A Very Mickey Christmas

4 Years, 34 Weeks.


Christmas came a little bit early for us this year.

In the shape of a mouse.

We decided to treat the kids this year and get annual passes to Walt Disney World, with access to any of their 4 parks at any day, and at any time.  We figured the twins were old enough to really get into it, and remember the things they saw.  Plus they needed to be able to walk around on their own, as we've outgrown strollers and Disney does not allow wagons on their properties, for safety reasons.  And the fact that we live roughly 20 minutes from our driveway to the welcome gate, it seemed fairly close enough to make several trips out there a month, perhaps even a week!  We've done annual passes to Sea World, the Central Florida Zoo, and the Orlando Science Center, so we thought we'd give Disney a try.

The smiles on their faces was totally worth it.

First day as Disney Annual Passholders!

Here was our week:

Giving.

Light up Winter Garden.

With a couple of snow fairies.

ELSA!!!!

The Christmas tree in Old Winter Garden.

At Sea World courtesy of the United Way through Mommy's work.

Didn't look quite like Olaf.

Kohlden enjoyed touching the stingrays.

Now we know a great white can fit 4 people in its mouth!

Penguin encounter.  Brrr!

Festival of trees.

Riding the ferry to the Magic Kingdom.

Kohl enjoyed the flying Dumbo ride.

Maddy and Mommy riding the carousel.

Let's race!

Wait, you two are twins?  

Meeting Princess Aurora a.k.a.  Sleeping Beauty.

Brae showing her hoola hoop skills.

Twins happy they found Rapunzel's tower in the background.

Cheesy pose Mr.!

Evening snowflake painting session.

Kohl got his haircut this week!

Delivering Christmas cheer and gifts to our neighborhood friends.

Braelyn and her 2nd grade class took a field trip to the corn maze on Wednesday.

Took the kids to EPCOT after school for a few hours.  Met up with Pluto.

At Finding Nemo, the ride.

Fish are friends, not food!

Watching the dancing water jump over their heads.

Excited to be out on a school night, what a treat!

At the Mexico pavilion with a bunch of Mexicans.

When we got back home.

Finishing up their art project with their morning coffee…just kidding, it was hot chocolate!

Randoms:

Holy rims Batman!

Yes, even the Amish get to go to Sea World.

Maddy spotted these two buzzards on top of our roof just seconds before I took this picture.
The one on the left was on top of the one on the right; they were copulating.
Get a room!

Purple skies.

Quotes:  

• We were about to go pick Braelyn up from school, so I told the twins to go potty before we headed out.  Maddy said that she didn't have to go.  So Kohlden told her:  "You better go.  Don't save the pee pee in your bottom.  It might trip you."

• I was inquiring about a mark on the wall made by a marker, and was asking the twins who did it:

          Maddy:  "It wasn't me."

          Me:  "Kohlden, did you do it?" 

          Kohl:  "Um…let me think."  [pause]  "Um…I think I didn't do it because

                     I didn't see me do it…"

          Yeah.  Nice try buddy.

Have a great weekend!