Disney World 2020

Well, like the true rebels we are, we decided to go to Disney World during Corona times!  We surprised the kids on Sunday morning, Oct. 25th, about an hour before we had to leave the house.  They were shocked and SO excited!  

We flew into Tampa, rented a car, and drove about 45 minutes to our resort.  We stayed at The Grand Floridian and it was beautiful!

After checking in, we headed to Disney Springs for dinner at T-Rex Cafe.  Our little dinosaur lover was thrilled and it was a fun way to kick off the trip!  Disney did a phenomenal job with everything, but it's kind of a bummer that we are wearing masks in 99% of our pictures. 

Day 1 was Magic Kingdom!  A lot of the "experience" parts of Disney aren't happening right now (character meets, big parades, etc.), so this trip was all about the rides!  We basically rode every single ride at Magic Kingdom the first day.  We started with Seven Dwarves Mine Train, which ended up being a favorite for all of us!  We also had a special lunch at Be Our Guest.  The food was delicious!  We stayed from open to close on Days 1&2 (parks are closing early right now at 6:00 or 7:00) and then went back to the hotel and crashed.  

On Day 2 we headed to Hollywood Studios!  We spent most of our time in Toy Story Land and the new Star Wars area.  We also saw a Frozen sing-along and had lunch at the Sci-Fi Diner!

Day 3 was Epcot!  We opted to do Epcot instead of Animal Kingdom on this trip (we did the opposite on our last trip).  This was our most low key day.  We rode Test Track, Frozen, and Soarin, then walked through the countries!  We had the most amazing pizza lunch in "Italy".  We left the park around 4 and then went back to the resort for swimming and fun Halloween treats!

On Day 4 we went back to Magic Kingdom and spent the day riding our favorite rides again and having lunch at Cinderella's Table.  

All in all, it was a wonderful trip!  We were so thankful to get to go and make memories together in the "Happiest Place on Earth"! 

Halloween Things

 October was a fun month!  

We visited the pumpkin patch with the Morris crew, which is a favorite tradition.  This year we had a new punkin, beautiful baby Annabelle!

We carved pumpkins with the Loddes on Halloween afternoon!

We were excited that we still got to trick-or-treat this year.  We had a butterfly, a glow in the dark stick figure, and a pirate! :)

Here is Reid's costume in the dark...

Cute cousins in costumes!

GK really wanted me to dress up this year, so we decided to match! 

Our trick-or-treat crew!

Back to School 2020

Like everything else in 2020, "back to school" looked different for us this year!  Towards the end of the summer, when we still had no idea what the upcoming school year would look like, we made the decision to withdraw Reid and Georgia from Katy ISD and homeschool them for the time being.  I was equal parts excited and terrified about homeschooling, but I have to say, it's been a really great experience for us!  I think I will always look back on this little window of time getting to teach my kids and be thankful for the opportunity.  I hope to document our homeschool experience more soon!  I am also thankful that Rhett gets to have his last preschool year!  Preschool is the sweetest time and I am so glad that he gets to have a mostly normal year.  

 Our little elephant was so excited to go see his classroom and meet his teachers!

                                                   

Mrs. Nessen and Mrs. Hudspeth are AMAZING teachers!  He's already having the best year with them!

After 6 months off, the first day of school was finally here! 

I can't believe it's our baby's last year of preschool!

These two cutie cousins are SO happy to be back in the same class!  

I started easing us into our homeschool routine towards the end of August, but we officially kicked off 2nd and 3rd grade on Rhett's first day of preschool.