Summer Vacation Part 2-Cruising the Caribbean with Mickey Mouse

Since we were already in Florida, we decided to spend the next week of our vacation trying out our second Disney Cruise. Once again, we loved it! We did a week long cruise of the Western Caribbean including stops in Grand Cayman, Mexico, and the Bahamas on the Disney Fantasy. We spent a lot of time enjoying the boat as well as doing a few shore excursions including tubing and snorkeling. Disney's private island is amazing, the service all over the boat was wonderful and our kids loved their kids club area. Here is a slide show of just some of our pictures from the week.

Summer vacation part 1- Walt Disney World

Right after school let out, we embarked on three weeks of traveling. Our first stop was Florida for a week of fun at the Walt Disney World Resort. We met my family their and had a great time going to all the parks and spending time with the family. Below is a slide show of some of the fun.

Lets rewind... Back to May

We have had a fun, busy summer and with Emma starting school next week, I am finally catching up on all the things we have done since you last heard from us. So get prepared for a bunch of post all about our summer vacation.

Before school let out in May, Dan and Ian went to New York to celebrate Grandpa's 70th birthday.




Cousin Keaton and his family were able to make it, too


Ian is not turning 24, but he did turn 4 and Keaton turned 2. They had their own little cake at the party


Along with their own little table


They also got to bond over boy things like sand and trucks

After Ian returned from New York, he and his class hosted a beautiful Mother's Day Tea



The class sang quite a few songs

Complete with hand motions

Ian and his wonderful teachers

Trying to get a picture of Ian and one of his besties, Madison


In May, we also traveled to Minnesota for my cousin's wedding. Emma was a flowergirl and Ian was a ring bearer. It was a great weekend catching up with family.


Ready for the rehearsal at the beautiful church

Practicing walking down the aisle

Getting hair done

The flower girls

Emma

Ready to go to the church



Ian was proud of his "suit" even if he was not a superhero liked he thought he would be when we told him he was wearing a suit

The girl cousins

School ended at the beginning of June so each of the kids posed for their end of the school year pictures



So that catches you up on May, next post will be about our first week of vacation in Disney World!

School Appreciation Night

Every year, our church does a school appreciation night for the teachers in our school district. This year, the decorations were over the top with a jungle theme that included monkeys, trees, and even a broken down jeep. Here are a few pictures of our sanctuary transformed:





It was a great evening of appreciating all the work our teachers do for our children throughout the year.

Emma goes to Work

Last week, Emma got to spend the day at Google for take your child to work day. Google does a really good job at having a lot of age appropriate activities throughout the day. Here is a little of her fun day:


Breakfast to start the day

A little engineering

Learning about how computers are put together

A little science

Some art

Some physical education

Lunch

A picture with the project daddy works on

Soccer Practice

Dan got me a new camera for my birthday, so I took it to soccer practice one day to see what it could do. Here are a few pictures from the afternoon.


My constant companion


Emma is in Pink

Ian's 4th Birthday Party

In April, we celebrated Ian's fourth birthday. He requested a rocket birthday, so we had rocket dogs, to eat, flew rockets to the moon in our games, and ate a yellow rocket birthday cake. We had a great time celebrating with some of Ian's friends.
Here are a few pictures from the day:


Playing "Pin the Rocket to the Moon"


Ian was not very close :)


The Cake


Ian liked his yellow rocket


Blowing out the candles


Happy boy!


With some of his friends