We have the uncooperative and cooperative versions!

{more camera embracing at the andersonfamilycrew.blogspot.com!}

He is really learning a lot and has done a pretty good job paying attention and doing what he is supposed to do. Oh, and having fun. So, two goals reached there.

My dad had a week off a couple of weeks back, so my parents came to watch one of Luke’s t-ball games. They got a kick out of all the little people trying to figure out the game of baseball. It really is rather entertaining.

After t-ball we all went to dinner at one of Luke’s favorite places~ Buffalo Wild Wings. J He was a little unsure about wearing his uniform into the restaurant, but I think he quickly got over that and was full of {cheesy} smiles.

My parents will probably not be thrilled to be featured on the blog, but too bad! J They embraced the camera with their cheesy t-ball player.

He really does have beautiful blue eyes. He just loves to squint for his pictures!

My boys were in love with our hotel {or as Luke calls it: “the showtell”}. The favorite part, of course, was the pool.

We enjoyed one last swim before we left and snapped a quick self portrait.

It wouldn’t be a self portrait without cutting half of someone’s head off in the attempt, so here is the rest of Luke’s face:

I think we might need a little more practice. 

For more folks that embraced the camera and maybe even caught their whole faces, check out Emily’s blog:

We tried to snap a self portrait on our way out of the door to the kid’s church Christmas Party.

Luke found the weather outside to be ‘fweezin’ so he grabbed himself a hat. J

I hate having my picture made, but I always love a semi-decent pic of me and my boys!

We have vowed everyone to secrecy with our trip location, because the kids would have a fit! Dan’s parents live in central Florida, so we dropped them off with Grandma and Grandpa and headed to stay at the House of Mouse.

We went and did things like staying at a bit of a nicer hotel {although the kids would have LOVED it there!} We usually stay at Pop Century, which is great because we’re usually park hopping.

And we went to Epcot and went to all of the countries and even all of the shops that I’m always too nervous to take the kids in!

We ate a yummy lunch in Mexico. They just redid this restaurant and it was very good. We were able to sit right on the water and it was so nice.

We walked around and rode Soarin’ {I had never riden this one because Luke can’t ride it yet, but it was fun!} and watched Captain EO, which was like being teleported back into the 80s- it was great. Cheesy, but great. J

We took the day at such a nice, easy pace! They gave us Anniversary buttons, so everyone told us Happy Anniversary. Ha! J

We ate dinner at the Rose & Crown in England and it was so good. I had Shepherd’s Pie and could have literally liked the bowl. But I refrained.

They sang All You Need is Love to us since it was our anniversary. It was cute.

Saturday was my glorious sleeping until 10:30 morning, so we got ready and went to eat lunch and shop Downtown Disney.

I’ve warned that this trip was a lot about food! After we shopped, we headed back to our hotel to watch the Florida/Tennessee game. After the game, we got ready for dinner and headed over to the Yacht Club to look around. Super nice hotel.

We ate dinner at the Captain’s Grille, which was awesome. It’s definitely made it up toward the top of our list of restaurants at Disney. We went down to the pool area after dinner, which was nice. The kids would have LOVED it there. There were all sorts of slides and fun things there.

We packed up the next morning and headed out to pick up our kiddos~ who wanted no part of us or going home! They were having entirely too much fun with grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. My sister in law took some pictures of my kids in their bounce house {thanks, Amanda!}. I think they had a grand time!

After our relaxing weekend, we made the 6 hour trek home. I really think it feels twice as long when you are going home! I thought we would never get back. And we entered right back into reality.

The relaxation and quiet sure was fun while it lasted!

I’m also linking this on {embrace the camera} this week- note there are 2 pictures of me and Dan in this post. This must be some sort of record.

To school….

On errands…

I love Luke’s face in this shot. He is such a ham!!

To the groomer…

I spend what seems like lots of my time in the car, but I sure do have cute passengers!

If I do say so myself.

{I didn’t take pictures while driving, by the way. J}

They were being so sweet together, which is always a welcome treat. J

Poor Daniel, I covered half of his head with my hair.

I like this one of me and Luke… and Daniel. Luke and I were taking our picture and here came Daniel! J

 I’m embracing the camera once again, and if you know me very well then this is shocking! J

I’m not much of a camera embracer.

A camera run away from-er or a camera operator, but not typically a camera embracer.

But I am vowing to change my ways. {don’t get any wild ideas about actually trying to get a good picture of me, Dan}

Here’s proof:

Me and my little three year old man.

He’s a definite camera embracer.

And a mighty cute one, I must say!

I had my cell phone with me, so we took a couple of pictures as we were hanging out at the park.

Here we are trying to both cram our faces in front of my cell phone.

I’m thinking that all of my {embrace} the camera pictures in the summer will involve sweaty people. It was h-o-t. Only 9:00 in the morning, but already 90°.

It was a fun few minutes each morning and a bit of exercise to boot. Now, there’s a novel idea!