Guitar Hero

Tonight while Dan was playing Guitar Hero this was the show I was paying attention to. He was singing I wanna rock and roll all night and party everyday.

Thankful

10 things I am thankful for today:

1. That my jury duty was short and I got sent back to work after 2 hours rather than 8.
2. For little guy and the laughs he provides me with everyday.
3. For everyday I have with my mom.
4. For my niece Maci and nephew Alex who called tonight to wish my a Happy Belated Birthday. Maci's birthday is at the end of the month so we discussed what wrapping paper I was using to wrap her present. She informed that if I ran out there was a store by her house that had lots of wrapping paper. Only problem is she live 3 hours away.
5. For my husband who almost always takes out the trash. Except for tonight cause he is feeling a little sick.
6. For the huge flashlight that my father in-law bought my husband. It makes the few times I have to take the trash out in the dark a better experience.
7. For chicken fried steak.
8. For quiet nights spent at home.
9. For hugs and kisses.
10. For my life and everything in it.

28

So I am 28 now. My birthday was pretty low key this year lunch with Dawn, Kathie, Jamie and Rachel (girls from work) at Blue Stone. Went over to mom's and had Matsukaze for dinner. Yum! Yum! Dan and Kyler (mostly Dan) made me a cute cake. Didn't get a picture of it this year. Mom and Jay got me a really cool scrapbooking hobby cabinet from Fred Meyers and Dan got me another one to match. We haven't gotten them together yet. I'll take a picture when they are. Kyler got me a girl pirate toy. (He picked out all on his own can you tell) Dad got me a gift certificate to the Brewery and my in-laws got me a gift card to Michaels. It was a loot filled birthday :)

I have been working on the Disney scrapbook. I am going for a nice but simple and clean look. I don't wanna go to over the top as I might not be able to keep it going. I like the pages so far.

Snow Days

Its been snowing off and on here like crazy. I left this morning for work and almost didn't make it down the driveway. Lucky for me the driveway was the worst of it. I am sure I ticked other drivers off by taking it slow. It took my twice as long to get in as normal.

When I picked Kyler up from mom's she told me he had been dying to play in the snow all day so i brought him home and decked him out in his new snow stuff and let him run wild. This picture is real similar to last year around this time . Its crazy to see how much he has grown in just a year. We had so much fun, he loves just falling over in the snow. And loved chasing me around with snow balls.

Right now Kyler and Dan are outside playing in the snow again. I can hear Kyler squealing. I wonder who is getting who?

Christmas and Beyond

We had a great Christmas. It started off at our house with a just me, Kyler and Dan. Kyler came down the stair to see his Transformer from Santa and his bike from Grandma and Grandpa Edwards and all the other wrapped presents. I tried to get the moment he saw it on camera. I think I got close. We opened our presents here and had a nice breakfast.Kyler (and Dan) bought me a beautiful ring with Kyler's birthstone in it. We went over to Medford to visit Dan's Grandma for a bit. Then we cam back over and spend the rest of the day with my family at my mom and Jay's. We got so many nice things. Thanks everyone!

Now on to the beyond. I woke up with a little sore throat but I thought maybe I was just dry from sleeping, I went to work anyway. I started running a Fever came home and just felt bad. This was the story for the next couple of days. Sore throat and fever up and down. By Sat. I was just dying. I went to the immediate care and lo' and behold I have strep throat. I am feeling much better now still a little soreness in the throat and not quite up to par energy wise. But much better! I am not contagious anymore.

We didn't do much last night just ate some super yummy Hunan Garden and watched a movie Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. I liked! Dan was confused but still laughed at all the funny scenes. I went to sleep before 12 and Dan stayed up watching 40 year old virgin. That was our Holiday. Happy New Year! I wish you and your family the best year next year.

Someday...

Someday I'll finish updating about the rest of our Disney trip but we are home. And have been for a while. This picture is from Kyler's Christmas Program at preschool. They were singing Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. Hence the antlers. I love his preschool. They are the best! Anyway. Merry Christmas!! Love you all and many blessings for the New Year.

