Day 9 Going home turns into Day 10!

Sorry..I posted the pictures before the story again! Scroll down and read and then you will understand why we all look so bad, tired, stressed, nasty.......

Letting the kids play with the cameras to occupy themselves!

Making friends at the rest stop..while his daddy helps our daddy!

Today was terrible..yes it could have gone worse but our patience was definitely tried today. I figured I would list the things instead of writing it out. It would take forever and a day to explain everything so here we go:

1. No available carts to take our luggage down 7 floors
2.Wake Callee..she wasn't feeling good. Went back to bed

3. Derick carries ALL our luggage down....Yes he is amazing!!

4. Find Callee in bed and she had gotten sick all over herself

5. All she wants to do is lie in the tub

6. Leave to get gas...Callee gets sick on the way

7. Stop by CVS to get a bucket for her to hold

8. Get a call from Mom and their battery is dead?!

9. Go back to help them and the battery is now fine..now the transmission seems to be going out!

10. Go by Disney's lost and found and get Gracie's blanket

11. Talk with Callee's pediatrician.. she wants her seen now. Think she might me diabetic

12. I cry

13. Mom finds a urgent care and meets us there.

14. Crazy doctor didn't know what he was doing!

15. Stop by Walgreens and pick up her antibiotic for her UTI...that she didn't really have!!

16. Start home
17. Make it to Gainesville, FL rest stop

18. Derick gets out without putting it in park.

19. I wake up to us rolling back with NO driver!!

20. Slam it in park just as we about hit a Lexus!

21. Get out..completely freaked out!

22. Load back up and guess what? My Tahoe won't crank!

23. Sit there for hours trying to find out whats wrong
24. Finally call tow truck and tow us to hotel
25. Derick stays outside most of the night trying to figure out whats wrong with it.

Well I guess I will continue my list through the next day also. Keep in mind this is Memorial Day so all dealership and car rental places are closed! And we find out that to rent a truck and trailer to haul my car home will be over $400.00

26. Drive...yes I said drive my car to auto store and they can't run a test on it

27. Drive it to another pay them $100 just to look at it and they drive it and look some more and they say nothing is wrong

28. About to leave there and it starts it again!

29. They then say it will be $300 to fix it

30. Derick buys the $50 part and has it fixed in less than 15 minutes!

31. Get lunch and head home once again
32. The van has basically a blow out and have to stop for a new tire!

33. Finally made it home on Day 10 at 10:00pm

Day 8 Papa George's House

Day 8 of vacation..Papa George's house. I know we should have went sooner. But as much as I was excited about seeing him and him meeting Hynlee for the first time. I was dreading it. This wouldn't just be Hynlee's first time, but our first time without Nana. The first with out her silly jokes, the first with her chair sitting there empty, the first of what we have to expect from now on. It went better than I thought. Papa is amazing! At his age he rides his bike five miles a day. And I complain that I don't feel like going for a walk!

Hynlee did ok for the first part of the trip there. Playing peek a boo! Then when she got tired she made me lay over on her. I couldn't move or she would scream. So finally I feel asleep like this...

My neck was killing me by the time we got there. But it was so worth it!

Lane and his baby blues!

Jonah

How funny is this? This is Jonah! Hard to believe I know! He will probably kill me one day for these photos. But I promise he did it all on his on!

Jonah trying to smother me!

Derick being goofy! There is not a day this guy doesn't make me laugh!

Papa George with all the kiddos

Hopefully soon we will be headed back. This time to pack him up and move him back to Georgia!

Day 7 Beach!!

Sorry for the picture overload!

Callee Bug
Cute Cousins

T and me

Hynlee girl

Kendall Brooke:)

My babies

Feeling the water on her toes

My Love

My precious family...so blessed!

My whole world!

Day 7 plans...BEACH! We always go to the beach but this year was extra special! Tammy and her family joined us. The girls loved it like always but Hynlee surprised us all. She absolutely loved it! Grace and Callee never cared about it when they were that small. But she couldn't get enough of it. The sand, the water, the waves..she loved them all! She was way to cute giggling each time the waves hit her. And as for me, well ever since I have had kids I don't like getting way out in the water. But this year Derick kept pulling me until we were way to far. But we had fun, more fun that we have had in a long time. We needed this!

Day 6

KK and Jonah

My little love bug!

Chip and Dale

She is so beautiful...and doesn't even know it:)

Two of my loves..

Princess Callee, Jasmine, and Grace...I know Daddy wishes he would have went now!! He has a secret thing for Jasmine!

Mommy's favorite Princess
Callee and her Princess Wand!

Cinderella

Magic Kingdom! This is the one place that keeps bringing us back to Disney! This year we had an extra special treat! We have tried on numerous occasions to get reservations at The Royal Table inside Cinderella's castle. It's so hard to get one but this year Nana Kris and Papa Tim went above and beyond! They treated all us girls to a day in the castle!! Grace and Callee were so excited. This is all they had talked about for months!

