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DISNEY WORLD FAMILY REUNION!!!

This last week we had a family reunion in Disney World, it was a BLAST!!! Thank you to Gene and Ellen "Alex's aunt and uncle" for sharing the timeshares they have. Alex and I got our own studio apartment, while the rest of the family shared a place. We had special privileges since we were the NEWLY WEDS!!! We actually didnt spend much time in our room, just because we were having way too much fun partying with the family.

Saturday- Ilene, Alex and I woke up really early to catch our plane at 7:00 a.m. We had a layover and then we were off to Florida. We finally get there and it was sure HUMID!!! I thought it was bad here in CT, but Florida is way WORSE!!! Gene came to pick us up and we then met up with the whole family, Ellen was in the kitchen making snacks, and they were so tasty. We all went swimming and the nice and beautiful pools they have there, they even had a lazy river that I fell in love with. We went back to the room played cards, ate dinner, and then went pool hopping later that night.

Sunday- Alex and I woke up nice and early to get ready for the day at Magic Kingdom. We met everyone there and started on the rides!!! The lines weren't bad, but we also had Heather( a cousin of Alex's) to be our tour guide. She was so good and new all the tricks and what to ride first and so on. We rode on Splash Mountain, Space Mountain, Thunder Mountain Railroad, the jungle cruise, Pirates of the Caribbean, and the Haunted Mansion, Carousel of Progress, Mickys Philharmagic, hall of presidents, Monsters Inc Laugh floor, and thats all I can remember for now. We stopped to eat lunch somewhere in there. Let me tell you about lunch, Ellen and Gene got us these awesome meal plans!!!! We shared 6 snacks and 6 meals at the park everyday, not everyone would come to the park so we would get to have our own, and the snacks and meals were AMAZING AND SO GOOD!!! We went home for alittle bit and took a nap, ate dinner and came strait back to the park for more fast passes that needed to be used up and the Electric Light Parade and Fireworks. Alex, John, Mindy,Roy, Chis, and I had so much fun watching the parade. We got so much attention from the characters since we were so loud and fun!!

Monday- ANIMAL KINGDOM!!!! This park was really fun we well, it was a more relaxed day, with going to Asia and enjoying our safari ride that got cut 13 days short. We saw so many different animals, so it was really neat. We sat down to eat lunch and it started pouring, good thing we were inside. It rained everyday, but only while we were eating lunch. We then went to Expedition Everest, and that ride was pretty cool. Alex and I rode that ride 4 times in a row!!! WE loved it!! The shows we watched that day were Its tough to be a bug, Festival of the Lion King, Finding Nemo the musical, and they were all terrific!!! And after all that fun, we went back to the timeshare and went swimming some more, except this time was a little bit better, because Alex and I had to move to another timeshare, and so we moved to the Yacht and Beach club, and that pool had a big water slide, and sand at the bottom of the pools!!! SO we had a pool party at our place with the family!!!

Tuesday- Brian came in on Monday and we were all at animal kingdom, so we went back to Magic Kingdom for Brian that day and did everything over again.

Wednesday was MGM Universal Studios!!!! Alex was SOOO excited to go to the TOWER OF TERROR, so we hit that one up first, while Chris got us fast passes for Rock N Roll ROller Coaster... That ride was AWESOME!!!!! Its pitch dark and music blasting in your ears, while doing loops, and taking off from 0-60 in 2 seconds...it was just so awesome!!! Some of the other things we did that day were lights camera action stunt show, that was so cool as well. Star Tours, muppets vision 3D, Indiana Jones Stunt. Wd didnt stay all day there, because it was really humid and we were looking forward to swimming at the pools!!! So that's what we did on Wednesday!!!

Thursday- Lorettas Birthday!!! We let her pick which park she wanted to go to since it was her birthday, and she picked Epcot. The whole family came on this one, and we did pretty much everything there was to do there, but I still want to name everything we did. Living with the land, Soarin, Circle of Life, Then we went to Mexico and ate lunch, and had to tour it so we started with the Gran Fiesta Tour Starring Donald Duck and the three caballeros, then to China and watched refflections of China. We wanted to eat at China as well, so we used our other 3 lunches and ate some Orange Chicken!!! We then went to Norway, and rode a boat ride there.
We didnt go to all the countries, but got most of them, then headed home for dinner and pools again!!!

