Imagination at its best/worst...

I was about to yell at Bear to
"STOP!"
Then I realized that Lyon was having fun.
(he is wearing the "backpack leash" that we used to keep hold of him at the airport)

(its strapped on his back not around neck)
Bear dragged him all the way across the kitchen floor.

How they came up with this and how it was fun

I suppose I will never know.

See what I saw...

This is who greeted me after I took my laundry out of my dryer.

It sure made doing the laundry more interesting.

I like to wash my kids stuffed animals at least once a month.

This one happens to have magnets in his paws.

He's just hanging out, making me smile :D

And Lyon says...

While trying to play catch:

Lyon (after not catching the ball):
"Uhh...I...did...not...catch...it!"

Me:
"That's okay it takes practice."

Lyon:
"Maybe..ma..baseball team...will...help...me."

Me:
Lol! :D

Romance is...

Have you ever looked up the definition for romance in the dictionary?
Well here it is:


Romance- 1. Love story, love affair resembling this. 2. Imaginative story or literature.
3. Romantic situation event or atmosphere. 4. Picturesque exaggeration.

These days I think people have a slightly simpler definition for romance, and I think that Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast sums it up pretty well when he said,

"Oh there are the usual things, flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep..."

That is what tends to come to my mind when I hear the word romance.
And if that is what it really is, well, romance is definately overated.
But just for fun (and because its nearly valentines day) lets look at it a little differently.

I'll give you a few examples of some real romantic situations:

-My husband "taking care" of a spider that I find in our house


-My husband getting the DVD's of the entire X-men, the cartoon series, for me because he knew I wanted them


-My husband leting me stay at Disney's Magic Kingdom with our oldest son while he took the little ones back to our hotel, just because he knew how much fun I would have with Bear.


-My husband warming up my side of the bed for me before I get into bed


-My husband taking me to Las Vegas for a weekend, without our boys, because he knew I was getting overwhelmed with cabin fever.


-My husband having roses sent to me just to surprise me. (And they weren't last minute $5 flowers from wal-mart on his way home from work) He took the time to order them, write a note and then have the roses delivered to me while I was home with our baby.


-The fact that my husband always wears his wedding ring, even when he is doing hard work like gardening or construction work.


-How good he has taken care of me when I was pregnant.

This list could go on and on.
These are little things that let me know that my husband loves me. There is no room for me to doubt it when he tells me and shows me his love all of the time.

That is what I think romance is.
Letting those we love KNOW without a doubt that we love them.

(Me and my Phil, madly in love :)

For more on romance follow this link, then there are a whole bundle of links at the bottom of that post that you can follow for even more on romance ;D

An award!!!???

Somebody gave me an award! Can you believe it? I was pleasantly surprised as I have never gotten one before, and actually didn't know what one was until very recently either. So who do I have to thank for the honor:

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The Mommyologist

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I can't remember how I found her blog, but does that really matter? I love her funny stories and hilarious rants. She is a Mommy just like me and thus I can relate and enjoy all the better. :D

Anyway there are rules that go along with getting this award here they are:

1-Put the logo in my post or within my blog.

2-Pass the award onto 12 fellow bloggers.

3-Link the nominees within my post.

4-Let the nominees know they have received this award by leaving a comment on their blogs.

5-Share the love and link to the person who gave you the award.

So I went through my list of blogs (I left out the more private family and friend blogs) and decided on these twelve blogs to pass on this Sunshine Award to.

i never grew up

the stroller ballet

SIDAC

my angle of repose

thou shall not whine

a nut in a nutshell

theta mom

bloom

our daze in the desert

operation sippy cup

adventures of a wanna be supah mommy

pics and kicks

I love all of these blogs for the laughs, the seriousness, the crafts, the tips, and everything that makes motherhood what it is :D

Thank you all for writing, and bringing Sunshine into my life.

So long Florida, Hello Utah

Today's flights home to Utah couldn't have gone any better.

Well I suppose if it were a private jet and all that it could have been better.

The boys were so well behaved, they slept for the first half of the first, longer, flight.

Then they ate snacks and did the activities that I had packed for them and didn't fuss at all.

Fenix fussed a bit, but nothing we couldn't handle.

;D

Anyway I am so glad to be home.

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It was starting to get too wet in Florida, all our wet clothes from being in the rain yesterday wouldn't dry. I hung them up and everything.

I have a new appreciation for the dry climate here in Utah.

I noticed that my skin hates humidity, and so does my hair.

I can hardly stand how awful both have got to looking, but it okay,

because we are back in Utah again.

Home sweet Home

:D

Its good to get away once in a while,

But nothing beats coming home.

I won't be wanting to leave for quite some time.

At least not until June

When I go to visit my sister in Indiana

:D

Now that I am home I will get back to my regular posting

deep sigh of relief for those of you that haven't enjoyed the boring travel posts

Lol!

Rain, rain, rain...

We got rained out today at Magic Kingdom. Our last day in Disney World :(

Someday we will get a better picture of our family in front of that castle.

