We left for Florida on Valentines Day!  What a great present.  We were a little worried about getting out of here...it was snowing pretty hard still!  But, about 2 hours late, we made it!
We flew into Tampa.  Arrived about dinner time and had a delicious Valentines meal at WAFFLE HOUSE!  Anna and Brady thought it was the greatest thing ever.  How funny.  We made it over to Orlando and got ready for Disney the next day!

Even though it was much warmer in Florida than in Illinois....it was CHILLY!  We had a great time, though.  We bundled up and didn't wait in any lines.  All of the Florida sissies were too wimpy to come out.  Fine with us!


Anna loved "sewing" like Grandma in Minnie Mouse's house.


Brady could have stayed on the train all day!


Anna was making sure that Brady wasn't too scared to go on some of the rides.  They had such fun.  So did the parental kids!!  Anna had her first "big roller coaster" experiences on Big Thunder Mountain and she even went on Space Mountain!  She is going to be my daredevil.  She was begging to go on Tower of Terror....we'll wait on that one!  Brady was very serious...I don't think he wanted to show that he was a little scared....Buzz Lightyear was about the most he could take!


We rented this cute beach house in Sarasota for a week after our 2 days at Magic Kingdom and Epcot.  It was so awesome!  Just steps to the beach or pool, and no neighbors!


Brett and Brady are heading to the beach.  I'm standing in front of our house.  The beach is just behind the house they are walking toward. 


Brady's trains made for very pleasant dinners out!  He just drove them around on the table.  Except for an occasional "WOO WOOOOOO" they kept him very quiet!


My little Mermaid....


Anna was flying her kite that Grandpa bought for her and it got away.  She ran after it and did a flying dive to save it.  This is her with a face full (and mouth full!) of sand.  She was NOT going to lose that kite!


Finally WARM!  The second half of our trip was perfect weather.  Still not hot, but beautiful.  I don't think we saw a cloud after Monday.


Don't you even think about messing with me!


She's still in the running to be "Siesta Key's Next Top 5 Year Old".


Well, our flight home on Saturday was cancelled due to the weather in Chicago.  We got to spend one more day in the warmth...we headed to the Sheraton with a nice pool and didn't worry about it.  I had us coming back on Saturday just in case....good thing!  They did have a very cute play area at Tampa airport.  It had airplanes and clouds to play on.  Brady decided to join all of the boys playing their games while we waited. 

What a wonderful trip.  We hope we can go back to the same place next year!