orlando .. day 1

we flew out of the springfield/branson airport this time .. not tulsa .. it is a very clean and small airport .. i know .. springfield you say .. i was a direct flight to orlando .. and when you are traveling with cash .. direct flights are good ..

he packed his back pack full of heavy equipment .. just in case there was a need to move dirt or rocks or gold fish .. while we were in orlando ..

once we picked up the rental car which we named the "hamster car" .. because it is just like the kia car that the hamsters drive on the commercial .. we headed to the hotel .. put on our suits and hit the pool .. ok .. so the kids and jeff put on their suits and i unpacked the suitcases and organized the room .. then i put on my suit and went to the pool .. there were 2 pools at the hotel .. an adult pool .. a very quiet .. calm and relaxing place to be .. and there was the kid .. or family .. pool .. the kid pool had a slide .. a big fast slide ..

we forced our kids to slide .. a zillion times .. as you can see they did not like it one bit .. ellie made a friend .. the first 5 minutes that they were at the pool .. his name is seth .. he is from midland .. his family .. he has 2 older brothers .. were going to be in orlando for 4 days .. and he loves to swim just like ellie does .. that girl .. she has got the social skills .. we left about dark .. we had to go to bed early because the next day we were going here ..

we are home .. and we are doing laundry

will someone please check on me if you don't hear from me for a few days .. it is possible that i may be swallowed by the beast and the dragon as i work on my workcation laundry .. thanks .. and please bring oreos ..

We have finally made it to Disney .. Ellie's life is complete ..

A little time at the pool ...

Look .. We rented the hamster car .. The kids do not like it !!

we are on workcation ..

we are going to orlando for the polaris dealer show .. while we are gone you can work on your movie soundtrack quiz .. there will be lots to show you when we get back .. be good while we are gone !!

XXOO
ellie .. cash .. and jenny

movie soundtrack trivia ..

saturday at work .. i made ryan and ruth do a movie soundtrack trivia quiz with me .. i needed help because this can be hard .. so we applied the teamwork concept to this task and got it done in no time flat .. ruth poked fun at ryan and i .. saying that some of the movies/songs were before her time .. i think she was saying that we were old .. so .. here you go .. you can take the quiz to .. round up all your most brilliant friends and apply the teamwork concept like we did .. we made a 100% .. good luck .. so name the movie that these songs were in .. all of these songs made it to #1 on the music billboard chart by the way .. so i know you have heard them .. these songs will also make you say .. i remember when that movie came out"  .. you will also remember who you saw that movie with and then that will make you think .. gosh .. he was a good kisser .. not that i ever went to the movies and spent the entire time kissing my date .. answers to follow ..

1. i don't want to miss a thing
2. take my breath away
3. the power of love
4. blaze of glory
5. batdance
6. everything i do i do it for you
7. kokomo
8. shakedown
9. i've had the time of my life
10. glory of love
11. when doves cry
12. let's hear it for the boy
13. up where we belong
14. eye of the tiger
15. you're the one that i want
16. nobody does it better
17. kiss from a rose
18. gangsta's paradise

ballet girls .. part two

we took a break from tubing for a bit and meet up with the mullens .. they had a big boat that you could jump off that day .. and boy oh boy .. there was a mass exodus from our boat over to the mullens boat .. and the jumping began .. check out the line ..

all i can say is that they jumped for at least an hour .. cash kept up with the big kids jump for jump .. and they can all jump .. cannon balls .. can openers .. pencil jumps .. land on your bottom jump (this is cash's favorite) .. we had to almost drag them back into our boat so that we could go home and swim in the pool .. i was sure that they would be water logged and be ready to get into dry clothes .. eat dinner and pass out .. this was not the case .. part 3 tomorrow ..

boating with the ballet girls .. part one ..

 this is the ballet group .. last year ..

this is the ballet group this year .. oh my .. they have grown .. they came for a day of tubing and swimming .. and the orange pop ..

luke and avery ..

ella .. avery .. nora .. poor girls .. their little cheeks are going to hurt from all the smiling and laughing ..

ellie .. ella .. nora ..

oh girls .. hold on ..

oh ellie says .. here comes the wake ..

i think that they liked it ..

oh nora ..

see .. those are going to be some sore cheeks ..

ellie is showing her daddy a little sass .. oh .. dad .. she says .. i can ride with no hands .. nora .. is saying .. hey wait a minute ellie .. i can't ride with no hands ..

ok ellie .. i hope you can hold on .. tomorrow .. jumping and jumping and more jumping ..

finally .. we got to boat with the mullens ..

on tuesday we finally got together with the mullens for a little bit of boating .. and tubing .. and wake boarding and dinner .. it has taken us all summer to accomplish this small task ..

these poor kids .. they are not having any fun at all ..

i think that next time we will just stay home and go to bed early ..

we took advantage of our time together and got cooper up on the wake board ..

of course in order to do this we had to leave the mullens boat floating out in the drowning creek .. with no one in it .. while all 10 of us piled into our boat .. cash was in charge of watching cooper's boat .. lucky for us .. it didn't drift into any one's dock or the shore ..

and cooper .. i think that he has the wake boarding thing figured out ...

which meant that it was time to boat up to the landings for dinner ..

so we ordered drinks .. root beer all around .. for the kids that is ..this is how cash drinks his root beer ..

b .. he is so funny .. this is how he drink his root beer ..

and .. cooper .. our newest wake boarder .. he likes his root beer to ..

the kids were still for about 3 minutes so that i could snap this pic .. and then of course they took to pushing the swings .. and you will notice the sign .. clearly posted on the back of the swing that says no pushing .. evidently ellie can no longer read ... because they pushed and pushed those swings ..

time to go home .. seeing how is was dark .. and the landings were closing .. b and ellie have become fast friends ..

see you b .. see you ellie ..