Vacation is over.

Well we have returned from the Happiest Place on Earth and I truly believe it is.   We arrived at the airport on Thursday December 15th for a 5:45 flight.  The boys knew where we were going but didn't know we were going to have guests.  As we are walking Evan looks over and says 'Hey there's papaw'.  We kept walking and he said it again.  I said lets go find out what they are doing here.  He went up to them and asked what they were doing and they said going to Florida.  'We are too'.  Where are you going?  To Orlando, where are you going?  'Us to.'  He figured out that they were going with us.  Then we kept walking and at a table in was Tara, John and Jackson and Hayden saw them.  Same conversation.  It was then 'Is anyone else going?'  No boys, 9 people is enough in one 2 bedroom condo!  Upon arriving everyone was excited and ready to start vacation.  Tara, John and Jackson stayed until Wednesday night and we stayed until Friday December 23rd.

 A great time was had by everyone.  Miles and miles of walking, a lot of laughing, some arguing between the boys (it got worse after Jackson left, he must have been their buffer).  Lots of food and more walking.  Papaw Terry got sick while we were down there with a sinus and ear infection but started some antibiotics and was good to go after being down for a day.

We visited the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at the Universal Islands of Adventure.  The boys each got a wand and we tried butter beer.

I didn't care for it, it tasted like I was drinking a thick cream soda, or syrup.  Hayden downed his, Chris downed his, Evan didn't finish his though.  Got the cups to bring home so we can have butter beer at home, aka root beer in the Mickel house.

The boys got along great (most of the time) and I think they enjoyed spending an entire week together since it doesn't happen to often.  We had the occasional, don't touch me or he did this, but nothing that we couldn't handle.

After a great 9 days we had to head home, but we were all ready.  Christmas was in 2 days and we couldn't miss Santa Claus coming to town. Here are some additional random pictures that I wanted to ensure were included!