Day 4- Animal Kingdom

This post is guest written by Maris!

Everything is by her unless I add parentheses to have it be my commentary.

Xav and Owen like to play together because Xav is the only boy in the Murray family and Xav thinks Owen is the only boy.

At the Sports room playing air hockey. Its a cool room with other sports that's fun.

Me and Jayda were hiding up on the bed playing hide and seek.

We were getting a picture of when we got to the place we were going to go that was Animal Kingdom.

Lauren and Kurtis were holding my hands while we walked places together.

We got to see a play, Finding Nemo (the musical, it was excellent!!)

The bubbles were fun because there was the big turtle named Crush. The bubbles fell from up above.

Owen and WHitney wanted to take a picture with a tiger.

Uncle Kurtis, me and Lauren weared hats that were for the people at that place. I was having fun at that place.

(This ended up being the coolest ride of the whole trip, Expedition Everest!  It was such a cool roller coaster!)

We were taking a picture because it was Everest behind us. Emma was asleep!

  

Me and Emma, Vivian and Cleo, we were all taking a picture because we all had the same clothes on.

(Right after this, we all left and had the craziest experience seeing a rainstorm speeding towards us and SPRINTING to the car and just making it!  Ryan and Cortnee were on the next tram to the parking lot and didn't make it, they got soaked!!  It was the craziest, end-of-the-world, movie-like experience to hear it coming, turn around and see it, yell and point to my family and then start sprinting and get them all in the car just in time!!)

EMma is learning how to swim in her floaties.

I jumped off the side and I jumped into the deep doing a cannonball!

Owen and Cleo were playing in the little square pool and it was a hot tub actually and they thought it wasn't but it actually was.  (Jayda and Xav didn't get to swim that night, I felt kind of bad that I let my kids!  But we can all handle different things as parents!)

Dad was throwing high EMma and before she went down Daddy catched her before she went into the wall.

(fun times at after hours, see the post from day 3 that I accidentally put that night on!)

Day 3- First Disney Day!!

Because of the terrible infection Mary had, they had not arrived in Florida yet, so sad!! But Ryan and Cortnee came in on Tuesday, so they were with us when we went in for our first day at Disney World!  

So this was our group going into Magic Kingdom.  

Maris was obsessed with Lauren and Kurtis, and thankfully they like her too :)  Emma likes them a lot as well!

We were split up most of the day; me and the little girls and Eric with the big kids.  So here we are on our first Disney ride, the Astro Orbiter.

Later on the flying carpets--basically the same ride lol

And then Maris got to go do the coolest thing ever: Get all prettied up like a princess at the Bippity Boppity Boutique with her cousins!  It was expensive and ADORABLE.  I have never felt so spoiled in my life!  The little girls all LOVED it. And even though it was at Disney Springs and we had to take a bus and then walk around a lake to get there and back, I loved it too.  And I lost a couple of pounds on the trip from walking like 10 miles a day haha

Emma fell asleep and Ryan offered to hold her so I could help Maris get dressed, so sweet.

Maris and Jayda both chose to be Ariel!

 Here's a couple of shots of the big kids and Eric while we were at BBB.

We went on one roller coaster together after we got back to the park, then called it a day!  It was a circus train?  Or Goofy ride?  Something like that.

Also this day Emma had one of the most giant fits of her life, she lost it for like 30 minutes!  SHe didn't want me to change her diaper, and when I forced her by wrestling her on the bathroom floor, she continuted to scream and try to take her pants off for like 20 minutes!  While we were all starving and trying to look for a place to eat lol. It was horrible but almost comical.  When we finally got some food and sat down she was calm and we looked at each other and were like "wow!  Our Emma is back!" It was crazy but then she was good the entire rest of the trip!

Here she is passed out in the car when we left.

Cute princess cousins!

I realized I put this on the wrong night!  This was the next night, after we went to Animal Kingdom!

That night we put the kids to bed (and left a couple for Katelyn/Kurtis/Lauren to put to bed) and me, Eric, Ryan, Cortnee, Elizabeth, and Kjarom went to After Hours at Magic Kingdom. IT WAS SO FUN!!! One of the best things we did on the trip!

It was so great to be kid-free, we were almost giddy as we ran around the park and went on like 15 rides in 3 hours!

It was so fun to just talk with everyone, like we were just friends hanging out.  And goof off. Eric is so good at knowing where the cameras are!

It was so funny, on this one Cortnee got soaked!

This was hilarious, we went on the Buzz Lightyear ride all trying to beat Whitney's score from earlier in the day. Somehow she got like 900,000 points Look how serious all the pictures turned out, they were stone-cold competitors!!  And I just look confused lol

Great memories.