I'm Going Over The Hill and I'm Taking Everyone With Me!--HUGE 3 post update 7/9

[jham]

Yes, I turned 40 at Disneyworld and had friends, family and Disboutiquers there with me to help celebrate! party:
Let's start the good old-fashioned way with some intros!

DH: 39 (for another month anyway) a converted Disney freak, although he denies it. I think buying your OWN passport at Epcot and enjoying every minute of getting it filled, and telling the kids they can’t touch it just MIGHT be a sign. Loves pin-trading and Ohana, HATES spending money.

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Me: TURNING 40 and no better place to do it than at Disneyworld! A proud Disney freak and Disboutiquer, meaning I LOVE making custom Disney clothes for my kids to wear on our Disney vacations! This was my 3rd trip to Disneyworld (First time was 2001, when I only had 2 kids, second time was January 2008). Yep, back so soon, couldn’t help it! I love Princesses and Mickey, Chip & Dale, character meals, Wishes, I hate crowded busses and tour groups.

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DD11: LOVES Disney, I think as much as her mother. She doesn’t think she’s too old to act like a little kid, thank goodness. She really loved Pal Mickey this trip and carried him everywhere with her. She had so much fun with him and loved everything he said. We managed to get all excited every time he knew exactly where we were. Yes, we’re like that. Loves: princesses, BBB, fast rides Hates not being in charge of our touring plan (not that we have one).

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DS9: Also loves Disney, is a big fan of Walt. He loves trivial facts and info about Disneyworld. He’s a great kid, but has challenges that can make travelling difficult at times. He loves: fast rides, figment, Walt Disney, video games and arcades, Cosmic Ray’s hates: oh where do I begin? Not getting his own way, personal space invasions, especially at meals and especially by his siblings, and apparently Pinnochio’s Village Haus, but we’ll get to that later.

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DS6: Very calm and easygoing—WAIT, I mean usually. This trip he was bouncing off the walls with excitement and energy. I don’t know what got into him, but I don’t think letting him drink Coke helped. The other side of that is he also got very tired at times and we ended up renting a stroller for him! :scared: Loves: Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain, Space Mountain…yes there’s a theme here. Oh, and Tessa. :lovestruc More on that later too. Hates that he was still too short to go on Rockin’ Roller Coaster and in a new development, hates walking. Running, yes! Riding in a stroller, yes! Walking? Not so much.

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DD3: The best traveler ever. She never complained and never even cried until several days into the trip when she was so exhausted she took to crying for about 10 minutes every evening before passing out asleep wherever she was. How is it that the 3-year-old is the easiest child to travel with? She also loves everything Disney, especially princesses, and rides. She begged to go “in the big ball” (Spaceship Earth) and on the magic carpet ride. She kept calling Disneyworld Disneyland no matter how many times we tried to correct her. She is always game to try anything. Hates: being pestered by her brothers and waiting while we go on rides that she can’t go on yet.

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At some point we will be joined by my:

DSIS: like me she grew up going to Disneyland often and anything Disney feels like home.
DBIL: Like DH does not admit to being a Disney freak, but trust me, he is.
Dnephew8: Best of friends with DS9, kind of quiet, a true Disney fan. Loves all things not girly.
Dniece 2: Full of life, energy and…noise. She is LOUD and very much a princess who loves “Mi Mouse” (works for either Mickey or Minnie) and all princesses (“Lella”).

(My family and my sister’s family were also staying at POR with one of my children “technically” staying in her room, in case you wondered)

And my
DF (dear friend)
DFH
DFDD 11 (aka DDBFF)
DFS 7
DFS 5

Got all that? It was their kids’ first Disney trip and they stayed at the Poly. :cool1: Maybe I can get them on the Dis and posting some photos of their own!

And THE DISBOUTIQUERS!
A group of 13 of us and our various traveling companions who met up in the World. We have a great thread on these boards and are actually a pretty close group of friends so it was fun to meet some of them IRL!





And now for the reason behind our trip, sometime last summer I started planning for a family vacation to celebrate my big 40. :scared1: Where we live, winters are cold, and February is often grim so I wanted somewhere warm! We were thinking Hawaii but having lots of problems with the planning (couldn’t narrow down a place to stay, airfare was atrocious, and on and on) my good Disboutiquer friend Heathersue was planning her trip to be at Disneyworld February 3-10 I believe. Well, I got jealous and told her it wasn’t fair that she got to be there for my birthday (almost, my birthday was the 11th) and I didn’t! WAIT! Why not! I could go there for my birthday and even meet Heather and her mom and her kids! (But not her DH who is a Disney Hater). Now this was kind of a big deal, because my DS6 is somewhat smitten with her DD5, and vice-versa. They even send each other letters and packages in the mail. How fun would it be for them to meet in person! Let the sewing begin! (or not, I’m kind of a procrastinator). Eventually my BIL started looking into joining us, and when the buy 4 get 3 free deal came out, who could say no? Our friends and neighbors were planning to go around the same time so we convinced them to join us. Their kids are similar ages to ours and get along very well and play together often. In fact my DD11 is best friends with their DD11. Eventually many Disboutiquers jumped on board, some for family vacations, others for a weekend getaway but the big gathering was planned for February 8.

Next up: Day1 Luke and Tessa Meet at Last!

[jham]

ETA: (yes, just to rub it in) Florida's Weather today: High temp 69 degrees, Precipitation, 0.

It is a long way from our house to Mickey’s East Coast digs, so in order to arrive in Florida before bedtime, we had to get up and leave very early in the morning. I had everything pretty well packed and DH had loaded the car, so I got up and showered and loaded up the kids and we were off to the airport. Fortunately it wasn’t snowing so our commute to the airport probably took about 25 minutes. We have this traveling with 4 small children thing down to a science pretty much. We’d checked in on-line and already had our boarding passes. DH drops the rest of us off curbside at the Skycap who take our luggage directly from the car, (even though the poor guy had some sort of cast on his foot) and don’t even bother weighing it (thankyouverymuch!) and we are off to security while DH parks the car. By the time he gets to the airport we are safely through security and eating breakfast at Burger King. My kids do pretty well with getting shoes off, lining up bins, helping the siblings get shoes back on, etc. and we made it through in a pretty organized manner.

Our flight was completely and blissfully uneventful. The kids were great, they played with the stuff in their backpacks, DD11 indulged DD3 with some serious Princess Barbie playing and all were happy. It was about a 4 hour flight, then we had about a 1 hour layover in Atlanta where we grabbed lunch at my least favorite food court, :sad2: and then another 1 1/2 hour flight to Orlando.

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The Orlando Airport monorail:

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When we arrived, we marched, straggled, whatever to the ME counter which all went well and before you knew it, we were on the bus! Where we waited…and waited…until it filled up.

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The kids were getting pretty anxious to get going! Then of course our bus had to make about 8 other stops on the way to our hotel. :headache: During this very long bus ride, my cell-phone rang. It was Heather!!! :cool1: We had plans to meet up later at DTD. I let her know the whole ME experience was taking a long time, but we were on our way! We got to the hotel and DH took the kids to the arcade while I checked in. The check-in kind of took the wind out of my sails so to speak. It was a little deflating. :sad1: I think the girl that checked us in was fairly clueless and took FOREVER with every little step or question I asked. The hotel was really full and she assigned me to a room in what was possibly the worst location ever. She did the car-salesman thing and “checked with her manager” for 15 minutes then said, nope, nothing better. Then I told her my sister was checking in later and we had requested adjoining rooms because one of my children was staying with her. WELL, that took about another 25 minutes but she did get us rooms next to each other and miracle of miracles our new room actually was in a better location than the first room! (but not by much). We were in room 3414 which is 4 miles from the main building but right next to the West bus stop, so that was okay. It was 4 miles and a boat ride to POFQ for the pool because the POR pool was being refurbished. We ended up not getting any mugs because it was just so far to the food court, we knew we wouldn’t be walking there every day! If you have stayed at POR before, you may know that in the Alligator Bayou, the pathways can be very confusing. Everything is circular, the best route is not the route that is marked with signs, and one missed turn and you could be wandering (in the dark) for half an hour. Not that I’d know anything about that…but it was nice being so close to the bus stop.

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We dropped off our carry-ons in the room and went back out to walk all the way back to the main building and the boat launch for the ferry to DTD. Unfortunately we didn’t make it on the boat that was loading and had to wait for the next one. However, because the ferry was so busy, they were running no more than 10 minutes between boats. I called Heather again (on DH’s phone because I left mine in the room) and let her know we were finally en route to DTD. When we arrived the kids were racing to our meeting spot (McDonald’s), especially Luke who was SO EXCITED to meet his Tessa in person! :hyper: Heather and I were unsure of how they would act when they first met, but we needn’t have worried, they got along very well (too well at times, but more on that later…) Heather and I were so intent on capturing their first meet on film that it was a minute before we even greeted each other. It was funny because I felt like I was just getting together with an old friend that I see all the time!

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McDonald’s was really busy and we couldn’t find a table for all 10 of us, or even 2 tables near each other, so we settled for a table that would comfortably seat about 5. I somehow missed getting a picture of this! :confused3 Heather’s mom was such a good sport. Kids had to climb over and around her to get in and out and I was practically sitting on her lap. The big kids were at one end of the table chatting away, telling jokes, and getting along great. Sawyer and Lily were wedged in between Heather and myself in 2 high chairs. I think there was occasional confusion as to whose Happy Meal was whose, but no one was complaining. When everyone had eaten enough we moved over to the Lego store to let the kids play for a bit.

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DH chose this moment to run off and leave me in a crowded place with 4 children. He had a good excuse though. We had forgotten a cell-phone charger. Our phones take the same charger so we had hoped to pick one up somewhere. I asked my not so lovely front desk girl at the resort and she, of course took 20 minutes to “go check” but informed me that “there is NO PLACE ON DISNEY PROPERTY TO BUY A CELL PHONE CHARGER!” Um, are you sure? Not even DTD? “No, I’m sure, I checked with my manager.” Well I noticed a Virgin Megastore at DTD and told DH to try there, (I just didn’t mean run off and go by yourself, leaving me to supervise 4 small children at DTD on a Saturday night) and BTW they DO have cell phone chargers at the Virgin Megastore.

The kids had fun playing Legos with Sawyer and Tessa. Finally it was time to head back to our rooms and get some rest. It had been a long day! I was operating on 3 hours of sleep! It was SO fun to finally meet the Heathersue clan in person! She is even more gorgeous in person and just as nice and funny as ever. Tessa is so cute and so much like Luke! And Sawyer is adorable and was so well behaved. Heather (and Teresa) have a wonderful mom who reminds me a lot of my mom. We went our separate ways and we took the boat back to our resort and to bed!

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[Disney 4 Me]

Great start! (Am I the first to post?) I love the pics of Luke and Tessa. Love is in the air.

I'm anxiously waiting for the next update.

[spongemommie05]

yea i am glad your plane ride was very uneventful.. LOVE LOVE the pictures of luke and Tessa 's meet up (YOU planning the wedding already?)
Can't wait for more :worship:

[Tnkrbelle565]

Subbing popcorn:: now...going back to read

[karamat]

Can't wait to read more!! And see more pics of those cute kiddos!

[MouseTriper]

:goodvibes Yeah so glad you are doing a TR. Count me in. How exciting that Luke and Tessa finally met in person. They were so cute together. Looking forward to your next installment.

[MaryAz]

Glad the plane ride was uneventful. Ah-they meet, soo cute. Happy belated 40th!!

[jessica52877]

Aww, I feel some love in the air! Tessa and Luke are so cute together! What a great start to a wonderful trip!

[sohappy]

I'm here! Can't wait to read more!

[my*2*angels]

HAPPY belated BIRTHDAY JHAM!!!!!!! What a great start, can't wait to read more! And how cute are Tessa and Luke!!!:lovestruc

[karebear1]

Jhammers- I'm so happy you posted the link to your TR! What an event.... T-H-E Meeting!! Those pics are so cute! And how cute is that pic of grandma, tessa and Luke walking hand in hand? You've got me hooked! I can hardly wait for the rest of the report.

HAPPY BELATED B-DAY by the way!

[kstgelais4]

Great instalment!! They looked so cute! But where oh where was the pic of Lily's outfit?!

[abc123mom]

Sounds like a great start to your trip. Can't wait to hear more. That's a lot of flying with 4 kids...glad it all went well!

[snubie]

They finally met in person. You got some great photos of the two of them - definite blackmail material if something materializes between them when they are older.:)

[MinnieVanMom]

I love the pictures and your report is great. Keep up the good work on the report and keep us updated as how the rest of the trip goes.

[minnie2]

Great start!
How cute are Tessa and Luke?!?!? So when is the wedding and are the Disboutiquers invited? I am assuming it is at WDW:rotfl:

[castmemberb4]

Loved your last TR so glad you're doing another one :)
How darn cute are Luke and Tessa !?!
:bday: Can't wait to read about your Birthday happenings as I'm going for my 50th in a few years.
Lynn

[eeyore3847]

ohhh love the TR So far!!!!

[PrincessLeighsDaddy]

Great start! I agree, POR is rather large! We stayed there our first time, and I did get lost one night getting back to my room! We stayed in one of the mansions though.
We were close to a bus stop too, which made it bearable!

[EnchantedPrincess]

Can't wait to read more...love those pictures of Luke and Tessa!

[t-beri]

WOO HOO!!! I so cannot wait for more:banana: :banana: :banana: You know I've been wondering WHY the coolest girls I know can't all live a little closer and I've decided that the Universe had to spread the coolness out, it might implode if there were THAT many cool chicks in ONE place:cool1:

[Cory's Gal]

I love reading Disboutiquers Trip Reports! I love seeing all the pictures with the adorable clothes that I wish I knew how to sew for my daughter!! Can't wait to read more about your adventures and also good to know about being able to buy a charger at the Virgin Megastore, that sort of thing is always something DH and I forget to pack for some reason!! Your children are adorable!!!

[CampbellScot]

it's SO great that you and MissHeatherSue will be related one day!!!

cuz I'm telling you now...Tessa and Luke...soul mates!!! The picture of Luke hugging Tessa so close...that was a real hug...it wasn't a friendly hug...it was a full on embrace of LOVE!!! What a special little boy! Y'all have gone and raised confident kids who can be expressive...that's great!!!

All your kiddos are exceptionally beautiful. Your big girl is more lovely every time I see her. She sure is growing up!

fun start!!!

[karebear1]

WOO HOO!!! I so cannot wait for more:banana: :banana: :banana: You know I've been wondering WHY the coolest girls I know can't all live a little closer and I've decided that the Universe had to spread the coolness out, it might implode if there were THAT many cool chicks in ONE place:cool1:


Oh so true!! :hippie:

[Tnkrbelle565]

WOO HOO!!! I so cannot wait for more:banana: :banana: :banana: You know I've been wondering WHY the coolest girls I know can't all live a little closer and I've decided that the Universe had to spread the coolness out, it might implode if there were THAT many cool chicks in ONE place:cool1:

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Hey everyone...don't forget that Dallas tried to throw his hat in the ring too!!! (Luke won out but it was funny for a few minutes!)http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg269/ksc565/DisMeet/887508944705_0_ALB.jpg

[MouseTriper]

Great start!
How cute are Tessa and Luke?!?!? So when is the wedding and are the Disboutiquers invited? I am assuming it is at WDW:rotfl:

:rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

That's gonna be one LOOOOONNNGG invitation list!!!! hahaha

[Stephres]

Sooooo cute! Love the Luke and Tessa pics!

[HeatherSue]

LOL!! I love that Mike had his own passport that the kids couldn't touch!

You should post a picture of you and your good buddy Jimmy Fallon! Pictures do not do you justice, Jeanne. I always thought you were pretty in pictures, but you're just beautiful in person!

I LOVE that picture of Jayden!!!! She looks beautiful (as she is).

Seth was a great kid! I really liked him!

Oh, Tessa's sweet little Lukey. She told me to type "I love you and all the mountain rides, too. I like the Haunted Mansion, too."

I just realized that Luke and Henry have very similar eye colors!

I LOVE that picture of Lily!

I love that you're my security savant sista!

I like that included a map for those of us that have never been to that particular resort. Thank you!

You probably didn't include a picture of us at the table because we were so wedged in, we couldn't move our arms enough to get out the camera! :rotfl: At least the close quarters let us get to know each other very quickly!

My daughter is such a stinker- I don't remember her sticking her tongue out like that!

Thanks for leaving out the part where Sawyer puked!

I'm stealing all sorts of pictures!

Aww... you said I was gorgeous and funny in person. You're nuts! Did you especially like my pink jacket and red shirt?

I'm sure I would have loved your mom, too. :hug:

Tessa would be so lucky to have you as a mother-in-law someday!

I am loving your trip report! It certainly has nothing to do with the fact that it is featuring my family so far!

Jhammers- I'm so happy you posted the link to your TR! What an event.... T-H-E Meeting!! Those pics are so cute! And how cute is that pic of grandma, tessa and Luke walking hand in hand? You've got me hooked! I can hardly wait for the rest of the report.

