Cara's First Communion

This was a very special time for Cara in the Catholic church because she made her First Communion.  Grandma and Grandpa Abbott, Aunt Cyndi, and Grandma and Grandpa Fox all came to help her celebrate!

Decorations for our party

Cara got a very special present from G & G Abbott, her very own ruby ring with little diamonds on it

posing for some pictures in the backyard before heading to church

Will was done with pictures but we tried to get a picture of Aunt Cyndi with the kids

Cara making her First Communion

Each child made a banner that was hung in church and here is what Cara and I created

Afterwards we had a luncheon at our house complete with cake!  Thanks Grandma Fox for making the cake and mints for the occasion! Congratulations Cara!

Easter 2014

Easter morning, I had to work the night before, there were strict instructions to stay upstairs until I was home from work!  Cara was wide awake and ready but we had to wake Will! 

What did the Easter bunny bring us?

Later in the day we went to Grandma and Grandpa Fox's house for an Easter dinner and egg hunt

the kids had color coded eggs so they all had the same number, just had to find their color

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for such a nice Easter!

Palm Sunday and Egg hunt at church

 He wanted to stop, open and eat what was in each egg instead of running to get more

Scott went with Cara and I went with Will for the egg hunt because they were divided by age so I don't have any pictures of Cara picking up her eggs but it was fun.  The egg hunt started earlier than announced and a family with a little boy about Will's age was walking up to the grassy area just as we were walking to our car and they were sad to see it was over.  The little boy's dad had his big camera and the grandma and grandpa were there.  So I asked Cara if she would share some of her eggs with the little boy and she ran back and put some in the grass for him to get and it just made their day and was a great lesson to share our riches with others.

Epcot 3/29/14, Last Day of Vacation

Had to get a giant Mickey Waffle for my last breakfast at Disney!

Then we headed back to Epcot because Cara really want to do the Phineas and Ferb mission

While we were in China we ran into Mulan who had a short line to we stopped to say hi

And then it rained.......

rained so hard for a while that you couldn't even see!  We trudged through inches of rain to go have lunch in Italy!  It was terrible, we were all soaked (except for Will) even though we had ponchos.  The rain was coming sideways and the sidewalks had about 4 inches of standing water because it was raining so hard.

Drying off on the bus back to the hotel!  What a wet way to end our day at Epcot but we had fun while it lasted!

Magic Kingdom March 28th

We can't get enough of the Magic Kingdom so we were ready for another day of fun! 

How many times can you meet Mickey Mouse, it doesn't matter we still get excited every time

Now if only I had the photoshop skills to take all the extra people out of this picture and have it be my kids in the front of the castle!

Cara and I riding Splash mountain!

And then Scott and Cara riding it!

We had dinner at the Beast's castle that night!

an example of our delicious desserts!  the food was delicious but a bit overrated and I probably wouldn't waste a table service for this restaurant again, highly suggest waiting it out to go at lunch time as a counter service

 Serious play at Buzz Lightyear!  Sad that Cara's head got cut off in the picture!  We were going to go back and ride again just to get a better picture but simply ran out of time!