Rat's nest

Don't really want to say anything but have to post this picture.  This is Hayden one Saturday morning after getting out of bed.  What in the world does he do at night?  One of Evan's friends spent the night and his hair was everywhere in the morning and Evan made the comment 'nice hair Ben'.  I loved his response of 'thanks, I worked on it all night'.  I think Hayden can easily say that as well.

Christmas 2013

Yes I know it has been over 2 months since Christmas, but here it goes anyway.  The boys got geeked out of their minds when they opened an xbox for Christmas.  This is after me saying there is no way they are getting one so they might as well just get over it (knowing obviously that they were getting one).   We decided to stick with the xbox 360 even though we had the new xbox one available.  We could not find enough age appropriate games for the xbox one.

Also, Hayden wrote a persuasive letter for a hamster at school, look what he got (this was all Chris).

Stuff to go and get a hamster.

This year was a little anti-climatic as there are no more believers in the house.  When we told Hayden he said 'I knew it because there can't be flying reindeer.'

Patiently waiting to go see the goods.

Notice the wrapping paper being thrown!

Stock pile of games to get them started.

We packed up the van the following day and headed to the Happiest Place on Earth, Disney World.  This is our first time driving longer than 12-14 hours (Hilton Head was our longest drive).  The boys did really well, but then again we hooked up the xbox in the van and they got to play video games.... seriously.

Our weather in Orlando was pretty crappy, rained every day and we only saw the sun for about 4 hours the entire week.  It was also chilly, long pants and jacket weather.  It was also CROWDED, but we anticipated that.  What we didn't anticipate was it taking almost 2 hours to get into Universal Studios as we sat in traffic.  We finally got to a spot where we could valet park and Chris jumped at the opportunity.  I have NO IDEA how much it cost us to park the car that day but it would have been probably another 45 minutes had we continued in line for regular parking.  Here are the highlights of our trip.

Wizarding world of Harry Potter.

Peace out bro.

Butter Beer

He doesn't look the least bit scared.

I have no idea what to say about this one.

One of the boys favorites, Bubble Bee.

Playing with wikki stix at Jimmy Buffets Margaritaville.  Funny thing is Evan said that this place was to loud and he would prefer to go someplace quieter.  Oh lord he is his fathers son.

Um, ok.  Nice pic there Jacque (not).

Hayden loves reading the maps.

Our daily dose of ice cream.  I swear that is why the boys enjoy vacation so much is they get ice cream everyday.

Look at the teeth on him.  I remember Evan at this age and it takes a while to grow into their teeth.

Sirius Black and Hayden has Hedwig.  This is how he chose to spend his money but he now sleeps with it every night.

Looking happy and getting along.

Evan why so serious?

At our hotel they have a rec center and this is what the boys did while we watched some college football bowl games on the 70 inch TV.

I just thought this was hilarious.

This is his reaction to Off Kilter playing at EPCOT.

At the Coral Reef restaurant at EPCOT.

My little minion (oh and we couldn't leave Hedwig out of the picture).

The 3 of us on test track, it is so much fun.

Little did we know that we would come back to plenty of snowmen in Indiana.

You can tell we are from the midwest.  Swimming when it was about 50 degrees out.  I was in long pants, wool socks and a coat!

The wheel of peril at the Barn Stormer in Mickey's Toontown at Magic Kingdom.