Evan's Birthday Surprise

Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me

He was a dancing machine, not sure what this move is. But the face is priceless

Celebration Parade

Dancing with an Incredible

Birthday Boy with his special pin

The race car ride

As you will see over the next coming weeks posts, I love birthdays. I love to celebrate them, especially my only child's birthday. For the last few months, we've been planning the trip we took this past weekend. We took Evan to stay at the Contemporary Hotel at Disney World. Yes, we live about 5 minutes maximum from the hotel. I knew that it would be so fun to take him to the parks all day and then spend the night at the hotel. Plus, the hotel has a heated pool and I knew he would have a blast. I was right. My little man was in heaven with his birthday surprise.

We stared the day off by parking at the Contemporary and taking the monorail into the Magic Kingdom. We met our friends Catherine, Brian, Wilson, Ellie, Jennifer, Brantley, Bowen & Caroline at the park. We rode all of his favorites-Peter Pan, the race cars, the Goofy roller coaster and Pirates of the Caribbean. We also got to see the Celebrate Parade, which is really fun. After that, we went back to the hotel to "take a nap". HA!! He was so excited that at "naptime" he just sprinted back and forth in our room. We decided to take him to the pool instead. They had a giant slide that he was beyond thrilled that he was big enough to go down by himself. After our "rest", the boys all played in the arcade while the girls relaxed outside of the arcade. Then, we headed out to Hollywood Studios for dinner and the Osborne Family Lights Spectacular.

Shooting down the slide

What happens at 5pm when you play at the pool instead of nap

Hollywood Studios

Catching "snow"

Osbourne Family Lights

After that we headed back to our room and watched Polar Express on TV. We all slept like rocks that night. I don't know how families take week long trips to Disney, just that day was exhausting.