We arrived home late Thursday night. We had sooo much fun!!!!! Thank you, thank you to everyone. Chris had some rough days but he made it. There was no way he was going to miss any of the fun. When we go on vacation he is a "slave driver" up early, bed late. Keep moving! We were very blessed by one of are friends that used to live in Utah and now lives in Florida. He and his family came to visit us. They saw how much Chris was struggling. He wouldn't let me show Disney my note from the doctor so that we could go into the fast pass line. So, our friend took the note and went and got it for us. It felt weird at first but I know that it was helpful. To hot outside to stand in line and even if you were in an air conditioned building you were still standing which was hard on Chris. I don't think we would have had as good a time if our friend hadn't done that - thank you, thank you:) They also took us to the Worlds Largest McDonald's, fun! We ate tons of yummy food. Yesterday I started running again so that I could get all of those Mickey Mouse ice cream heads off my body. That's the great thing about going when they have the Disney Dinning Plan. We had sooo much food. We were never hungry. We are now trying to shrink our stomachs back to normal. We rode everything in each park at least twice. Some, like Splash Mountain 10 or more times. Chris kept trying to bribe Katie to go on it but she never would. I think that if she couldn't see the drop off at the end she probably would go. We attended 3 different dinner shows that were a lot of fun. Mickey's Backyard BBQ and the Hoop de Doo Review were are favorites. At MBBQ it was a buffet. For dessert they had a freezer full of ice cream novelties that you can buy in the park for $3.50 or more. Jacob ate 7!!!! Rye ate 6!! I told them to go for it we're on vacation:) How often do you get to have Mickey Mouse heads for dinner? (vanilla ice cream dipped in chocolate). We swam almost every night. One night the Magic Kingdom was open until 3am!! We only made it to 2am:) I think the latest we went to bed was 3am and the earliest was midnight. We went to the two water parks there. The boys all did Summit Plummet which is a 120 foot slide!!!!!!!! you come down doing at least 50mph - even Jacob did it!!! more than once. I was sick just waiting for them to come down. you will never ever get me to do something like that. We also spent a lot of time at are favorite place called Disney Quest. They have 5 floors of video games, virtual reality games. . . . it's cool to be able to play Centipede or Skee Ball (my favorites) over and over again without having to put money in the machine. Katie got sick while we were there but I had enough medicine to get her through. She also had a habit of falling asleep during dinner:) We had a wonderful time it was fun hanging with so many of our friends. Thank you to those of you who gave up your flight benefits on Jet Blue so that we could go. And again thank you to those of you who participated in the Walk for the Wachs. Lots of memories made - I only took 723 pictures:) and lots of video.
So, back to reality:( No more maid service, eating out and having to go to bed at a decent hour. Friday morning was Megan, Ryan and Katie's first day of school and Taylor's first day of safety patrol. I took Rye to school early so that he could put things in his locker, talk to teachers, figure out which lunch he had etc. Then I took Katie to school. She was hesitant until a sweet neighbor boy came up to her and grabbed her. He made her feel very welcome:) It felt weird leaving alone. I had one hour to be by myself (usually I'll have two). I'm sure I'll get used to it:)
So, I'm going to skip all of the mundane tasks that I did all day after being gone for 2 weeks and get right to what happened Friday night. Around 10:00pm Chris gets a call from Megan informing us that . . . . . drum roll please. . . . .. . you got it. . . . . grandpa's second car he let us borrow has been BACKED INTO!!!!!! No one was in the car. We had her call the police. I went to where the car was and helped her finish filling out the police report. Ahhhh, welcome back to reality!!! The damage isn't to bad it's still drive able, but will need to be repaired. That is number 3 for Megan since February (none of them her fault) and number 4 for our family!! Ahh, getting to work with another insurance company hope they're nice:).
Saturday Meg and Rye had a cross country meet at BYU. Chris, Katie and I went and watched. They did well for being up late the night before and having been on vacation for 2 weeks. Meg did get up sometimes and run in Florida. Rye did once:)
We have been doing homework all weekend. The kids have sooo much. Chris worked Labor Day so I just cracked the whip about getting homework done. Jacob has his done, Tay has 4 pages left (out of 26), and Rye and Meg got done what they needed from Friday. They have block schedule so they only saw a few teachers/class on Friday now they will get homework from the other classes.
This week Meg and Rye have cross country practice and then they have two meets, Wednesday and Saturday. Tay has flag football, scouts, and safety patrol. And Chris has chemo Thursday:( We don't look forward to it. We have had fun having "Chris" here with us, laughing, teasing and just being his annoying self. hee hee. We also meet with the doctor.
Thank you again for letting us just be a family for 2 weeks with no worries or cares. Just enjoying each others company (most of the time -hee, hee). We love you guys tons.
Love, Ricki