Downtown Disney

{Click on photos to enlarge} This past weekend, we headed to Downtown Disney with Ron's old buddy from high school that lives near us here in Florida, his awesome wife Ellen, and their adorable daughter Tori. Joe and Ron have been friends since they were kids. This is the second opportunity we have had to get together with them, and it has been a lot of fun. We spent almost all day at Downtown Disney exploring, eating, playing in the water fountains with the kiddies and of course some children's rides as well! Brayden and Tori got soaking wet playing in the water fountains-they shoot up water from the ground and the kids we having a BLAST!!!
The highlight of the day was Pleasure Island. Ron and Ellen got called up on stage because they both have June Birthdays. Once up there and in the SPOTLIGHT {which is not my husbands favorite place to be-which makes this story even more funny}...they had to do a 5 second dance in front of everyone! Ron tried to run back to our table, but they called him out-and made him come back ;-) He finally gave in and did his little 5 second dance {which I have on video}...and left the stage with a Disney button that says "it's my birthday" with his name {haha}.
We decided to sit there for a little longer {a few hours actually}...and Joe, Ron, Myself and Ellen all got called up on stage to either dance, be interviewed, lead a conga line and do a limbo! It was too much fun.

Joe and Ellen and Tori are SO much fun to hang out with. We had such a great day!

Be back soon ;-)

I am currently working on uploading all of my pictures online to Shutterfly...as a second backup to downloading everything onto an external hard drive. This is all in an attempt to preserve what space I have left on this old little Dell of ours. I have 1000 photos to upload just from the last two months, and so SO much to catch everyone up with. I should complete this HUGE endeavor of backing everything up before the big delete I must complete for my poor C drive...then I am BACK to blogging...thankfully. I have missed everyone ;-)

{Witness Protection Program...}

You read it correctly...yes, the Witness Protection Program. Sorry to momentarily freak you out with that title...but since we have moved to Florida {without our things}, our neighbors MUST swear that we are part of some witness protection program as my oldest brother jokingly suggested. Here we move in {I arrived at 3am after driving more than 24 hours}...and with no moving truck-or furniture. Our little cul-de-sac is probably wondering what in the world we are doing??? To make matters worse for the neighborhood chatter is my latest adventures in trash to treasure hunting on Thursday nights, coming home with battered furniture and sticking it in the garage ;-)

Oh the giggles we will soon get from all of this. Now I just have to figure out what in the world to tell them so they really don't think we are totally crazy. I am starting to wonder if I am crazy these days. Time will tell ;-) I will be sure to keep you posted. The up side of all of this is that I have been able to spend a TON of time with my peanut. He has learned so many new things lately that I am excited to share more about soon. He has learned to dance though-it is too funny. Anytime music comes on he bobs his head and bends his knees, claps his hands and does a cha-cha-cha with his feet. He is a trip, and such a patient little guy.

Fathers day is right around the corner and I am thinking we have some neat ideas in the works for the Daddy. {since he reads the blog-we will have to wait to share them with you}.

Hope everyone is doing well...and we will hopefully be released from this "Witness Protection" thing soon! {haha}.

Post 200!!!

Well ladies...I have to apologize first for being SUCH a bad blogger these last few weeks. First we had the big move {without our things} haha! Since then-we have been trying to be creative until our things arrive in a few more weeks {yes-a few more weeks} ARGH! My MIL, SIL and family were here for the first week and a half...the next week I went to Georgia to see my family for a few days, to come home and my other SIL and her family came for a week...so we have been BUSY BUSY BUSY!

We dragged my sister in law Roxanne and her family with us last Thursday for {dumpster diving} night in our old subdivision in Orlando...you should SEE the things people throw away! I have no shame with this...I'll admit it. We found a great little end table, vanity table, patio table, and last week I found an awesome armoire that with new paint and knobs will be ultra fantastic! Ron said we could furnish the house one Thursday at a time until our things get here {he's not funny}.

They were reluctant to come at first...but we continued to ask {beg} them until they caved ;-) They think we are a little nuts-but they love us just the same-and they HAD A BLAST! Our nephew Marion seemed to have the most fun though-he cracked us up! I scored a photo of Roxanne testing out a treadmill to see if it worked...when my computer stops giving me issues I will post it ;-)

So...we are doing okay. Brayden loves the sunshine, loves Old Town in Kissimmee-a frequent visiting place for us lately, and he loves just being outside. He has learned to occupy himself without tons of toys, and is also...SLEEPING ALL NIGHT LONG NOW! It's been a month since we arrived here, and ever since he is in bed every night at 9:30-on his own accord, and sleeps sleeps sleeps. It's nice for me...finally getting caught up on some much needed rest myself.

So...we will keep everyone posted, but for now I am picture-less on the blog until I get a new laptop-or find a way to clear off my 5K pictures someplace so I can upload some new ones...we have run out of space evidently-and my disk drive is broken, and I am thinking our baby Dell is on her way out. Maybe I can find a new one on the side of the road somewhere? Yeah-I didn't think so. I can look though right?

Our Adventure continues...

Here are some of the latest pictures I promised of our new adventure...without our things :-) It is an experience that's for sure. My family keeps telling me to take tons of pictures so we can all look back on this and giggle at how we can actually survive without our things...and how much fun this actually is if you just laugh about it-and get resourceful enough... Here are some of the fun photos...

First...the roadtrip to Florida...

His first nightly swim with Daddy...he splashed like CRAZY!!!

His new "ball"

watching cartoons on Daddy's toolbox, with the portable DVD player {whew-thank God for this}...

Daddy ironing on the counter...

Eating morning breakfast Mommy made...

Riding his new motorcycle

And Mommy weeded the front yard-it was driving her nutty...

All in all...we are doing just fine. Hope the photos made you giggle.
-The Snow family

{Projects}

Well, it has been almost two weeks since we got here, and I am dying to get started on all of these projects I have swirling around in my little head ;-) Only bad thing is...OUR THINGS ARE STILL NOT HERE WITH US!!! Yes-you heard correctly. Originally-we were going to go the whole moving company route-but that was ULTRA pricey-and Ron's Uncle who has a truck-trailer and a CDL-offered to do it for us just for the price of gas to get it here {insert choir singing right?}...well....the night before said move occurred-his Uncle had something important and inevitable occur so it has pushed back the "move" of our things. So...I put everything in storage in NY-hoping this would only be a short stint without our things...an "adventure" as my family calls it. Hmmm....I think this adventure is overrated at this point. Seriously...we are sitting on baseball game chairs and coolers. I have spent over $300 in the last two weeks on necessities that you NEVER realize you will miss until you don't have them anymore {can opener, a pot and pan, towels, coffee maker etc etc}. I have taken lots of pictures of Brayden and his {stir crazy} antics to keep himself occupied...like playing with an orange he insisted was "a ball"...and sitting on his cousin Ryleah to taunt her because he is ALL BOY! I promise I will get them uploaded and will post soon. {as if I really have anything else to do these days}, until then...say a prayer for us that we can end the "adventure" we are currently on and I can get started on all of my fun house projects :-)

Home Sweet Home

We are here! We finally made it-yes like a week ago, but I could not get online until just today. I was seriously starting to have withdrawal. Here are a few pictures of our new home, will have to upload some better ones in the next few days. Our lawn needs some serious TLC-but that is the last scheduled project among many to come in the next few weeks. I have missed blogland=glad to be back! We are also glad to be back in the Sunshine place we love :-)