tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47086050357649701782024-03-12T18:10:01.708-07:00About a JoyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497389510250239531noreply@blogger.comBlogger517125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4708605035764970178.post-16838392637285015792018-12-31T14:17:00.000-07:002018-12-31T14:17:15.887-07:00O Christmas Blog<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas has come and gone and I've managed to talk myself out of the depths of post Christmas depression in order eek out a meager blog post before throwing myself back in bed to wallow in my anguish that I have to wait another year for the holiday. No, I'm not dramatic. If you want drama, immerse yourself in Facebook for 5 minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We did a few fun holiday events this year. Of course, the first was the <a href="https://aboutajoy.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-santa-express.html" target="_blank">Santa Express</a>. We went to go watch the Christmas light presentation set to music on a street not too far from our house. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dawson had his school Christmas concert. He's the one wearing black.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And we finished off our little event outings with the Electric Safari. The Cheyenne Mountain zoo is decorated and you can pay an exorbitant fee to go see a few animals. But it was still fun and somewhat terrifying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't think it would be a huge undertaking to adopt a giraffe if we were to cut a hole in our ceiling for it's head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Evan loves birds and continually asks to get one for a pet. This made the trip to the bird exhibit worth the trip for him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would support the pet bird idea if they could go running with me on the santa fe trail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We paid to ride the ski lift that takes you to the top of the mountain at the zoo where there are more exhibits but no animals to see because it's too cold. They had it all decorated though and had I been able to calm down for one second in order to believe I would live to make it to the exhibit, I might have been able to enjoy it. The ski lift at the zoo is an open air gondola with a lap bar that you pull down over your head that doesn't lock, while you are suspended by a single cable. It also goes so slow that you have a much longer time to fall to your death. Basically, just imagine yourself zip lining from the ground to the top of the earth in extremely slow motion while hanging from a fishing wire. But not to worry, you have a seat belt on that doesn't lock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few days later was Christmas Eve. The boys both get to open pajamas and a Christmas movie every Christmas eve. It's a tradition until the world has run out of decent Christmas movies. Then I guess we'll have to switch to pajamas with other people's Christmas home movies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm kicking myself for not finding these pajamas in my size on the day we bought them. I'd totally wear these. Surely I'm a boy's size husky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After what seemed like 100 years, Christmas Day finally came. I woke up at 4:30 a.m. and crept down to the crawl space to get the presents under the tree before the boys woke up. There's something about the magic on a child's face when they wake up on Christmas morning and see a lit Christmas tree with presents under it. I wouldn't know this for myself since we weren't allowed to have a Christmas tree or presents growing up. We only got to have log that stood up on end surrounded by socks. AHAHAHA! just kidding. I've shared a few old Christmas pictures on this blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tree before chaos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tortured "wait on the stairs while I get your picture" picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We decided to have biscuits and gravy for breakfast before opening presents so while that was going, they boys had a look under the tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They quickly grew impatient so we let them open their stockings. See how empty mine is? Don't you feel bad? Don't you want to send me something to make up for my empty stocking? You should.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally it was time to open presents. I'm nearly 97.7% confident that I am actually more excited to open Christmas presents than any child. I would agree to undergo strenuous testing to confirm this if any lab is open to the suggestion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Evan and Dawson, this picture is deceitful. If you are adults reading this blog post, I spend exactly the same amount on your Christmas presents. For heaven's sake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jason says this repeatedly in our house on a daily basis so I had a t-shirt made for him to commemorate his favorite phrase. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He got me the rose gold Beats headphones I strategically mentioned daily beginning November 1st. It also helped that I talked about them to Dawson so that Dawson could talk him into getting them for me. Rose Gold really accentuates my freckles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was after all the wrapping paper was trashed and before the boys opened all their boxes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once that was finished, I had to tell the boys we would NOT go to grandma and grandpas for more gifts if they wouldn't smile for our annual pictures in front of the tree. This year's edition wasn't my favorite. At least of the one's I'm in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jason got me a sign for the kitchen that comes with letters and lights up so that I can create new messages on it as I see fit. Like "you boys behave or no food today!" The day after Christmas I set out to create my first message and found that Dawson had already beaten me to it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And that concludes Christmas 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the first time in 42 years, I spent Thanksgiving without family. By family I mean other than my small family of 4.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jason's parents traveled to spend the holiday with his sister and we couldn't make the trip so that left us with an opening. We could either spend the day in bed sulking or find something to do. Because we all know I'm too lazy to make a Thanksgiving meal for my family of 4 unless it entails toast. I'm good at toast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We booked a few nights stay at a Hilton Hotel in Denver. We wouldn't have had to do that if our basement had a pool. Just sayin. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We left on Wednesday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here I am, waiting for Jason to check us in. I bring my own pillows to hotels now because I can't handle the squishniness of theirs. I'm basically a diva.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jason is a Hilton Honors member and he got his name on the scroll at the hotel. Very similar to Santa's Naughty/Nice list only there's a Coca-Cola emblem at the top. Everyone knows Santa drinks Pepsi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The hotel manager came to greet us. I imagine it was because we were the only one's there and he was lonely. He offered Dawson and Evan a candy bar from the "you have to pay for these" jar -and neither of them took one! I should have denied them both food on Thanksgiving because I wanted a Snickers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I forgot to mention that the boys turned down the candy bar for an ice cream sandwich. Whose children are they?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our first day was spent letting the boys swim and then spending hours searching the guide on the tv trying to decide what to watch. It's usually American Pickers unless Expedition Unknown is on. Then Jason and I fight over Expedition Unknown because he says the expedition is always a fail since he never ever ever finds anything. I feel that's harsh. On the episode I watched, he found an old glass of champagne at the bottom of a lake in Austria. Now that's something!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Thanksgiving Day, o</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ur first order of business was to visit the Krispy Kreme located just a few miles from our hotel which was strategically placed. Doughnuts are an integral part of all holiday festivities. Just ask a pilgrim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where did Dawson put his glasses? Where did my lips put their color?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then we went back to the hotel to decide where to go next. I watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, because I'm an American Citizen and that's what we do. This reminded me that I could possibly be mistaken about the whole "first time in 42 years" bit I said earlier because my junior year of college I went with my best friend to New York and I remember seeing part of the parade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Doesn't everyone keep their swimming goggles on the stand with the tv?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then we decided to take the boys to the Denver museum. By we I mean Jason. I thought going to the museum wasn't a great idea because who wants to pay to look at stuffed birds that we've already paid to see? But he saw that they had an exhibit that he thought the kids might like so we went anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This exhibit had stations set up all over with hard to solve puzzles. This puzzle had the boys put cuffs that were attached to strings on both wrists and then get themselves untangled. I'm like why the heck did we pay for that? They get themselves into worse situations at home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The bright side of this exhibit was a conveyor belt that required you to fit puzzle pieces (that were pictures of food) into their slot at a rapid pace. They boys did this for about 15 minutes while I sat and stared. It was nice. A friendly mom even helped them out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We made our way to the Cuba Exhibition. There wasn't much to do there and I felt they should have at least offered us free samples of a sandwich like they do in Costco.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On our way out we visited the Dinosaur exhibition. Evan cheered up a bit by this, on account of how he wants to spawn and raise his own Velociraptor and name it Blue just like </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jurassic World (one of his favorite movies). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You walk a lot in a museum. They had a bench sitting near the entrance to the restroom, which made the term all the more meaningful. See?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By the time we finished at the museum we were starving but unwilling to eat lunch because we wanted to be ravenous in time for our Thanksgiving meal. We went to Starbucks and got coffee and hot chocolate. While I waited for our drinks, Jason walked to McDonald's next door and got him and the boys a snack so that way I wouldn't turn into a velociraptor at their whining and complaining.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was now mid afternoon. We needed at least one more thing to do to occupy our time before our dinner reservation. So we went to see Wreck it Ralph (Ralph breaks the internet).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Spoiler alert: Ralph doesn't break the real-life internet. Just the movie internet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On our way out I was mesmerized by the sky that looked like a face with a gaping mouth ready to eat me straight out of horror film. Perhaps even God's creation gets hungry for Thanksgiving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, our reservation for dinner at Maggiano's had come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course I didn't take any food pictures. You all know my aversion to food pictures. But here's the menu from the website:</span></div>
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Classic Tomato Bruschetta</div>
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Maggiano’s and Caesar Salads</div>
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Served with cranberry relish<br />
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Please choose two:</em></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Traditional Roast Turkey Breast with Giblet Gravy & Focaccia Sausage Stuffing</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Country-Style Baked Smoked Ham with Mashed Sweet Potatoes</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Parmesan-Crusted Tilapia with Sage, Lemon & Tomatoes</li>
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Tuscan Creamed Corn, Mashed Sweet Potatoes, Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Creamed Spinach, Focaccia Sausage Stuffing<br />
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pastas:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Please choose two</em><br />
Taylor Street Baked Ziti, Our Famous Rigatoni “D”®, Spaghetti & Meatball, Four-Cheese Ravioli<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">†</span>, Gnocchi & Italian Sausage, Roasted Butternut Squash Ravioli</div>
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<span class="larger" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Third Course</span><br />
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Pumpkin Praline Cheesecake<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">†</span>, Tiramisu, Chocolate Zuccotto Cake, Warm Apple Crostada</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first thing that should have entered your mind was: "what did Evan eat?" Which may be the title to the book I write someday, on the memoirs of my life with a picky eater. The answer to that question is (drum roll) bread. That's it. Bread. He also did attempt to eat a pat of butter but spit it out promptly when he determined it didn't taste as glamorous as it looked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We didn't eat dessert while we were there and I'm still in shock that I didn't go puke in order to make room for it. They boxed it up for us and we ate it 2 days later and it was still good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was concerned that we wouldn't feel festive enough to decorate for Christmas on Friday when we got home. It's a tradition. The decorating commenced much later in the evening than I can remember us doing so, but it still happened so... Christmas is saved everybody.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think I should mention that our tree has been overtaken by Star Wars. If they should come alive at night and terrorize my house, I know the force. So. I'm good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had an opportunity to buy tickets for the Royal Gorge Santa Express train route for 50% off explanation point! This is something I've wanted to do for several years now but the tickets are so pricey I could use the same amount of money to buy a small island in the Galapagos. Yeah, I've looked into it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We waited to tell the boys until the very moment we pulled into the parking lot. This took a lot of effort, because both Evan and Dawson badgered us with questions from the second we picked them up from school all the way until we arrived in Canon City. A grand total of 50 minutes. (100 years in prison sentence terms).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This train route goes all the way to the North Pole by way of the Royal Gorge. Of course it was pitch black outside by the time the train departed and this was something I hadn't accounted for in all of my excitement for this trip. Both Jason and Dawson have been on the Royal Gorge train route before during the day with no Santa, and I've seen pictures. It's beautiful. I guess I was paying for the exclusive appointment with Santa. Whatevs. I got over it.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZix2D6uHT3OQa13KWiJTlhCAe7ecGEhDk0IzPZAk8Y9DZ6zu1oXH8XF_KcM2PBE3XJOCSRGm84Pr_RHTwajah85moHDO1Bk2gofRhf3Ae5MkfKitTb31YfoA7pSmlFn6mDvrIVs3ukc0/s1600/IMG_2426+-+Copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZix2D6uHT3OQa13KWiJTlhCAe7ecGEhDk0IzPZAk8Y9DZ6zu1oXH8XF_KcM2PBE3XJOCSRGm84Pr_RHTwajah85moHDO1Bk2gofRhf3Ae5MkfKitTb31YfoA7pSmlFn6mDvrIVs3ukc0/s640/IMG_2426+-+Copy.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The station was decorated and I'm a sucker for Christmas decor. Jason manages to allow me the honor of 2 tiny wreaths with no lights and a gaudy weathered red bow hung disparagingly on the night lights located on either side of the garage door. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even the front of a people carrying train gets a better wreath than I do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> This is the train car we got to ride in. We were on an upper level with dome windows that I discovered let in the same amount of no light as those losers who got lower level window seats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The kids were encouraged to wear their pajamas on this trip, similar to The Polar Express movie (a movie I have never seen all the way through because it creeped me out) but we picked the boys up directly from school and in my haste to pack clothes for them to change into, I overlooked this minor detail. I didn't overlook my need to wear the OMG SANTA Elf shirt that Jason got me last year for Christmas though. I saved the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A nice lady was the gatekeeper and she kept the boys entertained while we stood and waited to get on board.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eventually the "conductor" came around and yelled ALL ABOARD! He checked our tickets and told us we could board.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The inside was decorated and cute. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When we found our table, an elf came by and I talked her into taking our picture. Elfs will do that if they aren't the scout kind. That comment will only be understood by those brave enough to have an Elf on the Shelf in your tattered, battle worn history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The entire trip is dedicated to kids. The kids are given coloring pages and a wish list for Santa. During the ride, an elf or two lead the kids in a game and they also sang Christmas tunes like Jingle Bells. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jason and I were given a menu and we could have ordered dinner, but we didn't realize that (we stopped and ate at a burger joint before getting to the train station.) We ordered dessert and later the elf creatures brought us free lukewarm hot chocolate and a cookie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of the elf characters were high schoolers who were probably never involved in any sort of play acting at any point in their lives. Jason and I agreed that the company could take this fun event up one more notch by hiring small time actors. That being said, this elf was charming. She came around several times asking Evan if his wish list was ready for Santa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After Evan completed his list, he wouldn't show it to us. But he did ask me to guess what was on it. I never guessed correctly, which helped encourage him to just break down and tell me what was on it due to his exasperation. I've tucked that tidbit way down deep in my cerebral cortex for a later date should I need to use it again. He told me his list was:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. trampoline</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. love</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. a new friend</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Later, when Jason took the boys to the outside train car, I snuck a picture of his list.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The train slowed down. It was announced that we had finally arrived at the North Pole.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I took a picture of the official sign so that it could be proven in a court of law, should the need arise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Evan stared intently out the window.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I present to you: The North Pole</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We stopped in the North Pole and picked up Santa. The whole train car erupted in glee at this news, including me. I didn't wear my OMG Santa shirt for nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He greeted each person individually. He checked each list and then gave the children a bell. (We won't discuss the slight agitation at the minor headache this caused for the return trip. After all, it's Santa.)</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jason got a handshake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I asked Dawson to let me get a picture of him with his bell. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the trip back to civilization, we played Santa Bingo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Somewhere along the way, Dawson thought he got a Bingo and yelled it out. An elf came along with a small bag of prizes, looked at his bingo page and gave him a strange look but gave him a prize anyway. Jason looked at his page and said "Dawson, in order to have a bingo, you have to have five in a row". He said "No! It's 4 in a row!" Then he asked me. (It should come as no surprise that I'm the lead referee in our household, especially in matters pertaining to life and bingo). I told him that yes, you have to have 5 in a row and he felt bad, then immediately they called a square that gave him 5 in a row and he called it good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This concludes the Santa Express trip and my post about it, but I did ask Jason to get me tickets for a day that I could go in the summer during daylight hours when the train stops in Bermuda.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sometime before the world was formed, Jason and I had a desire to remodel our kitchen. Yes. That's how long it takes us to actually accomplish stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I set myself to finding luxurious kitchens on Pinterest that would only befit a millionaire and never looked at them again once they were pinned to my wall. I'm pretty sure this is what Chip and Joanna Gaines do too, they just don't announce it in their magazine because they don't have enough space to do so after all the ads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sometime in the fall of 2017, we realized we wanted the cabinets to be white and from there, we'd determine the color of the rest of the kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The picture on the left was taken on the day we were shown the house when we were house shopping and also how it remained up until about 4 years ago when the only change we made was to paint the cabinets an espresso color that technically looked purple. Not Barney purple. More like purple espresso. The picture on the right was taken last week when Jason was gone and I rid the sink and island of all clutter because it's an after picture and after pictures can't be cluttered. (Bylaws 2.3.11<span style="font-size: x-small;">a</span>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Below is the kitchen taken from the downstairs living room on the day we were shown the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Same view taken literally 5 minutes ago when I realized I didn't have this view to share of the kitchen completed. Can you imagine if this were the 1800's? I'd have to wait months for my film to develop and then it would be Sepia!</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9ugL0_iPi4z4HEX15sE2SGQ6xfpVmOK_vJDmhP1wyFV10ZESexz1gjArv0nUQpBJNJkOs4eQZegWnLrUqbw_kYcBs75_u9mcQUdytiDq2YuMbrPMsWTn-PE2cgV4ST-ng6by3fJFiXuc/s1600/IMG_2402.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9ugL0_iPi4z4HEX15sE2SGQ6xfpVmOK_vJDmhP1wyFV10ZESexz1gjArv0nUQpBJNJkOs4eQZegWnLrUqbw_kYcBs75_u9mcQUdytiDq2YuMbrPMsWTn-PE2cgV4ST-ng6by3fJFiXuc/s640/IMG_2402.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is nearly the only picture I could find of the kitchen showing the mocha colored cabinets. If you'll pay careful attention, you'll notice I took the picture because I wanted the memory of the time that Evan opened the towel drawer and proceeded to place them all in the sink for reasons I still can't fathom. Toddler brains are so complex.