~A XMAS STORY~decorations, crowds, pixies..AND A BLOODY NOSE~ACTUAL UPDATE 11/9 p190 [Archive] - Page 12 - The DIS Discussion Forums

bedillamouse

10-26-2009, 09:55 AM

"headed back home on sunday and that was my weekend. margot was so sweet and i'm so glad i got to spend some time with her. while we were waiting for our table at PF chang's she just sat in my lap and looked around and then when i'd play with her she'd make this little screaming noise that was so cute! and it was so nice to see some old friends from school and to see memom, jill, erica, brooklynn and bella! and of course it was fun being with erin all weekend, too. good company all around! :grouphug: "

I've been MIA lately...lots of H1N1 in our house keeping me hopping. That's the one thing about kids..they LOVE to bring those germs home and share with the whole family! Anywho....just wanted to say YEA! for seeing Margot! I love this age. They are alert and happy and play with you but still can't run away quite yet! Happy to hear you had a great time...okay I'm off to finish catching up with the rest of the report.

Okay I'm caught up....I have never been to Savanna...now I want to go! It looks incredible. I wonder if I can convince my DH to take a trip down there just the two of us? That would mean Grandparents watching the kids so it would be convincing them too!

Thanks for sharing the trip info...now I have ideas of where to go if we do go to Savanna!

Keeping my fingers crossed for the baby situation! It'll happen when it's supposed to! We tried for over a year on our first one...just when we were getting ready to start treatment I found out I was pregnant! Just relax and remember trying is the fun part!!!

MagicShell

10-26-2009, 04:40 PM

Your pictures are very pretty, but "ghost stuff" is not on my list of things to do. I would have nightmares for the rest of my life.

MeMom

10-26-2009, 08:58 PM

Your pictures are very pretty, but "ghost stuff" is not on my list of things to do. I would have nightmares for the rest of my life.

My thoughts exactly.
I want to see the historical places and things in Savannah - just not the scary historical places and things! :scared1:
Big chicken here. ::yes::

MagicShell

10-27-2009, 10:08 AM

My thoughts exactly.
I want to see the historical places and things in Savannah - just not the scary historical places and things! :scared1:
Big chicken here. ::yes::

We should tour Savannah together on a "chicken tour".

stacikristine

10-27-2009, 03:20 PM

How fun! Those pictures in the cemetery are just gorgeous. There was a very, very old cemetery by a camp I used to work at, and I loved going in there and taking pictures. I looked at the Miley Cyrus link...that boot is weird! Savannah sounds so interesting!

RinkyTinkyTinky

10-27-2009, 05:17 PM

Loved the pictures. We did a similar tour in Williamsburg, VA. It was fun but not worth the price either. Definitely a one time thing for us.

LISAMWDW

10-28-2009, 09:25 AM

All caught up! Looks like Savannah was fun and gorgeous! I've never been there. I'll have to add it to my "to go" list!

I love how Ray was taking pictures of you without you knowing it! So cute!

punkin413

10-30-2009, 10:05 PM

I WANT ONE!!!! Goodness that looks good!!!! :eek:

The lighting is REALLY cool!! :thumbsup2

yeah, it was yummy! and i loved the lighting in those pictures, too.

The pictures of Ray's co-workers family are adorable! That little girl is a camera ham and sooo cute :laughing:

Wow, that cemetery is really beautiful. That sounds kind of weird to say that a cemetery is beautiful though haha But all that spanish moss and the big statues and all were so pretty.

I agree, the ghost tour really did seem more like a history tour but still really cool! idk if I'd be able to stay in any of those haunted places LOL

yeah, she's adorable! i love to walk through cemeteries, especially old ones. it seems creepy but i just love the historic aspect of it and they're usually very pretty. ray asked me if i wanted to see how much it would cost to stay in room 204 (the haunted room) at 17hundred90 inn and i told him no way!

Cool pictures from the cemetary!

Oh, I could go for some fudge right now -- there is something about fudge made on the coast that is always so delicious to me.

i love ALL fudge, especially amaretto-flavored fudge. yum.

:rotfl2: Ba-dunk-a-dunk! Never had one. :sad: Always kind of had a small not badunky butt! You still look great! :thumbsup2

you want some of mine????? i will gladly let you have some. i got it honestly from my mama.

Loved your update! We spent one day in Savannah and enjoyed it, I would love to go for a week. It's so beautiful!

Did the doggies enjoy their treats? They look so excited! :)

thanks! yes, it really is a beautifuly place. and yes, they LOVED their treats. they always do!

Love the pictures of Bonaventure! I really have to make it to Savannah one of these days!!!

That blueberry martini looked yummy!! :)

well, when you guys decide to go let me know and i'll tell you the cool things to see and do! and yes, that martini was very good.

The martini looks good.

I wasn't hungry until I saw your pictures and I don't like seafood. GREAT pics.

It's weird. I would never go to a cemetery out here just to sight see, but it's seems so natural where you're at or somewhere like New Orleans...why is that?

it was! you live in cali and you don't like seafood? wanna trade locations with me for a few meals? i guess the reason cemeteries are more tourist-y in old cities like that because they are SO OLD and there is so much history there. it's kinda creepy but really cool at the same time!

Savannah is my favorite American city. Bonaventure is visually stunning. Would be a terrific place to be buried. The bird girl statue that graced the cover of the novel Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil was on a family plot to the far left of the cemetary. The name on the plot is Trosdel. Also, Johnny Mercer's plot is nice. Had you found it, there is a bench there with the titles of his most popular songs engraved in it.

This cemetary is one of the most beautiful sights I've seen. Savannah really is a gem of a city.

hi! thanks for reading. yeah, we asked about the bird girl statue and they said it had been moved to a museum in savannah. i love that statue - it's so eery. glad you enjoy savannah as much as i do!

Aww, another lovely Savannah update! I really, really want to go back there now!!!

We visited the Bonaventure Cemetery when we were there too, as part of the Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil tour. It was so beautiful and, dare I say it, haunting! An amazing place to visit.

And I think we went to the same candy place too! Yum! And I think we also went to Parker's Market! It was either that, or a place that looked very similar. Does it have lots of great knick-knacky homeware stuff inside, but also gourmet sandwiches!? We loved that place!

And I think we have the same dogs!! Hehee, no, not really.

This...

... made me laugh out loud. Hehee. I had to explain to Conan was I was laughing at! :rolleyes1

Thanks for another fun update Dawn!

bonaventure is sooooo pretty! and yes, haunting. i can't imagine going there at night. yep, it sounds like you guys went to parker's market. we always try to stop by there! i hope conan doesn't think i'm crazy....wanting to climb a tree in a cemetery. :eek:

I actually just read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil earlier this year for the first time and it made me want to visit Savannah. But now, after seeing your pictures of everything I read about in the book, I want to see it EVEN MORE!

I had no idea that Bonaventure Cemetery was so huge! Wow, but it's GORGEOUS!

Belford's looks absolutely delicious! Especially those crab cakes!

yeah, that's a great book. and you would LOVE the city! and bonaventure is ginormous. belford's is one of our favorites. i think this is the 3rd time we've been there - good crab cakes!

"headed back home on sunday and that was my weekend. margot was so sweet and i'm so glad i got to spend some time with her. while we were waiting for our table at PF chang's she just sat in my lap and looked around and then when i'd play with her she'd make this little screaming noise that was so cute! and it was so nice to see some old friends from school and to see memom, jill, erica, brooklynn and bella! and of course it was fun being with erin all weekend, too. good company all around! :grouphug: "

I've been MIA lately...lots of H1N1 in our house keeping me hopping. That's the one thing about kids..they LOVE to bring those germs home and share with the whole family! Anywho....just wanted to say YEA! for seeing Margot! I love this age. They are alert and happy and play with you but still can't run away quite yet! Happy to hear you had a great time...okay I'm off to finish catching up with the rest of the report.

Okay I'm caught up....I have never been to Savanna...now I want to go! It looks incredible. I wonder if I can convince my DH to take a trip down there just the two of us? That would mean Grandparents watching the kids so it would be convincing them too!

Thanks for sharing the trip info...now I have ideas of where to go if we do go to Savanna!

Keeping my fingers crossed for the baby situation! It'll happen when it's supposed to! We tried for over a year on our first one...just when we were getting ready to start treatment I found out I was pregnant! Just relax and remember trying is the fun part!!!

i hope you guys have recovered from H1N1! margot is getting so big. i can't wait to see her again, probably at christmas. she's going to be a pumpkin for halloween and i'm sure i will have pictures of that. savannah is so pretty - you'd love it. if you guys go, let me know and i'll tell you some things to do/places to eat. i'm trying to remember that we should be having FUN with the baby thing and for the most part i'm pretty calm and not stressed about it. but i can't help but to be impatient sometimes. but i know it will happen for us sooner or later!

Your pictures are very pretty, but "ghost stuff" is not on my list of things to do. I would have nightmares for the rest of my life.

it honestly wasn't that scary. i was expecting more as far as the scary stuff goes.

My thoughts exactly.
I want to see the historical places and things in Savannah - just not the scary historical places and things! :scared1:
Big chicken here. ::yes::

you would be fine. riding HM was worse than that ghost tour!

punkin413

10-30-2009, 10:08 PM

We should tour Savannah together on a "chicken tour".

:rotfl:

How fun! Those pictures in the cemetery are just gorgeous. There was a very, very old cemetery by a camp I used to work at, and I loved going in there and taking pictures. I looked at the Miley Cyrus link...that boot is weird! Savannah sounds so interesting!

savannah is so full of history - it's a VERY interesting place! and i love old cemeteries, too. glad i'm not the only weird one! :laughing:

Loved the pictures. We did a similar tour in Williamsburg, VA. It was fun but not worth the price either. Definitely a one time thing for us.

thanks. yeah, it wasn't bad but we probably wouldn't do it again.

All caught up! Looks like Savannah was fun and gorgeous! I've never been there. I'll have to add it to my "to go" list!

I love how Ray was taking pictures of you without you knowing it! So cute!

it's always so pretty there! just try to avoid summer because it gets HOT! ray rarely has the camera so it's always interesting to see what he takes pictures of.

punkin413

10-30-2009, 11:09 PM

before i continue with our last full day in savannah, i wanted to take this time to celebrate the fact that we are now inside of 400 days until our next disney trip!!! :dance3:

that is, if we are still gonna go in december 2010. :eek:

yes, you read that right. we are playing with different ideas, all depending, of course, on the baby-making outcome. if i get pregnant before the end of the year, the plans won't change. if it happens in january, february or march, we will probably cancel december 2010 and change to april or may 2011 because i will have a VERY small baby in december and that won't work. if it happens in april, may or june, then we will cancel december and change to early october 2010. this way i will be pregnant, but not too pregnant and can enjoy ALL THE FOOD at the food & wine festival, plus we can go to the halloween party, which ray has never done. and of course if happens any time after june of next year then i will be okay with going in december. it makes me feel better knowing that we have a plan - i don't feel so stressed and rushed now. i know that sounds silly. obviously my priority it starting a family over going to disney. but you know i love to plan and not knowing what's going to happen drives me nuts! so now that i know that we can make arrangements in any event, i'm much more at ease. :goodvibes

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finally, our last day in savannah/tybee island!

this was our lazy day and i was looking forward to it! i got up early on sunday and let ray sleep in and went to the beach by myself before he joined me about an hour later. when i first got there i saw a huge freight ship that had probably just come by river street.

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as we were sitting there, relaxing and enjoying the sound of the ocean, i noticed this in the water.....

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we both got all excited. it looked like it could possibly be a school of dolphins or a very large fish. but as we kept watching, we realized it was just a big log.....

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what a couple of morons! :lmao:

to our defense, we saw lots of other people get excited over what they were seeing, too, but then realize it was just a big piece of wood. so we were surrounded by morons.

more bird pictures. thank goodness for that lens.

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it was so nice out that day and i loved just sitting on the beach and relaxing, then going down to the water to dip my feet every now and then. so nice!

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a very odd bird we saw....

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at some point we walked up to the pier and got lunch at subway, but there were no bird incidents on this day, thank goodness.

after our relaxing day at the beach, we decided to head back to the house around 2:00. i did some reading in the hammock in the back yard while ray watched some football, then we cleaned up and decided to head to dinner here.....

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uncle bubba is paula deen's brother and his restaurant is located on the marsh between savannah and tybee, so only about a 10-minute drive for us. we had eaten here a couple of years ago, but we had lunch and we weren't that impressed. we decided we'd give his dinner menu a try.

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the fishies as you come into the restaurant....

