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Hulk Smash!

October 13, 2016

On Saturday we celebrated our very favorite almost 4 year old!

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Spencer’s birthday isn’t until the 18th but, October is so busy that the 8th ended up being the best day for his Incredible Hulk party. We followed our recent birthday party formula – balloons and bounce house in the backyard with doughnuts and plenty of friends and family! It was the best way to celebrate our happy little guy!

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Ummm…please look at Baby’s mean face here! ha!

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The kids had a blast in the cool bounce house which had a ball pit and a slide inside! They also loved Hulk Smashing each other with the Hulk hands! As always, the sand table was a huge hit. And, thanks to GJ, everyone got to take home their very own Hulk mask! We had a happy birthday boy and happy party goers for sure!

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We brought out Spencer’s doughnut cake and sang to him and then he blew and blew and blew on those candles but just couldn’t get them out! We should have lifted him up a bit but then Maxwell came to the rescue which I’m not so sure if Spencer appreciated or not! I have to share all these pictures because the expressions on both Spencer and Maxwell’s faces are just too good….

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Haha! Everyone needs a little help sometimes!

It was a fantastic morning celebrating our very own Incredible Spencer!

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We love you sweet Spencey!! Cheers to FOUR!

Margaret is one!

October 11, 2016

Two weekends ago we went over to Mary Beth and Holland’s house to celebrate Margaret’s first birthday! It was a beautiful day and the kids had fun bouncing in the bounce house, playing in the pool of balls, and eating lots of cupcakes! In fact, Maxwell ate so many cupcakes that he literally made himself sick but, hey…live and learn! 🙂

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cousin

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It was a fun day celebrating our baby cousin!

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Happy Birthday Margaret!

The GJ Fan Club

September 18, 2016

Who’s the leader of our fam and loved by you and me?

It’s GJ! It’s GJ! It is our GJ!

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Hey there! Hi there! Ho there!

She’s as awesome as can be.

It’s GJ! It’s GJ! It is our GJ!

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It’s GJ! (Birthday girl!)

Today we hold our birthday banner high high high!

So come along and sing a song and join the jamboree!

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It’s GJ! It’s GJ! We love our GJ!

Obviously you should be singing that to the tune of themesong for the Mickey Mouse Club! Guess I’m still in the Disney spirit! 🙂

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Happy Birthday GJ! We sure do love you and are wishing you a magical day!

Want to revisit some cuteness? See the other GJ birthdayday posts here – 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010

Disney part 2

September 12, 2016

After a fun first day at Disney, we all slept great and, thankfully, no one fell out of bed! We were up bright and early because we had a breakfast reservation at The Crystal Palace for 9:15. We learned a little trick – if you have a breakfast reservation for 9:15 or earlier, you can get into the park early and go on and get in line to ride certain rides right when they open at 9:00 before you go to breakfast. If you get really lucky (like we did!) they might even start running the rides early! It’s also fun to be in the park when it’s virtually empty and we got the photog to snap the traditional castle picture…

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Thumbs up to a good day ahead! ha!

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GJ went walking around with the baby while the boys and I went straight for Seven Dwarfs Mine Train. We got there about 8:45 and they were already running the ride so we go to walk right on and ride!!

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and then we go to walk right on and ride again!

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Woohoo! We then made our way over to breakfast but stopped off at Peter Pan as it was only a 10 minute wait. Perfect! We then met GJ and Samantha at The Crystal Palace for breakfast where we got to see Pooh and friends.

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The kids didn’t care that much about Pooh but I would definitely do that breakfast again based on location and food! Maxwell then said he was really wanting to meet Mickey so we headed over to Main Street to greet the main mouse!

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Maxwell walked right up and gave him a big hug! Spencer needed a little encouragement from brother to get close but he did and was happy to show Mickey that he had a picture of him on his shirt!

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Love this pic of Maxwell giving Spence a little nudge! 🙂

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Baby didn’t want to get close to that mouse!

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Mickey was chatting with the boys and brought up something about a lion and that was all they needed to show off their roars! Mickey was so impressed he decided to roar with them!

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Going to see Mickey wasn’t in our original plan but I’m so glad Maxwell asked to do it because it might have been my favorite part of the trip!

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After Mickey it was the Haunted House and then a quick stop off to see my childhood friend, Andee, who happened to be there that day with her crew! What fun!

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We then rode Aladdin’s carpets…

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Managed to get a free Dole Whip pineapple ice cream…

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Got talked into buying 2 snakes…

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and then rode the Pirates of the Caribbean before calling it a day!

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We loaded up at the hotel…

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got dropped off at the airport….

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and, thankfully, had an uneventful flight home!

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Disney trips are always exhausting but always worth it! Thanks again for everything GJ and Daddo! See ya real soon!

Disney

September 9, 2016

After a fun day at Legoland, we made the quick drive over to Orlando and were happy to check into the Grand Floridian! There was a little hitch with our reservation and they didn’t give us connecting rooms which was far from ideal. Happily, they made it beyond right by giving us a 2 bedroom suite! Woohoo! It was the ideal setup for our crew and gave Robert a great place to watch the AL game that night! Roll Tide! While sorting out the room situation, Samantha was having a ball in the hotel lobby and even met a princess!

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Things were going great and, miracle, all kids had gone to bed early and were sleeping great…until 2:30am when I hear this thunk thud aaaaaaahhhhhh! Spencer fell out of bed and hit the nightstand WITH HIS MOUTH. There was plenty of screaming, blood, busted lips, and messed up teeth. Oh boy. What is it with me and mouth injuries?? We got him cleaned off and calmed down and back to bed. It then took me another hour to get Baby back to bed! The next morning, Spencer’s mouth was pretty swollen and I was able to text the dentist and get an antibiotic called in for him. Trying to avoid the dreaded gray tooth! Despite it all, Spencer was SUCH a trooper and ready for a day of fun at the Magic Kingdom – as we all were!

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Our first stop was Barnstormer and then we hit up Dumbo and Ariel…

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and the Teacups (which Samantha loved)…

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really LOVED! 🙂

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We then took a little frozen lemonade break. Refreshing in the scorching heat!

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It was then time for our Seven Dwarfs Mine Train fast passes…the best ride!

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Keeping up with Samantha in the park is a challenge. She either doesn’t want to be in the stroller and wants to be held, or doesn’t want to be left behind when her brothers get to ride rides! GJ nicely volunteered to take Samantha with her to pick up Spencer’s medicine and then hang out at the hotel. Robert and I got to enjoy the park with the boys for the rest of the day while baby got to have a relaxing “air conditioned” lunch!

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The boys and I had some lunch and then headed over to Splash Mountain. The wait was long but we decided to go for it. Spencer was SO excited that he was finally tall enough to ride!!

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