Scenes from our Resort

Every Disney trip comes with planning on
which resort we will stay at. This year I went
between the Animal Kingdom Resort or the
Wildnerness Lodge. The Wildnerness Lodge
won out b/c of the 10 min boat ride to the Magic
Kingdom. I figured we would be spending most
of our time there with Aaron. We LOVED
this resort. Out of the 5 I have stayed at this
one proved to be my favorite.

Aaron and Pop Pop by the water fall


Few from the balcony near our room

Beautiful lobby area

Leaving for Disney

Aaron pulling the last chain off
before we head out the door


He was up and ready to go at
5:00 am


Waiting to board our airplane

Sporting some Mickey Mouse shirts

This was the back of mine- I got

alot of comments about this shirt

at Disney too

On the plane

Preparing for our trip

In 2009 I ordered matching shirts for one day of
our trip on ebay. We had SOOO many comments
on them that I thought this time we would do
enough shirts for every day of our trip... and thats
what we did.

Cutting 20 different designs out


Andrew hard at work ironing them on

The finished product- 20 matching shirts!

Mother's Day

Aaron made mommy a special
picture frame for mother's day this
year.



He and daddy attempted to make
angel food cake cupcakes but
it didn't turrn out to good.

Family Happenings

Aunt Hollie and Uncle Tim and David welcomed
Brooklyn Lea Gaines this week. We are all
very excited about this new precious addition
to the family!!



We also were able to spend some time with
Elizabeth and Spencer!


5 out of 7 cousins!

Garden Update

Our garden is making great progress as you can
see. Daddy and Aaron couldn't be prouder of it!
We are thinking we should expand next year!



Yellow Squash almost ready for picking

Aaron's Cherry Tomatoes

Egg Hunt at school

The school that Aaron attends does not
celebrate anything bunny or egg related until
the day after Easter so he had his egg hunt on
Monday. Gram was also able to make it to the
hunt and took some pictures for us.

Potty Training Update!

Aaron is officially potty trained! He has been in
big boy underwear now for a week and has had
no accidents! For all his hard work he has
received an Iron Man Toy, a pack of Buzz
Lightyear Undies, and a Trip to Disney-- well
we were going anyway but it helped the process
along!

Gardening with Paw-Paw

Fun with Uncle Jake

Uncle Jake came to stay with us last week. He

and Aaron had alot of fun playing and making

brownies!

Future Ball Player

We went to David's T-ball game last week and
ever since Aaron has wanted to play. Uncle Jake and
Daddy came up with a solution for a T and boy
did he have fun. That is all he wanted to do the
whole weekend!

Garden Update

We are all very pleased at how our garden is

progressing. Aaron was very excited to see

his cherry tomatoes starting to sprout!

Egg hunting with the Blackwells

While we were in Alexandria for
the weekend we had an egg hunt
and hot dogs with my best friend
Ashley, her husband Brian, and their
daughter Isabella.

Easter Baskets

Aaron was very excited
about his easter gifts from Pop Pop,
Gram & Paw-Paw, and Mommy
and Daddy. He was thrilled with
his fishing pole and Toy Story Hat!

Pocking the eggs

We have a tradition of "pocking" or
"knocking" our dyed easter
eggs in my family. Aaron is still a
little confused by the idea but he
had fun anyway

Easter Egg Dying at Pop Pop's House

Dying Easter Eggs at Pop Pops

Swimming Lessons

Aaron attended his first week of swimming
lessons last week. He is not afraid of the water
and loves to go swimming. He learned the basics-
we are looking forward to next year!

Swimming Lessons

Disney World Countdown Started!!

Aaron and I made a Disney countdown chain since our trip is a month out! Aaron and Daddy pulled off the first chain!