All girls are princesses

Saturday night we met our friends at Epcot for a few rides and then headed over to Magic Kingdom on the monorail.  Usually I am a stickler about bedtime... but I made an exception for the night and we stayed at Disney till the sun went down.  There is something extra magical about Disney at night with the lights and the sounds...especially when its all decked out for the holidays.

Before we left for the park I whipped out this Anna dress for Myra that we were supposed to give her for Christmas but I just couldn't wait... I found it for an AMAZING deal and we have another princess getup to give her for Christmas so I thought, WHY NOT!!!??? Because I am trying really hard to be more fun, spontaneous and say yes lately.  She loved it!!! As soon as she had that dress on she twirled and twirled saying, "I'm a pretty princess"!

Whenever she isn't wearing a dress she gets concerned and says, "I'm not a princess anymore." And I am trying really hard to teach her, "No, you're ALWAYS a princess... all girls are princesses". But she doesn't seem to quite get that... haha.  So today while she wore pants she kept calling herself "Prince Wednesday" from Daniel Tiger and kept wanting me to call her that!!!! bahahahahahaha.  I got a kick outta that one.

Sweet Myra Grace,
You can be whoever you want to be whenever you want to be as long as you're a sweetheart!
I love you forever!!!!

Mabey's Lately

The past few weeks have been crazy good and so full of fun.  

We rode the teacups multiple times with this girl.

and the hot tram....(JUST LOOK AT THOSE BANDAIDS!!! SHE LOVES THEM haha)

She rode the barnstormer for the first time and went from calm...

to scared out of her mind in .5 seconds. 

That was a really fun day at Disney.... While we were eating at The Harbor House (Delicious BTW if you are going to Magic Kingdom...EAT THERE!) a big rainstorm rolled in.  By the time we made it to the car we were all drench and looked like we had all jumped into a pool... But we all just laughed the whole time (including Myra) and it made for a great memory.

We also walked around Universal before going to eat at The Chocolate Emporium.

This PLACE!!!!! It is unreal.. so delicious. so amazing. so creative.  

All of their dishes were to die for. They had an sweet steam-punk theme going on and their desserts were unreal... like milkshakes with cupcakes on top. 

Then we made our way to SeaWorld.  

Went home for naps... woke up and headed to Epcot for the Food and Wine Festival.  We had gone earlier in the week and ate half way around the World so this time we ate around the other half.  My favorite... PATAGONIA.  Their Salmon dish with Quinoa is to die for. 

Jordan and I had a fun date night at the High School football game.  I teach the Laurel class (16-18 yr old girls) at church and one of my Laurels won Homecoming Queen.  I am so proud. 

Then we prepared for a crazy hurricane and all the stores looked like this...

We hunkered down for a few days and were on a curfew.. We weren't aloud to leave the house for two days or we would be ticketed (possibly arrested??? don't quote me on that)... 

The hurricane ended up not being as terrible as they thought it was going to be so they lifted the curfew early.. but we got in lots of cuddles in our comfies with Jord who got a few days off of school for it. 

Then on Sunday I headed to church on my own with these two munchkins while Jordan went with a lot of others from our Church to help clean up towns closer to the coast that got hammered from the hurricane. 

We had such an amazing past few weeks.  I LOVE it when we have visitors and I REALLY love it when Jordan gets time off. :)  I feel so blessed to live where we do...smack dab in the middle of tons of magic.

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Miss Cinderella...

This past week has been a blast.  Jordan's parents have been in town so we have been going to the parks and playing.  Our favorite "Food and Wine Festival" is going on at Epcot right now so we went over for a few hours one day and even got to go with a cute miniature Cinderella!  

Most days are a battle to get her to put clothes on... While most children her age have specific things they want to wear and can pick out what to wear, this little girl just wants to be naked.  All day, everyday.... BUT I can get her to put on her Cinderella dress without a fight usually, so the really tough days I get to have Cinderella with me.  The best thing about it?  She behaves VERY well when she wears it because she knows Cinderella is pretty because she is KIND and has COURAGE!!!!  

Growing up my mom would always tell me people were pretty because they were nice....I am trying so hard to teach her that.  A good personality can do wonders for someone so I am very grateful that Cinderella is her favorite princess and the one she looks up to...because some of those princesses are a bit.....dare I say, bratty?  

It's interesting raising a little one... while trying to teach and guide them a certain direction you start to really realize how much work you need to do yourself.  We expect and teach our kids to be a certain way but we ourselves aren't behaving the way we desperately want them to.... This is something I am trying very hard lately to change.  To practice what I preach. 

I love you my sweet little Cinderella...

Epcot Adventures

Disney family dates are my absolute favorite.  It's never quite as magical if Jordan isn't there so I just SOAK IT UP when he comes with us.  When we went it was still the Flower and Garden Festival so they had the butterfly room set up.  Myra was in HEAVEN.  There were butterflies flying around everywhere and she just kept chasing them around.  We weren't there for very long so we just went around the world showcase and ate a delicious cronut.  (If you are ever in Florida go to Epcot and grab one, they are just off to the right as you enter world showcase.  They are TO DIE FOR!!!)  We also went on Figment and saw Snow White.  We were headed out of the park and trying to be quick because Max was starving... Well of course when we are in a hurry we see SNOW WHITE and Myra FREAKED when we didn't stop in the huge line to see her.  I decided to have Jordan wait in line with her while I nursed Max at a nearby picnic table.  While I was pregnant with Max I had a lot of anxiety about breastfeeding him while we were at Disney ( first world problems, I know! ;)) but I am so grateful he has ended up such a great eater.  I can pretty descreetly feed him wherever which I never could do with Myra. Myra would take about forty minutes to eat- I was all over the place and milk was always just spraying everywhere.  Max is usually on and done after about five minutes and just eats one side... This makes it surprising that he is so large, I know.  haha  It ended up perfect timing and I got up to Myra and Jordan just as they were walking up to greet Snow White.  Myra get terribly star struck whenever she sees a character and just stared at her... she won't crack a smile or say anything, just stares.  It is quite hilarious.  

I am so grateful I get to make these memories.  I love these people and this place so much.