Birthday at Chef Mickey's

For Ashley's special birthday surprise we had breakfast at Chef Mickey's and she loved it! I'm not sure if we actually got a good picture of her smiling with the characters, she just wanted to look at them. Kind of funny. But it was a great breakfast, and was full of surprises for her.

There was a special time in the morning where the characters sang happy birthday to all the kids celebrating their birthdays there. They passed out cupcakes and lit candles on them to blow out. I brought one of Ashley's favorite treats, a Mickey Mouse rice krispy treat ! So cute, they gave us the candle and she was set for her own little birthday celebration!

I arranged for there to be a special birthday treat for Ashley at our table when we got to our table.

Ashley is so funny, she does not seemed to thrilled here. Maybe overwhelmed with it all.

Sing a Long by the Campfire with Chip and Dale

At Fort Wilderness they have a campfire where you can roast marshmallows and make s'mores! YUM!! It's also with Chip and Dale and it is sooooo cute! We got to meet with Dale. They even had the birthday kids go up front and everyone sang Happy birthday to them, so of coarse I took Ashley up there.

Ashley's 2nd Birthday!! Part 1

Well, for Ashley's 2nd birthday in March we decided to go and stay a night up at Fort Wilderness in Disney. We got one of those cute little cabins, and it was perfect! My mom and dad joined us, which made it nice! The campground is so big, and it's packed full of things to do! We didn't even go to park, we just did things around the campground.



We rented a golf cart to get around the campground! Seriously, if you ever stay there you need to rent one! The campground is huge!

At Fort Wilderness is where all the horse stables are at. The ones that they use in the parades at Magic Kingdom! Even Cinderella's little cute horses are there! This is the stable where they live. We even got to see a couple get their baths! Some of those horses are enormous, but there gorgeous!

Ashley got to ride on a cute pony for the first time!

We had lunch at my favorite Disney resort restaurant, Whispering Canyon Cafe. They even brought out a cupcake for Ashley, poor thing couldn't eve touch it though because of her allergies. She did blow out the candle, though. Disney is so good about kids with allergies, they had some really good chocolate chips cookies for kids with allergies and that's what she got to eat.

A Valentine visit from Auntie!

My Auntie Diane came to visit us from Chicago in February for Valentine's Day! We had such a fun time!


Yummy valentine's day cookies! Abby loves to help out with baking, especially cookies!

We love our Auntie!!

We even went to Abby's school and had lunch with her.

Fun picture!! Ashley's looking a little funny, but she loved having her Auntie here. We all did!!

Time for an updating!

Ok, so I've been away for quite some time. I have to catch up from January, bare with me as I get caught up. I'm going to have to start of from about February and hopefully we'll get to the present soon. We've been pretty busy.

Christmas Morning

Someone ate some cookies and drank his milk, and apparently an elf left his hat also. Can you see the awe? Here is what our Christmas morning was like. Fun as always!

Ashley wearing the elf's hat that "got left behind" (wink,wink).

Here's all the goodies. Now remember there's gifts under the tree for 4 little girls( in case you thought "wow, that's a lot of presents")

Ashley loved all of her presents, and gets a kick out of her Tickle Me Elmo.

Jeff finally got his digital picture frame for his office.

Abby really wanted Lego's. To the point that her teacher was so sweet to send me a note telling me how much she like to play with them at school.

Mark with his new hat for the cold weather that they are now getting. Wonder if he's wearing it?

Christmas Eve Night

T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house, were 4 cute little girls in their matching Christmas pajamas! Trying to get a picture of the 4 of them was interesting.

Ashley decided this was the only she could see the book. Of course she was only in my lap for maybe 5 min.

Hi, Katie! This little girl is the cutest thing!

Here's the best we got! No too bad.

Christmas Eve Day

The weather was pretty ugly on Christmas Eve. Cold and really rainy, yuk. Crafts to the rescue! Abby loves crafts! Mimi brought this little tree craft and it kept her and Abby busy for a while.

I brought a Shrinky Dinks Christmas tree set. Can you believe that Jeff had never done them! They all thought it was pretty cool when they really shrunk! The little tree came out cute.

Jeff's dad and uncle came to visit. We were pretty close to where his dad lives, so it was really nice that were able to spend some of the holidays with them.

Ashley loving on her Marky

Abby loved holding her baby cousin.


Making cookies for Santa. It was pretty funny making them. I brought cookie cutters, but being at vacation house we didn't have "everything" we needed, like flour. Our shapes got a little deformed, but we did the best we could with what we had. We even had some cookies in the shape of "snowballs". Ashley got to decorate her little cookies. She had fun doing it, but she would not eat one.

Love this picture!

Christmas at Seaside

The small town of Seaside is right next to Seagrove, literally right down the street from our house. Cute little town of shops and restaurants.

Pretty tree in the big lawn area.

The girls loved running around. We liked it too.

We found this cute little Christmas area, perfect for pictures.

Abby couldn't resist the bunny ears on Uncle Mark, (a.k.a Marky according to Ashley).

Monkey see, monkey do.

Family picture in front of the little post office. It's a real one, too. It was decorated so pretty.

Rhoads Family Christmas in Seagrove Beach, FL! continued

This was the day that Mark and Stacy arrived with their little ones! Let the fun begin!

Decorating our little tree. My mom brought it, thank goodness.

Mimi and Poppy with Sara! Such a cutie1

Mimi with Katie! What a love! Seriously, could she be any cuter? Look at those eyes!

Mimi in heaven with all of her granddaughters. Getting ready to go out on the beach. This was our version of snow, the white sand! It was so nice to be in cooler weather.

Sara loved her big cousin! They played so well with each other. It really was so cute seeing all of them interacting with each other.

Ashley's turn for a hug from Sara!

Poppy and Mark with the little girls. It was so bright that Ashley's eyes wre getting teary.

Me with my girls!

Mimi watching us from the balcony of the house. Our rooms were upstairs, and we did have a nice balcony up there too.