The Internet can be great for many different things.  For one, I love to use it for blogging and keeping in touch with my family and friends.  I also like to use the internet for saving money by finding the best prices.  You can find deals on everything from cars, toys, and games to clothes, cheap lingerie and even food.

Since we have done a lot of work on our deck and patio this summer I really want to get some new patio furniture.  It’s not high on my list of priorities, but I would love to be able to get some someday.  I love to look when we go out shopping at the choices and dream about what would look great.

Since Rich’s laptop recently broke he has been looking into getting a new one.  He did consider trying to get his fixed but since it a couple of years old it probably isn’t worth it.  I didn’t realize that you can rent a computer if you need to or even get video wall rentals.  That’s not something we’re going to do though, I’d rather we actually owned our computers.

Every year when we make our vacation plans going to Disney World always comes up. Rich and I both love to go to Disney World so we love to plan Orlando vacations.  There is so much to do in Orlando that we can always find something new to try out while we are there.  I’m not sure if we’ll be going this year but we will certainly talk about it.

Last week we had planned to leave on Wednesday to stay with my parents for a few days. Then we planned to be off to a wedding over the weekend followed by another day spent at my parents house before heading home. So, of course last Monday Hailey came down with a cough followed by a fever and runny nose on Tuesday. Wednesday she wasn’t feeling well at all so we decided to wait until Thursday to leave. She acted much better on Thursday, although still not quite herself, and we headed off to my parents house. Her cold seemed to have cleared up but her cough remained. Hailey had been pretty sick back in December after a cold that had a cough that wouldn’t go away and ended up having some bad wheezing, so I was very worried that the same thing would happen.

Anyhoo, I have to share a few pictures of some of the weekend fun. Some of these are pictures from my dad’s camera, but since he hasn’t updated his blog since July of 2007 (gasp… can you imagine?) I don’t think he’ll mind if I post them.

 Hailey and my dad relaxing by the pool.

On Friday night we went to a nearby park with my parents, brothers, sister-in-law and aunt to have a picnic to celebrate my dad’s birthday. They have a great toddler playground there which Hailey loved.

On Saturday and Sunday we went out of town to go to my cousins wedding. Saturday was a really long day for Hailey but she did great. By Sunday morning Hailey’s cough was worse, so we had to start giving her breathing treatments. I hate it so much when she has an awful cough like this, it’s just so scary. We still had a wonderful time and I’m going to post pictures from that in a separate post since I have several that I want to share.

On Sunday night when we got back from the wedding we went to pick up Dottie (our dog) and Murray (my parent’s dog). The dogs get to be spoiled rotten at a farm that we take them to, owned by a friend of my moms, whenever we go away. Since it is a farm they stay at Hailey got to see some horses when we went to pick up the dogs.

Hailey wasn’t exactly sure what to think of the horses at first. We’ve looked at plenty of pictures of horses and looked at horses on DVD’s, but to see one in real life is a little different.

She warmed up to the horses after a few minutes and even had a few smiles for the horses. Although she kept calling them cows

On Monday Hailey enjoyed a nice swim. I could not get a picture of her smiling. Every time I put the camera away she would smile, but she would not smile for the camera at all.

We had a wonderful time! I always love spending time with family and appreciate all of the time we get to spend with them. I’ll be posting pictures from my cousins wedding too, so be sure to check back for those.

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