May 10, 2008 Ship of Thieves! Stealing the Magic..AGAIN!!! Panama Canal FL to CA!!! Part 3

[been2marceline]

Hey all! The last of DH family just left and I have to go do laundry before it attacks. Hope you all had a great weekend!!!


Kim

Kim,

I'm on my 7th of 7 loads!! :woohoo: WOOOOHOOOO!!

I've been at it all day along with going to Home Depot to buy a new range as ours has decided that it is done!!:sad2:

We also bought some roses to put in the front, it was a glorious 77 here today!! :sunny: (Too hot too soon for me, but that's just me...) We really do need more rain and I just heard on the news that "Mavericks" surfing championships may have to be cancelled because the waves are not big enough!!:sad1:

Karen

Sorry John and Holly!!

Karen

[been2marceline]

Oh man, I hate when my laundry attacks! Especially when I have unexpected company. Friday night my bedroom was nothing but PILES of laundry, so there was really nowhere to walk but ON the dirty laundry! SO embarrassing!

(Hmmmm....verging on TMI)

Holly,

Wasn't that the night that you met, was it Alejandro?:cool1:

HMMMM, more than just TMI, me thinks!!;)

Karen

[nskjerven]

Lisa:

Glad to hear you are safe. The news up here just tells us there is a fire in the Anaheim Hills but not much more. Those santa ana winds and the fires freak me out...they seem so often these last few years. stay safe.

btw, I totally get the no party at home rule...Wilson's are all outta the house. With Molly's most of her friends are very well behaved and don't make many messes so I've been okay with hers to be at home. (okay I'm reliving my life thru my daughter I admit it :rolleyes1 )

last year for her 9th in keeping with the AG theme we took a girls weekend away for her and 2 best friends and their moms. We stayed at the Four Seasons and enjoyed our shopping, private dinner party and doll hair styling without the boys (each girl has a little brother 6 years old) for the first 2 days, then the boys and the dads joined us for brunch on the last morning. Of course we had one more night for just the family at The Grand CA and Dland to complete the birthday weekend.

we're in a holding pattern regarding making plans for this upcoming #10 as Miss Molly has not written thank yous very timely so her party planning fanatic mother is a bit miffed. :mad:

Since the clock says past 11:30pm I think I'll take advantage and go to bed now..nite girls...

[been2marceline]

Great pictures Lisa...thanks for sharing. I love BAB, it is such a great place. DD's latest animal is named Tinkerbell Love Heart and of course is dressed in the tinkerbell outfit.
So, does anyone else stress over the birthday parties?! What to do? Where to go? How many kids? DD (5) had hers at Libby Lu in December and that was great, made it all very easy. Now, I have to figure out a party for a 9 year old girl....what to do? Any great party ideas that were easy, stress free and a success?:lmao:

Ok, little mad at the moment... :headache: I had written this really long post about all of the cool birthday parties that we had done for our DD and it froze and lost it!!!:mad:

Talk about irritated. Anyhoo, over it...

For our DD's 9th birthday we took her to Q-sar, a laser tag type of place. They serve pizza and have a party room for cake and presents.

For her 10th birthday we rented a 2 room suite at the Residence Inn. One of my best friends stayed with me and 10 girls. We had pizza, cake and ice cream and watched a movie that was on the hotels system that was not yet out in DVD, the Incredibles (still one of my favorites, No Capes!!) The girls slept in the big living room and my friend and I each had our own bedroom. The next morning the girls trudged over to the breakfast room, which is included, had breakfast, and then two more of my friends joined us for a mini-make-over session. The girls had their hair done, nails and make-up done. Great to have the two bathrooms and the kitchen counter for all of the stations. I took pictures (of course!)

For her 11th birthday we did the American Girl spa day at the clubhouse at my friends condo. I had five of my best friends do stations for doll hair, girls nails and toes, girls hair. We had lunch first and the girls made the cute flip flops for the dolls and themselves first. My friends and I also had lunch and wine, of course, while the girls were doing their flip flop project. It was very fun, I'll dig up the pictures.

This year we did the bowling alley. Our place has great birthday packages with 2 games of bowling, food and beverages and a party room for cake and presents. Very fun, and once again, very little clean up!!:banana: :banana:

We have also rented the clubhouse and done a magician one year and a clown another year.

Hope this helps, sorry it's so long (again)

Karen

[NotSoLittleMermaid]

Now that puppy on the other hand....that looks like a snuggle fest waiting to happen :goodvibes


What a great expression!


feeling a bit crabby here tonight...spring in the air it was 84 degrees here and too much clean up required around my house/yard. I feel this way every spring....I wish I had a wand to fix these troubles. But it will take a few weeks of me crabbing at DH and the kids to help, help, help then one major blow up and then we all get the point and get it cleaned up. Hmmmm....perhaps I should take a vacation from myself soon....:rolleyes1

:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
Isn't self-awareness a wonderful thing???

[been2marceline]

PC or Mac does not matter for this.

First you have to find a photo hosting site. The DIS has one here,

http://www.wdwinfo.com/photopost/index.php

You use your same user name and password, and photos must be sized to a certain size before posting (uploading).

Many people here also use photobucket :

www.photobucket.com

Once you have your photo(s) uploaded, it is fairly simple. Right click on the photo wherever it is hosted, and select "copy image address". Then when you are posting here, and are ready to insert your photo, bracket it (put it in between) these two commands . . . and and paste the link you copied when you right clicked where you see the "and" here.

That should do it for you![/QUOTE]

John,

OK, I'm going to give it a try!!

[http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s122/kbdbear/PrimeTimeCafe.jpg

It works!!!! Photo bucket actually has the IMG address beneath the picture and you just copy it instead of right clicking!!

This is us, Karen, Alexandra and Ted at the Prime Time Cafe in WDW this past December!!

Thanks John!!!!

[been2marceline]

And here we are at Autopia in WDW in December!!

I'm a photo posting fool now!!:banana: :banana: :banana:

John, you have created a monster!!pirate:

Thanks again!!

Karen

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s122/kbdbear/TTDinAutopia.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s122/kbdbear/AMDinAutopia.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s122/kbdbear/KBDinAutopia.jpg


Even resized them in photobucket!!
WOOOHOOO!!!:woohoo:

[been2marceline]

OK, last one!

I love this pictue of our DD in our room by our Mickey Xmas tree this past December!!

Karen

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s122/kbdbear/AMDwtree.jpg

[been2marceline]

OK, the post time says that it is 11:05 and it is 12:26!! It is really even farther off since daylight savings time change!!:confused3

Just me with my pictures here, so I will return later!! :cool2:

Karen

[LiserAnn]

:rotfl: Karen-you're cracking me up....like a kid in the candy store! I can tell you're tickled that you figured out how to post pictures!!! You guys look like you're having a great time! You're daughter is beautiful! Oh, and I have that very same Brighton wallet but in black (although that pink is pretty darn cute)!!!!

[been2marceline]

:rotfl: Karen-you're cracking me up....like a kid in the candy store! I can tell you're tickled that you figured out how to post pictures!!! You guys look like you're having a great time! You're daughter is beautiful! Oh, and I have that very same Brighton wallet but in black (although that pink is pretty darn cute)!!!!

Good morning, Marilyn!! And good night Lisa!!!

Still up as it still seems an hour earlier to me!! I will be unhappy in the AM.:sad1: (Not that it isn't the AM now!)

I almost mentioned that she was holding her xmas gift of a Brighton wallet, but I thought, oh you name dropper!! So glad your taste is SO good!!!;)

Yes, I have been having fun!! I even spent the last couple of hours uploading all of DD's pictures from her digital camera (another Disney Xmas gift) and have been teaching myself the editing software!! :surfweb: So exciting!! I will have more pictures to upload! :banana: :banana: :banana:

I should head off to bed now... Don't really want to, but 6:30 will be coming very early, especially with the time change. Bet the UL group are glad that they don't do this!! It's not our favorite thing. :rolleyes:

Although, today was a stellar day!! 77 degrees, just gorgeous and we had an extra hour of it too!!:flower: :sunny: :flower1:

Have a lovely day!!!

Karen

[been2marceline]

Ok, one last picture and I'll stop for the night, er, morning!

Alex loves photography and she also wants to be a model. So she combined the two up at our Bodega house and took a couple of self portraits...

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s122/kbdbear/IMGP0715.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s122/kbdbear/IMGP0679.jpg



These are from her digital, the other shots were from my "film" camera!!

Talk to you tomorrow night, er morning!

Karen

[disneylover5]

Ok, one last picture and I'll stop for the night, er, morning!

Alex loves photography and she also wants to be a model. So she combined the two up at our Bodega house and took a couple of self portraits...

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s122/kbdbear/IMGP0715.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s122/kbdbear/IMGP0679.jpg



These are from her digital, the other shots were from my "film" camera!!

Talk to you tomorrow night, er morning!

Karen

Karen, I am so glad you figured out the pictures...so much fun isn't it? I have to laugh at my DD10 and DD13 as they are always taking pictures of thmeselves....hold the camera in front of them and CLICK!!

You will have to go to the PIC of the DAY (I think that is the name of the thread)..and post there. I love reading (looking at) that thread. I posted this picture there last night. Paradise Beach on Cozumel last November

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f247/lhalterman/100_0168.jpg

[Mom323]

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t310/EllaEnchanted00/th_Angelfirstpics017.jpg (http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t310/EllaEnchanted00/Angelfirstpics017.jpg)
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t310/EllaEnchanted00/th_angel1.jpg (http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t310/EllaEnchanted00/angel1.jpg)

The Puppy is so cute. Pictures of puppies and kids, just make me happy inside. :)

[Mom323]

I love it! So cool! :thumbsup2 Are you surprising your husband with that?

Yep!:thumbsup2

[UKANGEL]

Boy, you guys have been chatty this weekend. MY DFIL was taken to the hospital by ambulence on Sat at 1pm (he was at a funeral of all things) and I was the only one in town to stay .... hang...with him. (he blacked out for about 10 minutes) So my kids faired pretty well on their own (17,13,10). He is here with me now...the doctor released him at 5pm tonight. They could not find anything wrong...so they adjusted his meds and off we went. He will stay till Tuesday when he will see his regular doc and then he will most likely go home. I am tired with the time change and all.....hanging out in a hospital for 30 hours is not much fun. I am so glad he is okay!!



We have a black and white cat named Angel!!



On Cozemel, we loved Paradise Beach. Here is a pic from there.

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f247/lhalterman/100_0168.jpg
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f247/lhalterman/100_0147.jpg

On Grand Caymen, Rum Point is one of the most beautiful places I have been in the whole world. Long ride.....but really worth it!!

Thanks for the photo's, I'd seen them on another thread and thought they're wonderful!
Glad your FIL is feeling a little better now, warm wishes to him.
Great cat's name too!;)


laundry is that an evil word or what? it attacks us from our couch in the living room. okay very embarssing that people see it when they stop by....fortunately my DH did mass amounts of washing, drying and even folding today. Tonight it will be line up soldier and take your clothes to your room and put them in your drawers. I think with that we (me & the kids) could try to do it now while DH is a Wlagreens on an errand...that would be a nice come home to suprise huh? Wish me luck and speed in my quest....back later....


definately an evil word......the pile just gets higher and higher....I think its like the magic porrige pot (do you know that story) it just carries on growing and refilling no matter how much you do!;)

[UKANGEL]

A few things. First

LAUNDRY - is basically the main reason why I work full-time. By doing so, we have to have a nanny and one of the nanny's jobs is to do all our laundry. :cool1: I can never quit as I can't stand to do laundry. I had tricked my husband into doing it for years by keep leaving lipsticks in my pockets when doing the wash. :rolleyes1 The red on his shirts would bother him so he would say "I'll just do it myself." After a few years, he caught on.;)

Lisa


See, that's where I made my mistake in giving up work last month! Now I have no excuse and can't justify sending out DH's shirts to be ironed!!!!:confused3

Alex loves photography and she also wants to be a model. So she combined the two up at our Bodega house and took a couple of self portraits...

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s122/kbdbear/IMGP0715.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s122/kbdbear/IMGP0679.jpg



These are from her digital, the other shots were from my "film" camera!!

Talk to you tomorrow night, er morning!

Karen


Beautifl photo's, Karen and beautiful daughter too!:) She's really photogenic!

With all these pix of our families floating around I'll have to try and dig out some of my own daughter's and do my 'proud mum' bit!:rolleyes1 princess:

[granmaz]

Just managed to get online after having no internet for almost 24 hours!!! Made me very stressed!!!

No, not carpel tunnel...about a week before thanksgiving all four of us were in a serious auto accident. We were tboned by a uninsured driver (on a suspended license). She turned left on a green light, erroneously thinking she had a green arrow (we were heading straight) and slammed right into us without even braking. The windows and doors were crashed in and her pickup came to a stop literally inches from Ryan and Mark's heads/faces (Mark was driving and Ryan was the left passenger). Anyway, amongst all our injuries, Mark's was the most involved...he broke his wrist on the steering wheel and he required surgery to put a screw in to attach the two broken bones. It's been a huge ordeal. That's his third cast and it's removable. The first two were not. Hopefully at the end of the month he'll have it off completely. He had his surgery on Jan 5th, so it's been a long, long nightmare. Of course, she went to jail and basically since she has zero money, she's off the hook in terms of her responsibility to us. Garnishing her wages costs a ton of money, not really worth it. It's behind us now, I can't waste my energy on becoming bitter about the situation when I have a wonderful cruise to dream about....:cloud9:

Sounded very nasty. Hoping everything soon at an end!

PC or Mac does not matter for this.

First you have to find a photo hosting site. The DIS has one here,

http://www.wdwinfo.com/photopost/index.php

You use your same user name and password, and photos must be sized to a certain size before posting (uploading).

Many people here also use photobucket :

www.photobucket.com

Once you have your photo(s) uploaded, it is fairly simple. Right click on the photo wherever it is hosted, and select "copy image address". Then when you are posting here, and are ready to insert your photo, bracket it (put it in between) these two commands . . . and and paste the link you copied when you right clicked where you see the "and" here.

That should do it for you!

John,

OK, I'm going to give it a try!!

[http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s122/kbdbear/PrimeTimeCafe.jpg

It works!!!! Photo bucket actually has the IMG address beneath the picture and you just copy it instead of right clicking!!

This is us, Karen, Alexandra and Ted at the Prime Time Cafe in WDW this past December!!

Thanks John!!!![/QUOTE]

What great pictures. Lovely to see what you all look like and what a gorgeous daughter!!

Good morning, Marilyn!! And good night Lisa!!!

Still up as it still seems an hour earlier to me!! I will be unhappy in the AM.:sad1: (Not that it isn't the AM now!)

I almost mentioned that she was holding her xmas gift of a Brighton wallet, but I thought, oh you name dropper!! So glad your taste is SO good!!!;)

Yes, I have been having fun!! I even spent the last couple of hours uploading all of DD's pictures from her digital camera (another Disney Xmas gift) and have been teaching myself the editing software!! :surfweb: So exciting!! I will have more pictures to upload! :banana: :banana: :banana:

I should head off to bed now... Don't really want to, but 6:30 will be coming very early, especially with the time change. Bet the UL group are glad that they don't do this!! It's not our favorite thing. :rolleyes:

Although, today was a stellar day!! 77 degrees, just gorgeous and we had an extra hour of it too!!:flower: :sunny: :flower1:

Have a lovely day!!!

Karen

Sorry I wasn't here to reply this morning Karen. Just got back online!!

[UKANGEL]

Afternoon Maz:) How scary not to have internet access for 24 hours.....mind you, I might actually get some housework done then!;)

[granmaz]

Lol Mandy, it would take more that the internet to go to get me doing more housekeeping!!!:rotfl: I did get up and about earlier this morning though.:)

I'm off to Lanzarote for 2 weeks in April and it will be so hard missing everything then.

[ibouncetoo]

Lol Mandy, it would take more that the internet to go to get me doing more housekeeping!!!:rotfl:

Same here....there's always television and BOOKS to distract you too!


Good morning fellow thieves! Well, since the Los Angeles folks 'sprang forward' to meet my non-daylight savings Phoenix time, I get to go into work a half hour earlier. BUT, I get to go home a half hour earlier too. Although, it puts me in the heart of rush hour traffic, so I don't feel like I'm getting a deal here. I really prefer the 'extra' time in the morning. ::yes:: Well, can always DIS at the end of the work day and give the traffic a chance to thin out. :thumbsup2

BTW, keep those pictures coming. More kids! More puppies! No more banana slugs (I actually WAS eating at my desk when those showed up!)

[granmaz]

Ok, here are 6 of our 7 grandchildren. One more is due in September! This was taken last August at our son's wedding.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/maz48/weddingjoelsbdaylegoland076.jpg

[mom_of_2_princesses]

Ok, here are 6 of our 7 grandchildren. One more is due in September! This was taken last August at our son's wedding.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/maz48/weddingjoelsbdaylegoland076.jpg

What a beautiful family.


I am paying for the time change this morning. Grumpy mom and kids.:rotfl:
It was so warm here last night I had a hard time sleeping.

[granmaz]

I'm not good when it is warm at night. We don't have Aircon over here, so have to have a fan in the bedroom in summer, and we also have a light summer quilt. It will be great when we get to that time of year though - usually June for us!!!:rotfl:

[nskjerven]

good (grumble) morning...yes I know you are all wondering why I'm up so early...9am is normal for me...DH got a migraine and the blehs from the bathroom were my que that I had to get up and do the kids to school today. Amazingly, he had their table set for breakfast and sandwhich & soup allready for lunches, just had to bag the stuff and add the waters and fruit. Note to self, be nicer to DH, and craby less...see it bit me in the hinnie within a 24 hour scope.

Well, off to get them to school, then back to bed for a while....

Karen, loved the pics so glad you got that posting thing down & your parties sound like mine with the added exception of "offsite no clean up" I have to manage getting that added to mine then I'll be picture perfect happy.

