Shaz by the Sea

Another Fourth of July is in the books!! I think this year was our 12th annual Fourth of July celebration with this crew. What a blast. However it again went by too quickly. If you are interested in seeing past years, here is my  2016 Fourth of July post . We switched things up a bit and rented a house this year with my friends Katie and Julie (and Julie's family). Julie has two little boys the same ages as my guys - so we thought it would be super fun to get the 5 boys under the age of 5 together under the same roof! Haha. It honestly was awesome. All the kids did great. The house was on Ocean Street in Hyannis, so it was near the boats, some restaurants, and a few beaches. It was nice being in a rental and not our own house - so we didn't have to worry about lawn maintenance, and other things around our house. It definitely felt more like a vacation. Here are a few favs from the week! Our backyard had this cool bar. It had chairs to sit at the bar, a TV with ...

This is a LONG overdue post - but I wanted to take the time to write about each day, the condo, the neighborhood we were staying and of course DISNEYWORLD!  I have a short YouTube clip from one of the rides in Disney. Cal was hilarious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Y05WZ9GW8 Here we are departing from Logan Airport down to Orlando, FL. The kids were absolutely perfect. To be very honest with you, I was dreading every minute. I thought they would be terrible...but much to my surprise, they were amazing! I mean, look at our arrival at Logan - we were a mess!! Three kids, two strollers, and like 5+ pieces of luggage. It was insane. We arrived around 4PM on Saturday 12/1.  We rented a mini-van which was lifechanging. There was so much room and the boys could choose different seats during the week.  The only struggle was trying to buckle them in when they were sitting in the way back!  When we arrived, we decided to wa...