I.... she did not care for the great news about being a girl!!

Grandma Kathryn's Feet....

Tonight Canyon and I were reading books, when he read me this one he said "Thats like Grandma feet" right? Grandma Kathryn's feet..... So it is..... Out of the mouth of Babes!!!

Pay it Forward....

Read closely...this is how it works...
The Rules...
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If you are not one of the Top Three Commenters on this post, you can still play along. Please take the button and post it on your blog; start your own Pay It Forward chain, and encourage your blogging friends to do the same!

Up For a Challenge????

Ok so my cute cousin Meagan on her blog mentioned her gym (she lives in Cedar) is having a 100 miles by Feb 31st contest..... You have to walk, run, skip, swim whatever 100 miles by the end of February. I am totally all about it... anyone else in??? We could all go out to dinner, (or she is having anyone who does it over for cookies your all up for a road trip right) anyway anyone who wants in keep track of your miles and those who make it we will have a celebration night at the beginning of March! (Which Feb 31st would be about March 3rd). I need some kind of motivation OK

The Best Christmas Present

This year for Christmas we decided to give the kids a trip to Disney World instead of a bunch of junk that I cannot find a "home" for once it needs to be put away. This worked out to be the best idea ever. We left on Jan 6th for a week. Maddie's friend from dance Makayla came along with us (her mom needed a Christmas gift as well). This is a picture of all of us at Planet Hollywood. We went here the last night of our trip.

Our trip started out true Home Alone style with us getting to the airport a little later then we should have (my fault of course) well the lines were extra long and so our plane was supposed to leave at 7am at 2 min to we had Maddie and Makayla run a head and try to stop the plane. Needless to say we were all running with all of our backpacks through the airport and straight onto the plane... We made it!!! We all had to sit separately including Olivia sitting between two strangers. Tom was freaking out he likes to get places early and in control. I kind of enjoy the flying by the seat of your pants style!! (We didn't leave anyone home alone, but we did lose Olivia at the Planet Hollywood, of course it would be Olivia, we had to split up all taking different parts of the restaurant looking for her, when no one could find her Hayden and I really went into panic mode.... long story anyway needless to say she was out in the parking lot looking for us completely fine not scared not quite sure why everyone else was upset. Which by the way how long do you really wait in these kind of situations before you panic or call the police etc???)
I had to make a new post in fear of losing some pictures, so the rest of our trip is below in the previous post.

Dreams Really Do Come True

Here is Hayden in line I believe for Mt Everest that was one of the kids favorite rides, they would get in the single riders line so they could ride it over and over...

Canyon loves "Cars" however this car talking and moving he wasn't quite sure about

This was our first day at the park we went to Hollywood studios... they have 2 of Disney worlds best rides... Tower of Terror and the Rockin Roller coaster

Check out Maddie and Makayla's outfit..... sweet right??? They had this all planned out too?!?

Tom, Canyon and Mike and Sully.

The kids all bought these sunglasses the first day we actually went through a few pairs for Olivia and Makayla but they got a lot of attention and I think that is exactly what they were going for.

There is the castle behind us... wish we were still there!

You gotta love Mickey Mouse ears!

On the spinning Tea Cups, the kids all love to ride with Tom he can spin that cup like nobodies business!! Canyon was so funny he looked totally sick, then his eyes were spinning then his whole body starting circling and spinning. We had to stop turning ourselves because Tom and I were laughing so hard!! Here Livie and Hayden do look a titch dizzy

Is that Hayden or Napoleon? Click on the picture he totally has "that" face...

I was teaching Canyon to raise your hands on a roller coaster, he was all about it until we went downhill. He loves roller coasters like the rest of us though..... good thing!

Did I double post the same picture? Sorry I think it is because there are so few with Tom in them.

Canyon outside the Rockin Roller coaster... he is such a good sport for all the waiting around he had to do.

Posing with our sooo cool glasses?

Here is the downhill part of the roller coaster notice the hands are securely holding on..

Good times I tell ya!

At night back at the house, you would start to hear these loud thumping noises coming from upstairs where Maddie and Makayla were....

They couldn't leave dance behind and they were up trying to catch pictures of their different leaps and jumps...

Just a bunch of Wild Animals....

Canyon really enjoyed the 3d movies a lot of times we won't take time for these, but he had waited for us so much we had to, and he loved it so that makes it worth it!!

Hayden posing in front of the Castle

I don't know if you have seen Elf or not, but it is quite a hit at our house, anyway Hayden really likes to burp like Elf and then say "did you hear that" just like on the movie... Well one night were were walking to watch fireworks, when he did this, it was the biggest loudest burp you have heard I swear, this whole group of young guys stopped and clapped for him... we all laughed and of course Hayden has that trying not to smile face but was pretty darn proud of himself!

Olivia decided about half way through the trip that she wanted to get autographs and pictures with the characters..... the first time we took Maddie and Hayden to Disneyland we spent half of our time doing this so we have tried to keep the fact that most children do this a secret from the rest of the kids..... really what do you do with the autograph.... Oh well she kind of figured it out on her own that it was rides or wait in line to meet characters.

A few shots with her and Canyon meeting some of the characters.... they usually would comment on her "sunglasses"

Check out Pluto using his nose to sign her book, and Canyon giving Goofy five he thought meeting the characters was pretty cool.

