Hollywood Studios!

Our third day was spent at Hollywood Studios.We wished we would have also seen the Indiana Jones show. It is impossible to fit everything in a day in, especially with the summer heat.

We loved these fans that spray a mist of water. They helped a lot cooling us off in the 90 degree heat of Florida!

Waiting in line for Mission Space. Very cool ride. The extreme version of this ride was a bit too much for me.

Tower of Terror. Nate, Brian and our girls loved this ride.  Brian lost everything in his pocket and didn't know about it until he saw his photo afterward.

We saw the Beauty and the Beast show. It was very well done!

We are waiting for the Fantasmic Show to begin.

The Fantasmic Show was performed on this neat island. It had stunts, fire, and a water show. Images were shown in a fan of water.

Once it was dark enough, the show began with Mickey appearing in smoke.

Various boats came past the island through the show with this great Ferry boat at the end.  All of the Disney characters were on the ferry at the end.

Magic Kingdom!

Magic Kingdom was the second park we went to. We had lots of fun. It is definitely a place that you need to spend more than one day.

Meeting Princess Merida from Brave.

Meeting Peter Pan and Wendy!

Rapunzel's Tower

Riding on the Tea Cup.

It is so hot!

Sharing an ice cream treat before one more ride!

Princess Jasmine and her Genie.

The girls bought some swords and pirate hooks after going on the Pirates of the Caribbean Ride.

My little pirate!

Epcot

Our first place in Florida to visit was Epcot.  I think it is one of my favorite parks. We didn't even get to the international part of it.

Inside a shark at the aquarium.

Inside this was one of our favorite rides. It was Spaceship Earth.

They had these cute lizards everywhere. Sophia wanted me to take a picture of one because Christine liked to take photos of them.

A manatee at the aquarium eating a head of lettuce.

The girls watching the manatee.

Brian with the girls watching fish.

Time for a treat to cool off.

Nate and the girls walking back to Epcot on Father's Day for one more ride and fireworks.

A photo of us on one awesome ride called Test Track. We got to design our car and race it.

The girls got to sit in lots of cars before leaving the ride.

Yikes, just 6 years and Mikayla will be driving for real!

Fireworks at Epcot

Adorable photos of my mom's puppy, Chloe!

My mom's puppy is almost a year old.  My sister helped to pick her out when she was a few weeks old.  Christine would have loved these photos!

Riding Horses

There is always something to do here in Rochester.  This week there was an awesome fundraising event for a local horse riding place for the disabled.  The girls and I checked it out and had so much fun. A person led the girls' horse around a trail for a good 10 minutes before bringing them back.  They also got to eat treats and paint horses (it is called spirit painting).

Mikayla watching Elyana go out for a ride and waiting her turn.

Look at how beautiful this horses' mane is. The horse's name is Fancy.

Elyana using sponges to paint her horse.

Elyana going on a ride on a horse that is half Clydesdale.

Elyana waiting for Mikayla to come back from a ride and goofing around on a saddle.

July 4th!

My mom was here helping us with a few house projects and got to spend the 4th with us. We let the girls do a few sparklers and then watched our neighbors at the end of the cul de sac shoot off some great fireworks.  The girls caught a few lightning bugs.  We tried to protect ourselves from the mosquitoes with long sleeves, leggings and bug spray, but the girls still got eaten up.  We have had so much rain here in the month of May that I think the mosquitoes are extra bad this year.  Elyana especially seems to react to them.  Both girls ended up with Hydrocordizone cream, Benadryl and ibuprofen to help.  Here a a few photos.

This is my favorite July 4th photo. My mom's puppy, Chloe watched the fireworks for awhile too.