Disney Train Tour

They had these towers that blew snow. The kids loved running around in the "snow".

Disney knows how to do it! They have this cross country train tour for their upcoming movie A Christmas Carol. They have this train decked out with movie stuff. You go through the train and each car has something new from the movie. It shows how they made the movie and had Dicken's things from the museum in London. There are interactive games too. Lots of fun and the kids loved it! At the end there is a theater that shows two full scenes from the movie in 3D.

While waiting in line they had these jugglers that were funny, Christmas carolers decked out in the full costume, and booths for card making and tattoo fun!

This guy was on stilts and juggled these glass balls. Reminded me of Labyrinth... only the greatest movie ever made!!!!

Bah humbug! This is actually Jim Carey playing scrooge (the picture, not the person, although I can get pretty grumpy sometimes).

They had these televisions as pictures on the wall. The scenes would change or they would show the making of on them. Really cool. The official Dicken artifacts are in those glass cases.

Blends in well, doesn't he?

Shows the dot suits and cameras used to film. The kids loved this part!

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, jack frost nipping at your nose....

Merry Christmas to all!

Goodbye Friends!

It is so sad. Our best friends moved away this week. These pictures are from the last night together before they moved in the morning. I cried and I am sad but they will have a grand new adventure in Arizona! At least it is not too far away although we probably won't see them much anymore. They better keep in contact (or else!!!!).

Matthew was sad too. He wanted me to hold him and said he will miss them. They have become really good friends, which only helps later since they are going to be married! Good luck to you and we wish you the very best! We love you!

Poetry Pageant

Matthew recited his poem and came in second place!!! He was excited to speak in the microphone. He did so well and we are so proud of him! I have video of him below. One video is of him before people came in (practicing) and the other is during the performance which is shaking so much because I had a baby who decided she was not happy in my arms at the very moment he started to say his poem.

Matthew, the judges, and his principal.

All the kindergarten and 1st grade contestants. All the boys were Kindergartners and all the 1st graders were girls!

Our 11 Month Old Terror

She got to the top of the couch and laughs with utter joy! Now we cannot take our eyes off of her for a second! I put a video on that shows her crawling up the couch. I helped her up in the video but she does it by herself just takes her a little longer.

Looking outside with much glee!

Our Problem Solver

So Eric was mowing the lawn and noticed Matthew holding a paper and yelling at passing cars. He turned off the mower to hear what he was saying. He was yelling while holding up the corresponding sign "We need money." Everyday the ice cream man comes to our house and everyday the boys want ice cream. It adds up so we have been telling him one day a week for icecream since we don't have money to buy everyday. So he took matters into his own hand and tried to get passing cars to donate funds into his ice cream buying charity. We were laughing so hard and I had to take pictures before I shut the charitable work down!

Waiting for the cars. Who could resist two cute boys with a sign?

I actually reads phonetically: "mune (money) we neb (need, he mixes up the b and d sometimes)." Money we need. Too funny!