More Universal Pictures from 10.7.10

It’s always tough to add lots of pictures to a blog page so that when you go to publish the blog you just wrote that it don’t get hung up…So I am going to just add photos with captions to some of the highlights of our day trip to Universal Studios…Enjoy!!

Dr. Suess Land…Many things for the little ones to do…but not my cup of tea…

Harry Potter…This is where my brother and his hubby wanted to go to…The Dragon ride, roller coaster, was in this part of the park…So off we went to do this coaster…But first we had to put all objects of value in a locked safe so I didn’t have my camera to take pics of the ride…While waiting for my brother and his hubby to come out of the Harry Potter castle, I was able to grab this pic of the coaster ride…It was too scary for me…I know I screamed the whole time…I will never ever get on that ride again..Promise!

Then we off to River Adventure to take a rafting tour of the dinosaurs…I hope we don’t get too wet at the end of this ride…Cover all cameras…

Nick (my brother) and Michael (his hubby) climbed in first…This worked out great so I could get a good pic of them…We are all in and ready to take off…Luckily the ride is slow and well lit but there are dark areas where the dinosaurs “roar” at you…

Doctor Doom was another ride I wasn’t getting on…I’ve done this sort of thing a long time ago at a place called Six Flags in Maryland and I didn’t like it then…Free fall just isn’t my type of ride but Nick and Michael went and had a blast… 

At the end of the day, we headed out and stopped by Margaritaville for a drink…That was a great way to end just a fabulous day…Thank you little brother for the wonderful treat and day spent together…This is the bestest photo of them all!

Christmas Time in Florida

It’s Christmas time again and we are spending it near Disney World in Florida…At this time of year, I still decorate somewhat but when I do decorate I think of kids, little kids…I miss when my kids were little and I would decorate so that they would see the house should look when Santa Claus comes to visit…Plus a house decorated for Christmas just puts one in the spirit of things…As of a few years ago, Richard and I went to a small Mickey Mouse Christmas tree…I still have some old Christmas decorations and some new decorations…The best part of Christmas is when Richard puts together Christmas pictures of all the grandkids and us or just of the grandkids…and of the kids when we have pictures of them…So enjoy the creations…

On this picture, featured above, there are all our grandgirls…The 3 sisters and 1 little sister who expecting a brother or sister in Mar. 2011…I can’t wait for the added grandchild to be in our holiday pictures…Bets are it’s another girl…tee hee!!

And last but not least, our Christmas card to everyone, family and friends…Making a Christmas card is so much more special to send out even if it is via email…Happy Holidays everyone…

Our little tree with snowflake lights…This little tree has fiber optics too…My Tinkerbell snowglobe plays music and when you push in th ered button, music plays and snow just flows all around on the inside…

Even the crafts table gets a little decorated…Mickey and Minnie sits in front of our showboat of characters…Oh, the snowball machine, well, that’s for when it’s hot here and we want a snowball…Dreamsicle, Cherry or Chocolate…Yummy!

Having Fun….September Visit 2010

It’s always great to be around kids who like to have fun…In this case, Brianna and Kayla were practicing their dancing routine in Kayla’s room to music…No one knew what they were doing until they came out and wanted to show us what they were doing and practicing on…I guess they have watched Dancing with the Stars several times…

A little turn here, a little twist here, put the feet just right, put in some swinging and what a dance routine they had…It was awesome and I wish I had a video camera just to show everyone…

After the dance routine, or maybe even before, these 2 were playing together very nicely…Barbie dolls are a great way to get 2 sisters together just as long as they don’t bicker amongst themselves…

 

It was great seeing the 3 girls play together without fighting…I love seeing the girls play…

I think Poppy was resting but it was tough to tell…It seems that Brianna wanted to be an angel on Poppy’s back…

So much for resting thought Poppy…When 3 girls come out and attack you, what are you gonna do…Attack back…What fun they all had…

 

Who has who???  At first glance, it looked liked the girls had their Poppy but then he turned the tide on them and he had them…They were laughing so hard that they got the hiccups…or at least 1 out of 3 girls got the hiccups…LOL…

We sure do miss our girls…We can’t wait to do the same thing with the granddaughter and grandchild to come in Mar. 2011 and be able to play with them…