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we decided to sit on the back deck because it was so nice outside.

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i got a mojito to drink and it was very yummy!

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we got crab bites for an appetizer and they were SO good. we got an extra side of that sauce, too. yum!

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while we were waiting on our food we saw several kitties hovering around. they would wait until someone left and then eat anything that had fallen on the ground around their table.

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for dinner ray got fried shrimp with cheese grits and black-eyed peas.

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i got bacon-wrapped stuffed shrimp with savannah red rice and corn on the cob.

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here's my corn and you can kinda see the little corn muffins they brought us, too, which were really good!

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this meal was SO GOOD! i'm so glad we gave it a second chance because it was awesome. the sauce on that shrimp was scrumptious and the savannah red rice that came with it was out of this world.

for dessert we got chocolate creme brulee, which was very yummy too!

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and to top off a great meal, a very nice lady who was on her way out came over to our table and gave us a coupon she didn't use with a free entree with the purchase of one entree. so we got ray's dinner for free! :thumbsup2

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punkin413

10-30-2009, 11:10 PM

ray was in charge of the leftovers after dinner!

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we walked out towards the marsh on the way out and got some pictures. it was so pretty out there but it stunk! the marsh stinks in some areas, i guess because the water is sort of stagnant there.

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they had a little boat out there for the "kids" to play on....

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looking back at the area we sat at during dinner....

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a couple of pictures of the marsh areas on the way back out to tybee....

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when we got back to the house, we decided it was time to take the boys to the beach again. it was around 7:30 at this point and the sun wasn't quite down yet, so we figured it would be the perfect time. we drove to several spots before we found a good place. here are some videos of our adventure.

the car ride....

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again, please excuse the crappy camera work. i was carrying the camcorder, my camera and a pooper scooper all at the same time. arrival at the beach and sherman steps on a sand burr....

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eli's first time at the beach! sherman was just kinda like, yeah...whatever. i've seen this before!

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the ride home....

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punkin413

10-30-2009, 11:11 PM

here are the pictures i took. they look dark just because i was using the flash but as you can see from the videos, it wasn't that dark.

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the last few i took of the beach as we left. they are blurry because i had to turn the flash off and was walking.

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when we got home and ray took his shoes off, they were full of sand!

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i don't know why he didn't wear flip flops??? :confused3

we went to bed fairly early that night - it was nice though. our last day was so relaxing and that's just what we needed!

we woke up the next morning to POURING rain! it made it a little bit easier to leave the beach. :laughing: 4-and-a-half hours later and we were home with two very tired beagles. but we all had a great time! i'm glad we got the chance to go. even if it was a short trip, we both had an awesome time and it's one we definitely needed!

i will get back to my FINAL installment of my ACTUAL TRIP REPORT soon, but first i'll have to post my disney on ice pics and some halloween pictures i'll be taking tomorrow night. ray and i are dressing up this year! you will have to wait and see what our costumes are. i wanted to do a couple costume but we couldn't agree on anything. my favorite idea was for ray to be president obama and me to be his nobel peace prize but ray thought we'd offend somebody. :rolleyes: i just thought it was funny.

hope every one has a safe and....

:hmghost: HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!! :hmghost:

hlrababy

10-30-2009, 11:54 PM

winkers

10-31-2009, 12:49 AM

that shrimp looks so good!!

I've loved seeing all your pictures from Savannah! It's on my list of places I want to see. Of course, I'd get more of that accomplished if I'd stop going to disney world. :laughing:

jordanyosh

10-31-2009, 12:59 AM

bacon wrapped anything is good.....well, almost anything....;)

so you did get the dogs out on the beach again!!!:thumbsup2

MeMom

10-31-2009, 05:54 AM

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Is Ray reenacting The Thinker, or is he just about to punch himself in the face? :laughing:

Uncle Bubba's looks like a fun place to eat. Great atmosphere for that type of restaurant. I'm glad you gave it a second chance. I would probably have ordered what you had. It looks delicious!

Glad Sherman and Eli made it to the water. I bet they had fun. :)

I'm glad you got to take such a nice, relaxing vacation. It is so important to get away from the grind sometime and just rejuvenate. It's kind of nice that it rained and made it easier for you to leave. It might have been a bit hard pulling away on a beautiful sunny day.

I look forward to Disney on Ice pictures, as well as Halloween pictures. You guys have a fun evening!

punkin413

10-31-2009, 02:15 PM

Awesome update..as usual! :thumbsup2

Uncle Bubba's looked really yummy!!! Well, I love seafood so I know I would love it.

Woo hoo, can't wait to see your Disney On Ice pics ;) and Halloween pictures!!

thanks! it was good...great seafood! disney on ice (and your cameo) is coming up!

that shrimp looks so good!!

I've loved seeing all your pictures from Savannah! It's on my list of places I want to see. Of course, I'd get more of that accomplished if I'd stop going to disney world. :laughing:

it was! yeah, i want to see other places too but i honestly am always willing to go back to disney. it's a tough job but somebody's gotta do it. :laughing: i'm thinking a reasonable thing to do is disney every other year and other places in between.

bacon wrapped anything is good.....well, almost anything....;)

so you did get the dogs out on the beach again!!!:thumbsup2

i agree. bacon rules. i don't think i could ever be jewish just because i love bacon too much. :rotfl:

Is Ray reenacting The Thinker, or is he just about to punch himself in the face? :laughing:

Uncle Bubba's looks like a fun place to eat. Great atmosphere for that type of restaurant. I'm glad you gave it a second chance. I would probably have ordered what you had. It looks delicious!

Glad Sherman and Eli made it to the water. I bet they had fun. :)

I'm glad you got to take such a nice, relaxing vacation. It is so important to get away from the grind sometime and just rejuvenate. It's kind of nice that it rained and made it easier for you to leave. It might have been a bit hard pulling away on a beautiful sunny day.

I look forward to Disney on Ice pictures, as well as Halloween pictures. You guys have a fun evening!

that's his "ray deep in thought" pose. i have several pictures of him doing that. it's sort of a little joke we have. uncle bubba's was good! i'm glad we went back, too. i'm glad we got away, as well. we both needed it! and it was pouring rain when i got up on the day we left...buckets full! it did make it easier to leave.

jordanyosh

10-31-2009, 03:04 PM

i'm a pork lover myself-bacon, ham, carnitas...pork tenderloin....sausage...mmmmm

punkin413

10-31-2009, 03:25 PM

just FYI - the last installment of our savannah trip is on the previous page!

figured i'd go ahead and post my "disney on ice: celebrations" pictures before the halloween festivities begin.

we went to see this show on sunday, october 18th. heather (hlrababy) got our tickets and i paid her back, but then my friend erin decided she wanted to take her little sister. but as i had already gotten my ticket, we couldn't sit together. so we just rode together and i met heather there. heather - if you wanna add any pictures of your own, feel free!

here's erin and her little sister, kristin, on the way into phillips arena. kristin is only 6 years old and erin is 32. erin's dad and stepmom got pregnant unexpectedly a few years ago and along came kristin! and it's funny because she looks just like a little, blond-headed erin!

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i don't know how many of you read about my disney on ice experience last year, but let's just say i wasn't a very happy disney fan when we got there over halfway through the first half of the show. i missed cars and the little mermaid! this year we got there like an hour before the show so everything was A-ok!

oh, and it was funny because we got in line to get in and heather and hollie were about 2 people in front of us in line. great minds think alike! ;) chad (heather's hubby) didn't get to come because he was sick. so hollie's cousins took turns sitting in chad's seat because it was closer than the seats they had.

we got inside and looked at all the overpriced merchandise they had. i thought the binoculars were cute.

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i really wanted this gus plush doll but it was $12.99. and it was tiny. i don't think so!

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i ended up getting the soundtrack for the 25th anniversary of disney on ice. it's pretty cool! erin got kristin a horse that was supposed to be cinderella's horse and i think she paid around $15, which actually wasn't too awful bad. i'm sure she bought other stuff too. i know she got her one of those slushies during the show and kristin didn't like it. :laughing:

i grabbed a slice of pizza since the show started at noon and i knew i wouldn't be able to wait until it was over to eat. a slice of pizza and a bottle of water cost me $10!!!! then i headed to my seat and found heather and hollie were already there. erin had paid more for her and kristin's seats and they were about 4 rows back from the ice. she hasn't sent me her pictures yet but if/when she does i will share them with you guys!

the ice before the show.....

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me and heather....

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heather and miss hollie....

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there was a lady sitting to my right who was just cracking us up before the show started. first of all, when i went to sit down in my chair she was asleep with her coat over her head and had her legs crossed and all over in the area where my legs would go when i sat down. so i said "excuse me" but she didn't move, so i just sat down and when i BARELY touched my leg to hers, which couldn't be avoided, instead of waking up and said, "oh, excuse me" or "i'm sorry," she just huffed really loud and shifted her legs to the other side. :confused3 and every time her kids would say anything to her she would say, "shut up! i'm sleeping. i don't feel good." THEN during the show she still had her coat over her head and the sleeve of it would sometimes fall into my lap. at one point i picked it up and threw it back over her - i didn't know heather was watching me when i did it and when i saw that she caught me doing it we both started laughing. :rotfl:

here's a picture heather took of me and my new sleepy friend before the show.

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hollie got one of those things you blow in and the paper rolls out and it was REALLY big. heather kept telling her to "blow up" instead of out and, amazingly, she never hit anyone in the head with it!

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this is hollie and her cousin, bailee (heather - i think that's her name but you can correct me if i'm wrong). so cute!

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this dude was all decked out in his glowey merchandise.

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on to the show! i will let the pictures do the talking most of the time because i took alot! these are just some of them. when i got home i had about 400 pictures to go through. :scared1:

lumiere started things with "be our guest"!

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mickey and minnie came out of that big basket of presents!

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two of my favorites!

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10-31-2009, 03:26 PM

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next it was time for a birthday party....

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they couldn't figure out whose birthday it was, but then pinnochio said it was his. then his nose started to grow so we all know what that means!

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so then they started to celebrate the mad hatter's UNbirthday by playing keep-away with his hat!

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this part was hilarious. mickey and donald started running in slow motion and they were playing "chariots of fire." :rotfl:

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the white rabbit showed up with a birthday cake....

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....but spilled it everywhere, so mickey had to clean it up.

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then goofy found this cool hat.

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and this robe!

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and then the brooms started to dance!

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then it was time for the HALLOWEEN stuff.....and the VILLIANS!!!!

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i heard a lady behind us tell her kids that this was beetlejuice. :rotfl2:

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10-31-2009, 03:27 PM

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cruella was first to arrive....

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then captain hook!

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and then the best villian of all.....MALEFICENT!

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here she comes!

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a few more bad guys showed up, then mickey knocked on the door with his treat bag hoping for a treat....

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the snow white witch tried to get mickey to eat one of her apples. the pictures i took of this didn't turn out. but luckily the kids in the audience told mickey not to eat the apple, much the the villians' disgust.

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then some old friends showed up to "scare" the villians away. cute, but c'mon....that would never happen in real life! <------ the ridiculousness of that statement just makes me laugh. :lmao:

i loved how pluto's sheet had whiskers on it, but i never did get a clear shot of it.

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then the fairy godmother showed up and minnie made a wish....

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.....to be a princess!

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princess time!!! princess:

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punkin413

10-31-2009, 03:28 PM

i love this picture! i have no idea how that dude is still standing upright.

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here's ariel girl! (shout-out to brooklynn!)

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and the newest princess, tiana, from "the princess and the frog."

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then guess who appears as minnie's prince?

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time for a ball! i loved that the used, "how does she know?" from enchanted for this part. love that song!

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awwwww!!!!!!!

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and now that you've had your full dose of princess for the day, we will take an intermission.

(insert zamboni pictures that i forgot to upload here. :rolleyes1)

next it was time to "celebrate" vacations! first we go to the beach. here's the guy that memom, jill and erica drooled over in nashville. i think he's supposed to be lilo's older sister's boyfriend. i can't remember the name of his character though! hollie knew it at the time because she told heather that's who it was. so i got schooled by a 4-year-old! :goodvibes

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goofy was the lifeguard. not sure if that's good or bad.

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punkin413

10-31-2009, 03:30 PM

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mickey and minnie are "skiing" behind goofy!

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i love goofy's method of limboing!

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and mickey just goes over the top!

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then we go to japan with minnie. kristin said this was her favorite part because it was so pretty.

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onward to china!

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next we go to mardi gras in new orleans with princess tiana. i LOVED this part. the music was awesome and so was the dancing/skating. it made me really excited for the movie!