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you can see in that picture above, the sink was a splendid version of crappy laminate, original to the house with stains and chips. While many other homeowners out there may have found the 80's style of ugly to be sentimental... I did not. So therefore we spent nearly one month and 5 trips to the granite yard trying to find a suitable replacement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This particular slab is called Silver Cloud and is black and white with hints of gray.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's a better picture of it along with the new sink (a single bowl granite), spigot and tile we had put in with gray grout. You may notice that Jason is very OCD about weird things which is why there is a napkin under the handle to catch water and under my supremely awesome mason ball jar soap dispenser. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the clutter of tile work in progress. It's also why the picture is blurry. Clutter makes me shudder. I rhyme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once the tile back-splash was completed we decided we needed an accent color and I loved egg shell blue. This color does not look like an actual egg shell that is blue, have you seen one? Regardless, we found the color I was looking for and Jason set to work painting the legs of the kitchen island this color. It was also during this time that we decided to get new stools and a new overhead light fixture for the island. Jason also got a new pantry door which my sister pointed out to me just now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I even found hand towels at Wal-Mart that matched my color scheme. Yay me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Somewhere in this process Jason did two things to appease my aesthetic need. One was to whitewash the fireplace and paint the mantel white. Surely it's no fault of mine that I felt the Brady Bunch brick that was installed back when the show was in it's prime needed to go. This particular picture was taken the day after <a href="https://aboutajoy.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-laceration-warning-some-photos.html" target="_blank">Evan hit his forehead</a> and got stitches.No, I don't go to extremes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And this is the final project once I bombarded Hobby Lobby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The second thing he did was shiplap one wall on the far side of the kitchen using the old fencing I begged him to get from our next door neighbor who replaced his fence last year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I love it. I will most likely rip it from the wall if we ever move and bring it with us. That's the level of my commitment to shiplap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The final big project was to stain the kitchen floor and replace the carpet in the dining room. Who is the fool that thinks it's a great idea to have carpet in a dining room? If that's you, I apologize. But clearly you don't have kids. Or spaghetti.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was the only before picture I could find of the dining room because it was so rarely used due to the whole carpet scenario that I didn't remember it existed. The gold/orange combination weren't anything to be admired either. I'm pretty sure this was taken when we were moving in because... mattress. Otherwise, who knows?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This little new floor undertaking took a few days because did you know they have to seal off your house like you're bubble boy?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was in a state of agitation during this time because that whole level of the house was a wreck,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had to move the refrigerator to the other room and couldn't use it AND, in order for me to continue unhindered from my coffee addiction, I had to move the Keurig to the master bathroom. This was seriously a necessity. Otherwise I'd be writing this blog post from jail because of the murder I committed when I couldn't have coffee. Also. That floss is mine. I floss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's the empty dining room, ready to have the new floor laid down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here it is with the new floor (pre-stained).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's our floor guy explaining to Jason that he thinks I'm weird because I moved the Keurig to the upstairs bathroom and he wondered if should keep the plastic up for me once the floor was done because perhaps I belonged in the bubble.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMXVxLxjHa_Fk45r0v6rolLwtYVqgfgYTfyHTQGVpKqQcFsMhXs5zmeziLp_TSMO4qANs7Z9syeWeGshnmxcxL7dfvsWFgTsKvoM7d9-9sUe0gQDrkU3tqUrG_cHstGJdnE1X3awMpRSc/s1600/IMG_0611.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMXVxLxjHa_Fk45r0v6rolLwtYVqgfgYTfyHTQGVpKqQcFsMhXs5zmeziLp_TSMO4qANs7Z9syeWeGshnmxcxL7dfvsWFgTsKvoM7d9-9sUe0gQDrkU3tqUrG_cHstGJdnE1X3awMpRSc/s640/IMG_0611.JPG" width="480" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I managed to get a picture of him sanding the floor. Looks like an over-sized 1940's vacuum cleaner to me but what do I know?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the stain before the finish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the finish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the finish when Jason covered the floor with cardboard to keep us from walking on the floor. OCD. (technically, you need to stay off of it for a day or so to let the finish do something or whatever).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's the completed dining room. We painted it and Jason used the leftover fence to make a shiplap wall in here as well. Now I love this room and we still haven't eaten in it yet. We are still in the process of finding room decor and a farmhouse table for it. Sometimes slothfulness takes over after big projects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The final work to be done to complete it all was to paint the railing between the kitchen and the living room and install new light switches and outlets. Jason said he would rather have a samurai sword shoved down his throat while jumping on a trampoline than do the light switches and outlets again. I actually made that "rather" up, but he did tell me to make sure I wrote about that horrific experience for him so I wanted to make it as dramatic as possible in order to honor his wishes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you are reading this and contemplating a remodel of your own, don't. Go buy a new house instead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The time has come and gone for our annual family vacation. This year we went back to Indian Rocks Beach, FL so that we could relive old memories of Red Tide and family bonding. The bonding part came quickly as it took us <strike>100 years</strike> 14 hours to actually get there due to rain. I'm not sure why we can't strap a jumbo umbrella to a 747 and call it a day but whatevs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We chose a new condo this time around:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was overcast and windy on our first full day so I didn't get my usual favorite view from the balcony until later in the week. I'm not breaking out in hives over it this year because Red Tide really had a mellowing effect on the high strung blogging part of my frontal lobe. That being said, this is my view taken from the balcony on the first day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ocean waves were high. High and dirty. A dirty ocean is unsettling to swim in because you can't determine where sharks are lurking. And sharks totally lurk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As usual we had the beach to ourselves. This picture seems to make it so ominous though. I really like that word ominous. I should probably write a book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is Jason sitting on the balcony of our condo while I was out taunting lurking sharks from the shore where they could never get me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The boys finally joined me. That was a skillfully crafted sentence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A little wind and rain has never deterred my children from pool activity unless it's accompanied by temperatures below 40. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On our way up to the condo we found this real live snail. I'm not sure what is so fascinating about this snail, but there's no shame in it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Really our first day was consumed with nothing. We walked on the beach, the boys swam in the pool while I read a book and never has there been less to say about a first day of vacation. I was a teeny bit delighted when I was able to capture a beautiful sunset because the weather had been so crummy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also. This is what a sunset looks like when you walk outside and it's muggy and you didn't clean the lens of your camera. I call this "Muggy Beach". Sounds like someone getting robbed on a beach, but the name is catchy either way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I forgot to mention that we went grocery shopping and I found that the state of Florida apparently doesn't have Girl Scouts, so they've come up with a suitable replacement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We went to Busch Gardens the following day (this was a Thursday. I feel it's important to say because Red Tide has diminished). The amusement park wasn't busy at all which led me to believe everyone was at Disney World instead. Within in the first hour or so however, the park had a power outage and we couldn't ride anything. We sat down to eat and feed the birds even though there was a sign that said "do not feed the birds".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This little guy felt it necessary to prop his leg onto my arm which caused me to drop Evan's bowl of food and it dumped on the ground. But no worries. I picked it all up off the ground one by one and saved the day. You'll see me in the next Marvel Adventure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Evan rode nearly every ride at Busch Gardens and even lifted his hands on a roller coaster like a Cedar Point junkie. Makes a mom proud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the other hand, Jason offered Dawson $20 to ride the Sheikra and he refused even though he's begging to earn money so that he can buy a pair of Beats wireless headphones. He came around eventually.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jason pleaded with me to end this day by eating at Skyline Chili (this is his picture. I ate a baked potato with butter, cheese and sour cream. In return, he said he would buy me a $4,000 diamond. Fair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We got to meet up with Jason's sister who had just taken their girls to Disney. We got to spend several days with them which was much needed! They came to our condo on Friday and the kids got to swim while Jenessa and I hunted for <strike>whale barf</strike> shells on the beach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had this great idea to count to 3 and have all the kids jump in the pool at once. #haveallthekidsjumpinthepoolatoncefail</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Evan would spend all day digging in the sand rather than exploring in the ocean like Dawson. Some days this could make me wonder if they are truly brothers but they fight like it so I let it go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Speaking of the sand. This is my footprint. Just before a tractor came on the beach and swept up my sandals which rendered me <strike>devastated at the carelessness of life</strike> shoe-less. They were my favorite $1 pair of Old Navy sandals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We ate dinner at our favorite pizza joint: The Slyce.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Saturday, both families joined up to do a Dolphin Watch. I heart dolphins. They seem so socially affable. The Little Toot is quite possibly the best name for a Dolphin Watch Tour ever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like most of our vacations, Dawson was happy and Evan was grumbling about something. In this case, I think Evan was upset because he wanted the chair Dawson was sitting in, or possibly he was grumpy because I didn't let him jump off the pier. Who knows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Afterward we went out to eat at a seafood joint that didn't have snow crab legs! Can you even? My diva came out and I ordered fish tacos with an attitude.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sunday began with Evan eating Ramen noodles for breakfast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was finally able to take my favorite picture of the beach from inside the condo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jenessa and fam had to leave on Monday so we had our last day on the beach to ourselves which made me more apt to wallow in self pity that they had to leave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While I wallowed, Dawson took the net and went on the hunt for Loch Ness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then we went for a drive to John's Pass Village.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We took a evening stroll on the beach, and Jason's camera is crappy on his old phone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We left for Orlando for our flight home on Tuesday. Since we had time we stopped at a mall and wandered around aimlessly looking for something exciting to happen like a mime to talk or a clown to chase us. Instead we found a Bucca Di Beppo and no one wanted to share pizza with me! I'm getting all worked up just typing it out. But Dawson had been begging for Chicken and linguine with alfredo the whole week long so I had to sacrifice for the better of society as a whole. I really wanted their garlic bread too and Jason nixed that idea because the garlic is too garlicky and really, I didn't blame him because that sort of pungent garlic breath would make me feel bad for God if I needed to say even a short prayer on the plane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My niece and her family recently took some vacation time to come and visit us. That's when you know you live somewhere awesome. I expect visitations from family and friends to double when we move to Italy. You know. If we ever move to Italy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We spent their first full day here taking them to do touristy things. They even have matching shirts! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">*Note: I can no longer accept visitors that wear fanny packs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you, The Management.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Garden of the Gods now has a new feature which allows you park in a parking lot toward the entrance and a free shuttle bus will come and pick you up and drop you off inside the park. This is conceptually a brilliant idea because the parking inside the park is always full. However, the shuttle was too packed to take our huge crowd (and by huge I mean there are a lot of us and none of us are fat) so we had to wait through several pick-ups until there was enough space to accommodate us. This led me to tell the kids that we would have a better chance of hitching a ride with someone else.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We walked all around Garden of the Gods and beheld nature's bounty. We also got hot and sweaty and stinky and tired and a few children complained. But I gave an outstanding discourse on the importance of enjoying nature's bounty and eventually one of the complaining voices got to ride in the stroller so our eternal outlook on life perked up a bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, my eternal outlook took a nosedive when I found this sign installed by the devil himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hate snakes. This caused great entertainment for others in our party who thought it was funny to yell "SNAKE" and then watch my reaction and caused great angst for me who hates snakes and the mention of them. And my throat hurt from screaming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">*Note: I am no longer accepting visitors who yell snake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you, The Management.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jason volunteered to push one affable and abiding citizen around in our stroller. Jason also seems to need to sneeze.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dawson and Evan love climbing rocks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So of course I thought it was a great idea when Evan decided to squeeze through the middle of one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've told Dawson he should discontinue his idea of playing football professionally and instead become a photo bomber.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Speaking of Dawson, he's so great with kids.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wanted to get a picture of the backs of the matching shirts, and it took several hours of explaining to passersby that this was not a family under arrest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After seeing me take many family pictures and then selfies so that I could photoshop myself in later, a kind stranger offered to take our picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On our way out, we decided to skip the shuttle bus run altogether and walk back to our cars. On our walk, we happened upon this deer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He stopped and pooped right there, for all of us to see. Almost as though he knew our trip wouldn't be complete without poop in the park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Colorado has been hot and this day was no exception, so we stopped at Sonic on our way home to enjoy their happy hour slushies and drinks. I'm not paid by them or affiliated, but I should be, in order to support my boys happy hour slushie habit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally we went home and relaxed a bit because the following day was our trip to Keystone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I convinced Mr S to sit on the porch swing with me, and he was delighted as evidenced by our selfie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We left for Keystone on Tuesday, as mentioned earlier. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Per our family tradition, we took a selfie of the road trip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were a bit early for our condo check-in so we stopped in Breckenridge at this cute park</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found myself needing to use the restroom, so I wandered around the area and finally decided to step inside a building that I soon discovered was home to an ice skating rink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A lady that manages the front desk there let me use the restroom and on the way out, I found an inspirational sign that I believe should be upheld by all schools and professional sports. No matter the age of said child -Tom Brady, who's your mama?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I love the town of Breckenridge. It's so pretty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We sat and had a picnic at the park and Jason picked a flower for my hair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Soon it was time to check-in to our condo. Or is it check into? Whatevs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This winding staircase caused us great trials and tribulation because Mr S was determined that he alone should be allowed sole access to the stairs and tried every manipulation known to man in order to climb them. Including sticking his head between the rails to shimmy his way in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who doesn't love a royal blue futon? It matches so well with mauve carpet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just a few minor things about this condo and I'll move on. First, the owners provided us with super natural soap. I did use it and I still have to wear glasses and I still have freckles, so I'm not convinced of it's healing claims. Plus, I don't think saints get stinky, as the label implies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Second, a door with access to flammable liquid was located on the floor beneath us. I didn't like awake at night wondering if our room would burst into flames, but it was a tad disturbing nevertheless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My niece was convinced she found marijuana growing along the path. I told her to collect it all and sell it and then take us out to eat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Evan grumbles and gripes quite a bit on hikes. "I'm tired, carry me" and so forth issue regularly from his lazy lips. So we always try to find him a walking stick. This satisfies him for nearly 5 minutes until he wants me to hold the walking stick because he's too tired to walk with it. Real world problems people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We let the little ones sit and take breaks every now and then so that we could tell people that we're good parents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We came across this tepee and I told the children that it was haunted. They seemed indifferent toward this news so I told them I was going to make them watch A Quiet Place when we got back. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mr S fell asleep at our turn around point of the hike. I would have laid down and napped right along with him but I was too terrified of the snake to nap ratio to encourage myself to actually do it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next on the cover of "hike" magazine:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My niece Fee captured this picture of Dawson. You can tell he's my kid by the cuteness factor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After our hike we went back to the condo to eat some lunch (I don't believe I've ever consumed so many homemade cold meat sandwiches in such a short time frame, as I did on this vacation) and then we took a walk past the little pond right outside our door.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNMAkilJ2J3DVykqzoN1xv51D_6qb9Jfm5KXsFHc_KsuVOGXnjyRpJikCfgG5SqO_upn_h8VQsgQWo1LuQoq_NWPrsUeyaJjiyDJbbHeXJ2iuTrdCCizGHPQxjwdHl8t9opIW0XaMFdCs/s1600/IMG_0906.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNMAkilJ2J3DVykqzoN1xv51D_6qb9Jfm5KXsFHc_KsuVOGXnjyRpJikCfgG5SqO_upn_h8VQsgQWo1LuQoq_NWPrsUeyaJjiyDJbbHeXJ2iuTrdCCizGHPQxjwdHl8t9opIW0XaMFdCs/s640/IMG_0906.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For a small fee we could take a paddle boat around the pond and buy some fish food (which suspiciously looked and smelled like dog food) so we did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Immediately some ducks literally flocked behind our paddle boat like paparazzi. Also, I don't know who was taking the picture and didn't realize their finger was upstaging the ducks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We happily started throwing food to the ducks when one special diva just up and decided to hop on the boat for exclusive access to our morsels of goodness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hated to tell him I was pretty certain he was eating dog food, so I let him eat in ignorant bliss. The pig.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were also ginormous fish who fought the ducks for food. By fight, I mean that I actually did see one fish flop on top of a baby duck making the baby completely submerged under water water for a few seconds. I did pet one of the fish in case you were wondering. Dawson talked me into it. I feel certain I could put one on a leash and walk it beside the paddle boat as long as I fed it continuously and we would be BFF.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Soon we were one giant family on two paddle boats enjoying the aquatic species right along with the fowl wildlife. Yes, I'm currently consuming my third cup of coffee which happens to be 4 shots of espresso and I can feel my vocabulary increasing by the moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Later that evening we took a free shuttle from our condo to the little "downtown" area of Keystone to grab some grub. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Senor Minecraft had a piece of tinfoil that he wore on his head that he said was his Minecraft helmet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I took great comfort in the fact that Aliens were not able to contact us, even if creepers and zombies could.