hello Monday {Living the Softball Life}

Happy Monday!  I hope you all had a great weekend.  Today I am sharing all about Softball lately.  It's become our life pretty much!  If you  have a post up today, be sure to linkup with myself, Heather, Lindsay and Tanya.  And be sure to grab our graphic below =)

Florida {Day 14}

Happy Thursday!  After today I promise I am done with our Florida recaps.  Today I am sharing our last day in Florida. 

We decided to go to Disney Springs one last time on our trip.  We did some shopping and had some yummy treats. 

Florida {Day 13}

Happy Monday!  I hope you all had a great weekend, and also hope you all had a great Mother's Day!!  Today instead of recapping our weekend, I am going to recap another day in Florida.  If you have a post up today, be sure to grab our graphic and linkup with myself, Heather, Lindsay and Tanya!


Florida {Day 12}

We are slowly getting through recapping our trip =)  Today I am sharing Day 12, 04/23.  We decided to hit up Islands of Adventure on this particular day.


Florida {Day 11}

Happy Wednesday Friends!!  Ok, I am back today to tell you all about our day at Epcot on Monday April 22nd.  We had the BEST day.  We did Epcot twice and Magic Kingdom twice. Epcot is probably our very favorite park.  And again on this day, we did not get to Epcot early.  We went around noon I think.  We had 3 fast passes for rides and they were all for later in the day. 

 
 

Florida {Days 8-10}

Are you all sick of my vacation posts yet??  I still have a TON to recap.  Today we are recapping days 8-10.  If you missed the other posts and want to catch up, you can find them below =)
 
 
 
 
 
After our long day at the Magic Kingdom on Thursday 04/18  we decided to take a couple of days off and really not do much.  The girls slept in until after 10:00 this morning. 
 
Alyx still had her "Princess" hair in and all =)
On this day, Friday 04/19 it was pretty overcast and they were predicting rain late afternoon.  My mom and I ended up heading out to do some shopping while everyone else stayed back at the Condo.
Brian texted me this photo of the girls having a tea party on the patio =)
 
 
We spent the day shopping, watching some pretty heavy rain that didn't last very long and then for dinner that evening we ordered from the resort and ate in our room.  We called it a pretty early night.
 
On Saturday 04/20, we went to Disney Springs for some shopping and lunch.
We all wanted to eat at different places, so my parents and Emma went to Earl of Sandwich while Brian, Alyx and I went to Pizza Ponte.
 
 
The Pizza slices were HUGE!  Pizza is Alyx's very favorite =)
 
 
After pizza we went to Sprinkles cupcakes for desert.  Alyx loved the mini cupcakes.
 
 
 
 
Their cupcakes are so yummy!
We then went and met back up with Emma and my parents.  And of course we brought Emma a cupcake =)
 
Emma asked to open an oyster to get a pearl, and she had her own money so that's what she did.
 
 
 
 
The pearl she got was huge!  She had it made into a really pretty necklace.  I love that this is something she will have forever.
 
 
 
 
Alyx loved the lego people.  We then went off and did some more shopping.
 
 
Emma picked out a really cute bag from Vera Bradley.  And Alyx got a cute little Frozen house playset.
 
We had dinner reservations that night for the ESPN Club at Disney's Boardwalk.  So after we left Disney Springs, we headed to the Boardwalk.
 
We had a super yummy meal.  Alyx had chicken fingers and fries, while Brian, Emma and I split and order of buffalo tenders and Nachos.
 
 
After dinner we spent the evening walking around the Boardwalk.
 
 
Look at the cute little bunny =)
 
 
 
 
 
One of our very favorite things in the evenings at the Boardwalk are the entertainers.  They are so fun to watch and so talented.
 
 
 
We headed back around 9pm and called it a night.
 
The next morning, 04/21 was Easter!  Alyx was super worried that the Easter Bunny wouldn't find her.  We assured her that we were certain the Easter Bunny would know right where she was.  And the bunny didn't disappoint!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
After we had our little Easter festivities in the room, we had to get all packed up because it was resort moving day for us!  We did enjoy our time at Mystic Dunes, but we were super excited to get to Marriott Cypress Harbour.  Of all the places we have stayed, Cypress Harbour is by far our favorite!
 