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now it's time to "celebrate" the holidays!

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santa was stuck in the chimney, so they all had to join together and pull him out!

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here's santa!

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then it was time for the toys! this part was good, too. they skated to "the toys are back in town."

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punkin413

10-31-2009, 03:31 PM

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then tink appeared and it was time for the grand finale!

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and snow!!!

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alice and the mad hatter were right in front of us. hollie kept yelling at her, "hey, alice, wave it me!!!!" it was so cute.

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bye, tink. see ya next year!

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it was a GREAT show! i'm glad i went. i thought it was better than the one we saw last year because it had SO many characters in it.

here's hollie after the show.....

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i said bye to heather and found erin, then we headed out. it was such a pretty day in atlanta so i took some pictures as we walked to the car.

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Disney-on-Ice-October-2009/DSC03946/689338477_v6Loz-L.jpg

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Disney-on-Ice-October-2009/DSC03943/689336973_g9k9U-L.jpg

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erin and kristin as we got to the car.....they had a great time, too!

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Disney-on-Ice-October-2009/DSC03947/689341253_NGhSH-L.jpg

oh, and just to celebrate the fact that today is halloween, here is erin in the costume that they wore to work yesterday. she was the mad hatter!

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/hatter.jpg

that's the one she sent me with her phone. ray took a picture of her with his and put it in a mickey border. cute!

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/hatter2.jpg

the entire customer service department of their company dressed as alice in wonderland characters. i can't wait to see a picture of all of them! erin is supposed to e-mail me one. ray works in the IT department and they didn't dress up.....they're lame! :laughing:

hope you guys all have a great halloween! feel free to post your pictures here. i'd love to see you or your kiddos dressed up! :goodvibes

winkers

10-31-2009, 04:58 PM

coat lady is too funny!

why would you pay that much money to go and take a nap?

kschafer

10-31-2009, 05:05 PM

Wow, what a great show! I'm so glad you had better luck this year!! So cool you got to sit with Heather and Hollie

Disney on Ice will be in the area again this year on my birthday (I went last year as a present to myself) but since I don't have a full-time job right now, I don't feel like I can justify it this year. Thanks for letting me enjoy your show :goodvibes

Has Erin lost a bunch of weight since your trip together? She looks so much thinner!

arkie

10-31-2009, 06:24 PM

Great update Dawn.
Here is my little grandson dressed as Dumbo.
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MAGICFOR2

10-31-2009, 07:16 PM

Savanah looks gorgeous! It's one of the places I've always wanted to go....must be part of my Gone with the Wind fascination.:)

I feel the same. When I was in Atlanta, I wanted to go see the "old plantation homes" Jim kept reminding me of Gone with the Wind, and the fact that "Atlanta burned." I'm glad there are still a few old places around the South.

P.S. I know this is a really late comment, but I am so behind on the boards lately.

MAGICFOR2

10-31-2009, 10:02 PM

Okay, sorry I've been MIA Dawn. I'm all caught up. I loved your Savannah trip! The food pics made me really hungry. Thanks for the tour of the cemetary - I love old cemetaries! Jim and I just toured one in Boise - we love to read them and make up stories about the families buried there.

Thanks for sharing Disney on Ice! I hope I get to take the grandbabies some day - it looks amazing! I remember seeing the Ice Capades in Seattle once as a kid - it was so fun!

MeMom

10-31-2009, 10:13 PM

here's ariel girl! (shout-out to brooklynn!)

next it was time to "celebrate" vacations! first we go to the beach. here's the guy that memom, jill and erica drooled over in nashville. i think he's supposed to be lilo's older sister's boyfriend. i can't remember the name of his character though! hollie knew it at the time because she told heather that's who it was. so i got schooled by a 4-year-old! :goodvibes

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Disney-on-Ice-October-2009/DSC03595/689273378_TXAxY-L.jpg

Lilo's sister's boyfriend is still looking good in Atlanta, too. ;)

I told Jill you had a picture for Brooklynn, but they had already left the house. It seems that Ariel-girl's mother didn't have enough red hairspray and had to stop by the ocean's local Walmart to get some more before she could trick-or-treat. :)

heatherlizz602

10-31-2009, 10:25 PM

HI Dawn!

I just finished reading the rest of your Xmas trip LOL:scared1:....I loved it!!!!!! Poor luke and the bloody nose...he seemed so sad. What a fun trip though!

Im still following along on the rest of your aventures...I'm glad you and Ray got to go on a much needed trip it looked amazing.

I wish I could see Disney on Ice...but since I cant I have you and Memom to see it through! Thank you:wizard:

hlrababy

10-31-2009, 11:29 PM

Awww yay!!! You are on the DOI pics!!
I had such a great time there! I am glad you sat with us and we could somewhat visit! I still laugh everytime I think of "sleeping grumpy" beside you!! Come one lady, your at a Disney event!!
Oh, and Hollie was still up thanks to her sugar high (Thank you Halloween!) so I asked her who Nani's boyfriend was. This was her response...
"Its David mommy....meesh!!" then she slapped her head!! :rotfl2: She meant to say sheesh, but always says meesh!!

I wish you could have seen our ride home. I had to listen to the cousins argue all the way home!! fun fun!!!

Oh, I Have some video I took so I will post it on here if you want me too! :goodvibes

Now we can count down till we see Mary Poppins!!!! :banana:

Charleston Princess

11-01-2009, 08:31 AM

Dawn, your beach and marsh pictures are gorgeous -- even the one of the log floating out in the ocean! :laughing:

xoktenox

11-01-2009, 02:12 PM

joy13

11-01-2009, 08:39 PM

Great Disney on Ice pictures! We go in February - I'm not sure if it's the same show though,. I think ours is all Princesses.

jordanyosh

11-01-2009, 09:04 PM

I draw a mental line for my love of Disney at ice skating. sorry just can't do it.;)

stacikristine

11-02-2009, 04:14 PM

First of all, my dept dressed up as Alice in Wonderland too! I was the March Hare. I'll try to remember to add it to Photobucket and post it... We got second place in our company... :thumbsup2

I love that you and Ray and the boys had such a relaxing last day in Savanna. It sounds perfect. My hubby and I are ready for another vacation.

The Disney On Ice pictures are wonderful!! That show looks a lot better than the one we saw last year. I love that all of the princesses were in it. And how fun that they brought the holidays into it too!

dawz1026

11-02-2009, 07:38 PM

I remember going to Ice Capades when I was little so those pics brought it back for me! I used to LOVE it! That food looked YUMMY! I cannot wait to try real southern seafood .It is great up North so I could only imagine the southern spices. It looked wonderful.

KristinAnne

11-02-2009, 09:26 PM

Great pictures Dawn. Love all the Savannah ones. I have only heard wonderful things about Savannah from my family and other people who have been there. I really want to go sometime.

LISAMWDW

11-03-2009, 09:27 AM

What a nice last day in Savannah! So fun! The Disney on Ice show looks great! Tons of characters!!!!!! I love how they mixed up the story lines together!

punkin413

11-04-2009, 08:52 PM

i'm a pork lover myself-bacon, ham, carnitas...pork tenderloin....sausage...mmmmm

i'm not much for sausage (and please don't make a dirty joke outta that :lmao:) but i love bacon, ham and pork tenderloin. a salad isn't a salad without bacon!!!

coat lady is too funny!

why would you pay that much money to go and take a nap?

:confused3 who knows? and why would you bring your kids to disney on ice and then tell them to shut up the whole time???

Wow, what a great show! I'm so glad you had better luck this year!! So cool you got to sit with Heather and Hollie

Disney on Ice will be in the area again this year on my birthday (I went last year as a present to myself) but since I don't have a full-time job right now, I don't feel like I can justify it this year. Thanks for letting me enjoy your show :goodvibes

Has Erin lost a bunch of weight since your trip together? She looks so much thinner!

sorry you can't go this year. i'm glad my pictures brought a smile to your face! erin is working out. i haven't asked her how much she's lost but i know she's got a trainer and she's lost some weight. i will tell her you said that though - she will be thrilled! :)

Great update Dawn.
Here is my little grandson dressed as Dumbo.
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SO CUTE!!! :thumbsup2

I feel the same. When I was in Atlanta, I wanted to go see the "old plantation homes" Jim kept reminding me of Gone with the Wind, and the fact that "Atlanta burned." I'm glad there are still a few old places around the South.

P.S. I know this is a really late comment, but I am so behind on the boards lately.

yeah, savannah is one of the only places in the south that survived the civil war. legend is the locals got the yankees drunk and they decided to spare the city! :laughing:

Okay, sorry I've been MIA Dawn. I'm all caught up. I loved your Savannah trip! The food pics made me really hungry. Thanks for the tour of the cemetary - I love old cemetaries! Jim and I just toured one in Boise - we love to read them and make up stories about the families buried there.

Thanks for sharing Disney on Ice! I hope I get to take the grandbabies some day - it looks amazing! I remember seeing the Ice Capades in Seattle once as a kid - it was so fun!

no worries! very cool about the cemetery in boise. you guys are fun! i saw ice capades as a kid, too! i remember seeing sesame street ice capades when i was about 5 years old!

Lilo's sister's boyfriend is still looking good in Atlanta, too. ;)

I told Jill you had a picture for Brooklynn, but they had already left the house. It seems that Ariel-girl's mother didn't have enough red hairspray and had to stop by the ocean's local Walmart to get some more before she could trick-or-treat. :)

:laughing: i agree! glad jill got ariel girl's supplies for halloween. i know they had a blast!

HI Dawn!

I just finished reading the rest of your Xmas trip LOL:scared1:....I loved it!!!!!! Poor luke and the bloody nose...he seemed so sad. What a fun trip though!

Im still following along on the rest of your aventures...I'm glad you and Ray got to go on a much needed trip it looked amazing.

I wish I could see Disney on Ice...but since I cant I have you and Memom to see it through! Thank you:wizard:

thanks! i still have one installment left in the Xmas trip - i'm just taking my time getting to it! :rotfl: glad you enjoyed the savannah and disney on ice pics. :goodvibes

Awww yay!!! You are on the DOI pics!!
I had such a great time there! I am glad you sat with us and we could somewhat visit! I still laugh everytime I think of "sleeping grumpy" beside you!! Come one lady, your at a Disney event!!
Oh, and Hollie was still up thanks to her sugar high (Thank you Halloween!) so I asked her who Nani's boyfriend was. This was her response...
"Its David mommy....meesh!!" then she slapped her head!! :rotfl2: She meant to say sheesh, but always says meesh!!

I wish you could have seen our ride home. I had to listen to the cousins argue all the way home!! fun fun!!!

Oh, I Have some video I took so I will post it on here if you want me too! :goodvibes

Now we can count down till we see Mary Poppins!!!! :banana:

meesh, heather!!!!! don't you know who david is???? :rotfl2:

that's too cute. yeah, feel free to post away! i'd love to see the videos. i can't wait til mary poppins! and ticketmaster stinks....such teasers!

Dawn, your beach and marsh pictures are gorgeous -- even the one of the log floating out in the ocean! :laughing:

thanks! that silly log fooled us!!! :rolleyes:

hlrababy

11-04-2009, 08:56 PM

meesh, heather!!!!! don't you know who david is???? :rotfl2:

that's too cute. yeah, feel free to post away! i'd love to see the videos. i can't wait til mary poppins! and ticketmaster stinks....such teasers!

LOL! I know who he is now!!! :lmao:

I sure will! I will see if I have them in my photobucket account. I need to send them to you anyways! Some of them turned out pretty good!
Oh me too!! Mary Poppins is gonna be so good!!!! I agree...ticketmaster does stink!! Ugh!!

Sorry about the dropped call...for some reason I felt like I was in a cell phone commercial. Gotta love batteries that are mega used during the day! :rotfl2:

punkin413

11-04-2009, 08:56 PM

Thanks for all the Tybee Island/Savannah pics Dawn! They're so beautiful and glad to see that you and Ray had a nice relaxing and enjoyable vacation with your fur babies :goodvibes

After seeing yours, Heather's and MeMom's DOI pictures, I want to go soooo bad! I love the Celebrations one because, like you said, it has so many characters in it. The show is actually by me some time in November I think but it's just not in the cards right now unfortunately! :headache: Great pictures though! :thumbsup2

you're welcome! glad you enjoyed them. sorry you can't make it to DOI. maybe next year! they come around every year it seems.

Great Disney on Ice pictures! We go in February - I'm not sure if it's the same show though,. I think ours is all Princesses.

thanks! i'm sure whatever show it is, it'll be great!

