Thunder Over Louisville

This past weekend Taurean and I went with some families in the ward to the official Kentucky Derby kickoff, Thunder Over Louisville. Everyone goes to the riverfront, camps out all day for the world's second largest firework show. It was incredible and we had a great time watching the air show and snacking all day.

Here's the group we were with

Lance and Tiffany had their hands full walking back to the car, so Parker got to ride on top of the cooler

Here's a video of the finale of the fireworks. The video doesn't come close to doing it justice. I apologize for the high pitched shrieking coming from me. I couldn't help it.

Florida Vacation!

This past weekend Taurean and I packed up and drove 13 hours to DisneyWorld! We had two free tickets into the parks because of the disney Give a day of Service Program. So we left Thursday around 2 pm, drove all through the night, slept from 3-7am at a rest stop and arrived at our hotel around 8:30 am Friday morning! We were planning on spending the day at the pool and relaxing, however Taurean begged to go into one of the parks. So at the last minute, we got dressed and headed to the Hollywood Studios park.

Here is our hotel. Not much to look at from the outside, but the rooms were nice and it had a great breakfast.

Here we are at the park. I think we look pretty good for only 4 hours of sleep on the side of the road.

Here is Taurean eating his home made lunch. Peanut butter and Jelly

Oh Taurean

haha, this picture just makes me laugh. The guys taking the pictures were like "it's just you two? You don't have any kids with you?"

Saturday we woke up very early and redeemed our Disney vouchers! Going early really paid off. The Park was empty till about noon and we got all the rides in before it got too crowded. We walked on to every ride. Splash Mountain was sending down empty boats.

Unfortunately, the short lines didn't last and the park got really crowded! This picture doesn't come close to showing how crowded it was. It was insane. Luckily we weren't in any hurry. We spent the busiest hours sitting down to a relaxing lunch.

This little beauty is all the rage. Everyone was wearing them. haha. I don't know why anyone would want to look like this.

ToonTown @ Mickey's mailbox.

Here is a picture of the parking lot when we left! haha, Our car was one of the only ones in the lot. Everyone who got to the park the same time we did, apparently left much earlier.

We hit some traffic on the way home. It was funny, everyone got out of their cars, started chatting and walking their pets up and down the lanes of cars.

Check out the videos from the trip! We had a great time!

Easter

We had a very busy weekend, and it's not over yet. I'm on Spring Break so Taurean and I decided to go camping with some families in the ward Friday night. We drove about 45 minutes to Taylorsville Lake. We had a great time. The only problem was....this is where our tent was supposed to go....and...I kind of forgot to pack the tent we were borrowing! Luckily the Anderson's had room in their tent for us.
Here's a picture of our campground.
Saturday morning Taurean and I headed 3 hours North to Columbus to visit Mallory and Jimmy for Easter. We watched conference together and had our own egg hunt. Not the same with out kids.
Taurean headed home Sunday and I stayed in Columbus until Tuesday. All in all it was a really relaxing weekend, despite how busy we were.