We got over there pretty early and our room wasn't quite ready yet, so they told us to go ahead and use their amenities while we waited.  So we hit up one of the pools for the afternoon.
 
 
 
 
 
We were only at the pool for maybe an hour and I got a call on my cellphone that our room was ready =)
 
The girls were super excited to see what was in our room when we got there.
 
 
The resort put together two super fun Easter baskets for both girls.  They were full of candy, a stuffed animal and lots of pool toys.
 
 
The rooms at the Marriott are so nice, and have a really great "home" feel to them.  We were really happy to finally be there.
 
 
 Alyx's face here makes me laugh every single time I look at it =)
That evening we went out to dinner and then back to the resort to swim. 
 
 
And then we had to get a good nights rest for the start of a few more park days!
I'll be back tomorrow with more recaps!
 


Florida {Day 7}

Happy Monday friends!  This is the first hello Monday I have participated in, in what seems like a really long time! So if you have a post up, be sure to linkup with myself, Heather and Lindsay!

Florida {Days 5-6}

I'm recapping another couple of days of our Disney vacation!  If you missed my last post, Days 1-4, you can find it HERE.  These are super picture heavy!!

Day 5 we headed to our first day of parks!  We chose Epcot as our first park.  We LOVE Epcot!  We also chose not to go to the parks first thing in the morning.  They are all open fairly late, so we let the girls sleep in and get moving at their own pace, and then in the afternoon we headed out.  We were all excited!









The first thing we did, is bought Alyx and autograph book for the Characters.  She was super excited to meet them all =)


 
If you've ever been to Epcot, then you know they have "Club Cool" where you can try different Coca-Cola flavors from all over the world.  Alyx didn't care for many of them! haha =)



We had a fast pass for the Character Spot, and Alyx was very excited to finally meet Mickey!!







During our time there it was the Epcot Flower & Garden festival.  The flowers were absolutely beautiful. 







We rode a ton of rides, Nemo was the favorite for Alyx.  We also loved checking out all the fish after the ride.






We purchased the re-fillable popcorn bucket while we were there.  That way we could take it with us to each park and re-fill whenever we wanted/needed to.








One of our favorite spots in Epcot is France.  They have the BEST deserts ever. 




While we were walking around we spotted Snow White, so we quickly got in line.  Just as we got up the closed the line, so we were lucky we got there just in time!




Daisy was a favorite of Alyx's too =)





And before we left for the day, we purchased Disney ear headbands.  You guys, I couldn't believe how much these darn things were!  When the lady rang them up and it came to almost $70.00 for two I about passed out.  My reaction clearly was normal though because she just laughed. 



That was it for our first day at Epcot =)


When we purchased our Disney tickets at the resort we stayed at, they were offering a buy a 4 day park ticket, and get a free bonus day at a Disney waterpark.  Brian hates waterparks.  But somehow I convinced him that we would have SO much fun!!  I also knew that Alyx really wouldn't enjoy it.  She likes the water, but to a point.  So we decided to take just Emma and Alyx stayed back at the resort with my parents.

We chose Blizzard Beach.




The lazy river was my favorite!!!!  I could have sat in a tub and gone round and round all day long.




Emma and Brian did some waterslides, and guess who ended up loving the waterpark?!?  Brian!!! 



We would definitely go back!  Maybe next time we will try Typhoon Lagoon!

That evening we went out for dinner and drinks.


And then we headed over to the town, Celebration.  Celebration is the picture perfect town.
It's gorgeous.  If I could live anywhere...it just might be Celebration.






The girls had ice cream and then we headed to Krispy Kreme to get doughnuts for the next days breakfast =)


As soon as we got back to the resort, the first question the girls asked was to go swimming. 


Why not!  We were on vacation =)


So that concludes days 5 & 6!  I will be back on Monday with more =)

Happy Friday!