WDW Day 3

On Tuesday we also started our day out with a character breakfast. However since I don't watch playhouse Disney, I had no idea who the characters were. But since they came to our table we still got pictures of them as I am sure that Jacob will watch the show once he is a little older. After breakfast we spent the day at Hollywood Studios. We did rides and enjoyed the attractions they had to offer. A new attraction that they have is the American Idol experience. You can addition to be in the show or be in the audience and vote on the singers. We attended the first show of the day and had a great time, so we decided to go back for the finally. The winner of the finally received a golden ticket that allows them to go to the front of the line at a true audition for the next season of the show. The boy who won was really good!

WDW Day 2

Day 2 started off with breakfast at the Crystal Palace in Magic Kingdom. We got to eat with the Pooh and friends characters! This was Jacob's first experience with the characters and he did pretty well. We spent the majority of the day going on rides, and enjoying the nice weather while in the park. Because of our late night activities in the park until 2:30 am, Jacob and I went back and took a much needed nap until it was time to go to dinner at Cinderella's Royal Table for dinner. Here we got pictures with all the princesses. I don't have the ones with Cinderella on my computer yet as I have to get them scanned in as they were taken by the Disney photographer, but I have the ones of us with the rest of them.

WDW Day 1

Sunday March 14 was our first day at Walt Disney World! We flew to Florida the day before and got in really late. Jacob did really well on the flights. It was really nice to have 4 of us to pass him between when he was awake. OK on to the fun stuff!!!!

We started our day with breakfast at one of the hotel restaurants, and then headed to Animal Kingdom. Jacob did so good at the park, which was a good thing because we were there all day! We ended our day at Animal Kingdom with dinner at The Rain Forest Cafe. Our plans were then to go back to the hotel, but mom found out that Magic Kingdom was open until 3am for people staying on Disney Property, so we ended up heading over there around 11pm until 2:30am! Jacob came along and slept right on through going on 2 rides with me while in the sling.

Bus ride to Animal Kingdom:

Jacob & Grandma

Kim & Sara being funny

Lunch time :)

A star filled night!

My hubby is here my hubby is here!!! Hans joined Jacob and I on vacation in Arizona today! He will be here until Sunday morning and then he has to return home and go back to work while Jacob and I continue on our month long vacation. After dinner we heated up the hot tub and went out and enjoyed the night sky. We just basked in the warmth of the water and being able to stair up at the sky that was filled with stars! Being from Alaska, to be able to see the stars like that it usually has to be VERY COLD out, so it is always a treat to be somewhere warm that gets dark.

Not much else is new today. We are just relaxing and enjoying our time . I have been taking a ton of pictures with my Sara's very nice camera that mom got her for Christmas. Here are some from today!

Parenthood...the good, the bad, the ugly

Today has been a challenge for me. Not with Jacob, but with my sisters, in particular Kim. She is 15....that should be enough for anyone to understand. She still just sees me as the older sister and not the adult figure that mom left in charge while she is gone. It all kind of started yesterday. Kim suggested that we rent movies and order pizza and just have a fun night. I thought cool that sounds fun, we were all on board. We went and got movies, came home and ordered pizza. Ate in the living room while watching one of the movies. The movie ended and it was still only about 7ish and Kim announces that she is going to bed. I was like ummmm it is to early to go to bed and we still have movies to watch. She of course wasn't really going to bed, she just wanted to go into her room so she could call her boyfriend Dan (in Canada). Finally I just gave up and whatever, so she retreated to her room and Sara and I watched more movies until it was time to go to bed. Then today the day stared good, we all slept in some, Kim got up and made us breakfast and we went grocery shopping. Then this evening came and I asked her if she was going to make dinner (she cooks in order to get credit for school). She had an attitude and was like no it is the weekend, I don't cook. Thanks for telling me this now that it is dinner time! She then says that she isn't hungry anyways and will not be eating dinner tonight. I told her that she needed to start limiting her phone calls to Dan as she has spend most of her waking hours on the phone with him this weekend. (From 9pm Friday to 6am Monday she has unlimited calling and that includes Canada) I had to inform her that once I go home, we will be turning off the calling outside of AK as the only reason we did that was so that Hans and I could talk (she has a phone from us as our cell provider allows texting to Canada). After all this she saunters back to her room with COOKIES in hand after I had just finished telling her that since she was not going to eat dinner that she didn't need to be eating cookies! That just pissed me off to no end. I actually sent Hans a text asking him if we could easily cut her phone off. After talking to him about it we both decided that doing that would make things more stressful for me this week that I am here with them while mom is on her cruise.

After all this I don't know how my mom deals with it all the time! Besides this kind of behavior, both Kim and Sara bicker back and forth ALL.THE.TIME! It drives me bonkers!

OK vent over...onto the fun stuff.... :)

The other morning when I came home from dropping Sara off at school I took this picture of the sun rise. It was so pretty here!

 

Then on Friday night we went into the pool here at the house and Kim took these pictures of us! Jacob just loved the warm water. I kept him in his seat thing for awhile, and then took him out and he thought that it was the coolest thing in the world! 

 

So tomorrow starts a new week, that I am crossing my fingers goes good! I am really looking forward to the fact that Hans comes down on Wednesday and will be here until Sunday and then Mom comes back Monday night. We will then be here with mom until next Friday. Then we do the drive back to Vegas and Saturday morning (very early) we fly to Florida!! I can't believe how on one hand it feels like this trip is flying by, and the other it is crawling by.