bryce's birthday shindigs!

Some pictures from Bryce's actual birthday, plus pictures from our celebration with eric's family out at the condo. . .

Opening presents - and yes, Tanner DOES have tears all over his face.  He was having a little "But why isn't it MY birthday?!" tantrum.  Bryce was very sweet and let Tanner help open some gifts :)

 One of the favorite gifts. . .whatever it is.  Some sort of Star Wars vehicle. . .tie-fighter maybe? I don't know.  I leave the Star Wars stuff to the boys.  (giggle giggle!)

 Another popular gift. . . two boxes of miscellaneous Bionicle pieces, to go with his Bionicles and Hero Factory guys.  It was a great consignment sale find, a few months ago. . .I knew he would go nuts when he saw it! (and he did!)

 His birthday meal request: subs from Subway, and a double doozie cookie from Publix.

 Delicious!

 Last night we celebrated with Eric's family, and Bryce's dessert request was a giant cupcake-cake with blue frosting. (I hate blue frosting, but his wish is my command!)

 Bryce and Whit,  . . ..giggling about sweets and treats?

 Lots of new Legos, and games to add to our collection! And some great new clothes, a cozy pair of fuzzy Crocs, (and some underwear! Giggle giggle!)

Thanks to SO many of you, who made Bryce's 7th birthday super special!!!! And now, we can FINALLY move on to CHRISTMAS!!! ;)

The Jedi Master is SEVEN!

Happy seventh birthday to our favorite Jedi!

May the force be with you, young Bryce!

Eat cake, you will!

xoxo

Day 4 LegoLand

This is probably what you've REALLY been waiting for. . .something all new and different! LEGOLAND! 

We have been waiting and waiting and WAITING to go to the brand new LegoLand.  It's about 45 minutes from Disney, but it wasn't too bad of a drive.  The boys LOVED it! It's much more laid back than the Disney Parks, and  there is a lot of interactive and PLAY activities to do.

Bryce got his "drivers license" there. . .but Tanner was content to drive a non-moving car!

 We also drove boats, and a Lego firetruck.  

 There were lots of crazy contraptions, like these flying machines, that you had to pedal. . .

 And wild boats that went round and round.  (We had fun on the shore, blasting Eric and Bryce with water canons!)

 My classy boys trying to pick Einstein's nose.  Awesome.

 Going up up up, and down down down, with Poppy! They had to pull themselves up with the ropes! (Poppy got a good workout in!)

 In the Lego Miniland, they had Las Vegas, New York City, Cape Canaveral. . .AND St. Augustine! It was fun seeing our home away from home made out of Legos.  No Flagler College, but the big building in the center of this photo is the Lightner Museum, right across the street from Flagler.

 Bryce went jousting on a Lego horse, and then played on the gigantic playground in the background of this picture.  (Thankfully this was during nap time, because Tanner was just a little too small to ride these horses, but he TOTALLY would have wanted to!)

 Safari ride with Poppy! Bryce rode once with Mimi and once with Poppy.  (Thankfully the lines were not long!)

 Beep beep!

 How FUNNY is Bryce's face!? He is such a ham! I love that kid!

 Very cool that the ambulance had sound effects. . .sound effects that were very much TOO LOUD!

 Ummm. . .I don't think the cage is keeping Tanner in OR out! :)

 Tanner loved the Duplo area, with the giant barn and playground!

 Star Wars!

 LegoLand was a LOT of fun.  We would definitely like to go back. . .especially once Tanner grows about 2 inches, and then he will be able to go on a lot more rides!!!

Day 5 - Hollywood Studios

Bryce got to go to Jedi Training Academy at Hollywood Studios. . .and he got to fight Darth Vader! Totally totally fun! :)  He and Eric rode the Star Tours ride about a million times too!

 The Christmas lights were AMAZING as always! Tanner slept through the lights being turned on, but when he finally woke up from an evening nap, he was pretty impressed!! :)

Tanner LOVES the fountain in front of the Muppet 3-D show.  He probably wanted to get IN the fountain, but I managed to keep him OUT! :)

Epcot - Day 3

trying to get pictures caught up. . .i added more to the last two posts, so be sure to scroll down to see more! will keep working on it throughout the day today! Here's Epcot - we actually went there twice, so some of these pics may not all have been on the same day.  The first day we went, my parents were with us, and we got lots of CUTE pics with the characters!