Luke looks good:

Check these out! They're the proofs for Luke's school picture. Isn't that a great photo? I am a proud Mom right now.
I know you Grandma's are LOVING this picture!!!! Let me know what you think!
What a good looking kid, if I do say so myself!

Sportacular!!!!!!

We are quite the happy sports family right now! (and yes, we are assuming the Raiders are not in existence this year...)

My Tigers, Mizzou is 6-0!!! Awesome! And now people are even saying they are good! Way to go boys! Mizzou-Rah!!!!! We are ranked 19th and 21st right now! Sweet.

And let's celebrate the Cardinals win last night! Oh yeah, that's right. NLCS here we come. Watch out Mets. Maybe the Cards being the underdog is a good thing. Go Redbirds!

And for Michael, let's cheer the A's dismantling of the Twins. Everyone wrote them off but the A's sure showed them (with Thomas the REAL comeback player of the year and their great pitching!)

Last day of fun, fun times!

Our last day at Disney we decided to do and redo the kiddos favorites things. It started out early in the morning, Michael got up and went to Animal Kingdom by himself, the boys and I slept in. He went to ride the new awesome roller coaster Everest, and he LOVED it. He talked about it all day. He took some great pictures. These are the ones I decided to share. Check out that view in pic #2, awesome!
When Mike returned we headed over to Magic Kingdom again. First we did the Buzz Lightyear ride again, then headed off to Toon Town (the section for little ones). We went through Minnie's House and took a photo in Minnie's heart chair. Note the 2 Buzz's, thanks Grandmom for those, they were, and still are, a HUGE hit!!! We went on to meet some characters. First was Donald, Kaden didn't want to say hi to him. (sorry the picture is blurry) Then we were with Chip and Dale forever. Gabriel loved them and just laughed and laughed, he obviously loved Chip's nose. Dale kept taking the Buzz Lightyear toy and flying it around. It was really funny.
Here's the boys waiting to re-ride Dumbo. I couldn't resist this picture with them all looking through the fence, too cute!!!

Here is Kaden-man, though he doesn't look too excited, trust me, he LOVED it!!!

Then we saw Tigger, what a hit he was! He was right outside the Pooh ride.A Happy Kaden-man riding Winnie the Pooh's Adventures. He loved this one too.

Next we headed over to MGM for a parade and a special visit with a friend. Look who we saw in the parade: (can you imagine how excited Luke Thomas was??")

Here is a photo of all of us with Mary Poppins. (Only read this if you are over the age of 10 years---this happens to be Jackie's (my bro's Thad's girlfriend) cousin Laura. We were able to find out her schedule and visited her. She of course was Mary to us and the boys were the thrilled with the extra time she gave them! Thanks Jackie for helping us set that up!) Great picture! We went to Downtown Disney that night for a little shopping. Here's all my boys with a Basset made of Legos. Very cool.

And a family photo by the Lochness Lego monster.

After spending an insane amount of money at the huge Disney Store we headed back to sleep. The next day we drove home. We did have a wonderful trip. Our boys did great and I am so proud of them. We are planning our next trip in 3 years. Should be awesome fun!!!! We LOVE Disney!!! :)

Magic Kingdom!

Alrighty, time for more photos. This was Sunday, our day at Magic Kingdom. The first thing we headed for was Dumbo, my favorite actually, but that is not why it was first, honest. Kaden was a little scared but not for long he loved it. Mike had the camera and Kaden so no picture this time.
Here is Luke waiting for Goofy's Barnstormer, the kiddos roller coaster. He loved it and went on to ride the big people coasters! That boy had no fear! Here is Luke waiting for the cars. Goodness was he excited to ride this?!
Daddy took Luke so I had Kaden and the baby, Kaden didn't want to drive so this is a GREAT (read sarcastically) picture of me trying to drive while laughing like crazy. Mike took the photo as Luke was driving him around, he is proud of this picture. While Daddy and Luke were riding Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, another of my favorite, but prego didn't ride. Kaden and I decided to get some snacks. But we both shared with Gabriel.
This one I am proud of because I took it with my left hand as I fed him with my right!!
Here is Daddy's favorite photo, his boys with his favorites. Note that Luke has on a Capt Hook shirt, that went over really well. Hook liked that, we changed at nap time, earlier in the day he had on Peter Pan, think how that would have gone over with Hook? They are fun characters.
We rode Pirates of the Caribbean and loved it of course. This is a pic of us waiting in the dungeon.
They have added Johnny Depp, I mean Capt Jack Sparrow to 3 different parts of the ride, here a photo Michael took. Oh yeah, his voice is added too, not too shabby... Here's Daddy and Luke on Aladdin's Magic Carpet Ride which is Dumbo again. I love it.

