Disney on Ice and dressing up Princesses

Check out our valentine cuties (yes--Sydney did pick out her outfit and wore that to dinner.
And it is always fun when Cousin Lindsay is around. Poppie came back from Vegas with a ton of beaded necklaces (we have to untangle them on a daily basis as they are worn all the time) which the girls love. We all would have preferred for him to bring home some winning money...but at least the girls are enjoying them.







And you all know how much we absolutely love Mickey (Olivia seriously can not stop saying Mickey and other Disney words. Not sure when she is going to learn new words she can actually use in everyday conversation but we hear Mickey, Donald, Duck and Disney a whole lot!). So....we had to go see Disney on Ice. The girls loved the show and it will have to hold us off until our next Disney adventure....

Family Game Night

We all had a great time at Family Game Night at Sydney's (and Olivia's) school. In addition to winning at Bingo, we won one of the great gift baskets (pictured below) and could not resist bidding on one of the centerpieces made by Sydney's class. Here are some cute pictures of Sydney enjoying game night with her school friends.

no slowin down now...

Ever since Olivia took her first real steps across the room at the Magic Kingdom, she has not looked back and is now walking everywhere. She is into things like cabinets and steps more than Sydney ever was so we have to keep a close watch on this little cutie. Here are some of my 15 month pictures I took of her, Olivia's gym class, sisterly bonding and Sydney and her friends being silly.

look how far she has come

Now that I figured out how to upload videos and pictures from my Ipad, i went back and was looking at other videos I had taken. This is the first one from when I first got the Ipad--Olivia was only 5 months old in this video. I could just look at her sweet face all day long. It is amazing to see how much she has grown and changed. Now to figure out how many more videos i am going to post...

Olivia is 15 months!

Happy 15 months to my little Princess! Big sister Sydney loves dressing up and even got her sister (and me) all fancy today. Just a quick video--enjoy!

Magical Express

While waiting for the bus to take us from the Orlando airport to our Disney hotel, Olivia was SOOO excited to see a picture of Mickey's face flash up on the tv screen. She was dancing and looking adorable so i snapped this quick video on the Ipad. I just figured out how to upload from the Ipad--most of my videos are too long but this one was just too cute not to share : )

More Animal Kingdom

So in addition to the many pictures that I took (and I'm sure Wayne has a memory card full as well), our good friend Donavan took a ton of pictures from our day at Animal Kingdom. Since I was trying to videotape the Festival of the Lion King show with Sydney dancing, I am grateful for these pictures of her with the talented actors/actresses. That is one of my all time favorite things to see at Disney and watching Sydney be a part of it still just makes me smile and cry. And I especially love the black and white photos--just precious. Donavan also took a ton of pictures from the safari which are amazing but it would take me forever to go through and pick a few to download and show here. But enjoy these--I know I do!