HAPPY BELATED B-DAY by the way!

Sooooo cute! Love the Luke and Tessa pics!

WOO HOO!!! I so cannot wait for more:banana: :banana: :banana: You know I've been wondering WHY the coolest girls I know can't all live a little closer and I've decided that the Universe had to spread the coolness out, it might implode if there were THAT many cool chicks in ONE place:cool1:

it's SO great that you and MissHeatherSue will be related one day!!!

cuz I'm telling you now...Tessa and Luke...soul mates!!! The picture of Luke hugging Tessa so close...that was a real hug...it wasn't a friendly hug...it was a full on embrace of LOVE!!! What a special little boy! Y'all have gone and raised confident kids who can be expressive...that's great!!!

All your kiddos are exceptionally beautiful. Your big girl is more lovely every time I see her. She sure is growing up!

fun start!!!

Umm..yah know...I have a trip report, too. :rolleyes1

[jham]

I promise I haven't abandoned this TR already! :lmao: I just have strep throat so I'm sure I'll be back among the living in a day or two.

[jessica52877]

Get well soon!

[karebear1]

Feel better Jham!

[Tnkrbelle565]

What was floating around in the cold air at Disney???? Don't like all my new friends getting sick. Feel better :flower3:

[MouseTriper]

I hope you are feeling better too!!!

[maroo]

I have strep, too!! Small world!

I have been spending all of my sick time on the DIS, though! :)

I am subbing in for this...

Tessa and Luke...:love: Love is in the air! :) :rotfl:

[jham]

Great start! (Am I the first to post?) I love the pics of Luke and Tessa. Love is in the air.

I'm anxiously waiting for the next update.

You're first! :cool1: Thanks!

yea i am glad your plane ride was very uneventful.. LOVE LOVE the pictures of luke and Tessa 's meet up (YOU planning the wedding already?)
Can't wait for more

While we love that the kids love each other, we also love that they live VERY FAR away from each other. That should keep them out of trouble for the next 20 years. :thumbsup2

Can't wait to read more!! And see more pics of those cute kiddos!

Thanks!

:goodvibes Yeah so glad you are doing a TR. Count me in. How exciting that Luke and Tessa finally met in person. They were so cute together. Looking forward to your next installment.

Thanks Beth!

Glad the plane ride was uneventful. Ah-they meet, soo cute. Happy belated 40th!!

Thanks, I just had to tell someone my age for the first time the other day (at the doctor's) and it was sad. :sad1:

Aww, I feel some love in the air! Tessa and Luke are so cute together! What a great start to a wonderful trip!

Thanks Jessica!

I'm here! Can't wait to read more!

:wave2: Hi Stacy! I'm loving your...uh...er...Kristine's TR! :rotfl:

HAPPY belated BIRTHDAY JHAM!!!!!!! What a great start, can't wait to read more! And how cute are Tessa and Luke!!!

Thanks! I hope everyone sticks around until the end, it was a long trip (in a good way).

Jhammers- I'm so happy you posted the link to your TR! What an event.... T-H-E Meeting!! Those pics are so cute! And how cute is that pic of grandma, tessa and Luke walking hand in hand? You've got me hooked! I can hardly wait for the rest of the report.

HAPPY BELATED B-DAY by the way!

Thanks Karen! And thanks for all you did arranging "the meet"

Great instalment!! They looked so cute! But where oh where was the pic of Lily's outfit?!

Meh, it was a recycle from our last trip--her Jack Skellington dress, just click on the link in my siggie to my Disneyland TR!

Sounds like a great start to your trip. Can't wait to hear more. That's a lot of flying with 4 kids...glad it all went well!

Thanks for joining in!

They finally met in person. You got some great photos of the two of them - definite blackmail material if something materializes between them when they are older.

You've got to plan ahead! :thumbsup2

I love the pictures and your report is great. Keep up the good work on the report and keep us updated as how the rest of the trip goes.

Thanks April!

Great start!
How cute are Tessa and Luke?!?!? So when is the wedding and are the Disboutiquers invited? I am assuming it is at WDW

Of course! :lmao:

Loved your last TR so glad you're doing another one
How darn cute are Luke and Tessa !?!
Can't wait to read about your Birthday happenings as I'm going for my 50th in a few years.
Lynn

Thanks, there's no better place to have a birthday! I felt no pain at all!

ohhh love the TR So far!!!!

Thanks for joining in Lori!

Great start! I agree, POR is rather large! We stayed there our first time, and I did get lost one night getting back to my room! We stayed in one of the mansions though.
We were close to a bus stop too, which made it bearable!

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one! :rolleyes1

Can't wait to read more...love those pictures of Luke and Tessa!

Thanks!

WOO HOO!!! I so cannot wait for more You know I've been wondering WHY the coolest girls I know can't all live a little closer and I've decided that the Universe had to spread the coolness out, it might implode if there were THAT many cool chicks in ONE place

A very t-beri update coming soon!

I love reading Disboutiquers Trip Reports! I love seeing all the pictures with the adorable clothes that I wish I knew how to sew for my daughter!! Can't wait to read more about your adventures and also good to know about being able to buy a charger at the Virgin Megastore, that sort of thing is always something DH and I forget to pack for some reason!! Your children are adorable!!!

Thanks!

it's SO great that you and MissHeatherSue will be related one day!!!

cuz I'm telling you now...Tessa and Luke...soul mates!!! The picture of Luke hugging Tessa so close...that was a real hug...it wasn't a friendly hug...it was a full on embrace of LOVE!!! What a special little boy! Y'all have gone and raised confident kids who can be expressive...that's great!!!

All your kiddos are exceptionally beautiful. Your big girl is more lovely every time I see her. She sure is growing up!

fun start!!!

Aw Miss Cammie! You always make me tear up. A parenting compliment from you means a lot! :worship: I wish you could've been there!




Hey everyone...don't forget that Dallas tried to throw his hat in the ring too!!! (Luke won out but it was funny for a few minutes!)http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg269/ksc565/DisMeet/887508944705_0_ALB.jpg

You know Heather, you are right, they do look alike, especially in that picture where their hair looks exactly the same! :lmao:


That's gonna be one LOOOOONNNGG invitation list!!!! hahaha

but the bride's family pays for the wedding, right? YOU'RE ALL INVITED! :rotfl2:

Sooooo cute! Love the Luke and Tessa pics!

Thanks Steph!

LOL!! I love that Mike had his own passport that the kids couldn't touch!

You should post a picture of you and your good buddy Jimmy Fallon! Pictures do not do you justice, Jeanne. I always thought you were pretty in pictures, but you're just beautiful in person!

I LOVE that picture of Jayden!!!! She looks beautiful (as she is).

Seth was a great kid! I really liked him!

Oh, Tessa's sweet little Lukey. She told me to type "I love you and all the mountain rides, too. I like the Haunted Mansion, too."

I just realized that Luke and Henry have very similar eye colors!

I LOVE that picture of Lily!

I love that you're my security savant sista!

I like that included a map for those of us that have never been to that particular resort. Thank you!

You probably didn't include a picture of us at the table because we were so wedged in, we couldn't move our arms enough to get out the camera! :rotfl: At least the close quarters let us get to know each other very quickly!

My daughter is such a stinker- I don't remember her sticking her tongue out like that!

Thanks for leaving out the part where Sawyer puked!

I'm stealing all sorts of pictures!

Aww... you said I was gorgeous and funny in person. You're nuts! Did you especially like my pink jacket and red shirt?

I'm sure I would have loved your mom, too. :hug:

Tessa would be so lucky to have you as a mother-in-law someday!

I am loving your trip report! It certainly has nothing to do with the fact that it is featuring my family so far!

Umm..yah know...I have a trip report, too.

You are so sweet Heather!
Sawyer puked? :confused3
I got the resort map idea from this really great TR I'm reading: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2096482

Get well soon!

Feel better Jham!

What was floating around in the cold air at Disney???? Don't like all my new friends getting sick. Feel better

I hope you are feeling better too!!!

I have strep, too!! Small world!

I have been spending all of my sick time on the DIS, though! :)

I am subbing in for this...

Tessa and Luke...:love: Love is in the air!

Thanks for all your well-wishes! I'm starting to feel a bit better today. Sorry you are sick too Mary! I'm finally working on an update which I hope to have up today. :thumbsup2

[momto2nenas]

Joining in...

[jessica52877]

I came to see if you posted the update yet! I'll be waiting!

[jham]

ETA: Florida weather today: Temperature high 72 degrees, precipitation 0

We (okay I) had the best intentions of getting to MK by rope drop. Unfortunately this is difficult to do when 5 other people want to sleep in. :confused3 I did manage to get us there not too long after rope drop.

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And before I forget, the weather was GORGEOUS! I had planned to meet fellow disboutiquer t-beri at the Barber Shop. Her little Lily is the same age as my little Lily and both girls had made it to the ripe old age of 3 without EVER having a haircut. I really meant to get Lily’s First Haircut on our trip last year, but I didn’t manage to do it, so when we planned this trip, one of the first things I thought of was “Lily can still get her first haircut at Disneyworld!” I think T has a very similar story about her Lily’s First Haricut adventures. I was feeling bad that we were running a little slowly at this point. We got into MK and DH went to Town Hall to get his Disney Visa Rewards card while I went off in search of the Barber Shop. I got about 2/3 of the way up Main Street before asking directions, then I turned around and headed back towards the Barber Shop. I walked up and the cutest kid walks out and says “there you are!” It was Tifani’s Gavin (a.k.a. Mac). He was so cute, I just had to hug him. Gavin is 10 and I have to say, he is a really great kid! He was very friendly and talkative…just like his mom! Tifani was holding her Lily (a.k.a. Little) who wasn’t feeling so great. We got in line for haircuts and with rare perfect timing, DH and the big kids walked over from the Town Hall. They decided they would prefer to spend their first hours at Disneyworld going on some rides instead of waiting in line for their baby sis to get her first haircut. Gavin joined in with the big kids and I’m happy to say he and Seth hit it off very well. Seth was immediately impressed with Gavin’s “make your own Mickey ears” and pin-trading lanyard. Tifani and I had fun chatting while waiting for the girls’ turn.

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It wasn’t too long of a wait and Little finally started to feel a bit better and got out of her mommy’s arms to play with the other Lily a bit. It was nice to see Liliana without her face buried in her mom's shoulder. She is so pretty! T and I talked about how both of our Lilys are pretty average size, but people always tell her her Lily is so little. I think I decided in my own mind that it is because she has the prettiest, dainty little porcelain doll face! While waiting in line, T and I noticed…A CUSTOM! So we (T) had to comment on how cute it was! It turns out the family was on a last-minute trip and had borrowed some Disney clothing from some friends. We told her about the Disboutiquers and the mom asked if we wanted to take a picture. Uh, ya think? That’s what we DO. :rotfl: I'm disguising her face anyway.

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Isn't T just the cutest pregnant girl?

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The girls managed to get their First Haircuts ALMOST at the same time.

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It was very cute and a great experience. The lady that cut my Lily’s hair was AMAZING! She talked to her about the cutest things (this is Cinderella’s favorite brush because it’s her favorite color!) I have the whole thing on video but it is 10 minutes long, so I’ll have to try and figure out how to put it on youtube or something. Lily was very quiet and serious but she loved it! She still talks about it. Totally worth the 3-year wait!

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princess: Lilys princess:

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We reached DH and the kids on the phone and they were about to get on Big Thunder Mountain, so we walked over there to meet up with them.

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By the time they got off, it was almost time for our lunch ADRs at Crystal Palace! We tried for a minute to figure out T’s new phone but were unsuccessful so we just planned to meet back up with them after lunch. Jayden (DD11) loves Pooh bear and especially Tigger, so we themed our outfits for today around this lunch. I have to say it was worth it when we walked in the door and ran straight into Tigger. He saw Jayden, pretended to faint, then ran up to her and swept her into a huge hug. I was totally unprepared and did not have any cameras out! It was so sweet. She has been through such a hard year and it just made my day to see her get some Tigger love. sigh. When Tigger signed her autograph book a little later he wrote a special note "to my Bestest Friend! Love and TTFN, Tigger"

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We had a nice lunch. Thanks to a warning from Heather the night before, I asked for my meat to be “well done” so they tossed a slice onto a little grill over the fire and cooked it right! Our food was good. Everyone was happy. I tried the ratatouille, Seth had probably 4 slices of Boston Crème Pie. We had a great lunch although we hit the timing on the character’s kind of poorly and had to wait a bit after we were finished eating to see Piglet and I’m not sure if we ever did see Eeyore. We hurried out and met up with T and the kids.

[jham]

As we were leaving, Luke grabbed my arm and pointed out the floral characters in the garden. He wanted his picture taken with them.

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Mike and the big kids had fast passes for Splash Mountain and they refused to leave the park for the day without going on Luke’s favorite ride. T and I decided to take a leisurely stroll down Main Street so we told Mike we’d meet them near Tony’s at the end of Main Street. Gavin decided to stay with us. We stopped and got a few photopass photos of the kids, watched the birds a bit, stopped at a cart to buy some new autograph books (my Lily had just filled hers up).

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We were enjoying just hanging out. We were standing in front of Exposition Hall when a CM walked over and complimented the girls on their outfits. She started chatting with us and asked if we had time for a special surprise—well, YEAH! Now we were in a bit of a rush to try and get to Epcot for the big Disboutiquers pre-meet (2:00 IN CHINA PEOPLE!) but I had told them I wasn’t sure I’d be there on time and I’d call them when I got to Epcot and catch up with them wherever they were. And you always have to make time for a SPECIAL SURPRISE! She led us off down a hallway while I frantically dialed DH and told him to meet us at Exposition Hall, no time to explain, the girls were getting a special surprise. We got to a curtain and the CM pulled it across the entry and asked the little girls what did they think the magic words were (Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo of course! We have some well-trained Disney princesses with us!) so the girls called out Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo! And she dramatically threw back the curtain to reveal…CINDERELLA!!! It was so cute! Lella has been my Lily’s favorite princess as long as she could talk. It was so cute and fun. I think we had Lella a little confused as to how we all knew each other, living on opposite sides of the country and all but she was great. She even took the time to write Little’s name in the front of her brand new autograph book for her and she signed Gavin’s Mickey ears. I must say, as far as Cinderellas go, she was in great form today. One of the sweetest princesses I’ve met!

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Poor DH and the rest of the kids were wandering around Exposition Hall a tad confused by this point. We came out, grabbed our strollers and raced off for the monorail to Epcot and the big Disboutiquers meet (and pre-meet!)

Up Next: Day 2 Part 2: The Disboutique Meet!

[twob4him]

Jammie...I feel really bad about everything. I feel like we didnt get much of a chance to chat and I am late on your TR too. I really apologize. I am just loving the trip report and the pics. Your family is just beautiful! I love the outfits too! I am so excited that Luke and Tessa finally got to meet and got along so well. Actually all of the children were just so cute and charming as were all the families. I really hope we can do this again...maybe May 2010???!!!!

[Tnkrbelle565]

Loved the update. Of course we heard all about it...mostly from Mac! But it's so nice to see the pictures! I loved Jayden's Tigger outfit! Great job! Glad to hear that you are feeling a little better. Keep the updates coming. I want to see all the good weather we missed ;) :rotfl2:

[jham]

Jammie...I feel really bad about everything. I feel like we didnt get much of a chance to chat and I am late on your TR too. I really apologize. I am just loving the trip report and the pics. Your family is just beautiful! I love the outfits too! I am so excited that Luke and Tessa finally got to meet and got along so well. Actually all of the children were just so cute and charming as were all the families. I really hope we can do this again...maybe May 2010???!!!!

Sure, if you'll pay my airfare! :lmao: :rotfl2: :rotfl: :laughing: :lmao: :rotfl2: :rotfl: :laughing:

But seriously, you worry too much Cathy! I do wish I'd had more time to talk to you though!

[maroo]

When you said you were disguising her face…I had already seen the pictures and wondered how that sweet child got such HUGE sunglasses! :lmao: :rotfl2: :rotfl:

The girls are SOOOO cute! I love, love, love their dresses. You guys do a fantastic job! :thumbsup2

“to my bestest friend…love and TTFN” Aw, aw, aw! What a magical moment! I am “feeling it” even if you weren’t able to get a picture! :)

You missed Eyeore?! Oh no! :scared1:

Ok..you are making me cry with the Cinderella bit. What an awesome surprise! Seems like they are still granting dreams, huh! :wizard:

I bet you guys were hard to explain to Cinderella! I feel your pain…as I had to explain DIS meets two times on my last trip..Uh…I know them…but have never met them. :confused3 …I am with you, is all I am saying.

Great update! Hope you are feeling better! :)

[jessica52877]

I can't wait for more! Both Lily's hair was quite long! I love the 1st Mickey ears. Michael (cut Little's) cut Dallas' hair the first time.

The pooh outfits are adorable. When did Jayden change? Didn't she have her Minnie on at the dismeet?? I was a bit confused because no one else had changed. BTW, I thought Jayden looked really good!

