Destin, Florida

On our way home we stopped at the beach! This was fun but me and Jeremy agreed we are just as happy at our Texas Beaches. Hugh and Rae both love the beach. Hugh just storms towards the water with no caution at all. He is usually more cautious with scary things, must be all that Moana we watch. 

That night we went out to eat at this alligator restaurant. When our buzzer went off I took Rae over to where the hostess was and I talked to her for just a minute about how we couldn't find our whole group. Then I looked down and had lost Rae. I let go of her hand for just a second it seemed. I then ran out to the parking lot because worst case scenario that's where she was, I came back in and someone was bringing her back she had run further into the restaurant. Later I said Rae do you remember when you got lost in the restaurant?

Rae: yes.

Me: Why did you leave mommy?

Rae: I saw foot prints and I needed to follow them (There were alligator foot prints painted on the floor of the restaurant).

Me: Rae you can't leave me even if you see something fun. A stranger could take you or you could be somewhere dangerous. 

Rae: No the stranger brought me to you.

Me: yes this time they did but there could be bad guys.

Rae: No mom bad guys are actually in dreams.

Me: No bad guys are real.

Rae Bad guys are in dreams actually.

I then realized you can't convince a three year old the world is dangerous and I just explained that next time she needs to ask before she follows the footprints. 

This girl........ I am trying my best. Gotta stop letting go of that hand because she is fearless. 

We were there so late we were eating and it was ten o'clock! 

We left Destin and headed nine hours home! So much McDonalds on this trip ya'll. Must get the beanie boos. It was a fun trip I love traveling with my family. I am really glad to be home and sleeping though :) One month till the Utah trip!!

Harry Potter World with Liv!!

Can you even believe this happened? I told Liv I was going to Florida and she said When so am I?? She was in Florida watching her nieces and nephew while her Uncle was on a cruise and the day after her Uncle gets back is the day after I finish the parks with my family! What are the odds of this?? The universe was telling us to go to Harry Potter World!! When we got there we went straight to the corner of the park where Harry Potter World is and I see Kings cross and a white building and I think is this Gringotts??  There's not even a sign?! I go in and on the other side is Diagon Alley! Totally hidden from the muggles. classic. 

The goblins!! so cool!

There was soo much detail we could've walked around and looked at everything all day, yeah actually we did. 

We took the Hogwarts express to Hogsmeade. There are four Harry Potter rides and we did them all including Gringotts twice. Liv almost threw up after the Dragon ride and the Castle ride.

The castle!!!

Buckbeak!

Butterbeer! 

The dragon breathed fire like every ten minutes it was so cool. 

Ate dinner in the leaky cauldron!! I had a bangers sandwich! 

The day was soo fun. We did leave Harry Potter World to go on a couple roller coasters at Universal but Harry Potter World made everything else seem lame. It was great. I am so happy I was able to get a day away. First day without kids in three and a half years! 

After the first day at Magic Kingdom I was thinking now do we really want to do this whole Disney thing again some day?? Then after Harry Potter World I was like yep. I am going to do this whole Disney thing again some day. 

Disney World

We survived our first trip to Disney World. We went with three of Jeremy's brothers, two sisters, and parents, and 11 nieces and nephews, we had quite the group! 

But first we had to get there. The drive was actually better than I thought it was going to be. I had the car so full of toys so I was very prepared. I borrowed some toys from my friend so we had a lot of new things to play with. 

Both kids hardly slept in the car at all, luckily the way home they slept more! 

Our first day was magic kingdom and it was beyond crazy town. It was very chaotic trying to stay with the group and trying to find everyone and keep everyone happy. Rae was scared of a lot of the rides especially the Seven Dwarfs mine ride and the buzz light year ride. She loved driving the cars though!

Later in the day we separated from the group and Rae met Minnie mouse and some princesses and she loooved it. When we were waiting to see Minnie and Daisy duck an employee came up to Rae and said do you love Daisy duck?! Rae quickly shook her head no and pointed to Minnie Mouse. She knows where her loyalty is! 

Meeting Belle was the most fun they have it set up super cute with a little show and it wasn't a long wait at all. 

We waited longer to see Rupunzel or "long hair girl" because Rae was looking for her after we saw Belle and it was too cute!! 

Tiana was with Rupunzel

Rae's face watching the fireworks at the end of the night!! 

Day 2 we decided to break from the group and go to Animal Kingdom. Jeremy was soo excited to go to the Avatar rides that we had to go. CAN YOU BELIEVE I DIDN'T TAKE JEREMYS PICTURE THERE. I think I was too busy trying to do a million other things but I wish I could've. I also didn't get a family picture. So much going on. Jessica came with us and we had fun! 

There's a bugs life show in the big tree and I think that a lot of kids were scared of it but I can't confirm that because I couldn't hear any other kids over the screaming of Rae and Hugh. 

Lots of rain this day, but Rae loved her poncho and playing in the rain. She ended the day walking barefoot through the parking lot singing songs. We left around six, so she still had her energy. Hugh did not like the rain as much and it made him a little extra sad there at the end. Rae loved the Safari ride and was being sooooo cute. It was my favorite part of animal kingdom, I took a couple short video clips. 

Day three was epcot!

The frozen ride was soo cool, I loved it and Rae loved it and after of course we met Elsa and Anna!

Rae threw a big tired fit over not being allowed to hold a credit card and then when she finally stopped I gave her a lollipop and she fell asleep almost instantly. 

Poor Elayna stuck under a sleeping Lorelei. Elayna is probably sleeping with her eyes open here, we were all so tired by this point. I was talking to Kyla and I said something about how I loved the little country exhibits in epcot and she said me too I like Epcot, magic kingdom was stressin me out!! 

So I wasn't the only one! ;)

Of course Philip will find a tiny box in the leaves to charge his phone. 

We ate dinner in Morocco! Rae missed it she was asleep, but this was a really nice break for me.

We ended the night of epcot with both kids screaming and crying because of the fireworks. Rae is using my nursing cover because she said she was cold.... so our weather was actually so good!! I thought it would be way hotter than it was. 

The firework show (aside the cries) was super good!

Disney world was the most tiring vacation I have ever been on. Hugh was waking up at night, Rae was peeing her pants (four times), and there was so much crying. Luckily now that we are home Hugh is back to sleeping all night and Rae is potty trained again. We definitely had some fun memories and I am pretty sure all the hard part was worth it ;)