The Animal Kingdom and Planet Hollywood

The Animal Kingdom was our 3rd Theme Park and probably my least favorite. I only say this because we have passes to the zoo and a wild animal park here in Washington so we see a lot of animals on a regular basis, so seeing them here wasn't that exciting for me. The coolest thing we did here was get VIP seats to the Lion King production. Dave met some lady at the front of the park that set us up with backstage passes and front row seats to the Lion King show. The kids also got to participate in the pre-show and show. They were super excited to be involved and really got into it. My favorite part was probably the Tree of Life walking trail with all of the animals carved on the trail and into the tree. Jaxon and Dave did several fun rides together, yup you guessed it, I couldn't go on them.
That night we headed to downtown Disney, which I thought was much better then Disneyland's downtown Disney. There was a great atmosphere and we ate dinner at Planet Hollywood which was probably some of the best food of our whole trip.

Oh ya, I left out the bird show, that was one of Taylin's favorite parts.

One of our few pictures with the whole family.

Hollywood Studios

Hollywood Studios was awesome, probably my favorite theme park. I think I am probably bias since my favorite thing to do at theme parks is ride the biggest, fastest rides and I couldn't do that this trip. I was able to do almost everything here. Our favorite parts of Hollywood Studios were probably the making of the Indiana Jones movie the Lights,Motors, Actions was an awesome show about how they shoot car chases in the movies and last but not least the night show Fantasmic.

Epcot

Our 5th and final theme park, The Epcot Center. Some of the highlights of Epcot for us were: talk with Crush (the turtle), the ride Soaring and walking around the world in less then a day. We had such a great trip, I would say my favorite part was definitely the sunshine, oh how I miss the sun.

14 weeks and counting...................

For those of you that don't know. We are expecting baby number 4 in a couple months. I don't have any pictures from any of my other pregnancies so I vowed to capture this pregnancy. Here is a 17 week picture: 23 Weeks:

And a couple of Dave and the kids because they are so cute.

I am now 26 weeks but no longer have anyone to take a picture of my big belly so this might be it for a while.

Better late than never............

Right? If there is anyone that still reads my blog you will be happy to know that I am finally caught back up. I just can't seem to do this on a regular basis.
For those of you that don't know Dave is deploying over seas soon, at least the rest of the year and maybe a little more (tear, tear). Anyway, I am going to use my blog as a place for sharing pictures with him, as well as you of course. Hopefully this will help me be better at sharing thoughts and pictures this year. Here is to 2012 :)

Kinley turns 4!

Kinley turned 4 last week and she now declares that she is almost 5. She enjoyed her traditional birthday breakfast in bed (I was really glad that Dave got home early from PT so I didn't have to get up super early and make it). She also had a party that evening with lots of her friends and their families. We are so grateful to have such wonderful friends here in Washington to celebrate our special times with.

Things about my sweet Kinley:

* She knows what she wants
* She is so lovable and kind to everyone
* She is very creative and always surprises me
* She is independent and doesn't want help with things
* She doesn't need entertaining
* She loves her brother and sister
* She is very quirky and says the funniest things
* She loves being outside and being active
* She loves to cut, color, draw, and paste
* She thinks she is a big kid and can do anything they do
* She took the scissors to her hair in Decemeber and gave herself quite the haircut. She was very proud of it although she promises to never do it again.