More MGM fun!

Yeah, there's more pictures and this is just the first full day of our vacation! And I promise I am not even close to sharing ALL the photos.

Here's the boys at the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids playground. Kaden did love it there. Luke's climbing the spiderweb (gross), Kaden just came down an anthill slide, and Gabriel is sitting in a paw print. They are all SO cute!
We got to see Pooh Bear and Kaden was really excited about that! He jumped out of the stroller to go and give him hugs. It was adorable. And he kept looking for Pooh the rest of the trip. Where'd Pooh go? he would ask us.
And here for cousin Logan we visited Sulley from Monster's Inc. I love this first picture, Sulley just swallowed them up! And the second is a great family shot!
Here's Luke waiting for Star Wars ride to start, I am telling you he LOVED that ride!
And here's a photo especially for Grandmom. We took this in the Villains Shop. Can you believe they had your favorite character right there?? (for all others out there, my mother hates the Siamese cats from Lady and the Tramp, I mean hates them...) Ha, Ha, Momma!!! :)
This was towards the end of the day, Kaden was pretty wiped out you can tell, I love this picture.
We would all rest well and the next day we headed to Magic Kingdom. My favorite!! The part of the trip I was most looking forward too because of all the great kiddo rides there!

MGM Studios!

Saturday we spent at MGM Studios. We got up early and headed over there. Michael rode the Aerosmith roller coaster, which killed me not to ride!!! It is so much fun. Then he rode Tower of Terror. The boys were very patient waiting around for Daddy, that took about an hour. Then we went over to the Star Wars ride, Star Tours.

The boys on the speeder bike

Daddy took both bigger boys on and that was a mistake. Luke LOVED it and had the best time. Kaden freaked out a little bit when the whole room started pitching and shaking. He was NOT a fan. And for the rest of the day Kaden was very upset anytime we went into a building. He didn't like the Movie Ride, or even the Muppet Show. He was scared and it was so hard for me to watch him like that. (He did eventually lose his fear--see pics soon from Magic Kingdom!!)

We saw some characters and that helped Kaden calm down too.

Mater and Lightning McQueen from Cars, Luke was happy!!

Luke with Little Einsteins, check out that smile!!!

We ate lunch at the Sci-Fi Diner so that Luke could eat in a car. Yes, Kaden was there he was sleeping in the seat next to his Momma. Bless his heart.

We went back to the hotel for a nap afterwards and everyone slept for a LONG time. We went back to MGM for Fastasmic, the fireworks, character, spectacular show!!! Luke LOVED it and Kaden was a little scared of all the loud noises and the villians that were in the show. But overall he did great! We went back to the hotel to sleep.

DISNEYWORLD!!!!!

We did it! The first-ever Harmon vacation. We went to Disneyworld this past weekend. We had the most marvelous time! The kids did GREAT! I am very proud of them. I took SO many pictures of course so I will load them day-by-day.
We drove down there Friday during the day. The kids (and Michael) were so excited, I could hardly keep them contained. We just spent the evening at the hotel swimming, which of course was a great big hit.
We stayed at the All-Star Sports Resort, at Homerun Hotel--perfect!

When we first got to the pool Kaden-man stood there with his fish-floaty around his neck. It was just hilarious. We could not get him to put it around his waist, he kept saying "It goes here." Finally after much debate we got him into the pool.
Here's all the boys enjoying the water. Gabriel is definately a water baby. It was hard to hold onto him. He just wanted to go on his own and jump off the side!
We had to walk through the football area (Touchdown Hotel) to get to the cafeteria and to leave the hotel. They have a football field made of sport-court and one side has these huge X's and O's. Everytime we walked through there the boys ran down the field. Luke climbed up on the X's, so proud of himself. And Kaden ran weaving through ALL the letters, back and forth, back and forth. He would run into the endzone saying "I did it! I did it!" Very cute! We went to bed pretty late Friday night because everyone was so excited. Saturday was our day to be at MGM Studios, such fun (that is the top photo by-the-way, one of our few family shots!) Story to be continued.