Fun in the Sun!

To celebrate Dave completing grad school, our family took a trip to Orlando, FL last week. It was such a relaxing and much needed trip, expecially for Dave. We were able to stay at a beautiful resort and the entire trip Dave kept saying, "This is paradise." The weather was perfect all week - always in the mid-eighties. It was so nice to spend the entire week with my two favorite people in such a perfect place. Here are just a handful of the MANY pictures we took:

We took this picture our first night at the resort. We couldn't get over how beautiful the Florida sunsets were.



This is Parker and I in front of our favorite swimming pool. The first time we swam here, we were the only ones in the pool for part of the time. The weather was perfect, the sun was setting, and we had this beautiful pool to ourselves! Dave would throw Parker up in the air and Parker couldn't get enough. It was one of our favorite nights of the vacation. This picture will have to take the place of a swimming picture of myself - I just couldn't bring myself to post myself in a swimming suit on my blog!!




I, however, have no qualms about posting swimming pictures of my husband - although most of him is under water. This is at a different pool - still so beautiful.



Parker couldn't get in enough crawling in the shallow part of the pool. He seriously had the time of his life as her crawled around. The only problem was that he couldn't quite grasp the fact that he couldn't breathe with his face in the water. He would crawl full speed into the deeper part of the pool and no matter how many times we rescued him, he continued to head toward deeper waters!



This is Dave just chillin' after our swim - it really was paradise.



This is Parker petting the Lego dog at Downtown Disney. This is my kind of dog . . . if only I could talk Dave into agreeing with me. He wants a dog so badly, but I don't. Parker seemed completely content with this one though!!



Parker fell in love with a Minnie Mouse doll at the Christmas store. Everytime we passed one on the shelf, he would pull it down and refuse to let go. It was hilarious! I was tempted to get him one, but you can imagine how Dave felt about buying his manly child a doll in a red dress. So we got him a little stuffed Pluto instead . . . actually I was fine with it because it was much cheaper . . . and maybe Pluto can count as us getting a dog . . . wishful thinking.




Here we are standing by the Lake. It was a beautiful night at Downtown Disney.




This was our last night of vacation when we went out to dinner. It was the perfect ending to a wonderful trip. Maybe I can post more pictures later when my child is not grabbing at all the computer keys! It really was a wonderful trip and we'll always be grateful for the memories. I loved Florida, but it is always nice to come home! We love this time of year and we're looking forward to the holidays!