Disney World: 2010

Mike decided he wanted to go on a trip before he started work. We had talked about going to Disney for some time now so we packed up our car and made the 15 hour drive to Orlando. The girls did great in the car. Brooklyn, who hates her car seat and is known to scream when she doesn't like something, didn't scream once in the car which is a miracle. Florida was much colder than we thought it would be. We wore tons of layers and tried to bundle up as much as we could. Brooklyn loved all the rides and wasn't afraid of the characters at all, which we were a little nervous about after the Santa experience. Kyia's favorite ride was Thunder Mountin Railroad which we went on 5 times. People kept giving us there tickets because she would scream and hold up her hands the whole time. It was pretty funny. We're so glad we went and even though they had record cold temperatures while we were there, it was a great trip!

We went right after Christmas so the decorations were still up and it was beautiful. I've never seen the castle like this.

Brooklyn's not too sure of Cinderella's ugly step-sisters

Brooklyn's favorite. She cried when we left Minnie.

Kyia wanted to see Thumper and the girl bunny. We didn't see them last time we came.

Kyia's hair was sooo staticy! Goofy had fun playing with her hair

Pirate Brooklyn

One of Kyia's favorites, Beauty and the Beast

Trying her hardest to pull the sword out of the stone.

Tinkerbell's fairy friend

Mike had the great idea to go swimming with the girls in the freezing cold weather. Some how he ended up with a phone call from work so I got to take the girls swimming instead. We chose to swim in the hot tub where it was a little warmer and the girls loved it.

Santa came to our house

I know I'm probably the last person to blog about Christmas. I'm a little behind. We had a great Christmas this year. This was our first Christmas we've spent on our own since Mike and I have been married. Although we missed family, it was fun to start our own traditions. Christmas Eve was spent making a gingerbread house and spending time with friends. This year I pretty much let Kyia take charge of the gingerbread house. She did most of it on her own with a little bit of Brooklyn's help.

Kyia wasn't to sure of the help Brooklyn was giving.

Brooklyn was more interested in eating the gingerbread.

And here is the finished product. It came out quite well I think.

We also visited Santa. Brooklyn was not a fan of Santa this year as you can tell.

We spent that night with friends eating, playing games, making cookies for Santa, reading the Christmas story, had a pinata for the kids, and just enjoying the company.

Opening Christmas pajamas

All the kids in their new pajamas

The pinata. This was the hardest pinata to break. We finally had to cut it open. They now make them out of cardboard which didn't work well with kids.

We spent Christmas at our house and just had a relaxing day. The girls got spoiled and loved all their gifts. Brooklyn had more fun unwrapping gifts and didn't care what was inside. We had a great holiday and we're looking forward to 2010!

What we've been up to...

Back at the end of November, we moved into our house.

We are loving it and we're pretty much all settled in. Since we moved from an apartment to a house, we don't have a lot of furniture to fill it right now but that will come with time. We have met so many new friends and Kyia started into preschool which she is loving. The girls seem to have adjusted really well and so far, things are going great.

More to come...