Friday- We are now on our last day of vacation at Disney world...Alex and I went shopping for some suveniers and then ate at the Rain forest Cafe for lunch. I bought this beautiful Christmas ornament, and now I am really looking forward to Christmas being here so I can hang it up on our tree. I also got a really cute apron, and a towel. We spent most of the day shopping and then went back for our last time to swim, we had so much fun that day- night, we made pyramids, played games in the water, contests of who could swim the fastest, and Congrats to John for beating Alex by a tiny bit!!! This vacation was just AMAZING and it was just a BLAST getting to know the family and LAUGHING SOOO MUCH!!!

Saturday- We got up at 3:00 a.m. to get to the airport and leave for home by 6:00 a.m. on the airplane. I slept the whole way. We hurried home because Alex had a moving job, I went food shopping and then took a nice long nap!!!

Sunday- It was a special day, Alex, Ilene and I went to church. I always love to go to church when Ilene is here in town, because she gets to play the organ at church, and its so nice to listen to her play, shes fantastic. Everyone is so nice to me in the ward, and I still am getting comments on how good of a job Alex did with the reception. I guess I didnt impress them enough!! just kidding!!! I do give him 90% of the credit!!! We came home and we had to make dinner for Scott, an autistic friend that Alex has, and he comes down every year for his birthday, and his favorite meal is for Alex to grill chicken and veggies, and make him his special quesadillas!!! Alex is so good at making things extra specail, ha made delicious quesadillas, I made Spanish rice, and Brownies. Alex designs his quesadillas and on one he spelled out HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOTT, it was so cute. We then had brownies with a scoop of ice cream on top, and with whip topping with a cherry, and a fancy caramel-chocolate design. It was a great time. You did a great job with everything you did ALEX!!!! Another great thing about Alex is that he is so good at cleaning up after meals. He washes the dishes and cleans the kitchen!!! SO that I can take a nap!!! Oh I just love him to DEATH!!! After our nap we went on a motorcycle bike ride and had a nice evening!!! Well thats all until next time!!!

ONE MORE THING!!! I have been miserable all summer long, and my day of happiness finally came!!! It was the day that my kids went back to school!!!! It was this past WEDNESDAY!!!!! WOOOHOOOO. So now work is just great and I LOVE IT!!! Alex started school on Monday so we are all really proud of him!!! GOOD LUCK HUNNY, YOU WILL DO GREAT!!!!

Here are a few pictures from Disney, these are all that Al sent me, I'm sorry I couldn't get everyone that was there in the pictures, if you forward them to me, the I will post your beautiful face!!!

I'M MARRIED!!!!!!

This will definetly be the longest and most detailed post I will probably ever type!!! Alex and I and his family have really been looking forward to this day for a LONG time!!! And it finally came. We started our trip with Outback Steakhouse on our way to PA. I had a coupon for a FREE bloomin onion, so we used that and then shared a meal. We were then on our way to PA, we talked, listened to music, sang along to our favorite songs, and just had a great time being together. We got to his moms house and went to sleep early, because we were getting up early the next morning to go to HERSHEY PARK!!! His mom was so nice, she let us take her van up and we all just rode together. A;ex drove the whole way and we just LAUGHED AND LAUGHED AND LAUGHED THE WHOLE TIME!!!




We finally arrived at Hershey Park, Oh my goodness, this was the most fun place EVER!!! It was filled with HUGE candybars and just so much chocolate!!! We went on a FREE tour of how they make the candybars, and it was a nice little train that took us on a ride, it was like disneyworld all over again.




We then went and bought Alex a new shirt, and had to shop for a few things, so that was fun. We finally got to his Aunt Gails and uncle Daves house. They had dinner ready for us, and they are fantastic cooks, must run in the family because Alex and his mom are AMAZING cooks!!!
We had home made pizza, fresh corn on the cob, it was picked from the fields too!!



The next morning we woke up and had a nice breakfast, with omelets and then waited for Eliza to get to the house!! She finally arrived and off we were to go get my bouquet for the wedding. It was very pretty, but very small, so we went to A.C. Moore and got silk green flowers and some other materials and Eliza redid the whole thing!!! She sure did work some wonders in that!!!

