Going To Church

You know it is going to be a great day when the first thing your child does at church is make a paper airplane out of the church bulletin! We have been having such a time with Camden not wanting to get dressed to go to church. He complains and complains and whines a lot! He told me one Sunday that the rear end of his foot was hurting because of the shoes I had made him wear. (I think he meant to say his heel! Ha). 


He tells me every Sunday that he looks ugly and I make him wear clothes that don't match. Oh my, I guess it is time for him to have his own style. I am quite sure that his style will not be the cute young boy clothes that I have in mind! Besides that, ever since warm weather has gotten here he has been trying to wear socks with sandals to church. I think he does this just to irk me. What could he possibly know about fashion for goodness sake?


This morning Camden was wearing black dress shoes and white socks and he had on plaid shorts and a yellow polo shirt. I very carefully pointed out that his brown flip flops would match better with what he had on. After going back to his room to change shoes he came out and said, "I do concur, this really does match!" Did he really just say that to me? I asked him if he knew what he said. He replied, "I don't really know what concur means. I just heard it on TV." I had a very good laugh at that and then I shook my head for a long time.

The Pool

Yes, my friends, this is THAT pool. The pool that we had to fly all the way to Florida to swim in! This was our last day at Disney, so we threw caution to the wind and said, "Let that boy swim in that pool!" By this point Tim and I both were suffering from exhaustion and couldn't function well. Camden had the time of his life!

It was really a lot of fun for him. They had games and you could win prizes! This particular game you had to fill a jug with a bucket that had holes in it.

Daddy even joined in on the fun!

Camden played all of the games and participated in the dancing contest. They had a huge blow up screen that played a movie at 9:00 that night. Camden watched for an hour and then told Daddy that he had to go get him some sleep! 

Well that is a wrap for the longest, most confusing, painful, bittersweet, somewhat joyful vacation that I have ever been on!

Epcot & Nature

We had a pretty good time visiting Epcot. We walked all the way around to all of the countries and had to seek shelter several times due to a horrible thunder storm. By the end we were soaked. Tim and I were bummed that Fast Track was closed for repairs. Wouldn't you know it!

During our vacation, our little Nature Boy was on a hunt for any creature he could find. I think he was more enthralled by that than anything else. Well, besides the hotel pool! Here we are on a rock looking for lizards.

Let's try to find some worms, shall we?

Here is a little bird that got Camden's bread crust. He was so happy! (Camden, not the bird!)

Now let the Lizard Whisperer do his magic!

Please come here little bunny!

We could have done all of this becoming one with nature right in our own backyard. But, it was more fun at Disney! Ha! Oh well!

Animal Kingdom

We had a wonderful time visiting all of the animals. This was the day that Camden rode his first roller coaster ever, Expedition Everest. He loved it, but only wanted to ride it once! Then we were off to see the animals on the safari.

This one showed his behind!

We played some drums and woke everyone up!

Camden wanted me to take a picture of these rocks. He said the color of them reminded him of Chesapeake. He was our sweet dog that passed away a few years ago. The rocks are very close to his color. So sweet. Sigh!

After our morning adventures we had to go back to the hotel. I kind of got soaked and drenched by the water ride there. Wow! I felt like someone poured buckets of water over my head. Due to the horrible experience that I had at Disney a few years ago involving wet shorts and maybe some chaffing, well let's just say I didn't want a repeat! Ha!

Magic Kingdom

This is the happiest place on earth! We had such a great time wondering around, people watching and doing some serious eating! I got the biggest red velvet cupcake and not to mention lots of ice cream for all of us! We got a little break from the rain during the afternoon and saw the sun for about an hour. Daddy most certainly did ride Space Mountain. Thank goodness!! We were just a bunch of big giddy kids! The sweetest thing I will remember is that Camden said that his Papa looked just like Walt Disney!

We had to map out a course of action thanks to our little tour guide.

Then we took another ice cream break! Heaven!

During our visit we were honored to watch the Flag retreat ceremony. A very special moment!

Yep, another great day with lots of special memories!

Typhoon Lagoon

We had an exceptional day at Typhoon Lagoon. The sun peaked out for a minute and we got a little sun that day. After that it was back to raining buckets though. Daddy and Camden got to do a little snorkeling.

Camden had a sudden fear of the deep water and he decided it would be best to snorkel from Daddy's back. The only problem was that he was drowning Daddy. Several lifeguards told him to get off Daddy's back. It was all down hill from there and the snorkeling adventure came to an end.

Little did they know that this shark looked way much bigger from where I was standing. This is the number one reason Mommy doesn't go in the ocean. Ever.

We did get a little sun that day while Bear was back at the room sleeping!

You know it is a great day when it ends like this:

Downtown Disney

On our first day of vacation we went to Downtown Disney. Camden had a great time even though it was supposed to be "Mother's Day".

He rode a really fast carousel horse.

 Then it was off to build a Lego race car.

 Check out the kid next to him taking a bite out of a Lego. Yummy!

Next we got trapped by a scary pirate!

Then Camden got soaked on the splash pad. He loved it!

 He had an awesome Mother's Day! It was pretty awesome for me too!