Disney Day 2 Back to the Magic…

We took Disney Day 2 a little slower. We knew we were going to come back for a late night visit with the Extra Magic Hours and Fireworks show so we planned accordingly. We spent the morning hanging on “the other side” of Magic Kingdom. I sat with the littles while Brent and the big boys tackled Space Mountain. By this point we had learned the switch pass rules on top of the FastPass rules and Baylor and Callan had fun running back through the line. One time was good for me- thank you very much!
Just when the younger natives were getting restless rain started to move in. Because Splash Mountain was closed on our first day, Dad and the big boys stayed around to tackle that ride, and the littles and I ran to the train to try to get back “home” before we turned into ducks.
Once everyone made it home, we rested up before heading out for our nighttime adventures.

Disney at night was spectacular. We were late to the fireworks show because the boat ride took longer than normal, but to see the Castle all lit up was amazing. I just sat there and stared. Cruz was mesmerized right to sleep, but only until we decided to take Dumbo for a night time spin. Where he sat up and started yelling “YAY! Up, Down, Up, Down.” We also gave the teacups another spin and headed back over to Splash Mountain and Haunted Mansion. I was still drizzling, but the kids were full force loving every minute!!!

Disney Day 1- Magic Kindgom

Our first day was AMAZING!!! We paused for a photo before the adventure began on the deck of our cabin.

From Fort Wilderness Cabins you had to take a ferry boat to the Magic Kingdom. You could not contain their excitement!!!

Daddy and Eliza on the boat trip over.

Baylor was the first to speak. His words were "This was not what I expected... this is AMAZING!"

We got several shots of the castle... but this one with Sissy makes me happy!

This just makes me laugh!

Having no idea what the tea cups are all about!

Our first character meet and greet. This is Callan all about some Tigger!

This was Eliza's first roller coaster. It was also her last. You can see her holding on for dear life. Her words "Get me off of here and get me to my makeover!!!"

I almost cried during the Parade. I am a sucker for parades with drums, they make me cry and I don't know why. Luckily there were not drums, just music and my sweet little boy who was afraid of the characters close up. But, when he saw them in the parade... "HI!! WOODY!!!"

Taking the boat back home. The park closed early... but that was okay we had Downtown Disney to get to... and a makeover.

Somebody wanted to participate in the standing bus ride.

Lord have mercy!!! I had no idea what we were getting into. She had a blast and we carried enough glitter back to our cabin to last all year. In fact, Baylor refused to sleep next to her afraid that he would be Pixie dusted to death... so we had to locate a shower cap just to contain the glitter. (as much as we paid for this diva-do we were not washing it that night)

5 Little Monkey's

We decided to leave a day early for Disney. We thought we would take our time getting there. However, we forgot that 2 full size beds don't fit 7 people comfortably. When we have done it in the past we have taken a blow up mattress. That was not on the Disney packing list,so we tried out a few sleeping combos.

This test run lasted about 2 minutes. We ended up with the 3 big boys sideways in the bed. Eliza between me and Brent, and Cruz on his handy dandy rest mat... on the floor... on top of a blanket pallet... surrounded by pillows.

Welcome Home

The Jones family has grown again! Keith and Tracey welcomed home their sons to their forever family!

My 2 littles

Our two littlest kiddos were so proud of their costumes I thought they deserved some more photo time. Eliza has fallen in love with Pocahontas (and we are studying about her in school too), and have you ever NOT seen a cute zebra???

I have to add that I was so proud of my oldest son this Halloween. He did forgo the extra friend time and quickly running from house to house in order to carry Cruz slowly door to door as he collected candy and said "Fank You".

Halloween

Halloween was a little rushed this year. I don't know where the day went, but suddenly we were 10 minutes late to head down the street to Trick-or Treat with our BFF's. We intended on making it to church for the Fall Festival, but wore ourselves out before we got there. Daddy still went and set up and then went back and shut down the bonfire our Connect Class was in charge of.

Callan as Rocky Balboa

Silas as a Karate Kid

Baylor as the ever occuring baseball player (I tried to convince him to be something else this year as he has been a baseball player for several years... his response, "But I have never been a Legend's baseball player before." WHATEVER)

And my 2 little bits... my Pocahontas and her Zebra buddy.

The trick-or-treating clan before the Ashman's arrived.

FUN TIMES!!!!!

Becoming Legends

After a little bit of a tough time, and a lesson on life Baylor settled with a new team. I immediately noticed a change. Sometimes we are forced outside of what we know and where we are comfortable just so we will take the opportunity to see that something so much greater is waiting for us.

Yes, we put a lot into baseball and I know not everyone understands or agrees, but it is important to my child and being on the right team makes all the difference in the world.

So, here we are the Tennessee Legends, just a legend in the making. Stay tuned... this team has plans to stay together for 2 years and head to the "summit" of youth baseball...Cooperstown!

My first baseman has earned his spot and showed out a little this fall with some of his moves.

Reading and waiting to make a play on the runner (who I cropped out)

Settling in for a hit...