1st Family vacation! (Sorry such a long post)!

Below are just a few pics from our vacation. The site won't let me upload anymore so I guess I reached my limit?

This was our first family vacation with our little family! Last year, Layla and traveled quite a bit with other family members but never with Lucas because of his job. He took time off when she was born and then it just never worked out for him to go with us any other times. This year we flew from Nashville to Orlando and spent 5 days in a little town called Celebration Florida. It is about 10 minutes from Disney. One of my uncles has a condo there that he let us use so that is where we stayed. My sister Natalie and her husband Chris flew from Atlanta and met us there. Our flights arrived within about 10 minutes of each other so that was perfect. Layla did great on the airplane. We were able to take her carseat on and she slept most of the flight. We were at the condo about noon. After getting settled we headed on over to the Wet N Wild water park. We stayed there until it closed. The adults loved all the water slides and Layla enjoyed the wave pool, lazy river, and kids area. This was such a kid friendly place. If you have any young kids that LOVE water this is a great place for kids and adults. Sunday, we spent the day at Epcot Disney. Natalie had never been to any of the Disney parks at the age of 27 so we thought that we should atleast go to one while we were so close! There were some cool things there and it was a beautiful day and not too crowded. Monday, we went back to the water park from open to close. We could use our same ticket within 14 days and go back for free so we thought we would take advantage of it. Since it was a Monday there were hardly any lines. Layla did excellent and at one point fell asleep in my arms for about 45 minutes and then was ready to go again. For a child that loves to sleep, she did great on very little! Tuesday, we went to Universal Studios Islands of Adventure. On the way into the park, Layla dropped her pacifier and we did not know it and unfortunately we did not have a back up. I thought, GREAT, this is going to be a fun day... but again she surprised us and was perfect! She fell asleep from pure exhaustion without her paci about 2:00pm. Since this was the last night of our time in Florida we wanted to celebrate with a good dinner. We went back to the little town we were staying in and found a local Columbian restaurant. It was very authentic and some of the best food I have eaten in a long time! Our flight put us back in Nashville about lunch time on Wednesday. We met family for lunch, then we all took a nap and left for the drive to Atlanta about 4pm that afternoon.

We spent Thursday- Saturday in Atlanta. We always enjoy our time there with Natalie and Chris. We ate at some yummy local restaurants and looked at Apartments in the area. We did not find any apartments that we loved, but really what is there to love about an apartment anyway? We are hoping that we can find a decent house to rent for awhile for about the same price as an apartment. Saturday morning we went to the Kirkwood neighborhood festival. I love these festivals because there are a lot of vendors who make their own stuff...jewelry, artwork, ect... We finally arrived back in Memphis about 10:30pm Sunday night. It was a long time away from home with a lot of traveling but we had a GREAT time!! Can't wait to do it again. Layla was so well behaved and even after being off her schedule for so long she went right back into her 2 full naps on Monday and hasn't missed a beat since!