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We all craved Mexican food as our choice of eatery on this fine night. A Mexican food joint is only as good as it's best queso is what I always say. Or at least what I said this one time in my blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thursday was our 15th wedding anniversary. And by our I mean "mine and Jason" and not the collective group. My niece offered to watch the boys so that Jason and I could go out and do something fun but I said no because our time with them was so limited and besides, I didn't want to have to be all by myself with just Jason. HAHAHAHA. I crack me up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our particular gondola appeared to have been attacked by a shark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dawson and I took selfies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is my "just do what I say" look. The O face needs changed up sometimes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The gondola came to our destination, and like good upstanding civilians, we all exited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">99% of the U.S. population are incapable of exiting a gondola with such grace and style. It was just after this exit that Poppa D saw something left behind on this gondola and jumped back in to retrieve it. Two accompanying younger members of our party weren't paying attention and panicked thinking we were supposed to be getting back on the gondola when they saw him do that and jumped in it behind him just as he turned around and stepped back out. The doors closed and off they went, while the rest of us stood there thinking "well what the heck do we do now".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hoping that they didn't ride the gondola completely down and back up again, we jumped on a gondola and chased them down. Just like Chase from Lego City Undercover would do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thankfully Miss V-Bippity and Miss K-Bop got off at the next stop and waited for us. We went back to our original destination where Jason bought a $3 bag of peanut m&m's so that we could get our money back for parking, long story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We couldn't afford to do any of the fun activities they had available at the top of the mountain. So we pretended to be too rich and snobby for such peasantry and high-tailed it back down the mountain on the free gondola with our noses held high.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then we went down main street and did some shopping. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's critical to note here that Fee dressed Mr S in a super adorable outfit this day. See how happy he is about it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I carted him around main street and he was the cutest little cuddle bug this side of the Mississip. He also weighs about the same as a miniature horse and I found myself wishing we had brought the stroller along.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was on a mission to find a Colorado trucker hat, which resulted in stopping in nearly every t-shirt store on the block. The boys' didn't love me for this but they posed with a giant bear statue located inside one of the stores anyway. I have no clue where Evan's shoes were at this point. Save the judging for the time when I let him eat popcorn for breakfast because I didn't want to cook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just behind the main street stores is a creek and the kids wanted to freeze their feet to nubs and splash around in it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's a really pretty place to stop and reflect on the stock market and life in general.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was just after this stop that our two parties parted ways so that one could go eat and we could continue my quest for the perfect head covering. I was slightly distracted by the smell of cookies and we took a detour into this giant cookie shop. Ordinarily I would be a bit leery about purchasing a cookie from two barely adults, one of whom wears a tie-dye t-shirt, but these cookies looked really good and it was my 15 year wedding anniversary so I decided to risk it. Actually, we had already purchased these cookies on a trip here <a href="https://aboutajoy.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-great-colorado-adventure.html" target="_blank">when my mom came out</a> and I didn't die, so I placed my bets that I wouldn't die this time around either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I finally gave up on the hat endeavor and we settled down to eat food at a quaint little restaurant called Motherloaded. Am I the only person who doesn't want to share cheese curds? I'm strongly opposed to the word "curd" by the way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fee scored this sweatshirt AND the brand name pair of jeans she was wearing on our shopping excursion, so my hat endeavor shopping fail was not in vain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We spent the rest of this final afternoon at the pool near our condo (where we actually spent most of our waking moments every day of the entire week we were there, but the one picture I have of the pool area has me sitting like a hippo in the hot tub and I refuse to share that picture here. I do have this video to share though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Friday morning we headed back to our house. once we got home, Fee wanted us to get our nails done so we walked from my house to the nail salon up the hill. When we walked in, the salon lady said "we busy" and I said "but we walked here" and she said "mmm okay, bye", so we left and went to a different salon that's only about 5 minutes from the house by car in the other direction. We drove because I'm too lazy to walk to two nail salons. Look how lovable we are with our fancy manicures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Soon after our manicure excursion, Fee and her family left to go home and I cried. Then I put all of that sorrowful energy into aggressively talking them into leaving their jobs, family and home they love and moving here to be our neighbors. Give me about 6 more months of excessive harassment and I'm sure to wear them down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the meantime, I'm saving up money for our next vacation where I intend to excessively harass Jason into moving us to the beach if the whole aforementioned moving of family doesn't work out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Life happened and I didn't post about my birthday, Mother's Day, the end of the school year or the time that I found a set of brand new Wizard of Oz Itty Bitty's at the Goodwill Outlet for $2 and then sold on eBay for $65. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I turned 41 in April and as birthdays go, this one was uncelebrated and low key which is very unlike me. Ordinarily I like to announce my birthday at least two months in advance to give people a sufficient amount of time to prepare and save. Before it came around however, I quit all social media which was my main source of advertising myself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My birthday fell on a Sunday so before church, Jason let me have Starbucks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After service we went to Cheddar's. Usually I eat the cheddar cheese fries as my main meal, but Jason said I could order it as an appetizer and order a main meal as well! this is like telling a pig It can have the slop AND the stuff the goat's are having!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was during this time that Jason gave me my birthday present. He gave me my birthday card which had nothing in it, and there was no bag and no wrapped present. This meant there would most likely be a discussion about how we would share custody of the kids after the divorce. Then he started to panic and began asking me if my phone was working. Several minutes went by and I received this text:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">An iPhone 8 for my birthday present! Oh how the pointless and random pictures I take for my blog would be so much prettier!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Also. Google celebrated. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ever since some moron decided that my birthday should be shared with the earth, I receive challenges from my Apple Watch rather than a "Happy Birthday Joy" message. The message wasn't nearly as blurry on my watch though. Apple Watch makes me exercise on my birthday! They're a bunch of outlaws if you ask me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I retaliated with homemade rice krispy treats dipped in chocolate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's about all I've got to say about my birthday. Then Mother's Day rolled around. I don't think my kids really acknowledge the day so much without their dad telling them "here give this card to your mom" but I still require them to have their picture taken with me so that they can remember that I was their mother some day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But Dawson wrote me a sweet note:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> And Evan drew me a picture in which he depicted me at my perfect weight, so I was feeling pretty great about the world in general.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also went out to eat somewhere that I can't remember now which tells me I should have made a different restaurant choice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I received a gift card to get a pedicure. Here it is the end of June and my toes are still hanging onto the remnants of that pedicure because that's how lazy I am everybody.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the midst of all of this, we were in the process of redoing our kitchen. We are actually super duper close to finishing up that little project and of course I'll a do a blog post about the big reveal. So don't go binge watch anything on Netflix and miss it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We recently embarked on a journey that led us through mountains and valleys, vast terrain with no civilization for miles, and heat that could melt your dentures. Probably.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jason had a work event in Arlington, TX. After some discussion we decided that we could turn his trip into a family road trip. So we loaded up the rental car, took a selifie and lived to tell about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I vowed to myself that I would make it at least 5 miles before asking for a bathroom break and I totally succeeded by at least 1/4 of a mile. So I celebrated by purchasing an energy drink. Not really on the energy drink. I think they smell like cat pee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is basically nothing between Colorado and Arlington, TX. Since I didn't take any pictures of said nothing, you can picture 2 fighting children in the backseat of a vehicle, one parent with headphones ignoring said children and one parent driving while simultaneously turning up the music to drown out the sound of fighting children. Done. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our first stop in Arlington was to this famous little burger chain called In-N-Out Burger. I'd never been to this chain before and was expecting great things!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My own personal opinion is that Burger King and Red Robin had a baby named In-N-Out. I didn't get goosebumps or anything when I ate my food is what I'm trying to say. But I would eat there again. I'm not sending out petitions to picket the place or anything. I'll get to that place in just a bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We stayed in this nice little hotel with a room that remained clean for the first 10 seconds it took me to snap this picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Upon arrival, Jason had to get to Cowboys stadium in order to help set up for the work event so while the boys were changing for me to take them to the pool, I attempted a video call with my sisters, who will hate me if they happen upon this post and see that I posted one of the pictures I took while on the call. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I gave myself a crown because that's how my family rolls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My boys are convinced that swimming was given to us by God as a treasure that should never be taken for granted. Sort of how I feel about chocolate. Therefore I had to call on the powers of the fire department, the police department and the FBI to come and remove them from the pool every time we needed to leave to do awful tasks such as <i>eat</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At one point while I was checking my activity level on my watch, I discovered that I had hit a milestone. 100,000 steps/50 miles in one week. And if you glance closely at the picture you'll see Jason's farmer's tan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was very concerned when we arrived and I saw that the entrance was down an alley that was next to a dumpster and train crate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But it turned out that I was on the back side of the center.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think we should have had a bit more of a clue as to what we were getting ourselves into when we realized the place was located inside a shopping mall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But we paid for our tickets and continued. The Lego displays were super cute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first thing we did was hop on a ride. We sat down in the car that was on the track (Dawson and Evan in the seats in front of Jason and I) and the car took us around while we shot at various Lego villains. Toward the end of the ride, our car stopped and a lady came over a loud speaker announcing that the people in our party have to sit down or she was going to require us to get off the ride. I looked at Dawson and Evan and they weren't standing. I could see them the entire time and they never stood up nor did they try to, so I was a little flabbergasted. At the end of the ride, we got off and the lady told us she could see the boys standing on her video plain as day. I told her I thought maybe she was looking at a different car and not us and she adamantly told us it was ours. I argued some more and could see I was getting nowhere so we just left. After I stuck my gum in her hair when she wasn't looking. No I didn't do that! I wasn't chewing gum. On our way out, we saw an entrance for an interactive 3-D movie so we went in there. The movie was cute and we were squirted with water and had blizzard like freezing wind blown us, but we still liked it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The boys found a Lego R2D2.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And I found Yoda. Wait. I mean. Yoda did I find.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was a small section in the center with a miniature Lego site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By this time, we had only been here about 45 minutes and had already arrived at the last ride. Jason wouldn't go on it because it spinned. This forced Dawson to ride by himself and he wasn't too happy about that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As part of the admission, there was a splash pad outside that they had closed down (for reasons unknown to us) that we would have gone to but couldn't so that was a downer as well.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were so disappointed with the experience (especially due to the exorbitant price) that Jason actually gave me the receipt and I went and asked for our money back. The manager was very gracious and gave it back to us. So I used it to buy myself 100 Starbucks drinks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Tuesday we went to Six Flags Hurricane Harbor water park</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Evan has a thing now with bunny ears in pictures and I don't know where he learned it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The boys were most looking forward to the wave pool. If only it had stayed this empty throughout the day...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i just discovered that the following picture is the last one I took at the water park. While most people had their phones carried around their necks in these water tight phone cases that sealed, I left mine in a locker and called it a day. Can you believe I survived a whole day without a phone? Tell the world! It's really possible! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The water park was fun and not overly crowded (except for the wave pool). If we ever go again I've made a mental note to wear water shoes though, because the concrete was burning hot. The concession stands were very slow and by the time Jason and Dawson met Evan and I at our spot with the food, Evan and I had succumbed to scrounging scraps of off the ground which caused a great amount of angst for the birds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Wednesday which was our last day, we went to Magnolia Market in Waco. I've seen Fixer Upper a few times and my sister got me a subscription to Magnolia magazine for a gift a while back. Jason bought me their book The Magnolia Story last year and I felt the only thing left was to visit place in order for my following to be truly cult-like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I actually didn't know much about Magnolia Market. Only something about their being silos and that it was located in Texas. But I was actually surprised that the place was so small. Basically, read that to mean "don't build a whole vacation around a trip to Magnolia Market". If you have a vacation already planned and one of the stops is Magnolia Market, then by all means go. But we ran into a group of women who had shirts made that said "Magnolia Bound") and I thought to mfyself "self, if you and your sisters take a girls trip and have shirts made, make sure they say "Cancun Bound, with a slight detour to Magnolia Market".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It wasn't super busy when we got there. We got in a short line to purchase a treat at the baking building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jason and Dawson both had cupcakes, Evan had a sugar cookie and I had a chocolate filled crescent roll. Everything was delicious! Just outside of the baking building and beside the market is an area with picnic tables where we sat and ate. This area is surrounded by food trucks, and in the middle is an open space with turf where kids and families can set out games such as corn hole to play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Upon entering, you could buy a bag for $58 to put your items in. This told me that I would probably leave without a purchase unless it was the stem of a flower that was on sale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I really wanted to buy one of these white magnolia mugs. But after much deliberation, I decided that eventually someone would visit, buy a mug as a "I visited here and you didn't so here's your gift from there" present and then the receiver would donate the new mug which would end up at my Goodwill Outlet where I would get it for 50 cents. Thank you giver and receiver.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found the sale table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I loved this desk. I also contemplated the legal changing of our last name to something beginning with the letter X in order to hang one on a wall in our home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Love these signs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The boys ditched the shopping in no time. Apparently they have no eye for cotton on display in rustic charm. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So we loaded onto the free trolley which took us downtown to explore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jason had read about a shopping place called Spice Village.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This place is definitely worth the trip downtown. This is the entrance:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Even the restroom is cute!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I nearly bought this sign:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I took a picture of these light fixtures for my sister K because I knew she would love them</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzYYNlYQJPP0Lc-CzHe-Hs07lDxon9rh2QsoRNIdsobqU9T_ri6FpH2_58kFXPXj6-1xf4aqQ9hCPk7VJO6nTNmP99cmaZAyccig6g-_-APnmOfSo8xsGcBMwYFnVp8HndgnxdLPBJs2o/s1600/IMG_0570.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzYYNlYQJPP0Lc-CzHe-Hs07lDxon9rh2QsoRNIdsobqU9T_ri6FpH2_58kFXPXj6-1xf4aqQ9hCPk7VJO6nTNmP99cmaZAyccig6g-_-APnmOfSo8xsGcBMwYFnVp8HndgnxdLPBJs2o/s640/IMG_0570.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And I'm asking for someone to buy me this sign for Christmas:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On our walk back to the trolley stop, we were searching for a candy store and we came across an old movie theater called <a href="http://wacohippodrometheatre.com/" target="_blank">The Hippodrome.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We stopped inside to see what was playing and they had Han Solo showing for $5.00 per ticket! We also found out that it was a dinner theater. I've never been to a theater where you could eat and watch a movie that wasn't at my home. So I was in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The movie started while we were deciding on our order and I thought it would be cool to get a picture of the title shot of the movie, which didn't work out and Dawson yelled at me because I used the flash and he was embarrassed.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiVRXkOxkm17FcNfHwJ3WkvYDKKgh1fI9_rbulClsCjyTrj8KMlMFeypWvOqvYxS05YzkYxIWind-cNh3z9fIz4pMP2QBQMQGh9VqKv4rM6kmREZS5o7lofcDm07CNr9ze5ClO1O8h08U/s1600/IMG_0582.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiVRXkOxkm17FcNfHwJ3WkvYDKKgh1fI9_rbulClsCjyTrj8KMlMFeypWvOqvYxS05YzkYxIWind-cNh3z9fIz4pMP2QBQMQGh9VqKv4rM6kmREZS5o7lofcDm07CNr9ze5ClO1O8h08U/s640/IMG_0582.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We ordered pretzels and popcorn. I missed the first half of the movie because I was so taken with the fact that we got to order food that I practically memorized the menu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have to actually rent the movie when it comes out so that way I can watch it with subtitles because that's how I operate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the movie we walked to the candy store where I had the genius idea of buying chocolate covered cinnamon bears which melted instantly the moment we left the building. We realized how close we were to Magnolia from there and walked back to our car, which afforded me the opportunity to take a rare photo of the backside of Magnolia Market. You're welcome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And that is the story of exciting adventures in Texas where it's so hot you have to an air conditioner for your air conditioner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Friday I volunteered to help out at an event for Dawson's Spanish class. As I was waiting by his teacher's classroom to receive my assignment, I was surprised to see a kid walk right by me with a sombrero on his head. Turns out the kid was my son.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jason was out of town on a business trip so Evan had to tag along with me for the event, which meant I had to put him to work in order to avoid all manner of whining along the lines of "I'm booooooooored".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got assigned to help out in the art room where student's would be learning about and creating "Ojo de Dios" or "God's". It's a craft made with yarn. This is the picture of Dawson's final project, though he told me he grew impatient with the teacher's instruction because it wasn't making any sense so he just did his own thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lead teacher tried showing me how to make one so that I could help teach the students. I couldn't grasp the concept so I volunteered to have the students come to me when they were finished so that I could use the glue gun to glue down the leftover yarn piece. I'm so helpful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I told Evan it would be great if he could pass out the craft sticks and then make sure all of the yarn was straightened out on the table. He took over like a boss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the stations the student's went to was a taco truck sitting at the entrance to the school. Evan and I went out to the taco truck to place an order and one of the students shared her sombrero with Evan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Evan and Dawson apparently have a similar gene that encourages them to pose immediately if there's a sombrero on their head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I tool 3 pictures because to tell the truth, it was so bright outside that the screen on my phone was too dark to see whether or not I was actually taking a picture so I kept pushing the button and hoping for the best.