DisneyWorld

We took loads of pictures but I believe this one says it all. If you go to Disney you have to see Mickey. It only took us 45 min to see him. Not bad for a summer day at DisneyWorld. The kids were tired after the whole day at the park but we couldn't leave without seeing Mickey so we waited. Luckily we caught the last train from toontown for the night so we didn't have to walk all the way back up to the front of the park and we caught the tail end of the lights parade too. It was a fun trip but we sure were exhausted every night.


As we all know, Daisy Duck has a flirty side. After standing in line to meet Daisy at Epcot, she got so giddy and tiptoed around Justin as if he was the cutest thing on earth. She was getting fresh with my 13 year old son and I've never seen him get so red. It was the funniest thing and I remembered towards the end to snap a few pics. Unfortunatley I missed her giving him a kiss. You can see that even in the group picture, she wants a hand on him. Too much fun!


Grandpa got the picture!

Sea World

I just itch to hold this little girl, our niece Jaden. She was so cute and so much fun, as was her big brother William. She would come up to me every now and then and put her arms up for me to hold her. You can see in the very next picture that she is a mama's girl and shortly after she asks me to hold her she reaches for her mama. We just loved spending time with them.


Papa, Donna, and the kids riding the Sea Carousel

Shamu "Believe" show




The Dolphin and bird show was amazing too!


Half way through the first day at Sea World Eric wasn't feeling good so we took him and his cousin Jaden who wasn't looking too good either to the first aid station. They were both running fevers. BJ and his sisters family took the kids back to the condo for some rest and things just kept getting worse. The next day Eric still wasn't feeling that great and so goes the passing of the germs. Sarah and Kate started to get sick too. We finally took them all to a clinic to get checked out and they all had the Flu. $200.00 in copays and medecine later, the kids all went back to the condo and took a couple days off from sight seeing. BJ and Justin went golfing while we watched videos and just relaxed and got better. It's no fun to be sick, especially when you're on vacation but they had pretty good spirits about them the whole time.

Florida, Summer Vacation part 2

Jun 26th, we hopped on another airplane from Baltimore to Florida. We met up with BJ, his dad, sister and Grandma. We spent two days with his Uncle Steve and Aunt Debra for a Fun Filled Farish Family reunion. Say that three times fast. We swam in their pool and had a cookout and watched a great video that Steve's sister Mary made for his 50th birthday. (watch out Napolean Dynamite!)JK Steve. They were wonderful host's and we had such a good time visiting with them. Thanks Steve and Deb!

Summer Vacation Part 1

School's out, time to head to Virginia, my home town of Stafford! The nice thing about summer in Virginia is that it is actually warm enough to go swimming for more than a month. The kids had a great time in the pool with Nana. We got to play with friends the kids and grown ups. Unfortunately, one of the kids, Eric, played a little too hard and took a tumble at the park in Fredericksburg. That night he was throwing up and ended up taking a trip to the new Stafford Hospital. Not the way I wanted to see the new hospital. After a cat scan, they determined there was no serious concussion but that we should keep an eye on him.


The day before we left Virginia we headed down to Southill to visit the grandparents Minx. We had such a nice time and it was good to be in the south again. We had fried chicken, mashed potatoes, biscuits and "dead" green beans. MMMMMnnn Mmmmnnnn! To top it all off grandma made homeade strawberry ice cream. It was so good to see them and grandma Pam!

Justin's Order of the Arrow Ordeal

So my oldest son was elected to be in an elite group of the boy scouts called Order of the Arrow. He was so excited and it really is an honor to be elected by your fellow scouts. He had to go for a weekend ordeal where they send them out into the woods by themselves without a tent and only minimal food. They can't talk for 24 hrs and they have to do a service project the whole next day without talking and very little food, again. I mention the very little food twice because, as most people know, teenage boys can eat us all out of our food budgets. Justin is no exception. He left feeling very excited.

When he came back he looked so much older to me and he said, "Mom, I had a great time but I can only tell you about half of what we did." They are very secretive about what goes on in the Order of the Arrow but I do know that it left a great impression on him and it's an experience that he will never forget.