Anniversary and Birthday

December is such a busy month for us. Cavan and I had our 9 year anniversary! On the actual day of our anniversary we went to Disney World and played with the kids. Then my 28th birthday came 3 days later on a Saturday. So Cavan and I decided to celebrate both and spend the night in Orlando and go to Universal Studios and the Temple with out the kids. We had so much fun!! I love this man so much and enjoy all the time we spend together. I feel so blessed! 

Thanksgiving and the start of our Christmas season

Our first Thanksgiving in Florida was great! My great Uncle Jim even drove all the way from Alabama to spend Thanksgiving with us.

 Sami even taught KaeLynn how to crochet. KaeLynn is loving it!

Now the Christmas season is already here. We went to our wards Christmas party. Daniel was to scared to visit Santa, but he still got a present. KaeLynn thinks it is so silly that Daniel is scared of Santa. She does not believe us that she was once afraid of Santa too!

The kids really did a good job of helping decorate the Christmas tree. My mom said that she thinks this is the prettiest she has ever seen the tree. 

Then Grandpa Brad and Grani Shani mailed a great Christmas box filled with Christmas fun. The kids had a great time doing the arts and crafts and playing with the hats and Rudolph noses!

My sweet Daniel loves to be with me. He is there for me while I do yoga and there for me to lick the beaters after making brownies. Healthy Paleo brownies of course :)

We also went to the Deland Christmas parade. The kids really loved all the music, people, and police officers. It is crazy that it was warm enough to be in shorts and t-shirts for a Christmas Parade! We are truly loving it here so far!

Disney World

We bought season passes to Diney World and had a lot of fun going to all the different parks. The first day we went was the day after Thanksgiving. It was very cold that day! Our first day was a little overwhelming. Once we figured out how the parks work and where everything is it started to become a lot more fun. 

This is the Swiss Robertson Family Tree house. It had a great view when we climbed to the top. We could even see the Disney Castle!

Our first ride was the magic carpet ride from the movie Aladdin. Daniel did not want to get on the ride. He wouldn't even smile for the camera once we got on. But once the ride started he loved it!

KaeLynn has her very own autograph book to get the Disney Characters signatures. She is such a trooper. She does not  mind waiting at all to see them. Ariel was the hardest for us to wait. It was at the end of the day, and we were all so tired. It was so worth it though. Ariel was such a delight to see. Daniel doesn't like to go up to the characters, but Ariel is the only one so far that he was so shocked her couldn't even move. It was so funny. It was as if it was only him and her in the room. He wouldn't even recognize our voice when we tried talking to him. It was so cute!

Later in the week we met up with our Kyle and Michelle. They drove to Disney World for a vacation. We went to Downtown Disney and they had these awesome Lego creations. 

Daniel was absoultey terrified of Mickey. Wanted nothing to do with him and was crying for me to "get him out of there!"

Pooh and Tigger were adorable! Tigger dance and jumped around with KaeLynn. Pooh thought it was funny that KaeLynn had these little charms on her pen. He would play with them and then laugh and laugh. They were great! 

At Hollywood Studios we went to some great shows. They had this car stunt show that Daniel thought was the coolest! They even a car just like Lightening McQueen! It was such a good show. Then Daniel and KaeLynn got to have their picture taken with Mater and McQueen. Daniel was so happy to see a character that he loves so much. He melted my heart to see his face. 

We got to see Beauty and the Beast live. The music was so good!

Then to finish our visit with the Hunters we went to the Fantasmic show with Mickey. It had lights, and fireworks, action, and a lot of characters. It was such a good way to end our week with family.

On the Buzz ride it broke and we were stuck in the same spot for a long time so we decided to take a selfie!

On the race car ride we let the kids drive and they loved it. They hasnt been to many things about Disney World that Daniel has found excited but put him in a car and he is happy!

Beach and Natural Springs

 

We have had a lot of fun here in Florida. I am loving the weather! It was blowing my mind that we were actually SWIMMING in the ocean in November. I just love it! And the springs are soooooo beautiful! I was worried that I would miss the beauties of Oregon, and I do, but moving here I realized that God really made the whole Earth beautiful and all places have their own beauty. I feel very blessed.

Happy Halloween!

This year Daniel was a police officer and KaeLynn was Princess Sofia from the Disney show Sofia The First. My kids are so stinkin adorable! Daniel thought it was the coolest thing to be an officer, especially because it came with a whistle. And of course anything girly, and KaeLynn is all over that. Our neighborhood was not very successful with houses that were home passing out candy. The kids were getting tired with all that walking and having no success, so we ended up driving around to find the few houses that were passing out candy. One house was scary, but we mistakingly thought they would see we had young children and would not try to purposelessly scare them. We were so wrong! Daniel was terrified!! It broke my heart. We won't make that mistake again.