Blueberry Season!

The girls and I visited our local blueberry u-pick today. We always have fun picking and the season is short. Little girls bucket always weighs a little light but luckily they don't weigh the kids before and after picking.





I LOVE the price...$5.00 for 4.5 lbs!






Went home and made a pie right away for my big girl since she's going to be gone a WHOLE WEEK for camp!!!




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Beautiful! If only I ate blueberries!



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SWAGGER WAGON

Thought this was a hilarious video...kinda makes me wish I still had a mini-van....

POTTER!

I'm finally getting around to posting some pictures of Big Girl and My trip to Orlando!

Our first look at Hogsmeade

 

Fish and Chips and Butterbeer at The Three Broomsticks!

The butterbeer was delicious!  All the food and drinks in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter are authentic to the books...no diet coke here.

The town of Hogsmeade.

Big Girl was chosen by Olivander at the wand shop.  She got to be part of the magic when her wand "chose her".

Got to see the Hogwart's Express and meet the conductor. 

Hogwarts!  Just as I imagined it.

Hermione's gown for the Yule Ball.

Big Girl rode the Dragon's Challenge 4 times.  I waited in baby swap...I'm not crazy! Or I'm a big wuss. Can't decide which.

Entrance to Dragon's Challenge.  We were Team Potter, of course.

This is another view of Hogwarts...statues of Warthogs?  There is a great ride/tour inside.  A little scary but I managed...I might have closed my eyes a little bit.

This is the Boar's Head Pub.  I had a Boar's Head ale.  Not a beer fan and this was pretty strong stuff.  Had to get the cool souvenir mug, though.

Oh, yeah! We did some other stuff at Universal. 
We pretty much had the Universal park to ourselves since everyone was over at Harry Potter in Islands of Adventure...Donkey was HILARIOUS!!

 

We loved Jurassic Park.  Made it look like a separate theme park like we'd stepped into the movie.  Very fun.

 

 Universal has really come a long way with their shows.  Very fun and realistic.

But then it was time to hurry on back to Harry Potter...That is why we flew across the entire country!  Had a great time.  Highly recommend if you are a fan of Harry Potter.  Next time, though we would stay at Disney World and take a shuttle over there for a day.  A day is plenty of time if you go in the off-season.  

Really appreciate Hubby for sending us and staying with Little Girl (who is not a fan of Harry or flying or hotels or leaving the house...)
The only thing he was jealous of is the butterbeer so he found me a recipe online.  It was ALMOST as good as the real thing.

Recipe for Butterbeer:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/333367/harry_potter_top_10_butterbeer_recipes.html

Happy No-Braces Day!

Little Girl got her braces off!  I was more excited than her, I think...No more brushing and flossing between 7 million braces twice a day!!!YEA!!!


                                                                                Before:

                                                                              After:
                                                              (Gotta Love those freckles!)

  

 First Item on the Agenda ?

BUBBLE GUM!!!!

                                                                         

Dance, Dance, Dance

The girls had another dance recital.  This time I took them to get their hair done at the salon...so cute.  They were outstanding, as usual.  These are their hip hop outfits...don't know what happend to their jazz pics but those were also pretty cute. 

Super Stars!

Spelling Bee

Big Girl was in the homeschool spelling bee in our town.  This is the first year she was old enough and was very excited.  She didn't study that much and I knew she would be up against kids much older so I wasn't sure how far she would get.  She was up against 9 other kids from 5th to 8th grade.  She beat out all the younger kids until it was her and two 8th graders standing...they went several rounds before Big Girl made a mistake on ACQUAINTANCE (did I spell that right?)  She actually knew how to spell it but forgot a letter...Bummer.  Still, she got third place her first time out and spelled a bunch of words that I got wrong as I spelled along with her.  What a smarty-pants!

She'll get 'em next year!

Tug-O-War

Big Girl got to play with the lions at homeschool zoo school!  Amazing how strong this guy is.  Took Big Girl and 5 or 6 adults to come close to being a fair battle.