Love those grandkids... the 4 beauties and their handsome borthers/cousins. Look out in a few short years it will be the dating frenzy with beautiful people in the UK :goodvibes

Off to school....:yay: then bed:cloud9:

[lillygator]

I am not liking this time change right now...maybe tonight when we can be outside for a bit later.....

laundry - it is a never ending battle at my house, especially since I am the only one doing it. I am going to start weeding out clothes that no one wears anymore and donate it. There is a 6 drawer chest in our bedroom that has all DH's various t-shirts....that are never worn. Ones that are special to him I am going to try and find someone to make me a t-shirt quilt.

[UKANGEL]

Lol Mandy, it would take more that the internet to go to get me doing more housekeeping!!!:rotfl: I did get up and about earlier this morning though.:)

I'm off to Lanzarote for 2 weeks in April and it will be so hard missing everything then.

KNow what you mean Maz ;) I have had a frenzied 90 minutes though cleaning the ground floor really well so now I am feeling justified in having a break!;)

We're off at the end of April for 2 weeks too and will really miss our 'chats' then....mind you, we shall be cruising so its a good swap!:rotfl:

Same here....there's always television and BOOKS to distract you too!

BTW, keep those pictures coming. More kids! More puppies! No more banana slugs (I actually WAS eating at my desk when those showed up!)

ok....well my 'kiddie' photo is on its way...........don't say I didn't warn you....no slugs tho! :rotfl:

[UKANGEL]

My the way Maz....you're grandchildren look like little angels!:angel:

[UKANGEL]

http://www.thedibb.co.uk/photopost/data/500/1141899482_l.jpg



Hope this works!


This is my 'little angel' :rotfl2: Well, she was once anyway!;) Becky, aged 18
It's about the only one I could find with her natural hair colour!:scared1:

[UKANGEL]

.....please ignore that flipping messy bedroom behind her though!!!!:eek:

[nskjerven]

DH's various t-shirts....that are never worn. Ones that are special to him I am going to try and find someone to make me a t-shirt quilt.

Let me know when you find this mystery quilter...I've got plastic tubs in the garage of the kids baby/toddler clothes that I wanted to do this for, but never got around to it....where oh where does the time go?

[lillygator]

Let me know when you find this mystery quilter...I've got plastic tubs in the garage of the kids baby/toddler clothes that I wanted to do this for, but never got around to it....where oh where does the time go?

I've found some online, but I would really like someone local.....:confused3

ok, I am off to the gym, gotta lose before I cruise!

[nskjerven]

This is my 'little angel' :rotfl2: Well, she was once anyway!;) Becky, aged 18
It's about the only one I could find with her natural hair colour!:scared1:

why is it that these beautiful redheads don't want their hair color and the rest of us pay good money to get it???? I only hope that by the time Miss Molly is a teenager that there will be some kind of reason not to dye her red hair !:scared1:

Your angel is lovely, especially in her Ariel tank :goodvibes

[nskjerven]

yes I'm back from school, and now I'm going back to bed for a bit...

[LiserAnn]

This is my 'little angel' :rotfl2: Well, she was once anyway!;) Becky, aged 18 It's about the only one I could find with her natural hair colour!:scared1:

She has beautiful eyes!!! Like marbles!

[granmaz]

My the way Maz....you're grandchildren look like little angels!:angel:

Mmmm, they do don't they?:lmao:

http://www.thedibb.co.uk/photopost/data/500/1141899482_l.jpg



Hope this works!


This is my 'little angel' :rotfl2: Well, she was once anyway!;) Becky, aged 18
It's about the only one I could find with her natural hair colour!:scared1:

She's stunning, and with those eyes and hair colour. I would have thought all her friends would want their hair that colour and she wants rid!!

[UKANGEL]

why is it that these beautiful redheads don't want their hair color and the rest of us pay good money to get it???? I only hope that by the time Miss Molly is a teenager that there will be some kind of reason not to dye her red hair !:scared1:

Your angel is lovely, especially in her Ariel tank :goodvibes

:rotfl: so true!!! I have to 'help' my hair along a bit to pretend I'm a redhead...while Becky does everything she can to change it!:confused3 (I was going to post her pic of when she modelled and look very Goth with black hair but didn't want to scare anyone ;)

She has beautiful eyes!!! Like marbles!

Thank you, yes I think they are a really beautiful colour...almost turquoise! I don't know where they came from as I have boring brown eyes and her Dad has grey eyes!:rolleyes1

[UKANGEL]

Mmmm, they do don't they?:lmao:



She's stunning, and with those eyes and hair colour. I would have thought all her friends would want their hair that colour and she wants rid!!

:rotfl2: funny thing is Maz, her friend HAS dyed her hair red! :rolleyes1 I think she's stunning too, thanks, and am really proud of her princess: She's been through a really rough few years, with very low self esteem and acute depression and has come out a very strong young lady :angel:

[kymma]

Wow, it was really hot here this weekend. I think it got up to 90!

This morning came really early and it looked like it was the middle of the night when I left home for work. I don't like this new time yet.

[seaulater]

Okay, back from all my business trips. Did I miss anything?

popcorn::

[granmaz]

Odd little things here and there!!! Missed you though.:)

[mom_of_2_princesses]

Wow, it was really hot here this weekend. I think it got up to 90!

This morning came really early and it looked like it was the middle of the night when I left home for work. I don't like this new time yet.

Kim,

It is supposed be hotter today! YUK!

[mom_of_2_princesses]

Okay, back from all my business trips. Did I miss anything?

popcorn::

Not much! Welcome Back.

[granmaz]

Be different this time next year though!!!:lmao:

[kymma]

Kim,

It is supposed be hotter today! YUK!

Ack! It shouldn't be this hot yet! What happened to a nice moderate spring.

[MrsMork]

Let me know when you find this mystery quilter...I've got plastic tubs in the garage of the kids baby/toddler clothes that I wanted to do this for, but never got around to it....where oh where does the time go?

There is a DISer who does this. PM me if you are interested in her contact info.

[fourmcds]

Ok, little mad at the moment... :headache: I had written this really long post about all of the cool birthday parties that we had done for our DD and it froze and lost it!!!:mad:

Talk about irritated. Anyhoo, over it...

For our DD's 9th birthday we took her to Q-sar, a laser tag type of place. They serve pizza and have a party room for cake and presents.

For her 10th birthday we rented a 2 room suite at the Residence Inn. One of my best friends stayed with me and 10 girls. We had pizza, cake and ice cream and watched a movie that was on the hotels system that was not yet out in DVD, the Incredibles (still one of my favorites, No Capes!!) The girls slept in the big living room and my friend and I each had our own bedroom. The next morning the girls trudged over to the breakfast room, which is included, had breakfast, and then two more of my friends joined us for a mini-make-over session. The girls had their hair done, nails and make-up done. Great to have the two bathrooms and the kitchen counter for all of the stations. I took pictures (of course!)

For her 11th birthday we did the American Girl spa day at the clubhouse at my friends condo. I had five of my best friends do stations for doll hair, girls nails and toes, girls hair. We had lunch first and the girls made the cute flip flops for the dolls and themselves first. My friends and I also had lunch and wine, of course, while the girls were doing their flip flop project. It was very fun, I'll dig up the pictures.

This year we did the bowling alley. Our place has great birthday packages with 2 games of bowling, food and beverages and a party room for cake and presents. Very fun, and once again, very little clean up!!:banana: :banana:

We have also rented the clubhouse and done a magician one year and a clown another year.

Hope this helps, sorry it's so long (again)

Karen

Ok, which one of you two wants to come up here in June and host an AG party! Wow, you are both so creative and sounds like the parties went great. I am off to really think about how to do this...I love the idea of renting the hotel, so much better than our house! Thanks for the inspiration, good think I have 3 months to plan:lmao:

[fourmcds]

Ok, one last picture and I'll stop for the night, er, morning!

Alex loves photography and she also wants to be a model. So she combined the two up at our Bodega house and took a couple of self portraits...

These are from her digital, the other shots were from my "film" camera!!

Talk to you tomorrow night, er morning!

Karen

Karen: Great pictures. Thanks for sharing. I love finally "seeing" what everyone looks like. It will be so much better to finally meet though:woohoo: You daughter is beautiful.

[fourmcds]

Ok, here are 6 of our 7 grandchildren. One more is due in September! This was taken last August at our son's wedding.
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What sweeties! They all look beautiful. Are they all around the same age?

[granmaz]

What sweeties! They all look beautiful. Are they all around the same age?

Yes they are. The boys at the back are Joel,8, and Nathan, now 7. Girls from left. Abigail,8, Charlotte and Amy, twins, 5, and Emma 6. We also have Declan who is just 3.

[fourmcds]

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This is my 'little angel' :rotfl2: Well, she was once anyway!;) Becky, aged 18
It's about the only one I could find with her natural hair colour!:scared1:

Wow...the color of her eyes is amazing! As one who has no idea what her real hair color is :rotfl: I understand the concept of changing it!

[fourmcds]

Yes they are. The boys at the back are Joel,8, and Nathan, now 7. Girls from left. Abigail,8, Charlotte and Amy, twins, 5, and Emma 6. We also have Declan who is just 3.


That must be fun for them, having so many cousins all around the same age.

[WldWcnWmn]

Speaking of fairies, has any one noticed that a certain fairy hasn't dusted any one in our thread. The EB people have pixiedust: frequently.

I know my tags could use some refreshing...they're old. I see the EB group has lots of new tags.... I am feeling a little left out:confused:

After about a half an hour in the chair, I have butt death. My last root canal took 2 hours. :scared1: I'll take a filling any day.

Oh man, I hope the Tag Fairy's not looking:wizard: ...I certainly would not want "Butt Death" as a tag!:rotfl:

princess: Queen of Procrastinationprincess:

Never put off tomorrow what you can do the day after!

:stir: How many of us have passports or will be getting them by cruise time?

We have ours. We used them for our cruise last Feb.

We have ours, DD is the only one with a stamp in hers, though. The guy at customs coming back into the US this past February stamped hers, and not mine (I was right behind DD in line) go figure.

It almost seems like you'd have to have fish extenders or Christmas stockings or the like because otherwise how would you know who to deliver it to? And I think the sign up with a cutoff date is a great idea.

I am in a GTY so I will let you guys know our cabin as soon as I find out. I am having anxiety issues about being left out of "group things" since ya'll won't know where to find us!:scared1: :confused: :eek: :sad2: :scared: :faint:

Oh gross! Well, I found a frozen, dead bird in my driveway after more snow melted. Yuck! Too grossed out to deal with it today.


Oh man, that is icky. I am sad to report we need to update our pet list. Mekayla's ferret died last Friday...Mekayla called me at work when she got home from school and said "Mom, you need to come home right now!" I got all paniky and asked "why, what's up?" she told me Spice was dead in the cage...I then (without thinking it through) said, "well, if he's dead, there's no real reason for me to rush right home then, huh?" :confused: O.K. that may have not been the right thing to say off the bat, but there it is. So needless to say, I got her calmed down and told her to cover the cage with a sheet (our other ferret was asleep in the same cage and obviously had no clue his brother had passed) and as she didn't want to touch her dead pet it got to wait until I came home from work. We knew he was on his way...they only live like 7 years and he was at least six. Losing pets is so hard.:sad2:
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Hope this works!


This is my 'little angel' :rotfl2: Well, she was once anyway!;) Becky, aged 18
It's about the only one I could find with her natural hair colour!:scared1:

She is just lovely! Her eyes are amazing and I personally like the piercings! Mekayla has her nose pierced and I have a few myself.

[Tigger1221]

Wow, I am so mad! I was going to post pictures of my 4 cuddle buddied but photobucket won't let me log in. It says I never activated my accoutn :headache: .

We have tons of laundry to be done but we don't have a washer and dryer (we are going to get one when we move) and I hate laudry mats so I have to drive 30mins to my moms house to do it. :laundy:

I am supposed to be doing my homework so when DH gets home we can pack up the house. But, the DIS was calling my name.

[WldWcnWmn]

Our thread was too low on the list, just wondering where everyone is....:confused3

Oh I know...Monday afternoon...we're working! :surfweb: Well, some of us anyways:rolleyes1

[lillygator]

oh my, we just had an immediate evacuation!! We were outside for 45 min.....due to an odd smell. I did get to gaze upon some hunky firefighters though, and everyone is safe!

[WldWcnWmn]

Good to hear nothing bad happened. The diversion of the hunky firefighters was a great way to break up the work day! LOL:rotfl: :thumbsup2

[clynne]

Thea...I'm so sorry about Spice. And, more sorry that Mekayla had to find it herself!

Mandy...Love the picture of Becky! Very striking and love her eyes.

Marilyn...Cute grandkids! Definitely all from the same gene pool!

Karen...Love the family pics. Your daughter is gorgeous!

Like the birthday ideas, but we're not creative birthday people. Would prefer just family at home, but last year splurged on kid parties. It was fun for THEM. Thinking build-a-bear for sissy is good (thanks, LiserAnn), but still thinking for DS8. Any ideas for not-at-home celebrations?

No piercings here! (Well, besides one boring small hole in each earlobe. So not cool enough for Becky or Mekayla or Thea...)

Carolyn

[lillygator]

Good to hear nothing bad happened. The diversion of the hunky firefighters was a great way to break up the work day! LOL:rotfl: :thumbsup2

definitely, now if they could have just fed me strawberries and champagne while massaging my feet....well, :cloud9:


I am off to pick up the princesses....princess: princess:

[been2marceline]

Ok, here are 6 of our 7 grandchildren. One more is due in September! This was taken last August at our son's wedding.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/maz48/weddingjoelsbdaylegoland076.jpg

Oh my gosh, Marilyn!! What a bunch of cuties!!:cutie: :cutie: :cutie:

Missed you last night, glad your internet is up!! I agree that I might actually get other things done around the house if ours went down, but I hope I don't find out if that would be true!!:scared1:

Karen

[been2marceline]

I am not liking this time change right now...maybe tonight when we can be outside for a bit later.....

laundry - it is a never ending battle at my house, especially since I am the only one doing it. I am going to start weeding out clothes that no one wears anymore and donate it. There is a 6 drawer chest in our bedroom that has all DH's various t-shirts....that are never worn. Ones that are special to him I am going to try and find someone to make me a t-shirt quilt.

We started the weed out process 2 weeks ago! I have 4 big Creative Memories boxes full of DD's clothes, 3 boxes of general give away stuff (crap) ;) and DH has a bag to go through for the final give away.

Hmmmm, looks like I am the only one that hasn't a box of my old stuff filled yet... :hippie:

2 boxes are getting picked up today by one of our friends that we hand girl clothes down to (the good stuff!) And the rest will go with the Veteran's pick up truck on Wednesday!! WOOHOOO!!:woohoo:

Now if I can just find the time, energy and will to break away from the DIS long enough, I have 2 more ROOMS to go through!! (Where did all of this stuff come from in the first place?):confused3

Karen

[been2marceline]

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Hope this works!


This is my 'little angel' :rotfl2: Well, she was once anyway!;) Becky, aged 18
It's about the only one I could find with her natural hair colour!:scared1:

That's her natural hair color!! What lucky girl!! :hippie:

When will they learn how truly beautiful they are without all of the other stuff that says "look at me"!!! :confused3

Karen

[granmaz]

Good evening Karen, or good afternoon for you!!!:)

[been2marceline]

Ok, which one of you two wants to come up here in June and host an AG party! Wow, you are both so creative and sounds like the parties went great. I am off to really think about how to do this...I love the idea of renting the hotel, so much better than our house! Thanks for the inspiration, good think I have 3 months to plan:lmao:

I have to say that the hotel party we did was one of my favorites!:thumbsup2 And the hotel wasn't as much $ as I thought it would be either!! Especially when it included breakfast and no clean up for me!!!;)

Karen

[granmaz]

Just about to go to bed. Quite a good film on TV at the moment, but I don't think i can stay awake.. Maybe record it, though it is a little frightening!

[Tigger1221]

WAHOO!!!:cool1: :banana: :woohoo: :dance3: :cheer2: We just got our cruise confirmation in the mail, now it is beginning to feel real.
:cloud9:
We are going to be in WDW from May5-18 if anyone else is going to be there we would love to meet!

[granmaz]

I wish I was going to be there, but our next trip will be in November/December.

[nskjerven]

She has beautiful eyes!!! Like marbles!

okay I'm sorry but did you just say she had marbles in her head !:lmao: :rotfl: :scared1: I know you didn't but that was my visual!

she does have beautiful eyes (& hair but I said that part before)


Okay, back from all my business trips. Did I miss anything?

popcorn::

hmmmm, animal updates new puppy, over achieving birthday parties, one bad car accident, I think only 1 hospital trip, discussion on the Abercrombie Men (yum) and a threat about the hooters chicks (yikes) okay that's all, well not really but I'm not the chatty creative one like Aunty Brat, I'm just a plain old bean counter with only creative ideas for those crazy AG birthday parties....


Ok, which one of you two wants to come up here in June and host an AG party! :lmao:

do you realize you just gave to travelling nuts a reason to come to WA? Ha ha ha! I've actually thought in another life I'd be a great girly party planner, but alas I don't think my hourly rate as a great bean counter would match that idea, so I stay rooted in my chair and help those who can't count their own money....


I know my tags could use some refreshing...they're old. I see the EB group has lots of new tags.... I am feeling a little left out:confused:


hey at least you felt the love, me no lovie here....


Oh man, I hope the Tag Fairy's not looking:wizard: ...I certainly would not want "Butt Death" as a tag!:rotfl:



Never put off tomorrow what you can do the day after!

or the week after next (my moto)



We have ours, DD is the only one with a stamp in hers, though. The guy at customs coming back into the US this past February stamped hers, and not mine (I was right behind DD in line) go figure.

an injustice I say!



