Diz-knee-land...

My little midgets have the best darn Daddy in the whole wide world. He took us back to Disneyland to celebrate our last weekend before school starts. We spent two wonderful days in Disneyland (our 2nd home) bliss.

This trip was all about doing the unusual. We have gotten in a habit of doing the same routine on each of our Disney trips. First ride is Jungle Cruise, skip the treehouse etc. We made a point of trying new things.

Jordan says first stop is...

The new Star Tours! No Rebel Spies were in our family this time around. But we did have a few...

Jedi Knights!

One fought Darth Vader:

And the other Darth Maul:

In our bazillion trips over the last 2 years we had never taken the raft ride over to Tom Sawyer's Island. It was a big hit with the boys. They loves the treehouse, the caves and especially the pirate treasure!

We actually let the boys venture into Toontown (too hot and boring for me...) and stood in the long line to visit the big guy himself...

In the Tiki, Tiki, Tiki... Tiki room we shared a Dole Whip and a Dole Whip Float (Tiki Juice, as the boys say) and woke up that silly bird Jose!

My fabulous fellows are usually on best behaviour at Disneyland but this trip was all about being different. This little man got mad about something un-memorable and put himself into the corner while in the Splash Mountain ride. (like Mother like Son)

My boys spun their poor Mommy around and around (or maybe it was the other way around) on our favorite yellow teacup.

The Tiki Juice kicked in during the Jungle Cruise and my little guy got a little loopy:

Around 6:00 p.m. it finally dawned on me that we had never stayed at the one park all day long. It was kind of nice. We finished our night off with dinner, a show and fireworks. But before we camped out at our perfect watching spot we rode the happiest boat ride on earth:

Oh yeah, and Dillon decided to take Daddy up on his offer from Splash Mountain earlier that day and do this for a churro:

Too bad it was on the shuttle bus on our way back to the hotel. :)

We're alive... I swear!

I feel like a total slacker in regards to my blog lately. Lately as in the last year! Sheesh!

I am going to try to start blogging again on a more regular basis. It seems to have gone out of style but I really love having a record of our lives to look back on!

A very brief recap of things I have missed:

1. We moved to a new house in March. We are still in Buckeye but in a better neighborhood and much larger home. (with a much smaller payment)

This picture has nothing to do with it, but it was taken here and it is funny.

2. We finished up the Muckdogs season. It was fun to have the boys play together. Jordan suprised us by being a much better athlete than we gave him credit for.

 Dillon was babysat by a very patient coach every game.

Both boys enjoyed it so we are going to try again next year!

3. Jordan lost his first tooth. Not to be confused with the 5 pulled back when he was just a little thing.

4. Blair and I celebrated our 8th Anniversary. We took the family on an epic SoCal vacation and even spent a few days on Catalina Island where we honeymooned.

5. Our EPIC Socal vacation included:

• Touring The Midway

• The San Diego Zoo

• Catalina Island

• Disneyland of which I have no pictures because we are lame and I was tired of carrying a camera around.

6. The boys and I spent a week at Grandma Hun't with Betsy and the cousins. Our week ended with a family 4th of July celebration. Gramps put on a fireworks show and Blair started the yard on fire with a sparkler bomb. (No pics of the bomb.)

7. We celebrating my niece Zoey's 1st birthday at our house. She is a Dora fanatic and loved her Dora cake.

8. School starts in 2 1/2 weeks and I return on Monday to prepare. Hopefully I will stay motivated and updated :)

19 days down...

"On the 19th day of Christmas my true loves and me, headed west to watch the fishes of the sea"

We decided to celebrate the holidays a little differently this year. We along with the rest of the Karafa family decided to vacation in Southern California for a few days. Our first day took us to the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific. We took our boys a few years ago but neither remembered. Even the sharks get in on the holiday.

I never remember the difference between seals & sea lions, do you? Jordan had fun rolling a ball along the exhibit and watching the seal/sea lion chase after it.

He also decided to brave the icy waters of the touching pools and for the first time he touched a starfish. Oh he was mighty proud of himself!

Dillon made it his main job to find Nemo, Dory and all their friends in each exhibit. He as usual (in my opinion) was just too cute.

Did you know they also have homo sapians in the tanks? Yessiree!

Outside the Aquarium there is a dock with a beautiful view. We walked down to look at a few of the boats and I captured these two cuties along with it. Love my boys!