Orlando Dealer Convention

So, just a few days at home and we're off an another adventure! Honestly, I never really unpacked from our family beach trip with my mom. I just washed clothes and put them back in bags and edited an outfit or two. Jeremy was super excited to be back in the car as you can see!

This trip involves a drive down to Orlando for Joey's business Badcock Furniture dealer meeting. Every year it is held in some really fun town and every few years (work is family business thing for Joey) we are allowed to go (although we are really there for more fun and less business.) Our first plan was to hit up Downtown Disney because its free fun! We grabbed Matthew to rescue him from the "fancy dinner night" that he would otherwise have been attending. The boys really just wanted to spend all their time at the Lego store. 

Later that night we hopped on the monorail for a ride around Disney and ended up at the Polynesian resort to watch the fireworks from the Magic Kingdom that were right across the lake. I LOVE FIREWORKS! Really I do!

Night one, we stayed at a different hotel than the rest of the family because we weren't sure if we'd be able to come down this early. Matthew stayed with us. These two are inseparable...  can't you tell.

The next day, we checked our next hotel, Disney's Coronado Springs, where the Convention was being held. All the kids were amazed by the pool and water slide.

Jeremy showing off his muscles before attempting the water slide.

Jeremy on the waterside that was over 200 feet long!

That night we had a very special dinner at Epcot that was all set up just for us. Now I'm wondering why I didn't take more pictures... Mickey even made a special appearance. After dinner we were allowed to wander around the park for a few hours and then right before the fireworks went off Disney had a special dessert bar set up with 50 different types of fancy desserts that were mostly chocolate (music to a pregnant woman's ears!) When we overloaded from chocolate and fireworks we were ushered to the new ride SOARIN where we (all the Badcock dealers and their families) had the ride to ourselves for the last 2.5 hours of the evening. Jeremy was so excited and we rode it about 3 times in a row!

Before we left, Nanny and Papa took us to lunch at T-Rex at Downtown Disney. All the kids had really wanted to go here before so Nanny and Papa took us! Also they all got Build-A-Dino animals!

What the kids did 99% of the trip.

The boys being bribed to put the electronic devices down for a
few minutes! (Notice Jeremy is still clicking on something) 

Thanks Nanny and Papa!

 And here are a few family pictures... I guess you may actually want to see what I look like pregnant. (Here I am at 31ish weeks)

 And the Herndon family!

Meet Ari

By chance, we ran over to Joey's work tonight to get his work truck. I waited in the car while Joey ran in to get the keys. It took him several minutes, and then he came back out to the car with eyes as big as saucers and asked me to come in. When we got inside you could hear a little tiny purring. We quickly realized that the cat was actually IN the wall. Joey thinks their is a vent right behind here that leads into the wall. He used a couple screw drivers and pulled the paneling apart and this tiny kitten stumbled out.Here he is fresh out of the wall. His eyes were glued shut with dust and gunk, and he was covered in dirt. But he appears to be pretty healthy. I cleaned his eyes off and he seems to be doing very well!We got him home as quick as we could and got some cat formula and a bottle. He is very good at using the little bottle. He already finished his first serving of formula.We haven't decided if we are going to keep him or not yet. We aren't the best with pets... but we did decide to name him Ari. It is Hebrew for "Lion." We thought it was appropriate for this brave little guy.

Badcock Dealer Show

Here are some of the current pictures from the Badcock Dealer show. Ok, so we haven't actually done any business yet. However, we have had a lot of fun so far. Stay tuned, more to come...