Lukie and Animals, its all in the Genes

Do you see a resemblance?   Grandpa Reeder was always one of my favorite people in the world.  He had the ability to make you feel like a million bucks.  He was as charismatic as anyone I knew.  Grandpa also loved animals and had a way of communicating with them. 

Little Luke has some of those same skills...

Grandpa was an awesome animal trainer and was able to get animals to difficult stunts.  

Grandpa would bring his Horses out every year and teach us how to ride them the right way.   He would try and break us of all our bad habits we learned from riding our horses.   

This is Luke and Mesa in the back yard finding out who is the alpha dog....

Luke and Nacho...  
Bugs are great to! 
He wanted to take the tape off its mouth..

Stew,   Luke talks about Stew every day

This is a rattle snake the we caught over our wall.   Luke wanted to touch it before Dave had it in a Safe hold....

Lukie loves all animals. It does not matter if it is a rattle snake we find behind the backyard wall, a scorpion, alligator, Turtle, 500 different lizards, his pet parakeet, Dogs, Cats, Ducks, all Zoo animals Cyotee, bugs, well I think everything. 

The little guy has such a soft little heart! 

Ducks in the park are not just for lookin... They need to be tamed.


Luke wanted to catch it.. 
Woody... 

Orlando Vacation -Day 3 - Universal Studios

We went to Universal Studios today. It was fun and we did a lot of walking, which is good for Mark and me, but not so much for McK who is in a cast. The rides were fun but we all agreed that Islands of Adventure was more fun. It had more rollercoaster rides where Universal had more 4-D simulator rides.

Orlando Vacation - Day 2 - Islands of Adventure

We went to Islands of Adventure which is next door to Universal Studios. We were really excited to to ride all the rides. We headed over to the Hulk ride and quickly realized the Lukie was not tall enough. So we went to the next ride. Rejected again. Finally we got smart and started referring to the map to see how tall you had to be for the ride. We found the spiderman ride and started our adventure off right. It was such a fun ride. I didn't think Disneyland could be topped but I stand corrected. There were a lot of rip-roaring rides that Mark and McK went on together and Luke and I went on our own rides while we waited.



Mark rode the Hulk this ride 6 times with Mck and he took a camera with him the last time. It is a wild ride.

Orlando Vacation -Day 2 - Blue Man Group

If any of you haven't seen the Blue Man Group, you should. They are a great kid friendly show which was alot of fun!! The boys loved the show. I would hear the boys laughing at the humor and clapping to the music. I really loved the show myself. I was pleasantly surprised how interactive and fun the show was. I would recommend it to all. The show was great and the boys could not wait to meet "the blue men".

Orlando Vacation - Day 1 - Swimming at night

We wrapped McK's foot in two plastic bags and wrapped it twice with duck tape (name brand for duct tape). Anyway we thought we were set for some fun in the pool. The hotel pool had a lazy river where the kids could ride on tubes. They loved it. About a half hour after the initial dip, McK informed me that his cast was wet. Bummer! We had to head back to the hotel and figure out how to get our contraption off. I usually carry around a pocket knife but with all the crazy flight restrictions I left it home so it wouldn't get confiscated. Hummmmm......how to get it off? I got Marks shaver, pulled the a little metal strips out and intricatley slit a seam down the 1/4 inch duck tape around McK's cast. A half hour later, after McK dried his cast with a blow dryer, we called it a success and then a night.

Orlando Vacation - Day 1 - Rejected!

We just tried to go indoor skydiving. They wouldn't let McK go because of his cast. So sad :( They were worried about him kicking the instructer and having it do some major damage because the cast is so hard. No worries....I was kinda tired anyway.

We are now on our way back to the hotel to go the pool. How you may ask? Well we just bought some duck tape and plastic bags. Hopefully between Mark and I, we might be able to rig a waterproof covering.

Orlando Vacation - Day 1 - Our Dining Experience

We are going to update our blog throughout the day. We'll see if we can keep up with ourselves:)




Its not too often that we have a unique dinner out, but "The Catfish Place" gave us many native foods.

We ate catfish of course, but also we ate frog legs, turtle, fried pickles, fried green tomatoes, alligator, grits, and the non adventurous......chicken.

Orlando Vacation - Day 1- Gator Day

We are going to try and update our blog real time on this trip.... We will see how it goes.

This is our first day on Florida and the boys had to see a gator!! 

Luke wanted to take the tape off of its mouth.  Is anyone suprised??

We went on a air-boat ride and saw a wild gator.  

He was huge and scary with even a battle wound.  I actually thought that the air-boat company had staged a fake one on the bank so that all their customers would have a tale to tell.  I kept with my theory until it jumped into the water and scared me.  I even screamed which tells you a lot becuase I really dont scream all that much.....  

McK kept flying and Luke sat back and relaxed during the boat ride.  All in all it is a great place to visit in sunny Florida.