Cover girl

Lilly made front page of the local paper, The Columbine Courier, with her dancing with an American flag at the Fourth of July celebration 

Amelia is 5

Lakeside

We went to Lakeside on Saturday and enjoyed some rides.

Amelia and I got stuck on a ride where we were upside down for ~5 minutes...not fun.  And, Amelia had her 1st BIG kid roller coaster ride on a 75 year old wooden coaster...the Cyclone!

Amelia's Bio

Amelia's class picture

Ms April and Ms Sierra's pre-kindergarten class. Amelia is front row2nd from right

Fairy visits

Funny story with a last night. We were talking about the fairies that kiss her at night. She thinks they also turn her around in her bed and that's why she wakes up sleeping upside down in her bed. She was visited by those fairies last night!

Family Choice Day

Sunday, on our last day at Disney World, it was family choice day.  We started off the morning at the Contemporary for breakfast at Wave--delicious key lime eggs benedict!  Then, we split up into two groups for rides at Magic Kingdom.  Steve and Lilly rode the cars in Tomorrowland, People Mover, Carosel of Progress, Astro Orbiter and the Tea Pots.  Amelia and I went over NeverNever land with Peter Pan took 3 rides, in a row, on Thunder Mountain, we rode Splash Mountain twice, and visited Amelia's boyfriend Aladdin on the Magic Carpets.  We had lunch over It's a Small World, and took a last ride on PeterPan as a family.  That afternoon we went back to our resort and spent time at the pool, riding the waterslide.  We had an awesome time at Disney at are looking forward to another trip, hopefully soon ;)

relaxing before breakfast

Big Thunder Mountain

Aladdin Magic Carpet Ride

Splash Mountain..see Amelia's little hand up..daredevil!

last day...sure, a slushy with whipped cream for lunch, why not?

Bye Magic Kingdom

Final pic as we're leaving Magic Kingdom...off to the pool!

Hollywood Studioss

Saturday we had a blast at Disney's Hollywood Studios.  We started off the morning by riding Toy Story three times and rode the Great Movie Ride!  We saw lots of great shows (Muppets, Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid, Frozen Sing Along, Disney Jr. and Fanstasmic)

off to Hollywood Studios

Toy Story Mania ride..so fun!

Doc McStuffins at Hollywood and Vine

Jake and the Neverland Pirates

Handy Manny.  Steve wondered why his name was prefaced with "handy" all the time..I said that just like Dr. being handy is earned and you'd want to be called handy if earned ;)

Sofia the 1st had a beautiful dress

I think Sofia had a cush..Amelia got lots of kisses.

discussing Sofia's intricate beadwork

We went to a frozen sing along and the girls loved it, singing along with Anna and Elsa to all of the Frozen songs.  At the end, it snowed on us.

Glam Minnie in her Hollywood dressing room.

I had to get in on the Minnie action :)

This is the carriage from the Cinderella movie that is coming out 13Mar15.  We also saw a special, long preview to the movie and are pumped to go see it.

Steve had an affinity towards Mater.  Funny that we didn't even say anything to the girls about how to pose with Lightening McQueen...we're in trouble!

A spaghetti and meatball cupcake at Mama Melrose.

I showed the girls how to rest against the tree...waiting for dad who took a spin on Star Tours.

Welcome to Hollywood...what's your dream?

Ready for Fantasmic..night show on the water where they lit the  pond on  fire.  

tired!