Watkins Kids

Watkins Kids
the kids at Panama City Beach - Nov 2009

Nov 19, 2009

T-rex Video from Walking with Dinosaurs



Some video from Walking with Dinosuars. It was dark inside so the video quality is not the best but you get the general idea. This show was amazing. The dinosaurs movements were so fluid that they seemed very life like.

This video is of Momma T-Rex & Baby-T-rex. Baby is about 7-8 feet tall to give you some perspective of how big Momma was.

Disney Xmas lights - video

Here is a video of the lights @ Disney Hollywood Studios synchronized to music


Dinosaurs and Jesus

Last night we saw Walking with Dinosaurs – the Arena Spectacular. Very cool. I’ll post some videos later today.

While at the show, I had some interesting conversations with Aidan. While watching a pteradon fly, Aidan told me that he would stay on Dinosaur Island.

A: Wait – it’s all dinosaur island.

[pauses for a minute]

A: Mom- am I correct that the entire planet was dinosaurs? (yes, he really said “am I correct?”)

Me: Yes, there were only dinosaurs at that time.

A: So there were dinosaurs… and then they died…. And then God made humans?

Me: Um….. Yes.

Decided to save the discussion of creationism vs evolution for another day J

During the show they also portrayed “the End” as a big asteroid hitting the Earth. Aidan said, “So an asteroid killed the dinosaurs?” I told him that it was one of the theories that people had about what happened to the dinosaurs.

A: Well, do you know what happened?

Me: No, nobody knows for sure what happened

A: Uh-huh, Jesus knows. He knows everything. He knows everybody’s names and when babies will be born.

Apparently watching Dinosaurs was a religious experience for Aidan. We had several more of these conversations throughout the show.

Nov 17, 2009

Day 2 - Magic Kingdom - part 2

"Where'd it go?"

Magic Kingdom - Castle Pics

Day 2 - Magic Kingdom - part 1

Kids w/ Eeyore @ lunch

Brandon and Aidan on the carousel

D & A monkeying around

Devlin jumping rope while we wait for the parade

Clara w/ her ears on

No idea what Clara was so excited about...

Me and Clara on It's a Small World - clara loved it!

The gang w/ Mickey & Minnie

Day 4 - Hollywood Studios

James and the gang

Clara & Jenny

Aidan and Brandon at the stunt show

The family on Streets of America (and A & B with their new light sabers)

Kiddos...

Day 3 - Animal Kingdom

Animal Kingdom was very fun and didn't feel much like a theme park. It was very cool and the kids had a good time.

Goobers playing drums...

The family in mouse ears in front of the Tree of Life.

Me and the kids w/ Flic from Bugs Life

Aidan on Triceratop Spin in Dinoland

Day 1 - Epcot

Clara wearing her backpack.. complete with "leash" that lasted about 10 minutes.

D, B and A at the pavillion outside Spaceship Earth

Brandon in... Morocco, maybe?

Aidan and Clara playing with the water in the fountain

B and A looking for Aidan's ring that fell over the edge. James rescued it.

Aidan and Pop-pop contemplating something at Epcot.

Pics from the hotel

Nov 16, 2009

Aidan and Clara

Clara in Pig Tails

thought i had posted these already but i don't see them... these are from the pumpkin carving night. Cute pics of Clara in pig tails..




Some random pics of goobers @ Disney

Getting into Disney

1,100 miles later....

ADVMX - Trophy day at the track!

The racing series wrapped up that D and B have been partcicipating in... 10 months later.

Both boys did great and brought home some hardware.

D placed 1st and 2nd in the two classes he raced in. Brandon placed 5th and 7th in his two classes. Woo hoo!