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Monday, December 6, 2010

3 legged Bandit

Mikayla has been asking DAILY for a dog or bird now for months. Zach loves dogs and I feel he was missing out on that part of childhood. Mikayla said she wanted something that was just hers that she could take care of...so we ended up at the Humane Society and I thought that maybe in 6 months we would find the perfect dog to replace my Sunny and Sandy (yellow labs that my parents have). 2 weekends ago after painting all day and telling Mikayla if she was good we would just stop by the HS, we hurried over 20 mins before they closed. And there we found the most loving but yet sad 3 legged dog (sorry pic doesn't show it well, its his right front paw) and we just couldn't leave him there. The positives to a 3 legged dog are that he can't dig, can't pull the kids down when they walk him and can't jump up on people very well. He also doesn't bark and weighs only about 30 pounds..which is nice compared to our 70lbs labs that drug us everywhere. Everyone who meets Bandit (Mikayla choose the name) loves him and says how sweet he is.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

NYC

While my parents were in town we went to NYC for my first time. We were there 2 nights 2 days and had a great time, shopping, eating good food, and doing a double decker tour. The only negative was when B's wallet was stolen out of our safe at the Marriott just as we were headed to the airport. So we had to run 10 blocks to the train station to get the airport early so they could call the FBI and ask lots of questions and do lots of pat downs to finally let him on the plane.

Orlando

Byron had a work conference in Orlando, staying on site at Disney at a nice resort with a waterslide and playground, foosball table and lake so we decided to go with him. I took the kids to Sea World all by myself 1 day from 9-6pm, we got to see and do everything but feed the dolphins because they closed it early so Kenzie was sad about that, next time. Sea World had a special going on where kids where only $5 with a paid adult. It was a beautiful day, the park was empty and the kids behaved except for during a sit down lunch at the shark exhibit where Mikayla proceeded to put pepper on Kenzies mac and cheese so that she could have it for herself, which of course thru Kenzie into a tizzie. But other than that they were great. They even got to ride the kids rides again and again without getting off cuz the park was so empty!

On the way home from Orlando we stopped at Byron's gma who lives about an 1.5 hrs from Orlando.

The kids loved the waterslide and pool. We were there at 8am just as it opened because they loved it so.....not many other people there that early....Zach also loved the foosball table, we played that for a few hours, and we rode our scooters around the lake.