Our Disney Cruise!!

It was really hard to top that surprise 40th birthday party but a Disney Cruise with my whole family did it!! It was 4 days of total and complete fun full of delicious food, swimming, ice cream, waterslides, kids club, Mickey waffles, movies, room service, fireworks, snorkeling, meeting Mickey, shows, relaxing, and just having as much fun as we possibly can!! We can't wait to plan our next one!!!!

 Ice cream whenever and wherever we wanted!!!

 Pirate Night!! 

My Big 40th Birthday!!!

Daniel and I decided months ago that we would celebrate my 40th birthday on a cruise. We splurged and did a Disney cruise so the kids could come and enjoy it also. (Cruise post to come!) Well, a couple days before my birthday, Daniel told me not to make plans, that he was taking me out for a special birthday date. He had everything arranged, a babysitter for the kids, dinner for the kids, and as we were pulling away he had to make a quick "pit stop" to look at Charlie's dock (we had been setting fireworks off on his dock on New Years Eve and supposedly wanted to Daniel to take a look - haha - good rouse babe) and as we pull behind the Snider's house, to my complete and total surprise, there were 20 of my best girlfriends and a beautifully arranged dinner table all set for a surprise 40th birthday party FOR ME!!! Eva and Kara had put this all together and I was just blown away!!

It was a favorites party and we ate my favorite food (Carrabbas Chicken Bryan) and then everyone brought 3 of their favorite things and exchanged 2 of them with each other and gave the 3rd to me!! So I left with 20+ items of all of my friends most favorite things... hair products, treats, cosmetics, journals, etc... all kinds of wonderful things!! And as each gift was exchanged, everyone shared their favorite thing about me!! It was a magical night that left me feeling so overwhelmingly grateful for the amazing people in my life and feeling like a million bucks!!!

I cried. A lot. 

Our First Broken Bone!

Over Christmas break Jackson broke his arm!! Actually, he broke it before Christmas break but we didn't know it was broken until Christmas day. Oops. He had hurt it at his basketball game. The last couple minutes of play another kid fell on his arm as they were both trying to get the ball. He complained that it hurt and we iced it when we got home but by the end of the day he said it felt fine. He complained a couple times during the week at school that it hurt while he was playing basketball at recess and it was tender to touch in a spot but I just figured he bruised it pretty good and it would take some time to heal. Well come Christmas day (evening actually) and he had shot his Uncle Jordan right in the side ab with his new Nerf gun and Jordan grabbed him by his arm and he just crumpled to the floor in pain. At this point it was definitely swollen and the pain he said was the worst it had ever been... even when the boy fell on it. So the next day we took him into the Urgent Care to have an X-ray and sure enough... it was fractured!! They splinted it and sent us home in a sling with directions to ice it and follow up with an orthopaedic specialist in 3-5 days. We got in on New Years Eve morning and they casted it!! 4 weeks. Luckily, they make waterproof casts now so we didn't have to worry about it on our cruise. He hasn't been in much pain and has gotten a lot of attention for it, but he is surely anxious to get that thing off!! 

Merry Christmas Day!

Well Santa came and delivered this year!! Everyone with a new bike, new Nike shoes and a trampoline! Plus the kids enjoyd a new hover board and the highlight of the day... a Disney Cruise!!! It was one for the books!

 Jackson

 Benny

 Ivy

 Family selfie in bed Christmas morning!!