It Has Been A While

I know it has been a long time since I last posted, but I have been in mourning over the loss of my camera. It sounds silly, but I am really torn up about it. You see, we had planned a surprise day at Disney World. The kids had no idea and actually didn't even realize where we were until we were on the water taxi and they spotted the Magical Castle or whatever the name of the castle is. I owe the majority of the surprise to the cars dvd player and the Andy Smith genes (doesn't see or hear anything around them when tv is on) . If it weren't for those two things, we couldn't have pulled it off as well.  They would have seen the hundreds of signs and billboards as we got closer and would have seen us go through the main gates. Needless to say the girls were so excited when they realized where we were.

It was super hot, humid, crowded, with a chance of rain but our kids needed a day of fun and we were going to give that to them. Another surprise for them, well Peyton especially, was to meet up with our friends, the Vails. Peyton and Caroline had been friends since 9 months old and have only seen each other a couple of times since we left Charleston on her third birthday.  Their reunion was very sweet and I knew their day would be great!

I started taking pictures from the second we parked the car because I am obsessed with taking pictures of my kids. Someday, I will scrapbook again and put my thousands of pictures into albums, but for now they are on my computer. I got some adorable ones of the three in Minnies house on her couch, in front of the castle, and everywhere else you can imagine. It was a true miracle that they all looked at the camera and flashed real smiles. It poured on us twice, but that didn't spoil the day. It actually felt good to get soaked after walking around and standing in lines while it was 95 degrees out. What spoiled the day was when I stupidly left my camera in Kai's stroller and went to watch Monsters INC laugh factory! I had parked my stroller in one place and when I came out it had been moved and my camera was gone. I was so angry and mad at myself for forgetting it, but even more pissed off at the loser who stole it. Seriously, who does that at Disney? Everyone is telling me a lot of people would steal at family friendly places, so I am going to stop being so trusting of people. I had taken about 50 pictures and had some old ones on there, like when Kai shredded a whole roll of toilet paper when I was dealing with Peyton and a temper tantrum and an adorable one of Kai in his new Colorado Rapids shirt. Thank you Kirsten and Roy that shirt is too cute, by the way! Anyway, it is times like those when I wish I had magical powers because I totally casted an evil hex on whoever stole my camera.

We finished out our pretty fabulous day with a ride through the haunted mansion, said our goodbyes, and piled into the car for our 1 hour 45 minute drive home. Well, it took us 1 hour and 45 minutes to go 5 miles!! What the F???  The kids were going bonkers, freaking out, exhausted, hungry, and dehydrated! Kai finally fell asleep as did Eliza.  The cause of the traffic was some sort of mass pile up, hopefully not the doings of my hex on the person who stole my camera, but you never know!!