Island of Adventure

This was Emily's favorite area in "Islands of Adventure". She loved all the rides. The grinch down below was a punk....... what ever his costume sucked!

The above photo is of one of my favorite rides at "Islands of Adventure". My kids cried while we were standing in line saying they didn't want to ride it. At times Vince and I felt like we were vacationing with 2 eighty year olds! They didn't want to ride anything that was fast, wet, or scary! That leaves what....... dumbo??? Anyways..... being the rotten parents that we are we forced them to ride this ride tears and all!!

I think they decided that getting wet isn't that bad when it is 70 degrees out!

Busch Gardens Rocks!!

So as I was saying before...... Busch Gardens was really cool!
There was something for all of us!


Emily got her face painted!

Cody got to pet a Clydesdale! (That is one of those really big Budweiser horses..... in case you didn't know).

And Vince and I got to ride some really big coasters. We had to ride them alone but we got to ride them! (Emily was too short and Cody was too scared!) This one was one of my favs..... but it broke down almost at the top of the very first drop a couple hours after we rode it!! Scary!!!!

Nope that is not your imagination....... Emily has three birds on her head! One of them even pooped on her head! She was a good sport about it though. And then there is Cody the animal lover who was scared out of his mind with all of these lorakeets on him. I think he got used to them after a little bit!

They had a kids area where you could climb around...... I think Vince and I had more fun then the kids!

They are also a lot higher off the ground then they appear!

Feeding the Giraffes

So we have been home for a little over a week now and I am all ready thinking about where we can go on our next vacation! Words can not describe how much fun we had. One of the first things we did was go to Busch Gardens. I think out of all the Florida theme parks we have been to Busch gardens was my favorite! We paid a little extra while we were there and got to feed the Giraffes! It was very cool!

He wasn't really eating my hand..... although the look and my face might make you assume otherwise!

It took Emily and Cody a little bit to warm up to these hungry, gentle giants....... but now Cody says it was his favorite part of the whole trip!

Cody's big 10!!

So Cody turned 10 on Saturday. We had a little family party for him. This year we are having a Halloween/ Birthday party for Cody! I tried to just skip the Halloween party this year and my family wouldn't have it!

Vince made and decorated the cake.... I was pretty impressed!

He's such a big boy!

First day of school.......

The first day of school came and went! It started out being a very exciting day! We took pictures......

Went out to eat......

dropped Cody off to class......

And before I knew it this face turned into.........

This face!

What should had been one of the happiest days of my life, left me walking away from this poor pathetic little face! It's okay.....we both survived and she loves going to school now!

Abby comes to town.......

Abby, Angie, and mom came down for one of many visits this summer. Here are some of the pics mom took. As always, mom delivered a bunch of stuff for me. Abby had to endure being packed into the truck with all of my stuff....... looks like she was a good sport!

The kids hanging around the pond!

My mom liked Shannon's house and figured it would be a good photo op!

Angie and Abby

Nice how it was Angie's idea that we make funny faces...... only one of us followed through! I get the beard and the ugly face and Angie gets the big perky boobs!

Only faces a mother could love!

Denali Camping Trip!

So we only went camping once this summer...... we roughed it in mom and dad's fifth wheel! We went to Denali for a couple of days. We took the bus back and saw lots of bears and caribou! It was fun!

My Garden

Cody and I made this little pond one afternoon...... it's so cute! Next year I am going to surround it with flowers!

The best part of the garden were the flowers! They were gorgeous! I love my porch...... Eat your heart out Martha!

The outside garden didn't do so great....... to cold of a summer I think. It must be that Damn global warming! I did get lots of lettuce and my pea plants got really tall they just did not produce anything!

So here are some pictures of my green house! It actually did pretty good! I got like 10 pumpkins.......none of them were bigger then a cantaloupe but I am happy with all of my little pumpkins! I got a bunch of zucchini, squash, and tomatoes as well!