Orlando

 Kevin had a big business trip to Orlando in August and with it being Florida and not having to pay that much for me, it is always a no-brainer for me to go too. We flew in on a Friday, it ended up being most of the day to get there.  We landed and decided that we wanted to have a beach day so we drove to Cocoa Beach and stayed the night.  We found a local burger place for dinner and I was seriously so starving by that point. Then we went and checked into our hotel and decided to walk down to the beach for the evening. We hung out there for a bit and then we saw a bunch of people gathering and then we saw paramedics come in.  From afar you could see them doing chest compressions for almost a half hour. It was pretty crazy.  We found out that the guy had been found out in the ocean and that he didn't make it.  It was really crazy.  

The next day we hung out and went to some different surf shops and souvenir shops trying to find something for the kids. We left the kids with Chanelle and Tom and my parents to take turns watching, but we had asked Lizzy to make sure she helped a lot so we wanted to find her a Cocoa Beach lifeguard sweatshirt that she really wanted and we couldn't find one at any of the stores. We went to the beach again and it was SO hot and humid!  We thought we would really enjoy the day at the beach but after about 30 minutes in the water we were both just done. We were feeling old because the beach just didn't hold the special place we thought it would and it was just yucky and hot and sandy. 

We drove back to Orlando that evening because we wanted to go to the temple that night. We try and go to the temple every trip that we take, its also fun to get to see all the different temples. On the way out of Cocoa Beach we stopped at the last souvenir store and lo and behold they had the sweatshirt!  I was so happy we tried one more place.  We went to dinner that night and went to the temple, but alas it was closed.  I was bummed because I had looked it up on the Internet and it didn't say anything about being closed! So we just walked around the grounds and took some pictures. 

 The next day we got up and headed to Epcot.  We knew we were going to do two days of parks so we really tried to figure out which ones  we would be happiest that we did.  We decided to do Epcot because it was really different than anything we had ever done and Magic Kingdom because well, its Magic Kingdom!  Epcot was fun and I'm glad we did it, but it is seriously so dang huge!  The walking was crazy.  We felt like we did everything by about 6 and we were just tired so we headed back tot he hotel. We were going to stay for the fireworks, but kind of ended up feeling like we could probably see them another night form our hotel and it just sounded too long to stay for another few hours when we were already tired.  We headed back and hadn't eaten yet because we decided to wait since its so much cheaper to not eat at the park.  We went back to our hotel that was out of the park and there was a BJ's right next to it so we got a salad to share and a pizookie since how can we not when we are at BJ's haha! The next day we were able to go stay at the Dolphin Hotel in Disney World.  It was a nice hotel and fun to stay at a place that we could never afford on our own. 

 We had a nice Mexican lunch at a restaurant in Epcot. It was fun to celebrate Kevin's birthday all week.  

 This is one of the few pictures I got of us at Magic Kingdom. It really was a blast to go with Kevin. It's of course great to go with the kids but just being together and not having to worry about tired, cranky kids that are hungry and need to go to the bathroom, is just a joy all on its own.  We had a great time and got to ride a lot of rides early in the morning.  It started to get crowded and so dang hot (part of the problem with going to Florida in August!) So we went back to our hotel for part of the afternoon and took a nice nap then headed back to the park for the late afternoon and evening.  It really was just such a great day together. He is my favorite and being with him at one of our favorite places just made it even better. 

With Kevin's conference, a free admission to one of the water parks was included. So after he got done with classes for the day we went and had a good time riding some slides.  We are getting kind of old though because we didn't last very long there.  After a couple hours of riding slides and a little time in the wave pool we were both ready to go.  It was such a fun trip. One thing about Florida though was I felt like I looked horrible the entire time I was there!  I would do my hair in the morning and walk outside and I felt like I looked like I just rolled out of bed without ding my hair. It was also really nice to get to spend a longer time together than just a few days.  We got a whole week and it was so awesome!  We love to be together and always have the best time no matter what we do!!!