New Year

Well, it's March 4, 2009 and the new year is going ok for now.

I finally got the van back about a week before we went to Orlando Florida for a week. It drives nice and looks good - it better, it cost around $7,500 to fix. I will post pictures when the weather clears up.

We went to Orlando Florida the last week of February and on the way stopped in Acworth, GA to see my Nephew and his family since I have not heard from them in approx 6 months because their phone was disconnected.

We also stopped in Tampa FL to see my brother and his family - last time we were down there was when Mom was sick and the boys were not able to come with us. We had fun, we went to a park where the tree roots are exposed because the ground under them is being washed away. This is a pretty large area and very hilly.

Eoin and Liam played with their children and we went out to get a bite to eat before heading to our resort in Orlando. We had fun and will have to go back down and spend some time with them in the future.

We checked in our resort somewhere around 8pm Sunday night and as usual the boys were so excited they woke us up at around 7am. All Eoin could talk about was that we were in Disney World. No matter how many times I tried to tell him we were in Orlando he just could not put 2+2 together. I was just happy to be spending time with the family and not having to go into work.

We went to Down Town Disney on our first day and walked around a shopping center - We went in a resturant that had a huge Dinosaur in it, Liam was not thrilled with this but we went in a different part of the store and the boys each built a stuffed Dinosaur. Liam has a hard time letting his go - he even sleeps with it.

We ended up going to Disney Studios and Magic Kingdom while we were there - the boys were able to get some autographs and pictures from Pluto, Chip & Dale, Stitch, Goofy, Tigger, Pooh and a few others. Diane had to be convinced to get her picture taken with Goofy since she just got off of Splash Mountain and her hair was all curly and her clothes were wet from the ride.

The boys behaved so well on the trip down and the trip back - this really suprised me. Liam played with his leapster quite a bit on the trip and we played Kung Fu Panda a number of times. Eoin was happy to play the Wii on the drive down and back.

Now that we are back I get to deal with the insurance company so that I can get all of the bills paid for my van.

So now the house is full again - we have Sir Stinks a Lot (Harry Potter). He is back from Cathys house and I think he missed us. We still have to unpack the clothes - since I had to go to work the night after we returned we have not had a chance to put the clothes away. And we have to get all of teh toys put away that the boys have dragged out.

I am ready for a vacation.

I will post some pictures later.