February in July

I am playing catch up on my blog, starting with February. I have tagged all my pictures, planning on blogging about them but never got around to it! But, no time like the present, right?!!

We celebrated Valentine's day! 

 ate our Vday candy while waiting in carpool to get CC. 

 CC ran in the Mercedes Marathon (ran 25 miles at school and ran the last one at the actual race. Well, I think- I don't even know how many miles are in a 5k or whatever this race was!)

It was FREEZING cold and she HATED every minute of it until she got a medal!

 EMory and Elise played hide and seek- ha!

 We saw our baby Whiting to give her her FIRST bday present! 

 she looks like her Uncle Bryan in this picture 

 we dressed ourselves!

 played on the playground after school

 Emory started gymnastics! she loves it and is really good!

 dressed ourselves again!

 had parent day during dance class

 Emory's friends, Tristen and Kristen, from her school

Had a staring contest (with TWO bows in our hair- dressed ourself again!) while at the doctor. Two very competitive girls = some quiet time in the small room. 

and this funny video of Emory telling us her funny part of the day...... she was nervous!!

today's the day!

Today's the day- our little girl turns SEVEN!!!!! unbelievable!

 We woke her up and told her the story of the day she was born (they both love hearing their story). Then had Krispy Kreme (leftover) donuts. Doesn't she look so grown up here!

 Emory picked her out some fun things for her bday. Even though CC looks in pain, she really was happy!

 Then I gave her one more little gift from me. She wants absolutely everything on every commercial and has been dying for some hot huez hair chalk. I couldn't find any without ordering(adding to her Christmas list), but I found some neon colored hair mascara. Sooooo, both Emory and CC went to church with pink and orange stripes in their hair!!! She was beyond excited

 After church, we went to eat Mexican- her choice

They sang for a really long time (almost too long!) but she was so happy! 

Then we've spent the day playing with our new toys and doing the art projects she got for her bday. We are all exhausted from the busy, fun weekend.

HAPPY 7TH BIRTHDAY Christian!

Celebrating 7 years

 favorite animal- horse, not horst!

  a year in the life!

 CC had 3 friends (and one of Emory's friend to keep her occupied and away from the big girls) come over for a spend the night party to celebrate her 7th bday! 

 We had a big night planned of eating pizza and cake, decorating pillow cases, and watching movies. 

This might be the first picture where I think we look a little bit alike. 

 After cake and presents we did confetti poppers! Are we crazy?!! 

I found this adorable photobooth kit at Walmart for $5, so we decided to add this to the party at the last minute. It was so funny and made for some great pictures!

Emory and Elise

ha!

My favorite one!

 Decorating pillow cases.
I had no idea they would love this so much. They spent 2 full hours on making their pillow cases. Had I known it would be such a hit, I would have started it earlier than 8:00. 

Finally, around 10:15 we settled down for popcorn and a movie. Horrible picture, but I found glow in the dark balloons and glow necklaces. The balloons were perfect as their nightlight for the night. 

   Elise left around 8:30 and poor Emory wanted to hang with the big girls. But CC wanted just her friends to sleep in the room. AFter a few tears and drama, we settled on E watching the movie and moving her when she fell asleep.  

 They finally fell asleep around midnight but were pretty calm while watching the movie. I actually fell asleep before them! I just couldn't stay up anymore. They woke up about 6:15 ready to PLAY! We had Krispy Kreme donuts and pancakes. Emory slept until 8:00 and the big girls could not understand why she was still asleep!!!!

 After breakfast they played balloon babies! Sophia is having a baby soon, so she was acting like her mom. Ava just had a brand new 3 day old baby sister, so she didn't need a balloon baby. And CC wants twins so she had 2 balloons in her belly- ha!

Everyone left around 9:30 this morning. CC had the best time celebrating turning 7. Can you believe it?! Gosh, I feel like I just had her. Time really does go by fast. I do love this seven year old so much- she is the sweetest, kindest, smartest girl. She definitely makes us proud and we couldn't love her more. 

Back home:(

The car ride back seemed a little bit longer and there were a lot more "are we there yet? asked. But overall it wasn't too bad. We were all sad to leave- really sad. But we can't wait to go back.

 The only thing we would change would be staying one extra day, so that we could have time to swim and relax. Our hotel, Wyndham Grand at Bonnet Creek,  was awesome with 3 different pools and other stuff to do- definitely will go back! 

 We stopped at Gran and Pawpaw's house on the way back home. We stayed longer this time and told them all about our trip. Finally, after our visit they fell asleep. 

1,119.2 miles later we made it home! The moment we walked in the door, Bryan and I realized how EXHAUSTED we were. But the girls had the completely opposite reaction. They were bouncing off the walls and wanted to play play play. 

We bought Pirate stuff b/c 'we don't have any boy dress up stuff"! 

And now I am realizing why! They have hurt themselves with the swords and Emory came in with this surprise pirate look! Honestly- I'm not even sure what it is!

Now, I need a vacation!!!

Back to Magic Kingdom

Day 3 we started early again and headed back to Magic Kingdom to do all the stuff we didn't do the first day. The pictures aren't the best- either taken with a cell phone or no flash allowed. 

They loved riding the monorail and kept calling it the 'bullet train' from Choo Choo Soul ('If I were a train, I'd be a bullet train"!) CC thought she was so cool b/c she got to stand up

 We went straight to the new Storytime with Belle b/c the line is long all the time. Luckily we didn't have to wait too long this time. Emory was picked to play the part of the Beast!!!! 

 CC played the part of the horse.

 Below is a video of Emory's speaking part and her dancing with Belle. It was incredible!

Emory playing the Beast.... 

Belle and Emory dancing (doesn't this just make you smile? You can only imagine how this made her day. You can even see her trying to bow like a man instead of a curtsy!!)

 Buzz Light Year ride

We went to our favorite parade- the Celebrate it Dance party parade where they stop the cars and the characters come down and dance with everyone in the street. This was CC's favorite when we were there last time, and E loved it just as much. 

Aladdin's magic carpet ride

 Thunder Mountain! These girls aren't scared of anything and LOVE roller coasters. We had Fast Passes to go on Splash Mountain but it shut down right when we got there :(

We were planning to head back at 5:00 to swim and pack up, but Emory was dying to see Rapunzel since she was dressed up as her for the day. She had already changed into regular clothes, but we had to make a quick costume change back into our dress and Rapunzel hat (making sure her hair was just perfect!). Sooooo, we were there until the next shuttle at 7:00. We spent FOREVER for CC to spend her last $18.09- finally picked a journal. They both wanted these Donald Duck quackers, so we surprised them- put them in our mouth and peeked around into the stroller while quacking! They loved it (but they might mysteriously disappear now that we are home- ha!)

  Emory loved meeting Rapunzel! Look at her pose!

CC and Cinderella

 Here is Emory's face after we turned the corner from seeing Rapunzel! 

Can't believe it!

So sad our trip is over! It was the most fun we have had in a long time!