Mabey's Lately

The past few weeks have been crazy good and so full of fun.  

We rode the teacups multiple times with this girl.

and the hot tram....(JUST LOOK AT THOSE BANDAIDS!!! SHE LOVES THEM haha)

She rode the barnstormer for the first time and went from calm...

to scared out of her mind in .5 seconds. 

That was a really fun day at Disney.... While we were eating at The Harbor House (Delicious BTW if you are going to Magic Kingdom...EAT THERE!) a big rainstorm rolled in.  By the time we made it to the car we were all drench and looked like we had all jumped into a pool... But we all just laughed the whole time (including Myra) and it made for a great memory.

We also walked around Universal before going to eat at The Chocolate Emporium.

This PLACE!!!!! It is unreal.. so delicious. so amazing. so creative.  

All of their dishes were to die for. They had an sweet steam-punk theme going on and their desserts were unreal... like milkshakes with cupcakes on top. 

Then we made our way to SeaWorld.  

Went home for naps... woke up and headed to Epcot for the Food and Wine Festival.  We had gone earlier in the week and ate half way around the World so this time we ate around the other half.  My favorite... PATAGONIA.  Their Salmon dish with Quinoa is to die for. 

Jordan and I had a fun date night at the High School football game.  I teach the Laurel class (16-18 yr old girls) at church and one of my Laurels won Homecoming Queen.  I am so proud. 

Then we prepared for a crazy hurricane and all the stores looked like this...

We hunkered down for a few days and were on a curfew.. We weren't aloud to leave the house for two days or we would be ticketed (possibly arrested??? don't quote me on that)... 

The hurricane ended up not being as terrible as they thought it was going to be so they lifted the curfew early.. but we got in lots of cuddles in our comfies with Jord who got a few days off of school for it. 

Then on Sunday I headed to church on my own with these two munchkins while Jordan went with a lot of others from our Church to help clean up towns closer to the coast that got hammered from the hurricane. 

We had such an amazing past few weeks.  I LOVE it when we have visitors and I REALLY love it when Jordan gets time off. :)  I feel so blessed to live where we do...smack dab in the middle of tons of magic.

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"Before the Parade Passes By"

"Hailey, I gotta go.  Can you take the baby?"

I heard that statement far too many times last week as my exhausted body could barely open its eyes. My "morning arms"  (when you can't grip a dang thing) would grab Myra and lay with her in my bed for a few minutes while I mustered up every once of energy I possibly could to get up and take the day on.  

It was a test week... (the worst weeks.)  

Jordan was gone bright and early, home late and then studying in his office till midnight every night and every moment I was with him, it was helping him study or hearing him talk about how stressed he was about said test. 

Med school has been fairly easy for him, up until that test.  And it made for an exhausting week.  

I did all I could to ensure my sanity and got my self out of the house a lot.  We took on Disney a few times and hung out with friends.  And finally FRIDAY came.  

Jordan finished pretty quickly that morning and had no homework the rest of the weekend so he hurried home and we ALL together went to Disney.  It was killing him to study while I was there with  Myra earlier in the week so he was ALL OVER getting some time in there.  

We watched the parade.  It was magical and Myra LOVED it... but it was SO blasted HOT!!! SO darn hot that I was in the worst mood ever.  I had been looking forward to this day ALL week and couldn't wait to have a good time with Jordan.  And of course i let me mood take over and shove MY fun out of the way.  Sometimes it is too hot to be happy.  (Unless you're Jordan, who can pretty much smile through anything.  I seriously don't know how he is so upbeat and positive all the time.  He should become a therapist too because he is on the phone with at least two different people a day talking them through their emotions and guiding them through lives troubles. How did I convince him to marry me?  ME?  He is seriously the most amazing person!)

ANYWAYS.. we then headed over to Pirates, which has THE best air conditioner in the park.  I quickly apologized for my grumpiness and we laughed about how much of a bum I was.  And the rest of the night went swimmingly well!

I am glad that I got those grumps out quickly because I am trying SO hard lately to be happier and enjoy life "Before the Parade Passes By".  All those years of musical theatre songs are teaching me lessons even still!!! :)

 ^ First time she has worn her glasses for more than .1 second ;) ^

 ^ Our hollow ice cream... So disappointing :( ^