Florida Fun

 We went to Florida in February for Grammy T's wedding.  It was such a beautiful and fun wedding on the beach.  Cameron was proud to be the ring bearer and Mackenzie was so cute as a flower girl!

These pictures turned out so cute. 

The next day we all went to the beach and had fun playing in the sand.  It wasn't really super warm, and unfortunately it was windy.  However, the kids had a blast digging in the sand and collecting sea shells.  Cameron was excited to take the shells home to put in Grammy and Grampy's shell collection.  Mackenzie wanted to get Aunt Margo a shell from the beach.

Monday we headed to Disney World....good thing we were going to the park the next day, it didn't rain on us.  We were worried when we were driving in this!

 Mackenzie was so brave to kiss Donald's hand LOL

Cameron couldn't wait to plant a kiss on Daisy.  These statues were outside our hotel room.  We got there late and it was rainy.  The kids thought we were going to the park and were sad we had to wait until the morning.  So these statues helped a little :)

You always have to get this picture...right?!

Cameron and his maps crack me up.  He loves to look at them and figure out where we are.  

 Buzz tickled Cameron and commented on his spiky hair.  Actually every character that Cameron went up to, touched his hair and then touched their own hair and were 'talking' about his spiky hair.

Cameron was picking a winner... he thought that would be a funny picture!

We debated about bringing our stroller all the way to Florida...but it was one of the best decisions we made.  She got a little nap in, and the boys went on a big ride, and I got myself a funnel cake :)

Grammy and Grampy gave them money to buy some things while they were there.  They both wanted swords...so they bought these with some of their money.  Kenzie was hilarious, she wanted the eye patch too!

We joined in at the dance party.  Cameron and I were dancing until Mrs. Incredible came along!  Then he danced with Mr. Incredible and Freeze too.  So fun!

We did a day at Sea World.  Cameron wanted Shamu's autograph, but all we had was the disney world map for him to sign.  So he got out of line, took Cameron by the hand and they walked over to get a Sea World map for him to sign.

Lego Land was awesome.  I wish we had more time there!  They closed so early because of the season (sea world did too...we got jipped at both parks).  Anyway, we went there with Jonathan, Amber and cousin Trey and Lydia.  It was a fun day!

Everything is Awesome!  I was the only one who got to meet Emmett.  Everyone else was eating lunch at a hamburger place, and I wanted to go see what else there was to eat.  So I wandered over to a sandwich place or something, and Emmett was just walking by!

Cameron cracks me up!  He wanted to pretend like Darth Mal was hitting him and he was falling back.

Peek a boo!

The last night we were eating dinner and Cameron started writing on a napkin.  He asked me how to spell something.  So he said he was writing a note to the people saying "thanks for letting us stay at the hotel" and he wanted to leave it on the door when we left.  Soooo sweet!  He is so thoughtful.  I said to him, why don't you say thanks for keeping our room clean while we stayed at the hotel.  I said they didn't really "let" us stay here, it wasn't free....nothing is free.  And Cameron says back, "yes it is, our Country is free!"  And there you have it, out of the mouth of a 5 year old :)

After we checked out of the hotel we went to the Marriott where Jonathan and Amber were staying and crashed their hotel and pool.  They were at the park all day and we needed something to do for 5 hours before our plane left.  So we swam and hung out at the beach.  Then showered and left for home.

Luckily we had a direct flight both ways.  It was a red eye flight.  I loved it because we didn't waste a day flying!  This is how we started the flight,

This is how we finished the flight.  Halfway through Mackenzie crawled on the floor and fell asleep and Cameron sprawled out on the seats and fell asleep.  Oh I wish I could sleep on a plane!  We had a blast and hated to leave.  We crammed a lot into a short time!

Photo shoot

Mackenzie had fun being a princess and changing outfits for her photo shoot.  

 So cute!

peekaboo I love you!

This kid!!

I am amazed by Cameron every day.  His love for life.  His energy.  His enthusiasm for everything.  His kind heart.  His creativity.   I could go on and on.  He is one special kid and I am so lucky I get to be his mom!

 The things he thinks to do make me laugh.  I love to laugh with him.  It's one of my favorite things to do, when we just act silly and laugh!  He put those little googely eye ball sticker things on his glasses and I think we laughed for 20 minutes straight!

 Cameron made an astronaut suit and had to duct tape his glasses because "astronauts wear space goggle things."  I love his creativity, I am learning to ignore his messes!!  I am constantly picking up pieces of paper, scissors, glue, stickers, markers and everything else all around the house.  I also learned I have to throw anything away at night or when he is occupied.  If he sees me pour the last bit of milk in the glass, he immediately asks for the milk carton.  If he sees an empty egg carton or if a package comes in the mail he asks for the box.  His mind is constantly thinking of something to make with everything he sees!!  Since I am a "throw everything away" person and I hate clutter, this has been something I struggled with.  But I can't stop his creative spirit so my trash continues to become his treasure lol

More stickers on his glasses.  This was hillarious too.

Here he is as a robot

 One day he told me he wanted to sell some of his artwork, toys, and books so he could save money for his mission.  I bought a few things and so did Jeremy.  I had to laugh when some of his friends came over after school with their money to go to Cameron's sale.  I called their mom's to tell them that their kids' were buying stuff with real money and might come home with a picture Cameron drew.  LOL

This is Mojo, Cameron's all time favorite stuffed animal/toy.  He takes him everywhere, and even sleeps with him.  One night he decided that Mojo needed pajamas.  Of course it was as I was tucking him in bed that night.  He made a pretty good case to me, and I couldn't resist....so I helped him make some pajamas for Mojo.  They were front and back.  Super cute!  My favorite part was the shirt and how he drew a polo horse on there :)

A Sumbeam...

,,,A Sunbeam, Jesus wants Mackenzie for a Sunbeam...

No more nursery for this big girl.  She moved to Primary and gets to be in there with her big brother now.  She was so proud to be a Sunbeam.  Her cute teachers came over a few nights before to meet her and give her this Sunbeam necklace.  They told her to wear it to church that day and they would be wearing theirs, that way she would be able to find them and sit with them.  She had a great time in class and of course her teacher just can't get enough of her!   There are only 2 other kids in her class.  There aren't very many kids her age in our neighborhood!!

Happy New Year's Eve Day

 Cameron was off track and I decided it would be a fun day to go to the aquarium.  We have season passes and haven't been in several months.  So we headed there to this big giant mess!!  I almost turned right around and walked out, but then I decided we had nothing else to do.  They were having a new year's eve (day) party for all the kids.  They had a lot of fun activities and prizes etc so i decided to take one for the team :)  and we stayed!  We just avoided this general area where all the "free" stuff was happening.  they dropped balloons and confetti on all those people at noon.  So while they were all waiting there for that to happen, we enjoyed less crowded areas.

 I love the penguins!  I love these pictures of Mackenzie looking at the penguins!

 They had a photo booth that looked fun.  However, we didn't want to wait in the massive lines, so we just borrowed the props and took our own pictures outside of the photo booth :)

We did wait in the face painting line and since it was taking forever (with only one face painter and 100 kids in line) I told Cameron and Mackenzie to go get in the balloon making line.  So we killed two birds with one stone.  They got their balloon swords made and came back over to the line I was in....they sword fought while we waited about 10 more minutes and voila we had a Princess and Spiderman!