We had a ball! Except for the fact that I forgot Hynlee's blankie in the stroller outside. So she had a melt down just about the entire time! No blankie, no cover-up so I had to use a napkin...yes a little square napkin to cover up nursing in the middle of the dining room. It was either that or let her scream for the rest of the time!! Then it came time to order and Mom has to announce my allergy to nuts. So what does this mean? It means the Chef..yes the actual chef has to come out and discuss my dining options. What else did I expect? We are one big, crazy family! Did I really think we could have a dinner with out any mishaps?? But we did make memories to last forever!! Thanks again Nana and Papa:)

The rest of the day was how do you say it? HOT!

The girls didn't let that stop them. They rode Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. They liked all of them and rode most of them twice. We finally decided not to waste time standing in lines to meet characters with Hynlee. She wasn't going to have her picture made!

Chef Mickey's Day 5

Today had been planned out for months. Every year we do a character meal, Nana Kris and Papa had asked if they could take all the kids to this one. We didn't have a problem with that..except that Hynlee has never been left. I guess with her being the baby its just been harder leaving her. But we had agreed she could go but that was before her head injury. Well let me start at the beginning. Hynlee still doesn't sleep through the night. So when she woke up early that morning I just left her in the bed with us. I was careful and placed two pillows beside her and then the pack and play was beside the bed so I thought it was all good. Well once again I was wrong. Sometime around seven she rolled over on top of the pillows and fell off the bed. As if that wasn't enough she hit her head on the corner of the night stand. I woke up as soon as she hit the floor. She was lying face down on the floor. When I picked her up there was blood everywhere!! It took us forever to get it stop bleeding. I first thought we needed stitches but she was fine. I thought for sure I wouldn't be able to let her leave me now. But she did and I'm sure she did better than I did. The only problem was they were going for breakfast. They left our room at 9:00 and didn't return until 2:00! What kind of breakfast they had I'm not sure, but I sure was missing my babies!! Poor Hynlee didn't like the characters at all. And looking back at the pictures and how bad she looks, I wish I would have just kept her with me. On the upside of things Grace, Callee, Lane, and Jonah had a blast.

Hollywood Studio's Day 4

One of the soldiers from Toy Story

Look how much taller Callee is than Grace!

The kiddos waiting in line for the new Toy Story ride. They loved it, well everyone but Hynlee. We had to wait in line twice for them to ride it again.

My favorite..and guess what? I took it! I guess maybe I can take a decent picture!!

This was Hynlee's first characters. And she did pretty good. She even reached out and touched one. Can you tell that June is the girls favorite??


My Callee Girl!

Grace and Callee found out they were tall enough to ride Tower of Terror because I opened my big mouth. I never ever thought they would want to ride it. Well, maybe Callee but most defiantly not Gracie. Boy was I wrong. Derick and I will both ride any ride, any time. But neither of us was ready for our girls to take this BIG step. I don't know who was scared more, Derick and me for them, or them. We..or I tried my very best to talk them out of it the entire time we were in line. And I thought I had Gracie. She would say no I don't want to and then Callee would start teasing her and she would decide again that she would try it. I just had a very long and serious talk with them, about how once we were on it there was nothing Mommy or Daddy could do. If you sat down and buckled up then you had to ride it. They both said they understood. So we did it. I was so scared and nervous and excited all at once. But they did good..no they did wonderful! They loved it! But as soon as we got off Grace said I have to go to the bathroom now! And this is big for Grace, cause she DOES NOT use public bathrooms! I guess she was so scared she really about peed her pants! But as soon as she went we rode it again. This time with Lane and I think we have permanently scared him for life. He didn't cry but he didn't like it at all. I wanted so bad to buy a souvenir picture but they were too short and couldn't be seen!

Hynlee loved the Mickey Ice cream head!

This would be my lovely mother, who just about passed out after walking all the way to the top of the stadium for the stunt show. She seriously had to remove her socks and shoes and kick back and catch her breath. How taking off her shoes helped, not sure! But Derick doesn't miss this show. It's his favorite thing at Hollywood Studios. Jonah loved it. He leaned over to me and said,"Now that's what I'm talking about!"

Day 3

On the third day we did NOTHING. This is something we hardly ever do even on vacation. We just hung out by the pool and meet up with the rest of the gang. By that afternoon we were looking for something to get into. We decided to head down to Downtown Disney for the first time(this trip). We always go a couple times while on vacation and always spend way to much on all things Disney. But the kids always have a blast playing with the Legos and the girls love the Dino restarunt. Hynlee even got to play with the blocks this year.

Daddy and Grace posing for the camera

The twins...

Building something new

Derick and his crooked little smile.....I'm sure he was up to something!

This year they had this crazy dee-jay guy dancing and goofing off with the kids. It took the girls a while to warm up to it but in the end they were right down front with all the other kids dancing.