I also wanted a sash to go around my dress, so Alex had bought me a sash but it wasn't quite the way I thought it would look, so Aunt Gail whipped out her sewing machine, and made it PERFECT!!! It seemed as if everything fell right into place.


























We all sat around and had a great time visiting and LAUGHING the rest of the afternoon. That night was an early bednight, because 4:30 would come way to fast that next morning.





















We all wake up at 4:30 and start getting ready for the temple. We had to leave by 5:30 to drive 2 hours to the temple, and be at our photo shoot by 8:00. But with the Angel family, they are NEVER late for anything, so they always like to be early just to be safe. Alex and I do our photo shoot for about 1 1/2 hours and then family comes in and joins us. It was honestly a blast and Alex was just a great person to take pictures with, he had so many creative ideas and we just told the photographer what we wanted to do and she just kept snapping the camera!! She was really cool and fun. After pictures, it was time for the Temple!!! I LOVED the temple so much, it was the most special place I had ever entered into. I have never had so many blessing poured out upon me in one day!!! I would go back every day if I could, it was just the most peaceful feeling in the whole world. Alex had Uncle Dave as his escort, and I had Alexs sweet mother as my escort. It was truly an experience I will never forget.


We then went to a really nice restaurant with the family for late lunch and then Alex had booked a room for us that night at the York Town Hotel!! It was an AWESOME hotel and very pricey.

The next morning we came back to the house and packed up and left for home...It was the most happiest and peaceful times in my whole entire life!!! I LOVED LOVED LOVED it!!!!! I married the best guy in the whole world!!! And he married the most best girl in the whole world!!! Together we can conquer ANYTHING!!!! I LOVE my new husband so much, even more than I did before! I am so excited to be his wife, and get to cook for him and keep our house nice and clean!!! I just think life is great!!! I know it won't always be this easy or great, but I am ready to go for it, as long as I have my sweetheart beside me!!! I'M SO IN LOVE!!!!!!

FUN IN JUNE/JULY!!!

The kids that I watch have been keeping me busy, with all of their sport camps and swimming at the pool every day!!! The first week in June I spent 3 hours in the morning at Adams baseball camp, while Eric was in Soccer camp at the same time. It was really fun, Christa would bring her kiddos over to the field and we would play and talk the whole time. I would bring snacks for us all and we just had such a great time!!! Our afternoons we so nice, Judy, a friend of mine has a great private pool, so we would spend the afternoons there. Then we also celebrated Alex's birthday!!! We went to Olive Garden, so yummy!!!! Alex also sold his old bike and then bought a NEW bike all in one day!!! He is so good with deals, and totally made a steal on this one. Going on bike rides is so much fun and relaxing.

July- I LOVE LOVE LOVE the 4th of July, and I had always wanted to go see Macys fireworks, so Alex was so nice to take me down to NYC on his bike to watch them. WE first got there and Alex had heard there was a free barbeque so if any of you know Alex, anything that says FREE, he is all over it!!! The food looked so good, and so we waited in line for about 45 minutes and when we got to the front of the line, they only had hotdogs left. They always food tastes so much better when you are really hungry and have to wait FOREVER for it, they were sure right about that, that hotdog was so DELICIOUS!!! We then went and had donut ice cream sandwiches with Matt, Loretta, and Nick. Then finally the fireworks!!!! They were absolutely AMAZING!!!!! Going home was a nightmare with the traffic though, but totally worth it!!!! We are getting so excited and only 3 weeks away from the WEDDING!!!! WOOO HOOO, we are so extremely excited, that's all we find ourselves talking about whenever we are together on the phone or in person!!! He is SO good with being organized and everything has it's own folder and file, it's so nice to have such an organized and always prepared for anything kind of husband. I know I will have a great life with Alex being my husband!!! I also can't wait to wear my dress, it's going to be GORGEOUS, and so will my HAIR. Alex's mother is so sweet and she threw me a surprise bridal shower, it was so much fun with games, food, and GREAT LAUGHS!!!! We also got some awesome gifts from everyone. I just LOVE this family, they are awesome!!! Well next month will sure be BUSY and just wonderful, that will be a nice long post!!!!