Hello, anyone still there?

I know it has been awhile since I posted, but everything just seemed to happen in the last few weeks. Of course we had our spring break trip. We drove to Florida (yes I said drove). We had a great time. The kids did pretty good in the car as you can see from the photo below. Our first day there we went to Universal Studios Island of Adventure. It was a nice day and wasn't too crowded. The kids had a blast in Seuss Landing, but loved alot of the other rides. Dylan said his favorite ride was Ripsaw falls (which is like a log water ride). It is the best log ride I have ever been on. We got pretty wet. JTs favorite ride was Popeye & Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barge (which is a big circle water raft ride), it was very good as well and we all ended up soaked after that one. Emily loved the Flying Unicorn which is a rollercoaster. It was pretty fast too, she had to ride it twice.
On the second day there we went to Disney's World's Magic Kingdom along with everyone else that was in Florida. It was so crowded. The weather was nice. Some friends of ours were there that day too so we met up with them and rode a few rides together. Not many though because of the crowd. When it was dinner time we decide to leave to park to go eat. We went to Chevy's, we had eaten at one before in Nevada one year when we had gone skiing and loved it so we were happy to see one. The food was wonderful! We had thought about going back to the park and decided we didn't want to fight the crowd anymore so we went on the the hotel.

We stayed our last 3days/2 nights at the Nickeloden hotel. They have two swimming areas with pools and slides. The kids had so much fun there. We saw Dora, and Spongebob and Diego. You could have breakfast with the Nick characters too, but we never did. They put on family style game show things in the evening and we went to two of them. During one of the physical challenges the picked audience members to go on stage and JT got picked. It was so cute.

On the way home we saw an orchard were you could go pick your own fruit so we stopped and picked some tangerines and oranges. They were very good.

Before we knew it, we were home and it was time to get ready for Easter.

Here are the kids dying Easter eggs. JT had been outside riding the 4-wheeler and I called him in and he didn't want to take of the helmet because as soon as he finished he went right back outside to ride some more.

Here are the finished eggs.

The Easter bunny came and the kids got some goodies and then went on an egg hunt.

Then on Wednesday it was Todd's 37th birthday (Happy Birthday honey!). We went to Outback for dinner with family.

Then on Friday it was Dylan's class field trip. They went to the Houston Zoo. It was a nice day. Wasn't too hot! Here is one of the photos of Dylan with a little boy from his class also named Dylan.

Friday night was family night for baseball. They had hitting contest for the little kids and a home run derby for the older kids. Here are the kids watching some of the older boys.

Saturday morning was opening day. Dylan and Emily are playing on the same team and they had an early morning game. They won 15-11.

Here is Emily playing catcher.

And this is one of her at bats.

Here is Dylan on 1st base with a throw from Daniel for one of the many outs they had this game.

Here is one of Dylan's at bats.

After their game we had a little time on our hands until JT's game since he didn't play until late so we went and played some of the things they had set up. All three kids rode the mechanical bull which was a lot of fun to watch.

And JT climbed the rock wall twice. Both times he made it to the top and rung the siren.

Then it was time for JT's game. The team we played had two of his good friends from school. It was a good game, but we ended up losing by 1.

Here JT is up to bat.

Here is one of JT's throws from the pitchers mound to 1st base for an out.

It has been a busy few days/weeks. Things should start to slow down a little now, but with 3 kids you never know. I have more to share, but will save it for another day.