The Sharit's: February 2010

We were so excited to join Jeremy on a business trip to Orlando!! We drove all the way down in one day and the girls did so well! It was a great trip and I took SO many pics...we were able to take a few days for ourselves too, so it was not all business!!

The girls and I had a couple of days where Daddy was gone all day, so we hung out at the hotel. The first day we got to hang out at the pool...it was heated and the temp was about 60 that day, so it felt pretty good!! The kiddie pool however was not heated, as you can tell from the blue lips on the girls...it did not take me long to convince Madi to go to the big pool and get warm!!

The second day that Daddy was gone it rained, so we had to hang out in the room...we made the best of it and even ordered a fabulous lunch...and we stayed in our pj's all day!!

Our first outing of the week we wanted to take the girls to the beach. We got out the map and picked Canaveral National Seashore to visit...we had no idea how awesome it would be!! The drive there was amazing...we went through a huge marshy area, we had no idea where we were going (if you know us you know we love to get off course and explore)...we just hoped we were headed toward the seashore...we drove through the marshes for at least an hour or so. It was amazing!!! We saw 30+ alligator!! Madi loved it, and I loved taking pics of them!! They were so close to us, usually just at the edge of the road we were on...

We were driving along and saw this bird up in a tree, and he has him some supper!!!

Some of the biggest gator we have ever seen...and in the wild!!

I mean HUGE!!

I love this pic...

Wish there would have been a space shuttle sitting on this...

Finally we made it to the seashore...it was evening by now...we had us a snack and headed to the beach...love this pic of our girls!

Sweet girl!

I plan on getting this printed big...it is one of my favorites I have ever taken of the girls. I love their little footprints!!

She had a blast!!

She was so excited about the bird...

Of course Daddy & Madi had to build a sand castle...

We visited the Magic Kindom...really just a teaser, because we were only there one day. This is sweet Madi's face when she saw the castle...made tears come to our eyes!!

Our family pic in front of the castle, could not get Graci to look at the camera for nothing!!!

What is in there??

One of their many souvenirs!! Madi picked out princess rings and Graci picked out a Mickey Mouse necklace...

Madi got her face painted...it was called "Tinker Bell"

Graci's was called "Daisey"

She is a beautiful daisy!!

and the most beautiful Tinker Bell I have ever seen!

The highlight of the day was getting to meet the princesses and fairies!!

Snow white...she is the princess who Madi was most looking forward to meeting!!

and of course Cinderella!

Graci was not real sure about any of the princesses...

Madi flying into Pixie Hollow with Tinker Bell...she was most excited about seeing her!!

This was all Graci could handle...Tinker Bell said "oops, I made it leak!"

And then there was Iridessa...

The girls both LOVED the tea cups...and Daddy even spun us fast!!

LOVE the looks on their faces...

The castle was so beautiful at night...

Love this pic...wish their hats were not on backwards, they have their names on them!!

Our second day at Disney we went to the Animal Kingdom! We loved it!! There were so many animals, the girls loved it too!!

I loved all the buildings and architecture!!

I love taking pics of trees!!

One of my faves...

We were looking at this particular animal and I asked what it was...Madi responded "an Okapi" and Jeremy and I did not think anything about it...until we saw this sign...and Madi can't read, so bless her heart she did know what it was!! We just laughed...she says she learned it from Diego!!

Thought this was an awesome view of the hippo!!

This mama gorilla had just had this sweet baby, she was only one week old!!

So sweet!!

These guys were cool...we were waiting to eat at Tusker House Restaurant and we were watching them while we were waiting. The called a few people up to dance with them, and I was one of them!! Jeremy did not take pics because he was videoing it, it was so much fun!! And by the way, Tusker House is number one!!!

Inside the Tusker House Restaurant...

Madi could have played these drums all day...

Awesome doors, I wanted to bring them home with me to shoot in front of!!

Precious!!

Even more precious!!

LOVE this pic...it was a beautiful day!!

Another fave...

Bless Madi's heart, she loves dinosaurs...so she and I rode the Dinosaur ride. Jeremy and I did not realize how scary it was...and it went fast...she did okay, until the end when it just stopped, it was so dark you could not see your hand in front of your face...we just sat there in pitch black for about 2 minutes...I was even scared, I thought the ride had broke or something!!

At the end of the day we watched the parade, the girls loved it and it topped off a wonderful day!!

Our last night we took Madi to play put put golf for the first time...she was so cute!! She would hit the ball a couple of times and then pick it up and run and put it right next to the hole and hit it in!! Then she would do her victory celebration...

I noticed throughout this day (at Animal Kingdom and playing golf) that most of the time Madi had one pants leg out and one in...we kept trying to fix it, and it kept coming out!!