The surprise with Cinderella was precious! I really liked Mac too! He was so polite and I am glad he was able to come along.

Okay, ready for the next installment!

[PrincessLeighsDaddy]

Great update Jeanne! The girls looked so cute! What a nice surprise to have a private meeting with Cinderella!

HMMM... I wonder if you ever made it to China?

[karebear1]

Jammies.... I was talking about THE MEET. THE BIG MEET.... between Tessa and Luke.......... TOO CUTE and much bigger then our piddly little meet at ESPN, don't ya think?

I love you new update! A private , personal meet with the Princess herself? WOWWEE!!

Sorry we didn't have much time to talk either. All my plans to meet up with everyone at EPCOT were impossible for me to get to. I felt so bad, but glad you all were able to get together for the pre-meet. It was nice to meet you and give you a hug though!! ;-)

[Mushu187]

:rolleyes1 :

So when does this get interesting?!?! Oh yeah, right that should be the next day when the important people arrive -- or at least the noise (be nice to my sweet little tiny or as you call her Dniece 2). Remember she :love: you. ps she wants some more "Lella" and or "M Mouse" clothes - just thought I would put in an order.

[jham]

:rolleyes1 :

So when does this get interesting?!?! Oh yeah, right that should be the next day when the important people arrive -- or at least the noise (be nice to my sweet little tiny or as you call her Dniece 2). Remember she :love: you. ps she wants some more "Lella" and or "M Mouse" clothes - just thought I would put in an order.

AHA! There you are! I assume by the sarcasm and meanness that this is my DSis. :banana: :banana: :banana:

[t-beri]

I will not tolerate meanness toward our Jee Anne! Don't make me c0me out to UTAH, It's still cold there and I'll be very grumpy, you won't like it.

FINALLY... TOO MANY LILY'S!! :rotfl:

The pictures turned out so nicely, of course Little was such a Cinderella hog, JEESH!

[NaeNae]

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[scottny]

just saw your doing another tr. I am coming along for the ride.

great updates and pics.

[HeatherSue]

It's so cool that both of "our" Lily's shared their first haircut!!

That Gavin is a sweetie, isn't he?

I LOVE that you took a picture of a random kid in a custom!!! :rotfl:

T is a beautiful pregnant woman! I have a feeling she's beautiful even when she's not pregnant!

I love the pictures of the 2 Lilys!! It's funny how 2 they can look so different, yet both be absolutely gorgeous!

I'm all teary-eyed thinking of Jayden gettig hugged by Tigger!

Luke looks thrilled in that pic with Piglet! ;)

I'm glad you heeded my warning about the raw meat!

Awww...Luke wanted his picture taken with the floral characters! Tessa spotted them when we walked in and said they were "gorgeous:!

Wow, I'm in awe over your private meet with Cinderella!! How magical!! Plus, she was really nice!!

:rolleyes1 :

So when does this get interesting?!?! Oh yeah, right that should be the next day when the important people arrive -- or at least the noise (be nice to my sweet little tiny or as you call her Dniece 2). Remember she :love: you. ps she wants some more "Lella" and or "M Mouse" clothes - just thought I would put in an order.

:snooty: I will forgive this comment since you are my daughter's future aunt-in-law. :thumbsup2

[DWFan4Life]

I just finished reading your report and I loved it. I am enjoying the pictures which is really awesome. :thumbsup2 Glad that you had a great time. Looking forward in hearing more from you.

Have a nice day everyone. :)

[Mushu187]

AHA! There you are! I assume by the sarcasm and meanness that this is my DSis. :banana: :banana: :banana:

Oh, how wise you are. :worship: I am still trying to figure this out.

:hippie: :goofy: DS 8 :stitch2:

[jenb1023]

I think yours is the last disboutiquer TR I needed to get too - I almost missed it!

Good job capturing the Luke and Tessa meet and how cute are they!

I love the picture of all four kids with Pooh and am so happy to see that your oldest DD still likes the characters. My DD (5 1/2) has started questioning if they are real and I was worried she would lose interest. I am glad to see the magic is still there!

Lucky you on the meet with Cindy!

[kstgelais4]

WOW!!! A private meeting with Lella!!!! That's awesome! Jayden looked so cute in her Tigger outfit! I love the pic of Luke holding up the autograph book in front of the greenery.

[Clutterbug]

I promise I haven't abandoned this TR already! :lmao: I just have strep throat so I'm sure I'll be back among the living in a day or two.

I hear you! I was so excited to catch up on my DISing last weekend and I ended up so sick with strep that it hurt my head to read anything. :headache: I haven't been that sick in a long time! I hope you are feeling better now! :goodvibes

[Clutterbug]

Okay, now I'm caught up. :surfweb: I mean, I'm at work slaving away... :rolleyes1

The Tessa/Luke official meet was adorable. They certainly seem to be 2 peas in a pod. :lovestruc Love all the Lilys!! They are both so darn cute and it looks like they had fun together. Jayden's Tigger outfit is the best and I'm so glad to hear that he loved it. Can't wait to read more!!

[jham]

Loved the update. Of course we heard all about it...mostly from Mac! But it's so nice to see the pictures! I loved Jayden's Tigger outfit! Great job! Glad to hear that you are feeling a little better. Keep the updates coming. I want to see all the good weather we missed

Thanks, you did miss some good weather!

When you said you were disguising her face…I had already seen the pictures and wondered how that sweet child got such HUGE sunglasses!
The girls are SOOOO cute! I love, love, love their dresses. You guys do a fantastic job!
“to my bestest friend…love and TTFN” Aw, aw, aw! What a magical moment! I am “feeling it” even if you weren’t able to get a picture! :)

You missed Eyeore?! Oh no!
Ok..you are making me cry with the Cinderella bit. What an awesome surprise! Seems like they are still granting dreams, huh!

I bet you guys were hard to explain to Cinderella! I feel your pain…as I had to explain DIS meets two times on my last trip..Uh…I know them…but have never met them. :confused3 …I am with you, is all I am saying.

Great update! Hope you are feeling better!

Thanks for joining in Mary!

I can't wait for more! Both Lily's hair was quite long! I love the 1st Mickey ears. Michael (cut Little's) cut Dallas' hair the first time.

The pooh outfits are adorable. When did Jayden change? Didn't she have her Minnie on at the dismeet?? I was a bit confused because no one else had changed. BTW, I thought Jayden looked really good!

The surprise with Cinderella was precious! I really liked Mac too! He was so polite and I am glad he was able to come along.

Okay, ready for the next installment!

Little's hair was much longer than my Lily's! :rotfl: Jayden changed when we got to Epcot. I'll have to put that in my next update. I'm working on it right now!

Great update Jeanne! The girls looked so cute! What a nice surprise to have a private meeting with Cinderella!

HMMM... I wonder if you ever made it to China?

Hmmm...did we? Stay tuned! Cliffhangers are difficult when a) most of my "readers" were there :lmao: and b) there are several other TRs out there right now covering the famous Disboutiquer meet!

Jammies.... I was talking about THE MEET. THE BIG MEET.... between Tessa and Luke.......... TOO CUTE and much bigger then our piddly little meet at ESPN, don't ya think?

I love you new update! A private , personal meet with the Princess herself? WOWWEE!!

Sorry we didn't have much time to talk either. All my plans to meet up with everyone at EPCOT were impossible for me to get to. I felt so bad, but glad you all were able to get together for the pre-meet. It was nice to meet you and give you a hug though!!

Ditto! :hug:

I will not tolerate meanness toward our Jee Anne! Don't make me c0me out to UTAH, It's still cold there and I'll be very grumpy, you won't like it.

FINALLY... TOO MANY LILY'S!!
The pictures turned out so nicely, of course Little was such a Cinderella hog, JEESH!

Oh she was not.

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Hi Kathy!

just saw your doing another tr. I am coming along for the ride.

great updates and pics.

:cool1: Scott is here! :cool1:

It's so cool that both of "our" Lily's shared their first haircut!!

That Gavin is a sweetie, isn't he?

I LOVE that you took a picture of a random kid in a custom!!! :rotfl:

T is a beautiful pregnant woman! I have a feeling she's beautiful even when she's not pregnant!

I love the pictures of the 2 Lilys!! It's funny how 2 they can look so different, yet both be absolutely gorgeous!

I'm all teary-eyed thinking of Jayden gettig hugged by Tigger!

Luke looks thrilled in that pic with Piglet! ;)

I'm glad you heeded my warning about the raw meat!

Awww...Luke wanted his picture taken with the floral characters! Tessa spotted them when we walked in and said they were "gorgeous:!

Wow, I'm in awe over your private meet with Cinderella!! How magical!! Plus, she was really nice!!



:snooty: I will forgive this comment since you are my daughter's future aunt-in-law. :thumbsup2

Yes, T is very pretty. We kinda had to take a picture of that custom, I mean she offered! :rotfl: I'm glad Tessa loved the floral characters too. :thumbsup2 I love a nice princess. I've met some snotty (*cough*Aurora*cough*Disneyland*cough) princesses before.

I just finished reading your report and I loved it. I am enjoying the pictures which is really awesome. :thumbsup2 Glad that you had a great time. Looking forward in hearing more from you.

Have a nice day everyone. :)

Thanks! Hopefully I'll have the next update up today! I had to take a break to clean my house! :scared1:

I think yours is the last disboutiquer TR I needed to get too - I almost missed it!

Good job capturing the Luke and Tessa meet and how cute are they!

I love the picture of all four kids with Pooh and am so happy to see that your oldest DD still likes the characters. My DD (5 1/2) has started questioning if they are real and I was worried she would lose interest. I am glad to see the magic is still there!

Lucky you on the meet with Cindy!

:eek: I'm glad you found it! I hate being left out! :rotfl: DD11 definitely loves the characters.

WOW!!! A private meeting with Lella!!!! That's awesome! Jayden looked so cute in her Tigger outfit! I love the pic of Luke holding up the autograph book in front of the greenery.

Thanks!

I hear you! I was so excited to catch up on my DISing last weekend and I ended up so sick with strep that it hurt my head to read anything. :headache: I haven't been that sick in a long time! I hope you are feeling better now! :goodvibes

Okay, now I'm caught up. :surfweb: I mean, I'm at work slaving away... :rolleyes1

The Tessa/Luke official meet was adorable. They certainly seem to be 2 peas in a pod. :lovestruc Love all the Lilys!! They are both so darn cute and it looks like they had fun together. Jayden's Tigger outfit is the best and I'm so glad to hear that he loved it. Can't wait to read more!!

Ugh! I hope YOU are feeling better! Luke and Tessa got along so well I have to laugh just thinking about them. It was cute.

[jham]

Up Next: Day 2 Part 2: The Disboutique Meet!

The monorail to Epcot was pretty uneventful. Gavin, Seth, Jayden and Luke got to ride up front! My kids had never done this before so they were pretty excited. We got through “security” and then through the gate were we stopped and couldn’t see T and her kids. Finally Mike spotted her on the other side of the gate. They had been DENIED entry! :scared1: Okay, really their passes had been demagnetized or whatever it is that magnets do to passes, so they had to get that taken care of. We had no idea how long that would take (turns out, not long at all) so we told them we’d meet them at Club Cool. Yes, we were running late, but everyone was whining about being thirsty and Gavin had a big mug to fill :rolleyes1 so we had to take a Club Cool break. My dear sweet Jayden gave T’s Lily Beverly. Oddly, from that moment on, they were inseperable. Then of course there was the mandatory potty break. I took this opportunity to change into my Disboutiquer Meet tee shirt. Jayden changed her outfit as well. Her BFF was planning to be in Epcot today also and the girls had matching outfits they wanted to wear together. Our friends’ trip was not very long, so it was the only chance for the girls to wear them in the same place at the same time, assuming we would eventually run into them. The funny thing is a Disboutiquer, Cindee, saw Jayden’s outfit at Epcot, but it wasn’t on Jayden! She had seen Jayden’s BFF running around earlier in the day.


So finally we made it to China! And there were our peeps! Everyone was hanging out in the shade. All the kids had puppets that needed untangling every 3 minutes or so. I have to say, I somehow managed to escape without buying a puppet! :cool1: I think I was too busy chatting and trying to watch 4 kids run around to take pictures! So I stole a few from my friends. (thanks Jessica and Kristine)
I'm just now figuring out why Luke was begging me for sunglasses this day.
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We stopped and chatted for a little bit, then decided to head out en masse to ride Maelstrom. At some point along the way, Luke noticed Dallas and Tessa walking along hand-in-hand. He was not about to let his friend steal his girl! I was actually quite shocked that he was so concerned. It was pretty funny.

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Once he made it clear that Tessa was HIS girlfriend, they were all able to get along. :rotfl:

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We finally made it to Maelstrom. We took up a lot of boats! Somehow some poor couple got trapped in the middle of our group. We finally let them out. I sat in the front of the boat with Jessica and we tried to take “over our shoulder” pictures of everyone behind us.

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Don’t Heather and Stacy look cute in this picture? And doesn’t Lin look like he’s having the time of his life? :lmao: (I'm only joking about Lin, not Heather and Stacy!) Sawyer looks kinda bored. :confused3

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Of course as we exited the ride (some of us) stopped for the obligatory Troll photos. The kids could’ve played with the hats all day!

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[jham]

Our group then walked over to the ferry to the Boardwalk.
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I had never been there before so it was fun to see a new part of Disney! We arrived at ESPN Club and ran into the rest of our group. We waited a bit for our tables, but not too long.

It was fun visiting over dinner. I copied Jessica and followed her around taking pictures of each table.

Jacob, Steph, Tom's wife Angie, Tom
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one of the kids-only tables :scared1: Jayden, Dallas, Luke
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(the back of) Sawyer, Heather's mom, Cindee, her SO Shell, Morgan, Heather

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Karen, Kristine, Stacy
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The girls table: Tessa, Leighanna, Megan
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Mike and Lily (eating dessert first) Seth had his own table next to ours but spent more time in the arcade than at his table. :headache:
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Kathy and her DH
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Tifani, Gavin, Piper, Jessica (she's sort of in the picture) and Lin (see that stroller in the foreground? That's Liliana having a nap.

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Cathy did not eat with us :snooty: but did show up for photos. I forgave her because she had on awesome minnie dot capris.


After dinner we tried to gather the kids for a kid photo. I realized how futile that was turning out to be and decided to take a picture of the people trying to take a picture of the kids. :laughing:

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can you tell this boy did not sit by his mother? I would've wiped the ketchup off his face!
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Then we had the big group shot. Mike and Kathy’s DH had their hands full with a LOT of cameras! The kids, especially mine, were bouncing in and out of the photos like a bunch of monkies.

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After dinner we walked out to the boardwalk and talked a little longer (or maybe a lot longer) Jayden was great playing with the kids. They were playing tag, ring-around-the rosie, and duck duck goose.

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A little love for Jord (oh yes, she was there!) :confused3 :rotfl2:
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We eventually took the longest walk back to Epcot. I had no idea the Boardwalk was actually that close! It could’ve been the shortest walk, but when dozens of people take a potty break, it tends to go on and on. Especially when kids don’t decide that they need a potty break until everyone else is done…:rolleyes1

[jham]

We walked right up to the bridge between France and England and no one was there, so we sat down and found our spaces for Illuminations. I reached our friends on the phone and they were thinking of the same spot for Illuminations so they joined us and Jayden was finally reunited with her BFF! Just below us and to the right there was a wedding party going on.

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After Illuminations we said some sad farewells. Luke was on Mike’s shoulders. Tessa was 95% asleep, so I held her up to Luke so they could say goodbye. We walked out with Jessica and Tifani and their families. My Lily fell asleep in the stroller immediately after Illuminations.

How cute are the two Lilys? :lovestruc
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We left our friends at the monorail and as we continued on to our bus stop Lily woke up. She started coughing and then threw up all over her blankie. I’m glad she had a shirt and pants on under her jumper because I was able to just peel off the jumper, stick it in a bag with the blanket, wipe things up with some diaper wipes and we were on the bus. I think Lily had just had too much. She was tired, she’d eaten a lot of junk, and it had been a long day. I put her in her PJ’s and she went right back to sleep.

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I won’t go into too much detail, but I on the other hand spent the next hour doing laundry in the bathtub. Will Lily survive the next couple of days waiting for her blankie to dry? Stay tuned!

Up Next: Day 3: DHS Dance Party!

[jessica52877]

Okay, I should have taken notes. I had no idea Lily got sick! I hope she was okay the rest of the trip. Since I didn't know about it I'll guess she was. Probably just too much junk, up too long and too much fun for one little 3 year old!

Your pictures turned out great in Norway on the boat. I am pretty disappointed with kodak and my new camera. It takes horrible photos inside. Which is completely evident when you look at your table photos! Glad you followed me because I just snagged every single one!

Your group phots are the BEST too! Mike did a good job!

I was surprised at how short the walk was back to Epcot. I guess I am using to walking across the boardwalk first. The LONG bathroom break gave me a chance to chat with Teresa so that worked!