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dawson thought having him mom at his beck and call was something to be admired and asked me to please go get him a coke at the taco truck so I did because I love him and all that crap. So he sat and sipped his Coke during the class God's eye presentation which enabled his lack of knowledge when it was his turn to create said masterpiece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It took him 100 years to pick out the colors he wanted for this project. Finally I told him the apocalypse was drawing near and if he didn't have a replica of God's eye to wield at Zombies his death was imminent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Evan wandered over and made himself at home at Dawson's table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was endeared by the brotherly love Dawson showed Evan, while chatting away with him, not realizing I noticed or was taking pictures. Now that I have evidence that it can be done, you better believe I'll be using this picture at home during their hourly confrontations to remind them that they love each other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the parents in the room had the brilliant idea to take a class picture. Yeah, the parent wasn't me. By the time I tuned in, the class had already dispersed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The classroom across from this one had a face painting station. Evan asked if he could have his face painted like Dawson's. When I asked him what he wanted, he explained he wanted the "shaky things", which I realized meant maracas. I know. Come to me for all your interpretive needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the time he was halfway through is Coke, he was coming alive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course this was just in time for us to head home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I asked Dawson to let me get a picture of the maracas on his cheek for memories sake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But when you have beautiful mountains lingering just outside your car window, I understand if you can't focus on the task at hand. Like driving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were at a stoplight by the way. I don't want people contacting telling me I endanger my children's lives because I take pictures of cheeky maracas while driving. I probably won't ever use that same sentence ever again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you all for joining me on this volunteer day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May the Ojo de Dios be with you.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4708605035764970178.post-62304523202022663512018-04-13T19:06:00.002-07:002018-04-13T19:06:23.145-07:00They Woke HIM Up<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span class="text Matt-8-23" id="en-AMP-23369" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">3 </span>When He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him.<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-AMP-23369A" data-link="(<a href="#cen-AMP-23369A" title="See cross-reference A">A</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"></span><span class="text Matt-8-24" id="en-AMP-23370" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">24 </span>And suddenly a violent storm arose on the sea, so that the boat was being covered by the waves; but Jesus was sleeping. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"></span><span class="text Matt-8-25" id="en-AMP-23371" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">25 </span>And the disciples went and woke Him, saying, “Lord, save us, we are going to die!” </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"></span><span class="text Matt-8-26" id="en-AMP-23372" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">26 </span>He said to them, <span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“Why are you afraid, you men of little faith?”</span> Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was [at once] a great <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">and</span>wonderful calm [a perfect peacefulness]. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"></span><span class="text Matt-8-27" id="en-AMP-23373" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">27 </span>The men wondered in amazement, saying, “What kind of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?”</span></i></span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-8-27" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've immersed myself in a bible study by Beth Moore entitled "The Quest" which has me ruminating a bit on the humanity of Jesus.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-8-27" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In particular I'm wondering if Jesus ever had bed head.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-8-27" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To be clear, I'm not asking if he ever had a hair out of place that was blown about by the wind, (like the times I ask for a fan when I'm having my picture taken). </span></span><br />
<span class="text Matt-8-27" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No. I'm referring to "just woke up haven't had coffee don't even remember I have hair" moments. Like this:</span></span><br />
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<span class="text Matt-8-27" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was me the day after my 40th birthday. I know. I totally look 39. (You can<a href="https://aboutajoy.blogspot.com/2017/04/best-birthday-ever-40th-memoir.html" target="_blank"> read all about my 40th birthday here</a>). Surely if Jesus had bad hair days He can understand why I've written nearly 10<strike>0 million</strike> different <a href="https://aboutajoy.blogspot.com/2017/01/2017-great-hair-disaster.html" target="_blank">blog posts</a> needing opinions about my hair cut, style and color. Leads me to believe that He can relate enough for me to actually interpret "Come to me all you who are weary and I will give your hair rest."</span></span><br />
<span class="text Matt-8-27" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What I really want to know though, is, how did Jesus wake up?</span></span><br />
<span class="text Matt-8-27" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The disciples woke GOD up!</span></span><br />
<span class="text Matt-8-27" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The God who might have bed head slept.</span></span><br />
<span class="text Matt-8-27" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think maybe preschoolers should focus on that verse for a bit a memorizing.</span></span><br />
<span class="text Matt-8-27" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus wept. Jesus slept.</span></span><br />
<span class="text Matt-8-27" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Slept looks weird all typed out now. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Did the disciples just yell and yell in a frantic fury of fear to get Jesus up, or did they shake him? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Did He sit straight up? Did His eyes pop open and scan the surroundings? If He was a side sleeper He had to roll over and sit up.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Make no mistake.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">If you are in a <i><span style="color: #0b5394;">violent</span> </i>(very strong destructive force)<i> </i>storm with waves crashing in on you and you are being thrown about in a boat ... you have to yell in order to be heard. If there's someone in the same boat with you. Literally. I guess my imagination is equally intrigued at the thought of frantic screaming disciples as it is with Jesus sleeping. Did Jesus dream in black & white or in color? I'm glad I got that question out there before I forgot, because I'm hoping Jesus answers all these questions one day when He's reading my blog.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Just a few hours before this storm caught the men by surprise, Jesus had spoken a sentence that healed a leper who wasn't even in his vicinity. Soon after, He simply touched the hand of Peter's mom-in-law and her fever vanished. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">All that healing would make me tired too. Probably.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I understand the desperation that sent the disciples scrambling to rouse a sleeping hero even though they'd just observed several supernatural events in rapid succession. It wasn't <i>their</i> miracle, you see. They needed to partake in a miracle of their own.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">God met me in a supernatural way <a href="https://aboutajoy.blogspot.com/2008/05/stories-of-faith-part-ii.html" target="_blank">when my sister died</a>. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">But that didn't stop me from screaming for Him when <a href="https://aboutajoy.blogspot.com/2013/07/happy-endings.html" target="_blank">my dad got sick</a> or when <a href="https://aboutajoy.blogspot.com/2017/10/uprooted-from-land-of-living.html" target="_blank">my dad died</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">If you find yourself in a situation that leaves you feeling like you need to scream to be heard, just remember...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Jesus is in the boat with you, and the audacity of waking Him up was already left to a few men who've been there, done that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Tuesday's I volunteer for Evan's class in the library. I've also volunteered in Dawson's classes in one capacity or another, but I guess I didn't have the wherewithal to take pictures of me in my volunteer superhero costume. If you'll look at the picture of my shoes, you'll notice that they nurse's shoes and that has nothing to do at all with volunteering. I just want everyone to know that I recently bought comfortable shoes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I told the class to please pay attention to the librarian. Clearly, Evan listens to me even while at school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm guessing it's safe to post that picture on the internet because the students are looking ahead and not at the camera. But just in case, I went to great pains to adjust the next photo of all the students looking at the camera so that I can't be held liable in a court of law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do think the "Elmo drew a picture of my class" effect is pretty clever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Except when a student raises their hand and stares at you intently and just as you're asking them what they need they pee on the rug. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In those instances I'd choose to grade papers. But only if the papers weren't riddled with mathematical problems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking of rugs. This rug could only be better if it was a different color with a different design. But it's not like it's in my unfinished basement. I suppose it's suitable for a library.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's me proving that I'm there to keep the peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today's book reading brought to us by the librarian was a very humorous book entitled "Ragweed's Farmdog Handbook". When the books are funny and interesting like that one was, I'm totally capable of focusing. Otherwise, I tend to internally wish one of the students would create drama so that I can shush them or utilize my volunteering role with bossiness to pass the time a bit quicker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After story time, the librarian reads through all of the names of the students and lets them know who still has books checked out and therefore are unable to check out books on this day. If I were a library villain, rather than a volunteer superhero, I'd make it my aim to render all library books delinquent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It reminds of the days when I worked in an elementary library right after I graduated from college. I was probably the most exciting non-librarian to ever to grace the inside of a library. But that has nothing to do with children and delinquent library books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Evan has two types of books he checks out every.single.Tuesday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Lego City</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Star Wars</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here he is rummaging through the Star Wars books looking for a book he's most likely brought home before but doesn't remember. I always steer students clear of of the "Magic Eye" books because the only way I can see the pictures in those books is to cross my eyes and all children know that if you cross your eyes for too long they stay that way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eventually he gets in line to check out his book. These children are not the best as the art of a straight line. But every now and then I subdue my volunteer powers and allow such things to be overlooked. It's during this time that all students who brought a quarter with them are able to purchase a scratch and sniff bookmark. Evan has brought home one that smells like candy canes and one that smells like pancakes. I do not encourage any student to purchase the "eggs and bacon" bookmark. It smells like flatulence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In case you were wondering, today I wore "Mauved" lipstick to the library. I noticed an increase in my volunteerism with it on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But in a few weeks I'm volunteering for Dawson's Spanish class and they are bringing in a taco truck! Can you imagine the Nacho Libre eagle powers I'll possess as a volunteer on that day? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All for the Lord's Chips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In case you were picturing me with my silhouette in a wedding gown getting hitched, let me expound on that title.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is my niece Shadow:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Only she's 20+ years older than that now. But sometimes I still picture here as her two year old self which made me cry harder on her wedding day. Like one of those sappy commercials where a dad is watching his little girl grow up and then she's old enough to drive a Nissan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She decided to make March 17 (St. Patrick's Day) her wedding day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Thursday of last week, I flew home to Indiana so that I could be there for her special day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My sister B picked me up from the airport and surprised me by bringing my mom with her. My hair basically shoved my mom out of the frame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have a treasure trove of photos proving that I don't stop talking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We went out to eat at a restaurant called Granite City. My favorite part of French Onion Soup is the cheese. I just thought that was valuable information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My sisters set aside Friday for a day of bonding. Our first order of business on all sisterly bonding days is a selfie in the car together. I would like to present to you a collage of this special time:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you paid close attention, there's a good chance you noticed that when I placed my camera in the selfie stick for our picture, I accidentally set the place holder directly on top of the button that takes pictures. So it was repeatedly taking pictures without stopping for at least 2 full minutes while we all tried to figure out what was happening. Eventually I discovered the problem, turned the phone the other way around and we were in business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We couldn't stop laughing long enough for all of us to be prepared for the picture.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS_U0ogcuPSVrwEv7wDWXL1Qt_T07owR4TbtcvI1LHCJwPSJLtRivagzkUuOp3ZO-hAlnnE_0ug6ofDCOfP0KDnOU4nsJSIQ963U7ejnCgSitaGE8B2EOzPH3wMY-DonpH1g_1Re5iIIk/s1600/IMG_0819.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS_U0ogcuPSVrwEv7wDWXL1Qt_T07owR4TbtcvI1LHCJwPSJLtRivagzkUuOp3ZO-hAlnnE_0ug6ofDCOfP0KDnOU4nsJSIQ963U7ejnCgSitaGE8B2EOzPH3wMY-DonpH1g_1Re5iIIk/s640/IMG_0819.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Putting our sunglasses on calmed us down a bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We spent the first half of the day in an old church building that had been converted into an antique shop. I asked one of the workers if she'd be kind enough to take our photo by one of the stained glass windows, which was no easy feat because the light from the windows kept washing us out. So I asked if she'd also apply stage makeup to us before the picture and she said no.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I bought my first pair of booties in honor of this special trip, and I ended up with blisters and cramped toes. But I looked good. So.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We ate lunch at a cute little hole in the wall joint called Pickles. My sisters K and A both applied lipstick which looked magnificent and I was determined to buy the same thing so that I can dominate the world with my lips. That's the reason for this picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And this one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While were out and about, my BFF sent me this little gem. A copy of the "newspaper" the old school district I worked for put out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Saturday was the big wedding day. My sister decided we should leave early and we grabbed lunch and a slice of pie at Essenhaus restaurant. All of the Amish waitresses there have tattoos. That's just a joke.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally we arrived at the Silver Palace to enjoy the beautiful special wedding day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shadow had the entire event center decorated just beautifully in a St. Patrick's Day theme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If I could go back and do my wedding over again (which I won't because I'm too lazy) I would have a super cute welcoming table like this one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The aisle runner was sprinkled with little gold leaflets. They weren't real gold. I figured it out after I stuffed my pockets with a bunch of them thinking I would cash in after the wedding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think it's important to note here that I have the oldest iPhone known to mankind. I think it's like a negative 3. It doesn't take great shots when a room is dimly lit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This might be one of my most favorite pictures of my sister K. My nephew C in this picture had just celebrated his birthday the day before. I caught him grabbing gifts off of the gift table and shoving them in a bag believing they should really be for him. The jokes on him when he discovers a fruit tray and a set of coasters once they're opened. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had a lot of time to sit around and take selfies before the wedding started.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is Kyle, the groom. I always love to watch the look on the groom's face when he's about to see his bride walk down the aisle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My niece Felicia (the bride's sister) was the first one down the aisle. Isn't she cute in her green dress?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I took an angled picture of her once she got up front because I was in a mood to act like a wedding photographer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The time of weeping came when Shadow came down the aisle. If you listen closely, you can hear me telling my sister that I was going to ball my eyes out because she chose to walk down the aisle to the song I sang at her mom's wedding. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shadow and Kyle's daughter Lydibug was the most well behaved child I've ever witnessed in a wedding party. My sister and I were just discussing how my nephew ran up to the stage to play the piano during my wedding. When my sister chased him down to stop him, he hid under it. I didn't even know any of that happened until I watched my wedding video.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I like this picture because you get a good look at Shadow's veil. I accidentally put a hole in mine when I decided it would be a great idea to sew rhinestones into it even though I don't know how to sew.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm pretty sure Shadow is making sure the preacher man is reading the correct vows. I tried to sneak him some that I made up that said "I promise I will still love you even if you pick your nose and eat it".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were just announced Mr. and Mrs. They seem pretty happy about it so I decided I would be too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The reception was immediately following which meant it was time for more selfies. I was also determined to get one impromptu photo of the bride and groom right away because it turns out that my favorite picture from my wedding day was taken by my cousin as Jason and I were greeting the guests to go to the reception. Look at the cutie butt couple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm like a selfie wedding crasher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I saw Shadow signing the marriage document and I didn't see anyone taking pictures of it so I snatched one right away. That will be $15 Shadow. Cash or Credit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lydibug is so sweet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I asked her to twirl around for me and when she did, the aisle runner got all twisted up and I got in trouble. Totally worth it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The centerpieces were just exquisite. I really wanted the heart shaped mirror to carry around in my purse for when I apply lipstick number 140. But I was under the impression that it would be noticed if one was missing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The cake. Which was vanilla AND chocolate! Everyone wins!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course I realized that their faces were 100% blocked by the bouquet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lydi didn't feel well. Mommy cuddles are needed, even at weddings when the mom if the bride. Of course that all changes is the bride gets puked on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shadow eventually found her pose and nailed it each time I paparazzied her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The night was coming to a close with dancing brought to you by the bride & groom,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">... And <i>me</i>. You're welcome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We've just celebrated Dawson and Evan's birthdays.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See. We bought a cake and I took a picture of it to prove it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've discovered that my view on birthdays is a bit different from that of most mothers. This is because I feel that a year is the perfect amount of time for a child to grow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You know how people say things like "you blink and they're all grown up"? I don't feel that way. It took 12 years for Dawson to become a 12 year old. I keep blinking and he stays that age until the year is up. This was especially true for me when both of the boys were babies. I kept blinking to see if they were old enough to sleep through the night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't wish the years away or anything nonsensical like that. I'm just saying I'm a firm believer that God made a year the perfect amount of time for us to age. Good job God. (He reads my blog). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I do get all sentimental when I go back through old pictures. I do so more when I look through the few baby pictures we have of Evan since <a href="https://aboutajoy.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-horrible-terrible-no-good-very-bad.html" target="_blank">I lost the first year</a> of his photographic life minus the first two months. If I had lost his birth pictures, I would have had to march right back to the hospital and recreate the whole thing with someone else's baby, is what I'm saying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I began blogging the year that Dawson was born. Tuesday December 19, 2006 to be exact. If my memory serves me correctly, I chose that day because the FBI released the surveillance reports on John Lennon. OR, it was because gas prices jumped in California. My memory often strongly relies on the days headlines, is what I'm saying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was Dawson then:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An altogether blog worthy disposition. