Happy Birthday Daddy!!!

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We Love You!

April 3rd~ Zach learns to swim!!

The last morning of our trip we had a little time to swim before our flight and the kids had a blast jumping and playing. They went with daddy and I met them there after I finished packing and by the time I got down there Zachary was swimming all by himself!! He just started doing it. He was quite proud of himself. And he's wasn't doing the doggy paddle, he was doing breast stroke with his face in the water. They each have very different jumping styles.



Best Friends!!

Sleeping Beauty Waltz

This Saturday Mikayla had her spring piano recital! She did such a great job you wouldn't even know she threw a fit at the last minute about how her dress was "too fancy" and she was "not going"!! Daddy reminded her that there would be a reception after with cookies and she finally agreed to go, but I think this will probably be the last recital. She really does not like being the center of attention and she does not like to practice even though she always does a great job! She worked so hard the past month to memorize this piece and I think she played it perfectly!!

I promise this is the last of them!

Zach doin' the twist at the parade
Me & the kids at the hat.
The End

Day Three~Hollywood Studios

Which apparently used to be MGM. As soon as we walked thru the gates the HSM show started right in front of us. The kids were mesmerized because this was the one thing they were most looking forward to seeing. Although, I think they were a little disappointed that the actors weren't the ones from the movie.

I love these guys from the muppet show.

Only Mikayla wanted to meet Handy Manny.

Seeing Mickey was the highlight for both of them. It's the only character that I think they really cared about seeing and we kind of met him without planning it. If you go to the animation show, afterward they send you to a room with characters in it.

I still can't get the best pics to rotate on the blog, but you get the idea.

Mikayla still remembers that Minnie blew her a kiss. I remember she talked about it the whole day. Even then they only cared about seeing Mickey and Minnie. They were 2yrs. and 31/2 yrs. old then.

Ratatoille Set

The kids answered questions to see what disney character they are most like and Mikayla's was Ariel. Some of her answers were questionable but she thought it was very cool.

They didn't want to stand in line to meet the Incredibles, but they walked by us on the way to their break and with my new fast camera I was actually able to catch it.

Had to get Mickey Ears! Hip Hop Mikayla got Minnie's strawberry bar.

So precious!!

They loved the parade! My camera automatically rotates the pics and so does the computer, so I am blaming blogger!

Really cool stunt show! Mikayla was pretty mad we went, but there were some parts she thought were amazing. We never made it to Indiana Jones so this was daddy's consolation show.

What a difference four years makes!

March 2004 March 2008
Jungle Cruise

Pixie dust was falling from the castle in the shapes of pumpkin carriages and castles.



Four years ago they both refused to go on Dumbo and this time it still took some convincing, but they loved it!

Quote of the Day~

Mikayla to Zach-"I love your can-do attitude."

More Magic Kingdom~

These ladies came in during our lunch(at Main street cafe) to do a little "show" and they kept singing in loud obnoxious operatic voices. For the rest of the day Mikayla kept calling them the destroyers of lunch. Actually last time we were at Disney we ate here and since we had a reservation we got chosen to have our picture taken with one of the ladies and she held her hand out and in the final picture Tinkerbell was on her hand! We got the picture free and a free dessert! We lost the picture and the kids were not impressed with the noisy ladies four years ago either. But it was a fun memory!

Zach loved Pirates of the carribean, but I don't think Mikayla opened her eyes once the whole time. Not even to look at the hairy pirate leg.

Zach watched the original Swiss family robinson movie a few weeks ago and loved it, so he had a great time walking around the tree house! Mikayla is afraid of heights and did not like it one bit.