Love is in the air

Happy Valentine's Day!

It did WHAT????!!!!

IT SNOWED!!!!!!!!

It was a good snow too, as far as these parts of the country go!

Nothing on our friends in Maryland, but still, enough to go sledding!

WHOO HOO!

Pictures to come....

I got a feelin'...

I turn 30 this year and I'm really dreading being out of my 20's.

This month, to my horror and shock, I found my first gray hair--no kidding.

I have found 2 more since.

Not just gray, I would say more like a brilliant white.

Even Dudi was impressed by the color.

My first gray hair in the first month of the last year of my 20's--coincidence?

I may be a little dramatic but I have a feeling 2010 is gonna be rough.

Great 8

I can't believe he is eight-I'm not old enough to have an eight year old, right?

He is such a good boy.

Eight things I love about Micah...

1. His sense of humor.

2. His desire to be good.

3. That he loves to play games and do puzzles.

4. Hearing his American Idol critiques.

5. He is a good student and is super smart (if I do say so myself).

6. He loves to read.

7. He is kind to everyone (with some exceptions to his brother).

8. That he takes more showers than anyone else I know-he loves them.

I brought cookies for his school class today and got to eat lunch with him.

Tonight he picked his favorite resturant "Red Lobster" to eat at.

We are excited for him to be baptized next weekend.

We love you so much Micah!

The most magical place on earth...

6 days.

5 nights.

35 autographs.

Breakfast with princesses.

Dinner in a castle.

Dining with a mouse.

=DISNEY.

(WARNING-picture overload)

We had sooo much fun in Disneyworld.

It was hard to come back.

Olivia and Asher both cried.

I kinda wanted to too!

Of course I took tons of pictures.

Without further ado...

We LOVE Toy Story.

They have a new ride called Toy Story Mania- so awesome.

A speeder bike.

Of course one of our favorites was the Star wars ride.

We aren't power ranger fans, but we were all about the autograph count.

Plus, they did some sweet posing.

"Honey I shrunk the kids" playground.

A classic.

Chef Mickey's restaurant.

Mickey was helping Liv eat.

She had so much fun seeing the characters-it was her favorite part.

The American Idol Experience.

Dudi auditioned and ended up making one of the American Idol shows.

It was so fun to see him perform.

He had a blast doing it.

I was a little disturbed seeing him in make-up (they did the contestants make-up, gave some voice coaching, video clips, etc).

Dudi being interviewed for his video clip.

My wild animals.

The lego store.

The boys were LOVING this place!

If you haven't been to Disney lately, they have a new Safari ride in the animal kingdom.

It was super cool. You get to ride a little bus through the "african lands" and it's like a real safari. We had to stop our bus so rhinos could cross the path. The kids loved being so close to the animals.

My little Jack Sparrow.

Epcot. I love this place.

Asher waited in line to stand in Bruce's mouth. He really was excited about doing this, and didn't want to get out!

Two princesses.

One of our (liv and mine) favorite things was breakfast with the disney princesses. They came around to all the tables and talked to Olivia individually.

She was in heaven!

Micah's first big kid ride.

The Tower of Terror.

He rode it with me, Dudi, and Grandpa Dan.

It was fun, but I only could handle riding it once.

There were a few things that the kids did repeatedly.

They loved trying on all the hats at the stores.

Cute.

The other thing, which I was less thrilled about, was touching garbage cans.

Between Liv and Asher, I'm sure they touched every one of the 1,000+ cans at the parks.

I have no idea what their fascination was.

Lovely, I know.

We had a blast. The kids were so great. We stayed up too late every night, ate way too much every day, and packed as much as we could into every minute.

It really is a magical place.

Who knew a sucker could be so cute?

I've been trying to work on photography whenever i have a few spare moments. My new thing is working with props and I've been wanting to use those huge colorful suckers. Of course it was freezing outside so we didn't last long, but the kids were more than willing to be my test subjects! It was so much fun and I really loved how they turned out!

Welcoming 2010

We know how to party around our house.

Pizza.

Don't ask where Liv's shirt is.. I said we know how to party.

Beatles Rock Band.

What kind of New Year's would it be without sparkling cider?
Happy 2010!