Splash in the Rain Puddles

Oh spring......I cannot express how happy I will be when you come to stay.  Enough snow days.....enough getting bundled up.....enough spending far too much time inside.  I know it's close.  It will be so wonderful. But here are two little guys who were still excited for more snow.... The exciting discovery of last week's snow day was that if you fill the slide with a whole bunch of snow and slide down continuously, it eventually turns into ice...which eventually makes the slide incredibly fast.  Very, very exciting  :)  They were quite proud of their discovery.    You know what you don't get to do when you're 32?  You don't get to celebrate your birthday 4 times.....once at Disney World, once at home, once at school, and then once again last weekend when your Grandpa and Grandma come, with another cake :)  But if you are 4, you can definitely pull it off.  And there is no one who loves to party more than my 4 year old so you can imagine his delight when

7 Adults, 5 kids....2 of which are infants, 3 strollers....Disney World for a week.  Are we crazy?  Possibly.  But we did it anyway and had a wonderful time.  The only ironic thing was that it wasn't until we were leaving the airport...in the car....on our way home....after our vacation...the older boys were watching a movie, Luke was sleeping and Chad and I were just sitting.....sitting there in complete stillness and silence that we said, "this is the first moment like this that we've had all week!"  Hmmmm......restful vacation? Maybe not....but certainly one that made alot of very sweet memories...  like when we arrived and grandma had matching Mickey pj's laid out on the beds for all the kiddos... and when the boys met Mickey and all their other favorite characters for the first time.  so cute as they all held out their autograph books to be signed. and when we rode Dumbo.....and when Jack couldn't help but be a 6 six year old and smile that sweet cheesy