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(say that with a British accent, in a similar inflection of saying "a lovely sponge, that")</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here we are 12 years later, celebrating that blog worthy disposition once again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We told him he could have some buddies over for his birthday party this year, rather than spending an entire year's salary on a location party like a trampoline joint. People don't usually say "trampoline joint" like I just did. I'm so unpredictable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He had his buddies Michael, Jaren and Ethan over. I didn't get permission from any of their mothers to post their pictures on my blog. When they end up famous, they'll owe me one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I purchased cupcakes from WalMart. I realize I could have used my culinary skills for good and created a cake that all of Pinterest would have unraveled at the seams at my amazingness. However, I decided to save my energy for other important endeavors. Like writing this blog post. Cake vs Blog Post, the mighty battle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dawson's buddy Ethan stayed the night and in my sleep deprived state, I allowed Dawson to eat a stack of mini chocolate doughnuts for breakfast. When I've had adequate sleep and coffee, I require Dawson to eat mini chocolate doughnuts one at a time like a proper civilian. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dawson's number one wish on his wish list this year was the Lego Star Wars AT-M6 set which he got. I continuously had to pretend I didn't know what an AT-M6 was in order to thwart his suspicion that we got it for him. This is no small task since I'm an official #boymom and am well versed now in most things Star Wars. Did you know that Frank Oz is the voice of Yoda as well as Miss Piggy</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "proxima nova" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Yeah. I'm that good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On their actual birthday, we ask the boys to choose the restaurant where we'll eat lunch or dinner. Dawson chose Cheddar's, which I highly approved of, seeing as how I will order the entire cheese fries appetizer for myself and eat it as my meal. If only you could all be like me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is Evan at Cheddars. I'm fairly certain he was demonstrating The Force.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After losing all of the pictures, I became extra grateful that I blog, and have blogged all of their birthdays. I'm especially grateful that I blogged about Evan's <a href="https://aboutajoy.blogspot.com/2012/03/evanrobertwilkins.html" target="_blank">birth story</a>. Someday the boys will thank me that their entire lives have been posted on the internet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Evan didn't have an official party this year with friends. Instead we invited family over to celebrate a combined party for both boys. I call that birthday savvy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The boys have been getting along rather well recently. I would attribute it to my wisdom and knowledge in all things motherhood, but the other day Evan yelled out "I hate this church" during a worship service we were attending as guests. So. You're guess is as good as mine regarding the brotherly love bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We decided to allow Evan to open his presents straight away so that it wouldn't become a point of contention. Also, giving Evan a piece of cake before opening his gifts would just double the effect of sugar in his bloodstream. Dawson seems to have <a href="https://aboutajoy.blogspot.com/2008/11/dawson-sugar-time-out.html" target="_blank">grown out of that stage.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Evan currently owns 4 Bruder construction trucks. He rarely plays with them. For reasons the universe can't fathom, we still purchase these toys for him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had the brilliant idea to get him the Lego Dimensions Starter Kit for his birthday this year. Since I'm the evil mastermind behind the idea, I photo bombed. Also, Jason never takes pictures of me at events and I want the boys to know that I was present at major life events. (Just in case they never read my blog. I'm sort of relying on God to let them know how great my blog is so they'll read it someday).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since it may not be evidenced in the picture, I'll let you know that Evan had no clue what Lego Dimensions was. So this gift wasn't at all exciting until he played it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally it was time for cake. But first I want it to be on record that we did decorate:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Evan literally complained for several minutes straight about Dawson blowing out candles at the same time that he was. Is there any reasoning with a six year old?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The blue icing on the cake is not recommended. Please see result as pictured of my niece Mia:</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTPIkR0dF_LIPMm1_5ymtyqjYhyphenhyphenH9rQgePYAm5N61sdef1K4W564iMK4wNfghxNPPM4rcY5op2qNAZaEiczxRTIVLQkMpCX22BdXbZp5_22lQ-u22ycVeLePAGlsh5-PeQyWp8vJGLd5Y/s1600/IMG_9808.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTPIkR0dF_LIPMm1_5ymtyqjYhyphenhyphenH9rQgePYAm5N61sdef1K4W564iMK4wNfghxNPPM4rcY5op2qNAZaEiczxRTIVLQkMpCX22BdXbZp5_22lQ-u22ycVeLePAGlsh5-PeQyWp8vJGLd5Y/s640/IMG_9808.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It came as no surprise when Evan chose Chipotle as his birthday meal of choice. The boy lives on rice, soup and popcorn. He asked for his "favorite kind of rice" from Chipotle. The great thing about it is, a side of rice is only 97 cents. We win.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As the boys get older, it may necessitate the need for me to hire out a blogger to post about their birthdays. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm getting older too. I get lazier and less creative the older I get. Now I see how old people get so grumpy. They must've blogged all their kids' birthdays.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So you're thinking of a trip to Walt Disney World. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because if not, I'm sort of wondering why you're reading this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was completely overwhelmed with all of the information out there when we first began our research about a trip to Walt Disney World. And that's the reason for this blog post. To do my best to help others who are embarking on the craziness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So. Let's start with something important, shall we?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">*Walt Disney World is in Florida</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">*Disneyland is in California</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We've never been to Disneyland, however, some of the tips I'll share should be helpful regardless of the resort you plan to visit. If they aren't, then you can comment and let me know how unhelpful I am but only if you compliment me 5 times before doing so. I don't handle criticism very well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When we started planning our trip to Disney World, the first decision we needed to make was whether or not we would stay on site at a resort. I had been saving up for a year for something totally unrelated to a Disney vacation. But my other plan fell through and therefore, we decided to put that money toward Disney. As a result, we decided to look into the resort package options. (Initially, we did a ton of research on our own, and then my husband remembered that his cousin is a Disney vacation planner, so we finalized all of our plans through her).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">**If you decide that staying at a resort is not the direction you'd like to go and you'd rather stay at a VRBO and jog (you know, save on gas) to the theme parks, you can skip this section and scroll down to the next portion that interests you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are several tiers on the resort plan option. You pay for what you choose (obviously) but what I mean by that is that if you choose the cheapest resort option, your stay will be comparable to a stay in a regular hotel room, only with a nicer pool. The main perk being that you will still have the nice benefit of transportation to all of the parks included. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Resorts do not include park entry. You either pay for those separately, or add them to your package. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the end, this is the package we chose:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We chose the Caribbean Beach Resort because it was supposed to be a step up from the value resorts (like Disney's All-Star resorts), however, the room accommodations and and the resort grounds were very simple. Also, during our stay I saw 2 snakes. I hate snakes. I blame Mickey Mouse because blaming Trump is so over used right now. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our room was small and the buildings needed a fresh coat of paint, but the pool is where we spent most of our time when we were there so the I did an entire blog post about our stay at this resort so if you're interested in more information and pictures of the rooms and the grounds you can find it <a href="https://aboutajoy.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-magic-of-walt-disney-world-our.html" target="_blank">here</a> along with more info in this post I did <a href="https://aboutajoy.blogspot.com/2017/10/walt-disney-world-caribbean-beach.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Disney World has 4 theme parks and 2 water parks. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can: </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Buy tickets to get into every park</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Buy the tickets for only the parks you plan to go to</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Buy a park hopper ticket: to exit a park and go to another park in the same day.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'll tell you what we did.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had 5 days to work with so we purchased a 3-Day Ticket with Admission to 1 Park Per Day. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That being said, after much deliberation about which parks our family would like best (my family consists of me, my hubby and our 2 kids ages 11 and 6) our vacation looked like this:</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Monday</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">: Magic Kingdom (blog post </span><a href="https://aboutajoy.blogspot.com/2017/10/walt-disney-world-family-vacation-magic.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> if interested in reading more about it)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuesday</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">: Relax day. (no theme park) Spent at <a href="https://aboutajoy.blogspot.com/2017/10/walt-disney-world-caribbean-beach.html" target="_blank">resort & Disney Springs</a> shopping area </span></li>
<li><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wednesday</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">:</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Hollywood Studios (blog post <a href="https://aboutajoy.blogspot.com/2017/10/walt-disney-world-family-vacation.html" target="_blank">here</a>)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thursday</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">: Epcot (blog post <a href="https://aboutajoy.blogspot.com/2017/10/walt-disney-world-family-vacation-epcot.html" target="_blank">here</a>)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Friday</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">: Resort and check-out.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm glad we had the relax day between the Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios. If you choose to start your vacation with the Magic Kingdom, I highly recommend the relax day afterward because it was the largest park that offered the most for us to do, which ended in a very tiring day. Another tip about Magic Kingdom. If you make it a point to arrive before the park opens up for rides, there is a special introduction event at Cinderella's castle that you don't want to miss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We arrived early at all of the parks and we were glad we did, because the parks packed out with people by mid-morning, which caused all manner of claustrophobic reactions from my husband. I've heard several people say that getting to the park early was not a valid option for their family because they can't get their butts out of bed. I'm not saying that's wrong. Just dumb. (kidding). Since we got to the parks earlier, we actually had a chance to ride about 3 rides <i>by ourselves</i> at Magic Kingdom. We were almost first in line for Starbucks at Hollywood Studios and we didn't bother getting to Epcot super early because by that time, we needed a vacation from the vacation, you know what I'm saying?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We purchased our tickets through our travel planner with our package. If you are purchasing tickets through a store (or other venue) please scroll down to that section.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>What the heck is a magic band?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aha! That's the same question I had! Is it like a band that does magic? Will it make me disappear? Will it make me skinny? (another form of the same question).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No. Uh-Uh.Nope.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I thought I'd google the question to that way you could have Disney's answer and then I'll give you my paraphrase which is way better. Disney will even probably be all like "oh man, we should totally ditch our old pathetic definition and use hers which is way better". Because Disney World reads my blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A. </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15.12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center;">Tap into the magic with your </span>MagicBand<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15.12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center;"> on your wrist. This colorful wristband is actually an all-in-one device that effortlessly connects you to all the vacation choices you made with </span>My Disney Experience<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15.12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center;">.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15.12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center;">Your MagicBand enables you to travel lighter throughout your vacation. Use it to enter the parks, unlock your Disney Resort hotel room and buy food and merchandise. Plus, your MagicBand gives you </span>FastPass+<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15.12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center;"> access to all the experiences you’ve selected online, so you can simply concentrate on enjoying the fun with the people you care about.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15.12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center;">MagicBands add a touch of magic to your vacation by unlocking special surprises, personalized just for you, throughout the Walt Disney World Resort. Once you’ve </span>linked your MagicBand<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15.12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center;">, you don’t need to do anything different. Your MagicBand and My Disney Experience profile will do the rest, creating unexpected Disney moments–just like magic. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15.12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center;">And, each of these magical moments will be transformed into a one-of-a-kind digital keepsake by </span>Disney PhotoPass Service<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15.12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center;">. All you have to do is go to your PhotoPass account to see all the memories we’ve captured and created for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15.12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My definition of a Magic Band: It's the band you wear to get into </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15.12px;">your resort room, the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15.12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">parks, and to buy stuff. Here we are wearing our bands. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15.12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Also. My hair is glowing on the left hand side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15.12px;">The gray strip on the side of the band can be removed in order to make the band smaller (especially useful if you have children). This extension cannot be added back onto the band. I have a small wrist and removed the gray extension and then I pouted about it the entire trip because I really liked how the gray accented the pink before I removed it. This is also why my socks are lined up by color in my sock drawer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So you bought your Disney Park ticket from a guy on the subway. Why did you do that? I'm just curious.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before we decided on the resort option, we discussed the idea of staying with some friends in Orlando and purchasing park tickets through a separate venue such as Costco or the military (through family). If you go that route, I'm afraid I won't be much help, because I'm not sure how you get your magic band. Just go ask that guy on the subway. I'll be he has one you can buy. I did wonder about this question so I googled it. See:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From what I read, if you buy your ticket through a store or other venue, you can just use that card to get you into the park. MagicBands are beneficial for convenience and can be purchased in the shops at Disney. Tip: Your MagicBand can be used any time up until the battery runs out. Note: you won't be able to use a ticket/card for a FastPass or PhotoPass, because that option is only available with a MagicBand.</span><br />
<i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">What the heck is a FastPass?</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aha! I wondered that exact same thing!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's a reservation you make to get on a ride in order to avoid the long line. Seriously Disney, you should hire me for all of your paraphrase needs. Basically, after you have purchased your theme park ticket, you have the opportunity to go online and reserve a time slot for when you plan to ride a certain ride. That reservation is then linked to your MagicBand and when you arrive at the park and that time rolls around, you can just get in the <strike>royalty</strike> FastPass line which is much shorter and faster than the <strike>pathetic people</strike> non-FastPass line, hold your MagicBand up to the scanner and continue to the ride.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tip: we learned that you get 3 of these reservations. Once those 3 reservations are used up, you will continue to get to add another reservation (one reservation at a time) for the rest of your day. So, it's best to make your first 3 reservations as early in the day as possible, so that you can continue using them through the rest of the day. We really wanted to use our FastPass on the Mine Ride at Magic Kingdom, and we didn't realize how this process worked, so we made a reservation for 8:00 pm because that was the only time left that day to use it. We should have used our reservation for a different time earlier in the day and then tried the ride later, so that way we could keep getting more FastPasses the reset of the day.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>What the heck is PhotoPass?</i></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are spots set up all over the theme parks where Disney staff are stationed, ready to take your picture. If you go to these stations, they will take your picture and then you can have them scan your MagicBand to link the picture to your PhotoPass. PhotoPass is the site online (in your My Disney Experience account which has to be created through Disney's website) where you will go enter your specific ID and view your pictures with the ability to purchase them. If you purchase a MemoryMaker package (see next question) all pictures that you have taken at Disney will be on the PhotoPass</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>What the heck is MemoryMaker?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a package you can buy through Disney. You pay one flat rate for all pictures and all the pictures you have taken at Disney are included. This means you don't have to pay for pictures individually after sorting through all of them on PhotoPass. I believe the videos that are taken on certain rides such as Tower of Tower are included as well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>DISNEY FOOD</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'll admit that one of the main reasons I wanted to go to Disney is because I like food. What I didn't expect was being unimpressed with some of the food choices that I saw people had raved about in reviews. Yes. I actually read reviews about Disney food. I even printed out a list of food options available at the parks and highlighted the choices I was really intent on trying. There are whole blogs devoted to food at Disney so I'd say my behavior should only be considered as mild zealousness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you don't plan to purchase a Disney food plan, you should know that the food there is super very stinkin expensive. I guess that's the reason they offer the food plan. So that you don't pay attention to how expensive the snacks are. I think I was charged $5 for glancing at the glass case that held the key to the glass case that held the chocolate dipped cookie shaped like mickey ears. I will say this, if you purchase a food plan, you do get a lot of food. That being said, we chose the Quick Service Dining Plan </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>What the heck is Quick Service Dining?</i></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Would you believe that I wondered the same thing?</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This plan allots each guest in your party 2 quick service meals and one snack credit per day. I had lots of questions about this, so here are my tips. We were there for 5 days and therefore we each had 10 meal credits and 10 snack credits. But the way Disney calculates is that we had 40 total credits to use any way we wished during our stay. We could have run out of them before we were done if we chose to use them all on day 1. Also, we found out that meal credit could be substituted for 3 snacks.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Quick service just means that you can go to any food location that doesn't require a reservation to get a meal. The same locations that provide meals will also almost always have snack options available.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I didn't like the rice krispy treat mickey ears dipped in chocolate. <i>GASP</i>. I know, right?</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">T</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he marshmallow and chocolate they used both had a "not your name brand" taste in my opinion. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was also disappointed with the mickey shaped pretzel and the cheese sauce it came with. <i>GUTTURAL GROWL</i>. I know, right?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The pretzel was very dense and dry (I guess I was expecting an amazing, buttery, salty Auntie Anne's pretzel experience) and the cheese was like cheez whiz that had been drained of life. Just my opinion. The caramel corn was great. There's your redeeming quality. All the food options we had were very good, which included tacos, burgers and french fries. Tip: my 5 year old is the pickiest eater in the entire northern hemisphere of our city. Possibly our state. He would have been content having snacked his way through the parks, but we would get him a meal, give him the fries and share the rest of the meal between us.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The other dining option is the Standard Dining option. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Disney’s Standard Dining Plan comes with one
table service, one quick service and 2 snacks per person per night. The table service meals are reserved ahead of time, and
once you arrive, your party is seated at a table and you have a server serving
you. Those meals come with your choice of meal, drink and dessert.
