He's gonna be a heartbreaker!

Everyone should take time to smell the flowers

Mid blow...

Alaina about to blow on the dandelion puff.

My friends Christine and Matt were in town this week because Christine won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Matt and Christine reside in Sicily and I haven't seen them for almost 2 years. It was so nice to be able to see them.

Jerry getting all the snuggling and attention he could ever want. (He still doesn't run away!)

Happy guy!

Brayden beating up Alaina.

Alaina snuggling Jerry. He's become her new favorite "toy" to carry around.

Poor Jerry....

Riding the merry go round as we got ready to leave.

Hang on tight! Genna's a crazy driver!

Alaina and Genna team up in the Kermit Car

Alaina riding the Tigger ride at the Leesburg Outlets.

Brayden and Daddy snuggling before bed.

Alaina and Brayden on the swings.

Alaina and Genna (and Brayden in the background) on the swings at Algonkian Park.

Our trip to Orlando, FL was wonderful. It was great to relax with the kids and Nic and just spend some good quality "family time" Alaina was so excited to get in some pool time with Brayden and we had great weather the entire week. (It only rained one day.) We made two day trips over the week. The first to Sea World which is always one of my favorites and the second to Disney's Animal Kingdom which was pretty interesting as well. At Animal Kingdom we saw all sorts of exotic animals on our "safari" and then as we walked through the trails. Brayden and Alaina both loved seeing all the animals and seemed to have a wonderful time. Oh... and if you asked them their favorite part... it was the ducks.

One of the many beautiful birds that were living at Animal Kingdom.

This tiger was looking for his dinner!