Cade's home with Mommy!

Here's Cade eating some yummy pear slices!
And here he is asking for his "Bubby." So sweet!
Cade has got a virus we think. He really gave Mrs. Charlie and Mrs. Debbie a scare at Daycare this morning. I hadn't even been at work an hour when I got the call that Cade was acting listless, not eating or drinking, wretching, and losing color. He finally started to drink some juice when Kevin got there to pick him up (10 minutes vs. my 1 hour) and was on the mend. Everything checked out ok when I got him to the Dr. at 9 am, but by then he had eaten every snack I had in my purse. So, they want to check his bloodwork in the morning after fasting 12 hours. Please pray for Cade! I know the Lord has a great purpose for both of my children and He has protected them through so much! We praise God!

Melanie's Visit!

Here's Cade and Carson playing around in the living room while waiting for Mommy's friend Melanie to visit Tuesday night!
Carson and Cade sitting on their stools from Bible School!
Mommy forgot to take any pictures of Melanie with the boys - but they had lots of fun with her at dinner, playtime, and bath time! We're so glad she was in town and stopped by to visit!

Carson Kaneevil

Three simple reasons why he's a daredevil:


On Thursday Kevin went in the bathroom and shut the door with the twins playing at the door (much safer than in the toilet water by Daddy). 30 seconds later Carson was crying and Kevin opened the door to find the two of them standing right there with no toys around and no harmful objects near.


However (#1) Carson had an awful gash above his eye which looks much better in these pictures than it did to me on Thursday when I got home from work. Kevin said Cade had his bottom lip poked out looking at him as if to say, "Daddy, I didn't mean to hurt him!" Who knows what happened?

To refresh your memory: Cade sleeps in Carson's crib b/c the light from the window keeps him up at night (they go to bed at 7:30). So, you see him in Carson's crib and Carson is in Cade's crib when they woke up from nap in this picture.

Well, you see the little preemie outfits are not on the wall on the side where Carson sleeps (the one that says Cade). They both actually do that - no big deal right - I just hang them back up when necessary.

But notice that (#2) Carson has actually torn the mobil off of his crib. Friday night we were talking with John and Rebekah about babies and when to put them in big boy beds. Some people we know have children a couple months older than the boys in big beds. That sounds crazy to us. We said we have no reason to take them out of the cribs since we don't plan to have more babies, so why rush it!?! I said I'd keep them in the cribs til 3 if I could but they'd probably climb out before that . . .

(#3) Saturday morning - guess who climbed out of his crib? Carson! We heard a big thud on the monitors from 2 different parts of the house and both assumed the other was in the nursery with the boys. I was in the shower, so when the alarm went off, Kevin went in to check and Carson was sitting on the floor in front of his crib playing.

Also, just today he learned to open the fridge - ours has a mighty powerful suction on it, so I really can't believe he's doing that. Time to move the eggs up!

Rub-a-Dub-Dub . . .

Three Men in a Tub!

Cade and Carson had fun playing with Jack this weekend! We grilled out Friday evening to celebrate July the Fourth!
Jack was a big helper!
Cade had lots of fun playing with Jack's golf club set!And here's Jack's baby sister Rylee with Rebekah! Jack and Carson are busy driving around in the background!
John and Rebekah may rethink weekend visits to our house any time soon, but really we had lots of fun putzing around at the beach and trying to keep 4 children 3 and under happy and fed with as little bruises as possible (more on our daredevil son later)!

Our Week of Disney World!

Woo Hoo! We made it to Disney World! Here's Daddy and Cade eating at Boma Restaurant at the Animal Kingdom when we got there Saturday evening!
And here's Mommy and Carson!
We could look out and see Zebras from here!
Breakfast in diapers!

We spent our first morning at Animal Kingdom!
Minnie and Goofy welcomed everyone!
Cade rode with Daddy on our first time on the Safari ride!
Carson rode with Mommy!
Cade is wearing his bug 3-D glasses for the "It's Tough to be a Bug" show which they did actually sit still for and enjoy (I think that was the only not-mobile attraction that they were interested in.)!After several more rides and a couple shows (learning the boys are still not ready for shows - they still like to run up and down the aisles) as well as BBQ at Flame Tree (yummy) where the boys fed the ducks almost as much as they ate, it was time to go for a nap!

After a nice nap, we came to Magic Kingdom!

Daddy and Carson are having lots of fun!
Cade, Mommy, Carson, and Buzz!
Carson, Daddy, Cade, and Mommy wait to ride Snow White!
Our family in front of Cinderella's Castle!!!
We got up early Monday morning to take advantage of the Extra Magic Hour! Here's the boys in their space ship pajamas - appropriate for the Buzz Lightyear ride we'd be on later this morning!

Here's my boys waiting in the big crowds!
The Rock-N-Roller Coaster was fun!
So was the Tower of Terror! Kevin and I both rode all the fun rides by switching off, and we took the boys on the kiddo rides!
Cade and Daddy waiting for the Buzz Lightyear ride - the new one at Hollywood Studios is so cool! You shoot cannonballs at Midway booth rides - it's called Toy Story Mania!
Carson and Mommy are excited to defeat Zurg!
Carson, Mommy, Cade, and Daddy had fun riding this several times!

I thought this CandyLand mural was cool!
Say Cheese!
Here's all of us with Mr. Potato Head!
Tow Mater and Lightning McQueen were going back to their garages when we saw them!
Carson and Cade at the ship at Hollywood Studios!

The boys are on the set before we leave Hollywood Studios! It said "TWINings" - I couldn't resist!
Daddy with the boys by the Lake at EPCOT!
Mommy with the boys during a snack in the shade! We packed a cooler-full every day!