Love the pictures from the bridge! Much better then mine again! I love that I take more pictures with my new small camera but I really sacrifice in the quality part!

Glad Jayden's friend made it over. I get it now why she changed! Is her friend the same age or a bit older? I thought Jayden was super tall but her BFF is even taller! Why can't I get a little of that height!

Jayden was REALLY REALLY REALLY good with the kids and especially Little! She so deserves sister of the year award! She is always so sweet and helpful. Her mama must have raised her right! I would insert a smilie her but then I know my whole response would go poof!

I am anxious to hear about the rest of the trip now and see the customs! I am bummed I was sick and we never got to spend more time together!

How was bunco last night?

[Stephres]

I had no idea Megan liked Gavin so much until I saw the pictures. She looks quite smitten!

Poor Lily! I didn't know she had gotten sick; she seemed so happy and full of energy at the meet. She just had too much that day, huh?

[Tnkrbelle565]

Can I picture steal for mine???? You actually got a decent pic of me!

Ya, I feel really stupid for taking the boat on the way there (even though it did give T a break) when I realized how short the walk was.

Love the pic of Jayden playing duck duck goose with the little ones!!!

[HeatherSue]

"security" LOL!

I love that Gavin filled his mug at Club Cool!

So, am I the only dork that wore my disboutique meet shirt all day?

I saw your friends wearing your kid's outfits when we first entered Epcot, too. They were getting their picture taken in front of the ball. I said "That's weird, those kids have the same shirt as Luke, but Jeanne made that shirt!" I'm a little dense, so I never considered that they were the people that were with you! :rolleyes:

I actually like that picture of myself on the Maelstrom!

I really got a kick out of Mike! He was too funny waiting to get his picture taken with the hat and axe.

Hey, I think that's the first picture I've seen of the back of our shirts!

Would you look at Megan in the first group photo? I think we may have another love connection! :rotfl:

Awww...I love me some Jord! :love:

You also gave Tessa a hug and told her you loved her. I thought that was the sweetest thing!!

Oh...sleeping Lily looks so sweet! Poor thing, throwing up on herself!

[jham]

I had no idea Megan liked Gavin so much until I saw the pictures. She looks quite smitten!

Poor Lily! I didn't know she had gotten sick; she seemed so happy and full of energy at the meet. She just had too much that day, huh?

I noticed that right away the first time I saw that picture. :lmao: I thought it was pretty cute. Gavin didn't seem to mind.

I think Lily did just have too much that day. She was fine the rest of the trip.

Can I picture steal for mine???? You actually got a decent pic of me!

Ya, I feel really stupid for taking the boat on the way there (even though it did give T a break) when I realized how short the walk was.

Love the pic of Jayden playing duck duck goose with the little ones!!!

Um, no, I can steal pics from you, but not vice-versa :lmao: Wait, you do realize by now that I am a sarcastic person, don't you? Do you mean the picture at your table? I thought that was good of all 3 of you! I just figure the boat was just another ride, now we can say we did it, right? I felt a little silly too when I saw that the walk was so short.

Okay, I should have taken notes. I had no idea Lily got sick! I hope she was okay the rest of the trip. Since I didn't know about it I'll guess she was. Probably just too much junk, up too long and too much fun for one little 3 year old!

Your pictures turned out great in Norway on the boat. I am pretty disappointed with kodak and my new camera. It takes horrible photos inside. Which is completely evident when you look at your table photos! Glad you followed me because I just snagged every single one!

Your group phots are the BEST too! Mike did a good job!

I was surprised at how short the walk was back to Epcot. I guess I am using to walking across the boardwalk first. The LONG bathroom break gave me a chance to chat with Teresa so that worked!

Love the pictures from the bridge! Much better then mine again! I love that I take more pictures with my new small camera but I really sacrifice in the quality part!

Glad Jayden's friend made it over. I get it now why she changed! Is her friend the same age or a bit older? I thought Jayden was super tall but her BFF is even taller! Why can't I get a little of that height!

Jayden was REALLY REALLY REALLY good with the kids and especially Little! She so deserves sister of the year award! She is always so sweet and helpful. Her mama must have raised her right! I would insert a smilie her but then I know my whole response would go poof!

I am anxious to hear about the rest of the trip now and see the customs! I am bummed I was sick and we never got to spend more time together!

How was bunco last night?

Jayden's friend is a few weeks younger believe it or not. They are both tall girls. I'm bummed we didn't spend more time together too! We'll have to plan a new meet. :rolleyes1 maybe October, Disneyland? :rolleyes1 :rotfl2: Oh and bunco was fun. I ate too much!

"security" LOL!

I love that Gavin filled his mug at Club Cool!

So, am I the only dork that wore my disboutique meet shirt all day?

I saw your friends wearing your kid's outfits when we first entered Epcot, too. They were getting their picture taken in front of the ball. I said "That's weird, those kids have the same shirt as Luke, but Jeanne made that shirt!" I'm a little dense, so I never considered that they were the people that were with you! :rolleyes:

I actually like that picture of myself on the Maelstrom!

I really got a kick out of Mike! He was too funny waiting to get his picture taken with the hat and axe.

Hey, I think that's the first picture I've seen of the back of our shirts!

Would you look at Megan in the first group photo? I think we may have another love connection! :rotfl:

Awww...I love me some Jord! :love:

You also gave Tessa a hug and told her you loved her. I thought that was the sweetest thing!!

Oh...sleeping Lily looks so sweet! Poor thing, throwing up on herself!

I would've worn my shirt all day, but I wanted to match the whole Crystal Palace theme. Not sure why, I don't think I'm in any pictures. :laughing: I really like that picture of you on Maelstrom too! I wish I'd been able to fix the red eye better, but I figured I tried it with 2 different programs and that is enough for one day. We may just have to send it to Corey. That Megan is a little flirt isn't she? princess: I love ending a day on a TR with a nice sleep photo.

[Tnkrbelle565]

So, am I the only dork that wore my disboutique meet shirt all day?


Nope, me and Stacy did too...we couldn't shove another thing in our bags!


Um, no, I can steal pics from you, but not vice-versa :lmao: Wait, you do realize by now that I am a sarcastic person, don't you? Do you mean the picture at your table? I thought that was good of all 3 of you! I just figure the boat was just another ride, now we can say we did it, right? I felt a little silly too when I saw that the walk was so short.


I appreciate and love your sarcasm! That's a fab pic. It's the best one of seen of me yet! And unlike Jessica's picture...proves that I wasn't drinking at dinner (in case you missed the debate on my TR!)

I am glad we took the boat since now I can say that I've done it...but I will definitely be hoofing it if I ever make it back to the Boardwalk.

[jessica52877]

Kristine, I did notice it was a MUCH better picture of your table and drinks! :) Glad the big debate is over!

I noticed Megan and Gavin too but I forgot to mention it! I think it is pretty cute! :love: is in the air! I guess Dallas' lost out on Megan too. Darn kid can't catch a break.

I would have worn my dismeet shirt all day but then I wouldn't have matched either. Gotta match! It is the in thing!

I LOVE that you have the picture of the back of all of them. I don't think I had one with a back anywhere either!

Wow! I can't believe Jayden's friend is YOUNGER then her! She's a good bit taller too!

Off to clean out the garage!

[CampbellScot]

oh goodness...your family is so gorgeous. It's a recurrent theme throughout the disboutique community! All y'all have gorgeous kids!!! I didn't realize how TALL miss Jayden had gotten until I saw in the group shot with adults. She is a tall drink of water that girl! She's beautiful!!

I wish I could have been there with y'all! It looks like y'all hit the weather jackpot!

Luke and Tessa are just too darling. Dallas is a little cutie too. The picture of all three of them holding hands is beyond precious.

of course you know I just love your Lily!! Her cuteness factor is just over the top! I didn't know there was another gorgeous Lily to be had amongst the group!

So much fun!!!

can't wait to hear more!!!:goodvibes

[MouseTriper]

Oh I loved your update and all your pictures. Your family is adorable!!! It sure looks like you guys had a blast at the DisMeet. I wish I could have been there. I would have loved to meet all of you!!!

Can't wait to read more!

[jenb1023]

Great update! I agree - I think you (or DH) got the best group shots.

It is amazing how well everyone but especially the kids got along. The "fight" for Tessa's love was too cute and I love the hand holding photo once everything was resolved.

And unlike Jessica's picture...proves that I wasn't drinking at dinner (in case you missed the debate on my TR!)

When I saw that photo, that was the first thing I thought - - that this was evidence to solve the great drink debate.

[twob4him]

I had no idea Megan liked Gavin so much until I saw the pictures. She looks quite smitten!

Poor Lily! I didn't know she had gotten sick; she seemed so happy and full of energy at the meet. She just had too much that day, huh?

Oh my garsh ... look at that Steph....she is smitten...awwwww that is the cutest! Gavin is so cute and sweet too!

I love the pics from Malstrom...yup...someday I will make it on that ride. :rotfl: You got some great shots at dinner too!

How cute is Lily all tucked into bed... :cloud9:

[scottny]

that was one serious update. :thumbsup2

great update and pics.

I love having meets down there. It is so much fun. I am going to one in October and I cannot wait.

[Stephres]

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Hey, I just noticed, Heather where is the child you were watching for me while I was taking Megan to the bathroom? It appears that he is not sitting with you! :scared1:

[twob4him]

Hey, I just noticed, Heather where is the child you were watching for me while I was taking Megan to the bathroom? It appears that he is not sitting with you! :scared1:

He's there...look at the pic before...I think he is behind Stacey in the pic above!

[Stephres]

I still don't see him. I am sure he is probably sitting by Heather's mom, right?

[sohappy]

Steph, I am trying to remember where he was. I got on the boat at the last minute. He was on that boat though. I remember helping Heather do a head count when we got off!

[Stephres]

Ha ha: no disboutiquer left behind!

Hey Jeanne, are you feeling better? I wanna see more of your cute family!

[jham]

I didn't even know where my own kids were on that ride :confused3 but I do remember Jacob being right in the midst of us all, and under Heather's careful watchful eye :thumbsup2 If photobucket will cooperate I'll post the photopass photos from day 1 in a minute.

[jessica52877]

I can't wait! More pictures! Whoo!

[jham]

Here are some photopass pictures from Day 2:

Lilys and castles: (my Lily just saw these and said "It's Lily!") :rotfl:

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Cinderella meet:

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obviously no one got a good photo of MY Lily and Lella :confused3

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and look who arrived at the end of Day 2! It's Dsis and Dfamily! We didn't see them, but it looks like the photopass photographer did! Cathy, you are going to regret me having access to all your photopass pics! :laughing: :rolleyes1 :snooty:

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[jessica52877]

Uh, Jham's sis! Where are your customs??? I know there is a cute Monsters one coming atleast!

The Lily's look cute! Darn PP guy didn't get a good one of your Lily did he/she! I love the one of Little drinking!

No Jeanne picture from that day?

[MomlvsGoofy]

Subbing! Great TR, all the kids are so cute!

[MouseTriper]

Ohhh I love all the new pics!!!

[HeatherSue]

I love the pictures, Jeanne!! Your sister is very pretty, it must run in the family!! Your nephew reminds me so much of an older Luke!

In case anyone is looking for something new to read, I just updated my TR. :rolleyes1

Hey, I just noticed, Heather where is the child you were watching for me while I was taking Megan to the bathroom? It appears that he is not sitting with you! :scared1:

He was sitting on the other side of Sawyer, behind Lin's head in that picture. I took my job of watching your dear Jacob very seriously!

[maroo]

The pictures are completely precious!!!!! :)

I do hate that the Photopass photographer did not take some more the times that the kids were not even looking at them with Cinderella.

I guess they do this all day every day and forget that this picture is the keepsake of a wonderful memory of a special time with Cinderella. :rolleyes:

But you guys sure have some great ones!!!! :)

[Tnkrbelle565]

OH I want to steal the Lily twins!!! How absolutely gorgeous!

[snubie]

Will Lily survive the next couple of days waiting for her blankie to dry? Stay tuned!

Oh, I hope Lily was Ok while the blankie dried. I am pretty sure that I would be spending time at the coin-op laundry mat at the resort paying to get DD's blankie dried that night. She will not sleep without it.

If there is a disboutique meet next year - I am there. It looked like so much fun.

[scottny]

photopass pics came out great. :thumbsup2

[jessica52877]

popcorn::

[t-beri]

LOVE!!!!

Lily said Oh look, it's me and my friend Lily. We were wearing dresses by that fence w/ the castle:rotfl2:

I have to get those!!!
...t.

[jham]

Florida Weather Today: Hi temp 73 degrees, precip 0 :banana: :banana: :banana:

We woke up with plans to hit DHS at rope drop. Unfortunately the Disney transportation system did their very best to undermine our attempts. :sad2: We met up with Dsis and her family (outside our door, their room was next to ours) and got to the bus stop in plenty of time, or so we thought. We waited…and waited…and waited….I counted busses. 5 AK busses stopped, 5 MK busses stopped, 3 Epcot busses…where was the DHS bus???? Well I didn’t just sit there and wonder, I started going up to every single bus and pestering the driver. Of course they all told me “oh, it’s the bus right behind me!” Until finally one woman listened and I heard her tell dispatch. Finally after 45 min. the bus showed up! I’m telling you, it’s a good thing we weren’t in a hurry or things could’ve gotten ugly. In fact, I’m sure they did get ugly, we were the first stop at our resort and there were 3 more stops in the route. The DHS bus filled up after 2 stops. You should’ve seen the faces on the poor people at the 3rd stop when we just drove by without stopping. They’d probably been waiting just as long. The bus driver tried to signal the angry mob that another bus was on the way. If only they had listened to me the FIRST time I nagged a bus driver. :sad2:


We made it to DHS only a little after rope drop. DH was sent on a mission to get FPs for TSMM. Dsis got ahead of me (maybe because I was pausing for some not so great DH-less but dangit I’m getting my money’s worth photopass photos). I think someone's mad because he didn't get to go with his daddy. :confused3 ETA: There's my sister in the background! I just noticed that!

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I think we told DH we’d meet him by the hat which worked out well because HSM was just finishing up and Lily and my niece needed to do a little dancin’. (while Seth apparently stuffed his pockets with confetti).

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Our first ride was ToT. Now DH seemed to be in an all out rush to GO THERE NOW so off I went, in the lead, pushing the stroller. I get to the entrance and turn around and only see Jayden walking with me. But who’s coming down the path? Is it the rest of my family??? Oh no no no, it's a group of 500 Brazilian girls! I can’t say whether or not they were cheerleaders, they did not subject us to any actual cheering. My first instinct is to jump in line but DH is not even answering his phone, so all 500 of them file past me. :headache: Finally up the path comes the rest of my group snacking on oranges. :mad: This was our only real argument of the trip. DH is always the one racing from ride to ride, never letting me look around or shop, and here he is snacking on an orange telling me “I told you I was stopping, I had to get my vitamins!” :mad: I don't think it counts if you "tell" me when I have my back to you and I'm pushing a stroller through a crowd of people! :snooty:

Lily managed to be tall enough for ToT. :cool1: She was excited to go on it until we walked into the building and it was kinda spooky. She didn’t get scared though, just less enthusiastic. I think she kind of liked the ride! (She may look a little scared in the photo, but the rest of the trip she kept asking to go back on "Towa of Terra" or it's alternate name the "up down up down" ride.) I had to buy the photo of her first “big girl” ride. (Don’t tell DH, he walked out of the dump shop ahead of me and said “Don’t buy ANYTHING!” So of course I bought it and had it sent to our resort so I walked out of there with nothing in my hands.):rolleyes1 That made me feel a lot better over the whole “I need my vitamins” incident. It’s not like we hadn’t eaten breakfast before we left. :confused3

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Next we moved on to Rock ‘n’ Rollercoaster. Luke was really sad because he was not tall enough to go on it. Not even close really. With all the stroller swappin’ going on, we (our group) went about 4 or 5 times. Of course I only went once. I spent the rest of the time waiting with kids, at times, too many kids! Or I should say too many babies in strollers! As I’m sitting there with 2 little girls in strollers, a man in an ECV parks right next to us and starts to smoke. In the babies’ faces. I couldn’t push both strollers at once to move them, and the 3 boys I had my eyes on were not much help. And wait, I have rights here! I ever so politely informed him where the actual SMOKING AREA was located. I thought of Sally Miss Cammie!

Now our friends were also at DHS this day. Do you think it is easy to meet up with someone when you don’t get to the park at the same time? I realized on this trip that it is almost impossible, for even if you do meet up, someone has a fastpass, someone else has already done everything you haven’t and vice-versa. We did manage a quick meet up outside the Great Movie Ride where we made plans for later in the afternoon.

Jessica made all the cool Jedi Mickey and Leia Minnie shirts!

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Then we, meaning my family and Dsis’ family, went on the Great Movie Ride. I had only been on this once before and it was 8 years ago so I didn’t remember much. It was fine, a nice break. After the ride my family had ADRs at Sci-Fi Diner. We walked in the door and Pal Mickey started telling us about the diner. It was fun. We were seated in a car right up front.

