3 more!

Three more days!
Wow, I'm going to have a whole suitcase packed with snacks! LOL!! Not to mention the snacks for the road trip. Ha! The boys have this eating habit when we go on trips...wonder where they got it from? Of course Mommy has a bag stuffed with goodies to eat the whole time! I also got a few car game ideas from a magazine too that I plan to try to get the boys to play.
So far looks like it will be in the 70's! yay! That is much better than the 40 and 50's we've been having here this week!

Of course I'm planning out our rides for each park. I have asked the boys if they want to ride space mountain. I told them it's a roller coaster in the DARK! Not sure if they can handle it, they are kinda scaredy cats, we'll play that one by ear. Really looking forward to Animal Kingdom since we haven't been there before. Actually, I'm looking forward to everything! LOL!

Also can't wait to see our great friends from STL!  It's going to be a blast! The boys are beyond excitement. We are into the usual routine of at least one of the boys getting in trouble at school the week before our vacation. This seems to happen everytime. I think they get so excited that they don't focus at school, we are catching on to this though. Maybe next time we won't tell them until it's the day before....if I can keep the secret! LOL! D has been getting in trouble for talking and not following directions. B has been great so far this week, knock on wood. I gave them both a bonus at the beginning of the week of $5 for the trip. If they don't get in trouble they get the whole amount, or if they get in trouble or lose stickers for talking at school they lose $$. B still has his whole amount but Dev has lost $2. The rule is that the $ cannot be made up either. They also have a piggy bank they have been saving some $ in for the trip. They will learn some budgeting on this trip.
I plan to try to start getting my clothes together tonight for the trip. I already have the boys stuff all picked out, just need to get it in the suitcases.
toodles for now.

yay!

Getting closer!

Almost!

You could say somebody is ready to see Mickey!! He's been pulling it around the house for days!

Lots of the usual going on around here. School, work, taekwondo, gymnastics, basketball, homework, cleaning, dinners, bowling, and what else??? Yes, getting lots of movies ready for the road trip! The boys are so very excited!!
More chatter later...toodles.

You knew I would!

So Dev's class celebrated Dr. Suess yesterday and talked about green eggs and ham. So guess what we had for breakfast? yes that's right! You knew I would right?!! ha! They thought it was really neat.

Didn't even realize I pulled the Dr. Suess plate out too until I put the egg on it! Too funny! Perfect!

Dev loved his breakfast, I think the green colored kinda freaked B out, he ended up eating the ham and a cereal bar...LOL!

Made for a fun morning anyway! I enjoy making special meals for the boys. Dev was excited about the special breakfast not knowing what it would be, and he didn't want to look at what I was making until it was ready! Cute!! Happy Friday!!

The boys have family fun night tonight at the school. It's kinda like a carnival with games, prizes, face painting,cake walk and food. Last year Dev was sick and couldn't go, so he is very excited to go tonight. I will be helping with the prize table most of the night.

Tomorrrow D has a basketball game and then??? who knows what for the weekend. We actually don't have any other plans. I still need to get the rest of the way unpacked from my trip and start thinking about our spring break trip!! 8 more days!!! oh yeah baby!! Otherwise I am planning on a relaxing do much of nothing weekend! Toodles!

Really cool!

I printed my pictures from the race today and found this perfect album!!

I also got the digital download option from my race photos. I really like alot of them actually. This one of the start line is so awesome! It obviously does not have me in the pic, but still awesome!

I am in this pic middle front just to the left (NOT far left!) :-) of girl in pink tank, I have on the purple top, black skirt/leggings, and white hat.

 Here is my awesome close up shot! Yay!! Disney World!!

Now I'm getting close to the end of the race in Epcot.

Even closer to the finish line!! Here I come, the girl to my right is racing me! But she wins! Actually didn't even know she was there, I was only focused on the finish line!

Yay! Crossing the finish line!! My actual finish time by the chip timer ( a timing device hooked on my shoe to calculate actual start and finish) was 2:37. The clock is different because so many runners were there that we started in waves. So you can see that people started the race almost 35 minutes before I ever crossed the start line! I finished place # 5361 out of 13,090. Not too bad for this slow snail runner! I will take it. Also finished #955 out of 2188 in my age group. Again this snail pace runner will take it! :-)

It's funny because when the boys saw this pic and the video they wanted to know why I didn't high 5 Minnie & Mickey on the left. HA!! Mommy didn't even know they were there! Again....only focused on the finish line! It was funny! I truly didn't know they were even standing there until I saw the picture myself!

They also have two different angle shot videos of me crossing the finish line and one video of me coming down the ramp out of Cinderella's castle.....VERY COOL!!
just wanted to share my fun pictures!!

Where to start

First I want to recap on the boys TKD belt testing! They did so good and I wanted to share a few pics!

B was demonstrating a self defense move.

Now it's time for sparring.

Sparring each other.

yay! Promoted to the next belt! Way to go boys!

So...it was such a magical princess weekend! We had beautiful weather and so much fun! We headed to the expo on Friday for packet pickup.

I just love this glass running slipper! Yes we wore our tiaras to the expo. So many people asked about them, I might just have to set up a booth there next year just selling tiaras!!

We stopped to get our magic fairy dust for good luck!

Bippity Boppity Boo!

Mom's race was Saturday morning. We had to get there early.

Yay! She did it! and had a great time! There isn't an official count, but I think they said there were 5,000 participants in the Family 5K.

Then we spent the day walking around Epcot. It was the flower and garden festival so it was so pretty. They had so many characters carved in the flowers and bushes, it was amazing!

Then met back up at the Expo to meet my other girlfriends that were doing the race too. Of course I had to bring them tiaras too, they were so excited!

Ok, it's race morning....up at 3am and ready to head to the bus at 3:45am! We had to be on the bus no later than 4am!!

There were 13,091 finishers!! Wow! Here we are at the starting corrals..yes there were a few guys that ran in it too, maybe about 500. You can't even see the start line from here!

They shot off fireworks each time a corral started at the start line.

The fairy Godmother also gave each group a special wish.

We are about to start!!

This is my first pic, I obviously took it while I was running. I wasn't planning on really stopping.

This is a pic as we are starting to enter Magic Kingdom, blurry from my fast speed! Ha ha

The castle!! We ran through it, so awesome!

All done! We did it!!

All four of the Disney 1/2 marathon princesses!! Yippee!!

Love the medal!!

And of course we had to reward ourselves!!! YUMMO!

The race was awesome! It had a few hills at the end which was frustrating but lots of characters along the way. I didn't take any pics of them, but lots of people were stopping for photo ops. There were lots and lots of people decked out in costumes! I should of taken pics of some of them but didn't. It was a great fun weekend. Some of the best news....no injuries! I didn't have any blisters or chaffing problems like last time! whoo hoo! And I wasn't too sore to walk around Epcot and downtown Disney! Proud of myself and my girlfriends for a great race. I also improved my time by almost 20 min from last race! Happy about that, I'm still a snail slow runner but I improved. Also, it was sooooo crowded! I spent alot of time the first couple of miles and then again near the end trying to dodge around people and weave in and out to find a path so I could keep running. Also coming out of Cinderella's castle it was jam packed to a SLOW walk pace all the way down the walkway to bottom due to people posing for pics. I had to run with others in the grass off road alot just to keep a good pace, so considering that I could of been another 1/2 hour faster! ha ha...just kidding, but i'm sure it added a few minutes. But I don't care, I finished! I didn't have injuries and none of my other girlfriends had much more than some blisters so all in all we had a great Princess weekend!! yay!! I have more pics to share later probably in a link. Toodles to all for now!