It is FINALLY FRIDAY!!! This has been a busy, busy week at school, and I am ready to crash.
Today is Trent's 25th birthday. 
He started his day by working, then went to his Friday morning Bible study, then worked some more, is working out tonight, and then going to grill out burgers and chicken with friends. I know I am his mom, but this is a kid to be very proud of for many different reasons. I know he'll never read this, because he doesn't get on here, but I just wanted to acknowledge his birthday with all of you, even though he's not a little fella any more.
I love the decorations and and small details to attention all over AK. The Tree of Life is simply amazing.
Aw..that sad face on Brookie makes ME sad for her!
Haha, of course she made a friend that fast. Who could say no to that adorable face.
Haha, I think that is great you took a pic of that "pirate" outfit MeMom! I get surprised at some of the things I see people wearing at WDW.
She did cry, because she was pumped up about going on Dinosaur, but I tried to ease the pain by letting her pick out something in the gift shop while she was waiting. She picked out the remote control ride car and played with it later in the trip in the room.
I need some bats to come live in my backyard -- the mosquitoes have been eating us alive lately!
Who knew that one can talk to a dinosaur just like one talks to the family puppy!
This picture is precious!
Poor Brooklyn! What a disappointment not to be able to ride Dinosaur! Was she pretty close? Any chance she will be tall enough in October?
She is having some kind of conversation with her dino friend, isn't she? No telling what she was saying.
If not October, then December, I hope.
Jill and John on Dinosaur are hilarious! Then we have a certain someone taking a picture (cough, cough, hiding behind the camera) in the next one.....
Sorry Brooklynn was disappointed about the ride, do you think she will like it when she gets a little taller?
You seem to be getting a cold,
wigd!
I think Brooklynn will be itching to try it once, but after she sees what it really is, it remains to be seen if there will be a repeat ride.
So as I watched the Turtle pics I thought... that would be a cool flip book. Teachers think like that I guess.
It was fun to watch the turtle, since so often they are just hanging out and not moving.
Wow. I missed a few days and it took me an hour to catch up :0) The pictures are great!! I have not been to AK in a while so it is really cool to see it again. MeMom I am so glad you are getting your surgery. Good luck. I iwll be sending good thoughts to you on the 9th!
We didn't spend much time in Animal Kingdom, which is very unlike us. We are going to make up some things we missed this time.
I love the Animal Kingdom shirts. Does it make me old if I remember when gas pumps looked like that and gas was about 25 cents a gallon?
I remember 29.9 cents per gallon. That's the lowest I can really recall. But old is just a term. If you're like me, you're still a teenager.
Hey! That rain looks familiar!!
Yeah, but I think you had it a lot worse than us.
oh, that's lovely. i don't even want to think about how stinky her feet were walking around all day at AK on JULY in boots!!!
aw....poor brooklynn! that stinks.
i remember when brooke was little and we'd go to opryland and she wanted to ride EVERYTHING so much, but she was always short for her age (which is shocking because now she's 5'10" - she shot up in high school) and never made the cut until she was way past the age of wanting to. she would even wear jellies with little heels on them and put her hair up on top of her head in a bun and still wouldn't be tall enough!
it looks like the guy next to you may be doing the same thing!
Same with Trent. He was so small when he was little and sometimes his younger friends got to ride things he didn't. It made him so aggravated!
I noticed the guy beside us, too!
Ohhhh I hope I get that birthday card!!! Love the AK pics
Yay for a birthday trip for you!
Awww...poor Brooklynn
That sad little face makes me want to give her a great big
It's amazing how fast they bounce back though! LOL Love all the detail pictures from AK.
That face pretty much captured how she felt, but she did bounce back okay.
Loved the safari. I was very dissapointed with the safari on our trip. We really didn't see much of anything. Mostly birds. And I was so looking forward to it. I hope the next time we go, they are all out and about like that for us.
It stinks to be short! I know first hand! But soon she will be able to go on and then she will be sad b/c her baby sis can't go with her!
Overall, I was VERY surprised by how much my DD5 was allowed to ride. She could ride everything except RnRC I think. That is amazing to me b/c other parks like Busch Gardens and whatnot won't let little ones ride anything but kiddie rides. So we were very pleased with Disney's height req. I think that was one of the things I liked best about Disney was that the rides are very family friendly other than just a handful of them. It is nice when the whole family can ride things together. There are even a ton of rides that babies can go on which is really great.
Yes, there are plenty of things the little bitty ones can ride, which makes it fun for everyone!
Awww! Poor Brooklynn! Maybe she will grow enough this month to ride it in October
I've never ridden Dinosaur....for some reason the thought of giant anamatronic (sp?) dinos scares me
You gotta give it a try. It's a good ride!
I enjoyed your updates. The snake Brooklynn petted looks just like our snake at home. I think snakes are so pretty. I know people think I am crazy.
Too bad Brooklynn didn't get to ride Dinosaur, but I am sure she will have plenty of opportunities in the future. I hope she remains brave when she is a little older.
I'm not really afraid of snakes, as far as petting them. I don't want one running loose in the house or anything, but I'm not afraid to touch one someone has out like that.
We'll try Dinosaur again soon, and maybe she'll be ready.
It took me a while, but I'm finally caught up! I loved all the animal pictures. Poor Brooklynn, I feel so bad that she didn't get to ride Dinosaur. How much did she miss it by? Do you think she'll be tall enough when you go in October or December?
Denise
Glad you had time to catch up. We're going to go kind of fast on this one.
Surely by December she will.
Yes I didn't have to wait long...of course then real life comes in and I have 2-3 updates to catch up on...but you know what...I always enjoy catching up!!!!
Awww...I'm sorry Brooklynn wasn't tall enough, but I bet she will be in one of the upcoming trips...however I'm happy to hear she made a friend real quick!!!
I love the bats...they are so cute (as a biology teacher, I love furry creepy things LOL)!!!
Sorry to hear your leg was hurting pretty good at that point, but here in less than a week hopefully most of that will be just a memory to you!!!!
Have a great weekend MeMom!!!!!
Maybe your science classes could raise bats, and then you could send some to
CP for her backyard!
Yeah, I just remembered when I was looking at the picture looking down at the ride car that I was in pain at that point.
Gosh MeMom if I didn't already want to go to Disney, I sure do after reading about your trip and looking at your wonderful pictures.
P.S. Let me say again your baby girls are beautiful.
I want to go to Disney World
all the time, and hanging around here where so many people talk about it and have pictures all the time just makes the longing worse.
Aren't they little sweeties? I just got off the phone with Jill. Bella was crying because Jill wasn't holding her, and Brooklynn was telling her about hopping like a bunny in her karate class. Jill is trying to get packed to go to KY for the weekend, and she really doesn't even want to go, so she's sort of got a headache right now.