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I have to say we had amazing service at this meal! Our waitress was excellent! :yay: We were all so tired, it was really relaxing to just sit there in the air-conditioned semi-darkness. The kids had a giant screen to lull them into the TV trance.
(Luke loves his ketchup! So I made him a "hidden Mickey" because he loves those too.)

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We barely moved. It was so nice. The waitress said “So, is it your 3rd day?” I had to stop and think for a minute, then realized “yes actually it is.” “Ahhhh,” she says, “it always hits on the 3rd day.” :confused3 I’m assuming she meant the glazed over look on our faces. I had a burger and a shake as I’ve been instructed by the Disboards in general. It was good. The onion rings weren’t bad either. Luke had most of my shake.

After lunch we met back up with Dsis and used our FPs for TSMM. I love this ride! We’d been on it before at Disneyland and it is a family favorite. I don’t know why but it just makes me laugh, all that shooting and spinning. I like it so much better than Buzz because I feel like I can actually do it, unlike Buzz where I pretty much feel like an idiot because I can’t even figure out what I’m aiming at, let alone hit the target. But that’s a personal problem, I get that.

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[Tnkrbelle565]

OH I love Lily's face!!! It's perfect!!! (I would have bought it too!). Love her skirt!!! You did a great job!

Props to Jessica on this update too. She did such an amazing job on those shirts. The turquoise looks perfect with the design.


So glad it was 73 the day I left!

[jham]

We then split up and DH took the boys to Light’s, Motor, Action and then the Indiana Jones stunt show. Dsis took Dneice with the boys. I took my girls and we had a relaxing snack and made our way over to Beauty and The Beast. We stopped along the way for a few photos.

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We weren't too sure who's arms she was running to...there was some suspense...

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I think Mike W. felt a little snubbed, but seriously, who's cuddlier?

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Finally we made it to Beauty and the Beast. I had never seen this show and it was my one “must do” for DHS. We met up with my friend and DD11’s BFF. Lily fell asleep in my arms while we waited for the show to start. As soon as it started she woke up from her 15 minute nap and was instantly engrossed in the show. She loves her some princesses!

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The plan was for everyone to meet up after the show and head to Fantasmic. I didn’t really care if we saw it or not, but some people in the group really wanted to, so I was fine with that. Our friends had the Fantasmic dinner package. THEY managed to meet up before the show and find their seats. :snooty: My girls and I wound up being the very last to be seated in the regular seats (thanks to a kind family that scooched over) before they started filling the “standing room only” section. We broke out the cheap glow bracelets while we were waiting.

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[jham]

But where was DH????? :confused3 Finally he answered the phone and told me he and the boys and Dsis and her family were getting something to eat. I told them good luck getting a seat. After many more unanswered phone calls he finally answers to tell me they just stopped them going up the hill because the stadium was full and they were turned away. UGH! So those of us that didn’t really care to see the show were IN IT, and those that really did want to see it were NOT. :mad: I told DH to take DS9 to the Animation building because he’d been dying to go there all day. They stayed there all through Fantasmic and we met them there after the show. IT WAS CROWDED! As we excited the first showing, people were lined up for the second showing as far as the eye could see! Seriously, it was the scariest line ever! I couldn’t imagine waiting in it! EVER! But the nice thing is that everyone in the park was in that line and when they filed in, it was blissfully quiet in the park. :cloud9: So, where was I...we met up just outside the Animation building and were just standing there chatting when we heard music coming from the Playhouse Disney building. We glanced over and saw characters…DANCING! :dance3: It was a party going on in there! A DANCE PARTY! :dance3: :dance3: Hmmm…were we invited? We walked over and we just had to show our room cards for EMH and the bouncers let us in! :banana: :banana: :banana: When we first walked in, there were not very many people in there, maybe 30, and at least 4 characters. There were also 2 people there making free balloon animals! WOO HOO! This is my kind of party! They had a DJ doing the music. I think this was one of the highlights of our trip.

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We had SO MUCH FUN! We danced and danced until some of us were worn out!

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The characters kept switching out 2 at a time. We danced with Pluto, Goofy, Quincy, Annie, JoJo, Goliath, Mickey and Minnie.

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We were exhausted and the cool night air felt so good! We decided to take advantage of the nonexistent lines and ran over to Star Tours before dragging ourselves out of the park. It was a long day, the park was pretty crowded until the first Fantasmic show departed, but we had a great day. I’m just sad I missed out on seeing some of my other friends that were there that day!

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UP NEXT: Day 4: Tusker House

[Marianne0310]

I love the trip report. You have a beautiful family.

Marianne

[jessica52877]

OH I love Lily's face!!! It's perfect!!! (I would have bought it too!). Love her skirt!!! You did a great job!

Props to Jessica on this update too. She did such an amazing job on those shirts. The turquoise looks perfect with the design.


So glad it was 73 the day I left!

Thanks Kristine! Didn't I pick a beautiful color!

OH WAIT! Jeanne actually sent me the shirts. No matter what I am making for her I am always out of that size shirts and NO ONE within a 60 mile radius has them! So kudos to Jeanne on the shirt color! :banana: Although a guessing women I am assumes it happened to be 2 shirts she just happen to have in that color! They do look really good on that color! I saw it on Jayden's friend early on in the day and just loved it!

Okay, gotta finish sewing 2 shirts before I can finish reading the next installments!

[Tnkrbelle565]

Jeanne picked out the shirt colors???? Jeanne you are a genius...i would never have picked that color and it looks gorgeous :worship:

I never knew about the dance party at DHS...how fun does that look?!?!? Sorry about the Fantasmic fiasco

Also always runs right to Sully too...I do feel bad for Mike :guilty:

[jessica52877]

Okay, I KNOW I was at this park the same day you were! I KNOW because I saw DH with the boys and DN BUT why did I NOT know that it was EMH that evening? Dallas was dying to ride Rock N Rollercoaster and the guy told him he was tall enough but it had a 100 minute wait (or was it 120) at that point in time! I felt like crap anyways but I probably would have stayed and watched Fantasmic too. We were right there probably when you were going in. B&B had just let out!

I LOVE how Lily ran to Sulley! The look on her face was priceless! I also decided it is hard to meet up with someone else. I felt like every time I thought of calling that you were probably on a ride or eating lunch and didn't want to bother you!

I love the orange in the morning! Why is it the guys consider it as they told us if we didn't acknowledge them but if they don't acknowledge us hearing something it counts as we never told them!

[3goofyboys]

Jeanne,
I'm reading, I'm just doing it quietly! I love all the pictures, they are great and of course all the clothes are beautiful!

[jenb1023]

I love the look on your DD's face as she was running to Sully - how precious!

Great job on the customs ladies!

I have been reading about SciFi on lots of tr's lately and all the reports have been good - we may have to try it next trip.

[billwendy]

Wow - what a GREAT trip - and way to spend your birthday!!!!! Love all the events, customs, friends and family!!:thumbsup2

[2manyprincesses]

Fun, Fun, Fun!!! I hope we get to do the dance party on our next trip. It looks like a really good time! Those videos are priceless!

Looking at your pics makes me rethink the whole hairbow thing. I really love Lily's and think it gives her outfits a "finished" look. Oy Vey! I'm starting to hyperventilate just thinking about it. (4 girls X 2 bows X 7 days = crazy mommy)

Your trip looks like such a fun, low key time. I love it!! Keep 'em coming!

[minnie2]

subbing
not sure why the pictures aren't showing up for me! UGH Darn ATT I wish we never switched! I will check back later hopefully it will work then! I actually thought I sub'd to this earlier!

[kimmylaj]

i feel so bad i didnt know you had a trip report going on, i followed your link from disboutiquers.
i am very impressed at how well you guys travel, airport stopovers, and shoes off of 4 kids. arggh . the shoe thing makes me nutty with just 2.
i love the girls getting their hair cuts, my ds got his 1st haircut there it was such fun, of course he was only 15 months. i said i was going to do dd last trip but i just couldnt find the time, maybe next trip , she will be 3. although she does have bangs, just never a real haircut because she was bald till about 18 months.
your hidden mickey ketchup was cute, my kids zoned out in the sci fi too. its like a mini break.
cant wait for more

[twob4him]

Awesome day and such wonderful pics for your DHS day...I am so looking forward to checking the place out for the first time! I really want to see the B and B show! The dance party looked like a blast!!! I bet you were all sooo tired...how cute is Lily laying down! I love love love everyone's shirts and outfits! So cute! Did you get a lot of comments? :goodvibes

[PrincessLeighsDaddy]

Great installment!

The one night that we were there, the line for the Fantasmic's second show was really scary! Needless to say, we didn't see it this trip! We have seen the show before, and although we enjoyed it, we didn't need to see it again!

I didn't know about the dance party!?!
Leighanna would have loved to go to it! Darn!

Loved everyone's outfits! That Lily is just too darn cute!

[HeatherSue]

Oh my GOSH! I can't believe you had to wait so long for the buses!!!!!! That must have been so frustrating!

Yay, a picture of Jeanne! Poor Luke, how dare you make him sad?

That dancing video is TOOO cute!

500 Brazillian girls!! OH NO!! I'm willing to bet they were cheerleaders!

Tell Mike I'm sorry I wasn't there to curb your spending at the TOT dump shop. But, I must say that picture was worth it!!! I love the look on Lily's face!

Yes, I do know how hard it is to meet up with the rest of your party if you don't arrive at the same time! Even if you do arrive at the same time and don't see where the rest of your party parked! :rolleyes:

I love the shirts Jessica made! I also love the Monsters Inc outfits!!!!

Tessa also drank most of my shake at the Sci-Fi diner. Those little squirts!

I love the ketchup Mickey. You're so clever!

Oh my gosh, the "where dreams come true" picture of Lily is PERFECT!!

A dance party at playhouse disney???? WOW!!! That is so cool!

Tessa is quite impressed by Luke's dance moves. ;)

I LOVE your balloon hat! :rotfl:

[CampbellScot]

I so seriously needed a dose of little Lily and her fabulous family today!!

first off...when I was reading about the smokers I was thinking..."Dang if Sally had been there..." only to find you were thinking the same thing!:lmao:

I LOVE the dance videos!! Luke and Lily have got some MOVES!! So darling!! I can't believe how big they all are getting!! The Sci fi pictures were adorable! I love how your family can fill up a whole car!!

ummm...what else? OH the pic of Lily running towards someone with a huge sparkle filled smile on her face...precious! Seriously that child could make a MINT in commercials and movies!:thumbsup2

AND the fact that you took Lily and Luke on ToT TOTALLY validates my reasoning for *making* Sally go on it. It's FUN dangit! If little ones like Lily can go on that ride and not perish from fright then I should think that a nine year old could handle it without hysterics...you'd think huh?:rolleyes:

thanks so much for sharing the pictures! I was really bumming out today and your family at Disney made me feel loads better!!!

can't wait to hear more!!!:goodvibes

[sohappy]

Confession time- I called you while I was at rope drop to see if you were there. Really poor timing on my part- as soon as you picked up, it got really noisy and I couldn't hear anything. I couldn't tell if you were there or not. I did see your DH and Seth when I was getting off Toy Story. I went straight down to Rock N Roller Coaster, then back to Toy Story. I bet we were on the same street at the same time. It was pretty crowded though.

[MouseTriper]

Oh I love all the pictures and videos! Lily was so cute with Sully. I love all the clothes. Luke can really bust a move. Hahaha. I laughed watching Seth stuff all that confetti in his pocket. And that Jayden is just a cutie....how fun that she got to spend some time with her BFF!!

Loving your TR!

[jham]

I love the trip report. You have a beautiful family.

Marianne

Thanks!

Thanks Kristine! Didn't I pick a beautiful color!

OH WAIT! Jeanne actually sent me the shirts. No matter what I am making for her I am always out of that size shirts and NO ONE within a 60 mile radius has them! So kudos to Jeanne on the shirt color! :banana: Although a guessing women I am assumes it happened to be 2 shirts she just happen to have in that color! They do look really good on that color! I saw it on Jayden's friend early on in the day and just loved it!

Okay, gotta finish sewing 2 shirts before I can finish reading the next installments!

Yes, I did just happen to have 2 shirts in that color. But it's your fault I have stated hoarding t-shirts!

Jeanne picked out the shirt colors???? Jeanne you are a genius...i would never have picked that color and it looks gorgeous :worship:

I never knew about the dance party at DHS...how fun does that look?!?!? Sorry about the Fantasmic fiasco

Also always runs right to Sully too...I do feel bad for Mike :guilty:

It was way fun! Ash would love it!

Okay, I KNOW I was at this park the same day you were! I KNOW because I saw DH with the boys and DN BUT why did I NOT know that it was EMH that evening? Dallas was dying to ride Rock N Rollercoaster and the guy told him he was tall enough but it had a 100 minute wait (or was it 120) at that point in time! I felt like crap anyways but I probably would have stayed and watched Fantasmic too. We were right there probably when you were going in. B&B had just let out!

I LOVE how Lily ran to Sulley! The look on her face was priceless! I also decided it is hard to meet up with someone else. I felt like every time I thought of calling that you were probably on a ride or eating lunch and didn't want to bother you!

I love the orange in the morning! Why is it the guys consider it as they told us if we didn't acknowledge them but if they don't acknowledge us hearing something it counts as we never told them!

I didn't know they had EMH either! I usually don't pay much attention to that sort of thing. You should have called me! Even though I did talk to you on Mike's phone didn't I?


Jeanne,
I'm reading, I'm just doing it quietly! I love all the pictures, they are great and of course all the clothes are beautiful!

Thanks for reading and posting!

I love the look on your DD's face as she was running to Sully - how precious!

Great job on the customs ladies!

I have been reading about SciFi on lots of tr's lately and all the reports have been good - we may have to try it next trip.

Thanks, I love that photo. Sometimes photopass photographers manage to get a great one!

Wow - what a GREAT trip - and way to spend your birthday!!!!! Love all the events, customs, friends and family!!:thumbsup2

Thanks Wendy!

Fun, Fun, Fun!!! I hope we get to do the dance party on our next trip. It looks like a really good time! Those videos are priceless!

Looking at your pics makes me rethink the whole hairbow thing. I really love Lily's and think it gives her outfits a "finished" look. Oy Vey! I'm starting to hyperventilate just thinking about it. (4 girls X 2 bows X 7 days = crazy mommy)

Your trip looks like such a fun, low key time. I love it!! Keep 'em coming!

It was very fun. I love bows. You know, your girls could share and some bows go with more than one outfit! :thumbsup2 I pack them in empty baby wipe containers so they don't get squished.

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Thanks for reading Marlo! I hope the pics work for you. I feel the same way about Comcast that you feel about AT&T. :headache:

i feel so bad i didnt know you had a trip report going on, i followed your link from disboutiquers.
i am very impressed at how well you guys travel, airport stopovers, and shoes off of 4 kids. arggh . the shoe thing makes me nutty with just 2.
i love the girls getting their hair cuts, my ds got his 1st haircut there it was such fun, of course he was only 15 months. i said i was going to do dd last trip but i just couldnt find the time, maybe next trip , she will be 3. although she does have bangs, just never a real haircut because she was bald till about 18 months.
your hidden mickey ketchup was cute, my kids zoned out in the sci fi too. its like a mini break.
cant wait for more

Thanks for reading! Jayden was pretty much bald until she was 2! :eek:

Awesome day and such wonderful pics for your DHS day...I am so looking forward to checking the place out for the first time! I really want to see the B and B show! The dance party looked like a blast!!! I bet you were all sooo tired...how cute is Lily laying down! I love love love everyone's shirts and outfits! So cute! Did you get a lot of comments? :goodvibes

What? You've never been to DHS? Your girls will love B and B princess: princess: princess:

Great installment!

The one night that we were there, the line for the Fantasmic's second show was really scary! Needless to say, we didn't see it this trip! We have seen the show before, and although we enjoyed it, we didn't need to see it again!

I didn't know about the dance party!?!
Leighanna would have loved to go to it! Darn!

Loved everyone's outfits! That Lily is just too darn cute!

What day did you go to DHS? I think the only way to know about the dance party is to accidently stumble across it or to ask someone where they got the balloon animals! I loved that it wasn't very crowded, especially at first.

Oh my GOSH! I can't believe you had to wait so long for the buses!!!!!! That must have been so frustrating!

Yay, a picture of Jeanne! Poor Luke, how dare you make him sad?

That dancing video is TOOO cute!

500 Brazillian girls!! OH NO!! I'm willing to bet they were cheerleaders!

Tell Mike I'm sorry I wasn't there to curb your spending at the TOT dump shop. But, I must say that picture was worth it!!! I love the look on Lily's face!

Yes, I do know how hard it is to meet up with the rest of your party if you don't arrive at the same time! Even if you do arrive at the same time and don't see where the rest of your party parked! :rolleyes:

I love the shirts Jessica made! I also love the Monsters Inc outfits!!!!