I am in a GTY so I will let you guys know our cabin as soon as I find out. I am having anxiety issues about being left out of "group things" since ya'll won't know where to find us!:scared1: :confused: :eek: :sad2: :scared: :faint:

totally agree with you...hence my need to be invovled (with everything in my life) otherwise I might get looked over or forgotten...:sad2: :sad1:


Oh man, that is icky. I am sad to report we need to update our pet list. Mekayla's ferret died last Friday...Mekayla called me at work when she got home from school and said "Mom, you need to come home right now!" I got all paniky and asked "why, what's up?" she told me Spice was dead in the cage...I then (without thinking it through) said, "well, if he's dead, there's no real reason for me to rush right home then, huh?" :confused: O.K. that may have not been the right thing to say off the bat, but there it is. So needless to say, I got her calmed down and told her to cover the cage with a sheet (our other ferret was asleep in the same cage and obviously had no clue his brother had passed) and as she didn't want to touch her dead pet it got to wait until I came home from work. We knew he was on his way...they only live like 7 years and he was at least six. Losing pets is so hard.:sad2:

Very sad, and I also would have said something like that and then felt bad enough to come home & buy another feret on my way...I'm very afraid of our almost 15 year old dog going to the light and me finding her first


She is just lovely! Her eyes are amazing and I personally like the piercings! Mekayla has her nose pierced and I have a few myself.

Piercing too much pain, just the ears here. Molly gets hers done when I did at 13. She is thrilled with that as she thought I said 18 one time so she had completely adjusted to the idea before she really asked me about it.

Late to get them from school yikees!!!

[been2marceline]

Oh man, that is icky. I am sad to report we need to update our pet list. Mekayla's ferret died last Friday...Mekayla called me at work when she got home from school and said "Mom, you need to come home right now!" I got all paniky and asked "why, what's up?" she told me Spice was dead in the cage...I then (without thinking it through) said, "well, if he's dead, there's no real reason for me to rush right home then, huh?" :confused: O.K. that may have not been the right thing to say off the bat, but there it is. So needless to say, I got her calmed down and told her to cover the cage with a sheet (our other ferret was asleep in the same cage and obviously had no clue his brother had passed) and as she didn't want to touch her dead pet it got to wait until I came home from work. We knew he was on his way...they only live like 7 years and he was at least six. Losing pets is so hard.:sad2:

Ok, mom, lacking a little in the sympathy department. Too logical, just like me!!;)

It is very sad to lose a pet. took me 10 years to get another cat after my last sweetie pie kitty passed away.:sad1:

With kids, though, they snap back pretty quickly. She'll probably be asking for a replacement pet soon! :cutie:

Karen

[been2marceline]

Just about to go to bed. Quite a good film on TV at the moment, but I don't think i can stay awake.. Maybe record it, though it is a little frightening!

What film is it? :scared1:

Yes, it's around 3:20 pm here. I am DISing from work while I wait for my UPS pick up.

Have sweet dreams!!:hippie:

Karen

[been2marceline]

I wish I was going to be there, but our next trip will be in November/December.

Marilyn,

When will you be there in November? We will be staying after our cruise, if all goes well with our new shop, from around the 18th till after Thanksgiving.

Karen

[HollyTyler]

Holly,

Wasn't that the night that you met, was it Alejandro?:cool1:

HMMMM, more than just TMI, me thinks!!;)

Karen

:rotfl2: OOPS! :rolleyes1

[Jhalkias]

oh my, we just had an immediate evacuation!! We were outside for 45 min.....due to an odd smell. I did get to gaze upon some hunky firefighters though, and everyone is safe!

BAD Girl!:sad2:

Just managed to get online after having no internet for almost 24 hours!!! Made me very stressed!!!



Sounded very nasty. Hoping everything soon at an end!



John,

OK, I'm going to give it a try!!

[http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s122/kbdbear/PrimeTimeCafe.jpg

It works!!!! Photo bucket actually has the IMG address beneath the picture and you just copy it instead of right clicking!!

This is us, Karen, Alexandra and Ted at the Prime Time Cafe in WDW this past December!!

Thanks John!!!!



Enjoying the Great pictures now that you guys have learned how to post them.

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Hope this works!


This is my 'little angel' :rotfl2: Well, she was once anyway!;) Becky, aged 18
It's about the only one I could find with her natural hair colour!:scared1:

Wow! Those eyes are killer. For someone with constant allergies though, the nose ring would never work for me! I would sneeze one off in a New York Minute!

[HollyTyler]

BTW, keep those pictures coming. More kids! More puppies! No more banana slugs (I actually WAS eating at my desk when those showed up!)
You mean the thought of licking a banana slug wasn't appetizing? Didn't sound better than what you were eating at the time? :lmao: Aw, come on....where's your sense of adventure?! :rotfl:

[HollyTyler]

Ok, here are 6 of our 7 grandchildren. One more is due in September! This was taken last August at our son's wedding.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/maz48/weddingjoelsbdaylegoland076.jpg
They're so adorable!

[HollyTyler]

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Hope this works!


This is my 'little angel' :rotfl2: Well, she was once anyway!;) Becky, aged 18
It's about the only one I could find with her natural hair colour!:scared1:
Oh my gosh! Her eyes just jump off the page! Beautiful!

[been2marceline]

:rotfl2: OOPS! :rolleyes1

Ahh those single days... :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

Actually, glad their over, I had many years of being single!! :cool1:

Karen

[been2marceline]

Wow! Those eyes are killer. For someone with constant allergies though, the nose ring would never work for me! I would sneeze one off in a New York Minute![/QUOTE]

DITTO!!!:rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2:

[Jhalkias]

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Hope this works!


This is my 'little angel' :rotfl2: Well, she was once anyway!;) Becky, aged 18
It's about the only one I could find with her natural hair colour!:scared1:

Hmmmmm . . . just noticed she is 18 . . . would she like to meet a 19 (20 this summer) future American doctor???:rotfl2:

DS Alex is now trying to figure out what to do this summer, his friend, who was to go to Europe with him this summer is chickening out on him. Unfortunately, most of his friends are only 1/2 done with college, and not so much in the mood to travel like Alex is.

He did want to visit England, and he broke up with his girlfriend last year . . .:rolleyes1

(and if he even knew I was joking like this would probably want to kill me)

[nskjerven]

:rotfl2: OOPS! :rolleyes1

so busted....I was laughing my way thru this one...oh those were the days (oops I mean nights) and (mornings)... have fun you only live once & we like to hear the stories....:rotfl:

[been2marceline]

so busted....I was laughing my way thru this one...oh those were the days (oops I mean nights) and (mornings)... have fun you only live once & we like to hear the stories....:rotfl:

Yes, we are living vivaciously (pun intended) through you, Holly!!:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

Karen

[LiserAnn]

okay I'm sorry but did you just say she had marbles in her head !:lmao: :rotfl: :scared1: I know you didn't but that was my visual!

she does have beautiful eyes (& hair but I said that part before)


:lmao: :eek: :lmao: You silly girl...no, she really does have beaut-i-ful eyes but no, not marble eyes, just pretty like a marble!

[HollyTyler]

Ok, one last picture and I'll stop for the night, er, morning!

Alex loves photography and she also wants to be a model. So she combined the two up at our Bodega house and took a couple of self portraits...

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s122/kbdbear/IMGP0715.jpg

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s122/kbdbear/IMGP0679.jpg



These are from her digital, the other shots were from my "film" camera!!

Talk to you tomorrow night, er morning!

Karen
Karen, I love all your pics, but these are the best! Pretty daughter! :goodvibes

[HollyTyler]

Yep!:thumbsup2
Awwww....he's gonna love those! You'll have some great formal night pics!

[EllaEnchanted]

WldWcnWmn: I am in a GTY so I will let you guys know our cabin as soon as I find out. I am having anxiety issues about being left out of "group things" since ya'll won't know where to find us!


I'm with you. I am very concerned about getting a cabin number at the port and then how do I let everyone know where I am?

Maybe we should organize something onboard where we can sign in our numbers? Does anyone have any ideas? How was this done in the past?

Help!

[HollyTyler]

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Hope this works!


This is my 'little angel' :rotfl2: Well, she was once anyway!;) Becky, aged 18
It's about the only one I could find with her natural hair colour!:scared1:
Oh my gosh! Her eyes just jump off the page! Beautiful!

[birkner]

WldWcnWmn: I am in a GTY so I will let you guys know our cabin as soon as I find out. I am having anxiety issues about being left out of "group things" since ya'll won't know where to find us!


I'm with you. I am very concerned about getting a cabin number at the port and then how do I let everyone know where I am?

Maybe we should organize something onboard where we can sign in our numbers? Does anyone have any ideas? How was this done in the past?

Help!

I will be happy to be a focal point for those who have gty cabins. You can stop by our cabin and leave your cabin number when you board the ship. I will figure out a way to keep all of the number, maybe a list on the door or something.

Second thought, maybe people can call our cabin and leave voice mail with their cabin numbers.

:surfweb:

[HollyTyler]

Me too! I think that's what kept me from getting bitter...how truly fortunate we were...the police kept saying that over and over. It could have been much worse, thank God, it wasn't! I count our blessings every day!

Well, it's so hot here with low humidity that in Northern Orange County there is a raging fire going on in Anaheim Hills. It was started by a car and it's so windy it took off. The fire dept. had to evacuate 200 homes but it's now 50% contained so the people can go back home. Tomorrow is expected to be warmer, which means continued red flag (high fire) warnings for the OC and Inland Empire. We live at the base of a hilly ecological reserve (called the Santa Rosa Plateau)--we have brush within a few streets of our home, which is unnerving during this heat. Hopefully it will pass so that the brush won't be of fire concern. We lived near Laguna Canyon in 1994 when they had the big fires....it was so terrifying that I have no desire to go through again. There was fire on every ridge surrounding our house...you could feel the heat and see the ashes and embers in the air. Scarey! Hey east coast...send some snow our way!!! :)
Oh my gosh! Scary! OK....I won't complain about our snow anymore! I'll take the snow and cold any day now rather than fires. :eek:

[HollyTyler]

oh my, we just had an immediate evacuation!! We were outside for 45 min.....due to an odd smell. I did get to gaze upon some hunky firefighters though, and everyone is safe!
Oooooooooh.....firemen (wiping drool off my chin)! Glad everybody's safe too.

[pahrumpgirl]

WldWcnWmn: I am in a GTY so I will let you guys know our cabin as soon as I find out. I am having anxiety issues about being left out of "group things" since ya'll won't know where to find us!


I'm with you. I am very concerned about getting a cabin number at the port and then how do I let everyone know where I am?

Maybe we should organize something onboard where we can sign in our numbers? Does anyone have any ideas? How was this done in the past?

Help!

On our 11 night SC cruise we had floor monitors on each floor so that if your room changed you went to the one on your floor and put your room number on it. That way everyone could check these for any updates. They also kept track of any changes in planned activities.

Carol

[Jhalkias]

WldWcnWmn: I am in a GTY so I will let you guys know our cabin as soon as I find out. I am having anxiety issues about being left out of "group things" since ya'll won't know where to find us!


I'm with you. I am very concerned about getting a cabin number at the port and then how do I let everyone know where I am?

Maybe we should organize something onboard where we can sign in our numbers? Does anyone have any ideas? How was this done in the past?

Help!

We are also GTY, and I bet we aren't the only ones along with you! I think we should wait a bit longer before we start to worry about this, but I think the idea of "Deck Monitors" is a good one as long as I don't need a "Deck Pass" to walk around. :rotfl:

[HollyTyler]

Ahh those single days... :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

Actually, glad their over, I had many years of being single!! :cool1:

Karen
Well, after 5 1/2 years without, I learned Friday what I've been missing out on! Never did anything like that in my 20s, so I'm making up for it almost double-time! :laughing: (Get it? I'm almost 40. :rotfl: )

I think me having a semester off law school was a very dangerous idea. I need to get back to my responsible self! :rolleyes1

[ibouncetoo]

First: For the second time in a week I typed a LOOOONG post with tons of fun and important stuff ( ;) ) and when I hit submit it went to a SIGN IN SCREEN!!! I guess I took to long checking my spelling, eh?

[ibouncetoo]

Second, I WOULD lick the banana slug if it SMELLED like a banana.....maybe.


Third, I'm also freaking about being GTY....don't like that they can change my room assignment right up till boarding time!!!!

ANYONE IN # 6645? That's the cabin I was assigned before the 1/31 lost reservatin brouhaha.

I like the idea of floor monitors...just need volunteers who have assigned cabins and don't intend to upgrade.

[Jhalkias]

Thought I would post a pic of our family too . . . DS in this photo will not be with us. This was taken last year at Easter outside of church.

http://www.wdwinfo.com/photopost/data/500/20420Easter.jpg

[HollyTyler]

so busted....I was laughing my way thru this one...oh those were the days (oops I mean nights) and (mornings)... have fun you only live once & we like to hear the stories....:rotfl:

Yes, we are living vivaciously (pun intended) through you, Holly!!:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

Karen

:rotfl2: You know, the girls at work were dying laughing at me today too! Of course, those were really great stories. Struggling to stay G rated here, but I see you're reading between the lines. ;)

When I gave Alejandro a ride home in the morning, I asked him if he was serious when he told me he's only 27 and he said yes. When I laughed, he wondered what was funny and I told him he must be out of his mind because I'll be 37 in a couple months! He looked at me with big eyes and said, "Wow! That's old!" And then he started laughing and told me he's joking! :rotfl2:

OK...back to tamer topics. :upsidedow

[ibouncetoo]

Fourth. How's everyone doing finding rooms for the DIS MEET???? I can't get anything Saturday night though I MAY still be able to get time share for Sunday/Monday, but I really wanted to arrive Sat so I could hit the parks Sunday morning.

Carolyn, were you trying to get something for Sunday night?

Cheri, have you checked out rooms yet? I know you wanted to do the red carpet on Saturday (my idea of a living-hell)?

I know Noel couldn't find anything in the DCL resorts, have people tried the area hotels???

ok...heading home now....back later........

[Tigger1221]

On our first cruise we booked gty and it worked out fine. We had our room number before final documets were sent out. It was a long wait but well worth it.

This time I booked a specfic cabin since the fwd. makes me sick. It was our honeymoon and I couldn't be in the cabin at all.:eek:

[HollyTyler]

First: For the second time in a week I typed a LOOOONG post with tons of fun and important stuff ( ;) ) and when I hit submit it went to a SIGN IN SCREEN!!! I guess I took to long checking my spelling, eh?
You know what I always, always, always do? Whenever I type a long post (or e-mail, for that matter), I always select & copy it just in case something happens. Just an old habit leftover from when I had dial-up many years ago and always got booted offline at the wrong time and lost long e-mails often. It only takes an extra second and is worth not having to deal with the hassle and frustration of losing a long post or e-mail. :thumbsup2

[MrsMork]

WldWcnWmn: I am in a GTY so I will let you guys know our cabin as soon as I find out. I am having anxiety issues about being left out of "group things" since ya'll won't know where to find us!


I'm with you. I am very concerned about getting a cabin number at the port and then how do I let everyone know where I am?

Maybe we should organize something onboard where we can sign in our numbers? Does anyone have any ideas? How was this done in the past?

Help!

A DIS name on the door and a stocking on the fish told me which doors to leave something at when I was walking the halls in Dec. :thumbsup2

[pjpoohbear]

Angie Great idea, Liserann is doing Mickey heads!

[HollyTyler]

Great picture, John! Of course, the first thing I noticed was the lush, green grass. Made me drool! Can't wait to see green again! I'm about going nuts seeing the dreary, brown grass, brown trees, brown bushes, etc. Yuck.

[LiserAnn]

Fourth. How's everyone doing finding rooms for the DIS MEET???? I can't get anything Saturday night though I MAY still be able to get time share for Sunday/Monday, but I really wanted to arrive Sat so I could hit the parks Sunday morning.

I'm not thrilled with Disney priority dining right now....I can't get the "large groups" guy to call me back. Although that could be because they won't book more than 60 days out. I'll wait till the 20th and then I'll get aggressive with them! Give 'em heck!!!! :laughing:

[Jhalkias]

Great picture, John! Of course, the first thing I noticed was the lush, green grass. Made me drool! Can't wait to see green again! I'm about going nuts seeing the dreary, brown grass, brown trees, brown bushes, etc. Yuck.

Not to mention the brown you know what I had to pick up . . .

It is starting to green up just a little bit here . . . but the UGLY piles of black snow that remain make things look real yucky.

Jealous of your guys DIS meet out there on the West Coast.

I think I mentioned before, but I will mention again, we will be at Vero Beach March 23-27, and WDW Beach Club Villas March 27-April 1 if anyone is going to be at the "World" during that time.

We have some meets scheduled this summer with old friends from other cruises, but nothing in the really near future.

[HollyTyler]

Not to mention the brown you know what I had to pick up . . .

It is starting to green up just a little bit here . . . but the UGLY piles of black snow that remain make things look real yucky.


Dog logs.

You're lucky....not a speck of green here yet. :sad2: I can't wait until the smell of the neighborhood the first time everybody mows. I just love the fresh-mowed smell!

[woody73]

BTW, keep those pictures coming. More kids! More puppies! No more banana slugs (I actually WAS eating at my desk when those showed up!)
Ewwww!

Woody

[nskjerven]

We are also GTY, and I bet we aren't the only ones along with you! I think we should wait a bit longer before we start to worry about this, but I think the idea of "Deck Monitors" is a good one as long as I don't need a "Deck Pass" to walk around. :rotfl:

or a Deck Pass to get a DOD, wait a minute that might be a good idea for some of us, right???

Bummer I missed an ebay auction I was watching...It was an AG outfit for Molly for the cruise. Yes I'm an over planner who buys clothes for my children years in advance just in case I can't find the exact thing I want prior to my trip....Of course the hard part is guessing the sizes, that my friend is getting more and more difficult as they grown up. My 9 year old is hitting the size 12 in some things, while my 7 year old can still fit in some of his size 5's. What is a planning freak to do???:confused3

We are in the process of building the turtle tank for Crush, Wilson's turtle that we got him for his bday. What a process....we got him the mega block (like legos) Flying Dutchman to sink in her swimming area and as Wilson is building it today, he says "I'm not sure this will be good to go into her tank" "can it come in and out of the tank?" hmmmm me thinks he wants to play with the priate ship 'eh? I hope once it's all built he'll be ready to sink her as it really could turn out to be cool. Pictures to come as it gets sunk....(I hope)

[EllaEnchanted]

I will be happy to be a focal point for those who have gty cabins. You can stop by our cabin and leave your cabin number when you board the ship. I will figure out a way to keep all of the number, maybe a list on the door or something.

Second thought, maybe people can call our cabin and leave voice mail with their cabin numbers.

:surfweb:

On our 11 night SC cruise we had floor monitors on each floor so that if your room changed you went to the one on your floor and put your room number on it. That way everyone could check these for any updates. They also kept track of any changes in planned activities.

Carol

We are also GTY, and I bet we aren't the only ones along with you! I think we should wait a bit longer before we start to worry about this, but I think the idea of "Deck Monitors" is a good one as long as I don't need a "Deck Pass" to walk around. :rotfl:


Third, I'm also freaking about being GTY....don't like that they can change my room assignment right up till boarding time!!!!

ANYONE IN # 6645? That's the cabin I was assigned before the 1/31 lost reservatin brouhaha.

I like the idea of floor monitors...just need volunteers who have assigned cabins and don't intend to upgrade.

On our first cruise we booked gty and it worked out fine. We had our room number before final documets were sent out. It was a long wait but well worth it.

This time I booked a specfic cabin since the fwd. makes me sick. It was our honeymoon and I couldn't be in the cabin at all.:eek:

A DIS name on the door and a stocking on the fish told me which doors to leave something at when I was walking the halls in Dec. :thumbsup2

Angie Great idea, Liserann is doing Mickey heads!



Thanks for all your responses....I do feel better about the uncertainty of not knowing where we'll be and how to stay connected.

noel, so sweet of you to offer, but how do you know how many people will be affected? Could become overwhelming and time consuming if it's a large number. don't want to do that to you. time is fun!

carol, floor monitors sound like a good way to do it, especially since everyone can also check for activity changes. btw, I was on the same cruise, that's where I learned about DISers and the boards. as soon as I returned home, I got online and started checking it out and now - of course - I'm hooked.

john, now I really feel better knowing that you're a GTY also. all I have to do is find you....makes it easier....everyone will know where you are. and you're right about waiting...we should probably pay for it before we start worrying about it. Deck Monitors good - Deck Passes not good - I got it!

ibouncetoo, need volunteers who have assigned cabins and don't intend to upgrade, yes I agree that this is important.

tigger1221, so you got your cabin number after you paid for it in full?!? makes sense. have to learn to be patient. so hard to do.....what! you couldn't be in your cabin during your honeymoon. that's horrible. at least now you know not to go fwd and you can make up for it! Ha Ha Ha

angie and auntie pj, a DIS name on the door or a stocking on the fish would definitely sound off the alarm that this was a fellow DIS...and liserann's mickey heads especially!

Thank you everyone, it's so great knowing that all you have to do is ask and everyone answers. it makes the whole process so much easier and way more enjoyable. You're the Best!!!:grouphug:

[birkner]

Fourth. How's everyone doing finding rooms for the DIS MEET???? I can't get anything Saturday night though I MAY still be able to get time share for Sunday/Monday, but I really wanted to arrive Sat so I could hit the parks Sunday morning.

Carolyn, were you trying to get something for Sunday night?

Cheri, have you checked out rooms yet? I know you wanted to do the red carpet on Saturday (my idea of a living-hell)?

I know Noel couldn't find anything in the DCL resorts, have people tried the area hotels???

ok...heading home now....back later........

I actually ended up having ressies in three hotels, including the Grand Californian if anyone needs to share rooms.

:surfweb:

[HollyTyler]

or a Deck Pass to get a DOD, wait a minute that might be a good idea for some of us, right???

Bummer I missed an ebay auction I was watching...It was an AG outfit for Molly for the cruise. Yes I'm an over planner who buys clothes for my children years in advance just in case I can't find the exact thing I want prior to my trip....Of course the hard part is guessing the sizes, that my friend is getting more and more difficult as they grown up. My 9 year old is hitting the size 12 in some things, while my 7 year old can still fit in some of his size 5's. What is a planning freak to do???:confused3

We are in the process of building the turtle tank for Crush, Wilson's turtle that we got him for his bday. What a process....we got him the mega block (like legos) Flying Dutchman to sink in her swimming area and as Wilson is building it today, he says "I'm not sure this will be good to go into her tank" "can it come in and out of the tank?" hmmmm me thinks he wants to play with the priate ship 'eh? I hope once it's all built he'll be ready to sink her as it really could turn out to be cool. Pictures to come as it gets sunk....(I hope)

:rotfl2: I'm with Wilson! I'd want to play with the ship too! "Santa" brought Tyler the Black Pearl at our house and the Flying Dutchman at his dad's house and I love both ships! They both travel back and forth between our houses occasionally and I have so much fun playing with them! :thumbsup2 But yeah, it would be cool to have the ship in the turtle tank.

[birkner]

Thanks for all your responses....I do feel better about the uncertainty of not knowing where we'll be and how to stay connected.

noel, so sweet of you to offer, but how do you know how many people will be affected? Could become overwhelming and time consuming if it's a large number. don't want to do that to you. time is fun!:

I was figuring we would end up with an excel spread sheet with everyones name on it. Once we had everyones's name and cabin on the list, we could pass to the list to the floor monitors. Sounds like it would work like a phone tree system we used when my kids were in school.

Just my thoughts...

:surfweb:

[gouodux]

Wow, there really are some beautiful children and families in this group - sincerely!


Thank you to all that shared their experiences and thoughts about grade skipping. It is a tough decision and one that we thought alot about. The advice and stories we found here really were reassuring. Thank you again.

[Jhalkias]

Thanks for all your responses....I do feel better about the uncertainty of not knowing where we'll be and how to stay connected.


john, now I really feel better knowing that you're a GTY also. all I have to do is find you....makes it easier....everyone will know where you are. and you're right about waiting...we should probably pay for it before we start worrying about it. Deck Monitors good - Deck Passes not good - I got it!



Now why would that be? :lmao:

Honestly, we had a TON of GTY staterooms on our last cruise, because DCL dropped the price dramaticaly a few weeks before the cruise, and MANY of our DIS friends rebooked and saved major $$$$. While it was a challenge with the cabin numbers we had, we found everyone. While the ship is big, it was amazing how much we saw and ran into our DIS friends.

I don't know if you guys will want to go for this, but I will mention it because it really brought the last group together at the terminal, and made a nice photo. Disney Direct had a Disney shirt really cheap on sale, and it came in Lime Green before our last cruise. We decided to all order the same shirt, and at the port, we looked like the Lime Green Army! It was REALLY easy to find all of our DIS friends at the port, and get to meet and greet before boarding.

I would suggest, however, that we give this idea a bit of time. No need to go out and buy shirts now - wait until the group is more firmed up like for the team gifts.

But start keeping your eyes out for deals like that. I think the shirts were maybe $7 each. If any of our friends outside of the US can't order, we could always order for them and hand them out the night before at hotels or something.

When I get a chance, I will try to post a photo of our group.

[EllaEnchanted]

or a Deck Pass to get a DOD, wait a minute that might be a good idea for some of us, right???

Bummer I missed an ebay auction I was watching...It was an AG outfit for Molly for the cruise. Yes I'm an over planner who buys clothes for my children years in advance just in case I can't find the exact thing I want prior to my trip....Of course the hard part is guessing the sizes, that my friend is getting more and more difficult as they grown up. My 9 year old is hitting the size 12 in some things, while my 7 year old can still fit in some of his size 5's. What is a planning freak to do???:confused3

We are in the process of building the turtle tank for Crush, Wilson's turtle that we got him for his bday. What a process....we got him the mega block (like legos) Flying Dutchman to sink in her swimming area and as Wilson is building it today, he says "I'm not sure this will be good to go into her tank" "can it come in and out of the tank?" hmmmm me thinks he wants to play with the priate ship 'eh? I hope once it's all built he'll be ready to sink her as it really could turn out to be cool. Pictures to come as it gets sunk....(I hope)



Send pictures of crush, I love turtles! What kind does Wilson have? I have 3 red-eared sliders, 2 yellow river cooters and 1 eastern painted. I have 4 tanks in my house. Tell Wilson I LOVE that he named him CRUSH! :love: Just wash the mega blocks really well (to eliminate Crush getting sick from new bacteria) before sinking into the tank and Crush will love to hang out on it! Remind Wilson to wash his hands also everytime he's done handling Crush or any of his posessions. Turtles can carry Salmanilla (spelled that wrong, sorry John) and it's under control as long as you wash. You have to remember that you don't want to give him your germs and you don't want his germs. I've had turtles for 12 years and I have never had any problems.

[gouodux]

Oh, to all those Pac10 fans and alumni, sorry about this past weekend! The Oregon Ducks just weren't very kind to Arizona, Cal, and especially USC! Felt really good to be beating USC by 39 points. We have all been used to the Trojan football team doing the same to most of us over the last few years. You have a couple of extremely happy Duck fans here!


http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j52/gouodux/images.jpg

Oregon Ducks - 2007 Pac10 Tournament Champions :worship:

[nskjerven]

Just won this on ebay....

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a175/nskjerven/minnieoutfitforPiper.jpg

I wanted to show it to someone who would get it!!! I'm sending it to my Diser Friends for their daughter...She will be on the DCL NYE 2008 with us and don't ya think this is perfect for that? I hope the size is ok by then, okay now I've taken my OCD in childrens clothes to the next level....pre buying for my friends. What a nutcase! :lmao: I had to get it...my little girl isn't little enough anymore and this was just so cute!

[EllaEnchanted]

I was figuring we would end up with an excel spread sheet with everyones name on it. Once we had everyones's name and cabin on the list, we could pass to the list to the floor monitors. Sounds like it would work like a phone tree system we used when my kids were in school.

Just my thoughts...

:surfweb:


Noel: It's an excellent idea...that takes all the work out of it and keeps it well organized and controlled by the monitors. Genus!

[HollyTyler]

Just won this on ebay....

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a175/nskjerven/minnieoutfitforPiper.jpg

I wanted to show it to someone who would get it!!! I'm sending it to my Diser Friends for their daughter...She will be on the DCL NYE 2008 with us and don't ya think this is perfect for that? I hope the size is ok by then, okay now I've taken my OCD in childrens clothes to the next level....pre buying for my friends. What a nutcase! :lmao: I had to get it...my little girl isn't little enough anymore and this was just so cute!
Oh my gosh, that's so cute and absolutely perfect for your friends' daughter on their cruise! What a great friend you are! That little girl will be so thrilled!

[EllaEnchanted]

Now why would that be? :lmao:

Honestly, we had a TON of GTY staterooms on our last cruise, because DCL dropped the price dramaticaly a few weeks before the cruise, and MANY of our DIS friends rebooked and saved major $$$$. While it was a challenge with the cabin numbers we had, we found everyone. While the ship is big, it was amazing how much we saw and ran into our DIS friends.

I don't know if you guys will want to go for this, but I will mention it because it really brought the last group together at the terminal, and made a nice photo. Disney Direct had a Disney shirt really cheap on sale, and it came in Lime Green before our last cruise. We decided to all order the same shirt, and at the port, we looked like the Lime Green Army! It was REALLY easy to find all of our DIS friends at the port, and get to meet and greet before boarding.

I would suggest, however, that we give this idea a bit of time. No need to go out and buy shirts now - wait until the group is more firmed up like for the team gifts.

But start keeping your eyes out for deals like that. I think the shirts were maybe $7 each. If any of our friends outside of the US can't order, we could always order for them and hand them out the night before at hotels or something.

When I get a chance, I will try to post a photo of our group.



John: I'm in for the group shirts and I definitely want to see the group photo, when you can.

[Jhalkias]

Here is a photo of some of the kids at the terminal in their shirts . . . Sophia has the bow in her hair, and Kim's DD (Kimerinc) is the cute redhead holding her hand. Angie's grandson has his back to you . . .

http://www.wdwinfo.com/photopost/data/500/20420Group.jpg

Here is the group photo on Deck 9 . . . not even half of us remembered to get there, but I am in the front row - seated, and PJ is in the photo too, back row, very left end, and Angie and Dennis are in the photo too, about in the middle, Dennis in back, Angie in front of him . . .

http://www.wdwinfo.com/photopost/data/500/20420DIS1.jpg

OK, bedtime guys, this time change did me in, and I got a 5 am wakeup call this morning due to a problem.

'Night!

[WldWcnWmn]

WldWcnWmn: I am in a GTY so I will let you guys know our cabin as soon as I find out. I am having anxiety issues about being left out of "group things" since ya'll won't know where to find us!


I'm with you. I am very concerned about getting a cabin number at the port and then how do I let everyone know where I am?

Maybe we should organize something onboard where we can sign in our numbers? Does anyone have any ideas? How was this done in the past?

Help!

I like the "phone a friend" idea!

I will be happy to be a focal point for those who have gty cabins. You can stop by our cabin and leave your cabin number when you board the ship. I will figure out a way to keep all of the number, maybe a list on the door or something.

Second thought, maybe people can call our cabin and leave voice mail with their cabin numbers.

:surfweb:

Yup, that's what I was thinking. Can we all say PTO phone tree?

You know what I always, always, always do? Whenever I type a long post (or e-mail, for that matter), I always select & copy it just in case something happens. Just an old habit leftover from when I had dial-up many years ago and always got booted offline at the wrong time and lost long e-mails often. It only takes an extra second and is worth not having to deal with the hassle and frustration of losing a long post or e-mail. :thumbsup2

That's an awesome idea...I am going to start doing that!

A DIS name on the door and a stocking on the fish told me which doors to leave something at when I was walking the halls in Dec. :thumbsup2


O.K. easy enough, but who's gonna' roam up and down the halls?

I actually ended up having ressies in three hotels, including the Grand Californian if anyone needs to share rooms.

:surfweb:

Oh My Goodness, you all are booking rooms already? YIKES! I haven't even considered rooms...tried to book flights but couldn't Do I need to book a room now? :scared1: Will there be anyhthing left if I wait until January 2008?:confused:
Now why would that be? :lmao:

Honestly, we had a TON of GTY staterooms on our last cruise, because DCL dropped the price dramaticaly a few weeks before the cruise, and MANY of our DIS friends rebooked and saved major $$$$. While it was a challenge with the cabin numbers we had, we found everyone. While the ship is big, it was amazing how much we saw and ran into our DIS friends.

I don't know if you guys will want to go for this, but I will mention it because it really brought the last group together at the terminal, and made a nice photo. Disney Direct had a Disney shirt really cheap on sale, and it came in Lime Green before our last cruise. We decided to all order the same shirt, and at the port, we looked like the Lime Green Army! It was REALLY easy to find all of our DIS friends at the port, and get to meet and greet before boarding.

I would suggest, however, that we give this idea a bit of time. No need to go out and buy shirts now - wait until the group is more firmed up like for the team gifts.

But start keeping your eyes out for deals like that. I think the shirts were maybe $7 each. If any of our friends outside of the US can't order, we could always order for them and hand them out the night before at hotels or something.

When I get a chance, I will try to post a photo of our group.

We did that, too! It was so cool seeing everyone dressed in the same shirt...looked like a big ole family reunion...but no one looked alike! LOL:rotfl: We should soooo do this! John your picture is awesome! The kids :dance3: is great!

Thanks everyone for your kind words about Spice...I told my daughter I am a goober and I spoke before I thought. She's o.k. now...no requests for new pets (whew) 'cause we have a whole house full, still.

[been2marceline]

Well, after 5 1/2 years without, I learned Friday what I've been missing out on! Never did anything like that in my 20s, so I'm making up for it almost double-time! :laughing: (Get it? I'm almost 40. :rotfl: )

I think me having a semester off law school was a very dangerous idea. I need to get back to my responsible self! :rolleyes1

Holly,

You will have plenty of years of responsibility (and boredom) to attend to in the future. :sad2:

As Auntie Mame would say "Live, Live, Live!" :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

Karen

[been2marceline]

You know what I always, always, always do? Whenever I type a long post (or e-mail, for that matter), I always select & copy it just in case something happens. Just an old habit leftover from when I had dial-up many years ago and always got booted offline at the wrong time and lost long e-mails often. It only takes an extra second and is worth not having to deal with the hassle and frustration of losing a long post or e-mail. :thumbsup2

My DD recomended that to me after I lost my long post last night. Day late...:confused3

Karen

[LiserAnn]

Thought I would post a pic of our family too . . . DS in this photo will not be with us. This was taken last year at Easter outside of church.

You all look lovely decked out in your Easter Sunday best!!! Your son is handsome fellow...and of course, Sophia looks darling (she looks like daddy to me)!!!!

[nskjerven]

John: I'm in for the group shirts and I definitely want to see the group photo, when you can.

Here is a photo of some of the kids at the terminal in their shirts . . . Sophia has the bow in her hair, and Kim's DD (Kimerinc) is the cute redhead holding her hand. Angie's grandson has his back to you . . .

http://www.wdwinfo.com/photopost/data/500/20420Group.jpg

Here is the group photo on Deck 9 . . . not even half of us remembered to get there, but I am in the front row - seated, and PJ is in the photo too, back row, very left end, and Angie and Dennis are in the photo too, about in the middle, Dennis in back, Angie in front of him . . .

http://www.wdwinfo.com/photopost/data/500/20420DIS1.jpg



LOVE THIS!!! I seem to see that you also printed/ironed on something on the back too?

Since we are so many days on board maybe we can even have "another" shirt for the actual CROSSING DAY???? I'd like to see something with the logo and dates on that one...anyone comments???

are you sure we can't order these now and have them on hand...just kidding just had to add that little bit of ODC shopper/planner in there...:lmao:

[HollyTyler]

Holly,

You will have plenty of years of responsibility (and boredom) to attend to in the future. :sad2:

As Auntie Mame would say "Live, Live, Live!" :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

Karen
Thanks! :thumbsup2 I've always been in a relationship, one after another, with no more than a couple months in between each, ever since I was a teen. So now it's finally time to play and have fun!

[been2marceline]

I was figuring we would end up with an excel spread sheet with everyones name on it. Once we had everyones's name and cabin on the list, we could pass to the list to the floor monitors. Sounds like it would work like a phone tree system we used when my kids were in school.

Just my thoughts...

:surfweb:

Noel,

I just can't wait to meet you!

I was going to reply earlier that this sounded like an excel spreadsheet moment and then I thought, "but wait, someone else (Noel) will mention it too!!" :cool1:

Great minds, or something scary like that...:rolleyes1

Karen

[LiserAnn]

angie and auntie pj, a DIS name on the door or a stocking on the fish would definitely sound off the alarm that this was a fellow DIS...and liserann's mickey heads especially!


The only thing that concerns me about the Mickey heads is if people are switched around. I caught where John wrote that on a previous sailing a bunch of people had their cabins switched, which created some problems in delivering goodies. My original plan was to walk the decks with the boys and deliver the Mickey heads....thought it would be good exercise....but now it sounds like it could be an exercise in futility if people are switched around. Perhaps I should hand them out at our first onboard DIS meets? I'll still keep a record of the cabin numbers in case I miss someone...what do you guys think?? I want to do what makes most sense. :confused3

[birkner]

Noel: It's an excellent idea...that takes all the work out of it and keeps it well organized and controlled by the monitors. Genus!

Thanks for the nice compliment!!


[QUOTE=WldWcnWmn;17524096]
Oh My Goodness, you all are booking rooms already? YIKES! I haven't even considered rooms...tried to book flights but couldn't Do I need to book a room now? :scared1: Will there be anyhthing left if I wait until January 2008?:confused:

QUOTE]

I was talking about the DIS meeting this May, so don't get scared!!!

Noel

[been2marceline]

Just won this on ebay....

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a175/nskjerven/minnieoutfitforPiper.jpg

I wanted to show it to someone who would get it!!! I'm sending it to my Diser Friends for their daughter...She will be on the DCL NYE 2008 with us and don't ya think this is perfect for that? I hope the size is ok by then, okay now I've taken my OCD in childrens clothes to the next level....pre buying for my friends. What a nutcase! :lmao: I had to get it...my little girl isn't little enough anymore and this was just so cute!

Way too cute for words... Oh I miss the days...princess:

Karen

[clynne]

Carolyn, were you trying to get something for Sunday night?


I looked halfheartedly, thinking we could stay Sun and Mon nights and play at the parks (and FINALLY get to visit California Adventure), but the quotes at the park hotels and realizing it was a busy premier/dining weekend scared me off. We're planning on just driving up that afternoon, dining and dashing, unless LiserAnn encounters problems with the early 5:30pm time. We're just playing it by ear. I'd guess you could find something off site. There are TONS with shuttle service.

Good luck...

Carolyn

[nskjerven]

I just had to post this one of Wilson showing him at one of his favorite places:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a175/nskjerven/101_2493.jpg

He is a go-kart racer much to his father's pride and joy (& mother's worry)

They go about twice a month up to Dixon, CA (near Davis/Sacramento) about 1.5 hours from home. He has been doing this for about 1 1/2 years now and is loving it more each time he goes.

Unfortuately, I just looked at the rest of my calendar for his season and I have a girl scout meeting on every race...which means no race days for me this year (bummer) but at least he and his Dad can enjoy their bonding time.

[been2marceline]

LOVE THIS!!! I seem to see that you also printed/ironed on something on the back too?

Since we are so many days on board maybe we can even have "another" shirt for the actual CROSSING DAY???? I'd like to see something with the logo and dates on that one...anyone comments???

are you sure we can't order these now and have them on hand...just kidding just had to add that little bit of ODC shopper/planner in there...:lmao:

Right there OCDing with you Nanette!!:rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2:

Karen

[HollyTyler]

Karen, I knew you'd be showing up soon because I was about to head off to bed! :lmao: It's funny how quickly we learn each others' patterns. I meant to get to sleep an hour ago.....need to get as much sleep as possible because Tyler goes to his dad's in 2 days, so I get to play! Yes, I miss him terribly when he's gone because he's gone until Saturday afternoon, but it's also fun to not have responsibilities for a couple days. :thumbsup2 Now I have a reason to rest up for my adventures! :rolleyes1

[birkner]

Noel,

I just can't wait to meet you!

I was going to reply earlier that this sounded like an excel spreadsheet moment and then I thought, "but wait, someone else (Noel) will mention it too!!" :cool1:

Great minds, or something scary like that...:rolleyes1

Karen

How funny!! We are going to have to have a northern California mini meet!!!


The only thing that concerns me about the Mickey heads is if people are switched around. I caught where John wrote that on a previous sailing a bunch of people had their cabins switched, which created some problems in delivering goodies. My original plan was to walk the decks with the boys and deliver the Mickey heads....thought it would be good exercise....but now it sounds like it could be an exercise in futility if people are switched around. Perhaps I should hand them out at our first onboard DIS meets? I'll still keep a record of the cabin numbers in case I miss someone...what do you guys think?? I want to do what makes most sense. :confused3


The switching is precisely why I suggested an excel spreadsheet. If someone changes their cabin, they can call me and leave a voicemail on my SR voicemail. That way I could change the SR number and notify the floor monitor. What do you guys think?

Noel

[nskjerven]

Good night Holly.

I'm headed in the house for a while I've been at my desk (hence the pictures with ease)

catch ya in a bit inside...

(karen, I'm sure we can secretly order the shirts and have them just in case we need them and not admit it to anyone...oops did I say that outloud) :lmao:

[been2marceline]

Karen, I knew you'd be showing up soon because I was about to head off to bed! :lmao: It's funny how quickly we learn each others' patterns. I meant to get to sleep an hour ago.....need to get as much sleep as possible because Tyler goes to his dad's in 2 days, so I get to play! Yes, I miss him terribly when he's gone because he's gone until Saturday afternoon, but it's also fun to not have responsibilities for a couple days. :thumbsup2 Now I have a reason to rest up for my adventures! :rolleyes1

Would those adventures include someone whose name starts with an "A"? :cool1:

Remember, just living vivaciously though you!!:rotfl2:

Karen

[HollyTyler]

I just had to post this one of Wilson showing him at one of his favorite places:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a175/nskjerven/101_2493.jpg

He is a go-kart racer much to his father's pride and joy (& mother's worry)

They go about twice a month up to Dixon, CA (near Davis/Sacramento) about 1.5 hours from home. He has been doing this for about 1 1/2 years now and is loving it more each time he goes.

Unfortuately, I just looked at the rest of my calendar for his season and I have a girl scout meeting on every race...which means no race days for me this year (bummer) but at least he and his Dad can enjoy their bonding time.
Awwwww....he's so cute! And looks so happy! His smile looks like a little boy with a frog in his pocket waiting to scare mom!

[been2marceline]

How funny!! We are going to have to have a northern California mini meet!!!


Yes, this works for me!!:rotfl:


The switching is precisely why I suggested an excel spreadsheet. If someone changes their cabin, they can call me and leave a voicemail on my SR voicemail. That way I could change the SR number and notify the floor monitor. What do you guys think?

Noel

And this works for me too!!!:rotfl: :rotfl:

Karen

[birkner]

I just had to post this one of Wilson showing him at one of his favorite places:
.

My GS who is 7 is crazy about jumping his bike on a ramp!! He wanted us to buy him a small dirt bike. I guess they have them kid size or something. NOT ME!!!
Sounds like he and Wilson would get on like a house afire. I wish you guys were on this years NYE cruise and not next!!

Noel

[been2marceline]

Good night Holly.

I'm headed in the house for a while I've been at my desk (hence the pictures with ease)

catch ya in a bit inside...

(karen, I'm sure we can secretly order the shirts and have them just in case we need them and not admit it to anyone...oops did I say that outloud) :lmao:

Yes, but I'm sure that I am the only one that heard you!;)

Karen

[HollyTyler]

Would those adventures include someone whose name starts with an "A"? :cool1:

Remember, just living vivaciously though you!!:rotfl2:

Karen

:rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2:
Alejandro.....You've got it! :thumbsup2

(Vivaciously....you crack me up!)

GOODNIGHT! :)

[ibouncetoo]

You know what I always, always, always do? Whenever I type a long post (or e-mail, for that matter), I always select & copy it just in case something happens. Just an old habit leftover from when I had dial-up many years ago and always got booted offline at the wrong time and lost long e-mails often. It only takes an extra second and is worth not having to deal with the hassle and frustration of losing a long post or e-mail. :thumbsup2

Yes, I should know better! Especially since it happened just a few days ago. Live and learn! Well, hopefully learn. Sometimes don't we all find it difficult (or inconvenient or something) to APPLY WHAT WE KNOW? We all know what to do to eat healthy, take preventative measures, exercise our bodies, be NICE to people if we want them to be nice back.....all that stuff.

[EllaEnchanted]

Good night Holly.

I'm headed in the house for a while I've been at my desk (hence the pictures with ease)

catch ya in a bit inside...

(karen, I'm sure we can secretly order the shirts and have them just in case we need them and not admit it to anyone...oops did I say that outloud) :lmao:


Karen and Nanette: Let's Do It! I'm In! :yay: :yay:

[EllaEnchanted]

Noel,

I just can't wait to meet you!

I was going to reply earlier that this sounded like an excel spreadsheet moment and then I thought, "but wait, someone else (Noel) will mention it too!!" :cool1:

Great minds, or something scary like that...:rolleyes1

Karen


I see we have more than one Genius aboard!;)

[ibouncetoo]

Just won this on ebay....

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a175/nskjerven/minnieoutfitforPiper.jpg

I wanted to show it to someone who would get it!!! I'm sending it to my Diser Friends for their daughter...She will be on the DCL NYE 2008 with us and don't ya think this is perfect for that? I hope the size is ok by then, okay now I've taken my OCD in childrens clothes to the next level....pre buying for my friends. What a nutcase! :lmao: I had to get it...my little girl isn't little enough anymore and this was just so cute!

That is TOO CUTE for words!!! I want one for ME.

[EllaEnchanted]

The only thing that concerns me about the Mickey heads is if people are switched around. I caught where John wrote that on a previous sailing a bunch of people had their cabins switched, which created some problems in delivering goodies. My original plan was to walk the decks with the boys and deliver the Mickey heads....thought it would be good exercise....but now it sounds like it could be an exercise in futility if people are switched around. Perhaps I should hand them out at our first onboard DIS meets? I'll still keep a record of the cabin numbers in case I miss someone...what do you guys think?? I want to do what makes most sense. :confused3


LiserAnn, you and Noel should coordinate and be the managers of the stateroom numbers matching them to the names. Noel has a great system and if you worked with her, it should eliminate chaos.

.....just an idea, throwing it out there....

[birkner]

LiserAnn, you and Noel should coordinate and be the managers of the stateroom numbers matching them to the names. Noel has a great system and if you worked with her, it should eliminate chaos.

.....just an idea, throwing it out there....

I am happy to help Lisa in any way I can. Just let me know!!

Noel

[calmom]

For her 10th birthday we rented a 2 room suite at the Residence Inn. One of my best friends stayed with me and 10 girls. We had pizza, cake and ice cream and watched a movie that was on the hotels system that was not yet out in DVD, the Incredibles (still one of my favorites, No Capes!!) The girls slept in the big living room and my friend and I each had our own bedroom. The next morning the girls trudged over to the breakfast room, which is included, had breakfast, and then two more of my friends joined us for a mini-make-over session. The girls had their hair done, nails and make-up done. Great to have the two bathrooms and the kitchen counter for all of the stations. I took pictures (of course!) Karen[/COLOR]

Love, love, LOVE the idea of a sleepover not in my house! Of course I can't do the whole make-over session for my boys (well, maybe for Jack :rolleyes1 my Barbie loving 6 year old). But the thought of having a popcorn movie night with a bunch of boys in a place other than my house...I just love it! Thanks for sharing!
Lisa

[calmom]

Ok, here are 6 of our 7 grandchildren. One more is due in September! This was taken last August at our son's wedding.



SO So cute!! Thank you, Lisa

[calmom]

http://www.thedibb.co.uk/photopost/data/500/1141899482_l.jpg



Hope this works!


This is my 'little angel' :rotfl2: Well, she was once anyway!;) Becky, aged 18
It's about the only one I could find with her natural hair colour!:scared1:

She is so pretty! I love that she has such strong sense of self! If I had a daughter, that would be my daughter (I would hope!)! Lisa

[fourmcds]

Right there OCDing with you Nanette!!:rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2:

Karen


(karen, I'm sure we can secretly order the shirts and have them just in case we need them and not admit it to anyone...oops did I say that outloud) :lmao:

Well, aren't we all just a bit OCD...I mean we are already planning bunco nights, photos, etc for a cruise way too many days away :lmao: :rotfl2: For me....it makes me think it will happen sooner!!! Alas, it is still in the 400+ day count :sad1: :sad2:I have already bought several small things for the girls for the cruise...don't tell DH! :cool1: Good thing I have lots of storage in my office, he never knows when I do things like that...and then when I do bring it out...."Did you just buy that?" says DH. "No, I have had it forever, haven't you noticed it before?!" :laughing: :rotfl: :rotfl: I say innocently.

[calmom]

:rotfl2: funny thing is Maz, her friend HAS dyed her hair red! :rolleyes1 I think she's stunning too, thanks, and am really proud of her princess: She's been through a really rough few years, with very low self esteem and acute depression and has come out a very strong young lady :angel:

I'm posting as i see - so I had already posted that she presents as someone with a strong sense of self. and now I read this. Whatever she has gone through, I think perhaps it has given her much wisdom. Lisa

[fourmcds]

I just had to post this one of Wilson showing him at one of his favorite places:
He is a go-kart racer much to his father's pride and joy (& mother's worry)

They go about twice a month up to Dixon, CA (near Davis/Sacramento) about 1.5 hours from home. He has been doing this for about 1 1/2 years now and is loving it more each time he goes.

Unfortuately, I just looked at the rest of my calendar for his season and I have a girl scout meeting on every race...which means no race days for me this year (bummer) but at least he and his Dad can enjoy their bonding time.


What a cutie :) He looks so happy and proud.

[fourmcds]

Thought I would post a pic of our family too . . . DS in this photo will not be with us. This was taken last year at Easter outside of church.



What a nice looking family. So, it does warm up there :rotfl: ?!

[fourmcds]

do you realize you just gave to travelling nuts a reason to come to WA? Ha ha ha! I've actually thought in another life I'd be a great girly party planner, but alas I don't think my hourly rate as a great bean counter would match that idea, so I stay rooted in my chair and help those who can't count their own money....
!!![/COLOR]

Well, I am sure if we had anything disney up here I could twist your arm. Actually at Experience Music Project they have a new Disney music display. Not sure what it is though, haven't checked it out yet!
So, just keep the party ideas coming and I will do my best to make something presentable for DD! :)

[calmom]

Oooooooooh.....firemen (wiping drool off my chin)! Glad everybody's safe too.

When we moved into our house about 2 years ago, we had some light fixture spark and heat came out of the wall. So we called the fire dept (much to my husband's objection -"it is under control" "there is smoke" "fine, do whatever". So next thing I know, these 3 hunk of men (sorry John - girl talk) come to my door. I didn't know what to do. Do I call my single sister and tell her to come right away? Do I ask them to come to a dinner party? What I am wearing? I couldn't think of anything. All I could say is "my son loves fire, I mean firemen. Come here Aidan. Show him show firetruck" They said, "Madam, do you have a problem here?" I say no, well yes, well, no my husband doesn't think so. Well touch this wall. It is hot." I was SO embarressed. I couldn't speak! The moral of the story: if you have a reason to call the fireman, be sure to call all you single girlfriends and have them come 9-1-1. Have your husband do the talking and just sit back and watch!
Lisa
Lis

[calmom]

Thought I would post a pic of our family too . . . DS in this photo will not be with us. This was taken last year at Easter outside of church.

http://www.wdwinfo.com/photopost/data/500/20420Easter.jpg

So wonderful to see your whole family! Thanks so much for posting! Lisa

[been2marceline]

Karen and Nanette: Let's Do It! I'm In! :yay: :yay:

Gosh Deb, you were up late when you posted this!!:faint:

Karen

[been2marceline]

Love, love, LOVE the idea of a sleepover not in my house! Of course I can't do the whole make-over session for my boys (well, maybe for Jack :rolleyes1 my Barbie loving 6 year old). But the thought of having a popcorn movie night with a bunch of boys in a place other than my house...I just love it! Thanks for sharing!
Lisa

One of my friends that helped with the hotel makeover party has 2 boys and did this at a different hotel with an indoor pool (both of her boys have winter b-day's too.) The boys swam, watched movies, had pizza and popcorn and all they could eat breakfast in the morning!! I think it was the Embassy Suites in Pleasant Hill, CA.

Karen

[been2marceline]

Well, aren't we all just a bit OCD...I mean we are already planning bunco nights, photos, etc for a cruise way too many days away :lmao: :rotfl2: For me....it makes me think it will happen sooner!!! Alas, it is still in the 400+ day count :sad1: :sad2:I have already bought several small things for the girls for the cruise...don't tell DH! :cool1: Good thing I have lots of storage in my office, he never knows when I do things like that...and then when I do bring it out...."Did you just buy that?" says DH. "No, I have had it forever, haven't you noticed it before?!" :laughing: :rotfl: :rotfl: I say innocently.

My DH has caught on to this and calls it "the aging closet"!! :thumbsup2 Before the days of SUV's he called the trunk of my RL, the aging closet!!

He's too smart sometimes!!;)

Karen

[nskjerven]

My GS who is 7 is crazy about jumping his bike on a ramp!! He wanted us to buy him a small dirt bike. I guess they have them kid size or something. NOT ME!!!
Sounds like he and Wilson would get on like a house afire. I wish you guys were on this years NYE cruise and not next!!

Noel

I wish we were on both this and next years NYE cruise...hmmmm that's a thought....:cool1:

Actually Molly and I were talking about how this cruise, Panama will be different than the last one and we agreed that both Molly and Wilson needed to find friends to hang out with on the ship. Last time it was okay that we did everything together (they only spent a few hours at a time 3 times in club) because we didn't know what to expect or what to do, so we as a family did it all. This next time I'm sure we will be more comfortable going on our own a bit more.