Look at that bird, we saw several hiding in nooks and windows like that, I was sure they were fake. Phil told me they were definitely real. I didn't believe him until I saw some of them moving.

We had our ponchos (I forgot the umbrella again :(

We were okay and surviving it until Lyon peed his pants.

I didn't have any backups. (of course not, if I had he wouldn't have had an accident)

So I sent Phil to get him some clothes at the closest store.

We ended up with a onsie pajama for him. Phil thought it was really ugly, and it is, but Lyon thinks that it is awesome.

So we got rained out. We went back to the hotel. And I did the only thing I could do.

I took the boys swimming. We had a blast :D

Its all part of the movie magic...

This is what he saw coming at him

This was his reaction,

I don't blame him it seemed real.

On the other hand look at this kids reaction to the same thing.

Maybe he couldn't see as well due to his sunglasses.....

Super Bowl and the Shuttle Launch

(Super Bowl 44)

Of course the team Bear was rooting for (Saints) Won :D

I'll have to tell that story later....

(Space Shuttle Endeavor)

This was so awesome to watch...

A huge fire ball ascending into the heavens.

Wow!

I totally didn't take either of these pictures, both are google images, but it sure would have been cool to watch in real life. As it was we watched both on TV only a few hours from their actual locations. :(

Its okay I did get to see the shuttles fireball from nearly 60 miles away, I could even hear it, it was pretty cool, though I know it would have been a whole lot cooler to see it up close.

Perhaps someday we will get another chance to see both events in real life.

Its possible...

And Lyon says...

"Me Yiyon, roooaaaarrrrr!"

Space Shuttle Launch

Do you ever watch Curious George, like on PBS?

Well you know Dr. Wisemen and the other scientists that are always recruiting the man with the yellow hat to do space missions? You know how a silly problem will arise and Dr. Wisemen will say,

"Looks like we'll have to scrub the mission,"

Welp that is pretty much what has happened this morning.

NASA has scrubbed the mission due to a cloud blanket above the launch site.

Oh well,

We can always try to come tomorrow morning, which is when the launch has been rescheduled for.

Man I feel disappointed, but I can't help but wonder how the astronauts are feeling. I mean they were all strapped into their seats and everything.

(google image)

And Bear Says...

"Why do bad people not listen to Jesus, weird"

Kennedy Space Center

I was tired, I was very hungry, and I had a terrible headache.

We left around noon to go to the Kennedy Space Center. I told Phil I had a hankering for Taco Bell, So he ought to find one for us to go to. He figured that if we just headed in the direction of the Kennedy Space Center we would run into one.

Well, we didn't. As he pulled into the parking lot I was furiously hungry, the boys kept asking when we were going to eat. Ugg! Let me just tell you now, if you plan to go to Kennedy Space Center for the day, eat before you go. The food there is well lets just say you don't remember it for its tastiness, you remember it for its price.

Anyway, Kennedy Space Center was decently cool. It would have been cooler if it had been free admission, but it wasn't and we paid about $30 for each ticket, and we got three!

The 3D movie was alright, but left me feeling disoriented and it hurt my eyes. And believe me when I say that I am not typically sensitive like that.

Most of what they have going on there is information you can easily get

from the internet for free. It seems the only reason to go is so you can say,

"We went to the Kennedy Space Center."

Although we did get some pretty good pictures if you ask me.

I don't really recommend going, especially with little kids, although I should add that Bear thought certain parts were awesome, but for $30 dollars....

It was a bit of a waste of time and money.

Worst part of the trip for sure.

We have yet to see the shuttle launch. I am really hoping that all will go well with that.

:D

And Lyon says...

We went to a Cuban restaurant for dinner.
They had music playing as many restaurants do.
Lyon upon hearing the music says:
"Mom, where is that music coming from?"
I replied:
"The ceiling,"
Lyon said:
"I don't see it."

Lyon is really turning into quite the chatter box.
On the way home from the restaurant he kept asking,

"Where's my robot"

I had no idea what robot he was talking about, lol.
:D

Disney's Hollywood Studio's

(This is how I started my day. My nose was so so so congested, my eyes were watery and felt swollen. I thought it was hilarious that I couldn't stop tears from rolling down my cheeks, it was like having runny eyes instead of a runny nose, lol!)

Anyway:

We didn't make it to the park until noon today, it was really cloudy, but not raining.

I brought our poncho's just in case, but decided it probably wouldn't rain so I didn't bring our umbrella. I figured we didn't use it much the last time it rained anyway so....

The first thing we did was get a picture in front of the Fantasia Hat.

