The Dance Off

Let it snow

We got our first snow yesterday. It was fun to see it but more fun to know that it will be gone soon!

Google

Have you ever Googled yourself? I just did. My blog shows up, images from my blog and THIS, which made me laugh out loud which takes a lot.

So Sweet

He is so sweet! 

How could this sweet boy ever do anything that would drive us nuts?

 This sweet face would NEVER wake up at 2am and poop on our white carpet in our room causing us to all wake up in a panic and require a major bath and bed change. He is too sweet to do anything like that!

You know who else is sweet, my husband. He has cared for me in my recovery better than a nurse, taken care of the kids even when they are throwing up and pooping everywhere. Cleaned our house, made dinners, done all his work for the church and for school and has had a great attitude about the whole thing. He is amazing and am so very thankful for him.

This sweet boy got his first 'real' haircut yesterday with his daddy. See, I cut all the hair in my family, but with me down and out these past weeks the boys needed to head to a real Barber to get the work done. There is a classic Barber near us that Paul was excited about going too. Go sit with the older local men, get a cheap cut by a real Barber. They walk in and see Jack the Clipper who says that he can't do kids because of a problem with his neck. In desperation, the boys head to Great Clips where there is a huge line up. In further desperation they head to a fancy salon next door and cough up close to 50$ for their haircuts. They look good but must say look no better than what I do. Paul came home and announced that I will be the only one to touch his hair from now on.

I am getting better slowly, but just as one pain leaves, another shows up. There are good and bad days, yesterday bad, hopefully today good. I got brave the other day and walked over to the school with my mom to pick up the girls. I haven't been there in weeks and it was sunny and nice out. I need to get stronger so I thought this would be good for me. It was all good until on the way home I got honked at because I was taking too long crossing the street. When I got home I was exhausted and emotional and realized that the big world out my window is not where I should be yet. I should get a walker so people might understand that I am a very slow right now!! At least it made me more aware that I need to be patient with people, we never know what they are going through.

Autumnal

Here is another amazing video that my brother did recently. I like it a lot, not only because it has my little ones in it but what it captures about this amazing season and the love my family gives to my kids. The footage was taken the day before we surprised the kids with our Disney trip. Paul and I stayed home and packed while my parents and my brother and his wife took the kids out to feed the birds. Enjoy.

Day Three

Day Three was a take it easy kind of day. We headed to the park for just a bit and did some rides like the Jungle Cruise. We then went to Downtown Disney which is located in between the two parks and hit the shops! J Man was excited to buy some toys from Toy Story and the girls both decided to make a special bear from Build A Bear. Paul was thrilled to hit the HUGE Lego store. I must admit it was pretty cool.

There was...

Lego Woody

Lego Darth Vader

Lego Paul

One thing that mystified me while at Disney was watching people walk around the park eating this.....




For the longest time I couldn't figure out what they were eating! It was pretty funny seeing hundreds of people walking around tearing off meat with their teeth. No, we didn't partake.

Day Three, quiet and relaxing. It was a good thing too because the next day was our early morning entry!

A Long Road

Where have I been you ask? In bed. This post surgery recovery is in day 10 and it is going to be a long road. I knew it would. My surgery went very well and I have had no complications which I am very thankful for. I have been getting lots of help from family which gives me the ability to recover much faster. I do feel worlds better than last week, I can get out of bed, get up and down the stairs more, am off my pain killers and even got outside a bit yesterday for a tiny walk. I am getting stronger by the day but still have a long way to go. I put on some real clothes yesterday but that only lasted a few hours and then I was back in my pjs! You know I am feeling a bit better just from the fact that I can sit for a few minutes at the computer and blog. You are gonna have to wait for the finish or our Disney trip, that is a ways off yet! I am pretty bored and sore from lying around so much and am really ready to get up and moving more. Baby steps, baby steps. Well, I am at my max for sitting here, gonna go head up to bed again!

Day Two

Day Two was spent at California Adventure. We woke up early and headed over for a full day of fun. It was a bit cloudy and cooler so the crowds stayed away and we enjoyed all the rides with no lines!

The ferris wheel is huge and the focal point of the pier area. It is impressive during the day but it really shines at night! Get it... shines?? Anyway. I am not a big fan of heights and this one is REALLY high. As you go get in line you have to make a choice. Swinging cage or non swinging cage, we chose the latter! The view was amazing, when I was brave enough to peek out!

The Paradise Pier wraps around the ferris wheel and has lots of midway games and "old fashioned" rides. The food was amazing too! Great healthy choices and lots of fun kids food!

We had a chance to meet some characters too!

There is a part of the park that is themed after A Bugs Life. The rides where right at J Man's level, the girls even had some fun on the 'toddler' rides. We went to watch a live show there thinking it would be great. There was a sign saying that some parts might be scary. We asked the lady what was scary and she said some darkness and fog. We can handle that! Well, she forgot to mention the 10ft man eating grasshopper that appears out of nowhere! Instant tears from all our kids and we high tailed it out of there! There may be some long term damage done.

I already mentioned how good the food was right? Well, one of the food areas is set up like the Wharf in San Francisco that I have been to. The sealions are replaced here by ducks but you can still get some amazing chowder in a fresh backed bread bowl, yummy!

Here is a little sample of the rides we did on day two.

One of our favourite things to do was to go talk to Crush from Finding Nemo. I still have no idea how they pull this off but it is really cool. Us adults enjoyed it perhaps more than the kids! Grace even got a chance to talk to the turtle and now Paul and I are in a contest to see who can say "Dude" the best!

Well, that's it for Day Two. Three more left. I have no idea how I will finish all this. Our life has been crazy since we got back on Sat. We barely even made it through Halloween! Halloween this year was certainly overshadowed by Disney Fun! Those pictures will have to wait in line! The rest of these posts may have to take a rest too as I am going to be out of commission for a while due to a surgery I am having. Maybe I will move my computer upstairs and blog from there with all my upcoming free time!