Addison's Birthday

I'm finally adding Addison's birthday post.  I haven't had much time for blogging lately, so I have to get caught up.  Addison turned 4 in February.  She had a nice little family celebration, shared with her dad as their birthday's are only a few days apart.  Then because at age four they now get to have "friend" parties on their even numbered birthdays....family only parties on odd numbered birthdays.  Just a little tradition of ours.

For Addison's "friend" party she and a cute little group of other 4 year olds, went to a "Build-a-Bear" type of place....sorry, we are too small town for an actual "Build-a-Bear" place.  The kids all got to pick out and stuff, dress, and name their own stuffed animals.  Afterwards they played with a Thomas the Train set-up at the party place.  The girls seemed to really enjoy.

Here's the party girls!

Here's Addie and dad sharing a birthday cake....although it was pink and heart shaped!  So not much of a "daddy" cake...but he got his own homemade German Chocolate cake earlier in the week.

Sea World

Not many pictures today.  We took it pretty easy today since we were so exhausted after a long day at Epcot yesterday.  We loved the dolphin and whale shows.

I return home tomorrow...I'm excited to see my family again.

EPCOT

We spent the day at the Epcot Center today.  Here we are at lunch in the Land Pavillion.

It was a great lunch...and we had lots of visitors.

We learned today how to tell the difference between Chip and Dale...as they both came to visit us today.  Here is a picture of me and Chip...he has a darker nose like a chocolate "chip", and only one tooth.  Dale has a slightly redder nose and two teeth.  Now we know.

Here we are in line waiting for our turn on the new ride "Soarin".  We loved it so much we rode it three times!

Baloo came and snuck up on me and Sallie today.  He was SOO cute!

Today was so fun!

BUT, I am so sick!  I've got a sore throat and fever, and just feel awful...and as the day went on I felt worse and worse...by the end I had completely lost my voice.  BUT sister's retreats don't happen very often, so I bucked up and stuck it out.  Hopefully, I will feel better tomorrow as we are spending the day at Sea World.

Orlando Temple

Here we are at the Orlando Temple.  Aren't we pretty!!??

We did some of David's (Bonnie's husband) family names today.  Oh my goodness, it was SO awesome!!  We sealed some sisters/daughters to their parents (at the same time, which was a first for us and VERY COOL).  The spirit was so strong...some of these families were there and waiting.  These were families I was able to help research and get temple ready.  Yeah, it was neat.

After the temple we headed over to the Hoop-De-Doo Musical Review (dinner variety show) at the Disney Wilderness Lodge.  We had to take a boat to get there.  Sorry, I don't have a picture.  I'll try and post those pictures later.

By the way...the weather is GORGEOUS here!  I don't miss that Idaho snow at all!!  BUT, the water tastes AWFUL!!  BLAHHH GROSS!  Bottled water is the only way to go here.  Seriously, anytime I try and drink it...instant gag reflex.

Here we are in FLORIDA!!

Here I am in Florida with my sisters!  Our first night on our "Sister's Retreat"!

We found this "Stargate" ring portal thingy!   We got a real kick out of this.  Had to take a picture.

It's my first night away from kids.  Boohoo.  I miss them!  But, it's beautiful here, and I'm so excited to be here with my sisters!

Okay, it was SUCH a long day flying to Orlando.  I had to first fly to Boise, then onto Seattle...then another 5 hours on the plane to go from Seattle to Orlando.  By the time I got to Orlando I had a huge headache.  But, after some advil, dinner, and laughing it up with my sisters...it was gone.

Rob's birthday

Rob turned 37 this month!  What an OLD man!!

We had a small little family party for him.  I made his favorite cake...German Chocolate, with homemade frosting.  He also got some of his absolute favorite ice-cream...Chocolate/Peanut Butter from Baskin-Robins.  We generally keep our birthdays pretty simple for each other.  The kids and I all made him some home-made birthday cards, and we got him his newest favorite movie IronMan.

Sweet and Simple.

Hair in Rags

When I was a little girl my mom would put me and my sister's hair in rags.  While our hair was wet, and right before bedtime, she would take sections and roll it up, and tie the small strips of cloth (rags) in a knot.  The next morning you'd take the rags out, and have nice curly hair.  It's the old-fashioned way, the way they did it before curlers were invented, I guess. 
Every once in awhile I'll do it to Addie's hair.  I haven't done it in a long time, and then the other day we were watching Little Princess and the girls in the movie had their hair in rags and Addie really wanted it done.
Here's the before pictures:

Here's the after pictures: