Neeley Family Blog

Brad's NAID conference was in Nashville this year.  Remember last year where we got a trip to Disneyland?, this year Nashville. We made arrangements for the kids to stay home and for me to join him again.  I really was in need of this break! You can ask Brad, I was at my wits end just before we left.  I have been super busy organizing a Jog-A-Thon for Brayden's school and getting involved with PTA business, but that will be for another post.  On to Nashville... We arrived Thursday after getting very little sleep the night before.  Those 6 am flights are a killer! Our hotel was crazy amazing!!! It is the Gaylord Opryland Hotel .  Check it out!!! Unreal how big it is and how many things there are to do there! We really did not leave the "bubble" as Brad called it except for twice.  There was fountains, gardens, pools, spa, restaurants, shops, boat ride, convention area, waterfalls, bistro balconies......I could go on. Brad had a big test Friday m...

My sister just got 2 puppies!!! Haha! Yes, not one, but TWO! I think she is crazy! I told her to get ready for twins. ;) They are super cute! I mean, you really cannot resist just loving their little faces.  She got them from a family in Woodburn, Oregon.  They are brothers.  And she was able to bring them home at 8 weeks old.  It then, just so happened to be a time where her and Tony needed to be gone for a couple days for work.  So I got asked to puppy sit.  At the time she asked we still had Tinsley around and I was really unsure.  But after talking with Brad we decided we would make it work and keep them separated from our dogs.  She brought them over Sunday night.  They stayed with us till Wednesday evening.  The kids had fun playing and petting them until they started chasing them! HAHAHAHA! I kept telling the kids not to run with them because they will think they are playing and run after them and try to nip at them.  Wel...

Brad and I spontaneously decided to book a trip and take the kids to Disneyland! We had been talking about doing it later in the year, but flights were too good to pass up so we said, "what the heck!?!" It turned out to be perfect timing.  With just having to say good-bye to Tinsley, craziness at work for Brad, non-stop activities with the kids schools for me, we really could not wait. We made an extended weekend of it.  We left Friday afternoon and came home Monday night. The kids did not give the reaction we were thinking we would get when we told them....   But that soon changed as it got closer and we began talking about what things we would do, see and pack.  We had a Park Hopper ticket so we were able to go back and forth between the two parks.  We stayed in the Disneyland Hotel too for convenience.  Friday night was our first night in California Adventure.  We went straight to Carsland to see everything lit up in Radiator Springs....