Goodbye Miami :(

Miami we will miss you. Here are a few things we did before we left . . .

Sushi night with Sunny.

Sunny got all the supplies and prepared us an authentic sushi meal. He made everything from scratch! Even the spicy mayo. We were very impressed and it was delicious. Thank you Sunny.

We went to a Miami Heat game. It was against the Houston Rockets (Yao is soooo tall!!) Miami lost but we still had a great time. Metz enjoyed popcorn and during the 4th quarter we snuck down close to get a better view :). Metz doesn't love Basketball like Hockey - he thought the crowd was too noisy!

We prepared for Black Friday. Cort and Metz throughly looked through all the black friday ads while I was working on Thanksgiving dinner. We made a list, we made a schedule and we kicked butt the next day. Thanks to Cort and Metz and all their planning. We LOVE Black Friday!

Lastly we enjoyed Thanksgiving Dinner with just our family. We had a few appetizers, the full meal - turkey, stuffing, yams, green bean cassarole and four pies for dessert! It was fun to hang out just the three of us.

Right before we left Metz and I visited the Train Museum and went shopping a few more places. We really loved Miami and we'll miss it. There was so much to do and see that we hope to go back someday :) Plus the weather was perfect!! Now we are spending the holidays in Vegas with Cort's family and will move to Idaho officially in January.
Merry Christmas to all our friends and family!!!

Adventures

So your husband has a few days off from school (cause his clinic partner has a wedding to attend), you find amazing rates at one of the Walt Disney World Resorts, you already have season passes (thanks mom and dad) so what do you do? Well if you are us, you go back to Walt Disney World for a few days to catch some favorite rides and some you missed :). Because hey, when are you going to live in Florida again???

Magic Kingdom at Christmas

This was beautiful and the picture doesn't do it justice. Disney decorates so pretty, it made me feel so into the spirit (even though I love thanksgiving and I'm totally looking forward to it) I am looking forward to Christmas this year too.

At the end of one of the nights they lit the castle - amazing! As we left Main Street it started to "snow".

Metz driving at 3, what kind of parents are we?!?! We had to go back to this ride again another day because he couldn't stop talking about it. Now he wants to drive my car, not the best idea we have ever had.

Waiting for Small World. Another ride Metz can't get enough of. He can sing (parts) of the song and he just loves everything inside. Once we get in line he is totally excited. He also does this little swaying dance to the music. . . it's super cute.

The Family Portrait. You go to Disneyland you take a picture here, you just have to.

Disney Hollywood Studios

Ok, so we actually went back to this park twice. Metz feel asleep during our first time so we had to go back and see a few more things.

Lightening McQueen. Metz loves the movie so he couldn't believe the car was just right there.

Just a fun picture :)

It's the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. We went to the Disney Clubhouse puppet show. All the kids around us knew the words to each song and danced all the dances. Metz just loved seeing all the characters.

More slides. After a few slides metz got daring and started going down on his stomach.

Epcot

I got a sucker! This was a reward for a major potty training accomplishment :) Yea. He loved that thing he would take a lick then use it as a sword.

Metz and Daddy outside of the Nemo ride. Inside there was a shell ride, turtle talk with Crush (which is a lot of fun) and tons of fish tanks. We were actually lucky to catch the fish feeding. Tons of fish, turtles and sharks right in front of us! Metz was one happy kid.

Metz enjoying his morning drink - each morning he got his own juice which he drank on the bus to the park and on our way to rides. He would always cheer when I handed it to him.

Animal Kingdom

We spent half a day at Animal Kingdom. It was fun to catch a few of the things we missed the first time. We watched the Nemo stage show again (I cried again, I blame it on the pregnancy!) and here are a few more highlights. . .

"That was awesome!" Metz loved the huge slides and luckily Cort fit in them too.

WHOA. This picture cracks me up every time I see it.

This is the safari ride. It's amazing the animals they have there. We really like this ride.

Metz loves this ride and kept asking "I want to pet it". The only one he didn't want to pet was the lions . . . thank goodness!

Metz's New Favorite Sport

HOCKEY!!!! We took him to a Florida Panther Game (which is NHL by the way, I didn't know that until the second period) and he loved it. He wouldn't take his eyes off of it. Even when we bought him fries (he favorite thing ever!) he wouldn't eat while they were playing. He even takes his golf clubs and balls and "skates" around the apartment practicing his hockey.

Metz and Daddy walking into another stadium. I just love these type of pictures.

The Panthers. We just happened to run into them on the way to our seats. They were very nice.

The Happy hockey family. Metz was so excited for the game we had a hard time getting a picture. We had a great time and are going to another game on Wednesday night before Thanksgiving.

My cute family.