Friday, October 14, 2011
Annual Pumpkin Farm Visit
Thursday, October 13, 2011
NRUMP Pink Day
Today was Pink Day at Macy & Tyler's preschool. In celebration of Breast Cancer Awareness month, they had a parade and balloon release to remember all those who are fighting breast cancer, have been lost to breast cancer and have survived. To view all the photos click here: NRUMP Pink Day
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Blog Backlog - May through August
May
May was ages ago and I frankly can't recall what we did aside from the pictures. To explain a few pictures: Macy's crying outside because we released her butterflies. She was extremely excited to release them, but once she realized they were flying away and not just staying next to her, the crying began and did not stop. We went to the Zoo with the Taylor family where Tyler's love for Mr. Duke grew infinitely the second he got to go for a ride. Course as soon as Mr. Duke was off of it, Tyler was on trying to figure out how to steal it from him.
June
June was a whirlwind of a month packed full! We joined the entire Bates clan at a Bulls game where we got to meet Scooby Doo. Macy had her first recital which was a long year in the making. The entire studio put on "Alice in Wonderland". Macy's class was red and white roses. Every Monday for an entire year Macy asked how many more days until I can dance on stage. For that entire year I feared she would get to the stage and refuse to go on. I'm beyond proud to say she got up there and danced her heart out as a beautiful red rose, loving every minute. My other fear was she would be sick the day of the recital and she'd miss it. Apparently I decided to take that illness for her and somehow came down with pneumonia. To make her recital even more special YaYa and Grampie came down. YaYa did Macy's nails and makeup for the show. In return Macy made them both fabulous cheerio necklaces. Macy also scored a bike out of the visit which she had a blast riding around the house until we convinced her to take it outside. Tyler got a new bell for his bike, which he thanked Grampie for installing by blowing it while he was trying to install it.
July/August
July and August were full of celebrations. We had our annual 4th of July Celebration at our house. Grandma and Grandpa came down to celebrate with us. It was the usual food and great friends complete with a mini fireworks show. This year the kids all stayed awake through the show, but Macy was still requesting Daddy stop so she could go to bed. The kids both decorated their bikes for the Falls River bike parade (aka mass choas trampling). Macy rode her new bike as proud as could be. Tyler "rode" his tricycle with support of his tag team Neil and Grandma. We went to see the Wake Forest official fireworks display which was the kids first major fireworks show. They loved it! After all that excitement we had a down day which was apparently more than we could handle, so we ended up getting guinea pig. The Taylor's neighbor's coworker had a guinea pig in need of a new home, so we adopted Timothy, which the kids renamed Captain Hook due to an obsession with Disney's new show Jake & The Neverland Pirates. The obsession is so great that Alexis and Macy had a joint Izzy birthday party. We got so unbelievably lucky and happened to plan the outdoor pool party for the day after Hurricane Irene and we couldn't have dreamed of a better day.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Our family vacation to Florida
For Macy's 5th Birthday we decided we'd take the kids to Disney World. We drove down in amazingly good time thanks to Neil's lead foot and spent the first day at Sea World, the second at Hollywood Studios, the third at Magic Kingdom and then a day of rest at Downtown Disney and the hotel pool before driving back home in even better time. The kids had a blast and we definitely pushed them to the edge. The first night at the hotel it took them a while to fall asleep. They were sharing a room and Tyler was rather excited about that, but somehow Macy fell asleep through his antics. The second night they were asleep in less than 30 minutes. The third night there wasn't a peep from them when we walked out of the room and they didn't even make it out of the Magic Kingdom awake.
Macy was her usual unimpressed self at Sea World. She did love the rope/obstacle climb that was completely unrelated. We had a great time though and it was like we had the park to ourselves because there was no wait for anything and barely any people around. Hollywood Studios was a little more exciting because we saw shows by Ariel, Belle and a stunt show with a guest appearance of Lightening McQueen. The Magic Kingdom was without a doubt her favorite. There were few moment when she didn't have a look of awe on her face and everything we did was immediately asked to be done again. She met tons of princesses who were all so sweet. I was quite surprised with the amount of people in line that they still took lots of time to make each little girl feel special. Macy's favorite ride was the Peter Pan which I think she would have spent the whole day on if we let her. Tyler's favorite was the carousal, which he and Neil rode many many many times, while Macy and I did second turns on Peter Pan, It's a Small World, Dumbo, etc. I was rather impressed with the lack of wait times at Disney as well. Neil did an excellent job of navigating us through the park to get to the key areas and avoid all the shops, until I managed to find us the perfect spot to watch the parade which was conveniently located at the entrance to the Christmas shop. I of course bought Christmas ornaments for all of us while Neil had mini heart attacks and had to leave the store. Macy is so my daughter because I was planning on only buying 1 family ornament when Macy found a Lightening McQueen with a Christmas hat and the year on it. Then she insisted we buy a Peter Pan for Daddy, when I asked why her response was priceless "because he saves the day just like Daddy does" Now I'm itching to put up the Christmas tree and already scheming for a reason to do so.
Disney Vacation Pictures
Macy was her usual unimpressed self at Sea World. She did love the rope/obstacle climb that was completely unrelated. We had a great time though and it was like we had the park to ourselves because there was no wait for anything and barely any people around. Hollywood Studios was a little more exciting because we saw shows by Ariel, Belle and a stunt show with a guest appearance of Lightening McQueen. The Magic Kingdom was without a doubt her favorite. There were few moment when she didn't have a look of awe on her face and everything we did was immediately asked to be done again. She met tons of princesses who were all so sweet. I was quite surprised with the amount of people in line that they still took lots of time to make each little girl feel special. Macy's favorite ride was the Peter Pan which I think she would have spent the whole day on if we let her. Tyler's favorite was the carousal, which he and Neil rode many many many times, while Macy and I did second turns on Peter Pan, It's a Small World, Dumbo, etc. I was rather impressed with the lack of wait times at Disney as well. Neil did an excellent job of navigating us through the park to get to the key areas and avoid all the shops, until I managed to find us the perfect spot to watch the parade which was conveniently located at the entrance to the Christmas shop. I of course bought Christmas ornaments for all of us while Neil had mini heart attacks and had to leave the store. Macy is so my daughter because I was planning on only buying 1 family ornament when Macy found a Lightening McQueen with a Christmas hat and the year on it. Then she insisted we buy a Peter Pan for Daddy, when I asked why her response was priceless "because he saves the day just like Daddy does" Now I'm itching to put up the Christmas tree and already scheming for a reason to do so.
Disney Vacation Pictures
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