Disney Planning

Booking our Disney Vacation has become quite labor intensive!  I spent all day on the computer yesterday planning every meal, our park days, and everything in between.  Wowza!  Pinterest has been pretty helpful in this quest.  I have found several websites and have learned a lot!  We are going in October and I honestly can NOT wait!  I think that we are going to have so much fun.  We went 4 years ago only for a day and Hayden LOVED it, so I am looking forward to us being able to stay at a Disney resort and do all of the character dining and fun things that go along with that this time around! 

I love to exercise?

Last summer, I started the couch to 5k program.  I enjoyed exercising and how it alleviated stress, and I really really really tried to LOVE running.  The key word there is "tried".  It was just not my thing.  So for a couple of months I didn't do anything.  But in January, Dave got a gym membership and I decided to try the Zumba classes there.  Well, I fell in love.  Now I don't know how I lived without it!  It's fun and it's exercise!  My legs have slimmed and I'm working on my diastasis recti problem in my belly.  

Try it, but lose your ego!  You seriously can NOT worry about how you look because everyone looks dumb at one point or another!  

A Couple of Firsts

 Hayden lost his first tooth!

Livee got her first shiner.  

Carley Grace's Birthday!

Opening one of her "girly" gifts from us!

We traveled to Muscle Shoals two weeks ago during winter break in order to celebrate our niece's 3rd birthday! She is such a sweetie!  I just love talking to her on the phone!  We dropped the dog off on Wednesday and headed up there to relax and visit with my family.  On Thursday, it was a beautiful day so we went to downtown Tuscumbia and walked around for most of the morning.  On Friday, Dave rode with my dad to Vicksburg, MS and back so my mom and I had the kids all day.  We went to Grandmoma and PawPaw's house for a little while and later that afternoon one of my good friends Elizabeth came over with her kids Ellis and Hollin.  Then we went and ate sushi (often the highlight of our Muscle Shoals trips - best sushi hands down!).  On Saturday we went to the party at one of the local jumping places and the kids had a blast.  (I think Uncle Dave enjoyed it too.  :)  )  They got to play and then eat cupcakes and play and watch Carley Grace open her presents and play.  I just love it when parties are relaxed and fun for the kids!  We came back home on Sunday and picked up the dog on Monday.  Overall, we had a really fun time!  Looking forward to going back during spring break for another visit!

She wouldn't let go!

Carson kept blowing out the candle.  :)

My cuties

Precious cousins - when they're not trying to kill each other!

Birthday party kids minus one who left a little early.

Circus Time!

We finally broke down and took the kids to the circus this year!  Hayden was out of school for winter break and Dave was on vacation, so on Monday the 20th we rode the Marta to Phillips Arena for Ringling Brothers.  We planned on buying tickets at the box office (we have a coupon for a free ticket for Livee ~ if your child is under 12 months old, just go to their website and sign up).  While standing in line, a man came up to us and asked how many tickets we needed.  Of course we were both thinking "SCAM", but he said he had really good seats and couldn't use the tickets and GAVE them to us.  As we were entering the building, we were both pretty skeptical but they were legit and actually around 10 rows up from the floor!  We were so excited!  The circus itself was very exciting.  I can't remember the last time I had been.  I think Livee enjoyed it more than Hayden.  She laughed out loud at the clowns.  

It was a day full of adventure and we are so thankful we got to go!

Going to the Zoo

We have had a zoo membership for a year.  We love it!  We went this past Friday with one of Livee's school friends and they had fun.  They stayed the longest at the panda exhibit because the baby panda was out.  

We stopped to play on the playground for a while.

The panda exhibit was awesome!

Playground fun!