The start of Disney...

What a silly face, yes??

Whoops!!! There's two of the same again. I'm not sure who keeps doing that....

This was our first photo at Magic Kingdom.

On the first bus ride to Disney. He was awake for the entire plane trip, though.

We had a fantastic trip to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. We spent an entire week down there. It was completely fun in the sun time!!! It was either very close to or more than 100 degrees every single day. As much as I loved it, I was also just dying from heat. But, A was hooked from the first moment. He thought that the sunshine and heat were the best things ever!! We stayed on the Disney properties the whole time, and it was so worth it. We has such a good time.

Just as a warning, we took close to 200 photos during our time in Disney. So, there will be lots of photos posted to this blog in the next few days. There is no way possible to do them all or do the ones that I want to do in the next few minutes.

Also, for those that do not know we spent our time at Disney with Adam's family. His dad, wife, sister and her family. There was a total of 14 of us!! Wow. It was a blast!!! A really good friend of mine stopped by to see us while we were there, and X's birthmom got to spend some time with us as well. It was so nice to see them. And it was a lot of fun vacationing with extending family, too.

More Easter

Easter 2009

We had a great Easter this year! We colored over 5 dozen eggs! It was so much fun. The "Easter bunny" came sometime during the night and hid all of the eggs outside all around the house. It took us almost 30 full minutes to find all the eggs. Well, we couldn't find about 4 of the eggs. It took us the rest of the day to find those last 4 eggs. The "bunny" did a really really great job of hiding the eggs.

It has been some time...

These photos are mostly random photos that I think are cute. Some are the kids playing, some are the area, the kids in their rain gear, and just some others.

It cracks me up how much extra gear we need to survive in Vermont. We wear so many different types of clothes during the winter and the we need rain coats and boots for most of the rest of the year. It is absolutely beautiful during the spring and summer months - not to mention the fall. O loves to wear his rain boots everywhere he can and wherever he can. It doesn't matter if it's raining or if it's sunny out - that boy loves those boots!!

This photo was taken at our au pair family meeting. Sadly, us and only one other family was able to make it to the farm that day. We hope to have another meeting this summer. With us is our LCC (local coordinator) and another au pair from Colombia with her charge. It was a fun day.

Below is a photo of E after he lost his first upper tooth. This tooth was almost our too at the time; it was barely hanging in there. Every time he talked the tooth would wiggle. So funny!!

Well, I must first apologize to anyone who reads this blog about our crazy family because I have not had the time to update since March (?) or so. So, I'm saying it now: I'm sorry it has taken so long. ;-) But, really, that is just the way that my life goes these days.....

There has been quite a bit of activities and events since I last wrote. E has officially lost 3 teeth!! He is very proud of that. We had our Easter here in Vermont. Thankfully, it was not quite as cold or covered with snow as it was last year. We had our spring break - both mine and the kids. We spent some time in Ohio during my break. Not quite a week. I did the drive by myself and all 5 kids. Olga had a weekend class to fulfill her education requirements and Adam could not leave at the time we did. He did fly in to meet us there for 2 days and drove home with us. It was a nice visit. The drive with the kids and me could have been worse. (That's what I kept telling myself anyway.) We have another trip planned this summer as well.