Tessa also drank most of my shake at the Sci-Fi diner. Those little squirts!

I love the ketchup Mickey. You're so clever!

Oh my gosh, the "where dreams come true" picture of Lily is PERFECT!!

A dance party at playhouse disney???? WOW!!! That is so cool!

Tessa is quite impressed by Luke's dance moves. ;)

I LOVE your balloon hat! :rotfl:

:ssst: Mike still doesn't know I bought that photo! :laughing: I love that everyone is watching Lily. I also love that my hand is blocking my face. :rotfl:

I so seriously needed a dose of little Lily and her fabulous family today!!

first off...when I was reading about the smokers I was thinking..."Dang if Sally had been there..." only to find you were thinking the same thing!:lmao:

I LOVE the dance videos!! Luke and Lily have got some MOVES!! So darling!! I can't believe how big they all are getting!! The Sci fi pictures were adorable! I love how your family can fill up a whole car!!

ummm...what else? OH the pic of Lily running towards someone with a huge sparkle filled smile on her face...precious! Seriously that child could make a MINT in commercials and movies!:thumbsup2

AND the fact that you took Lily and Luke on ToT TOTALLY validates my reasoning for *making* Sally go on it. It's FUN dangit! If little ones like Lily can go on that ride and not perish from fright then I should think that a nine year old could handle it without hysterics...you'd think huh?:rolleyes:

thanks so much for sharing the pictures! I was really bumming out today and your family at Disney made me feel loads better!!!

can't wait to hear more!!!:goodvibes

Sorry you had a bad day! I often think of Sally when I smell cigarette smoke, especially when it is against the rules! She inspires me to speak up. And yes, sometimes we must teach our kids how to have FUN! :laughing: There's nothing like a little dose of Disney to make you feel better! :hug:

Confession time- I called you while I was at rope drop to see if you were there. Really poor timing on my part- as soon as you picked up, it got really noisy and I couldn't hear anything. I couldn't tell if you were there or not. I did see your DH and Seth when I was getting off Toy Story. I went straight down to Rock N Roller Coaster, then back to Toy Story. I bet we were on the same street at the same time. It was pretty crowded though.

Hmmm, did I pick up the phone? When I got home I think there was something on the machine and I checked the caller ID and I saw your name. I think my cell forwarded the call to my house and maybe you got the answering machine with Jayden's voice. :confused3 Weird. I bet you saw Mike and Seth when they were picking up the fast passes and we were at HSM. You should've followed them or said something!

Oh I love all the pictures and videos! Lily was so cute with Sully. I love all the clothes. Luke can really bust a move. Hahaha. I laughed watching Seth stuff all that confetti in his pocket. And that Jayden is just a cutie....how fun that she got to spend some time with her BFF!!

Loving your TR!

Thanks Beth! Seth has a thing about collecting confetti. It started on our Disney cruise. It got to the point where the kids club CMs would help him. :rotfl:

[jessica52877]

I always pick up confetti from the parades! Just makes for something fun to add to the pictures. I got a little sitting right next to me from US from Xmas. Guess I should put it away or move it or something!

Hoarding shirts is a good thing. I tried to go to old navy online today and buy more but they only have the biggest sizes in brown and green. For some reason my 2 closest old navy have NO brown shirts anymore. :rolleyes1

Stacy, you didn't call me! I would have answered! Of course I KNOW we didn't get to DHS until around noon. And now I know why all the TSM fastpasses were gone! Jeanne and family took them! Or maybe it was all those :cheer2:

[Cherlynn25]

The TOT picture is great! Love it!
Also LOVE the pic of Lily running to sulley. That is priceless! Great trip report so far =)

[sohappy]

I always pick up confetti from the parades! Just makes for something fun to add to the pictures. I got a little sitting right next to me from US from Xmas. Guess I should put it away or move it or something!

Hoarding shirts is a good thing. I tried to go to old navy online today and buy more but they only have the biggest sizes in brown and green. For some reason my 2 closest old navy have NO brown shirts anymore. :rolleyes1

Stacy, you didn't call me! I would have answered! Of course I KNOW we didn't get to DHS until around noon. And now I know why all the TSM fastpasses were gone! Jeanne and family took them! Or maybe it was all those :cheer2:

You guys forget that I am the girl that doesn't sleep. We were all out late the night before. I didn't know who would be up that early, but Jeanne mentioned that they were going to rope drop. I made it to rope drop, but didn't have any buddies. It was really fine though. I did a few rides and left- I was PARANOID about missing my flight. . .again.

[Tnkrbelle565]

Hoarding shirts is a good thing. I tried to go to old navy online today and buy more but they only have the biggest sizes in brown and green. For some reason my 2 closest old navy have NO brown shirts anymore. :rolleyes1



Want me to check my Old Navy? What size do you need? Kids or adults?

[lovesdumbo]

Loving your TR!!!!

[scottny]

great updates and pics.

Love that you got away with getting the pic. It is a great one. :thumbsup2

Looks like a really fun day.

[t-beri]

Ok. In defense of myself, I was caught up to the photopass pics, I just somehow missed the mac/megan discussion. Of course he says...Can't you see I'm leaning the other way?:thumbsup2

Lily's face on TOT is so great! I don't think I would have had the nerve to take Little. She is not big on surprises:scared1:

Of course all of the kids outfits are adorable. And Lily must be much braver than Little because she wouldn't go anywhere near Lightning and Mater. So our pics from Radiator Springs are just of Mac and B.:sad2: But we tried to get both kids in for a pic for my inlaws, FIL is a "car guy"

I'll try not to fall behind again, I wouldn't want you to get the impression that I dont' care:snooty:

[MouseTriper]

Thanks Beth! Seth has a thing about collecting confetti. It started on our Disney cruise. It got to the point where the kids club CMs would help him. :rotfl: How funny!!!

[jessica52877]

popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::

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[MouseTriper]

popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::

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I agree...lol.....popcorn::popcorn::popcorn:: :lmao:

[jham]

Today’s Florida Weather: High Temperature 77 degrees, sigh, does it get any better? Precipitation, 0

That’s right, it was a GORGEOUS day. :cloud9: We got up early for our 8am breakfast ADRs at Tusker House and walked over to the bus stop. I was a little concerned after yesterday’s bus nightmare, in fact I had called the front desk the night before to see if there would be a bus to get us there that early, The woman on the phone told me “hakuna matata” which made me laugh. Indeed it was a hakuna matata kind of day. Our bus arrived within 5 minutes and we were on our way to my 2nd favorite park, Animal Kingdom. We were walking toward the entrance when I called our friends and they were just behind us getting off their bus.

A very squinty, suninoureyes sort of photo:

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When our friends were planning their trip we had already made ADRs so they made a new breakfast reservation for all 11 of us. Then my sister planned her trip, so she used our original ADR so we all had breakfast at the same time…not exactly together. My sister and her family happened to get seated in a different room. You didn’t ask to be seated by us, did you Cathy? :snooty: So we stopped and had our photo taken.

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I think I was reading a TR of scottny’s (hi Scott!) :wave2: When I decided I wanted to do the character breakfast at Tusker House. I’m glad we did! It was great. We had fun. The kids sat at one table and the adults at another. :scared: As I mentioned, my sister’s family were in another part of the restaurant. :confused3 You may notice in the photos that this limited adult supervision at the kid table resulted in some interesting plates of food. I apologize for the apparent waste of Mickey waffles. I’m sure that was Seth’s. Wait! Actually it kinda looks like Pal Mickey is to blame! The juice actually lived up to expectations, it was yummy! I had to alternate it with Diet Coke though to get the morning caffeine flowing. :thumbsup2

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The kids joined the characters and CMs in a parade. Hey, this child looks familiar! Where did she come from? :confused3

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When we finished breakfast the park was just opening so our first move was to hop in the quick line for the safari. Even though my photos on this ride never turn out, no matter what setting my camera is on, I still take them. :sad2: Every time. I'll just share this one because I think it is funny. Luke's head and a rhino's...uhm...tail. :rotfl:

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[jham]

As we walked off the safari we wandered over to the Pangani Forest Trail. We had never done this before. It was okay. I do not know why I don't have any pictures. Feel free to post some Cathy! DH had to race off to EE with everyone’s tickets to pick up FPs. We told him where to find us, but he decided instead to stay at EE and ride it over and over again until WE found HIM. :sad2: So a few potty trips and phone calls later and we were all at EE. Where we rode it. Again and again. Now I enjoy this ride and probably went on it 4 or 5 times the entire trip, but when DH loves a ride, he wants to do it over and over again. We rode in shifts because of the small children and...um…scared people (who shall remain nameless). :scared: I didn’t mind too much, but I think the people we were with were thinking ENOUGH ALREADY! I think Jayden managed to go on with every group. She said she went 7 times. Finally nearly everyone had had enough of EE, some had had way too much, and we walked on over to the Dinosaur ride. I offered to sit out with Lily. When Luke found out we were going to wait at the Boneyard he decided to come with us. Not sure where my sister and niece went.

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When they got off the ride, the rest of the kids wanted to play for a while. I told the girls I’d let them get their faces painted so I decided now would be a great time. Jayden said no, she wanted to go to the playground with her friend. I said, and I did, no matter what her side of the story is, :snooty: “then you won’t get your face painted, because I’m not waiting in line twice.” So off I went with Lily.

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what is up with those people in the background?

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I'd say she was pretty pleased. She does this with her lips whenever she has lip gloss on. That girl LOOOOOVES her some lip gloss!

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Now I had never seen Festival of the Lion King and it was my one “must do” of the day, so once we got all 9 kids out of the playground (no small feat, trust me, it took more than one search and rescue team) I dragged everyone off to FLK. We managed to arrive just in time to be near the front of the line. Everyone was getting hot and tired and hungry. Too bad. Mama wants to see her show! We were seated in the Elephant section. As soon as we sat down, Lily fell asleep in my arms. Much like at the Beauty and the Beast show the day before, she woke up when the show started and loved every minute of it. We all liked the show. At the end Lily and one of my friend’s sons (Luke’s friend) got picked to go out and dance around. Lily was happy to go even though she was still a bit slow and sleepy.

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Here's a video to make up for the really bad pictures.

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[jham]

After the show, we broke out the snacks and started working our way over to Kali River Rapids. We stopped to get some photopass photos.

How cute are these matchy kids?

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apparently Lily's Simba cradling skillz weren't up to par because those photos never showed up. :confused3

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Now here developed a new problem. Luke suddenly decided that every time Lily would get out of the stroller, he would steal her spot. He said he was too tired to walk. So Lily would walk until she got to tired but he wouldn’t get out of the stroller, so we sat her on top of him thinking that would change his mind. It didn’t. He didn’t care if she was sitting on him.

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Now usually I don’t like getting soaking wet on rides. I don’t do river rides without a poncho. And yet here we were at Kali River Rapids, no poncho, I went. It was kind of hot out, Lily was big enough to go so I had no excuse to sit out, and my friend was going, so why not? We get on our raft and joke around that my friend’s DH was a “water magnet” and he was going to get wet hahahaha. Two hot, scantily clad college girls got on our raft. They didn’t speak English and the CM kept trying to tell them to put their stuff in the covered thing in the middle and they just didn’t understand so someone had to grab their stuff and do it for them. Surely, they’d be the ones to get wet. Hahahahahah. I’m sure you can tell by now that my friend and I were SOAKED as was Lily. Everyone else was pretty dry. My friend’s DH had maybe 3 drops of water on him total. UGH!

After that we…umm…went on EE again, a couple of times.

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We decided to go over to It’s Tough To Be a Bug. I love looking at the Tree of Life.

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After Bug’s Life we split up. Our friends went off in search of a churro and eventually dry clothes, my sister’s family and ours stayed for the parade. I hate sitting on the hard ground when I’m wearing crocs. Those little black rivets that hold the strap on just dig into the sides of my feet! Then of course at least one or two children have to sit on my lap to add their weight to the problem. Ouch!

Can anyone spy a stranger in a custom in the photo? There were two matchy sisters in fact. They looked very cute!

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[jham]

After the parade we intended to go to DTD for our dinner ressies at T-Rex, but I was still wet, at least the inner layers… so we hopped the bus back to our hotel for a quick change,

at POR:

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then took the boat to DTD. My niece was done for the day so my sister and her family stayed at the resort. We met up with our friends. They got there before us so they waited in the huge check-in line, actually I think there were 2 lines to wait in, but other than that we did not have to wait. Yay for reservations! (That I made directly with the restaurant over the phone some weeks ago).

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We loved it here! Of course having 4 dinosaur-loving boys aged 5-9 didn’t hurt. We had a boy’s table and a girl’s table.

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We were seated in the ice cave. It kept glowing red during the meteor showers which made our food look really weird. (I never did figure out if those were olives or tomatoes in my salad.)

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Most of the food was very good, some was meh (Wolly Mammoth Chicken was kind of bland, it sounded a lot better than it tasted). Service at the boys table started to get pretty ugly. They had to wait a loooooooooooong time for their entrees. The DHs got this appetizer that they LOVED. My DH said it was the best thing he ate on the trip: "Triassic Tuna - Ahi tuna diced in a soy and lime marinade with mango and avocado, served on wontons with wasabi aioli and a Thai chili sauce." The boys also got this for dessert: "Chocolate Extinction - A gigantic portion of chocolate fudge cake served with ice cream, fresh whipped cream drizzled with fudge and caramel sauces and sprinkled with Butterfinger crumbs. Enough for two or more." It served the whole boys table. And maybe some of the girls snuck over for a bite…:thumbsup2

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We were tired and ready to go home, but not without a little shopping first! Luke was due some Legos and I wanted a birthday shirt. I went to the make-your-own tee shirt place and started working on a design when an employee told me it wouldn’t be done until tomorrow and I’d have to come back then to pick it up. That wasn’t going to happen, so I went over to WoD to see if they had any birthday shirts. They said no. I was bummed! But I looked around anyway and found…A BIRTHDAY SHIRT! Which I looked awful in, but you’ll see plenty of that coming up in DAY 5: Happy Birthday to ME!

[Tnkrbelle565]

FUN!!! Updates! Love all the pics of the kids in their customs. Aisling asked if I made all of them. OH silly naive Aisling :rotfl2::lmao::rotfl: She said: those kids look FABULOUS!

Who can ride EE 7 times in a row? I've gotten over the fear of EE, but I don't think I could do it 7 times!

Love Luke and the rhino tail!

What is on the boys' table at TRex? Is it some kind of dry ice thing? It's really neat!

[jessica52877]

The dessert looks so yummy! I should have followed suit and made reservations for the evening there. I think it would be fun.

I love the way Mike is just like a kid! I bet he is alot of fun to be married to. Dallas also loves the playground!

All the shirts and pictures with them all are so cute! I also like the picture of Mike and Jayden at the hotel!

[t-beri]

What a great day for AK!! I LOVE those perfect AK days. Good weather, light crowds...:thumbsup2 You know AK is quickly becoming my 2nd favorite park. I can't quite bring myself to forsake MK;) But we've had some really great days at AK the last 2 years. It is definitely my favorite park to tour sans kids.

I'm sorry you didn't get to sit w/ your sisters family too but I'm sure you had a wonderful dinner. We love the tusker house, partially b/c my inlaws don't like to eat at the Marrakesh and Tusker House has the same veggie cous cous so I don't feel like I missed out (except for the Moroccan mint iced tea)

How adorable were all the matchy matchy kids?!?!?!:cutie: Man, you must have been sewing your little heart out. You friends are so lucky!!!:thumbsup2

And I'm proud of you for braving the river rapids without a poncho. We make fun of those people:hug:

[Stephres]

Those are some cute matching kids!

Megan is forever picking up the confetti while Jacob lectures her on germs and grossness. She can be Seth's confetti buddy.

My silly husband insists on taking pictures on the safari. I finally got smart and bought some postcards and put them in our scrapbook. See, we saw a giraffe!

[Tnkrbelle565]

And I'm proud of you for braving the river rapids without a poncho. We make fun of those people:hug:

that's so funny! We make fun of the people who WEAR the ponchos :rotfl2:

[MouseTriper]

Loved the update!!! The pictures of the kids with all their matching shirts are my fav!!! I have never been on EE. Hopefully I can conjure up the courage during our next trip...whenever that may be!

We ate at T-Rex last December and loved it.

Ohh I can't wait to see your birthday shirt and hear all about your special day!

The next installment is coming very soon, right??? LOL

[kimmylaj]

everyone looked adorable in their matching clothes, as far as your hubby riding ee and you had to find him....i would be one cranky lady, but thats how i am. the face painting looked great, my kids never want that so it saves some money, but i really like it. and kudos to you for getting all those kids out of the playground...that is one impressive feat

[jham]

FUN!!! Updates! Love all the pics of the kids in their customs. Aisling asked if I made all of them. OH silly naive Aisling :rotfl2::lmao::rotfl: She said: those kids look FABULOUS!

Who can ride EE 7 times in a row? I've gotten over the fear of EE, but I don't think I could do it 7 times!

