Winter Vacation

Well I am finally able to write an update about our trip. We Are now in Orlando Fl at my sisters house. Last week we spent our time in a condo in Cocoa Beach. It was so great to look out the back sliding doors and hear the ocean. The kids enjoyed playing on the beach and swimming in the warm heated pool at the resort. They were also able to go to a free wildlife show . The kids loved holding a live alligator , spiders, snakes, and a black scorpion. Toward the end of the week the temperature dropped to around 50 degrees so we spent our time inside and built a gingerbread house and played with their new Christmas toys . The leapster 2 and a DS has been a lifesaver on this trip , it keeps the kids entertained for hours.. We arrived in Orlando on Saturday night and the temperatures have not warmed up much here.. Still hanging around the 50-60 degree mark.. Though just having the sun out has been great. I recently joined a site called Care4Hire It is a babysitting site that the Dr. Phil show supports. It has been awesome in finding babysitters for me. You can do background checks and check references and email back and forth with the sitter before making a decision to hire her. I found one that lives 2 miles from my sisters house in Flordia and one that lives next to me back in Ohio. So since we have had a siter here Owen and I have been able to go out a few times. Yesterday we took the kids to downtown Disney . It is free and the kids could still see the disney characters. Sage was in such awe of the princess stuff she never spoke a word and just started hugging everything.. I really dont know where she gets her dramatics from... The boys in the meantime were enjoying a jedi sword fight with the star wars paraphernalia ... Today the sitter should be here and amanda and I are off to have a girls day since the boys are on a golf outing.. I will update more later..