That is TOO CUTE for words!!! I want one for ME.

now that's a good idea, me too!:banana:

Well, aren't we all just a bit OCD...I mean we are already planning bunco nights, photos, etc for a cruise way too many days away :lmao: :rotfl2: For me....it makes me think it will happen sooner!!! Alas, it is still in the 400+ day count :sad1: :sad2:I have already bought several small things for the girls for the cruise...don't tell DH! :cool1: Good thing I have lots of storage in my office, he never knows when I do things like that...and then when I do bring it out...."Did you just buy that?" says DH. "No, I have had it forever, haven't you noticed it before?!" :laughing: :rotfl: :rotfl: I say innocently.

well I guess you're right, most of us did claim OCD as we signed on & perhaps why it's so easy to enjoy each other here huh?

thanks for the "hiding" tip... not sure how to use that in our work at home situtation, but I'll chew on it for a while.

almost 11pm here so I'm calling it a nite. talk with you guys tomorrow.

[been2marceline]

Thought I would post a pic of our family too . . . DS in this photo will not be with us. This was taken last year at Easter outside of church.

http://www.wdwinfo.com/photopost/data/500/20420Easter.jpg

John,

I hate to rub this in, but it looks like the background of your picture in Northern California right now. Green grass, fruit trees blooming, sunny, sunny, sunny...:sunny: :sunny: :sunny:

It's terrible that I'm rubbing this in as I really am not a fan of it being this warm this soon. 81 today!! Ew?:rotfl2:

Karen, wishing for rain...

[EllaEnchanted]

Gosh Deb, you were up late when you posted this!!:faint:

Karen



Karen, I guess so, I didn't look at the time....are you still up??? Sometimes I can be a night owl....not as much as when I was younger though.

[EllaEnchanted]

Well, aren't we all just a bit OCD...I mean we are already planning bunco nights, photos, etc for a cruise way too many days away :lmao: :rotfl2: For me....it makes me think it will happen sooner!!! Alas, it is still in the 400+ day count :sad1: :sad2:I have already bought several small things for the girls for the cruise...don't tell DH! :cool1: Good thing I have lots of storage in my office, he never knows when I do things like that...and then when I do bring it out...."Did you just buy that?" says DH. "No, I have had it forever, haven't you noticed it before?!" :laughing: :rotfl: :rotfl: I say innocently.


Kaylee, Lucky you....DH will be reading what I write tonight at work tomorrow...can't use it, but it's a great idea!

[nskjerven]

just snooping before I went to bed....


"- JLDSMD shines thru once again snagging the 42000 pirate....Don't worry guys! Anyone snagging a pirate who doesn't belong with the group will have the post cleared. "

from east bound of course

does this read that if and when we take 50K they (lisa) will nuke that post?

am I becoming paranoid and OCD?:scared: :rolleyes1

[been2marceline]

Looks like it's just me again!;)

Karen

[NotSoLittleMermaid]

Ok, here are 6 of our 7 grandchildren. One more is due in September! This was taken last August at our son's wedding.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m86/maz48/weddingjoelsbdaylegoland076.jpg

Precious!!!:flower3:

[NotSoLittleMermaid]

First: For the second time in a week I typed a LOOOONG post with tons of fun and important stuff ( ;) ) and when I hit submit it went to a SIGN IN SCREEN!!! I guess I took to long checking my spelling, eh?

I HATE it when that happens!:scared1:
Sometimes, if I remember, I copy and save to my clipboard before hitting "submit"...just in case--but I don't always remember.:sad2:

[NotSoLittleMermaid]

Thought I would post a pic of our family too . . . DS in this photo will not be with us. This was taken last year at Easter outside of church.

http://www.wdwinfo.com/photopost/data/500/20420Easter.jpg

Nice looking family!:cutie:

[NotSoLittleMermaid]

Fourth. How's everyone doing finding rooms for the DIS MEET???? I can't get anything Saturday night though I MAY still be able to get time share for Sunday/Monday, but I really wanted to arrive Sat so I could hit the parks Sunday morning.

Carolyn, were you trying to get something for Sunday night?

Cheri, have you checked out rooms yet? I know you wanted to do the red carpet on Saturday (my idea of a living-hell)?

I know Noel couldn't find anything in the DCL resorts, have people tried the area hotels???

ok...heading home now....back later........

I checked Hotwire a few days ago and there were rooms, but I haven't booked anything yet. Maybe I'll do that this week.
BTW I'm not looking for Disney properties, etc. I'm just looking for cheap!

[granmaz]

Marilyn,

When will you be there in November? We will be staying after our cruise, if all goes well with our new shop, from around the 18th till after Thanksgiving.

Karen

Karen, we arrive Sunday 25th November, late afternoon, hopefully staying at POFQ. It would be so lovely to meet you. I hope you aren't off home that day!

Dog logs.

You're lucky....not a speck of green here yet. :sad2: I can't wait until the smell of the neighborhood the first time everybody mows. I just love the fresh-mowed smell!

Someone near us cut their grass at the weekend and it just smelled gorgeous. It is really one of those special smells.:)

Looks like Karen has already gone today. Must be the change in clocks! Cheri, seems you are still online. Good morning.

[been2marceline]

Karen, we arrive Sunday 25th November, late afternoon, hopefully staying at POFQ. It would be so lovely to meet you. I hope you aren't off home that day!



Someone near us cut their grass at the weekend and it just smelled gorgeous. It is really one of those special smells.:)

Looks like Karen has already gone today. Must be the change in clocks! Cheri, seems you are still online. Good morning.

Nope, still here!! Good morning, Marilyn!

I'm not sure when we will be heading home from WDW, we have to wait for DD's school schedule.

Another gorgeous day today. A bit too warm for me this early, tho'. But I know I shouldn't complain!!:hippie:

Karen

[LiserAnn]

The switching is precisely why I suggested an excel spreadsheet. If someone changes their cabin, they can call me and leave a voicemail on my SR voicemail. That way I could change the SR number and notify the floor monitor. What do you guys think?

I think you're right and we do need a spreadsheet. In fact, I already started one to keep track of the names and cabins numbers of those who want DISmagnets. (I love excel-I'm such a geek, I know). We have a LOT of GTY folks!

LiserAnn, you and Noel should coordinate and be the managers of the stateroom numbers matching them to the names. Noel has a great system and if you worked with her, it should eliminate chaos.
I am happy to help Lisa in any way I can. Just let me know!!

I think that's what we need to do, so what's the best plan on this? We start with a master sheet that you have in your stateroom and then you'll make the adjustments on it as people call?

Well, aren't we all just a bit OCD...I mean we are already planning bunco nights, photos, etc for a cruise way too many days away :lmao: :rotfl2: For me....it makes me think it will happen sooner!!! Alas, it is still in the 400+ day count :sad1: :sad2:I have already bought several small things for the girls for the cruise...don't tell DH! :cool1: Good thing I have lots of storage in my office, he never knows when I do things like that...and then when I do bring it out...."Did you just buy that?" says DH. "No, I have had it forever, haven't you noticed it before?!" :laughing: :rotfl: :rotfl: I say innocently.

OCD-totally, look at us! Ridiculous...you'd think the cruise were happening in a month!! :laughing: I just love it!!!!

I love your comment about new stuff....I do the same thing DH: "Honey did you just get that?", me: "Oh no, I've had that for few months, you must have missed it". All true, no fibbs.....:rolleyes:

[LiserAnn]

Hi Karen and Marilyn-what are ya gals doing? I'm trying to coax myself to go to sleep...no go.

[granmaz]

I have to admit thinking about dressy clothes as I don't normally wear them, but I am hoping to be a good few lbs less by then!!!

Though, I am also wondering how not to wear all the summer clothes and shoes I like this year, so they will still be nice for the cruise!!!

My cruise box consists of the lovely fish extender at the moment!!!

[LiserAnn]

Oh, I see Cheri's still up also! Hi Cheri!

[been2marceline]

Oh, I see Cheri's still up also! Hi Cheri!

The DIS went down for a bit there and I had to close down and re-enter! :rolleyes1

I'm heading off to bed now! Hope you all have a great day!!:banana:

Karen

[granmaz]

It looks a lovely day outside. Not completely cloud free but springlike. Off to the gym soon.:sad2: I enjoy it when it is over, I guess I am too lazy really. Do any of you go to the gym on the ship? My gym is a ladies one, so no men in sight, and usually no 'posing' peple, so is it tough at the gym onboard?:yay:

[UKANGEL]

She is just lovely! Her eyes are amazing and I personally like the piercings! Mekayla has her nose pierced and I have a few myself.



Mandy...Love the picture of Becky! Very striking and love her eyes.
No piercings here! (Well, besides one boring small hole in each earlobe. So not cool enough for Becky or Mekayla or Thea...)

Carolyn

Thanks everyone! I don't really mind the piercings apart from her septum, but she's had loads of piercings over the last few years (including piercing her own eyebrow...ouch!). The worst was when she ahd her lip pierced and it got swollen and the ring was embedded in her lip!!!:scared1: That took a hospital trip to sort out!:sad2:
Anyway, I figure that there's an awful lot worse she could be doing...like drugs, smoking etc

[UKANGEL]

We are going to be in WDW from May5-18 if anyone else is going to be there we would love to meet!

we'll be on our cruise from 5th til 12th otherwise would love to have met up!:thumbsup2





BAD Girl!:sad2:


Enjoying the Great pictures now that you guys have learned how to post them.

Wow! Those eyes are killer. For someone with constant allergies though, the nose ring would never work for me! I would sneeze one off in a New York Minute!

Hmmmmm . . . just noticed she is 18 . . . would she like to meet a 19 (20 this summer) future American doctor???:rotfl2:

DS Alex is now trying to figure out what to do this summer, his friend, who was to go to Europe with him this summer is chickening out on him. Unfortunately, most of his friends are only 1/2 done with college, and not so much in the mood to travel like Alex is.

He did want to visit England, and he broke up with his girlfriend last year . . .:rolleyes1

(and if he even knew I was joking like this would probably want to kill me)



:rotfl: John, I too suffer from lots of allergies so know what you mean about the thought of the nose piercing!

I'm sure Becky would love to meet up with your lovely son (I've seen the pic so I know!)....sadly I don't think her bf would be very happy!;) If he does get to come over here though we'd love to meet with him and help in any way we can, let us know.

:lmao: :eek: :lmao: You silly girl...no, she really does have beaut-i-ful eyes but no, not marble eyes, just pretty like a marble!

That made me crack up!:rotfl2:

[UKANGEL]

Well, after 5 1/2 years without, I learned Friday what I've been missing out on! Never did anything like that in my 20s, so I'm making up for it almost double-time! :laughing: (Get it? I'm almost 40. :rotfl: ) [/COLOR][/SIZE]

see! 40 is a dangersous age....that's when I met my 'toy boy' dh too Holly!;) :rotfl:

Thought I would post a pic of our family too . . . DS in this photo will not be with us. This was taken last year at Easter outside of church.

http://www.wdwinfo.com/photopost/data/500/20420Easter.jpg

Great picture, what a lovely family!



She is so pretty! I love that she has such strong sense of self! If I had a daughter, that would be my daughter (I would hope!)! Lisa

Lisa, thank you for your lovely words. What a very sweet thing for you to say:hug:

I'm posting as i see - so I had already posted that she presents as someone with a strong sense of self. and now I read this. Whatever she has gone through, I think perhaps it has given her much wisdom. Lisa


That's exactly how we see it too. You know the saying..."What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger" ...or something along those lines!

When we moved into our house about 2 years ago, we had some light fixture spark and heat came out of the wall. So we called the fire dept (much to my husband's objection -"it is under control" "there is smoke" "fine, do whatever". So next thing I know, these 3 hunk of men (sorry John - girl talk) come to my door. I didn't know what to do. Do I call my single sister and tell her to come right away? Do I ask them to come to a dinner party? What I am wearing? I couldn't think of anything. All I could say is "my son loves fire, I mean firemen. Come here Aidan. Show him show firetruck" They said, "Madam, do you have a problem here?" I say no, well yes, well, no my husband doesn't think so. Well touch this wall. It is hot." I was SO embarressed. I couldn't speak! The moral of the story: if you have a reason to call the fireman, be sure to call all you single girlfriends and have them come 9-1-1. Have your husband do the talking and just sit back and watch!
Lisa
Lis


:rotfl2: :rotfl2: loved that image!

reminds me of the time when Becky and her little friend Rachel (both aged 4) locked themselves in my friend's bathroom (which they'd just had built as part of an extension!). The local fire station was just a few houses away so my pal ran down the road to ask them to break in for us, thinking we could keep it quiet....but no they had to actually get the engine out, siren going, and 3 burly firemen attended, took out the window and climbed through to rescue the girls....who were quite happily playing inside with their Barbies.
Couldn't have organised it better....there were 7 of us ladies and our various toddlers having a coffee afternnon at the time....looked like we'd laid on the entertainment!;) :rotfl: :rotfl:

[UKANGEL]

just snooping before I went to bed....


"- JLDSMD shines thru once again snagging the 42000 pirate....Don't worry guys! Anyone snagging a pirate who doesn't belong with the group will have the post cleared. "

from east bound of course

does this read that if and when we take 50K they (lisa) will nuke that post?

am I becoming paranoid and OCD?:scared: :rolleyes1

How Naughty!:snooty:

[Jhalkias]

Angel,

Thanks for your kind offer of assistance, and if Alex does decide to make his way to the UK this summer, I may ask for advice.

As to the rest, if he even suspected I posted something like that, he may not speak to me for a long time. He is actually a somewhat shy and very private young man - just like his mother. Amy is also that way until she gets to know you.

This makes for good comic relief in our house, because his mom really wants to know what is going on in his (love) life, and he does NOT like to discuss it! I am the more open one, and I NEVER ask!

[lillygator]

John and Amy - love the picture...you guys look great!!

And the poster who won the Minnie Sailor outfit...I was watching one as well...they also had an Ariel one!!

I need to stay away from Ebay...spend too much $$ there.

how many more days til we cruise??

I went back to the gym last night and also walked when I got home...on track to lose before I cruise!! ;)

[MrsMork]

O.K. easy enough, but who's gonna' roam up and down the halls?


We did! Since there was a large group of DISers, there were some on every deck. So, Dennis and I grabbed our pirate beads and went down every hall. He took one side of the ship I took the other and we met in the middle, then up to the next deck. Anyone who had a stocking on the door and door signs or Mickey DIS heads got beads in their stocking. :thumbsup2 It really did not take the two of us too long to make the rounds.

[mishoe01]

Lots to catch up on.....but few thoughts of mine to add....

Noel/Lisa - my OCD came out early and I started a spreadsheet of all the info on page 1 (but need to update)...so if you want my help, let me know.

Karen (I think it was you)....LOVED the Auntie Mame quote!! This is one of my all time fav movies.

Love the idea of the Tshirt, deck monitors, living vivaciosly thru Holly :rotfl: !

For those coming to the World, and if you'd like to meet little ol' me for a meal, or what ever....send me a pm and we'll see what we can do. I'm usually free in the evenings (after 730p weekdays) and on the weekends. Only time I plan to be out of town before the summer rolls around is over Memorial Day weekend (going to NYC for a girls theatre weekend).

Heading back to try to catch up now....

[UKANGEL]

Angel,

Thanks for your kind offer of assistance, and if Alex does decide to make his way to the UK this summer, I may ask for advice.

As to the rest, if he even suspected I posted something like that, he may not speak to me for a long time. He is actually a somewhat shy and very private young man - just like his mother. Amy is also that way until she gets to know you.

This makes for good comic relief in our house, because his mom really wants to know what is going on in his (love) life, and he does NOT like to discuss it! I am the more open one, and I NEVER ask!


I know just where you're coming from John! Becky would be so embarassed too ;) Anyway, just let me know if we can do anything for Alex. We're not far from London so may be able to help.

[mishoe01]

Angel,

Did you notice your tag from the Tag Fairy?? That's new isn't it?

[disneylover5]

Noel,

I just can't wait to meet you!

I was going to reply earlier that this sounded like an excel spreadsheet moment and then I thought, "but wait, someone else (Noel) will mention it too!!" :cool1:

Great minds, or something scary like that...:rolleyes1

Karen

This was my thought exactly...it was funny reading through the posts and seeing several of us thinking alike!! I even thought "someone else (Noel) will mention it too!!" How funny is that :lmao:

How funny!! We are going to have to have a northern California mini meet!!!

I guess I am just going to have to move to California so I can do all these meets!!


The switching is precisely why I suggested an excel spreadsheet. If someone changes their cabin, they can call me and leave a voicemail on my SR voicemail. That way I could change the SR number and notify the floor monitor. What do you guys think?

Noel

AWESOME IDEA

Love, love, LOVE the idea of a sleepover not in my house! Of course I can't do the whole make-over session for my boys (well, maybe for Jack :rolleyes1 my Barbie loving 6 year old). But the thought of having a popcorn movie night with a bunch of boys in a place other than my house...I just love it! Thanks for sharing!
Lisa

We have done the Hotel Sleepover Birthday party several times. Our focus is always the indoor Swiiming pools.....you almost always have them to yourself!!

Alas, it is still in the 400+ day count :sad1: :sad2:.

My job again!!

[COLOR="Red"]423 DAYS

party: party: party: party: party: party: party: party: party: party: party: party: party: party: party: party:

When we moved into our house about 2 years ago, we had some light fixture spark and heat came out of the wall. So we called the fire dept (much to my husband's objection -"it is under control" "there is smoke" "fine, do whatever". So next thing I know, these 3 hunk of men (sorry John - girl talk) come to my door. I didn't know what to do. Do I call my single sister and tell her to come right away? Do I ask them to come to a dinner party? What I am wearing? I couldn't think of anything. All I could say is "my son loves fire, I mean firemen. Come here Aidan. Show him show firetruck" They said, "Madam, do you have a problem here?" I say no, well yes, well, no my husband doesn't think so. Well touch this wall. It is hot." I was SO embarressed. I couldn't speak! The moral of the story: if you have a reason to call the fireman, be sure to call all you single girlfriends and have them come 9-1-1. Have your husband do the talking and just sit back and watch!
Lisa
Lis

:rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2:

[Mom323]

Here is a picture of one of the cuties that we released. It was a so neat. The kept them out of water for 3 days so they would head towards the water when we released them...they are still blind.
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t164/fourmcds/zih115.jpg

This picture of the turtle has me thinking. This question is for everyone,

"Are you a turtle?"