The table service meals also include the character meals, family style
meals, buffets, etc… Since we chose the other dining option, I don't know whole lot about this plan. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I feel like I'm leaving something out. But I really want to finish this so that I can go binge watch a show on Netflix.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>MISCELLANEOUS TIPS</b></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I recommend bringing a stroller for any child age 5 and younger. Disney has strollers that you can rent, but I believe they are on a first come first served basis.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of the food stations will give you free water/ice water upon request</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At Hollywood Studios it was recommended that we skip the Star Wars exhibition at the end and go to the Fantasma show instead. I wish we hadn't. Mainly because my boys and I really like Star Wars I was a bit cold because the show is in the evening and then I got sprayed with water which made it worse. I could nearly shed a tear.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be Our Guest (Beast's castle) in Fantasy Land in Magic Kingdom is actually a quick service location that takes reservations. We waited too long on the reservation for this so we didn't get a reservation and I wish we had.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you are really intent on seeing any of the characters, you'll need to go in buildings, and you will see more with reservations if you do a table service plan.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you stay at resort, you get a free refillable mug that can be used for soft drinks anywhere at the resort. This mug can't be used at the theme parks. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When we were at Magic Kingdom, we got very hot and tired and annoyed. So we wondered if we could leave, go to our resort and swi and then be allowed back into Magic Kingdom later. The answer is yes, we could have. But we were too lazy at that point to walk all the way out to catch the bus. So we just stayed. Oh the irony.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Buy an inexpensive plastic poncho at the dollar store and pack it. There's always a chance for rain and the ponchos at the parks are expensive.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Resorts do not have continental breakfasts. (Apparently, a Club Level room does).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Okay. I have just used every Disney brain cell at my disposal to write this post. But if you have any questions, chances are I've wondered the same thing and I might have an answer for you, so please leave your question in the comments below and I'll answer you! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because I'm nice like that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ciao</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I bought Star Wars Lego Advent calendars for the boys for Christmas this year. Mostly because we were too poor when I was growing up to have one and I had to go outside and choose a small pebble from our rock yard. Then each day I'd move it to a little pocket that corresponded to the correct number in a calendar made out of red and green paper napkins that my mom had made. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I totally just made that up. We never had an advent calendar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, the boys got these advent calendars this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Behind the door each day is a small Lego Star Wars build.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This really got me thinking about the great idea behind advent calendars due to the calming effect they have on impatient waiting for Christmas Day people like me. So I've suggested to Jason that next year he should have a life-sized advent calendar for me to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every day would provide something extremely exciting such a 20x30 framed family portrait on day 1 and an InstaPot on day 15 ultimately culminating in the gift behind door number 24 which would be a car. If a car was asking a bit much and needed to be reserved for Christmas day however, I'd settle for a new wardrobe to be behind that door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also introduced Buddy the elf this year. The laziest elf this side of the Mississip. On his first visit he hung from a branch on the Christmas tree. He was too tired to crawl in a jar and seal himself up with a "help" sign.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For one of his final acts of mischief, he managed to TP, the living room</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and then hide behind the couch with the evidence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only Evan didn't understand what "TP"ing was so he was convinced that Buddy decorated our living room to get it ready for Christmas. So when Jason finally tore it all down so that we could move about freely in there, Evan burst into tears and accused him of terrorism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The boys grew increasingly restless as they were home all day considering school was out for Christmas break. We went and stood in line to see The Last Jedi on Friday. Yeah. There was no line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually, on account of how I'm a boy mom, I feel that I'm qualified to add my very insightful opinions of these movies. I liked this one. However, I was doing a search about the movie after we watched it to make sure I understood what was happening in parts of it (because I'm very thorough) and there were a ton of articles about Kylo Ren being shirtless in one scene. I'd just like to say to all the swooning girls out there that if he's anything in real life like he is as Kylo Ren, his wife should be very afraid. If they get in any sort of marital scuffle, he could totally just haul off and cut her in half with a light saber. Point Being: girls, don't marry a buff conflicted man. Marry a kind skinny punk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My last "be a fun awesome mom" attempt was a few days ago when I had the boys make and decorate sugar cookies with me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Turns out their favorite part is licking the utensils.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It wasn't long before I discovered that these sugar cookies weren't the doughy kind that could be cut into shapes with cookie cutters. The dough was basically pure butter and sugar and stuck to everything. So we had to dig our fingers into the lump and form a sticky ball.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you'll look at the cookie on the top of the pile closest to Dawson, you'll see that the bottom of the cookie sheet transferred to the cookie because we stacked the cookie sheet on top of the other to create space to cook on the stove where they were cooling. Jason said that if we eat the cookie anyway we'll survive though we might mutate so I left it on the plate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorriest bunch of cookies ever. But I'm mom of the year. So. it all balances out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jason came down with a bad cold so some of the plans we had made were cancelled, like going to the electric safari at the zoo. He did manage to drag himself into the Jeep and take us to look at Christmas lights which ended up being one house that we go to every year that has lights synced to music. Evan was in a bad mood so I told him he could take pictures of it on my phone:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This led us right up to Saturday the 23rd, when we had Christmas with Jason's family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stockings are always first. Is there anyone on this earth who gets the stuff from their stockings last? I need to know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">JOV (everyone agrees that my stocking looks like it says JOV, yes?) got her stocking and the photo bomber made me laugh out loud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also managed to snag one of my nieces Christmas gifts and tried it on. I'd make an excellent panda surrogate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And Aunt Nessa got Evan this Playdough Millenium Falcon that daddy took over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's a slight chance that Christmas has the same effect on me as that of a 5 year old. Only I'm able to calm myself down enough in order to cook a meal and I don't know any 5 year olds that can do that. So. Clearly I'm a descendant of Buddy the Elf.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last night for the first time in several years we skipped the Christmas Eve evening service at church and stayed home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The boys were so bored by the time 6 pm rolled around that we were all bickering about which Christmas movie to watch next. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I told the boys that they could open their traditional Christmas Eve gift of pajamas and movie at 5:30 since that's when it gets dark here and we made until 5:15 when I called it good because I couldn't tolerate their hyperactivity any longer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Muppet Christmas movie that Dawson is holding is stupid and now I have to find a suitable replacement. Jason made it very clear that he wants to own the Christmas Classics (Like the old school version of the creepy felt looking rudolph slow motion movies). I'm hoping that Walmart has them on sale tomorrow so that I can get in a huge long line and waste my day away trying to buy it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course in my haste to get the boys sitting still in front of a tv, I completely forgot to take a picture of them in their new pajamas so I forced them to take a picture in them in front of the tree this morning before opening presents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We actually managed to wake up early enough to get all of the presents under the tree before the boys woke up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dawson woke up before Evan and begged to wake up Evan on a consistent basis until I ran and hid in our basement closet when he wasn't looking so he couldn't ask anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They each got a Star Wars Ornament and couple of other things that I would have showed you but I didn't get a picture because Christmas at our house is chaotic. I did get a video though but it won't load for some reason. So I'll allow you the privilege of imagining them opening their gifts in their stockings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was trying to remember if I've every wrapped their stocking gifts before. I don't know why I did this year. I guess I was overcome with Christmas cheer and crap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year was the year of Lego for Dawson. He asked for Lego gift cards on repeat. So he got a ton of Lego gift cards. I asked him if we could turn them in for cash so that I could get this plaid poncho from Nordstrom that I've been wanting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The number one item on Evan's Christmas list this year was this giant remote control crane that he saw in some spoiled kids' YouTube video.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jason put the crane together for Evan so that Evan could use the grappler attachment to clean up the Christmas after math.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course the giant crane was only a fraction of the price of that over priced Lego set so Evan's big gift was a new tablet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been telling him his old tablet was lost for approximately 3 weeks now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking of Evan, I found these super cute $5 plush Star Wars dolls (are they dolls? What do you call them?!) at Kohl's this year and I bought some for Evan. Then I wondered if there were any more for sale that I was missing so I looked them up on Ebay. I bough the only 4 that there were available. Turns out I can steal them out of Evan's bed while he's sleeping and sell them on Ebay for double the money!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jason bought me coffee mugs this year. And if you'll look to the bottom left corner of the picture you can also see my new "OMG It's Santa" t-shirt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally it was time to bribe the boys to do our annual Christmas pictures:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Surprisingly, bribing doesn't always work that well for Evan and we have to threaten all manner of nuclear even occurrences to get him to cooperate with us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This one might be my fave:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Of course I opened my big mouth and vocalized my approval of that picture and got this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Are we done yet"????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I felt it was time for some Christmas Joy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Bribery works with Jason.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tomorrow's blog post will contain all the events leading up to Christmas Day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">MERRY</span> <span style="color: #38761d;">CHRISTMAS</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every year at this time, I'm thankful that I don't have rabies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well. It's hard to come up with a new blog post introduction sometimes, and that was the best I could do. Now I can move forward without the pressure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dawson and I look for a 1,000 piece Christmas puzzle to do each year while shopping at Hobby Lobby with the intent to start it while he's on Thanksgiving break. But this year we got a little anxious because the puzzle was just sitting around in the box and it was getting upset. I think we actually finished it before Thanksgiving break started. Then I was going to open the puzzle I got my mom for Christmas and do that one and ship her this one, but I changed my mind because I'm her favorite and I didn't want to impede on that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yesterday was Thanksgiving. I got up, made cupcakes, went for a 3 mile run in order to earn my turkey badge, then made frosting for the cupcakes, took a shower and made green bean casserole. That whole sentence was just to over use commas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jason was determined to frost the cupcakes and he ended up choosing a frosting tip that made the design look like brains. Brains with caramel ooze.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We celebrated at my sister-in-laws house, which is perfect because the kids all go downstairs to their basement and play and we don't see them for hours. I asked her if we could just move in and she said no.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After our Thanksgiving feast we all moved into the living room to settle on a Christmas movie or just any movie really, that would calm the kids down because they ate 3 cupcakes a piece and the aftermath was a display of crazy we couldn't tolerate in our state of turkey slump.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dawson got to fulfill his dream of becoming a merman when his cousin let him borrow her mermaid cozy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All of my other Thanksgiving Day pictures went on FB so I guess now I have to move on to our "day after Thanksgiving decorate for Christmas" tradition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First. It was very hard to get into the Christmas spirit because it was 72 degrees and sunny outside. If I were back home in gloomy Indiana, this would be a non-issue and I would have seasonal depression by now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is me annoyed with said weather.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Second. The holidays have sabotaged my good eating habits this year. Just before we left for Disney, I was at a weight that I hadn't seen since before having children. It was all because of this awesome high fat low carb eating plan I was doing. Today when we went shopping I was starving and decided to really hop back on that band wagon and came home with this. Success.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The boys were surprisingly patient this year, while waiting to decorate for Christmas. Ordinarily I'd threaten all manner of "no Christmas presents for you this year" dither to demand compliance to my "we can't decorate yet" blabbering... but they stayed busy doing other things all morning so it was moot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Third. Evan was watching Shaun The Sheep, rather than a Christmas movie which didn't help the 72 degrees, sunny outside bah-humbug feeling I was having.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Down in the deep dark recesses of our basement is a blue curtain. Behind this curtain is </span><strike style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OZ</strike><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> a random assortment of items that we have no other place to put, including Christmas decorations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For you, my valued blog reader, I'm prepared to pull back the curtain and give you a glimpse into the organized chaos of our basement shelves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We pile all of the decorations on the floor and have the boys carry them up to the living room. This is the living room before decorating:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the living room during decorating:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yeah I was pretty proud of the way the boys lined everything up all color coordinated by staggering the silver ornaments with the maroon ornaments. It's aesthetically pleasing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jason sets up the tree, and he doesn't let me help with that part, because he likes to bend all of the branches a certain way in order for it to look full. Apparently I skinny up trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So while he's doing that, I set about loading the CD player with Christmas music. Dawson didn't tell me he was going to take my picture during this important part of the festivities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since I'm all about thankfulness, I can share here that I'm grateful my butt crack wasn't showing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Currently, my 2 favorite Christmas albums are these:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eventually it was time for the mess. My least favorite part of this tradition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Evan found his stocking and said "Why do they have to be socks"? Jason and I couldn't answer that question.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dawson found the art project he made for me when he was in kindergarten. I'm not a hoarder. He's lucky I kept that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally it was time to decorate the tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No one bothered capturing the memory of me decorating our tree, so I took it upon myself and got photo bombed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even fake trees leave behind a wake of irritating pine needles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It wasn't long before Evan got mad about something and pouted, so Dawson snagged a picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And then... the decorating was complete. Maybe that's why he was pouting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't collect snowmen, but I have these guys that come out every year:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We hang our stockings up on the fireplace mantle. I need a santa hat for the fish.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglyLmeb3V1qoC5hu9od_xAR5aiCiLDgPVAG3CbJ9ZkjOurv3bMwLXSVMGIWxe8BFZfPv_b6zK_NNz2gSeLbe4DKEGe2ZtVW-DtQeWTdGZSmxaMO5PXWDmnVYqnMlDFjTOahhkCos9_-xY/s1600/IMG_9725.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglyLmeb3V1qoC5hu9od_xAR5aiCiLDgPVAG3CbJ9ZkjOurv3bMwLXSVMGIWxe8BFZfPv_b6zK_NNz2gSeLbe4DKEGe2ZtVW-DtQeWTdGZSmxaMO5PXWDmnVYqnMlDFjTOahhkCos9_-xY/s640/IMG_9725.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The boys loved each other for one photo snapshot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My newest addition to our Christmas decorating is this miniature Nativity. We've had several nativities over the years, all of which have not exceeded my standards and have been sold. Which is what might happen to this set as well. Especially because I feel that I put the figures too close together and it's smothering the baby Jesus. If he or Mary were claustrophobic, I imagine they would have had to enforce visiting hours, your know?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There you have the 2017 edition of our Christmas tradition. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tonight, I'm breaking out The Elf On The Shelf for the first time. Let's hope the Elf doesn't die between now and Christmas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A little over a month ago, my Momma surprised me with a call asking if she and her friend could fly out and visit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My mom is <span style="font-size: xx-small;">80</span> years old and has never flown commercially. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course I told her no.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">AHAHAHAHAHA. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">just kidding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She was able to sweet talk her good friend Yolanda into flying out here with her because Yolanda has traveled quite a bit and is comfortable bossing people around in airports. Yolanda was celebrating her 50th wedding anniversary while she was here and her wedding present from her husband was to let her come to Colorado. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Which is why I'm expecting Jason to let me visit long lost relatives in the Canary Islands for our 50th anniversary. Now it's in writing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was a reminder on my calendar that set off an alarm on the 24th of October letting me know that my mom was arriving. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I jumped all over the airport arrivals waiting room while the TSA agent looked grimly at me like he was ready to taser me if I tripped and fell onto the forbidden side of the hallway where people were rapidly filing off of the plane. In all of my excitement, I forgot to snap a selfie of me jumping up and down while the friendly guy was wheeling my mom closer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I did the next best thing and got a picture of us as soon as we got home. See:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I made a little sign to hold while I waited for mom at the airport but I sort of forgot about it while I was jumping all over. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had the entire 9 days planned out. You know. Because I like to make lists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I let them sleep right after they arrived that evening because I'm a good host.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The following day was a super warm sunny day so we visited Glen Eyrie Castle</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ6T9vr34tnFe4-VLDOXfbjr7-0zv3sfe7i0lLwBt6H5q2PDTOToGH10r93keMqrE-LiWlJJRIzOOzYr94zSkPQY-D4t9xr89w1elnrcPOBOUznfsnspgQwvkj4ypn0xVIs9-_o4y81Pw/s1600/IMG_9650.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ6T9vr34tnFe4-VLDOXfbjr7-0zv3sfe7i0lLwBt6H5q2PDTOToGH10r93keMqrE-LiWlJJRIzOOzYr94zSkPQY-D4t9xr89w1elnrcPOBOUznfsnspgQwvkj4ypn0xVIs9-_o4y81Pw/s640/IMG_9650.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Garden of the gods (lowercase 'g' because it's always bothered me that they didn't properly name the place "Garden of the God" because there's only one true God. Just ONE! rant over).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mom did exceptionally well considering she could hardly breathe at our altitude and I kept her so busy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had just enough time to visit the Compassion building before picking Evan up from school. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aren't they cute?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Spending time with "Gramma KK" as she's known to all her grandkids, was very special to Dawson and Evan. There was one time though, that Gramma told an exceptionally LONG story to Evan and he let her know on several occasions that she could keep the stories to a brief time frame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We booked a ski resort in Keystone for the weekend because it wasn't ski season yet, so we could afford it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jason and I spent a considerable amount of time speculating how they were able to get a hot tub inside the condo which was located on the second floor. I said a helicopter hovered over the unfinished building while firemen hung precariously from the landing gear guiding it into place and a construction worker with an orange hard hat went plummeting to his death because the hot tub cover wasn't securely fastened knocking him off the platform. I won.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's a beautiful bridge crossing over a brook and a bench located behind our condo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We went to the Outlet shops in Silverthorne and I got chocolate covered caramel apple at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is because Jason nixed my idea of going to the Coach Outlet. I super annoyed that I had side swept bangs added back to my hair. Just needed to vent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lake Dillon is nestled somewhere between Keystone and Silverthorne and I'm just guessing about that because I wanted to use the word nestled in a sentence. Regardless, this picture doesn't do it justice:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Monday, we made the drive back home to our house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Tuesday we went to The Arc Thrift store because Tuesday is Senior Citizen Day and all tags but one are marked 50% off for all senior citizens. So I loaded mom's cart up with all the stuff I wanted and she told the cashier she already gave me the money for her stuff. We're a great team.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Wednesday I took them by our <a href="http://www.cabag.org/" target="_blank">church</a> and we stopped at my office so that mom could see where I previously used to stand all day long before standing at work was cool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bright and early on Thursday morning I dropped them off at the airport and I promptly told them to make a pouty face for our photo opportunity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I called my mom later to make sure she made it home okay and let her know that she's welcome to move in with us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've decided to call her every 5 minutes until then so that she knows I miss her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We chose 3 parks for our Disney vacation: Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios and Epcot. We opted out of Animal Kingdom because we were under the impression it was more of a glorified zoo. I'm sure there are plenty of people who have gone there and loved it, we chose to do Epcot instead because... FOOD. We did have a blabber mouth lady in line behind us at Magic Kingdom tell us the boys would be bored at Epcot because there was nothing there to do for children. But our boys liked it. So we win.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0k-21SjX7TYU2tgAoydzIWRUn7qZiR6VOLdasPaBgD8DkCZbQBZpZmHHT0mr_tquRo6VGw2XDLmT28GHYeBINJ2bhzMMuwUi9APB_AabAZjpgoPzZPRIbKpCR1CFBCSeLUYZd_u6qpAc/s1600/IMG_0141.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0k-21SjX7TYU2tgAoydzIWRUn7qZiR6VOLdasPaBgD8DkCZbQBZpZmHHT0mr_tquRo6VGw2XDLmT28GHYeBINJ2bhzMMuwUi9APB_AabAZjpgoPzZPRIbKpCR1CFBCSeLUYZd_u6qpAc/s640/IMG_0141.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It just so happened we were there during their annual Food & Wine Festival, so we didn't realize what we had gotten ourselves into.