So today was my first vacation day! Ah! But, not relaxing yet! We got up pretty early and I took all of the kids with me while Manny went to get the pizza and cake for Anthony's party.
Anthony wanted to go into the mall to buy a hat for vacation, so he did that, he already had some bday money racked up!
Then we went to our super
walmart and finished the food shopping for camping. Our fruits, veggies, meats, and lunchmeat. After that we came home and cleaned up, set up balloons outside and my neighbor's son Alex came over to hang out. He's 4 and my girls just adore him. I do too. He calls me Mom, I think that's so cute. He hears my girls call me all day long, he doesn't really hear my name called so to him, i'm "mom" Anthony decided that we woke up early and already did too much, so he napped.
They played with all of the balloons while I set everything up.
I woke up Anthony right before 3, which is when everyone was due to come over. Here he is texting, minding his own business and Sam is pretending she's going to poke him with a stick
My nephew Sean
We got the fire started and made s'mores! I didn't get any pics of that because I was the smore "machine" We all enjoyed those!
We had a very nice night. I was bummed that my nieces weren't there, one of them was sick, so they stayed home. That definitely would have made the day perfect..... not that it wasn't.
HAPPY 14TH BIRTHDAY ANTHONY!!!!! I love him so much. Sometimes I look at him and I still see a little boy and sometimes I see a teenager and almost a man. It's so interesting, sad, and great at the same time as our kids get older. And although they grow everyday, it's usually their birthdays that remind us that they are getting closer to being adults. Very scary. Manny's sister said tonight "2 more years and you'll be driving" I wanted to throw up. I'm not ready for that, i'm not ready for them to grow up, get jobs, go away to college. I know everyone must feel the same way and I know i'm still a ways off for that, but when we look back we always say time flew. I can still hear his little voice calling me and asking me to come play or asking me to watch him do a magic trick. One day I was in a store, he was 4 and Emily was 1. He told me he could do a magic trick. He told me to put Emily in the shopping bag and she would disappear. He was still in that I don't want a little sister, I want to be the only 1 stage, even though he already loved her. She was still pretty new. It certainly makes me NOT want to wish this year away just to go back to Disney. I'll patiently wait after tonight and I will certainly make sure we convince him that family vacations are memories forever, you have everyday and years to come to hang out with your friends.
I took this picture while me and Anthony were sitting right next to each other. At one point I guess his friends stopped txting and he wasn't sure what else to do, so he started texting me. "Hey, what are you doing" I'm sitting, what are you doing" Such a goof!
Well, all of the kids are sleeping now. We didn't come in until about 9:30, my neighbor ended up staying for a while and the girls and Alex were playing. I got most of our stuff packed, i'll do the rest in the morning. We are so excited about our vacation, and as always i'll take lots of pictures and post a bunch when we get back!
No worries about the FL heat...after about 90 with 60% humidity, it all feels the same!!! HAHAHA
Connie
The coach is very cute. It goes together with a velcro latch to be a tent, or it comes apart to make 2 separate coaches. So they usually put them facing each other and pretend they're in they're own coach. I gotta get a pic of that. But right now they're using them with their toy story couches/beds.
But ya never know!
But we'll make do so we can all go together. And free dining is a perk, so that makes me happy! That makes my bank account happy 
