we're home! and no, we did not stay this long at disney....

we're back from disney! can you tell that this little boy is excited to see his mom & dad?! :) we have been home since last wednesday, and yes, i was hoping to have already shared pictures by now. but ethan & caroline have really been wanting mommy & daddy time since we got back... and that's not something that i can (or want to) put off after being away from them for 5 days! i figured that it would take us a little while to get back into some semblance of a routine again, and i was right about that. so here we are, less than 2 weeks before christmas, back to "normal"! just in time for things to get nuts again! :) ha! but our tree is up, i finally found the kids' ornaments for this year, my shopping is pretty much finished, and ethan knows 3 christmas songs and can identify most of the people in our nativity scene. whew! so i'm feeling pretty caught up with christmas right now. (and as soon i post this, our tree will come crashing down or something....)

we had a wonderful, wonderful trip. i came down with a frustrating cold and other un-fun ailments just before our trip, but i am thankful that everything was pretty short-lived (thanks to emergen-c, echinacea tea, and zicam nasal swabs). the weather was so nice, and though the parks were more crowded than i expected this time of year, we had no wait on most rides with the longest wait being about 15 minutes. everything was decorated for christmas, and it was just all so beautiful. we enjoyed having 4 whole days to enjoy the parks, but by the last day, we were both ready to come home to see the kids.

the grandparents survived their little taste of toddler world, though my mom did comment that she now truly understands why younger people have children!! ha. i know the kids had so much fun with their grandparents. ethan won a "bible award" at the sunday night kids' program at my mom's church, he got to be in a christmas parade with nana & pappy, and they both had a fun day trip to see brian's grandparents, aunts, and uncles one day. see, they hardly had time to miss us! :)

i am planning on sharing allllll our disney pictures soon. i think i will make a different post for each park that we visited. i'll try to pare down the pictures to something reasonable, especially since a lot of them are me & brian in front of something! that can get old fast for you all, i'm sure. so check back with me soon for some disney lovin...