Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure

Our last day at the theme parks and we went to Universal Studios and Universal Studios Islands of Adventure. Here are the boys and I in front of the train from Back to the Future. We also did the Jaws ride which was pretty cool.


We had this characture drawing done of the kids

Evan was first in line to meet one of his fave characters Sponge Bob Squarepants

Dora and Jimmy Neutron

Shrek and Donkey- I guess there was a real person in that Donkey suit because he was talking and asking questions to us. It was pretty hillarious.

Give Kids the World Wishing Well

Kids taking a rest

This was the coolest ride, it was a wet ride but we did not know until the boys we already on it.

I was getting Evan out of his wheelchair to get on this ride when I saw that the ride attendant was setting it up as it was a wheelchair accessible ride. How cool is that. Evan rode it regular because I had already lifted him out of his chair.

Look at how wet Gabriel is

'Mom, look at how wet I got.'

Wheelchair accesible car on the carosuel, Evan is perfectly happy on this type seat on the carosuel, he does not want to ride on the moving horses etc. Just not his thing anymore.

Suess landing had all of the coolest rides.

Sea World Orlando August 09

Our family at Sea World at the end of our day there


The Shamu show was pretty spectacular

Evan really enjoyed this show but I think the highlight of the day was the ..........

horses of course.. We got a chance to see the Budweiser Clydesdales, it was so cool. I have always loved seeing these horses when they have come to the California State Fair. They are such beautiful animals.

petting the horse.

picture with one of the horses

Animal Kingdom- 8-2009

here we are at Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World


Evan with Lilo & Stitch, notice the spray fan in his hand, it was pretty hot while we were there.

Gabe and Evan with a Lion King charachter.

Goofy and the boys

Goofy checking out Gabriel's mohawk

Evan participating in the Festival of the Lion King show

Evan had so much fun being part of the action

The kids got musical instruments and then paraded around with the cast.

Festival of the Lion King was an awesome show.

We also went on a safari tour, and a few other rides as well. It was a pretty cool park.

Evan Says Ice Cream

The other night Rudy was in the freezer getting some ice cream and Evan walked up to him and out of the blue said "Ice Cream". Ever since then he has been going to the freezer and pointing to the ice cream and saying the word. He is such a smarty pants that he knows if he says it enough we will eventually break down and give him some. We are say no because he would be eating way too much ice cream. But when your child who says only 2 words says another word all on his own you will pretty much do anything he wants to get him to say it again. He is also saying "airplane" and of course he has mastered the word no. So that brings his word count to about 6 which are "ought oh", "no", "yeah", "hot dog", "airplane" and now "ice cream". Keep in mind he is not saying these words clearly but it is mainly the syllables of the word and the vowel sounds.

I am so excited that he is saying ice cream but at the same time it kind of breaks my heart to see how hard he works to get these to words out. It really makes me once again appreciate Evan and how much of a miracle he really is.

Give Kids the World

Give Kids the World is the awesome place that we stayed. We stayed in a 2 bedroom villa that was completely handicapp accessible with wide doors, tile floor, flat carpet and a roll in shower. I was thinking of all of my friends who talk about wanting these for their homes. It was so awesome.

This is us on the night of our arrival, we had been up since 4am Pacific time and basically travelling all day. Plus Evan had a seizure on the plane and thrown up in the car on the way to GKTW. In spite of all that we were so excited to finally be there.

This is the Amberville Train, you could ride it as many times and you wanted and even sit up front and ring the bell. It was awesome.

This is the carousel, it is an old fashioned wooden floor carousel that has 2 wheelchair accessible places to ride.

Evan loved riding on the carosuel.

Eating at the Gingerbread house restaraunt, here are Cynthia and Rudy with Mayor Clayton's wife. (i forget her name)

If I remember correctly I was bringing Evan back to the table after chasing him.

Evan's star that is up on the ceiling of The Castle of Miracles

On our last day one of the volunteers used this nifty tool to let us see Evan's star up close.

Evan's star is up there somewhere

King of the castle

Here is Evan on our last day in front of the angel fountain, he was not in the mood for anymore pics.

More of the Magic Kingdom

Some more highlights from our trip to The Magic Kingdom. We were there on Thursday August 6th and it rained 3 times while we were there.

Evan was having so much dancing in the rain and he was also opening his mouth to catch the rain, it was so cute.


Gabriel and Cynthia on the tea cups. I went on with Evan but I did not spin too much, just in case.

Evan with Winnie The Pooh and Tigger

The boys on Dumbo

We had so much fun .