I draw a mental line for my love of Disney at ice skating. sorry just can't do it.;)

:lmao: i will admit that it's not the same as going to disney. but i needed a dose because i still have over a year before i get to go back!

First of all, my dept dressed up as Alice in Wonderland too! I was the March Hare. I'll try to remember to add it to Photobucket and post it... We got second place in our company... :thumbsup2

I love that you and Ray and the boys had such a relaxing last day in Savanna. It sounds perfect. My hubby and I are ready for another vacation.

The Disney On Ice pictures are wonderful!! That show looks a lot better than the one we saw last year. I love that all of the princesses were in it. And how fun that they brought the holidays into it too!

cool! definitely post the pictures - i'd love to see them! we had a great time on our trip - it was just what we needed! the DOI show was great - so many characters and lots of different "themes"! :thumbsup2

I remember going to Ice Capades when I was little so those pics brought it back for me! I used to LOVE it! That food looked YUMMY! I cannot wait to try real southern seafood .It is great up North so I could only imagine the southern spices. It looked wonderful.

i did, too! i think i went to see the sesame street ice capades when i was like 5 or 6. i just remember big bird was REALLY tall!

Great pictures Dawn. Love all the Savannah ones. I have only heard wonderful things about Savannah from my family and other people who have been there. I really want to go sometime.

thanks! it's a great city - i hope you get to go soon!

What a nice last day in Savannah! So fun! The Disney on Ice show looks great! Tons of characters!!!!!! I love how they mixed up the story lines together!

yeah, it was great! the show was awesome. lots of characters so i was pleased!

punkin413

11-04-2009, 08:58 PM

LOL! I know who he is now!!! :lmao:

I sure will! I will see if I have them in my photobucket account. I need to send them to you anyways! Some of them turned out pretty good!
Oh me too!! Mary Poppins is gonna be so good!!!! I agree...ticketmaster does stink!! Ugh!!

Sorry about the dropped call...for some reason I felt like I was in a cell phone commercial. Gotta love batteries that are mega used during the day! :rotfl2:

no problem! i figured that's what happened. looking forward to the videos!

punkin413

11-04-2009, 10:01 PM

time for one more non-TR update and then i will finish this baby up!

i wanted to post some halloween pictures. ray and i have been together for almost 16 years now and have never dressed up for halloween together. our neighbors were having a party this year and so we decided to dress up. we were gonna do a couples costume, but we never could agree on anything. my favorite idea was that ray could be president obama and i could be his nobel peace prize, but he was afraid we'd offend someone. :confused3 anyway, i will get to the pictures of our costumes in a bit.

first, here is my spooky front porch.....

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my mickey pumpkin had to join in the halloween fun....

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i also had to share this one because it's cute. this is our neighbor's little girl, maddyx. she loves me and ray and i just loved how she insisted on sitting next to him when we were over there on friday night....

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Halloween-2009/DSC04065/700051491_cpn5u-L.jpg

funny story.....she was a skunk for halloween and when she first got her costume a couple weeks ago, she was wearing it out in the yard. i went over there and was saying things like, "shew wee, you stink!" and she kept poking out her little hiney and "spraying" me. it was really funny. well, later that night her dad came by here to ask ray something about his computer on his way home from work and i told him, "your daughter was a skunk today and she sprayed me." he got this really concerned look on his face and said, "did she fart on you?" :rotfl2: he didn't know about her skunk costume yet and thought she'd really "sprayed" me!!!

okay, back to the update. first thing's first. ladies and gentleman, let me introduce to you the cutest pumpkin there ever was, LITTLE MISS MARGOT!!!

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Halloween-2009/pumpkin1/700129111_SAc3B-L.jpg

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Halloween-2009/pumpkin2/700129301_vhuqS-L.jpg

brett said she SCREAMED at first because she didn't like the costume, but then she got used to it and had a great night. :goodvibes

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Halloween-2009/pumpkin4/700129634_gMkop-L.jpg

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Halloween-2009/pumpkin3/700129468_sKLqy-L.jpg

played out!

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here is luke on halloween. he was a bakugon. i'm pretty sure i spelled it wrong, but it's some sort of new toy that he showed me yesterday where these balls land on a magnet card type thing and pop out and become different animals or vehicles or whatever. it's beyond me but the little boys apparently like it. i'm not sure what he was, but it had something to do with that whole "thing" and he was totally awesome!

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Halloween-2009/124661272347327047118082595485/702398166_nbQ8f-L.jpg

this is my friends' jennifer and john's kids, eveyln and lex. evelyn was princess leia and lex was captain hook and their costumes were GREAT!

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Halloween-2009/DSC04073/700064588_Dhtd6-L.jpg

okay, so who was i? see if you can guess....

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Halloween-2009/124661272349847110118082595485/702398317_XfD9x-L.jpg

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i will give you a hint if you can't figure it out.....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/amy_winehouse0423081_nc.jpg

i was amy winehouse!!! believe me, as horrible as i look, it was fun!

okay....now to ray. check him out......

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here ya go.......

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he was billy mays!!!! his hair line cracks me up because he sprayed black hair spray over the receting part....hilarious! :lmao:

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punkin413

11-04-2009, 10:07 PM

more pics of the freaks.....

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i had just applied baby powder under my nose to make it look like something else white and powdery. :rotfl:

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yeah, extreme, i know. but still funny. i told the kiddies i had eaten some powdered donuts earlier and forgot to wipe my mouth.

anna was all decked out as a punk rocker....

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Halloween-2009/124661272349447100118082595485/702398272_NVfh8-L.jpg

me and luke-man. he asked me if amy winehouse was crazy and i said yes and he said, "is she super duper crazy?" :rotfl: i told him yes, she was!!!

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Halloween-2009/124661272350047115118082595485/702398424_FeKVm-L.jpg

here are some of the other costumes at the party.

lea anne as a woopie cushion (she had a poot machine in her back pocket and was making noises when people would walk by - it was so funny!), her daughter ashley as a rocker chick and her husband chapin as a redneck....

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Halloween-2009/DSC04086/700085118_VpuH5-L.jpg

amie and denton as olive oil and popeye....

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Halloween-2009/DSC04087/700087237_qaJmD-L.jpg

our next door neighbor ed as julius ceasar.....

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Halloween-2009/DSC04094/700102067_WM2sw-L.jpg

the party hosts, shawn and amber, as strawberry shortcake and the baker.....

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Halloween-2009/DSC04109/700126701_qcN7P-L.jpg

and this is my favorite. this is john and marie....as shawn and amber! when they showed up in those costumes amber was laughing so hard she was crying! :rotfl:

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http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Halloween-2009/DSC04108/700125027_J7Zfs-L.jpg

so that was our halloween...we had a great time!

the next day we drove up to blood mountain to see some of the fall foliage. it was so pretty up there!

heading up the mountain....

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we stopped at this little hiking store on top of the mountain because the views from here are gorgeous and the appalachian trial runs right in behind it. it's really cool!

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Fall-2009/DSC04257/700965310_hPctc-L.jpg

ray checking out the view....

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punkin413

11-05-2009, 08:54 AM

some pics along the trail....

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Fall-2009/DSC04185/700894839_3f5wL-L.jpg

see the chipmunk? he was quick and i had a hard time getting a picture of him. i asked ray if it was chip or dale and he said it was both. :rolleyes:

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http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Fall-2009/DSC04188/700898388_XdVBK-L.jpg

some more pretty views....

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all of us (ray's sister and nephew, who was being a goofy tween!)

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so i decided to be a goofy 30-something! :laughing:

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he won't smile!!!

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so i MAKE him smile! :rolleyes1

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ray decided to be goofy with his shirt.....

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he's so silly!

this doggie was snoozing inside the store. we came up here about 3 years ago with chris and anna and he was there then, too. so this must be his pad!

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as we were leaving i noticed these hanging in a tree outside the door....

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so festive!

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Fall-2009/DSC04252/700957211_TbWzB-L.jpg

it was such a pretty drive that day - i'm so glad the weather was good for us, but it was COLD on top of that mountain! i love fall but i do know that winter is on the way, which i really can't stand....and i live in georgia! i couldn't deal with living up north during the winter. anyway, hope you guys enjoyed those! happy fall!!! :goodvibes

hlrababy

11-05-2009, 09:12 AM

okay....now to ray. check him out......

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Halloween-2009/DSC04091/700095454_mCqh5-L.jpg

HAHAHA I love this picture of Ray!! His eyebrows are cracking me up!! :rotfl:

some pics along the trail....

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Fall-2009/DSC04185/700894839_3f5wL-L.jpg

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Fall-2009/DSC04233/700935094_aHrEE-L.jpg

I love that picture of you and Ray!! So good!!!

And the one of you...love it!!!

The pictures are gorgeous!!!!!!! I can't wait to see the Mountains in 2 weeks!! :woohoo:

hlrababy

11-05-2009, 09:13 AM

ray decided to be goofy with his shirt.....

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Fall-2009/DSC04242/700942894_JoCU6-L.jpg

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Fall-2009/DSC04243/700944959_vxFtJ-L.jpg

http://punkin413.smugmug.com/Other/Fall-2009/DSC04244/700946929_B5cFi-L.jpg

WOOOO HOOOOOO!! Go VOLS!!!!!

FauntleroyFAN07

11-05-2009, 09:44 AM

very good costum ray, i would have never thought to go as that.

i posted parker halloween pics, not sure if you saw them yet.

winkers

11-05-2009, 11:21 AM

I love your costumes!!

I ove fall and seeing all the leaves change....makes me want to cook some soup and snuggle up with a good book.

tinkgurl

11-05-2009, 12:48 PM

:rotfl2::lmao::rotfl: Amy Winehouse and Billy Mays! Great costumes!

glennbo123

11-05-2009, 01:03 PM

Great costumes! I didn't even think that was you in the first one as Amy Winehouse, looking out the door. That's a great idea for a costume though -- kinda gives you license to be really crazy at the party. ("I'm just tryin' to stay in character")

I really like Ray's....the shirt, the eyebrows, the spray-on hair....all fantastic. But I have to say, he wouldn't go as Obama, but he'd go as a recently-deceased celebrity? :confused3

Your pictures on the mountain all look portrait-quality. Really, really nice. :thumbsup2

punkin413

11-05-2009, 02:56 PM

HAHAHA I love this picture of Ray!! His eyebrows are cracking me up!! :rotfl:

I love that picture of you and Ray!! So good!!!

And the one of you...love it!!!

The pictures are gorgeous!!!!!!! I can't wait to see the Mountains in 2 weeks!! :woohoo:

i know! i kept telling him his eyebrow was crooked but he didn't care. it makes it funnier anyway! thanks about the pictures! it was so pretty up there. where are you guys going again? i know you told me but i've forgotten.

WOOOO HOOOOOO!! Go VOLS!!!!!

i will pass that along to ray. the only time i cheer for the vols is when they play georgia. being that i was raised a vandy girl, cheering for UT is practically sacreligious in my family! :laughing:

very good costum ray, i would have never thought to go as that.

i posted parker halloween pics, not sure if you saw them yet.

i thought his costume was hysterical! and your pics of parker are SUPER CUTE!!!

I love your costumes!!

I ove fall and seeing all the leaves change....makes me want to cook some soup and snuggle up with a good book.

thanks! you said that and i went to kroger to get ingredients for some taco soup. thanks for the idea! :thumbsup2

:rotfl2::lmao::rotfl: Amy Winehouse and Billy Mays! Great costumes!

thanks! we had fun with them!

Great costumes! I didn't even think that was you in the first one as Amy Winehouse, looking out the door. That's a great idea for a costume though -- kinda gives you license to be really crazy at the party. ("I'm just tryin' to stay in character")

I really like Ray's....the shirt, the eyebrows, the spray-on hair....all fantastic. But I have to say, he wouldn't go as Obama, but he'd go as a recently-deceased celebrity? :confused3

Your pictures on the mountain all look portrait-quality. Really, really nice. :thumbsup2

i'm kinda glad you didn't know it was me!!! i don't want to be recognizable as a crazy drunk! :laughing: i think he thought we'd offend someone. i don't know why though. he is all gung-ho about obama so it's not that he's against him. i'm not as optimistic as he is. don't get me wrong - i'm glad he won because i don't know if i could deal with the possibility of sarah palin as my president. but i just didn't buy into the obama thing like ray did. ray is usually the skeptical one but for some reason he really likes obama. i really don't want to get into politics on here (just because no one EVER wins that battle!). but suffice it to say that i'm not a democrat nor a republican. i'm just ME and i vote for whoever i think will do a better job. i thought the idea of obama and his nobel peace prize was brilliant but he just wasn't going for it! :rolleyes: oh, and thanks about the mountain pictures. it was so pretty up there!

hlrababy

11-05-2009, 03:02 PM

i know! i kept telling him his eyebrow was crooked but he didn't care. it makes it funnier anyway! thanks about the pictures! it was so pretty up there. where are you guys going again? i know you told me but i've forgotten.

i will pass that along to ray. the only time i cheer for the vols is when they play georgia. being that i was raised a vandy girl, cheering for UT is practically sacreligious in my family! :laughing:

We are going to stay in Cherokee, then go to Bryson for the Polar Express train ride that night, then go to Pigeon forge the next morning to go to Dollywood. I am gonna be so tired, especially dealing with screaming girls at midnight on the 20th!!! :rotfl:

I am gonna have to find me a Vols shirt up there!!

I was cheering for Vandy like crazy this weekend! My friends husband is a huge GT fan and I can't stand him, so I go for whoever plays against tech! :lmao:

xoktenox

11-05-2009, 06:56 PM

OMG Dawn your costumes were great! I saw you posted them on FB and I knew exactly who both of you were without even reading the picture captions, especially once you added that "white powder" to under your nose :rotfl2: :rotfl:

Those pictures from the mountains are gorgeous! I never even know there were mountains in GA until I came on the DIS...am I stupid or just sheltered? :confused3 :laughing: Fall is my favorite season and those pictures were really festive but you're right, winter is rapidly approaching :sad2:

MeMom

11-05-2009, 07:55 PM

Well, I've always thought you were a little crazy, and now your Halloween pictures have confirmed it. :) Looks like you guys had a very fun time.

I'm not sure what the Bakugan stuff is about either, but my students are all into it. They have tried to explain to me about which ones have power, etc., but I don't have a clue. All I know is they love to bring them on Show & Tell day, and they stick to the whiteboard. :laughing: The boys gather 'round them and the girls gather 'round the Hannah Montana, High School Musical, and Jonas Brothers stuff.

The nature pictures are pretty. No birds?

Did you make the taco soup, or is that for this weekend?

punkin413

11-05-2009, 08:19 PM

We are going to stay in Cherokee, then go to Bryson for the Polar Express train ride that night, then go to Pigeon forge the next morning to go to Dollywood. I am gonna be so tired, especially dealing with screaming girls at midnight on the 20th!!! :rotfl:

I am gonna have to find me a Vols shirt up there!!

I was cheering for Vandy like crazy this weekend! My friends husband is a huge GT fan and I can't stand him, so I go for whoever plays against tech! :lmao:

fun!!! i haven't been to dollywood since i was like 9 years old. i bet it's a lot different now! oh, i was just at anna's house giving her some of ray's cake to eat and i warned her that i'm totally gonna be a dork and wear my "team edward because jacob doesn't sparkle" sweatshirt to the movie on the 20th. she said she'd be disappointed if i didn't. :lmao:

you will be able to find PLENTY of vols shirts up there!!!

yay....go vandy! that was actually a better game than i thought it was gonna be. we play florida tomorrow. i doubt i'll even watch! :laughing:

OMG Dawn your costumes were great! I saw you posted them on FB and I knew exactly who both of you were without even reading the picture captions, especially once you added that "white powder" to under your nose :rotfl2: :rotfl:

Those pictures from the mountains are gorgeous! I never even know there were mountains in GA until I came on the DIS...am I stupid or just sheltered? :confused3 :laughing: Fall is my favorite season and those pictures were really festive but you're right, winter is rapidly approaching :sad2:

thanks! yeah, we just had fun with it. it was a great night! yep, we have lots of mountains up north. pretty ones, too!

Well, I've always thought you were a little crazy, and now your Halloween pictures have confirmed it. :) Looks like you guys had a very fun time.

I'm not sure what the Bakugan stuff is about either, but my students are all into it. They have tried to explain to me about which ones have power, etc., but I don't have a clue. All I know is they love to bring them on Show & Tell day, and they stick to the whiteboard. :laughing: The boys gather 'round them and the girls gather 'round the Hannah Montana, High School Musical, and Jonas Brothers stuff.

The nature pictures are pretty. No birds?

Did you make the taco soup, or is that for this weekend?

a *little* crazy is okay, right? ;) you should've heard luke telling me about them the other night. he had me in his bedroom floor with this card thing that had a magnet in it and he was showing me what each one of them did. it was so cute! nope, no birds. i think it was too cold for the birds! :laughing: ray's sister is a big bird watcher and she even had her binoculars out, but we never saw any to speak of. i made the taco soup just for the heck of it. it's very yummy! here's the recipe in case you want it:

1 pound ground beef
1 large onion, chopped
3 15-oz. cans mexican (ranch style) beans - do not drain (i leave these out because i hate beans!)
1 15-oz. can corn - do not drain
1 14-oz. can chopped tomatoes - do not drain
1 14-oz. can tomato sauce
1 1/2 cups water
1 4.5-oz. can chopped chiles
1 pack (2.5 oz.) taco seasoning
1 1-oz. pack of ranch (hidden valley) salad dressing mix

brown ground beef and onion, then drain. add all other ingredients together and bring to a boil. add beef and onions and simmer for 30 minutes.

**************************************************

so what is everyone doing this weekend? my saturday is gonna be mega boring - i have to co-teach a continuing education class for court reporters. but at least it's at the local courthouse so i don't have to go far. but sunday ray and i are gonna go see "a christmas carol" in 3-D at the imax theater!!! we've already bought tickets so i'm super excited! :3dglasses

xoktenox

11-05-2009, 09:44 PM

jordanyosh

11-05-2009, 10:08 PM

Ray looks so funny. I actually didn't recognize either of you.

winkers

11-05-2009, 10:46 PM

thanks! you said that and i went to kroger to get ingredients for some taco soup. thanks for the idea! :thumbsup2

!

I love taco soup! It's my go-to easy winter meal.
I have a really simple recipe....browned hamburger, 2 cans black beans, 1 can corn , 1 large can of tomato juice or V8, taco seasoning and a tbs brown sugar. I put it all in the crock pot.

mansionterror

11-06-2009, 08:40 AM

:rotfl2:Dawn your costume was so funny!! I have to say I love Ray's UT shirt given I am from East TN. The fall colors are beautiful and it makes me want to go up to the Smokies to see the leaves, just got to talk my husband into the drive.

Heather - You can definately find a Vols shirt in PF, should be no trouble. :thumbsup2

Charleston Princess

11-06-2009, 06:07 PM

Margot is the cutest little pumpkin ever, and you and Ray cracked me up with your Halloween costumes!!! :lmao::rotfl::rotfl2:

Connor is into Bakugan, too! I guess it is all the rage with little boys right now. :rolleyes:

hollybearsmom

11-06-2009, 06:20 PM

Wow, it took me three days but I've read all 188 pages!

I'm missing Christmas at Disney, so your tr is just wesome. And I'm loving the extras too.

MeMom

11-06-2009, 06:28 PM

fun!!! i haven't been to dollywood since i was like 9 years old. i bet it's a lot different now!

a *little* crazy is okay, right? ;) you should've heard luke telling me about them the other night. he had me in his bedroom floor with this card thing that had a magnet in it and he was showing me what each one of them did. it was so cute! nope, no birds. i think it was too cold for the birds! :laughing: ray's sister is a big bird watcher and she even had her binoculars out, but we never saw any to speak of. i made the taco soup just for the heck of it. it's very yummy! here's the recipe in case you want it:

1 pound ground beef
1 large onion, chopped
3 15-oz. cans mexican (ranch style) beans - do not drain (i leave these out because i hate beans!)
1 15-oz. can corn - do not drain
1 14-oz. can chopped tomatoes - do not drain
1 14-oz. can tomato sauce
1 1/2 cups water
1 4.5-oz. can chopped chiles
1 pack (2.5 oz.) taco seasoning
1 1-oz. pack of ranch (hidden valley) salad dressing mix

brown ground beef and onion, then drain. add all other ingredients together and bring to a boil. add beef and onions and simmer for 30 minutes.

**************************************************

so what is everyone doing this weekend? my saturday is gonna be mega boring - i have to co-teach a continuing education class for court reporters. but at least it's at the local courthouse so i don't have to go far. but sunday ray and i are gonna go see "a christmas carol" in 3-D at the imax theater!!! we've already bought tickets so i'm super excited! :3dglasses

I've really had an interest in checking out Dollywood lately. I wish it would be open in March, because that would help with my spring break troubles.

Yeah, I guess you are just right in the crazy department. :thumbsup2

I was going to go to a Christmas Stamp-a-Stack thing that a fellow teacher is having, but Jill has something to do with John's work tomorrow, so I'm going to wait until she can go. The teacher thinks she may even do it again next week.

So, I will be hanging out at home Dising, doing chores, grocery shopping, church, dabbling in some school stuff off and on as the mood hits.

Maybe I will make taco soup. :)

Connor is into Bakugan, too! I guess it is all the rage with little boys right now. :rolleyes:

Yes, some of them can understand and explain that in great detail, but they fail a simple ten question test on habitats. Is there a 'sigh' smiley?

hlrababy

11-06-2009, 09:42 PM

fun!!! i haven't been to dollywood since i was like 9 years old. i bet it's a lot different now! oh, i was just at anna's house giving her some of ray's cake to eat and i warned her that i'm totally gonna be a dork and wear my "team edward because jacob doesn't sparkle" sweatshirt to the movie on the 20th. she said she'd be disappointed if i didn't. :lmao:

you will be able to find PLENTY of vols shirts up there!!!

yay....go vandy! that was actually a better game than i thought it was gonna be. we play florida tomorrow. i doubt i'll even watch! :laughing:

so what is everyone doing this weekend? my saturday is gonna be mega boring - i have to co-teach a continuing education class for court reporters. but at least it's at the local courthouse so i don't have to go far. but sunday ray and i are gonna go see "a christmas carol" in 3-D at the imax theater!!! we've already bought tickets so i'm super excited! :3dglasses

Awww, I love Dollywood!! We have only been once, I actually won tickets from a radio station so Chad and I checked it out. OH MY GOSH!!! It was so clean, and nice, and the people who worked there were super, super nice!!! It is a huge difference from Six Flags. Now, it used to be nice (when I worked there) you had to talk to people and interact with them. The kids there now...UGH!! They are awful! Your lucky if they even look at you in the eye! I worked at Monster Plantation and we had to help people in and out of the boats. Well, when we went last year the girl was just leaning on the controls and just pointed her finger for you to get in. I looked at her and said, "Um, excuse me. Aren't you supposed to be talking to us, helping us in the boat, picking a booger, etc?" She just looked at me like I was stupid! I can't stand rude, inconsiderate kids!! So, I choose Dollywood anyday over SFOG. I also heard that Dolly has a lot of her kin folk working there.
Oh, and they have the best corndogs EVER!!! :rotfl2: My sister thinks I am crazy because I told her she has to try it. The little old man working in the stand dips it himself as you order it, then fries it. While the little old lady is making tater twirls! Awwwww, so yummy!!

Um yeah!! You better wear that shirt and take a picture! I am gonna do the same thing with my shirt!! I am so excited!!!

Oh no...sending some good vibes for the Florida game!!! I will cheer for Vandy really loud!! :rotfl2:

Oh cool!!! You will have to let me know how the movie is. We were gonna take Hollie to go see it today but she said she was too tired to sit still! :rotfl:

MAGICFOR2

11-07-2009, 02:55 AM

Your Halloween looks so fun! Interesting choice of costumes! Your fall mountain pics are really beautiful! I love the Fall colors - we don't get many of those here.

Thanks Punkin and Winkers for the Taco Soup recipes. I'm going to have to try those. I wonder how they'll do in the crock pot?

Charleston Princess

11-07-2009, 07:29 AM

Yes, some of them can understand and explain that in great detail, but they fail a simple ten question test on habitats. Is there a 'sigh' smiley?

Isn't that the truth!!! :lmao:

punkin413

11-07-2009, 10:31 PM

thanks for posting that taco soup recipe! me and chris are gonna try and make it this week it sounds so yummy :thumbsup2

i have a really busy weekend coming up so we're going to see A Christmas Carol next weekend...no IMAX around here though! you're gonna have to let us know how it is :)

you're welcome! hope it turned out good if you tried it. i will let ya know how the movie is. we're going tomorrow afternoon.

Ray looks so funny. I actually didn't recognize either of you.

good! i don't want to be recognize as a crazy drunk. :lmao:

I love taco soup! It's my go-to easy winter meal.
I have a really simple recipe....browned hamburger, 2 cans black beans, 1 can corn , 1 large can of tomato juice or V8, taco seasoning and a tbs brown sugar. I put it all in the crock pot.

oh, your recipe looks great! someone gave me the one i posted - it's a weight watchers recipe but it's good! i bet adding the brown sugar is yummy!

:rotfl2:Dawn your costume was so funny!! I have to say I love Ray's UT shirt given I am from East TN. The fall colors are beautiful and it makes me want to go up to the Smokies to see the leaves, just got to talk my husband into the drive.

Heather - You can definately find a Vols shirt in PF, should be no trouble. :thumbsup2

thanks! yeah, i think the are peaking right now so you better go soon! it's so pretty right now everywhere. i wish it would last longer!

Margot is the cutest little pumpkin ever, and you and Ray cracked me up with your Halloween costumes!!! :lmao::rotfl::rotfl2:

Connor is into Bakugan, too! I guess it is all the rage with little boys right now. :rolleyes:

i agree about the little pumpkin! :goodvibes i guess i better get ready for bakugan mania then!

Wow, it took me three days but I've read all 188 pages!

I'm missing Christmas at Disney, so your tr is just wesome. And I'm loving the extras too.

thanks for reading and WELCOME!!!

I've really had an interest in checking out Dollywood lately. I wish it would be open in March, because that would help with my spring break troubles.

Yeah, I guess you are just right in the crazy department. :thumbsup2

I was going to go to a Christmas Stamp-a-Stack thing that a fellow teacher is having, but Jill has something to do with John's work tomorrow, so I'm going to wait until she can go. The teacher thinks she may even do it again next week.

So, I will be hanging out at home Dising, doing chores, grocery shopping, church, dabbling in some school stuff off and on as the mood hits.

Maybe I will make taco soup. :)

Yes, some of them can understand and explain that in great detail, but they fail a simple ten question test on habitats. Is there a 'sigh' smiley?

i need to go back to dollywood, too. it's been over 20 years since i've been there. i'm sure it's so different now! hope you have a good, productive weekend. i had a continuing education class today that went pretty good. and tonight i've been typing and now i'm taking a break to dis a little bit. let me know if you make the soup and how you like it!

my mom used to say something similar to me. she'd listen to me sing every word of every song on the radio and then look at me sand say, "now how come you can't memorize your multiplication tables???" :laughing:

Awww, I love Dollywood!! We have only been once, I actually won tickets from a radio station so Chad and I checked it out. OH MY GOSH!!! It was so clean, and nice, and the people who worked there were super, super nice!!! It is a huge difference from Six Flags. Now, it used to be nice (when I worked there) you had to talk to people and interact with them. The kids there now...UGH!! They are awful! Your lucky if they even look at you in the eye! I worked at Monster Plantation and we had to help people in and out of the boats. Well, when we went last year the girl was just leaning on the controls and just pointed her finger for you to get in. I looked at her and said, "Um, excuse me. Aren't you supposed to be talking to us, helping us in the boat, picking a booger, etc?" She just looked at me like I was stupid! I can't stand rude, inconsiderate kids!! So, I choose Dollywood anyday over SFOG. I also heard that Dolly has a lot of her kin folk working there.
Oh, and they have the best corndogs EVER!!! :rotfl2: My sister thinks I am crazy because I told her she has to try it. The little old man working in the stand dips it himself as you order it, then fries it. While the little old lady is making tater twirls! Awwwww, so yummy!!

Um yeah!! You better wear that shirt and take a picture! I am gonna do the same thing with my shirt!! I am so excited!!!

Oh no...sending some good vibes for the Florida game!!! I will cheer for Vandy really loud!! :rotfl2:

Oh cool!!! You will have to let me know how the movie is. We were gonna take Hollie to go see it today but she said she was too tired to sit still! :rotfl:

i really need to get back there! six flags is horrible!!!!! i hate going there. now i LOVE the rides, but the park itself is disgusting and the people working there are just flat out rude. they are NEVER pleasant, at least not that i've encountered. one time when me and my brother and his girlfriend at the time were there, we were walking to the car and they had one area of the parking lot blocked off, but it was really confusing. well, we kind of walked in the wrong area (not knowing it) and the person who was working in the parking lot starts yelling at us and flagging us to go the other way, like really forcefully. it was so obnoxiously rude. so i yelled at her, "you have a great day. and your customer service skills rock." she looked at me and said, "just doing my job." so then i yelled back, "we are SO not at disney world!!!!!!" :rotfl2: i just couldn't help myself.

yeah, we lost. :rolleyes: 27-3. but at least it wasn't like 82-3!!! i wish we could've at least got a touchdown though.

i'm sure you've seen the previews but the part where marley's ghost comes back to haunt scrooge is kinda creepy. i just didn't want you to take hollie and be surprised by that. it's not extreme - probably just depends on the kid as to if it's too scary or not. we are seeing it tomorrow afteroon!

Your Halloween looks so fun! Interesting choice of costumes! Your fall mountain pics are really beautiful! I love the Fall colors - we don't get many of those here.

Thanks Punkin and Winkers for the Taco Soup recipes. I'm going to have to try those. I wonder how they'll do in the crock pot?

thanks! i haven't tried the soup in the crock pot but i bet it's good....especially with the brown sugar added in!

punkin413

11-07-2009, 10:47 PM

remember how i said that the halloween/fall pics were the last non-TR update until i finish?

i lied.

:rotfl:

i had to share these with you. well, first, before i get to the ones i'm gonna share, let me show you this. it's luke's very first school picture! isn't he getting big? he's a kindergardener now.

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/IMG-1.jpg

i have no idea why that's so ginormous. oh, and my scanner kind of cut off the left side but you get most of the picture.

okay, now on to what i was gonna show you. one of my good friends, amanda, just got back from disney. she and ben (her hubby) and alex (their DD) went to orlando with ben's brother, sister-in-law and their DD for a week. amanda called me like a month before and said they wanted to surprise the girls with a day at magic kingdom, but that's all they wanted to do because it was unexpected and they didn't have the money for a full disney vacation. she wanted to eat in the castle......A MONTH OUT FROM THEIR TRIP!!! :scared1: of course nothing was available when i tried to get her an ADR at CRT and everything else was booked up too. all i could get was the ohana breakfast with lilo and stitch and neither girl even knew who they were! well, about 2 weeks before they left i happened to be online looking at something for another client and i thought i'd try again and i got her BREAKFAST AT CRT!!!!!! :woohoo: i was SO excited for them!!! i called her to tell her and she was running around her office, telling all the people she worked with. they were mostly guys and didn't "get" her excitement - she said they thought she was a crazy person! :laughing:

anyway, amanda does photography work on the side and so she had some really great pictures. for those of you who have been around on my TRs for awhile, she took the pictures of me, brooke and brett (my siblings) in november of '07 for my dad for christmas that year.

so here are her pictures!

they went to DTD for a day, too. so i will share those first.

here's alex.....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/01.jpg

here's alex and her cousin (i'm not sure of her name) playing in the dig yard at t-rex.....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/02.jpg

lego time!

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/03.jpg

i thought this picture was so sweet!

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/04.jpg

ben had to be gross with the lego sea monster. boys!

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/05.jpg

isn't she adorable?

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/06.jpg

now if this picture doesn't say, "disney fun," i don't know what does!

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/07.jpg

she had to slide down with the dino she made at t-rex....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/08.jpg

they got to go up in the "characters in flight" balloon! :thumbsup2 looking straight down....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/09.jpg

looking back towards the marketplace.....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/10-1.jpg

looking at SSR.....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/11-1.jpg

looking at west side and then beyond you can see spaceship earth and the swan/dolphin....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/12-1.jpg

DTD at sunset....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/13-1.jpg

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/14-1.jpg

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/15-1.jpg

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punkin413

11-07-2009, 10:48 PM

the two princesses before their breakfast at the castle!

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/16-1.jpg

ben, alex and amanda....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/17-1.jpg

i had to post this one because ben has on alex's tiara! :rotfl: if you knew ben, you'd know that he's NOT the tiara type.

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/18.jpg

i love this one!

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/19.jpg

and this one....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/20.jpg

meeting cinderella! i think alex got a little shy when the big moment came....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/21.jpg

such a great picture!

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/22.jpg

the princesses being led to their table....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/23.jpg

with some pretty special friends....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/24.jpg

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/25.jpg

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/26.jpg

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/27.jpg

i think this was during the "wish" ceremony.

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/28.jpg

another great shot!

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/29.jpg

amanda texted me at the end of their MK day and asked me what other park was good to go to because they loved it so much that they were going back! i told her any of them really but that nothing really tops MK, so they went back to MK a second day! :laughing: she hasn't sent me the rest of her pics yet but if/when she does i will post any of the really cute ones!

i just loved these pictures and thought i'd share! :goodvibes

glennbo123

11-07-2009, 10:58 PM

Those pictures are awesome! Thanks for sharing them.

Charleston Princess

11-07-2009, 11:09 PM

The picture of the riverboat at DTD at sunset and the picture of the girls headed upstairs to CRT are beautiful pictures! Love them!

MeMom

11-08-2009, 06:21 AM

Such sweet memories to treasure forever! And it's awesome that they loved it so much they wanted more. :thumbsup2

Thanks for sharing those. It was a nice way to start my morning seeing those bright little faces. :)

winkers

11-08-2009, 10:56 AM

those pictures made be teary eyed and I don't even know them! there's just something about little girls meeting the princesses.:love:

tinkgurl

11-08-2009, 10:59 AM

Awww..thanks for sharing those pics Dawn!

KristinAnne

11-08-2009, 01:25 PM

Those pictures are beautiful. I would love to have that kind of talent. The girls are adorable!

MAGICFOR2

11-08-2009, 05:06 PM

Aww, those little princesses are so sweet! :lovestruc And Luke is pretty handsome himself! Hard to believe he's in Kindergarten already.

joy13

11-08-2009, 05:39 PM

It looks like they had a great day at MK!

stacikristine

11-09-2009, 02:58 PM

Oh, wow. Those pictures are so great!! Thanks for sharing. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the one of "Little Cindy" looking out the window. Such a great shot. Oh--and I can't believe how big Luke is getting!

punkin413

11-09-2009, 06:23 PM

Those pictures are awesome! Thanks for sharing them.

you're welcome!

The picture of the riverboat at DTD at sunset and the picture of the girls headed upstairs to CRT are beautiful pictures! Love them!

i thought so, too!

Such sweet memories to treasure forever! And it's awesome that they loved it so much they wanted more. :thumbsup2

Thanks for sharing those. It was a nice way to start my morning seeing those bright little faces. :)

i know...i love spreading the magic! glad i helped to brighten your morning.

those pictures made be teary eyed and I don't even know them! there's just something about little girls meeting the princesses.:love:

seriously! so sweet!!!

Awww..thanks for sharing those pics Dawn!

you're welcome!

Those pictures are beautiful. I would love to have that kind of talent. The girls are adorable!

i agree...so adorable! and yes, amanda is talented! she took some pics of me and my brother and sister for our dad a couple years ago for christmas. here's a couple of my favorites.

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/Dawn1130743-A.jpg

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/Dawn1130719.jpg

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/Dawn1130749.jpg

and of course here's my favorite one of brett being goofy....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/Dawn1130731.jpg

he was SO skinny back then!!! he's still a rail but not as bad as he was.

she also did anna and chris's wedding pictures, which were gorgeous. she took this one of me and ray there.....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/IMG_4731-1.jpg

she's awesome!

Aww, those little princesses are so sweet! :lovestruc And Luke is pretty handsome himself! Hard to believe he's in Kindergarten already.

i know!!! he's getting so big. makes me feel old. :laughing:

It looks like they had a great day at MK!

she said he was awesome!

Oh, wow. Those pictures are so great!! Thanks for sharing. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the one of "Little Cindy" looking out the window. Such a great shot. Oh--and I can't believe how big Luke is getting!

you're welcome! yeah, that's one of my favorite pictures. and luke is such a little man now!

punkin413

11-09-2009, 07:00 PM

as promised here it is....

THE FINAL INSTALLMENT OF THIS TRIP REPORT!!!!

part of me wants to do this....:sad1:

and the other part of me wants to do this.....:woohoo:

it's taken me just short of a year to write a TR for a four-day trip!!! but it was packed full of fun so i guess that's what matters.

since it was over a month ago since i did my last update :rolleyes1 here is the link in case you need to be reminded of where we were:

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=33485393&postcount=2569

basically, we had just watched the once upon a christmastime parade.

after the parade it was around 11:00 and we were all SO TIRED!!! we parted ways and said, "see ya at the condo," then anna and chris headed out of the park. here are some pics she took along the way....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/december%20TR/01-29.jpg

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/december%20TR/December142008DisneyDay4AnimalKi-19.jpg

she said they stopped by the camera center (near tony's) on the way out and told the CM there about losing her photopass card the day before. she said it took awhile, but that they found all her pictures for her! :thumbsup2

they then caught a boat back to WL and here are some pictures she took there that night.....SO PRETTY!!! i can't wait to see these things with my own eyes.

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/december%20TR/December142008DisneyDay4AnimalKi-18.jpg

a blurry bunny....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/december%20TR/December142008DisneyDay4AnimalKi-17.jpg

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/december%20TR/December142008DisneyDay4AnimalKi-16.jpg

they actually didn't get back home until after ray and i did, so it took them a good while at the photo center to find her pictures because we walked around more before we left.

back to me and ray.....

after the parade i knew the end was coming. and i was very sad. :sad2:

we decided to walk through frontierland and adventureland on the way out since we really hadn't been over there nearly at all during the party. in frontierland we saw woody and buckeye in the diamond horseshoe signing autographs. i had seen them earlier, but we didn't stop either time.

here is splash mountain at night.....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/december%20TR/DSC09884.jpg

as we were walking through adventureland and nearing the magic carpets, i came around the corner to see this guy.....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/december%20TR/DSC09886.jpg

IT'S BIG AL!!!!!!! he's my FAVORITE country bear and it was SO NEAT to see him out and about. i've only seen him in parades before!

you can tell i'm slightly excited to meet him. :laughing:

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/december%20TR/DSC09887.jpg

continued in next post: http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=34270712&postcount=2840

punkin413

11-09-2009, 07:01 PM

after i calmed down from meeting big al, we made our way to main street and decided to look at a couple more shops on the way out. i loved these figurines!

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/december%20TR/DSC09891.jpg

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/december%20TR/DSC09892.jpg

i don't know if you can tell, but this is supposed to be a picture of the snow on main street. you can see it in anna's pictures above a little bit, too.

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/december%20TR/DSC09893.jpg

one last look at the beautiful christmas-y castle before we left.....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/december%20TR/DSC09888.jpg

bye, magic kingdom. see you in...gulp....two years. :sad:

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/december%20TR/DSC09894.jpg

i knew i'd be sad when we left but i'm actually very proud of how i held myself together. i was teary-eyed but i wasn't laying on the ground, kicking and screaming and crying my eyes out like a three-year-old, so that was definitely a plus for ray. i just sat on the monorail in silence and watched the gorgeous castle until i couldn't see it any more as we pulled into the TTC. i knew i'd be back, and hopefully when i do come back i will have a little one with me. so it will be all that more special. two years is a long time to wait though. but i can't complain - i went to disney world twice in 2007 and three times in 2008 and that's more than most people get. so i count myself to be a very lucky girl. :goodvibes

we went back to the condo and got a good night's sleep, then got up the next morning, packed and hit the road. we left at ......

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/december%20TR/Picture070.jpg

can't we just get off at this exit ONE MORE TIME??? :laughing:

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/december%20TR/Picture069.jpg

those wonderful gates as seen from highway 429.....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/december%20TR/Picture072.jpg

one very sad girl....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/december%20TR/Picture073.jpg

eight hours later we picked up our boys, who we always miss so much....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/december%20TR/Picture074.jpg

sherman modeled my mickey-earred-santa hat when we got home....

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll79/punkin1803/december%20TR/Picture078.jpg

:rotfl2: poor thing. we torture him so.

well, that's all she wrote! it was a WONDERFUL trip and i can't wait to go back for christmas next year. the holiday season at disney world is unbelievable and it's something we will definitely try to do as often as we can manage. i highly recommend it! :santa:

so we have 389 days until we return and i will be counting those days!!! :hourglass in the meantime, i look forward to reading all of your TRs and living vicariously through you (and my clients!). :surfweb: i might even start a way-too-early pre-TR soon just so i have a place to share my trip plans and other life happenings with my dis friends. still pondering that. i will link it here if i do!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR READING AND SHARING THIS TRIP WITH ME!!! :grouphug:

ETA: i started my pre-TR for december 2010. yes, over a year away. who says you can't plan ahead?

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2327634

IndianaHoosier

11-09-2009, 07:13 PM

Awww....so sad it's over! I love reading about your trips and life happenings! Please start a PTR!!!!

Wonders10

11-09-2009, 07:15 PM

Hey Dawn!

Great last installment...definitely helped get me (even more) excited for my trip next week. We will be doing lots of Christmas-y things if you want to get your fix. Check out my pre-trippie if you want...It's a little boring at the moment, but once the actual trip happens, it should be fun! I would love it if you did a pre-trippie for your next trip. Your trippies are always so entertaining and I love how you include other life things in with them...the billions of pics don't hurt either. Good luck with the baby plans too!

Charleston Princess

11-09-2009, 07:25 PM

I am so sad that your TR is finished, but that means you are starting your PTR soon, right? ;)

I am glad you were able to hold yourself together and not throw a major tantrum as you were leaving. I am sure Ray was thankful as well. :lmao:

One year down, and just one more year to go -- I bet it flies by! :goodvibes

hlrababy

11-09-2009, 07:42 PM

:sad1: I am sad its over!!! I know that feeling oh too well when you leave and you just feel like you want to fall down and scwall like a baby!! haha

Your friend takes some awesome pictures!!!! I love the ones of you and Brooke and Brett!!

jessrose18

11-09-2009, 07:43 PM

Sorry its over, I have really enjoyed your "life" updates as well. Your christmas pictures have helped up plan our December 2010 trip, thanks!:goodvibes

LMO429

11-09-2009, 08:04 PM

Hi Dawn!!! Awww its so sad your trip report is over! I love it!!!!!!!!!!! Looking forward to your pre trip report for xmas 2010!

hlrababy

11-09-2009, 08:04 PM

i really need to get back there! six flags is horrible!!!!! i hate going there. now i LOVE the rides, but the park itself is disgusting and the people working there are just flat out rude. they are NEVER pleasant, at least not that i've encountered. one time when me and my brother and his girlfriend at the time were there, we were walking to the car and they had one area of the parking lot blocked off, but it was really confusing. well, we kind of walked in the wrong area (not knowing it) and the person who was working in the parking lot starts yelling at us and flagging us to go the other way, like really forcefully. it was so obnoxiously rude. so i yelled at her, "you have a great day. and your customer service skills rock." she looked at me and said, "just doing my job." so then i yelled back, "we are SO not at disney world!!!!!!" :rotfl2: i just couldn't help myself.

Oh, and we love Big Al!!!! I would love to see him taking pictures!!!!! Blood on the sadddddllllleeee!! baaaa baaaa!! lol! I am trying to mimick him singing!! haha

I am so excited! I just love Dollywood!!

Six flags used to be nice...when I worked there!! lol!!!! We were taught to be nice to the guests and to help them. I only had a couple of problems with rude guests. One I remember that was funny! I worked at Monster Plantation (water ride through a swamp..kind of like Its a Small World/Pirates/I dont' know!haha) and the water level was really high so we had to shut down the pumps and drain the water a little. Well, when the water would get high..the boats would float off the track in the first section of the house and a few of us would have to take off ours shoes and pull the boats back on the track and push them in the house. Well, I was about to do that and went to the que line to let the guests know the problem. I anticipated it to be about 20-30 minutes till it would be ready. I explained everything and he got rude. Then looked at me and said "Can you not go get the water out now and run it within 5 minutes?? Or are you not smart enough for that!" I looked at him and said, "Um, let me just got get myself a few buckets and shovel the water out that way...would that suit you or would you rather me suck it in my mouth and do it that way?!?!?!" He just looked at me!! Chad pulled me back towards the house laughing and said I needed to calm down! I was super nice all the time towards people. But there were that few who thought we needed to hand everything on a platter to them! But, we were nice back then! Not like the kids now..they are awful!!!

tinkgurl

11-09-2009, 08:22 PM

Aw boo..I hate last days.

WL looks so neat lit up!

WHERE is that Tink figurine?!

bedillamouse

11-09-2009, 08:55 PM

BooHOoo....I"m sad your report is done. I loved all of the wonderful pictures of the Christmas decorations at WDW...and the Disney on Ice. We usually go to all the ones that come through town but the one you went to is going to the town about 2 hours away...now I'm thinking it might be worth the drive. That was a ton of characters you don't normally see!

All the pictures were wonderful! If you do start a pre trip let us know....I love how you add the other fun things you do within your reports....plus I've got to see more pics of that adorable niece of yours! It helps give me a baby fix since we are all done having ours.

Thanks for sharing!

xoktenox

11-09-2009, 09:29 PM

So sad it's over Dawn :guilty: but I enjoyed every minute of it! :goodvibes

Thank you so much for sharing everything with us and really getting me in the spirit to go to WDW in just 20 days now :woohoo: You're going to have the best trip of your life next time you go there with your little one so the long wait will totally pay off :santa:

IluvXU

11-09-2009, 09:48 PM

So enjoyed it all Dawn. I am sad to see it end... and know that feeling of it will be a while is so hard... but the WL next Christmas will be so wonderful!

I cannot believe how much you did and saw over those 4 days....

punkin413

11-09-2009, 10:23 PM

Awww....so sad it's over! I love reading about your trips and life happenings! Please start a PTR!!!!

thanks so much! you're sweet. :)

Hey Dawn!

Great last installment...definitely helped get me (even more) excited for my trip next week. We will be doing lots of Christmas-y things if you want to get your fix. Check out my pre-trippie if you want...It's a little boring at the moment, but once the actual trip happens, it should be fun! I would love it if you did a pre-trippie for your next trip. Your trippies are always so entertaining and I love how you include other life things in with them...the billions of pics don't hurt either. Good luck with the baby plans too!

i'm heading over there now! thanks so much. :)

I am so sad that your TR is finished, but that means you are starting your PTR soon, right? ;)

I am glad you were able to hold yourself together and not throw a major tantrum as you were leaving. I am sure Ray was thankful as well. :lmao:

One year down, and just one more year to go -- I bet it flies by! :goodvibes

yes, ray was thankful. i really wanted to boo-hoo but i held it together. i hope this year flies by...we will see!

:sad1: I am sad its over!!! I know that feeling oh too well when you leave and you just feel like you want to fall down and scwall like a baby!! haha

Your friend takes some awesome pictures!!!! I love the ones of you and Brooke and Brett!!

i have a feeling ray wouldn't be very happy if i had done what i felt like doing. :laughing: yeah, amanda is really talented. it's good to have her as a friend because she gives me deals on taking pics. she only charged us $50 for the entire CD of pictures she gave us for my dad's christmas that year (and it was a BUNCH) and then we had them printed on our own. it was awesome!

Sorry its over, I have really enjoyed your "life" updates as well. Your christmas pictures have helped up plan our December 2010 trip, thanks!:goodvibes

thanks! oh, i hope you guys have a great time. it's sooooo fun at christmastime!

Hi Dawn!!! Awww its so sad your trip report is over! I love it!!!!!!!!!!! Looking forward to your pre trip report for xmas 2010!

thanks, lauren! looking forward to seeing you there.

I am so excited! I just love Dollywood!!

Six flags used to be nice...when I worked there!! lol!!!! We were taught to be nice to the guests and to help them. I only had a couple of problems with rude guests. One I remember that was funny! I worked at Monster Plantation (water ride through a swamp..kind of like Its a Small World/Pirates/I dont' know!haha) and the water level was really high so we had to shut down the pumps and drain the water a little. Well, when the water would get high..the boats would float off the track in the first section of the house and a few of us would have to take off ours shoes and pull the boats back on the track and push them in the house. Well, I was about to do that and went to the que line to let the guests know the problem. I anticipated it to be about 20-30 minutes till it would be ready. I explained everything and he got rude. Then looked at me and said "Can you not go get the water out now and run it within 5 minutes?? Or are you not smart enough for that!" I looked at him and said, "Um, let me just got get myself a few buckets and shovel the water out that way...would that suit you or would you rather me suck it in my mouth and do it that way?!?!?!" He just looked at me!! Chad pulled me back towards the house laughing and said I needed to calm down! I was super nice all the time towards people. But there were that few who thought we needed to hand everything on a platter to them! But, we were nice back then! Not like the kids now..they are awful!!!

i have told both ray and anna about you going and that we need to go soon. it sounds fun!

yeah, i know the monster plantation. the last time i rode it was in 2007 with my sister and some of her friends from work. one of the guys decided to get out of the boat and walk through the scenes. :eek: someone running the ride came over the loud speaker and told him to get back in the boat. i was mortified!!! i was like 31 at the time and i was there with my sister and all her early-20-something friends and the guys were acting like morons! oh, well....at least no one was hurt.

i can't believe that guy saying that to you!!!! people kill me. like acting like an :eeyore: is going to help anything in a situation like that. :confused3

Aw boo..I hate last days.