Love Luke and the rhino tail!

What is on the boys' table at TRex? Is it some kind of dry ice thing? It's really neat!

Jayden has always been a fearless thrill-seeker! :scared1: The boys' volcano/dry ice thing was the countdown to extinction dessert :thumbsup2

The dessert looks so yummy! I should have followed suit and made reservations for the evening there. I think it would be fun.

I love the way Mike is just like a kid! I bet he is alot of fun to be married to. Dallas also loves the playground!

All the shirts and pictures with them all are so cute! I also like the picture of Mike and Jayden at the hotel!

You should have joined us Jessica! You could've sat at the much calmer girls table! I guess we'll have to go back...

What a great day for AK!! I LOVE those perfect AK days. Good weather, light crowds...:thumbsup2 You know AK is quickly becoming my 2nd favorite park. I can't quite bring myself to forsake MK;) But we've had some really great days at AK the last 2 years. It is definitely my favorite park to tour sans kids.

I'm sorry you didn't get to sit w/ your sisters family too but I'm sure you had a wonderful dinner. We love the tusker house, partially b/c my inlaws don't like to eat at the Marrakesh and Tusker House has the same veggie cous cous so I don't feel like I missed out (except for the Moroccan mint iced tea)

How adorable were all the matchy matchy kids?!?!?!:cutie: Man, you must have been sewing your little heart out. You friends are so lucky!!!:thumbsup2

And I'm proud of you for braving the river rapids without a poncho. We make fun of those people:hug:

Hey, I don't mind getting made fun of, I only mind being soaking wet!

Those are some cute matching kids!

Megan is forever picking up the confetti while Jacob lectures her on germs and grossness. She can be Seth's confetti buddy.

My silly husband insists on taking pictures on the safari. I finally got smart and bought some postcards and put them in our scrapbook. See, we saw a giraffe!

:rotfl: I know, we have a seasons pass to the zoo and I finally stopped taking pictures every time we went!

that's so funny! We make fun of the people who WEAR the ponchos :rotfl2:

Like I said, I don't mind getting made fun of for wearing a poncho. In fact I make fun of people who walk around the parks with a soggy wedgie. :lmao::snooty:

Loved the update!!! The pictures of the kids with all their matching shirts are my fav!!! I have never been on EE. Hopefully I can conjure up the courage during our next trip...whenever that may be!

We ate at T-Rex last December and loved it.

Ohh I can't wait to see your birthday shirt and hear all about your special day!

The next installment is coming very soon, right??? LOL

I can't believe you haven't ridden it! Doesn't Taylor like the fast rides? I'm not even sure I have a decent picture of the Birthday shirt :rolleyes1

everyone looked adorable in their matching clothes, as far as your hubby riding ee and you had to find him....i would be one cranky lady, but thats how i am. the face painting looked great, my kids never want that so it saves some money, but i really like it. and kudos to you for getting all those kids out of the playground...that is one impressive feat

Oh, did I forget to mention I was cranky? I had expected him to join us on the Pagnini Forest trail to help me keep track of 4 kids running in opposite directions. I ended up having to leave Seth with my sister. Some were running ahead and some were lagging behind. :headache: And that was BEFORE I found out that while I was trying to keep track of all the kids, he was RIDING EE! More than once even! I was bummed Jayden didn't get her face painted. So was she. :laughing: But we didn't have time to stop for face painting every time someone got the urge! Now if they had a face painting station right next to EE, that would be another story!

[HeatherSue]

I love all the matchy-matchy and mickey heads in the picture outside of Tusker House!

WOW! That's a lot of Mickey waffles and a whole bowl of syrup? :rotfl: Didn't you feed Pal Mickey any other day?

LOVE the Luke and the rhino picture! :lmao:

SEVEN times on EE???

I can't believe how nice it was at AK! This was just a few days after we were there wearing winter coats, hats, and gloves, and wishing for some snow pants!

Lily looks so pretty with her face painted up! Those people in the background are hilarous!

How cute are those matchy kids? Very, very, very cute!

I can relate to the stroller problems with Luke and Lily. But, Tessa threw a fit when we put Sawyer in with her. We almost left the park because she was acting so naughty!

EE TWO more times??

What is Luke riding on in that picture?

Awww..that's a cute little girl in the covert customs picture.

Does that sign by the dino bones that Luke is climbing on say "Please don't climb" or something to that extent? :rotfl:

That's an awesome dessert!

that's so funny! We make fun of the people who WEAR the ponchos :rotfl2:

Oh yeah, well see-through pants aren't too attractive, either! :rotfl: I know this from experience. :rolleyes1

[jham]

I love all the matchy-matchy and mickey heads in the picture outside of Tusker House!

WOW! That's a lot of Mickey waffles and a whole bowl of syrup? :rotfl: Didn't you feed Pal Mickey any other day?

LOVE the Luke and the rhino picture! :lmao:

SEVEN times on EE???

I can't believe how nice it was at AK! This was just a few days after we were there wearing winter coats, hats, and gloves, and wishing for some snow pants!

Lily looks so pretty with her face painted up! Those people in the background are hilarous!

How cute are those matchy kids? Very, very, very cute!

I can relate to the stroller problems with Luke and Lily. But, Tessa threw a fit when we put Sawyer in with her. We almost left the park because she was acting so naughty!

EE TWO more times??

What is Luke riding on in that picture?

Awww..that's a cute little girl in the covert customs picture.

Does that sign by the dino bones that Luke is climbing on say "Please don't climb" or something to that extent? :rotfl:

That's an awesome dessert!



Oh yeah, well see-through pants aren't too attractive, either! :rotfl: I know this from experience. :rolleyes1


I KNOW! What a difference a few days makes! I wish you'd still been there! That sign on the dinosaur says "no video photography allowed" (seriously, how can they actually enforce that? That is outside the restaurant right in the middle of DTD) but climbing is okay. :thumbsup2

[MouseTriper]

I can't believe you haven't ridden it! Doesn't Taylor like the fast rides? I'm not even sure I have a decent picture of the Birthday shirt :rolleyes1

Nope, never been on it. Taylor actually has a heart murmur and our Dr. told us to not take her on the fast rides. She is supposed to grow out of it but so far hasn't.

Oh come on, you must have one picture of your new Disney Birthday shirt!! I am sure you look as cute as ever in it.

[revrob]

GREAT update! EE 7 times - what a GREAT day! I think I need to try Tusker House and T-Rex now too!

[jenb1023]

Great update!

Love the matching shirts and customs! Great job! You got some really good photopass and other photos considering how many kids you were trying to get a photo of.

Glad to hear you enjoyed Lion King. We really like it! (Just ignore that certain disboutiquer who has a thing against FOTLK. :lmao:)

I have one kid and would be mad if DH deserted me to ride EE multiple times. Leaving you with four kids by yourself on that trail - :scared1:!

DD and I are poncho wearers on Kali - so what it the tally on ponchos vs no ponchos so far?

Looking forward to the next update! I hope it is as long, action-packed and photo-filled as this one.

[Tnkrbelle565]

Nope, never been on it. Taylor actually has a heart murmur and our Dr. told us to not take her on the fast rides. She is supposed to grow out of it but so far hasn't.

WHAT? I have a heart murmur and my dr never told me this? Oh well! I survived! But I won't ever do Mission Space again. I could barely catch my breath when I got off it.

[maroo]

WHAT? I have a heart murmur and my dr never told me this? Oh well! I survived! But I won't ever do Mission Space again. I could barely catch my breath when I got off it.


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[maroo]

I love your TR!! The detail is amazing! The waffles all piled up cracked me up. The matching outfits are wonderful.

Sounds like you guys really like you some EE! :lmao:

I am right there with you!!! :thumbsup2 :thumbsup2

[MouseTriper]

WHAT? I have a heart murmur and my dr never told me this? Oh well! I survived! But I won't ever do Mission Space again. I could barely catch my breath when I got off it.

Hmmm...not sure, maybe it's because of her age? I don't really know. I can't remember who but someone else told me they never heard this either but being her Mommy, I refuse to take any chances. Taylor doesn't seem to really care at this point so all is good. Her favorite rides ever are...and in this order....Peter Pan, Haunted Mansion and Pirates of Caribbean. Lol!!!

[jessica52877]

popcorn::

My popcorn is getting old and not so tasty anymore! :rotfl:

I know you love to :surfweb: and :laundy: and celebrating :flower3: today but I need something to read since there is nothing on :happytv: and Dallas is at :teacher: .

[jham]

Oh crap! I haven't finished yet? And it's my birthday day too! I'll get on that!

[Mushu187]

The kids joined the characters and CMs in a parade. Hey, this child looks familiar! Where did she come from? :confused3



Ummmm, she came from the other side of the room. :rolleyes1 I guess you never noticed, but we were just across the room from you. They were herding everyone in so fast that it was impossible to get a table next to you.

And the juice was very good - guava, pineapple & mango. It brought back memories.

[jham]

Ummmm, she came from the other side of the room. :rolleyes1 I guess you never noticed, but we were just across the room from you. They were herding everyone in so fast that it was impossible to get a table next to you.

And the juice was very good - guava, pineapple & mango. It brought back memories.

well make me some! I'm going back to look at my photos, the only time I ever saw you was at the food tables!

[jham]

Today's Weather: High 82 degrees, precipation, a big fat 0 :banana::banana::banana:

So we got off to a rough start this morning. Seth did NOT want to get up and get dressed. He wanted to sit in bed playing Legos. We had ressies at BBB for the girls at 8:10 and the boys at 8:30. We had to get moving! Needless to say, there was some arguing and maybe a little yelling. Have I mentioned I HATE being late? We made it out the door and I led the way to the bus stop. DH was at the back of the line. Waaaay back apparently. While we were waiting I got a few bus stop photos:

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Somehow Seth, who was somewhere between the two of us, took a wrong turn and got lost. When DH showed up at the bus stop without him, I sent him back to look. He returned saying he couldn’t find him. AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! :scared1: What to do? The bus of course arrived right then and was our only chance at making our ressies. Lily was too little to have a turn last year and she’d been waiting a long time for this! I took the 3 kids and got on the bus while DH stayed to find Seth. I really didn't think it would take him long to find him and meet up with us. I called my sister thinking if he found his way, he would likely go to their room. I think I woke them up. :scared:

The whole time on the bus I was just sick to my stomach, calling DH every 5 minutes. I was in tears. We got through the gates, everyone there was making a big fuss over Lily in her outfit and I was so stressed out and in tears I just pretty much ran through. We made it to the castle and still no Seth. :sad1: I was about to throw up. But still managed a couple of photos:

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Our friends met us at BBB. Jayden’s BFF had an appointment too. Before they called the girls back I got a phone call from Seth (on my sister’s phone). :yay: He had made it to their room and was fine but REALLLLLLY MAD. :mad::headache::mad::headache::mad: I called DH and he called off the POR security team…:scared: I don’t know how they did it but within 20 minutes they were at BBB and Seth got to get his Cool Dude hair. I don’t even want to imagine how mad he’d be if he’d missed that! It was a really bad start to my day. I didn’t even get a chance to stop off outside the gate and get my birthday gift card and birthday button! But the fairy godmothers in training took care of me and gave me a cool sparkly birthday button! When they found out it was my birthday they even offered to fit me in for a quick makeover. If I hadn’t been in such a miserable mood I would’ve taken them up on it.

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The boys loved their cool dude hair. I didn’t realize they got to pick out what colors of hair gel they wanted until I saw the pictures! All of their FGITs were really great, especially Lily’s she took lots of time to make sure she felt special and princessy. I took pictures of all of the princesses’ “real” crowns. I want a display like that in my house! The FGIT was impressed that I easily knew whose crown was whose. Apparently lots of people get confused on a few—not disers I’m sure!

Oops, skip ahead a couple of posts for crown photos!

After all the kids were all “maked up” as Lily would say, DH took the boys to go on some rides. My friend hopped the monorail back to the Poly to pack, and I took Jayden, Jayden’s BFF and Lily to the Exposition Hall for their BBB photo shoot! (and a quick trip out the gate to pick up my birthday gift card).

[jessica52877]

Oh no! A not so great start to your birthday.

Poor Seth. Poor Mike. Poor Mommy. I am sure you were not feeling so great having no idea where he was.

The girls look beautiful! I really like that they don't have on princess dresses. I am not much of a princess dress girl. I do like the disboutique cotton ones but no itchy shiny other ones.

Seth's hair looks cool! And I like Luke's shirt. I love the upclose of the skirt.

[maroo]

Oh no!!! What a horrible start to your birthday!

OH NO! A code ADAM! :scared1: I can't believe Seth got lost!

I got lost at Disney one time after a parade. For about 30 minutes. My parents previously told me to get to the highest place and wait if I ever got lost. One would think I wandered often? :confused3 So I stood on a bench for 30 minutes. :scared1: I can't imagine why no one even asked me where my parents were!

I am so glad you got a birthday button. And a sparkly one! :) Do you have a picture. I want to see a sparkly button! :)

[jham]

Forgot some pictures!

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Look, Seth's almost smiling again! :thumbsup2

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[kimmylaj]

poor seth, poor you. i cant even imagine. and how in the world did they get to the park in 20 minutes i am very impressed

[Stephres]

Oh, poor Mom! A couple of years ago we went to disney with Tom's cousin (the same family we went with this time). We put the girls down for a nap and Tom took Jacob to the pool. I was reading when the mom wandered out looking for the four year old. Apparently she woke up, saw her mom was napping and let herself out of the room! We were all freaking out trying to find her (we did eventually). That was the worst feeling, so I knew you must have felt sick. Megan slept through the entire eposide!

The kids are so cute maked up. I have to admit I do not whose crown is whose; do I get kicked off the DIS? Can't wait to hear more!

[jessica52877]

I think I could only name 4 of the crowns but the color of the pillows helped me out a ton!

[jessica52877]

popcorn::

[twob4him]

popcorn::Hey...stop sewing for a sec and update us!!!!! :goodvibes:goodvibes

[jham]

I figured if I resize all my photos I'll never finish, so huge photos it is! And lots of them!!!

I took the girls to Exposition Hall right after BBB to get their photos. I think we were the first ones there that day. I wasn't sure exactly where I was supposed to go, but we walked in the front door and were immediately greeted by several CMs, one of whom, Kari, led the girls back and got started taking photos. I have to say Kari was awesome!!! She had us all cracking up. She spent a lot of time trying to get Lily to stop making silly faces. She was so wonderful. :woohoo: By the time we left, a few girls had arrived and formed a line but that didn't make her rush us off at all.

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[jessica52877]

The girls are so cute. I like the ones of them together best. I love that I can sit here and look at every little detail on your shirts and shirts! You did such a good job! The ribbons and ric rac and appliques oh my!

[HeatherSue]

Oh my gosh!! I missed more than one update!! I thought you had taken a REALLY long time to update (like I have).

Here are my notes on your last 2 updates:

I hate being late, too!

Oh NO!! Seth got lost. I feel so bad for you, being so worried about him, but trying to get to the BBB.

Awwww....the kids look so adorable after their makeovers!!! I prefer Luke's cool dude this year over last years!

Seth's "almost" smiling! :rotfl:

I am so ashamed! I don't know who's crown belongs to who!

Those are some pretty pictures of Lily! How great that someone tried to help you get her to stop making facings- and she didn't rush you!

Oh, I love the picture of Jayden and Lily looking at each other!

Jayden looks so pretty in these pictures, too!

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I can't wait until October!!!

[maroo]

Those are some of the BEST BBB pictures I have ever seen!

Many of those pics looked forced...do you know what I mean?

You children are beautiful and I love the pics! :love:

And thanks for the update!!! :) We are still here reading! :thumbsup2

[twob4him]

Gorgeousness! All gorgeousness! I love the BBB pics! Those outfits are awesome too!! What a great photoshoot! :cool1::thumbsup2

[scottny]

Hi,
All caught up.

Love the photopass pics.

Glad you liked Tusker House, my favorite character breakfast.

Sorry your birthday got off to a rough start.

[jham]

Hi,
All caught up.

Love the photopass pics.

Glad you liked Tusker House, my favorite character breakfast.

Sorry your birthday got off to a rough start.

thanks Scott, it was your TR that convinced me I needed to have breakfast there!

[jelloarms]

I found your TR after reading your friend's one. I can't remember her name at the moment but her daughter is set to marry your son. Great stuff! You are such a talented seamstress.

So I'm looking at the picture of the princess crowns at BBB and I seriously have no idea who's his whos. Does the color of the pillows have to do with anything? Because from there I can figure it out but if not...then...maybe you could give me some hints?:)

[scottny]

popcorn::

[jham]

I'm editing photos in photobucket, hopefully I'll get an update posted today and get this thing finished up! I still have a lot to go!

[jessica52877]

Whoo hoo! I have been waiting!!!

[jham]

Sorry it has taken me forever to update! I really just wanted my birthday to last forever! :thumbsup2

After the photo shoot we walked back up Main Street…

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… and stopped for some photopass photographers.

