St. Philip's Summer Social

This weekend was our Summer Social. Conner and Steve were both troopers and helped me in

dining room Sunday, then we found time to play together at the social. 

Conner, Trent, and Nash spent a LOT of time in this jump house!

Goodbye Kelsey

We took Kelsey out to dinner at Logan's before she went off to IUPUI. We will miss her so much. Best of Luck to Kelsey on her next adventures!

Visiting with Harper

Conner and I went to visit Andrea, Harper, and Preston on Friday. Conner, Harper, and I went to two parks and to Cold Stone Creamery for Ice Cream. It was a nice visit!

Hanging with Preston

Conner and I spent our day off hanging out with Preston, Andrea, and Byron. We helped Andrea out for a few hours and then went with Byron to the Fire Station since he is retiring in a few days. Conner had never been on a field trip to his work, and wanted to see it before he left. 

4th of July Party

Saturday, we went jeep riding, to a 4th party at the Boehlebers, and then out to star gaze and watch fireworks in the jeep and ice cream! It was a great night!

Izzy, Henry, and Conner

Preston Lewis McDonald

Preston Lewis McDonald was born Friday, July 3, 2015 to Andrea and Byron McDonald. He weighed 9 lbs. 11 oz and was 22.5 inches long. 

We had a baby blanket made out of Andrea and Byron's bridesmaid dresses like we did for Harper!

Blue Angels

Father Son work Day

 

Look at this!!! After I went to work, these two decided Conner wasn't going to Summer camp today, but instead he was going to work with dad!!!

                                                                How cute is this???!!!!

Camping at Lincoln

We went Camping at Lincoln State park this weekend with the Richeys and the Ellards and had a special guest visitor, Pam Maday. The weather started out bad Friday night with torrential down pours which meant the adults huddled under an easy up and the kids playing in the rain.

Saturday brought much better weather. Highs in the mid 70's and lots of sun from here on out. We made a community lunch which was awesome, rode bikes, walked, played in the sprinkler, played with water balloons, and visited with old friends. We had the best weekend. The biggest part for me was Conner learned to ride his bike without training wheels on his first attempt. Now, he is a pro. This was a big milestone for us and we all got to witness it!

 

Happy Father's Day Steve

Father's Day 2015. We went to mass, took Steve to Applebee's for lunch, came home and gave him a new flashlight, a new headlamp, and a truck detailing from Lefflers for his pickup truck on Monday morning.  

 

Camping with The Finch/ Mortis Family

This weekend, we camped at New Harmonie with the Finch/ Mortis Family. We biked, hiked, swam, walked, cooked, and roasted marshmallows. We had a lot of fun and Conner and Luke are best of friends.

 

Disney 2015

The day after school, we flew to Disney for 7 days. The temperature was HOT and the crowds were large.  However, we covered so much ground, saw so much we missed last time, and had a great week. We found time almost every day to enjoy our resort pool at Art of Animation where Conner got so much more comfortable in the water. He would have been fine staying in that pool the whole week and skipping the parks, but we had already paid a pretty penny!!!!

 

We went to all the parks, some two or three times! Conner and Steve both rode their first roller coaster together and Conner loved it. Steve....... not so much! We got stuck in the Pirates of the Carribean Ride underground for 47 minutes along with about 200 other people. We probably won't forget that part anytime soon! We saw and did everything on our wish list and then some!

Conner was so much more brave this time than the last which made it very enjoyable. He tried things that he wouldn't last time! 

We are happy to be home and look forward to going back in 2 more years.

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Cinderella's Castle

Dinner in the Ball Room at Be Our Guest Restaurant

Be Our Guest

Dumbo

Kilimanjaro Safari

Kilimanjaro Safari

 

Ostrich eggs

 

Tusker House Character breakfast.
Last time, this kid would have ran from Mickey Mouse and hid under a table to avoid him!

The Lion King! Unbelievable! Wish I could see the Real one on Broadway. But, Disney did not disappoint!

Tree of Life

T- Rex restaurant at Downtown Disney

He thinks he's cool with his root "BEER" bottle

If these two were any more alike, they would be twins!



