The best part of any resort...the POOL!

So, Nathan won this place for all of us in Kissimmee, Florida through his work.  It was Sunday-Sunday and we did not get to move the date away from the intense part of the Florida summer.  We invited Nathan's mom but Nathan's dad was not as interested in all the Florida heat so we asked my dad to come and stay in the boys' room.  It worked out really well.  We had to carpool down there as we don't have an 8 passenger van and I couldn't even find one to rent anywhere.  Nathan, his mom, and Flint rode down there in my dad's car while my dad and I drove all the crazy kiddos in the van.  We stopped by my friend Amy's on the way in which was really nice too.  She lives an hour outside of Florida.

To help the drive, I rented 8 movies from the library (6 were for the big boys), bought leappad credits off of ebay and added games and cartoons to all the leapsters/pads, and I downloaded two audiobooks and one chapter ebook from the library to the kindle (which I got for $25 off Amazon the week before!).  Nathan added angry birds to the kindle too which turned into a 'thing' for the week.  I also had fun shopping at Costco for snacks to keep them busy.  All in all it went pretty well though we didn't follow our rule of at least 2 hr before stopping.  Oh well.  Stops just take awhile with lots of kids and people.  We made okay time but not the best time.  The way home felt definitely much LONGER than the way there!

We had a GREAT time!  Nathan's mom got up with the boys in the morning so we could sleep in PLUS there was the PRIVATE pool right off the living room!!!!  We could sit on the sofa and watch them swim.  I took a picture of the view from the inside.  It had netting all over it to keep the bugs out.  It wasn't huge but it fit 4 kids our size perfectly.  We loved it.  Anytime the kids got wound up or argued with each other, we sent them to the pool.  When we got up in the mornings? We sent them to the pool.  They had so much fun.  There was a deep part that the bigger boys enjoyed jumping into doing tricks.  Jonathan improved so much over the week with what he would do wearing puddle jumpers.  He even started jumping in and putting his head under the water.  He really liked wearing goggles.  :)   Rosie too was willing to get in by the end of the week without mamma right by her side.  She especially liked Samuel to help her swim with her puddle jumper.

The condo also had this big huge pool we visited the last night.  It was so warm in that pool it felt awesome with the sun having warmed it all day.  There was a DJ playing different music out there too.  It was attached to a little commissary AND they had a small private movie theater there!  Nathan and the boys watched the first transformers movie one night.  They also had a small video game arcade.  Nathan got a kick out of that!  It was a neat little place that we had the kids ride their scooters beside us while we walked there.

So, I have a ton of pool pictures!