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The place got crowded quickly with people wearing shirts that had Mickey with a beer in his hand. Mice drink water. So those shirts are dumb.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The side of the park where all the food is located is set up to emanate different countries and I did find it fascinating. The staff members who work at these locations are all from the country they represent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The grounds are huge, so we spent a lot of time walking on this day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had enough time for Jason to purchase a chocolate croissant in France before our first FastPass ride.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They had an area where kids could sit and color in the little shop where Jason bought his croissant. I was quite relieved by this because the shop had tons of glass replicas of the eiffel tower and tea sets and I began to think it was a conspiracy, knowing that children would pick them up and break them and poor families like us would have to pay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">TestTrack was our first FastPass ride. I'm sure Chevrolet is as happy to represent at Disney as Coca-Cola is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before you ride, you can create a concept car that will be "tested" on the track.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We got stuck for about 10 minutes at the end of the actual ride. We just sat there and couldn't move. But apparently it happens so often that they didn't even bother to offer us a free FastPass. So I'm writing a letter to Chevrolet sharing my concern for the welfare of children and their fun in hopes they will comp me a few free Disney Park tickets. Or maybe a Corvette Grand Sport. Whatevs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After this we went on the prowl for food. It was our last day at Disney, so we had to use up all of our quick service meals and snack credits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We ate lunch at Liberty Inn. While Jason and Dawson were getting our food, Evan and I snagged a table because the eating area was filling up. When we sat down, Evan said, "mommy, you look like a superstar today". So I took a selfie of me at that moment. You're welcome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After lunch we were back on the movea to find more food and snacks. We call that second lunch and third lunch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jason found a lobster roll at Hops & Barley.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ladies, I've got a fine man. Just felt the need to say it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We stopped in Germany to get me a pretzel, and the pretzels there didn't count toward snack credits! I contacted the German authorities and they said guten tag.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The only other food I had my heart set on was a taco from Mexico and baklava from Greece and I got both. There was a bone in my taco though and I spit it out in the middle of the street while we were walking because I was so shocked by it. I was wearing my Broncos shirt though...people wearing Broncos shirts get away with everything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At some point along the way Dawson decided to do a jump and I was the greatest mom to capture it on camera.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just look at Norway everybody. I mean who doesn't want a grass roof now?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was getting super hot out and I found a stand for shaved ice. Jason and I got into a bit of an argument because I told him to get one blue raspberry for Dawson and one strawberry for me. So he got one blue raspberry for Dawson and one Tiger's Blood for himself thinking I said Dawson and I were going to share the blue raspberry. But he's sort of a selective listener.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eventually we had to make our way out of this side of the park to catch our second FastPass ride which was Mission to Mars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was a simulator ride and you stare at a screen while the ride moves you up and down and around. I was totally good with that until the very end. Jason had to grab a barf bag but managed to make it out unscathed. I typically don't get queasy on rides like that, but there's a wee tiny slight bit of a chance I'd had too much food before I got on it. Teeny chance. Minuscule.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At some point among all our walking and eating, I saw a sign declaring that it was a station to meet Belle. The Beauty and the Beast Belle! So I promptly got in line. I mean, I'm basically Belle, and this chic is my stand-in. I was officially the last person in line because they had to close the line since she had lunch reservations with Mrs. Potts. I used this to my advantage and decided right then and there that I was going to make her listen to me sing the first half of "Little Town" from the original motion picture for her so that she could see that I'm spot on, and also let her know that I have the movie memorized. All before getting our official picture taken. Brilliant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jason told me that Dawson was mortified that I sang for Belle and he was so embarrassed he had to walk away from us. Well. HE embarrasses ME when he goes to church with holes in his shorts. So. Even!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I can SO totally do that little hand pose she's got going on, by the way. Just sayin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I thought you'd all want to see the back side of the round ball thing. You're welcome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We rode one last ride. I forget the name of it but you sit in a boat and it takes you through the area where Epcot grows some of the herbs and fruit that is used in some of the food sold at the stands. It's all about sustainability and such. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the end of this ride, we were done. It was 3 pm and even though Jason secured another FastPass for us, the majority vote was to go back to the resort and spend the rest of the day swimming. We had already walked 6 miles by this point and it was hot out. Since this was our last day at Disney, we wanted to make the most of it. The boys were happy, I was happy. So that's how we ended our stay at Disney.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We stayed at the Double Tree hotel because Jason had hotel points that we were able to use to stay for free. Yay. We had never been to this beach before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I'm pretty sure I should live somewhere tropical. I told Jason we can get me a home in the tropics and he can get his cabin in Alaska and we can visit each other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jason got the call that our room was ready, so we went to go check it out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The view from our balcony:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's the cool thing about going to Florida in October... you pretty much have the beach to yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Evan is too much awesome and reads magazines on the balcony.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I love the sound of the ocean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There's this huge window at the entrance to the hallway that led to our hotel room and I was quite enamored with the view.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The boys spent way more time in the pool than in the ocean though, and I was fine with that due to sharks and other deadly ocean life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was alarming when I remembered that we actually had to pay for food here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Speaking of food, I was really wanting doughnuts for some reason. So on the first morning when we got up, we set out looking for some. The Krispy Kreme that was 7 miles from us was closed! So I wrote Krispy Kreme and told them I was concerned for the welfare of all beach people and their love of doughnuts. Maybe that will earn me a life time of Hot Now. Eventually Jason found a suitable replacement and I had a salted chocolate espresso glazed doughnut. Yum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My friend Stephanie's parents live only about 25 minutes from Melbourne Beach, and it just so happened that Stephanie and her family were on vacation with them during the time we were also vacationing in Florida. So that evening we had dinner with them -and no one thought to get a picture! Boo Hiss. But her parents invited us over to their house after we had to check out of our hotel on the day we had to head to the airport. So we got pictures then:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The boys got to go fishing in the pond near their house so they were happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was finally time to bring our awesome Disney vacation to a conclusion. I could cry just thinking about it. We decided we hope to go back in 2019 when Star Wars Galaxy's Edge is completed. I'll probably go dressed as Rey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Evan was completely exhausted by the time we got to the airport and when we stopped for dinner near our gate, he was out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And the whole way home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm still waiting to catch up on sleep from vacation. Hopefully by 2019.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The boys and I were really looking forward to this theme park day because of Star Tours, the Star Wars experience at Disney. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was in awe the moment I could see inside to the park. I'm a huge fan of nostalgia and every detail about this park is nostalgic. The buildings, the signs, the stuff. I couldn't think of another word.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In our entire day at Magic Kingdom, we never saw any characters. I'm guessing this was because they were all inside of buildings since they would have melted inside their costumes outside and that would have caused a scene. But while in the entry line at Hollywood Studios we saw Donald Duck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first stop was Starbucks for my Venti drink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dawson and Evan both got hot chocolates. I'm racking my brain trying to remember what I ordered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I can tell you one thing. It wasn't pumpkin spiced anything! Gag.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is me squinting while I hold my whatever it was. Oh! I think it was a caramel macchiato with an extra shot of vanilla.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Look how cute the cups are! Starbucks should be paying me in free drinks for this advertising.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our first fastpass was for Star Tours so we headed that direction.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDWXM1B8SPakoFSfi1y2c4Z0Xzr4n1RCLWjlVmQ6Y3Q7kVCeOHBfKJNbk2jbvpi-oL8e1Z7LuQdbCRAl7bukqI7dK3XdC9S1HQAZUHk9vyp2Tqu04B1K2SI5RBiYYc3lW5brpwJoobCRY/s1600/IMG_0060.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDWXM1B8SPakoFSfi1y2c4Z0Xzr4n1RCLWjlVmQ6Y3Q7kVCeOHBfKJNbk2jbvpi-oL8e1Z7LuQdbCRAl7bukqI7dK3XdC9S1HQAZUHk9vyp2Tqu04B1K2SI5RBiYYc3lW5brpwJoobCRY/s640/IMG_0060.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tons of kids were dressed up like Star Wars characters. I just had the boys wear Star Wars t-shirts because I suppose I'm lame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Star Tours has a lot of Star Wars memorabilia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And we got to meet "Baby 8" as Evan calls him,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kylo Ren -who told Evan that the force of the dark side was strong in him- Jason and I had to agree,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And Chewbacca who was visibly upset that Dawson was wearing a shirt with Darth Vader on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ride broke down while we were in line for it. So they walked us to another side of the building where there was another track where the ride was working so we were still able to get on, and gave us a free FastPass ticket that could be used for almost any ride in the park. This reminded me that the Pirates of the Caribbean ride wasn't working when we were at Magic Kingdom and I thought I should be able to tell this to a staff member and maybe cry a little, to earn another FastPass. But I didn't. I just stole the ticket from the lady standing in line behind us at the Toy Story Mania ride.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The highlight of this day was the StormTrooper march down Sunset Boulevard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We saw the opening scene, and then we noticed that the host of the show was stalling. It turned out that we had to come back to the show later because the set wasn't working correctly. The movable set wouldn't pull a part due to a technical glitch. So we came back and got to watch the entire show.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had more time to spare so we opted to go get lunch at a pizza place. Dawson and I were standing in line next to a lady who told the guy taking the lunch orders "I have a tomato allergy". I stood there, incredulous. Um. You have a <i>tomato allergy</i> and you're choosing to eat at a pizza joint? EYE ROLL.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was finally time for TOWER OF TERROR.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Evan was all business during the ride and I was certain he was terrified. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But when it was over, he begged to go on it again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As promised, we are to the part where I talk about the yummy treats we had.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Evan got a cookie and Dawson got a blue slush, and they took turns fighting over who would share.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The real fight came at the end of the night when we went to see the final show called Fantasmic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This show starts at night because there are fire works, so the Disney staff broke out the glowy things!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The boy in front of us started to beg for something that glows and the next thing you know, Evan is whining and demanding that he get something too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The hats are $25 people! So I bought Evan a $5 light up fidget spinner at World of Disney in Disney Springs and we called it good. Next time: I'm buying glow bands at Dollar Tree and bringing them with us. Done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The show would have been spectacular. But it was night time, and I was cold in my tank top so when I started getting sprayed with water by the effects from the show, I got a bit cranky. But the glow in the dark floats with princesses at the end gave me hope for a better tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was after we closed out Hollywood Studios that we decided to take the bus from there to Disney Springs to buy the Star Wars shirt I wanted and get dinner. It was very late and the boys weren't happy about it, but we did it anyway. I got my shirt, so I was happy.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyGuGIPdE9It5WThy8RQZvPFz7OhHyLv1CmjFoB81tOb_aGf0bhrisSSxypvI1srvYkXu7TMp67zIKM6047EXCYxiYcji-JtFc37H9PLzE1Me4ARvl7gUaMZ7_3YkHg2FqOQp0yUFW1yM/s1600/IMG_2200.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyGuGIPdE9It5WThy8RQZvPFz7OhHyLv1CmjFoB81tOb_aGf0bhrisSSxypvI1srvYkXu7TMp67zIKM6047EXCYxiYcji-JtFc37H9PLzE1Me4ARvl7gUaMZ7_3YkHg2FqOQp0yUFW1yM/s640/IMG_2200.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Evan fell asleep on my lap on the crowded bus ride back to the resort.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyway...I'll probably have a summer home at Hollywood Studios someday. So.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Peace Out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm fairly certain I'm addicted to vacation. An intervention isn't necessary, thank you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Day 2: Caribbean Beach Resort & Disney Springs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> We spent recovering from our long day at Magic Kingdom. I'm so glad we took this day to relax at the resort and then do some shopping at Disney Springs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/resorts/caribbean-beach-resort/?CMP=KNC-FY17_WDW_TRA_DOM_WDWResortOffers_DSA-Moderate|BR|G|4171070.RR.AM.01.03|&d_psid=aud-301716124492:dsa-222143894958|dc||168895428459|b|5060:3|&s_kwcid=AL!5060!3!168895428459!b!!!!&ef_id=WSBaPQAAAGDCHlC0:20171021174152:s" target="_blank">Caribbean Beach Resort</a> has a fun water park that is themed to look like a centuries old Spanish fort, complete with water slides!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The boys would have spent all day swimming if I hadn't begged to go shopping.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The grounds are well kept all except for the fact that they didn't annihilate all snakes or alligators. The world should be rid of such beasts says I! Zoom in on the sign. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You could see areas where construction was occurring but that didn't bother us. Evan knows every single piece of construction equipment by name and I'm hoping when he grows up he will be asked to do construction at Disney and secure us free theme park tickets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For some reason this picture reminds me of an upscale retirement center.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We stayed on a part of the island called Martinique.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As much as I love swimming and laying in the sun, I had my heart set on going to Disney Springs to buy a few souvenirs to take home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Disney Springs reminded me of a shopping center we have at home called Shops at Briargate which is basically for those who aren't celebrity status but think they are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When we first got there, I spotted a Starbucks right away. Venti sized Starbucks drinks count as a snack credit! So I told the barista to let me have a selfie with her because I was excited to get a frappucino.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I told Dawson to take a picture of me with me frap and he did this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first stop we had to make was at the Lego Store, because Dawson is a Lego fanatic. He feels about Legos the way I feel about melted Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, only I haven't created a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWzQSJkQTEFHCDT2q007ew" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a> sharing my enthusiasm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a matter of fact, he created a video about his Lego purchase at Disney Springs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I forgot that I had another child who might want his picture taken in front of the Lego Store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I took Evan and we walked around looking for a Lego Ninjao set that he wanted. Once he found it, he told me "You're the number one best loved mom". To which I agreed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dawson had saved up money and wanted to buy the Lego Ninjago Green Ninja Dragon set, but we told him he would have to wait until we got home to buy it because it was too large to fit in our luggage. Suddenly I spotted the Lego serpent that one of the staff members had created and put on display at the cashier register. The serpent was meant to be a replica of the actual huge Lego serpent that was in the lake located just outside the store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dawson asked if he could buy a bucket of pick-a-bricks instead and include the pieces for the Lego Serpent and we agreed that this was a good idea. I took a picture of the Lego serpent so that he could have it for reference when he got home to build it. Only I didn't bother checking the picture after I took it... and it's crap. The crappy serpent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So he picked out bricks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After we spent a year and 6 months in the Lego store we were starving so we went to an Irish place called Cooke's for some fish 'n chips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There a few Star Wars shops that we stopped in, which is when I decided I wanted to buy a Star Wars Alex and Ani bracelet. They are $40! Shock and awe. So I walked out of the Alex and Ani store and bought the bracelet I wanted off of eBay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then we went to the World of Disney store where I found a Star Wars shirt that I wanted.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZWHkboDd1WPyLRLKaOkuRmPhEqBwVACnDOB6iVl93H6r7F5UNKc5J2pT7heFUKUehDAOIOjas1NJ1IAH4S1ZEkwUS5oA0gso1uaMCcITTIlSzONSjyeSfgirxIkheZTAw5YCImshJkdE/s1600/IMG_0033.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZWHkboDd1WPyLRLKaOkuRmPhEqBwVACnDOB6iVl93H6r7F5UNKc5J2pT7heFUKUehDAOIOjas1NJ1IAH4S1ZEkwUS5oA0gso1uaMCcITTIlSzONSjyeSfgirxIkheZTAw5YCImshJkdE/s640/IMG_0033.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Only it was too expensive so I left it there. Only to regret it later because I couldn't find the shirt anywhere else so we came back to Disney Springs at like 11 pm after our day at Hollywood Studios so that I could buy it. Because I'm not spoiled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And I then I rant out of pictures for this day. We shopped, we went back to the resort to swim and I searched for American Pickers on cable, we slept.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Day 1: Magic Kingdom</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We woke up super early so that we could get to the park before it opened and beat the crowds. I've found that people are divided on this issue. Some say sleep in and go later so that you can stay later. Others say go early so that you can enjoy the park and get on a few rides before it gets crowded and the lines get long. I say go early. Unless you want to sleep in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There's a little enclosed waiting area near the hotel room we had. This is where you board the bus that will take you the theme park. If you will take a minute to look at Evan's shoes... we bought them the day we left for Disney in order to increase his height so that he could ride Space Mountain. We're so smart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There weren't many people at Magic Kingdom yet when we arrived.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think maybe the guy in the red hat was a bit suspicious of my frantic picture taking. Listen red hat guy, this was my first visit! You won't have this picture as a memory so ha!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When we entered the park I teared up a bit. Mainly because I didn't have to suck in to squeeze around people and navigate my way down main street.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But when we saw the castle, that's when I thought I should probably just move here. I'm sure there's an apartment over one of the shops they can put me in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We aren't Disney worshipers like some crazies on this planet, but we still had to have our family picture taken in front of the castle. We didn't purchase the Disney Memory Maker package -which purchases all of the photos that Disney staff members take of you. So I asked a nice lady who was standing near us if she would take our picture with our camera. I was pretty disappointed when I looked at the pictures later and saw that she only got half of the castle in the picture. So I hunted her down and spit my gum right in front of her shoe so she stepped on it. Just kidding. (Did you know you can't buy gum at Disney World?) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I actually returned the favor and took a picture of her family and I'm not sure if I got the whole castle in the picture either, so maybe we're even. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were several rides that had no line or wait time when we got there so we chose to make the most of our opportunity and get on those ones right away. First was the tea cup ride. Jason couldn't do this one because he can't do spinny things. That's why when we get into arguments I start running in circles around him so that he leaves me alone and starts throwing up instead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next was the Dumbo ride and we were the only one's on it. If I could rent out Magic Kingdom for a day, this set up would be ideal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tomorrowland has a speedway where go-carts are available to drive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I let Dawson drive our car and Jason let Evan drive his.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Allowing children to drive parents around mechanical tracks can actually be terrifying. Dawson turned out to be a horrible driver. He and Evan were swerving all over the track. Now I'm prepared for Driver's Ed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our first Fast Pass was for Space Mountain.. and the ride was down. So we sat and ate a Mickey pretzel with cheese dip. I didn't get a picture of the Mickey pretzel, but I can tell you it's sort of like salted cardboard. I guess I'm a solid Auntie Anne's pretzel fan which means all other pretzels are jell-o to my creme brulee (movie quote).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While we sat and ate, Space Mountain became functional again. On our walk over to the ride, Dawson had talked himself into a panicked frenzy because he had been told the ride was dark and he wasn't sure his senses were capable of said terror. So in order to calm him, I told him he could wear my AppleWatch, This way he could have light at any time by tapping on it. Yeah. I'm mom of the century. I didn't realize how much he relied on this comfort technique until I saw our ride picture at the end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Speaking of ride pictures. Disney took 77 pictures of us at some point through our 3 days of theme parks. Most of those were pictures taken on rides. If you look at the round Mickey button between Touch O Below in the picture above, you'll see that it's lit up. If you scan your magic band by touching it to the Mickey button, that picture will be available on Disney's photo website for purchase. That being said, we have approximately 10 pictures of people on rides that we don't know because Evan wanted to scan his magic band every time there was an opportunity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There wasn't a huge wait time for the Buzz Lightyear ride so we headed that way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After we emerged from shooting up Zurg related objects it was as though the earth vomited a Mickey eared mass of people equivalent to the entire U.S. population into the Magic Kingdom. The place was crowded. Thus began the day of random melt downs among us all. It was hot, muggy and filled to capacity now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We decided to take the train over to FrontierLand to catch our next FastPass ride which was Thunder Mountain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I can't even remember what he was mad about. Probably that the train was red and he wanted it to be blue. Who knows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We ate lunch in FrontierLand at Pecos Bills and walked to Liberty Square to ride the Haunted Mansion. We had to wait in the stand-by line for this one which was miserably long. Well. It was only miserable because we had children. I suggest bringing 55" flat screen tv's with you to pass the time so that your toddler will love life during this time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From here we walked to Fantasyland and waited in the peasant line for the Small World ride. It was during this wait time that Jason texted Olivia to ask if we were allowed to leave the park and go back to our resort and come back to Magic Kingdom later that night when our fastpass for the Seven Dwarfs ride was ready at 8:00. Yeah. We were that done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Something about this ride gave us new life (perhaps the constant repetition of the song "It's a Small World", which surely has entered your mind now and won't leave until you sleep tonight).