Day 5 Finishing up the Magic Kingdom

We got a lot of rides out of the way at the Mickey Party. We started the day off in Frontier Land. Going on Splash Mountain and Big Thunder we went over and Watched the Country bears show. I know its a classic but the songs were shocking. Not PC at all. Next we went over to Adventure Land, rode the Pirates of the Caribbean ride with Jack Sparrow. I was disappointed that some of the other cast members of the movie weren't included. Oh well. Then we went over to the Tiki room. I really liked this one. Kyler had just had a mini meltdown before about the steering wheels so he did not enjoy this one. After this we went to the steering wheels where Kyler was happy again. While waiting on the Jungle Cruise Ride we walked up the Swiss Family Robinson Tree House. We finally made it on the Jungle Cruise. After this we made it over the Haunted Mansion(is this room actually stretching?) which Kyler surprisingly did pretty well on. We rode the Liberty Bell around Tom Sawyers Island, then headed on to Fantasy Land. We watched Mickey's PhilharMagic which I Mountain Railroad. I have pictures of Dan riding both rides but Dan wasn't able to get shots of me. thought was the best of all the 3-D shows/rides.

Animal Kingdom Day 4

On the 2nd day to Animal Kingdom. We started our day with a character breakfast at Tusker house with Donald, Daisy, Mickey and Goofy. Then we headed out on the Animal Safari. I must saw that this was truly the way to have a zoo. The animals were all just out there. there were no barriers between us. Then on our way to Rafiki's Planet Watch Kyler had a little melt down. I took his picture during this melt down. At Rafiki's we went into the petting zoo this seemed to improve Kyler's mood. lastly, we ended the day with the Lion King Festival of the King. A great show similar to the Nemo show but not as good in my opinion.

Animal Kingdom Day 3

I'll try to get you all up to date. Its hard to blog because I can't scale the picture down and the take a long LONG time to upload. We split the Animal Kingdom into two days as well. We went to The park during the days and went to Mini Golf in the evening the first day and Disney Quest again tonight. (I forgot to mention this, we went here on Day one after Epcot.) Disney Quest rocks! Its a HUGE arcade where all the games are free. Its 5 floors of games. Day 1 we covered DinoLand andAsia. Our first stop of the day was Finding Nemo the Musical. It was amazing! It was close to my most favorite thing in Animal Kingdom. Dan did the Everest ride while Kyler and I didn't an animal trek. We also went on the Kali Falls Ride. Kyler was just a tad to short so we did theI'll try to see if I can get you all up to date. Its hard to blog because its takes so long to get the pictures to rider switch. We saw the Flights of Wonder bird show, also fantastic. Birds flying around showing of what they do best. Lastly, We watched Mickey's Jingle Jungle parade pretty good but not as good at the the Mickey Party Parade

Epcot Day 2

The second day at Epcot was donated to the rides and shows in the first part of the park.

We finnally found the elusive mouse. The whole reason for us to come here. Kyler was pretty excited once we got up there. The line was pretty long. We also got to see...


I kinda love this picture even though you can't see Kyler's face because he had just kissed Pluto!

Epcot Day 1

Okay so I got a little behind here . On the 10th and 11th we went to Epcot. I think I was more excited to go here than to the Mickey's Merry Christmas Party. I have never been to Epcot and have been to Disneyland so the Magical Kingdom is similar. We split Epcot into two days. The first day we went to the world showcase. We started at Mexico and worked our way around to Canada.

The Gran Fiesta ride in Mexico. These was the section that reminded me of its a small world.


Brumhilda and a scary viking. Just a note Dan didn't not put that hat on, his wife put it on his head. He is not responsible for himself looking like this. However, the child below is totally responsible for himself looking like that.


I wanted to include this one just for my mom. She loves dolls even though she told me the other day that she only likes the ones the kids gave to her. This store in China had a wall that was completely full of these beautiful Asian dolls.

Next up was Italy. We watched these street performers perform Romeo and Edna. They picked people from the audience to help it was too funny. The pagoda in Japan with drummers. They were extremely fast.

Kyler in Morrocco.

More street performers this time in France.
The whole family In England with Eyeore , Pooh and Tigger


Kyler with Papa Noel in Canada.