Family Florida Vacation - October 2018

 Here is our family selfie in front of the iconic Universal Studios Globe...I guess when there are 6 of you it is hard to see the globe. Or when you are a selfie challenged mom...

 The first Harry Potter thing we saw was the Night Bus - it was all so fun and well done! You could go up to the window and interact with the talking head - we just wanted a picture.

Also outside of Kings Cross Station - phone booth to the Ministry of Magic



Diagon Alley - all of the shops were there, tons of things to see. The dragon on top of Gringots breathes fire every few minutes. We all decided Butterbeer was ok - way too sweet to have more then once, and I am glad we decided to share!

 Honeydukes Candy Shop - we wanted to buy the whole store!

The Gringot Vault ride - sooooo fun! A mix of roller coaster and 3D movie. 

 The next day we took the Hogswart Express to Hogsmead and Hogswart. Again - super fun and better then we thought it would be.

and old mom had back issues....luckily we could rent a wheel chair. I got pushed around all day and it wasn't a total bummer. 

Hogwarts!

 Hogsmeade was done in the winter, at Christmas

I can't remember which ride this was, but we were having fun

 Grace and I were the only ones that wanted to do the Mummy ride. It wasn't as scary as it appears by our reaction :) The Halloween celebration was Stranger Things themed. Inside the main store they had actual video games from the 80's that they play in the show. Jason spent some time teaching the kids how to do low tech video games. It was fun!

Happy Halloween 2018!

Sophie is a palindrome, taco cat. Our sweet friend Nicky Dodson, Grace and Noah don’t need explaining and Luke is 3 hole punch Jim from the office. Halloween is so fun! Our wards Trunk or Treat was tonight. May be the girls last one. We will be in Florida on The 31st so no trick or treating, but we will be  Harry Potter land!

Grace & Sophie's Homecoming

Nicky , Grace, Erin, Abby, Sophie, Campbell & Olivia

 It is still surprising to me sometimes how quickly the girls are growing up. They went to their first high school dance with a group of girlfriends. I picked Grace up a bit early - she said she liked everything but the actual dance ;) It was loud and crowded. The girls got ready together and had dinner at the Waters. They were supposed to go to a restaurant but it did not have power from the hurricane. It was good the Waters did - I think besides Nicky none of the other girls families had power back on yet either, including us.