Explanation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Order_of_Turtles

http://turtlesinc.org/

[LiserAnn]

Noel/Lisa - my OCD came out early and I started a spreadsheet of all the info on page 1 (but need to update)...so if you want my help, let me know.

I guess there are more of us OCD types out there than we realize! Yes, after Noel and I come up with a plan, I'm sure we can use what you started. Thanks!

[Mom323]

Irish Coffee....now, why didn't I think of that??? You are so right! Cheers!

I finally got the puppy pictures up and I even did it myself with the kind help of others here. You can click on the pictures to enlarge them. And those baby teeth will OUCH you even while they're still in the mouth!

You are so welcome to visit with your fish extender in hand as long as you have a DOD in the other hand. We're GTY5. I will let you know exact room as soon as we know. I hope it doesn't take until we arrive at the port, then how will we let everyone else know??? Maybe we need an on the boat update for all people with GTYs??? Any ideas would be welcome!pirate:

I'll have to hang the fish extender from my neck in order to carry your DOD and mine. Can you imagine the looks I'll get as I come down the hall? :lmao:

[Mom323]

No, not carpel tunnel...about a week before thanksgiving all four of us were in a serious auto accident. We were tboned by a uninsured driver (on a suspended license). She turned left on a green light, erroneously thinking she had a green arrow (we were heading straight) and slammed right into us without even braking. The windows and doors were crashed in and her pickup came to a stop literally inches from Ryan and Mark's heads/faces (Mark was driving and Ryan was the left passenger). Anyway, amongst all our injuries, Mark's was the most involved...he broke his wrist on the steering wheel and he required surgery to put a screw in to attach the two broken bones. It's been a huge ordeal. That's his third cast and it's removable. The first two were not. Hopefully at the end of the month he'll have it off completely. He had his surgery on Jan 5th, so it's been a long, long nightmare. Of course, she went to jail and basically since she has zero money, she's off the hook in terms of her responsibility to us. Garnishing her wages costs a ton of money, not really worth it. It's behind us now, I can't waste my energy on becoming bitter about the situation when I have a wonderful cruise to dream about....:cloud9:

We had the same exact thing happen in 1974. I am glad to hear you are all on the mend. DB broke his thumb. No surgery for him.

[Mom323]

I am about 10 pages behind. This site was so slow for me yesterday and now it's happening again. :confused3
I've emptied out all the temp internet files and cookies.
Plodding along slowly.

[granmaz]

I am about 10 pages behind. This site was so slow for me yesterday and now it's happening again. :confused3
I've emptied out all the temp internet files and cookies.
Plodding along slowly.

The site has been soooo slow for the last 45 minutes or so. I couldn't get on at one time!:confused3

[Mom323]

Boy, you guys have been chatty this weekend. MY DFIL was taken to the hospital by ambulence on Sat at 1pm (he was at a funeral of all things) and I was the only one in town to stay .... hang...with him. (he blacked out for about 10 minutes) So my kids faired pretty well on their own (17,13,10). He is here with me now...the doctor released him at 5pm tonight. They could not find anything wrong...so they adjusted his meds and off we went. He will stay till Tuesday when he will see his regular doc and then he will most likely go home. I am tired with the time change and all.....hanging out in a hospital for 30 hours is not much fun. I am so glad he is okay!!





My mother inlaw had the same thing happen to her on a visit to her DD's house. She had every test and nothing conclusive. She went home and had another episode. Her family MD detemined she needed a pacemaker. She's been fine since then.

[mom_of_2_princesses]

I thought it was my computer that was slow. Good to know not me.

[clynne]

Anyway, I figure that there's an awful lot worse she could be doing...like drugs, smoking etc

Absolutely!!!!:)

Carolyn

[disneylover5]

My mother inlaw had the same thing happen to her on a visit to her DD's house. She had every test and nothing conclusive. She went home and had another episode. Her family MD detemined she needed a pacemaker. She's been fine since then.

Thank you good to know. We are on our way to the Regular Doc.....

Since he has been at my house..his whole ribcage has been killing him. I think when he blacked out and fell....he may have broken some ribs.....

[Mom323]

I am slowly catching up!
Love the family photos. We have a great looking group. We have beautiful lookings kids and grandkids too!!!!

Sorry I am lumping this all together, but the site is still so slow for me. I've checked a few other sites and it's just here. :confused3

[fourmcds]

I went back to the gym last night and also walked when I got home...on track to lose before I cruise!! ;)


I started back at the gym last week too. My gym has started all these new dance fitness classes (no, I am not doing the "striptease" one (yes they do offer that but without the actual pole:lmao: )) but they are definately a new thing for me. Not used to shaking my bootie that much:rotfl: Last night as our class was ending a police car was partolling the parking lot and sat there and watched the end of the class...anyone else think that is kind of freaky?! He was sitting there for at least 15 minutes!
By the way, I am sure I am one of the last to realize this as a relative newbie, but, has anyone ever read one of V's trip reports?! They are a hoot! I was reading her report from the december cruise...but I don't think it is done yet.:confused3 If you haven't read one yet, go check them out. I have enjoyed reading them.

And one last question.....what is WPASADI? I noticed it on some people's signature lines.
I will try and post a picture later of my family/girls, but right now I can't make my computer resize them and the pictures are too big!
Better get back to work. Will try and catch up on posts later.

[Mom323]

Angel,

Did you notice your tag from the Tag Fairy?? That's new isn't it?

Oh my gosh!!! And actual TF tag. We have been honored with her presence.

[pjpoohbear]

I don't want no stinking tag. I love the one I have. Although I think it is great that UK got one.

[birkner]

I wish we were on both this and next years NYE cruise...hmmmm that's a thought....:cool1:!

My GK's Spencer and Bailey would love to hang out with Molly and Wilson. Plus, since we are in the Walt the NYE, what a great way to celebrate NYE!! Bailey has a Molly doll that I gave her for Xmas!! Plus, sounds like Spencer and Wilson have tons in common!![/QUOTE]


I checked Hotwire a few days ago and there were rooms, but I haven't booked anything yet. Maybe I'll do that this week.
BTW I'm not looking for Disney properties, etc. I'm just looking for cheap!

Just a reminder, I have 3 rooms booked at various properties for the May DL meet if someone needs a room.


I think you're right and we do need a spreadsheet. In fact, I already started one to keep track of the names and cabins numbers of those who want DISmagnets. (I love excel-I'm such a geek, I know). We have a LOT of GTY folks!

I think that's what we need to do, so what's the best plan on this? We start with a master sheet that you have in your stateroom and then you'll make the adjustments on it as people call?

My plan exactly as I will be taking notebook computer and printer on cruise. Have computer, will travel!!

OCD-totally, look at us! Ridiculous...you'd think the cruise were happening in a month!! :laughing: I just love it!!!!

I love your comment about new stuff....I do the same thing DH: "Honey did you just get that?", me: "Oh no, I've had that for few months, you must have missed it". All true, no fibbs.....:rolleyes:

Sounds like our house!! After 20+ years of marriage, huby just rolls his eyes.

I have to admit thinking about dressy clothes as I don't normally wear them, but I am hoping to be a good few lbs less by then!!!

Though, I am also wondering how not to wear all the summer clothes and shoes I like this year, so they will still be nice for the cruise!!!

My cruise box consists of the lovely fish extender at the moment!!!

Hit the summer sales is my motto for 2007!!

Lots to catch up on.....but few thoughts of mine to add....

I think your excel spreadsheet idea is perfect. Since I already have one going for the Private Palo Brunches, just a matter of cut and paste.

Noel/Lisa - my OCD came out early and I started a spreadsheet of all the info on page 1 (but need to update)...so if you want my help, let me know.

Ooohh...would love a copy of that spreadsheet. Pm me and I will give you my email address.

This was my thought exactly...it was funny reading through the posts and seeing several of us thinking alike!! I even thought "someone else (Noel) will mention it too!!" How funny is that :lmao:
AWESOME IDEA

DOn't they say great minds think alike?
:rotfl2: :rotfl2:

[QUOTE=LiserAnn;17530122]I guess there are more of us OCD types out there than we realize! Yes, after Noel and I come up with a plan, I'm sure we can use what you started. Thanks!

Absolutely!!! We have such a great group!! Now if only the time will speed up!!

[

[Mom323]

The site has been soooo slow for the last 45 minutes or so. I couldn't get on at one time!:confused3

I am almost to the end:cool1: . So, I am not the only one with a slow disboard. Sorry it is happening to you too. :)

[Mom323]

I don't want no stinking tag. I love the one I have. Although I think it is great that UK got one.

At this point I'ld even take B*** death as a tag. :rotfl:

[mom_of_2_princesses]

Thank you good to know. We are on our way to the Regular Doc.....

Since he has been at my house..his whole ribcage has been killing him. I think when he blacked out and fell....he may have broken some ribs.....

I hope everything goes well. Also I am glad the passport thing worked out also.

[birkner]

And one last question.....what is WPASADI? I noticed it on some people's signature lines.

[COLOR="Blue"]Wickedly Perfect Amazing Surviving Apprentice DIS Idol

[QUOTE=Mom323;17531140]Oh my gosh!!! And actual TF tag. We have been honored with her presence.

Wow!! And her I thought the Tag fairy had jumped over all our posts!! Congrats!!

I am almost to the end:cool1: . So, I am not the only one with a slow disboard. Sorry it is happening to you too. :)

I feel like I am back in the dinosaur days of puters!!

[mom_of_2_princesses]

I started back at the gym last week too. My gym has started all these new dance fitness classes (no, I am not doing the "striptease" one (yes they do offer that but without the actual pole:lmao: )) but they are definately a new thing for me. Not used to shaking my bootie that much:rotfl: Last night as our class was ending a police car was partolling the parking lot and sat there and watched the end of the class...anyone else think that is kind of freaky?! He was sitting there for at least 15 minutes!
By the way, I am sure I am one of the last to realize this as a relative newbie, but, has anyone ever read one of V's trip reports?! They are a hoot! I was reading her report from the december cruise...but I don't think it is done yet.:confused3 If you haven't read one yet, go check them out. I have enjoyed reading them.

And one last question.....what is WPASADI? I noticed it on some people's signature lines.
I will try and post a picture later of my family/girls, but right now I can't make my computer resize them and the pictures are too big!
Better get back to work. Will try and catch up on posts later.



I used to manage a swim school that was inside a gym and there would be cops all the time. I finally asked one day and they said it was because gyms are notorious for theft. I just thought they were watching all the girls shake their booty.:rotfl: I am sure a little of that was going on also.

I love V's trip report.

I was wondering what WPASDI was also.

[mom_of_2_princesses]

Hey anyone with DD's between 10-12!

Kristin is having a real hard time with chatting because of school, homework and sports schedule. She would love to give any of your DD's her e-mail address so they can get to know each other. PM me if you would like it. That way they can talk directly. She has not been on in awhile so I don't know if that is happening already.

[mom_of_2_princesses]

I really miss all the trip reports that people used to do. It feels like there are less and less. I feel like people got so intimidated from the other trip reports because people were getting jumped on for something they posted. If people like what they are reading post it. If not don't read it. Do you think I should say something or not on the other thread? I love the humor and great writing that has been going on but I also know there are a lot more people out there. I like reading about the bad also it gives me reality check.

[lillygator]

fourmcds....have you tried Carmen Electra's Strip Tease series DVD's? :)

and wow, those tag fairies do get around, even without their wands!!

Not too much going on here in sunny gorgeous Florida --- it is so nice out, I hate to be stuck inside all day. John has a ball game tonight - my dad will be in town for a triathlon this weekend so I think we are all going to meet up for dinner.
I just started exchanging books with some of my co-workers....I love to read, but have a terrible habit. If I like the book I have to stay up and read until I finish it. Luckily I am a pretty fast reader but still....I was up until around 2am last night...and then with the time change, not so fun getting up!
I do like the extra daylight in the evening though. Haley did not want to come inside last night. She hollered up a storm. Hopefully, she'll be better tonight!

[nskjerven]

John and Amy - love the picture...you guys look great!!

And the poster who won the Minnie Sailor outfit...I was watching one as well...they also had an Ariel one!!



that was the one that pulled me in, but I opted for Minnie since her mommy loves Minnie more...

This picture of the turtle has me thinking. This question is for everyone,

"Are you a turtle?"



Explanation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Order_of_Turtles

http://turtlesinc.org/


I believe I'm a turtle, and I will confirm it after lunch and let you know for sure.


Hey anyone with DD's between 10-12!

Kristin is having a real hard time with chatting because of school, homework and sports schedule. She would love to give any of your DD's her e-mail address so they can get to know each other. PM me if you would like it. That way they can talk directly. She has not been on in awhile so I don't know if that is happening already.


pm'ed you.

[lillygator]

has anyone who's booked through DU received a written mailed confirmation?

[kimerinc]

V - Nothing from DU.:confused3

I had my own e-bay event this weekend. I have only been on e-bay 5 times in my life. But, and John you started this, my SIL brought her Wii over this weekend and my little girl had so much fun!! She hates video games, vsmile, nintendo, all of it. She is having a problem with timed test in school. When it gets to close, she just guesses. Even though when not timed she does perfectly, timed is not so good so we have been trying to think of a way to help her.

Seriously, how can a 6 year old girl skate competitively in front of judges, but can't handle the pressure of tests. She says it is because when she gets on the ice she just feels different and all the nervousness goes away.

Anyway, they suggested video games. Did not work, she won't play. Loved the Wii. Tried to find one, decided there was not enough time on the planet for me to go every day to each store to see if a shipment came in.

Sunday, I won my own on e-bay for $35 over list. Totally worth the $35 to never go back to those stores again.

Wii on the way!

Kim

[kimerinc]

For those of you who don't know, my sweet cousin is in the Miss USA pagent on March 23rd. My aunt is so excited she calls me every day to give me updates. They really need this, they have had a very rough 2 years so the positives are wonderful. Anyway, she asked me to ask everyone I know who is watching the show to vote for her as most photogenic. So if you are not already inclined to a contestant, here is my cousin Heather.

http://www.missusa.com/delegates/2007/files/UT.html


I personally think she should win and to heck with the photogenic, but I admit EXTREME bias in this situation.

Thanks everyone!!!

KIm

[UKANGEL]

Angel,

Did you notice your tag from the Tag Fairy?? That's new isn't it?

Oh my gosh!!! And actual TF tag. We have been honored with her presence.

I don't want no stinking tag. I love the one I have. Although I think it is great that UK got one.

[QUOTE=fourmcds;17531110]
And one last question.....what is WPASADI? I noticed it on some people's signature lines.

[COLOR="Blue"]Wickedly Perfect Amazing Surviving Apprentice DIS Idol



Wow!! And her I thought the Tag fairy had jumped over all our posts!! Congrats!!



I feel like I am back in the dinosaur days of puters!!



:rotfl: so sorry to disappoint everyone, but that's a really old tag! Wish I could say I've been singled out in that special pixiedust: Tf way...but guess we're all still being ignored! (We call it 'sent to Coventry') ;)

[Jhalkias]

has anyone who's booked through DU received a written mailed confirmation?

Not us V!

V - Nothing from DU.:confused3

I had my own e-bay event this weekend. I have only been on e-bay 5 times in my life. But, and John you started this, my SIL brought her Wii over this weekend and my little girl had so much fun!! She hates video games, vsmile, nintendo, all of it. She is having a problem with timed test in school. When it gets to close, she just guesses. Even though when not timed she does perfectly, timed is not so good so we have been trying to think of a way to help her.

Seriously, how can a 6 year old girl skate competitively in front of judges, but can't handle the pressure of tests. She says it is because when she gets on the ice she just feels different and all the nervousness goes away.

Anyway, they suggested video games. Did not work, she won't play. Loved the Wii. Tried to find one, decided there was not enough time on the planet for me to go every day to each store to see if a shipment came in.

Sunday, I won my own on e-bay for $35 over list. Totally worth the $35 to never go back to those stores again.

Wii on the way!

Kim

So I get credit for a Wii? Just FYI Kim, Sophia does not like any of the games we bought for her Nintendo DS (most of them Disney) except for Mario! I know why - they aren't fun! Mario is fun!

[Jhalkias]

[QUOTE=birkner;17531362]



:rotfl: so sorry to disappoint everyone, but that's a really old tag! Wish I could say I've been singled out in that special pixiedust: Tf way...but guess we're all still being ignored! (We call it 'sent to Coventry') ;)

If that is how it is said, I think I have lived most of my life in Coventry!:rotfl:

[kimerinc]

Not us V!



So I get credit for a Wii? Just FYI Kim, Sophia does not like any of the games we bought for her Nintendo DS (most of them Disney) except for Mario! I know why - they aren't fun! Mario is fun!

Yes, You, ok ALEX planted the seeds long ago... Before the cruise....

Does Sophia like any of the Wii games? (wasted my money on the Nintendo DS games too!!)

[fourmcds]

[QUOTE=fourmcds;17531110]
And one last question.....what is WPASADI? I noticed it on some people's signature lines.

[COLOR="Blue"]Wickedly Perfect Amazing Surviving Apprentice DIS Idol

Hmmm, and that is what exactly? an internet reality type thing?


[QUOTE=mom_of_2_princesses;17531377]I used to manage a swim school that was inside a gym and there would be cops all the time. I finally asked one day and they said it was because gyms are notorious for theft. I just thought they were watching all the girls shake their booty.:rotfl: I am sure a little of that was going on also.

I love V's trip report.

I was wondering what WPASDI was also.