Honey, I shrunk the Kids

Prime time Cafe where the waitresses make you eat all your vegetables and keep your elbows off the table, or they will put you in the corner or not give you dessert. Conner was testing our waitress with his elbows, of course she wasn't in the room at the time!

Finding Nemo
Epcot

Epcot

Hollywood and Vine Character breakfast!
Doc Mc Stuffins

Jake and the Neverland Pirates

Handy Manny
These two told Handy that they were contractors too. They got a big thumbs up since he can't talk!

Princess Sophia

Animal Kingdom

Magic Kingdom

Aladdin

Whispering Canyon Cafe
Conner's favorite restaurant because when you ask for Ketchup, the whole restaurant gets up and delivers their ketchup to you. We ended up with like 31 bottles on our table. When the next person asks for it, we had to take all the bottles to them. Conner loved that part.

Art of Animation resort
 

Our resort

our Resort

 

 

Saturday Morning, May 23, we arrived at Evansville Airport at 5 am for our 6 am flight to Atlanta, then to Orlando. We arrived at our resort by the Disney Magical Express Coach at 12:30. Our room was ready, so we went to our room, dropped off our carry on bags and headed to Magic Kingdom for the day.

We had dinner reservations for 4 pm at the new "Be our Guest" Restaurant from Beauty and the Beast movie. This place was amazing. The atmosphere and food were above all else! We will go back.

We also went to It's a small world, Dumbo, Peter Pan, The Barnstormer, and Philharmagic. We were too tired from an early flight to stay for Fireworks.

 

Sunday- We had a character breakfast at The Animal Kingdom Tusker House. We spent the day at Animal Kingdom. We did the Kilimanjaro Safari, Festival of the Lion King play, Dinosaur ride, and shopped at Conner's favorite gift shop.

That evening, we had reservations in Downtown Disney at the T-Rex Restaurant. We went back to the resort and swam in the pool and we were all asleep by 8.

 

Monday- We spent the morning until lunch in the pool. Then we headed to Hollywood Studios. We did the Great movie ride, Honey I shrunk the kids, Voyage of the little mermaid, Star Tours ride, and we had dinner reservations at the Prime Time Cafe also known as Momma's House.

Here, it is baseed out of the 50's. The waitresses treat you like children and make you eat all your vegetables, and keep your elbows off the table or you may be put in the corner or not get any desserts.  After dinner, we went to the famous Fantasmic laser, lights, and fireworks show on water. Always a crowd pleaser.

 

Tuesday-  We had pool time in the morning til Lunch. Then, we went to Epcot for the day. We had lunch in the Untied Kingdom at the famous fish and chips stand and then in America at some restaurant. We ordered one meal at each place and all split it so we could try the different cultures food. We rode SOARIN. This is now mine and Conner's favorite ride. We went to Living on the Land, the seas of Nemo and Friends, The aquarium, Turtle Talk with Crush, Spaceship earth Twice, and we rode the Monorail.  We had dinner reservations at the Coral Reef Restaurant, where you eat by the wall size aquarium.

 

Wednesday- This morning, we went to the character breakfast at Hollywood in Vine in Hollywood Studios. Afterwards, we went to Disney Jr Live on Stage, Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular, Lights Camera Action. We had reservations at The Sci Fi Drive inn theater. We went back to the resort and swam.

 

Thursday- We went back to Animal Kingdom to finish some things there. We went in the Tree of life, saw it's tough to be a bug, and  Nemo and Friends Musical.

We left here and headed to Magic Kingdom for the night. At Magic Kingdom we went up the Swiss Family Tree House, Aladdin, The Peole Mover, Monsters Inc Laugh floor, Toy Story, The Railroad Train, Barnstormer, Dumbo, Bought the famous Dole Whips, and the Liberty boat ride. We then rode the ferry to the Wilderness Lodge to have dinner at the Whispering Canyon Cafe. On the boat ride back to Magic Kingdom, we watched the fireworks and the Electric Water parade.

 

Friday- Back to Magic Kingdom for the day before we flew home that night. We did Pirates of the Caribbean where we got stuck for 47 minutes, Tommorland speedway, Barnstormer, and the Jungle Cruise. WE went back to the resort and swam while we waited on our shuttle to the airport. We left Orlando at 7:20 and landed in Evansville by 9:49 pm. Sweet!