(There was a High School Musical 3 concert going on in front of it. You can barely see part of it in the picture. Check out Lyon checking out his map, he and Bear are so funny they ask to have their own at each park we go to. :)

After that we took Bear to go on the Star Tours ride, twice. Once with Phil, once with me. He was really hoping he would be able to go on it 5 times like we did Thunder Mountain, lol :D

After that we went to see the Indiana Jones show, remember when they showed part of that on an episode of Full House, don't deny watching that show. :D

(Bear sat mesmerized)

(Lyon was a little scared)

(Sissy only enjoyed the action parts and fussed for the rest)

Any way it was really cool, funny, and fun. Even though Lyon got a little bit nervous he made it through without having to leave.

Ater that we were going to go to the PlayHouse Disney show, but I wanted to stop and watch the block party parade on the way. Phil didn't think we would have enough time to watch it and make it to the PlayHouse Disney show so he went ahead to that while I tried to watch the parade with Sissy. I really wanted to see it. I ended up leaving before it even started to go past me though because so many people had crowded around Sissy and I that she couldn't see. Plus I don't think she was all that interested :(

I made my way over to Phil at the Playhouse Disney entrance and got there just before they went in to the show.

Like many of the attractions there at Disney World we were not allowed to bring our stroller in to the attraction. So we left both of our strollers outside. The Playhouse Disney show was only about 30 minutes, but in that time it managed to start down pouring rain. Phil had been smart enough to park our double stroller under an overhanging roof of a nearby gift shop. I left Sissy's stroller completely unprotected from the weather with Phil's jacket sitting on top. So when we walked out it was soaked all the way through.

So as the rain poured down we made a quick decision to leave Disney's Hollywood Studio's and head back to the hotel to dry off. There was no way I was going to put Sissy in a soaking wet stroller, fortunately we had brought our baby Bjorn to carry her in. I also put our poncho's on, but we still got soaked as we ran to the bus station.
(Of couse I still took a second to take a photo ;)

It was probably best that things worked out the way they did because we had a lot of laundry we needed to get done and today was really the best day to do it.

That is about the only reason I was more relieved than pissed to have had to leave early today So in short, today we got rained out at Disney's Hollywood Studio's.

Next time I won't leave my stroller parked without cover.

:D

And Bear Says...

This morning in his sleep:

"How many days till we go to Florida?"

a little later:

"Awesome"

That kids really likes to talk in his sleep, he does it all the time.

Lol!

Disney's Epcot Center

(Phil, Rose, Lyon, Bear and Fenix)

It was necessary to get at least one picture in front of the giant "golf ball"

at Disney's Epcot Center.

(Phil, Fenix, Lyon, Bear, and Mickey Mouse)

The boys finally met Mickey Mouse :D

Disney's Epcot Center was definitely the place to do this at. Not only was there a very short line, but it was inside a building and there was a TV playing cartoons to keep the kids preoccupied.

This is Lyon sitting down, in the middle of the line to see Mickey Mouse, so he could watch the cartoons.

They didn't just meet Mickey Mouse, they also met Pluto....

And Minnie...

(look how happy Donald is too be with my boys, and girl)

Donald and,

(Goofy is really, really tall)

Goofy!

(Lyon and Bear inside Bruce the shark's mouth or getting eaten anyway)

I must say I am surprised this didn't totally freak Lyon out.

(Finding Nemo under the Sea with Bear and Lyon, and of course Fenix even though she isn't in this picture, she was asleep okay)

We went to meet Crush the turtle, (why in the world this is located in Disney's Epcot Center I just don't understand) of course Crush noticed my kids first thing and got to talking to Bear. He asked Bear what his name was and was of course interested to hear it. He asked why his name is Bear and Bear said:

"Cause my Mom and Dad named me"

Then crush asked where he lived and Bear said:

"Spanish Fork"

Lol, I am pretty sure Crush wanted to know what state to find out if he was by the ocean or not, but...

Crush also asked Bear where his parents were and at this point I was crouching down low. I didn't want to have the rooms attention on me. But of course it was and I had to talk to Crush on the microphone in front of a room full of people. I really wanted to deny that I was Bear's Mom just to avoid that, but how can I deny being his Mom I mean come on.

So I talked to Crush while Phil held a crying Fenix on his lap behind me. Thankfully he didn't ask me why I named my kids as I did, that would have taken a long time to tell. I can't even remember what he asked me, half of it I couldn't hear because of Fenixs' crying, but to one of his questions I replied:

"Totally"

and Crush claimed that we had had a moment.

It was a really cute show, even better when you are not the one getting talked too.

Lol!

After seeing Crush we had lunch, peanut butter and honey sandwiches :D

That is Lyon's sandwich on the ground, yes I still let him eat it.

After lunch we headed over to the world showcase at Disney's Epcot Center.

It was really cool, if not for the kids it would have been my favorite place at Disney world. I could have spent day's going through all of the little shops at each "country"

Rose & Crown. Had to get a picture with that ;)

(How pretty is that! Its just outside "England" one of the first country's we went through)

This is where my camera ran out of batteries, too bad, I could have gotten a million more. This was only the beginning of the World showcase. At least I think its called the World showcase, I am not sure, but I am too tired to get out of bed to look at the map and make sure.

We had a great day today and there is more where that came from tomorrow.