The Neyland's: May 2010

Saturday, May 15

Dance Recital 2010

We took Brooklyn to have some dance pictures taken this afternoon to commemorate her 9th dance recital. The actual recital will be Tuesday night but I had to go ahead and post some pics! The top one is for Hip Hop, the pink is Jazz and the last is Ballet. How beautiful is my baby girl growing up to be? I am so proud of her!

new portraits

Also let the two little ones get pics taken too. Ally Harper is getting geared up for her Toy Story birthday. And Christopher is celebrating his 7th month birthday!

Sunday, May 2

Sunday, at the airport

All my little "MICKEY"S" waiting to board the plane. The little ones did really well on the flight down. C2 slept most of the way, while AH watched a video :) Thank goodness for portable DVD players! AH did complain with her ears on the way down, but wouldn't drink or eat or even suck on C2's paci. All she would tell us was she wanted her blue "glankie" which was packed in the luggage. But she hung in there and all was well.

Sunday, EPCOT

Once we arrived in Orlando, we caught the Disney Magical Express, which is a motor coach and it took us to our hotel. We checked into the Contemporary Resort, with hopes of getting the Magic Kingom view from our room, which I had requested several times. That didn't work out, but we were put on the 14th floor club level instead of the 12th clue like I thought we would be on. Which worked out great. Not only did we have private access to the club lounge complete with cokes, juicem milk, beer, coffee, cookies, desserts, appetizers, breakfast, just about anythin g you would want to snack on, we also had a GREAT view of the Kingdom! And because we were on the 14th club, we only had 12 other families staying on the floor with us, so it really was like having a private everything! A-W-E-S-O-M-E!!!!!

After getting settled in, we dressed for dinner and hopped in the monorail from the comfort of our own hotel and zipped over to EPCOT for dinner in Norway. We enjoyed the Storybook princess character dining at Akershur! The kids got to meet 5 princesses, and get autographs on the 1st night! And how cute was AH in her OllieGirl Belle ballgown???

As soon as we left dinner and loaded up the kids in the strollers, we started filling rain drops and honestly within 5 minutes we were in the middle of a hurricane!!! We took off our shoes and literally ran as fast as we could to shelter which started out being a margarita stand in Mexico, but because the wind was hurricane force, that didn't help much so we took off again. This time we made it to a merchandise store and waited it out there. 20 minutes and $100+ later, we were booking it back to the monorail, in wet pants and new Disney sweatshirts. Thankfully this was the only rain we had all week.

Monday, Animal Kingdom

Monday night, Magic Kingdom

After a day at Animal Kingdom, we decided that we would head to Magic Kingdom for the evening. This was the perfect time to go. While everyone was lined up to watch the parade adn fireworks, we went to Fantasyland and rode all but 3 rides within an hour. NO WAITS AT ALL!!! It was terrific. Above is the Dumbo ride. Notice AH showing us how an elephant goes :)

It's a Small World!

Tuesday, EPCOT

At EPCOT, the Garden Festival was going on and the flowers were gorgeous!

Tonight we had dinner in Sweden! While at Biergarten's, AH really got into the music. We had to stick around for a second performance of the band just so she could get to dance more!