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So we managed to stick around. We searched for an air conditioned show where we could sit. We waited in a short line to see Mickey's PhilharMagic Show which was 3D and we got squirted with water too. I had snacks in my backpack that I doled out while we waited in line and Evan and Dawson just plopped themselves down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We each devoured a chocolate covered Mickey rice krispy treat. But it wasn't my favorite. Before you think I'm a Disney food hater, I had some treats at HollyWood Studios that I really liked so calm down zippy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wish we could have gotten a FastPass for the Seven Dwarfs Mine ride earlier in the day. But we closed out our Magic Kingdom ride experience with this one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The highlight of our day at Magic Kingdom turned out to be the fireworks show at the castle at the end. We were actually going to skip it because it was super crowded and the boys couldn't see the castle over the tall people in front of us. But the show.is.phenomenal. So I'm glad we stayed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had to hoist Evan up on my shoulders so that he could see which caused my swollen legs and feet some great discomfort. Yeah, I'm mom of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My favorite topic to blog about is our family vacations. Then I go back and read them over and over to remind myself that life is good when winter consumes me and all I want to do is throw myself on the floor dramatically and weep big fat tears of gloom and despair. This continual vacation blog reading cycle could also account for the fact that <a href="https://aboutajoy.blogspot.com/2013/10/island-living.html" target="_blank">this blog post</a> has the largest number of views and that makes it number one on my most popular blog posts section. That was the year first year we traveled outside of our 2 state comfort zone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This year I had hustled and saved as much money as I could in order to fly my sisters out to visit me. But it didn't work out. So I said to myself "Self! use that money to go on a super fantastically fun vacation".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I started searching Beaches Resort vacations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do you know how stinking expensive those are?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And that's how we settled on the Walt Disney World Orlando, FL vacation. Because Beaches Resorts would require a reverse mortgage on our house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had never been to any Disney theme park location and therefore I felt this was the year for matching THEME vacation t-shirts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To which Jason was all like:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Planning a trip to Disney World is a <i>thing</i> people! I had no idea what we were getting ourselves into until we started planning and I realized Disney has it's own language. Jason actually called Disney a bazillion times while I Googled. Halfway through our planning, he remembered that his cousin <a href="https://www.facebook.com/oliviapowellmickeyvacationdesigner/" target="_blank">Olivia</a> is a Disney vacation planner. She works for My Mickey Vacation Travel. She is paid by Disney, so it was no charge to us (or anyone else who use her services) to book our trip through her. She was able to answer our never ending questions AND she's nice. Sometimes. AHAHAHAHAHA! totally kidding Olivia!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We booked our vacation stay at Disney's <a href="https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/resorts/caribbean-beach-resort/?CMP=KNC-FY17_WDW_TRA_DOM_WDWResortOffers_DSA-Moderate|BR|G|4171070.RR.AM.01.03|&d_psid=aud-297874652121:dsa-222143894958|dc||168895428459|b|5060:3|&s_kwcid=AL!5060!3!168895428459!b!!!!&ef_id=WSBaPQAAAGDCHlC0:20171019001032:s" target="_blank">Caribbean Beach Resort</a>. This was our trip itinerary:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Arrival: Resort Check-in (full day of travel)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Days 5-7: We left Disney and spent a few days at Melbourne Beach</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first tip I would give is to space out the theme park visits if you're able to. By the end of each day we were exhausted, somewhat miserable and our feet were swollen. Isn't that magical?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We woke up crazy early to catch our flight that would connect us to Dallas that would connect us to Orlando. We were pretty giddy, even at 4 am at the airport.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And on the plane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our first flight had movie options! Dawson and I watched Spider-Man Homecoming and I'm still asking myself how a kid with a British accent can sound so american. Was it a result of being bit by the spider?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Orlando airport has it's own terminal containing Disney's transportation system called Disney's Magical Express. If you plan a trip to Disney and stay at one of their resorts, you use their transportation for everything. Even traveling to the theme parks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Disney sends you tags that put on your checked luggage. Your luggage will be transported from the airport directly to your room at the resort. We were checking in at the Disney counter at the airport, waiting to be told where to go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We took a Disney bus from the airport to our resort. The luggage guy thought I was taking a picture of him. But I was actually taking a picture of the bus. No offense luggage guy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Disney sends you Magic Bands that you wear everywhere you go. The band is scanned for everything, entry to your room, the theme parks, purchasing food or other items, and it contains your fast pass. A fast pass is disney language for a quick way to get on a ride. It allows you to bypass the long line that all the peasants are in and get on the ride really quick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'll add here that the gray edge you see around the band can be removed, which will make the band smaller. I removed the gray edge from my band as well as Dawson's and Evan's. Then I regretted removing the band from the edge of mine because I felt like my band wasn't as pretty and I fretted about it for 3 whole days (the edge doesn't go back on) to the point that I was going to buy a new magic band until Jason thought I was crazy so I didn't. Also, I recently found out that magic bands can be used until the battery dies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dawson found this Disney issued Star Wars Darth Vader hand sanitizer worth $12.00 laying on the floor of the bus! I'm certain this meant Disney was rewarding us for visiting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was super excited to find them for sale in a Disney store. I cold probably totally sell it for $100 on eBay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Disney Magic Express drops you off at a Guest Services Station at your resort where you transfer to a van that takes you to your room. This is how blurry your life feels at this point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I felt it was necessary to also include a selfie on the van trip. I'll have it be on record here that I was determined to have my hair colored as blonde as it could get before we left for Disney against Jason's wishes. He likes my hair better dark. But this was a mid-life crisis time frame so he gave in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A tiny room with a high price considering the amount of time you spend in it. But American Pickers was having a marathon so I was good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even the soap comes engraved with the word Disney. I meant to ask for more so that I could sell them on eBay too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Located on this table was a note with 2 Disney pins (a Goofy pin and a Donald Duck pin) attached to it. The note apologized for the construction and offered the collector's pin as a thank you for staying with them. I totally thought I took a picture of the card with the pins but I can't find it anywhere. The pins can be traded at the Disney Parks. Many shops have a pin trading board, and many Disney staff have a lanyard with collector pins that they are required to trade with you upon request.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Upon the discovery that the pins could be traded, Dawson and Evan sought after any Star Wars themed Disney pin they could find, in order to trade up. I asked this staff gal if I could take a picture of her pin lanyard and she complied because I said it really fast and then snapped the picture before she had time to realize what she was agreeing to. I didn't have her sign a waiver.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After scouring every pin available in the Disney Kingdom, the boys came home with these. The pin on the bottom right was given to the boys by a lady in line in front of us at the Toy Story ride in Hollywood Studios. She whipped out this fat book full of collector pins and handed that one to me. Is it Star Wars? I don't even know. I thought it was the Colorado flag symbol. Whatevs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had a swimming pool located right outside our room, but there was a larger pool area on the premises. We'll get to that on the Resort/Disney Springs blog post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The resort has a designated area where you go to pick up your re-fillable mug (if you paid for that service). So we went there to pick up our mug.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then we went to the designated refilling station to fill them all. They can only be used at resorts, not the theme parks. The Coke machine knows if you are trying to use any cup other than the Disney cup because the cups are activated. I know this because the screen kept showing<span style="color: #cc0000;"> !No Mug Detected! </span>if I was too clumsy when getting the mug in the right spot while trying to pour the pop. Because it's pop not soda. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Selfie of us on the center of the resort island where I saw not one but 2 snakes on the very first day when we arrived! I hate snakes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have more pictures of the resort grounds to be shared on the resort blog post. Our resort was undergoing construction and one of the areas affected was the food court. So they had a temporary tent set up where a buffet was served. This was included in our quick service (meal plan) package, so we ate there on our first night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I rarely post food pictures because I have a "I hate food pictures" rule that I live by. But I have a few to share over the coming blog posts. Because it's my rule and I can break it if I want to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My meal was a salad and a cheese danish because there wasn't anything else on the buffet that I wanted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dawson sat down to eat and immediately lost a tooth after taking a bite of a chicken tender.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I have to end this super lengthy blog post on this lost tooth because I'm worn out already from this novel. We ate, we watched tv and we slept.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Day 2: Magic Kingdom -tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Peace Out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before the year 2017 comes to a conclusion, we are embarking on a family vacation that rivals all others we've taken.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because of this, I felt now is an appropriate time to document our daily life in order to ensure that the world is knowledgeable of what a truly un-glamourous lifestyle is really like. Bonus: It's totally attainable by the average citizen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To begin, we currently have a comforter on our bed in the master bedroom that is unlike any other I've seen. Not even when dumpster diving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I totally plan to Pinterest this picture. It's bedding from Target, after all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the sake of full disclosure, we're zooming in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've always wondered what the inside of my comforter looks like. Said no one ever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you'll take a little glance at the left side of the picture toward the top of the bed, you'll see another nice little rip. I keep that hidden with pillows. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lately I've been experimenting with this hair try-on app. I actually think the app is great and it does give you an accurate depiction of what you can expect if you color/cut your hair. I've personally found my goal: Looking like an abandoned sheepherder dog was the look I never knew I wanted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For whatever reason, this picture reminds me that a friend of mine recently introduced me to a feature on Snapchat that allows you to create funny videos and we have been texting them back and forth to each other. Dawson, Evan and I all created a video.</span><iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9JC3vIZ5GpQ/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9JC3vIZ5GpQ?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The weather here in CO has recently changed from high 90's to cooler temps in the 50's and cloudy. This kind of weather doesn't last long here, as we have mostly sunny days, believe it or not. But my husband was not prepared to turn the heat on in our house in order to accommodate said cooler temperatures and several days ago I found myself in sweats, a sweatshirt, thick socks and wrapped in a blanket on a morning when it was 40 degrees outside. Because... this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was how said husband decided to remedy the situation:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, a tiny space heater to warm our entire downstairs. Also available for your viewing pleasure is the fact that we are in the process of redoing our kitchen and we've been without cupboard doors for weeks. This doesn't bother me however, because I'm lazy and the effort it takes to open a cupboard door is nonexistent now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As far as the boys are concerned, we have one low maintenance kids and one high maintenance kid. Basically, any maintenance required is high maintenance in this stage of my life. Probably because I'm 40 and I just want to sit and stare.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dawson frequently amazes me with his Lego artistry. He stays holed up in his room for hours on end building MOCs (for those of you that aren't fluent in Lego, that means "My Own Creation") for his YouTube Channel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For reality's sake I'll mention that Dawson can be a camera hog. I went outside to film Evan learning to ride his bike without training wheels...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Evan might be the most expressive child I've ever known. He uses descriptive words such as "massive, ginormous and insane" right along with hand gestures to make a point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If Dawson is asking me to take a picture of something, Evan wants his picture taken as well, and he'll pose quickly in order expedite the process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other day when we went shoe shopping, I heard Evan mumbling his frustration about something in the back seat. Suddenly, he was proud of himself for accomplishing something he'd been working hard on and wanted me to look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apparently, getting one of those nylon hose socks on your head is harder than most criminals make it look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dawson didn't struggle nearly as much which leads me to believe he's matured in his criminal activity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will say that when the boys play Xbox together it's like the Hatfield/McCoy feud in our house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I yell, I threaten. Evan stomps off in tears and Dawson tries to talk Evan into letting him have his way with the game for just a few minutes. This makes Evan scream no from whatever place in the house he's landed to pout, and the chaos usually results in me declaring the game must be turned off and get me chocolate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No, I've been without chocolate for about 2 months now. I've been doing this eating plan called "Eat Fat, Get Thin". So really, I yell for someone to get me bulletproof coffee, my new favorite drink which also makes me smart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I've suddenly run out of anti-glamour talk. Can you believe it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm sure there's more where this came from.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Peace Out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recently my sisters and I have been talking about our family line. The history has been a bit convoluted as it has made its way passed my ears -either due to the informant, or the way I remember it happening. But as we were talking through events of the past, it became suddenly clear just how tragic lives can be.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My daddy survived the deaths of 4 brothers, both parents, one step father, his father-in-law, mother-in-law and one daughter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He didn't survive his own death though.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Actually, he did survive his <a href="https://aboutajoy.blogspot.com/2013/07/happy-endings.html" target="_blank">first death</a>. I'm guessing there aren't a whole lot of people that are afforded that opportunity in life. Well, there's always Lazarus. He was dead so long that the bible said he "stinketh". I can totally relate to that. I live with all boys. My house often stinketh.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the sake of memory (which is most often why I blog), I decided to be brave and share the circumstances surrounding my dad's sickness that left him uprooted from the land of the living.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Uprooted From The Land Of The Living.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I read that exact phrase one day when I was reading about the life of King David in my bible. Specifically it's mentioned in Psalm 52:5 in reference to a tattletale who brought death to several innocent people. </span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span class="text Ps-52-5" id="en-NIV-14716" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; position: relative; text-align: start;">Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin:</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-52-5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">He will snatch you up and pluck<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-14716J" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-14716J" title="See cross-reference J">J</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> you from your tent;</span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;" /><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Ps-52-5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">he will uproot<span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NIV-14716K" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NIV-14716K" title="See cross-reference K">K</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span> you from the land of the living.</span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span class="text Ps-52-5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Something about reading death described as being uprooted from the land of the living made shiver. Kind of like my spine was italicized for just a moment. I just thought of that all on my own because I was admiring how italics makes letters all shivery. That's a word you know.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span class="text Ps-52-5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Back in August 2016, I received several phone calls updating me on the state of my dad's health which was declining enough to put him in the hospital. It was my sister telling me that I should come home because "this time is different, he doesn't look good" that sort of put me in a frenzy to get home quickly. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span class="text Ps-52-5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Now, I have days when I don't look good. Like today -I was outside all morning in the freezing cold drizzly weather and my hair had gone through a metamorphosis of chic straight to animal with mange nappy. What I need is a hair hospital. You know? I knew from the tone in my sisters message that my daddy was in a bad way.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span class="text Ps-52-5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">So I did laundry for hours while Jason scoured the internet and made phone calls looking for cheap flights to get me home. This was the first time I ever flew alone. I was a nervous wreck. I'm not afraid of flying. I'm afraid of getting lost and missing my flight. Security also unnerves me just a little. Like I'll unlawfully have cannabis oil in my Revlon Lustrous Super Natural lipgloss and I'll get tazed. On this trip I actually did get pulled aside because the scanning machine found a suspicious object in my backpack. It happened to be a roll of quarters that I brought along to give to my mom and I suddenly found myself talking rapidly to the TSA agent like I do when I get nervous, explaining that I brought them for my mother who lives in an apartment complex that has washers and dryers that take quarters and one time when I was visiting my mom I felt bad that my mom had to have change and when I was growing up we always went to the laundry mat and I would bring my friend along and we would play hide and seek and go behind the vending machines. Yeah. That TSA agent waved me on pretty quick.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span class="text Ps-52-5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">It was during the layover in Dallas that I received an update stating that dad had been seeing visions. I never got to meet my Grandpa DePew. He died of a massive heart attack before I was born. It was at this point where I had to settle in my heart that was in serious condition and perhaps my plans for him to pull through were not God's plans. I continued to mull it over.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When he said Jesus was calling him home though. That was a big deal. I can't remember a time my dad ever spoke the name of Jesus without it being a form of a curse word. (For more on the status of my dad's faith, feel free to read <a href="https://aboutajoy.blogspot.com/2013/07/happy-endings.html" target="_blank">this</a>). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He also endeared us all when the nurse asked him questions:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are 5 of us sisters, but my sister Sherri had passed away over 20 years ago. My daddy still claimed her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I finally made it home and my sister was able to take me directly to the hospital so that I could let dad know I made it home to see him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I stayed the night in his room on my first night. Only I forgot to bring my bed with me from Colorado. I asked the nurse -couldn't they overnight my bed to me via FedEx because the bed they provided felt more like a baby mattress. And the pillows were too airy and squishy like sleeping on a deflated parachute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dad was pretty miserable. He couldn't get comfortable and when any of my sisters were present and he was awake, he consistently called out to have someone move him, shake his arm, or give him a drink. It was hard for us to see him in this state. We did our best to do everything he asked. Late at night on this night that stayed with him, he noticed that there was someone in the room with him and he cried out "I need a hug". So I jumped up from the couch bed and ran over and hugged him tight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then I wondered where my hug was. You know, when you sit and have a pity party because the immature nurses are standing outside your dying loved one's doorway at 3 a.m. loudly proclaiming the events they have planned over the weekend and laughing like they're exciting lives are not being bogged down or impacted by death, so no big deal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And then I prayed. Lots of us prayed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were a few moments when God had mercy on us and our grieving, somber state. Like my nephews announcement:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And my little parking lot incident:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span class="text Ps-52-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; position: relative;">It was the decision us girls had to make about dad's care that burdened us the most. We were told that we had to make the decision if we wanted dad to be treated aggressively, which meant ultimately he could die there in the hospital, because of the complications of the treatments. OR, he could go into hospice care. All treatment would be stopped which meant he would die of Sepsis, but he would be given enough medication to keep him comfortable. And, he could go home which is where he most wanted to be.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="indent-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><span class="text Ps-52-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; position: relative;">Who in there right mind wants to make that sort of decision?! What a torture for your mind. I can see how families are torn apart by these kinds of circumstances.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ultimately, we made the decision to take dad home to his apartment where my sister Anita -who was able to take advantage of FMLA and my nephew Michael would care for him (as well as the rest of us as we were able). This brought us all peace. We had hospice nurses who said that they would come and teach us how to administer medicine and talk us through any questions, concerns or needs we had.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After dad was brought home we were told he would probably only make it about 2 days. So made some calls and invited family members to say goodbye. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ugh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I cry just remembering the goodbyes. "Save the last dance for me" and "you were always a good daddy"... Just ugh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My daddy never said goodbye.<br />On August 14, 2016 at approximately 3 a.m. He just never woke up. Uprooted from the land of the living.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We all stood as the funeral directors wheeled my dad out of his apartment, past us, and placed him the back of the hearse. Which was a Mercedes. If dad had known he was going for a ride in a Mercedes. He probably would have died earlier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That evening my sister and her husband took me out on the lake for a pontoon ride. Dad had the most beautiful sunset God could have given him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During this time, this song gave me great comfort and peace:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Good-bye daddy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I <span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><b>♥</b></span> You</span></div>
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