Well, maybe that was his excuse...but there were no cars in the back of the building where he was parked and the only thing he could see was into our studio. Made me mad....only because they have time to sit in empty parking lots but just 3 nights prior some drunk fools smashed one of the windows on my clinic and it took the police 2 days to notice it!!!!!! They have time to patrol empty parking lots but forget about time to patrol the downtown area when the bars get out:mad:

fourmcds....have you tried Carmen Electra's Strip Tease series DVD's? :)

Nope, haven't checked those out (yet! ;) )


Not too much going on here in sunny gorgeous Florida --- it is so nice out, I hate to be stuck inside all day. John has a ball game tonight - my dad will be in town for a triathlon this weekend so I think we are all going to meet up for dinner.
I have to say, if I lived in FL it would be hard to go to work every day. The weather there just asks for sitting outside in the sun, by a pool (or beach) reading and having a blended drink of some kind!:beach:


I just started exchanging books with some of my co-workers....I love to read, but have a terrible habit. If I like the book I have to stay up and read until I finish it. Luckily I am a pretty fast reader but still....I was up until around 2am last night...and then with the time change, not so fun getting up!
I do like the extra daylight in the evening though. Haley did not want to come inside last night. She hollered up a storm. Hopefully, she'll be better tonight!
I have the exact same problem....drives me crazy since I go through books so quickly. And...the next day when I am done with a book, I get so sad.:lmao:

I personally think she should win and to heck with the photogenic, but I admit EXTREME bias in this situation.

Thanks everyone!!!

KIm

Wow, she is beautiful. I would say you aren't bias at all...just honest. Good luck to her. Are you going to the competition?

Yes, You, ok ALEX planted the seeds long ago... Before the cruise....

Does Sophia like any of the Wii games? (wasted my money on the Nintendo DS games too!!)

My DD's both love Big Brain and Nintendogs for the DS. Not sure if you have any of these. Big Brain is a fun one that helps with simple concepts to "train your brain" DH and I are in a full competition on that and Brain Age...he gets mad when I beat him :cool1:
As far as the Wii goes, we got one the other day and really enjoy the Banana something game. It is a bunch of mini games that you can play by yourself or against another. They don't take much time and you can move between them easily. The other one we have is Smooth Moves. That one is OK, but not as good as the monkey/banana one (sorry can't remember the name)

[granmaz]

has anyone who's booked through DU received a written mailed confirmation?

I booked with DU and got our confirmation last week together with the cute postcard!!! I think I might just have to do some kind of scrapbook now!:laughing:

[lillygator]

I thought a Wii was along the lines of "wii, wii, wii....all the way home" - a la this little piggy?

[HollyTyler]

see! 40 is a dangersous age....that's when I met my 'toy boy' dh too Holly!;) :rotfl:

:rotfl2: Well, that's great! Very encouraging! :lmao:

[mom_of_2_princesses]

Well, maybe that was his excuse...but there were no cars in the back of the building where he was parked and the only thing he could see was into our studio. Made me mad....only because they have time to sit in empty parking lots but just 3 nights prior some drunk fools smashed one of the windows on my clinic and it took the police 2 days to notice it!!!!!! They have time to patrol empty parking lots but forget about time to patrol the downtown area when the bars get out




I am so sorry. That is just wrong. No excuses from me for that.

[Jhalkias]

Yes, You, ok ALEX planted the seeds long ago... Before the cruise....

Does Sophia like any of the Wii games? (wasted my money on the Nintendo DS games too!!)

I'll ask Alex, but Sophia just loved the sports (bowling) game that came with the console. For me, the less complex the game, the more fun.

[EllaEnchanted]

I'll have to hang the fish extender from my neck in order to carry your DOD and mine. Can you imagine the looks I'll get as I come down the hall? :lmao:


Call before you leave...I'll need to get the camera ready!!!:lmao: :happytv: :rotfl: :laughing:

[pahrumpgirl]

Beautiful day here today. In the low 70's and sunny. Makes me believe that spring will actually come. And makes me glad that I retired 1 1/2 years ago so that I can enjoy it.

We are also GTY, and I bet we aren't the only ones along with you! I think we should wait a bit longer before we start to worry about this, but I think the idea of "Deck Monitors" is a good one as long as I don't need a "Deck Pass" to walk around. :rotfl:

We are GTY too. Like DH says, not to worry, we are on the ship and that is what counts. Besides, maybe we will get an upgrade. You think?

You know what I always, always, always do? Whenever I type a long post (or e-mail, for that matter), I always select & copy it just in case something happens. Just an old habit leftover from when I had dial-up many years ago and always got booted offline at the wrong time and lost long e-mails often. It only takes an extra second and is worth not having to deal with the hassle and frustration of losing a long post or e-mail. :thumbsup2

I have found that when this happens to me if I hit the back button it will take me back to what I was writing and I can resubmit it.

I was figuring we would end up with an excel spread sheet with everyones name on it. Once we had everyones's name and cabin on the list, we could pass to the list to the floor monitors. Sounds like it would work like a phone tree system we used when my kids were in school.

Just my thoughts...

:surfweb:

Noel, sounds like a great idea and much easier than everyone trying to hunt down the hall monitors. Especially since there seems to be so many of us.

Now why would that be? :lmao:

Honestly, we had a TON of GTY staterooms on our last cruise, because DCL dropped the price dramaticaly a few weeks before the cruise, and MANY of our DIS friends rebooked and saved major $$$$. While it was a challenge with the cabin numbers we had, we found everyone. While the ship is big, it was amazing how much we saw and ran into our DIS friends.

I don't know if you guys will want to go for this, but I will mention it because it really brought the last group together at the terminal, and made a nice photo. Disney Direct had a Disney shirt really cheap on sale, and it came in Lime Green before our last cruise. We decided to all order the same shirt, and at the port, we looked like the Lime Green Army! It was REALLY easy to find all of our DIS friends at the port, and get to meet and greet before boarding.

I would suggest, however, that we give this idea a bit of time. No need to go out and buy shirts now - wait until the group is more firmed up like for the team gifts.

But start keeping your eyes out for deals like that. I think the shirts were maybe $7 each. If any of our friends outside of the US can't order, we could always order for them and hand them out the night before at hotels or something.

When I get a chance, I will try to post a photo of our group.

John,

I am with you. Love all the ideas but I keep hesitating in joining a lot because things could change drastically between now and final payment time. Love the idea of the shirts, though.


The switching is precisely why I suggested an excel spreadsheet. If someone changes their cabin, they can call me and leave a voicemail on my SR voicemail. That way I could change the SR number and notify the floor monitor. What do you guys think?

Noel

Again, I like the idea. Means you only have to remember one name to call.

My GS who is 7 is crazy about jumping his bike on a ramp!! He wanted us to buy him a small dirt bike. I guess they have them kid size or something. NOT ME!!!
Sounds like he and Wilson would get on like a house afire. I wish you guys were on this years NYE cruise and not next!!

Noel

I have a 6 yo GS whose parents bought him an ATV and his 8 yo brother a small dirt bike. I am just waiting on them to call me that one has been taken to the hospital. The 6 yo is a real dare devil. Broke his arm last year trying to do a back flip off his electric car like one of the NASCAR racers does.


This picture of the turtle has me thinking. This question is for everyone,

"Are you a turtle?"


You bet your sweet a** I am. Became one lots of years ago.

Going to take a nap. Went to see the dentist because of major toothache and am now on meds. Not much sleep last night either.

Oh yes, there will be a Fish Extender update later after the "shipping department" gets things ready to go into the mail.

Carol

[mom_of_2_princesses]

V - Nothing from DU.:confused3

I had my own e-bay event this weekend. I have only been on e-bay 5 times in my life. But, and John you started this, my SIL brought her Wii over this weekend and my little girl had so much fun!! She hates video games, vsmile, nintendo, all of it. She is having a problem with timed test in school. When it gets to close, she just guesses. Even though when not timed she does perfectly, timed is not so good so we have been trying to think of a way to help her.

Seriously, how can a 6 year old girl skate competitively in front of judges, but can't handle the pressure of tests. She says it is because when she gets on the ice she just feels different and all the nervousness goes away.

Anyway, they suggested video games. Did not work, she won't play. Loved the Wii. Tried to find one, decided there was not enough time on the planet for me to go every day to each store to see if a shipment came in.

Sunday, I won my own on e-bay for $35 over list. Totally worth the $35 to never go back to those stores again.

Wii on the way!

Kim

My DD really struggled with timed test also. We thought she would not be good at math but the reverse happened. Don't let it get to you. Remember she is only six and I know I was not multiplying at six. We have some smart kids. We did some of the online test and a lot of times they are the same test as the school gives. I would let her do one normal and then give her one timed. Just ask the teacher to give you a bunch and give her some each night. I remember looking at the stickers at open house and my DD only had a couple completed. The mothers were like, "whats wrong with you." Now DD does the math team. Who is looking at who know. J.K.:rotfl:

[HollyTyler]

WOOHOO! 71 degrees right now! I was supposed to pick Tyler up from day care an hour ago, but didn't have the heart to. When I got there and saw the kids playing on the playground, I knew he wouldn't want to come with me anyway, so I'm letting him have more fun. He's been waiting to play outside there again all winter. Let him live it up today because tomorrow and Thursday are supposed to be thunderstorms all day, and then back in the 30s for a few days with snow again. :mad: So I'm off to pick him up so we can play outside together, probably at a park. Will let him stay up late and have a blast! Worry tomorrow about not being able to drag him out of bed on time. :laughing:

Enjoy the rest of your evening everybody!

[ibouncetoo]

has anyone who's booked through DU received a written mailed confirmation?


Nope. :sad2:

[disneylover5]

Seriously, how can a 6 year old girl skate competitively in front of judges, but can't handle the pressure of tests. She says it is because when she gets on the ice she just feels different and all the nervousness goes away.
Kim

My 10 year old dances in front of judges.....and gets scored and she says "No Big Deal" I would love to see a picture of your DD skating!!

[WldWcnWmn]

[COLOR="Blue"]I was talking about the DIS meeting this May, so don't get scared!!!

Noel

Whew! I was a little OCD there...myself.

When we moved into our house about 2 years ago, we had some light fixture spark and heat came out of the wall. So we called the fire dept (much to my husband's objection -"it is under control" "there is smoke" "fine, do whatever". So next thing I know, these 3 hunk of men (sorry John - girl talk) come to my door. I didn't know what to do. Do I call my single sister and tell her to come right away? Do I ask them to come to a dinner party? What I am wearing? I couldn't think of anything. All I could say is "my son loves fire, I mean firemen. Come here Aidan. Show him show firetruck" They said, "Madam, do you have a problem here?" I say no, well yes, well, no my husband doesn't think so. Well touch this wall. It is hot." I was SO embarressed. I couldn't speak! The moral of the story: if you have a reason to call the fireman, be sure to call all you single girlfriends and have them come 9-1-1. Have your husband do the talking and just sit back and watch!
Lisa
Lis

LOL I love it! :rotfl: Sounds like something I would do. Taking notes now..."when house catches on fire...call girlfriends over first"... Got it!:thumbsup2

At this point I'ld even take B*** death as a tag. :rotfl:

I would too! :rotfl: :lmao: LOL :laughing:
Hey anyone with DD's between 10-12!


I do, I do...I'll PM you.


(We call it 'sent to Coventry') ;)

That's it, The Theives have been sent to Coventry! We're Coventry Theives! LOL:rotfl: Better than Plundering Pirates, I'd say!



If that is how it is said, I think I have lived most of my life in Coventry!:rotfl:

LOL:rotfl: I resemble that remark

[EllaEnchanted]

has anyone who's booked through DU received a written mailed confirmation?


Nope, not a thing from them.

[tink1963]

Just won this on ebay....

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a175/nskjerven/minnieoutfitforPiper.jpg

I wanted to show it to someone who would get it!!! I'm sending it to my Diser Friends for their daughter...She will be on the DCL NYE 2008 with us and don't ya think this is perfect for that? I hope the size is ok by then, okay now I've taken my OCD in childrens clothes to the next level....pre buying for my friends. What a nutcase! :lmao: I had to get it...my little girl isn't little enough anymore and this was just so cute!

LOVE IT. They make the coolest things for kids;)

has anyone who's booked through DU received a written mailed confirmation?

Nothing here either. :sad2: We booked throught DCL and then transfered to Dreams.

[disneylover5]

Taking notes now..."when house catches on fire...call girlfriends over first"... Got it!:thumbsup2


Now there is a good TAG for you!!!
:rotfl: :lmao: :rotfl2: :rotfl: :lmao: :rotfl2: :rotfl: :lmao: :rotfl2: :rotfl: :lmao: :rotfl2:

[nskjerven]

Does Sophia like any of the Wii games? (wasted my money on the Nintendo DS games too!!)

I knew I'd have to confess this sooner or later...we the kids and I are DS freaks. We play Animal Crossing all the time and visit each other regularly. Wilson got his last Xmas on the cruise, Molly got hers for her bday and I got mine around Halloween (early Xmas this year) DH, Paul thinks we are nuts. He can't understand why we would want to play these dumb games all the time. We are having a blast. We live in a worlds where I can pay off a mortgage in a week or less and fish and buy clothes and house stuff with out a care in the world.

Hello, my name is Nanette and I am a DS Animal Crossing addict.

I holding off on getting Wii because I think we'll never get to see tv shows. If I can get a bigger tv in our bedroom (for the Wii) that would be ok. The kids can play it in there while we are watching tv in the family room.

[been2marceline]

:rotfl2: :rotfl2: loved that image!

reminds me of the time when Becky and her little friend Rachel (both aged 4) locked themselves in my friend's bathroom (which they'd just had built as part of an extension!). The local fire station was just a few houses away so my pal ran down the road to ask them to break in for us, thinking we could keep it quiet....but no they had to actually get the engine out, siren going, and 3 burly firemen attended, took out the window and climbed through to rescue the girls....who were quite happily playing inside with their Barbies.
Couldn't have organised it better....there were 7 of us ladies and our various toddlers having a coffee afternnon at the time....looked like we'd laid on the entertainment!;) :rotfl: :rotfl:[/QUOTE]

Ahhh, Firemen as entertainment... Works for me!!!:cool1:

Karen

[been2marceline]

The site has been soooo slow for the last 45 minutes or so. I couldn't get on at one time!:confused3

It was super slow last night (early this morning) and even went away again...:confused3

I was going to post "just one more picture" last night, but alas, the moment has passed! :rolleyes1

Maybe tonight when I am back home on the laptop where all of the pictures live now!!:surfweb:

Karen

[TiggersPal]

Whew! Had to do a major search for a picture I could copy/paste.

To all you youngsters out there, that is Alejando Rey. He did a bazillion TV shows and lots of movies, like "Fun in Acapulco" with Elvis. He had a great smile, wish I could have found a picture of him smiling.

Hey sister! I had a huge crush on this guy - what brought this up? Just found your post in the sea of "are you kidding me? I can't keep up on this thread!":banana:

[TiggersPal]

LOVE IT. They make the coolest things for kids;)



Nothing here either. :sad2: We booked throught DCL and then transfered to Dreams.


That is just too cute for words!

[TiggersPal]

For those of you who don't know, my sweet cousin is in the Miss USA pagent on March 23rd. My aunt is so excited she calls me every day to give me updates. They really need this, they have had a very rough 2 years so the positives are wonderful. Anyway, she asked me to ask everyone I know who is watching the show to vote for her as most photogenic. So if you are not already inclined to a contestant, here is my cousin Heather.

http://www.missusa.com/delegates/2007/files/UT.html


I personally think she should win and to heck with the photogenic, but I admit EXTREME bias in this situation.

Thanks everyone!!!

KIm

What a beautiful gal! I hope she does well, I didn't miss the contest did I? I don't post much on this thread - too hard to keep up, but I pray she wins - how great for your family.

[LiserAnn]

has anyone who's booked through DU received a written mailed confirmation?

V-not a thing! Other than the emailed confirmation from them. Do they typically send a written mailed confirmation?

[LiserAnn]

For those of you who don't know, my sweet cousin is in the Miss USA pagent on March 23rd. My aunt is so excited she calls me every day to give me updates. They really need this, they have had a very rough 2 years so the positives are wonderful. Anyway, she asked me to ask everyone I know who is watching the show to vote for her as most photogenic. So if you are not already inclined to a contestant, here is my cousin Heather.

Gulp! Wow, she is just beatiful. Your aunt must be so proud!!!

[UKANGEL]

[QUOTE=UKANGEL;17532634]

If that is how it is said, I think I have lived most of my life in Coventry!:rotfl:

:rotfl: Not a very nice place to visit or live!;)



That's it, The Theives have been sent to Coventry! We're Coventry Theives! LOL:rotfl: Better than Plundering Pirates, I'd say!

LOL:rotfl: I resemble that remark

Love it!:rotfl2:

[been2marceline]

Hey anyone with DD's between 10-12!

Kristin is having a real hard time with chatting because of school, homework and sports schedule. She would love to give any of your DD's her e-mail address so they can get to know each other. PM me if you would like it. That way they can talk directly. She has not been on in awhile so I don't know if that is happening already.

PM'd you regarding this. I posted pictures of her on page 551 (just a few...)

Karen

[been2marceline]

For those of you who don't know, my sweet cousin is in the Miss USA pagent on March 23rd. My aunt is so excited she calls me every day to give me updates. They really need this, they have had a very rough 2 years so the positives are wonderful. Anyway, she asked me to ask everyone I know who is watching the show to vote for her as most photogenic. So if you are not already inclined to a contestant, here is my cousin Heather.

http://www.missusa.com/delegates/2007/files/UT.html


I personally think she should win and to heck with the photogenic, but I admit EXTREME bias in this situation.

Thanks everyone!!!

KIm

Kim,

Oh my gosh!! She is just gorgeous!! Please tell me she isn't nice too? (Just kidding, I think ;) )

Best of luck to her!! I'll vote!!:thumbsup2

Karen

[been2marceline]

I booked with DU and got our confirmation last week together with the cute postcard!!! I think I might just have to do some kind of scrapbook now!:laughing:

I can help with that, Marilyn! :thumbsup2

I have all the goodies that you need and you will have even more on the ship with the Scrapbooking event!! :banana:

Karen

[mom_of_2_princesses]

Kim,

Is there a section where we vote on that specific category. Is it the day of the competition or now? Never mind I think it is the day of the competition from reading your post. She is beautiful.