Summer Days

This summer was one of the craziest, busiest ones I can remember. 

I was so thankful that we both had the time off that we could do all these wonderful things. 

Our July:

1. 4th of July was spent BBQing and hanging out at the pool with the family.

2. Julia and Robbie's Wedding.
The following day we spent an extremely short, whirlwind weekend celebrating my best friends wedding in Colorado. It was absolutely gorgeous.

3. I had my first experience with jury duty.
Thankfully there were too many jurors and I got to go home almost immediately!

 

4. 7/11

 

5. Orlando Weekend

One of Kyle's best friends came down from Iowa to visit. 

So we made the trip up there to see them. 

The last time we saw them, his wife was 6 months pregnant. 

When we saw them this summer, they had a 4 month old. 

 

 

 

 

  Of course, no Orlando trip is complete without a stop at Harry Potter World. 

6. Boender Annual Colorado Trip.

The following weekend, it was back to Colorado for a week long stay.

 

Totally met Clark Duke on the way home!

7. This cutie turned 1!

As you can see, July was insanely busy, but full of wonderful memories.  

High Five For Friday!

  1. Harry Potter World, duh!  

 

2. National Pancake Day!

 

 

3.  Does anyone else like peanut butter on their pancakes?

 

4. New haircut

 

 

5. Lonely little parking space. 

Kyle and I pulled in right around the same time and both parked in visitor spots.

Now neither of us are parked outside our condo!

   

Theme Park Tourists for a Day

Kyle and I have season passes to Universal. 

Living in Florida, we're no strangers to theme parks. 

We've had season passes to other theme parks over the years and it's not a huge deal for us to go for the weekend. 

When we go to theme parks we like to take our time. 

We show up when we feel like it, 

mosey around the park doing things here and there, 

then when we get tired we leave.

We maybe will go back to see fireworks that night, or not. 

We do have season passes and free parking!

This weekend we went to Universal with 4 of our friends, who all have season passes as well.

We don't like to leave to go on trips too late, but luck was not in our favor. 

Once everyone got ready to leave it was after 8 pm!

We finally made it up to Orlando and talk turns to our plans for the next day. 

Imagine our surprise when it was decided that we needed to be at the park 30 minutes before it opened so that we could get in right at 9am!

We rushed to the park and quickly started jumping on rides. 

And I do mean quickly. 

One perk of being a crazy tourist and getting there right at opening is there are no lines!

We then proceeded to race back on rides over and over again. 

Who are these people and what happened to our friends!

First ride of the day!

I finally needed a roller coaster break and just needed to sit for a minute. 

Thankfully my wonderful husband was okay with relaxing with a butterbeer while everyone went on Dragon Challenge again. 

Oh, and did I mention it was in the low 60s?

That's like freezing for us south Florida people!

Keeping my toes warm!

After bouncing through every ride multiple times that anyone wanted to go on. 

And popping into ALL the gift shops, 

ain't nobody got time for that!

I was ready to call it a day, 

but it was only 4:30 and the fireworks weren't till 7!

Who stays all day?!?

Tourists, that's who!

I made everyone go on the kiddie ride so I could take this picture. That's right, I take photos on rides!

I decided I was over it and we were heading back to the hotel. 

Thankfully Kyle views theme parks like me and was more than accommodating.

AKA he was ready to go too!

We did have a wonderful time, 

and will undoubtedly go again with them.

However I did feel more like a tourist than ever before, 

trying to cram every possible thing into one day. 

By the way, we were also going the following day...
Not to mention those season passes!

And A Harry New Year!

Ever since we heard about Harry Potter World Kyle and I have wanted to go. 

It just so happened that we had Disney passes when it opened. 

Then, one thing led to another and it never happened. 

When we started talking about our 1 year anniversary, it was no question.

We purchased season passes and headed up to spend New Years Day with Harry Potter. 

Somebody was lucky enough to sleep the whole ride.

 I wanted to leave "early" to get there, so I bribed Kyle with being allowed to sleep on the drive. 

I typically hate other people sleeping when I'm driving. 

We're here!

 All the little details made it so wonderful!

 Lunch time and our first butterbeer experience!

Regular butterbeer is good, frozen butterbeer is amazing!

 Taking it all in!

 We loved all of the decorations in the ride. 

I never expected the ride to be scary, but oh my goodness. 

Creepy things pop out at you all the time!!

"Why spiders?"

Kyle absolutely loved all of the buildings!

I'm pretty sure half of my photos were just of the chimneys!