WL looks so neat lit up!

WHERE is that Tink figurine?!

i know....me too! i think that figurine is in the art of disney store. if you're looking at the castle, it's on the right near the watch store.

BooHOoo....I"m sad your report is done. I loved all of the wonderful pictures of the Christmas decorations at WDW...and the Disney on Ice. We usually go to all the ones that come through town but the one you went to is going to the town about 2 hours away...now I'm thinking it might be worth the drive. That was a ton of characters you don't normally see!

All the pictures were wonderful! If you do start a pre trip let us know....I love how you add the other fun things you do within your reports....plus I've got to see more pics of that adorable niece of yours! It helps give me a baby fix since we are all done having ours.

Thanks for sharing!

thanks! i hope you get to go to disney on ice. it was a great show! i will for sure let you know about my pre-trippie if i do one. ;) and i'm sure there will be LOTS more pics of margot to come!!!

So sad it's over Dawn :guilty: but I enjoyed every minute of it! :goodvibes

Thank you so much for sharing everything with us and really getting me in the spirit to go to WDW in just 20 days now :woohoo: You're going to have the best trip of your life next time you go there with your little one so the long wait will totally pay off :santa:

thanks! you guys are gonna have a blast....can't wait to read about it. i will be so jealous of all my disfriends in disney in december! :laughing:

So enjoyed it all Dawn. I am sad to see it end... and know that feeling of it will be a while is so hard... but the WL next Christmas will be so wonderful!

I cannot believe how much you did and saw over those 4 days....

thanks!!! i really hope everything works out with us staying there. i know...it was a PACKED 4 days!

punkin413

11-09-2009, 10:25 PM

Please start a PTR!!!!

I would love it if you did a pre-trippie for your next trip.

I am so sad that your TR is finished, but that means you are starting your PTR soon, right? ;)

Looking forward to your pre trip report for xmas 2010!

If you do start a pre trip let us know

okay, okay....you guys talked me into it! :lmao:

here's the link: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2327634

mansionterror

11-10-2009, 08:42 AM

I am sad that the TR is over but have already subbed to your PTR and look forward to keeping up with you over the next year.

It was a wonderful report!! :goodvibes

stacikristine

11-10-2009, 10:53 AM

What a fantastic TR! I've loved every minute of it :thumbsup2 Seriously--your TR made me want to go to Disney World at Christmas so badly. I've enjoyed all of your non-Disney adventures as well. I'm anxious to hear updates about if you'll have a little one with you or not (I subscribed to your PTR). :goodvibes Thanks SOOO much for sharing everything with us. I've loved reading along.

--Staci

shannon47142

11-10-2009, 05:54 PM

what a great trip report!! heading over to check in on the new pretrip one!!!
I so enjoy reading about all your adventures!!

winkers

11-10-2009, 06:20 PM

I can't believe it's over! I'm glad you dragged it out for so long because it's more time for us to enjoy it.....ok, and it makes mine not look like it's taking so long.;)

I can't wait till I get to read a baby report!:banana:

glennbo123

11-10-2009, 06:40 PM

Thanks for a great trip report, I enjoyed following your adventures. :thumbsup2

It's cool that you got to meet Big Al. He's one of my favorites too.

kimmylaj

11-10-2009, 06:52 PM

i have been following along quietly for quite some time now and just had to post to say i really enjoyed your report. when i saw your sad face i figured i had to show you my siggie. my ds was 4 on this trip and we had just left the magic kingdom to fly home. the sad face was his response when i told him we wouldnt be back for a while. it is exactly how i feel everytime i leave that magical place.

glennbo123

11-10-2009, 07:20 PM

I had to come back and post that ever since I saw your Big Al picture I've had his song "Blood on the Saddle" going through my head. :laughing:

Happy Elf

11-10-2009, 09:30 PM

I enjoyed reading about your trip! Makes me want to go around the holidays. Taking a year gives me hope I might get my trip report finished someday. :)

punkin413

11-10-2009, 09:50 PM

I am sad that the TR is over but have already subbed to your PTR and look forward to keeping up with you over the next year.

It was a wonderful report!! :goodvibes

i'm sad it's over, too. but i always tell myself...disney world is always there - i can go back any time i want! and that helps a little bit.

What a fantastic TR! I've loved every minute of it :thumbsup2 Seriously--your TR made me want to go to Disney World at Christmas so badly. I've enjoyed all of your non-Disney adventures as well. I'm anxious to hear updates about if you'll have a little one with you or not (I subscribed to your PTR). :goodvibes Thanks SOOO much for sharing everything with us. I've loved reading along.

--Staci

thanks so much! i've loved having you guys here. glad you're joining in on the new report.

what a great trip report!! heading over to check in on the new pretrip one!!!
I so enjoy reading about all your adventures!!

thanks! you're so sweet!

I can't believe it's over! I'm glad you dragged it out for so long because it's more time for us to enjoy it.....ok, and it makes mine not look like it's taking so long.;)

I can't wait till I get to read a baby report!:banana:

:rotfl: you are so funny! yeah, i can't believe this one took me so long. almost a full year! i hope you're reading a baby report soon, too. ;) but only time will tell. i'm just trying to be patient and optimistic.

Thanks for a great trip report, I enjoyed following your adventures. :thumbsup2

It's cool that you got to meet Big Al. He's one of my favorites too.

you're welcome. thanks for reading!!! i LOVE big al!

i have been following along quietly for quite some time now and just had to post to say i really enjoyed your report. when i saw your sad face i figured i had to show you my siggie. my ds was 4 on this trip and we had just left the magic kingdom to fly home. the sad face was his response when i told him we wouldnt be back for a while. it is exactly how i feel everytime i leave that magical place.

thanks for saying hello! i appreciate you reading. and your DS is so cute! that sad face is the worst!

I had to come back and post that ever since I saw your Big Al picture I've had his song "Blood on the Saddle" going through my head. :laughing:

:rotfl: that's why i love him so much. that song just cracks me up! check him out....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzUzgwPsI-8

I enjoyed reading about your trip! Makes me want to go around the holidays. Taking a year gives me hope I might get my trip report finished someday. :)

thanks! i hope you get to go for the holidays one day! and i guess taking a year to finish a 4-day TR is not a crime....:rolleyes1 :laughing:

LISAMWDW

11-11-2009, 11:28 AM

So sad it's over! I'm glad though your 4 day trip lasted for almost a year!! Thanks for sharing with us! I'm heading over to your new Way Too Early PTR!

Best of luck with your baby plans!!!!!!!!!!!!

erynsmom

11-11-2009, 12:35 PM

Hi Dawn,
I have been a long-time lurker on the boards and I have read all of your trip reports. I loved them all. I have also enjoyed your side-trips too.

So I have a question...
My dh and I are going to be taking our 3 year old dd to see the Princess Disney on Ice show. I noticed when you went, your seats were on the side of the ice. Did you like them? Would you have preferred to sit somewhere else? Did the characters face the sides or more to the front end of the ice?

I am struggling about where to get our seats for the show so any input you have would be greatly appreciated. :goodvibes

Looking forward to reading about your 2010 trip.
Cheryl

tinkgurl

11-11-2009, 12:56 PM

i think that figurine is in the art of disney store. if you're looking at the castle, it's on the right near the watch store.

Okay thanks!

By the way, I've started a PTR if you want to check it out sometime. :)

Sunset Cliffs

11-14-2009, 07:01 PM

I have been MIA and soooo behind on your TR. I just caught up on all of your Savannah updates. That place is beautiful! I have wanted to visit since I saw the "Midnight..." movie, and now I want to go even more. I can't believe how beautiful the cemetaries are there. That sounds so weird, even as I type it. But you have some great photos from there.

Thanks so much for sharing your trip(s) with everyone. I will be jumping over to your PTR as well! :goodvibes

joy13

11-14-2009, 07:31 PM

Great report!!! I'm sad it's over - but I'll see you on your pre-trip report!

AussieAngel

11-15-2009, 08:07 AM

Whoops, I'm a bit late to reply, sorry! Thanks so much for another fun-filled, fantastic trip report Dawn!! It's been a blast reading along with you! :yay:

And now you've really, really made me want to go to Disney at Christmas time!! :santa:

Heading over to your pre-TR now! Yayyyyyy!!! :banana:

MagicShell

11-18-2009, 11:19 AM

I don't know if you are still checking this report or not, but I loved hearing all about your trip. I will be checking out your PTR as well. Thanks for sharing, I know that it must take a lot of work to do a trip report.

punkin413

11-18-2009, 02:00 PM

yes, i'm still checking this report....just haven't had time to do responses yet. sorry!

Hi Dawn,
I have been a long-time lurker on the boards and I have read all of your trip reports. I loved them all. I have also enjoyed your side-trips too.

So I have a question...
My dh and I are going to be taking our 3 year old dd to see the Princess Disney on Ice show. I noticed when you went, your seats were on the side of the ice. Did you like them? Would you have preferred to sit somewhere else? Did the characters face the sides or more to the front end of the ice?

I am struggling about where to get our seats for the show so any input you have would be greatly appreciated. :goodvibes

Looking forward to reading about your 2010 trip.
Cheryl

sorry it took so long to get back to you! thanks for reading, by the way.

i thought our seats on the side were fine. most of the time the characters were pretty good about going around to all areas of the ice. the only time i really noticed it was when the toy story characters were out - i just felt like they faced the front more. but the other parts were fine from the side. i saw another DOI show last year and we were more towards the front but further away. i didn't notice a huge difference either way. hope that helps! :goodvibes

CanadianWDWfan

11-26-2009, 01:51 PM

HAPPY THANKSGIVING PUNKIN!!! :goodvibes

scottny

12-08-2009, 05:24 PM

I thought I posted that I finished but I do not see it so here we go.

Great tr and pics.

It was so great to meet all of you.

Sounds like a great trip except for the bloody nose.

I will check in on the pre tr soon.

punkin413

12-08-2009, 08:52 PM

So sad it's over! I'm glad though your 4 day trip lasted for almost a year!! Thanks for sharing with us! I'm heading over to your new Way Too Early PTR!

Best of luck with your baby plans!!!!!!!!!!!!

:laughing: me too! it made this year go by a little quicker. now it's almost 1 year until our next trip! thanks so much for reading.

I have been MIA and soooo behind on your TR. I just caught up on all of your Savannah updates. That place is beautiful! I have wanted to visit since I saw the "Midnight..." movie, and now I want to go even more. I can't believe how beautiful the cemetaries are there. That sounds so weird, even as I type it. But you have some great photos from there.

Thanks so much for sharing your trip(s) with everyone. I will be jumping over to your PTR as well! :goodvibes

thanks so much! savannah is such a great place to visit. i hope you get to do so soon! thanks so much for reading!!!

Great report!!! I'm sad it's over - but I'll see you on your pre-trip report!

thanks! i was sad, too. but we will be back! ;)

Whoops, I'm a bit late to reply, sorry! Thanks so much for another fun-filled, fantastic trip report Dawn!! It's been a blast reading along with you! :yay:

And now you've really, really made me want to go to Disney at Christmas time!! :santa:

Heading over to your pre-TR now! Yayyyyyy!!! :banana:

you're welcome! thanks for reading! if you guys ever decide to go to disney in december let me know - i'd love to help you with your trip! you would love it. remember....we are going next year december 10-18...hint hint. ;)

I don't know if you are still checking this report or not, but I loved hearing all about your trip. I will be checking out your PTR as well. Thanks for sharing, I know that it must take a lot of work to do a trip report.

yeah, still checking it. it just doesn't show up on my subbed threads a lot so i forget about it! :laughing: thanks so much for reading!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING PUNKIN!!! :goodvibes

you too!!! :goodvibes (3 weeks late. :guilty:)

I thought I posted that I finished but I do not see it so here we go.

Great tr and pics.

It was so great to meet all of you.

Sounds like a great trip except for the bloody nose.

I will check in on the pre tr soon.

thanks so much, scott! it was so great to meet you and biff. i hope to see you again one day! yeah, come on over. it's insanely early but still a good time! :thumbsup2