We found Olivia's own shop when we went shopping down by the beach.....Maddie and Makayla found this surfer type store that had really good deals, I think half there spending money was spent here but they got cute summer clothes etc..... When we were shopping they had these little Restaurants in between some of the shops, and people would eat outside, the sidewalks would walk right between where they were seated to eat. We noticed people would totally stare as you walked through (not that I don't deserve to be stared at for how much staring I do) anyway Maddie started telling them things like "have a wonderful evening" etc and then it escalated to her going from table to table putting her arm on their back and asking if everything was alright was their anything else she could get them etc. You know like the managers do sometimes.... I was laughing so hard at her sometimes she is so shy and others she is way out there....

For the weekend we went and stayed over night at Long Boat Key... it was so beautiful but I love the ocean, I do wish it was a little warmer but hey who can complain.... Here is our family on the beach

Maddie and Makayla

Maddie loves to tease Hayden and hug him and kiss him and sing to him etc.... it drives him totally crazy, he cannot comprehend if it didn't bug him she wouldn't do it... He then told us how in one of his classes at school almost everyday one of the girls will come back from the bathroom and tell him that his sister loves him or blow him a kiss and say this is from your sister etc. He acts like he hates it but I think he secretly likes it! I can only imagine what it is like to go to school for him.

Hayden, Maddie and Liv... we had a hard time getting Canyon to pose for pictures, he was in absolute heaven making sandcastles and find "she shells"

You never grow too old to jump the waves right. Tom and I even like to do this, however Tom is always the one taking pictures and I am the one posting them and get to pick not to have "bad" pictures in the post. Tom actually always has to get in the water no matter how cold it is... Hayden is the same..... I usually will join them but something has been wrong with my temperature gage lately and I am cold 90% of the time and am so tired of it!!

This would be about the exact time Makayla's phone dropped out of her pocket and into the ocean....

Just a diggin in the sand....

We were tempted not to head back up to Orlando and Disney world we all love the beach sooo much!

Tom and the kids swimming in the pool.... Pools are a must when we go on vacation, a long with cable t.v (we unlike the rest of America do not have cable so it is still a novelty for us)

Canyon & I on the little Mermaid ride. He would hold my hand or arm on all the rides I think he was a little nervous they might be scary...

Trying to get him to poke his head out of the sharks mouth he was not so sure about this...

Tom bought him this little gun while waiting for the rest of us on a ride, he would shoot everything on all the rides the rest of that day..... This was at Epcot which is not really meant for little kids I don't think, he wanted to go back to the beach!

Just touring all the countries through Epcot.... this must be Mexico..

We finally got Canyon into decorating a mask thing that you get stamped at each country this helped him to not have to cry at every store because we wouldn't buy him everything he wanted.

My kids love to smash into the phone booths in the England section for a picture every time we go here....

(my post keeps having these wierd spaces and as I am trying to fix it it lost my picture in the phone booth, I will have to try and re-post it anyone know how to solve or fix these kind of problems?)

I know this is a totally random picture and not the best, but I was trying to be sneaky when I was taking the picture.... There are some truly crazy people in the world, I know because I am a total people watcher, but there are some truly amazing people as well. One of the days we were at the Magic Kingdom we kept running into these 2... This mom would take her grown son and she would pick him up out of his wheel chair, which was really a struggle I am sure,

She had a system of how she did it because he was pretty heavy for her, she would put her arms under his arm pits, then lift one leg, he would try and hang on around her neck but you could see he did not have great mobility his hands were clenched up. I don't know if the workers at Disney World are not allowed to help, but they didn't, well we watched them get on different rides, and on the Tea cups she was really struggling to get him up in there, I looked over and Maddie had joined me in tears streaming down our face as we watched this loving mother lift him into rides and then watch his face on the ride as he was having the time of his life....luckily at the end of the teacups, when I had told Tom you have got to figure how you can help her (I am as weak as you can get) I saw this family go over and the man said could my son help you, this teenage boy then lifted the boy with total ease out of the tea cups and back into his chair. I did not notice anyone else with these 2 whenever I saw them, I am just amazed at the love this mom was showing her son and the ability of strangers to just watch or to help which we all fit into both categories most of the time right!! I think this woman whomever she is, is amazing!!

Watch out Edward.....

There is a new even more "good looking" Vampire in the making!!
Do You ever come out in to your hallway at close to 1am to find this running down your hall?? Yes these pictures were taken around 1am one night back in December....


5 Reasons I believe Canyon is turning into a Vampire...
1. He stays up all night
2. He sleeps all day
3. He does have pretty pasty white skin (check for a little sparkle next time you see him in the sunlight)
4. Do you see him out in the sun really ever?
5. He does not want to get dressed EVER because he is tired Oh wait I think that is something else...?...?


Tonight he went to his very first sleepover, and I am up blogging instead of going to bed early without trying to fight him...... Oh but I miss his cute little face. I have never been home without him here at night.
Grandma Kaye & Grandpa Tom invited him to sleep over with some of his cousins. I wish I could have gotten pictures to post he was pretty excited. I hope they wore him out a little so he doesn't keep everyone up all night with these kind of shenanigans!
Good Luck! and Thanks for taking him....