A Special Message for Xavier

We hope you had a fun and special birthday.  We love you!

Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Stephanie, Uncle Bryan and Caitlin

Happy Birthday Xavier!!

Enjoy your special day, Little Man.  We'll be thinking of you from Disney World and wishing we could celebrate it with you!

Love,

Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Stephanie, Uncle Bryan and Caitlin

Day 2 at WDW

Today was spent at the Disney Hollywood Studios park.  Caitlin was a bit disappointed that there weren't more rides there, but she had a fun day meeting more characters, doing a few rides, seeing some shows and playing at the playground.

And she is quite the dancer, as some of us have experienced.  She had fun dancing with the cast show on main street.  After a busy day at the park, we took the bus to dinner at Chef Mickey's in the Contemporary resort.  But first.....

She had great fun at dinner.  Her favorites were Donald and Goofy.  She said they named Goofy right, because he is goofy!

Here's today's picture of the Anderson family at Hollywood Studios.

That's all for today.  We'll try to check in again tomorrow.

Love to all!!

PS:  The Aerosmith Rock 'n Roller Coaster is really cool.  Bryan and I rode it twice (once with Caitlin) and it was the highlight of the day for us!  Caitlin said it freaked her out, mostly because it is all in the dark......

We Made it to Disney World!

But it wasn't easy.  For the Andersons, that is.  They had to modify their flight plan and after a 15 hour day of planes, buses and automobiles, they arrived last night around 7:30.  They had to fly from Kansas City to Cleveland to Orlando, but finally get here.  Connie and I arrived just a few minutes late at about 11:00 AM, despite flying through Chicago to reach Orlando.  We couldn't have asked for more.  So, after a long day and a good night's sleep, we went to the Magic Kingdom today.  Caitlin had a great first day and was pretty awestruck by some of her experiences.  First she met some familiar characters:

Then she rode a few rides, had some lunch, saw a couple of shows and parades.

Then we went to dinner at the Grand Floridian resort and saw many of the characters from Cinderella.  Caitlin enjoyed all of them except the Evil Stepmother.  She was afraid of her and wouldn't even look at her.   She had to have extra hugs from Cinderella.......

We ended the night back at the Magic Kingdom and saw their fantastic fireworks show.  Caitlin described it as "beautiful" and we all agreed.  Here are the Andersons at the end of our first day here.

It was a great start to our vacation and tomorrow we will continue at Disney's Hollywood Studio park.  We also will have dinner at Chef Mickey's in the Contemporary resort and might just have to catch the fireworks at the Magic Kingdom again.  After a short Friday night and a long Saturday, followed by a full day at the park, that's all for now.

Love to all!!

Christmas @ The Dicks

Before church on Christmas eve. (oops I almost cut my head off)
Can you spot someone who is not in a festive mood?

She is much happier opening presents.

Everyone have a joyous & safe 2012.

Love,
Randy & kids

More of Marina's Horse Program

She and Miss Gracie also played one of Santa's elves for his arrival.

Marina's Holiday Horse Program

On Sunday Marina participated in the Windsong Stables 2011 Christmas Extravaganza.  This was a Christmas-themed program done on horseback.  Here is a bit of her first program, riding Boogie Woogie Blues.

I'll try to post another video in a separate post.  These video files are just too large!

Well done Marina.  We enjoyed your program!

Love to all!