Disney Vacation '16: The Lego Store

Our first full day at Disney, we decided to hang low and spend time at Disney Springs (formerly Downtown Disney) and in the pool at the house. There is a Lego Land in Orlando, but why send money when the Lego store is just as good! The boys played at the race track for probably 45 minutes, and would have stayed for hours, had we let them. While they were playing legos, the rest of us walked around and looked at the impressive Lego displays. I would like to note, nothing was purchased (yay for small victories!)

Disney Vacation '16: A Rainbow for our Arrival

It was Balyeat Vacation time! We were 'those parents' that pulled their kids out of school to go to Disney World. They boys had been in school for five weeks, so it wasn't terrible. And actually a lot of families at school had gone to Disney the week before us! 

As we flew over our house, I took a picture. Our neighborhood is in the upper left hand side of the interstate Y in the middle of the picture. It's pretty easy to spot our house from the sky thanks to the 475/75 split. 

The house we stayed in was just outside the park, next to Celebration. It was of course raining when we got settled into the house (because it's Florida in late summer) but we got a nice rainbow out of it!

Old Fashioned Marbles

Adam decided it was time to introduce the boys (and the neighborhood) to old fashioned marbles. He made a giant marbles board and got a whole bunch of marbles. The kids actually had a lot of fun playing. 

Fall Soccer Season

Ben had another great soccer season. He played for St Rose again and loved playing with his friends. They didn't win as many games this session as they had in the past, which was a good learning lesson. He still had lots of fun, though!

A Little Gymnast

Nick continued gymnastics class (at least for a little bit) after school started. He really enjoyed it and had fun and is pretty good with the upper body strength. At some point he decided he didn't want to do it anymore and after a lot of arguments, we let me stop going. We thing it was part of his power struggle with the first semester of Kindergarten. But he had fun while it lasted! 

Happy Anniversary

It was our anniversary. After facebook reminded me, I sent Adam a text to wish him a happy anniversary, but after 9 years, that's how you roll. Well, mid day I got a delivery at work! It was a really big and pretty Edible Arrangement! But I couldn't figure out who it was from! My first thought was my parents or Sarah, because Adam would definitely not have a. remembered and b. ordered me giant fruit bouquet. But I was wrong! It was Adam! I was totally shocked and surprised!

WW Knight Reserve

We went to check out the WW Knight preserve on the other side of Perrysburg for Labor Day. The boys had been begging to go fishing and I wanted to take some pictures and scope the place for fall pictures. It had been a long time since I had been out there, and it is a very pretty place. It does get a bit hot in the burning sun of the summer, though. The boys did not catch any fish, but I did get some nice nature pictures.

Candle light pictures

Photo opp, courtesy of a citronella candle! 

Moonrise

Some pretty moonrise pictures from Adam's parent's backyard. It was a beautiful night!

The Tooth Fairy is Coming!

Nick lost his first tooth! And he lost it at school. He then proceeded to lose it in my car on the way home from daycare...after lots of tears, a letter was written to the tooth fairy and she still came.