This is our big Magic Kingdom day! We started with a good pop tart! We rode so many rides and ate so much food and had so much fun! The Extra Magic Hours and the Rider Swap are the way to go! The boys were so excited the whole time! There couldn't possibly be a better vacation for our family!

We were the first in the parking lot!
We even had time to pause for a picture with Mickey!
Carson tries to take over the monorail!
Daddy and Carson ride Dumbo!
Mommy and Cade have fun on Dumbo, too!

Daddy and Carson enjoy Winnie the Pooh's Many Adventures!

Cade is really into it!

We all smile together on It's a Small World! Mommy's favorite ride - cheesey, I know!

Here's my penguins on Small World!!!!! The boys liked them, too! They point and
Daddy was brave on Splash Mountain!

Cade and Carson had fun on the Liberty Bell Riverboat at Tom Sawyer Island!
Here's Cade taking off!
We had fun at Downtown Disney that night! We went to Daddy's favorite place - the Lego store!
And we ate at Wolfgang Puck's and had a fancy Sundae dessert at Ghiradelli's! (? the spelling) We even found a couple souvenirs!
Wednesday was our day off! We relaxed and still had lots of fun! Notice on the table the two little Mickey toys - the maintenance men brought those and some pluto toys to the boys after meeting them the first night! Disney's customer service is excellent!

We had fun riding the monorails around!
And snack time was fun!
We visited all the lobbies of the hotels on the monorail system!

Carson and Cade in front of a big Cactus at the Disney Coronado Springs Resort - really our hotel!

Here they are doing their chores on vacation!
We went to the mall this night with Daddy - it was raining again!
The Mall of Millenia was fun! We got to eat at Cheesecake Factory! In the next booth over was the Masters Golf winner from two or three years ago - Zach Johnson! Daddy would not let us disturb his dinner with his pretty wife although Mommy wanted to take his picture!
Here's the fun entrance! Can you tell every little thing about Disney excites me? Can you guess how many pictures I took on this trip? I'm sure you're wrong. I'll put it at the end of this post!
Cade and Carson eat their poptarts Thursday morning in their new penguin pajamas!

Just the three of us at the Magic Kingdom! What a crazy morning! It really was hard waiting for Dumbo with just me to corral theses two! As soon as they got on it though, it was worth it all! It's definitely Cade's favorite ride - he gets so excited, pointing and oohing! We rode it at least 3 times this trip!
We saw Tigger on Pooh's Adventure ride!
Carson was amazed in the Hunny Pot!
Cade was intrigued in the Hunny Pot!

Cade and Carson enjoyed the little chairs in the tree house!

Here's Cade riding the Carousel with Mommy!
Here's Carson playing in the Judge's Tent while waiting to meet Mickey Mouse! Daddy didn't want to wait in this awful line the days he was with us!
Oh Boy it was worth it! Carson loved Minnie and Cade was in awe of Mickey!
Despite the "welcome" here, we're actually about to leave at this time to go meet up with Daddy! Cade was making a fishy face on the ferry boat ride back to where we parked!

Carson was playing peek-a-boo by pulling his shirt up over his face!
We went back to Animal Kingdom with Daddy that afternoon in the rain!
We all ate good food at the fun Rainforest Cafe in the Animal Kingdom after our rainy safari ride! The boys enjoyed their crayons!
We got to play more while Daddy was in meetings Friday! Here we are riding Tricera Top Spin at Animal Kingdom!

Stitch was a little much for the boys!
The bear played peek-a-boo with Carson and Cade while we waited to meet more characters at Animal Kingdom!
Mickey Mouse escorted us down the path at Character Trail at Camp Minnie-Mickey! Talk about Disney magic! Even I felt like a Princess all week!
Cade, Mommy, Carson, and Mickey!
Cade is about to blow Goofy a kiss in this picture!

Carson is leaning over about to reach out and grab Donald's beak in this picture!
The boys are eating lunch out by the pool at our hotel! We had lots of fun there, too!
Here they are asleep going for our last evening at Magic Kingdom!
They got to play in Pooh's Playful Spot again when they woke up!
Cade takes a break on the steps up to the slide!

Carson thinks about sliding!
Daisy went by in the parade!
The boys enjoyed watching the parade!
We had called almost every day for a month to get reservations at our favorite Disney World restaurant - Liberty Tree Tavern! We even went in three times on different days while there to try to get seated. Anyway, our last day I asked again!!!! And we got to eat the yummy family style meal with characters all around us! What a perfect last night for our magical trip! Here's Chip with Cade and Carson!
Minnie Mouse kissed my husband!

Dale had fun playing with the twins, too!
Goofy is pretending to eat Cade as Carson pretends to attack Goofy!
Pluto and the boys practiced body parts - here's Pluto showing off his big ears!
One last time to enter the Magic Kingdom on my Birthday, and what a wonderful birthday week it's been!

Here's Cade on the way home!

Leaving the World!

Carson as we drive away!

This was Cade and Carson's first time to meet Aunt Mary and Uncle Frank!
Of course they loved them both along with these cute toys they gave them! That was a nice stop off on our way home! Thanks Aunt Mary for coming all the way to I-95 to meet us!
And Kevin and the boys had these beautiful roses and stargazer lillies waiting at home to surprise me on my birthday since I didn't think I would get anything on top of Disney World - aren't they sweet!

Oh - the answer is over 700 pictures on my camera! I did delete it down to 567 with all the cut-off heads and not looking pix, but still - whoa! This was the best birthday trip ever! We praise the Lord for our blessings and safe travel!