Memorial Day - a little late

 On Tuesday, Tracy and I went for a 5 mile walk around the cemetary. 

 We were in awe

Paintball with Dylan

 Dylan invited the boys to paintball with him in Puyallup on Sunday

 Getting the safety talk from the referee

 Filling up paintball guns with Dylan's cousin Tanner in the background

 

 Jordan and Zach starting out

 Dylan making a run for it, in the gray sweatshirt

 Jordan didn't get hit often (hiding out helps), but he got a shot to the shoulder

 Zachary

 Part of the gang, missing cousin #2 Jay I believe.

 The three amigo's

 The whole group, ready to go back in.  Neither I nor Jordan can remember a few names of the boys.  Ugh...

 New game at the castle, Dylan up front in the light gray sweatshirt, Jordan and Zach hanging back.

 After.  Not too bad...

They let us go in the castle and take a picture of everyone.

David is in Hawaii

Well...as I was coming back from California, David left for Hawaii.  Literally.  He flew out in the morning and I came in in the evening.  He will be there for 2 weeks, poor guy!

Happy Mother's Day!

When I got home the kids gave me their Mother's day gift.  So sweet.  Papa Larrie got me a Pandora bracelet for my birthday which I love, and he got me an amethyst birthstone charm and a little doghouse charm, the boys got me two Mother's charms!  And cleaned the house...which was nice!!!

LAST ride!

Yep, I am all excited, our last ride...dragging Lily on Splash Mountain one more time.  I mean really...if I got wet, we were heading to the hotel anyway so it didn't really matter!!!  Wait was 40 minutes, perfect, enough time to do Splash, do Winnie the Pooh with a 7 minute wait, go to the little store and get a gargantuant cookie for the plane, grab one last Mickey Mouse ice cream bar and walk back to the hotel to get my things together to get to the shuttle.... how it really went down....40 minutes?  NO problem, perfect!  Get in line....over one and a half hours later (I NEVER, never, never remember Disney being this far off on their ride wait times) I am getting anxious cuz...what to do?  Get out of line ( I think not) but then risk being late?  I don't really want to do that either, so....how it really went down...went on the ride, all panicked, then raced back to the hotel, bypassing the cookie AND the ice cream sandwich - NOT COOL!  But, obviously, I didn't need it anyhow....Ugh.  Sadly leaving Amy and Lily behind to close down the park...

Happiness is.....

Sunday

 I mean can you EVER ride Big Thunder Mountain too many times????

 I think not.  Just ask Lily June!

We also went on the Star Tours ride a few times.  It has changed completely and is now 3D and there are many variations of which "plants" you go to so we went on it like 3 times (Amy and Lily even more I think...) and had different ones most of the time, if there was one place we saw, the second one in the same ride was different.  Good idea...and thank goodness for fast passes!

Saturday evening

 We tried to have Lily June take our picture with our new sweatshirts.

 Oops, forgot to un-zoom!

 The three of us with our  new sweatshirts, we tried finding all matching ones but they didn't have them in all of our sizes...Lily loved her so much (the back is really cute - that she slept in it that night and said it was the  most comfortable sweatshirt...EVER!!!)

 We found the best place to watch fireworks, granted you don't get the music that goes with it....but...outside of Thunder Mountain you get a perfect view.  We saw the back side of Fantasmic but Lily June had about had it so we didn't push it!

Most $$ meal!!!

 Holy crap!  Lily and I got sandwich from this yummy sandwich place for dinner....and she said, that'll be $17 and I had to do a double take and tell her I just wanted one sandwich.  Yeah.  My sandwich was $13!!!!  I cannot believe it.  It was a very delicious sandwich but really?  $17?  Not so sure bout that.

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

I had to take this picture for mom, but we didn't wait in line for it.  Sorry!  But it made me happy bringing back all those memories of the emails from when they boycotted them closing it down in Florida!

Saturday rides

 Lily's favorite ride in all of the two parks was Big Thunder Mountain...and ride it we did....5 times today in fact!  It was a good thing we liked it too, and her hair didn't even budge!

 It's a Small World

 And the Tiki Room!!!!  Which was closed in Florida so I was glad that we got to see it here.  And Amy and Lily got a Dole Whip float that they both loved!

Bibbity Bobbity Boutique

 The BEFORE

 Lily and her fairy Godmother - this boutique is no joke I tell you what!  These girls are pampered!

 Lily chose pop princess with the rainbow extensions and hair piece

 The transformation into....pop princess!!!

 She was thrilled!  She sparkled while she shined!!!  Got her make up and nails done, a birthday sash, a ring (65 carats), even a face jewel, with a backpack, all of which she got to keep!

 Talk about teased...this girl woke up the next morning and it looked EXACTLY like this!

 AFTER - she got so many compliments, both days!