Scenes from Turning Six

First off, Happy Halloween!
Secondly, can you believe I'm posting two days in a row?
I thought I would share some picture from my niece's sixth birthday a couple of weeks ago. I finally got around to editing the pictures so I thought I'd give everyone a break from all the Halloween posts going up today and give you a party in the park instead. It was "Monster High" themed so it's still a little bit festive, right?

Fit for a King

On Saturday we went to Kingston's second birthday party. Kingston just happens to be one of Aubs' best buddies. It was held at Chuck E Cheese and everyone had a blast. Well almost everyone- Aubs was good to go until Chuck E.Cheese himself made an appearance. Girlfriend was terrified.


The photographic evidence of Aubs terror. As soon as Aubrey spotted the oversized mouse she bee lined for Kristen (Kingston's Mama) and held on to Kingston for dear life. I made sure to snap a few pictures before I grabbed her and I am so glad I did. I mean seriously is this not the best picture ever?

More Birthday Fun


Watching Daddy shoot hoops


Racing with Raiden




Aubs tends to usually be the only girl around. So far she hasn't seemed to mind. One of the cuties in this picture also has a Mama who blogs. You should pay her a visit over at The Spoon Mama.




Birthday boy blowing out his candles


Linking up with The Paper Mama & Jenni from the Blog

Disney Birthday Getaway

This year for Aubrey's birthday we decided to spend the money on a short trip to Disney instead of having a birthday party for her. I figured this might be the last year that I can get away with not having a party and Disney was having really great deals for Florida residents, $99 for 3 days at any Disney park.

It wasn't a complete success but we did get away for a few days and Aubs had fun at Magic Kingdom. Animal Kingdom was pretty much a bust. I wouldn't recommend going there unless your kids are older, like 6 or 7. I actually wouldn't recommend going there at all if you have ever been to Busch Gardens in Tampa. Animal Kingdom just seemed like a down grade from Busch Gardens for us. It also didn't help that Aubrey had a meltdown every 20 minutes while we were there and we ended up leaving and checking into our hotel early.

Magic Kingdom was much better, although it was super busy. It was a stampede to get onto the trolley to get from the parking lot to the ticket area. Joe and I were shoved on and got separated a couple of rows apart. It wasn't a big deal but you'd think that people wouldn't be so pushy at "the happiest place on earth". We took Aubrey on Small World and she loved it. She also loved the parade where they invite you at the end to dance in the street with the characters. If you didn't know already, Aubs can be a bit of a dancing machine.

We decided to skip going to the park on the 3rd day because it was a Saturday and we figured that if it was that busy on a Friday then it was going to be twice as busy on Saturday. We can use our pass until the end of May so we are going to go back on a weekday at the end of April or beginning of May when Spring Break is over and school isn't out yet. I will probably be able to get more pictures then too because I won't be pushing a stroller through huge crowds.

Birthday Wake Up Call




I was going to do the whole fill her bedroom with balloons thing but then I decided I would just blow up a few and put them in the living room so she could find them when she came out in the morning.


Animal Kingdom





Silverback


Out before we could get to the hotel

Magic Kingdom



She climbed up there because there was music playing from a big speaker and she wanted to dance.





small world





Trying to get in on some Mickey action








Her favorite part of the trip was dancing in the street during the parade.


A rare sweet face






I wanted her to get the Minnie hat but she insisted on Mickey


Watching the show on Daddy's shoulders


Light parade

Happy Birthday Doodle

This sweet little thing turns 2 today. I can't believe that it has been 2 years since I pushed a 7 lb 10 oz human out of my body who is now a 28 lb toddler. These past couple of years have been crazy and wonderful. They have been harder and easier than I had ever dreamed and I love my little girl more and more with each passing day.

I will be a little MIA for the next few days because we are celebrating at Disney World. I decided that instead of having a birthday party we would use the money to spend 3 days at Disney World. Today we are kicking off our trip at Animal Kingdom and then heading to Magic Kingdom on Friday and we are still up in the air on what we will do on Saturday. So basically there are going to be a ton of Disney World pictures on this blog next week. I will also try to post some cute pictures on instagram during our trip, my user name is Malliety if you'd like to follow along.

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I want to apologize for my lack of posts & blog hopping this week
I have been insanely busy with the holiday coming up & my husband's birthday
I have a bunch of posts in the work for after Christmas
I just get over critical when I am editing my photos and it ends up being a loooong process
That's why my last batch of Vegas pictures haven't showed up yet, still perfecting them

Last night my sister in-law Tamie and I threw a surprise party for our husbands
They are twins
The fact that they have always shared a birthday & it is 3 days before Christmas means that they usually get jipped
We wanted to do something special for them this year

The party went over great
We weren't able to surprise them as well as we would have liked
but they at least didn't know about the party until they got here-
separately & about a half hour apart
Oh well

I thought I'd share a few pictures from the party
I didn't take very many and the ones that I did take aren't that great so they were actually super easy to edit
Maybe that's the trick- take only a few crappy photos and then you won't have some many editing options


This was before everyone came and Tamie and I were in a mad rush to get everything done. Aubs grabbed the balloons and placed them on either side of her chair while she had an Olivia marathon.








Ruby was totally eyeing up Nathan's ice cream cone


I don't know if there will be much action here until after Christmas
busy busy busy

Merry Christmas!!!!