Wow, life!

Life has been flying by lately. I'm planning on leaving next Tuesday, the 30th, with my nieces and my kids for a 4 day road trip. We will be leaving after the girls are done Tuesday and driving 6 hours to Cranberry Township, Pa to visit a friend from my church I went to growing up. I'm so excited to see Karlyn, I can't wait! After breakfast with her, we'll be leaving and going to Gettysburg. This won't be a long time here but it will be enough to show Megan where the adress was given by President Lincoln after the battle. The next day we'll be going to Washington DC where we'll be visiting the Air & Space museum and the Natural History. After that, we'll be going to the Lincoln Memorial. Those who have seen the movie Night at the Museum 2, Battle of the Smitsonian will recognize that those are all in that movie! It will be another in and out but enough to soak some fun learning opportunities up! Friday we'll arrive in Emerald Isle and wait for everyone else to arrive on Saturday.

This vacation comes at the perfect time for us because we have a big decision to make that is very hard. You wonder if God's calling you to trust him, He has everything planned out and there will be big rewards. OR are we just trying to hurry something up because we're greedy? It's hard to know what to do. Every day it seems like we're getting a sign one way then the next it changes. This is somehthing that we did not ever expect to think about, at least not for a long time. This is not moving, etc... but to us is something that would have a huge impact! Pray that God gives us the wisdom to do what he wants and shows us some signs of what it is.

Spring Break

Every year we go to Emerald Isle, North Carolina for Spring break to see Brianna and stay in their beach house. It is an 18 hour drive and each year the kids get better and better. This year Scott's parents came and we rode with them down. They have a DVD player in their van so the kids watched tv all the way down and never really complained. We love going there at that time of year. The island is not busy at all during that time so we basically have the beach to ourselves! My favorite part of going is see Anna and then also going to Harkers Island. From there we either go to Schackleford Banks or Cape Lookout Lighthouse. This year we went to the lighthouse and had a family picture taken. It turned out great except Scott's leg sticks out funny! We also went to the aquarium where we had the kids take a class and they got to learn about Alligators. At the end of the class, they got to touch a baby Alligator. They both did and so did Scott but I was too chicken! We also went to Fort Macon at the other end of the island and looked around there. We do it every year but every time we discover something different that we haven't seen before! We picked up Anna in New Bern after seeing the Fire Museum and brought her back to the beach house with us. Anna was able to stay with us until we left Saturday morning then BC picked her up. It was good to see her, she is getting so big! I love this trip and look forward to it every year! It's good to get away and relax there after such a long winter!

Great Wolf Lodge

Great Wolf Lodge is always a lot of fun. We went in February of 2008 during Megan's midwinter break. Our kids are at the age now where they can do everything there and they do! Cody went down every slide even the one in the middle where he went by himself. He didn't like those much but he did try it. His favorite color slide this year was blue. Megan learned to go down by herself on all the tube slides and had a blast. We went with all of Scott's family here again. It's nice having a couple adults so Scott and I can go on slides together without leaving our kids alone. The kids also look forward to the clocktower telling a story each night and craft time. Their all time favorite part of Great Wolf is the pool though, which is silly considering there are some awesome slides!

Year of Vacations!

This past year, we have been on a lot of fun vacations. Our favorite hands down was Disney World with a second being North Carolina. I do love the lighthouses and all the history in North Carolina but watching our kids see Cinderella's castle had to be the best experience of all. Their jaws just dropped and it was so magical! I'll post about each trip in a separate post and put some pictures with each. This will be about Disney because that was the first one in November of 2007. Scott's parents took us all there and rented a house for all 11 of us! It was so much fun, I'd love to live there if Scott could get a job down there! We arrived Thursday night and went to Magic Kingdom Friday just the four of us while the rest of Scott's family flew down that day. We also went to Magic Kingdom Monday and Tuesday with rest of the family. It's hard to decide which day was my favorite, Friday or my birthday. Friday was great watching the kids take it all in but my birthday was good because Megan went to Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique and dressed like Cinderella. Cody dressed like Buzz Lightyear, and Betsy like Tinkerbell. They were all so adorable and my kids met the Characters like who they were dressed. We also all had lunch at the Crystal Palace with Pooh and Friends! We liked the other parks and breakfast at Chef Mickey's but nothing compared to Magic Kingdom. We also went to breakfast at Tuskerhaus in Animal Kingdom which was a fun experience. Our kids were chosen to be in different things because we showed up early and got good seats so they were in the front. They were in Lion King, Belle's Garden(twice), parades at dinner and some other fun things like the front of the monorail! There's lots of pictures just to warn you but I feel good limiting it to just 100 when Scott and I took 1200 ourselves not including his family and Photopass pictures!