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The girls and I had a little time before we met the boys and my friend for lunch. They just wanted to hang out near the castle so we stopped and got a drink and some cookies for a snack, then went and rode the carousel.

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The girls were hoping to get Cinderella’s horse and did their best to reach it first but some adult woman ran and grabbed it first, sat on it, the started yelling at some kids “COME ON! I GOT CINDERELLA’S HORSE FOR YOU!” but the kids weren’t interested so she sat there. :mad:

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After that we went and saw Philharmagic.

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We walked over to Tinkerbell’s Treasures and Lily got to ring the bell and call Tink! :banana::banana::banana:

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Afterward we walked out and saw the Fairy Godmother herself! So we waited in a not-too-long line to meet her. It was a little windy, just in that one spot.

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Lily played in the fountain and the rest of the gang showed up (and right on time! I was so happy! I love it when people are on time) :cool1:

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[jham]

It was just about time for our ressies at CRT.

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We had separate reservations from my friend and her DD but when we checked in we asked if we might be able to be seated near each other. To our surprise they sat us all together! :cheer2: It was nice to sit down and relax with a diet coke and admire (okay steal) the castle confetti on the table. :thumbsup2

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I had my favorite, Majordomo Pie. It was yummy! :cloud9: I’m sure I have tons of princess photos around here somewhere but I must’ve forgotten to put them into photobucket and if I go back now, I won’t get this update done!

Little girls, big desserts:

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Mmmm…chocolate crown

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And I got two desserts! (ummm...I didn't ask for them! They just brought them, I swear!

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We then went on some rides.

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Lily and I waited at the Splash Mountain playground.

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And never mind the two desserts I just had, it wouldn’t be my birthday at Disneyworld without one of these!

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[jham]

Before we knew it it was time to head over to the Grand Floridian for our dinner reservations at 1900 Park Fair. I was really looking forward to this meal, but I must say we were all soooo tired! Character interaction was okay, but not as great as I’d expected. I had ordered a birthday cake about a week before and I reminded our waitress. She said she didn’t have a cake ordered but she would see what she could do. She couldn’t guarantee anything. UGH! I had totally ordered it in advance.

One of the stepsisters told Jayden she really needed to wash her shirt and get that big stain out of it :lmao::rotfl2::rotfl:

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The strawberry soup tasted just like the strawberry cream frosting I used to have every year on my angel food birthday cake! :cloud9:

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I think my girls were a little smitten! :lovestruc:lovestruc

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Finally my cake arrived! I have to say it was delicious! And just the right size for everyone to have a couple of bites.

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We were all full and happy and tired. But it was my birthday and dangit! We were going to Wishes! So we got back on the monorail and went back to the MK for Wishes. Seth had to try on some ears along the way.

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It was a lovely ending to a day that had a rough beginning!

Up next, Day 6: Epcot and Le Cellier

[twob4him]

Wow that was an awesome day!!! I just love the photoshoot and the customs are adorable! Wow lunch at the castle...and I love the family photo with Lily holding Cinderellas hand and Luke with his arms around lily....so precious!!!
Then rides then dinner at 1900 Park Fair then Wishes...wow what a busy but fun filled day...so glad the cake came though...its beautiful! :banana:

[revrob]

That cake looked YUMMY! I want a bite! Maybe I should order a cake for our next trip. We're not gonna be there on an actual birthday, but we can celebrate Robert's birthday if it means we can order cake, right?

[jessica52877]

I am tired just reading about your day! I love all the girls matching and the hair do's on all!

I also love how cute you are. The picture of you and Luke is my favorite. Glad the day turned out well! All the desserts are making me a bit full! But yummy!

[emcreative]

Subbing!!!

(Maybe I missed it, where did Lily get those awesome Minnie Mouse sunglasses?!??!)

[disneymommieof2]

What a Fun Birthday Jeanne!
I love the family picture with luke putting his arms around lily! What a sweet brother! And I'm sure your DH really appreciates that lily ruffle head picture! The things daddys do for their daughters! And I know have a total chocolate craving thank you very much! All those desserts looked so yummy!

[teresajoy]

Hey, what a fun day you had! That little cake is so pretty!!! What did it taste like? I loved the Strawberry Soup! Mmm.... now I'm getting hungry!

[PrincessLeighsDaddy]

What a great way to spend your birthday! Never can have too many desserts! Calories DON'T count at WDW!

I loved the picture of Mike with Lily on his shoulders! All that fluffy petti surrounding him! Been there... done that! :goodvibes

All the girls customs were fantastic! You did a great job! And that straberry soup is delish!!

[Stephres]

Cute pictures! I ordered a cake once for Megan's birthday and they lost that order too. At least you got yours, it looked yummy!

[minnie2]

What a great bday!
You know Cindy looks like she could fit right into your family!

[HeatherSue]

I can never figure out which one is Cinderella's horse! What should I look for?

How cool that Lily got to call Tink!!

That picture of Jayden and Lily with Cinderella cracks me up. It almost looks like she's talking through her teeth to Lily "Get over here, kid."

Your desserts look DELICIOIUS!!! MMMMMM........

Yep, you're my kind of girl! Three desserts! YOU GO!

That strawberry soup looks fantastic! I didn't get any when we were there and I've been kicking myself ever since (which isn't a good idea, considering all the bruises I've left. ;))

No, FOUR desserts!!! Oh, more chocolate!! MMMMM...... What was inside of that cake? It looks SO good! When we went to 1900 Park Fare, they had these brownies that were more like a piece of fudge. Heaven on earth, I tell yah! :cloud9:

:rotfl: Love Mike's petti-wig!! :lmao:

[jham]

Wow that was an awesome day!!! I just love the photoshoot and the customs are adorable! Wow lunch at the castle...and I love the family photo with Lily holding Cinderellas hand and Luke with his arms around lily....so precious!!!
Then rides then dinner at 1900 Park Fair then Wishes...wow what a busy but fun filled day...so glad the cake came though...its beautiful! :banana:

Thanks, it was a busy day! I'm glad they "found" a cake for me too!

That cake looked YUMMY! I want a bite! Maybe I should order a cake for our next trip. We're not gonna be there on an actual birthday, but we can celebrate Robert's birthday if it means we can order cake, right?

I think you should get a cake even if there is nothing to celebrate! :thumbsup2

I am tired just reading about your day! I love all the girls matching and the hair do's on all!

I also love how cute you are. The picture of you and Luke is my favorite. Glad the day turned out well! All the desserts are making me a bit full! But yummy!

You are funny. I don't think cute is the word :rotfl:

Subbing!!!

(Maybe I missed it, where did Lily get those awesome Minnie Mouse sunglasses?!??!)

We got them from one of the little pin carts that are everywhere. They matched her so well she HAD to have them, right? I think that outfit comes up in the last day.

What a Fun Birthday Jeanne!
I love the family picture with luke putting his arms around lily! What a sweet brother! And I'm sure your DH really appreciates that lily ruffle head picture! The things daddys do for their daughters! And I know have a total chocolate craving thank you very much! All those desserts looked so yummy!

Thanks Anna!

Hey, what a fun day you had! That little cake is so pretty!!! What did it taste like? I loved the Strawberry Soup! Mmm.... now I'm getting hungry!

It was rich and creamy and chocolatey...:cloud9:

What a great way to spend your birthday! Never can have too many desserts! Calories DON'T count at WDW!

I loved the picture of Mike with Lily on his shoulders! All that fluffy petti surrounding him! Been there... done that! :goodvibes

All the girls customs were fantastic! You did a great job! And that straberry soup is delish!!

If calories don't count at WDW why am I still wearing them? :rotfl2: I think they don't count on your birthday either :thumbsup2 It takes a good daddy to do the pettiskirt shoulder ride! :laughing:

Cute pictures! I ordered a cake once for Megan's birthday and they lost that order too. At least you got yours, it looked yummy!

They didn't give her anything??? That is so wrong! Poor little Megan!

What a great bday!
You know Cindy looks like she could fit right into your family!

:rotfl:

I can never figure out which one is Cinderella's horse! What should I look for?

How cool that Lily got to call Tink!!

That picture of Jayden and Lily with Cinderella cracks me up. It almost looks like she's talking through her teeth to Lily "Get over here, kid."

Your desserts look DELICIOIUS!!! MMMMMM........

Yep, you're my kind of girl! Three desserts! YOU GO!

That strawberry soup looks fantastic! I didn't get any when we were there and I've been kicking myself ever since (which isn't a good idea, considering all the bruises I've left. ;))

No, FOUR desserts!!! Oh, more chocolate!! MMMMM...... What was inside of that cake? It looks SO good! When we went to 1900 Park Fare, they had these brownies that were more like a piece of fudge. Heaven on earth, I tell yah! :cloud9:

:rotfl: Love Mike's petti-wig!! :lmao:

Cinderella's horse has a gold ribbon tied (I mean painted) on it's tail. Or just look for the adult woman mowing down small children as she flings herself on it. :thumbsup2 You will have to try strawberry soup next time! I'll bet I could make it. I think my strawberry cream frosting recipe is in my facebook notes.

[Mushu187]

You forgot how the Nic and Seth were "directing / conducting" the fire work show. The fireworks are very important!! :tink:

[Mushu187]

How many more posts do I have to do???

[Mushu187]

And again.:earsgirl:

[jenb1023]

Love the update and all of the photos!

[kimmylaj]

what a great update. crt and 1900 park fare . i am very jealous. i love the step sisters and lady tremaine. that would be the job for me in disney. and the girls look great. seems like an awesome you exhausting bday

[jham]

4 more posts Cathy, you need 10, just keep counting down...oh, that reminds me, Heathersue digitized a very cool Mushu for the embroidery machine! You need to learn to use my machine so you can embroider stuff for your kids! (Translation: I'm not embroidering stuff for your kids)

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26946256

[emcreative]

I can't wait to hear about Le Cellier! We have ressies there for Hubby's and my "just the two of us" anniversary dinner!!

[scottny]

great update and pics.

the desserts looked so good and boy can I go for a Dole Whip Float right now.

Can't wait to hear about Le Cellier, I just booked it for my October trip along with Cat Cora's new restaurant.

[AnnNan]

The Orlando Airport monorail:

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I deleted the wrong picture! Jayden on the monorail was so grown looking. She's beautiful!

Luke & Tessa cooperated for a great "first meeting picture!"

Here are some photopass pictures from Day 2:

Lilys and castles: (my Lily just saw these and said "It's Lily!") :rotfl:

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I love this sweet picture of Lilys!

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absolutely perfect! Love Lily's face & Jayden with her arm kind of around her!


We weren't too sure who's arms she was running to...there was some suspense...

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beautiful


again, I deleted the wrong pic! I loved the one of Jayden with her swan!


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great - coordinating - everybody smiling - group picture!
& I love this one of the kids - so great!

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this looks like such a fun pic of the kids!

Happy Birthday to ME!
Happy birthday!

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Loved the sweet sister pics after BBB!

Lily's pettiskirt looks so cute & fun in all these pictures! She looked "made over" before she ever got started at BBB!
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Love Luke with his arms around Lily - you always get the best pictures of him being sweet with her!

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I love Lily's face and your "smitten" girls!

Looks like everything to make a wonderful trip! I think I lost a couple of my fav pics but you had some fabulous pictures! Glad y'all had fun! & glad you found Seth!

[jham]

Ummm...you know you are taking forever to write a TR when you are looking at your photos and can't believe how young your kids look!
Today’s weather: Temperature High 82 degrees, precipitation 0 :cloud9:

I have a stunning lack of photos from this day! I have no idea where I went wrong. :confused3:

We headed off to Epcot. I think our first stop was Club Cool. My kids LOVE that place. We made sure Dnephew got to try some Beverly. :thumbsup2

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We next headed towards Living Seas and the Nemo ride, several potty stops later we actually arrived there. We went on Nemo and then went to Turtle Talk With Crush

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I was getting quite a headache from children behaving badly and NO CAFFEINE. :mad: I decided for the safety of myself and others to leave them all behind and go in search of a Diet Coke. Who knew I’d have to go clear to Sunshine Seasons to find one! I finally get my caffeine and a little ibuprofen and head back to find the family. As I approach the Living Seas I look for the stroller parked outside to drop something off. I searched and searched and no stroller! :headache: So I called DH who reports to me that they are all sitting down having lunch at…wait for it…Sunshine Seasons! UGH! Thanks for letting me know! SO I retraced my steps and met them back there WHERE I JUST WAS. Can you tell my mood wasn’t improving very well? :sad2: They were seriously halfway through lunch so I grabbed myself something to eat and my family so kindly squished their chairs around the table to find a space for me to join them. Now why couldn’t they have made a phone call to tell me what they were doing and saved me running around the park, looking for strollers, and (almost) having to eat alone? Don’t they know I’m the boss? Sheesh!

After lunch we rode Soarin’ and Livin’ With the Land. Love those rides! FINALLY Lily was tall enough to go on Soarin’! She loved it! She also loved Test Track.

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Somewhere along the way Luke lost a tooth! A CM told us to check with someone at our resort and they might have something special from the Tooth Fairy.:tinker:

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When we first arrived at Epcot I was wondering where DH was, then I saw him at the stroller rental buying himself an Epcot Passport. :love: We had dinner reservations at Le Cellier so we headed over that way and stopped at the Kidcot station so DH could get his passport stamped. The kids enjoyed the Sharpies as usual.

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We didn’t have to wait too long to be called in for our dinner reservation. I think we were all pretty tired. Can you tell who fell asleep before the food even arrived? princess:

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Other than one tired baby we had a really nice dinner! I got the filet and it was sooooooooo good! The cheese soup and breadsticks were yummy! I could live off cheese soup and breadsticks! Seth loved the steak kids’ meal but he wanted to try the filet mignon so I gave him a bite of mine. He has yet to stop talking about it. I swear it was the highlight of his trip!

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Dessert was meh.

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Lily slept soundly through the whole meal.

We then strolled over to England to get another stamp on the passport. I had never made it to that part of the park before and we loved the little shop. They had lots of cool books. I bought Lily a cute Charlie and Lola shirt. After that we went back to our resort for some sleep! We stopped off at the POR gift shop and DH went and talked to someone and they gave him a Tinkerbell pin and some confetti from the Tink toothfairy!

Overall it was kind of a tired grumpy day (well for me anyway) But we had a nice time. Le Cellier was great and it is a definite must do if we ever get back to Disneyworld!

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Up next Friday the 13th at MK and dinner at Ohanas.

[jessica52877]

Wow! I thought you had forgotten about your TR!! I am so glad you didn't! I enjoyed seeing all the smiling kids at Nemo with adorable Nemo outfits on!

I LOVE filet!!

I am not sure Dallas has been in club cool since being really young. I'll have to remember to take him in there!

Glad Lily was tall enough for Soarin'. Uh, the family could have called you to so you din't have to back track across Epcot!!

Love the "kids" getting the passport!

[minnie2]

YAy an update! Can't wait to hear about Friday the 13th! I LOVE Friday the 13th's!

[Tnkrbelle565]

You don't know how happy that made me to know that the Tooth Fairy comes to Disney! Aisling has two loose front teeth that I just KNOW are going to fall out at Disney when I'm ill-prepared!

[Mushu187]

It wasn't that bad of a day. Didn't we go on misson to mars or whatever it is called. I highly recomend the "orange" rather than the "green". Green isn't much different than star tours. :tink::tink:

[twob4him]

Hi Jeanne!
Darn it...don't family members know WE are in charge??? Sorry about your rought start to the morning but how awesome that you got to enjoy some great rides! So did Luke get anything from the tooth fairy?? That little Lily is one brave rider!
Le Cellier...:lovestruc:love:

[HeatherSue]

No picture of his first taste of Beverly? You are slacking!

Great action shot by the Turtle Talk sign!

How dare they eat without you!

I love that Mike bought himself a passport. He is so cute!

Cheese soup and breadsticks....YUMMMM!!

How cool that there's a tooth fairy at Disney! When we were there, I had told Tessa that Tinkerbell is the tooth fairy at Disney World. So, she was furiously trying to get her tooth to come out. It didn't come out until we got home, so Tinkerbell visited our house (since the tooth was already loose at Disney World).

[scottny]

great update and pics.

sorry your family left you for food.

I am trying Le Cellier for the first time in October, can't wait.

[jenb1023]

Yea for an update!

Yuck for headaches and no diet coke and families that eat without you!

It sounds like the day worked out okay though especially since Lily was tall enough for Soarin and Test Track. We loved Le Cellier!

That is good info on the tooth fairy though Jordan's tooth would never just pop out. She lets them hang by a thread for weeks until we make her let us wiggle it (which take an hour of convincing!).

[yinyanggirls]

I had to take a peek at your TR. I "met" Tessa's mom when I joined the DIS a couple months ago. She gave me hope that someday MY Tessa will outgrow all of the trouble she is into right now (age almost 4). I laughed out loud when you said that your Luke is just like her Tessa. Good luck with that. :rotfl: I only got through the first few posts, but it looks like a great trip report, and a fantastic birthday! (Happy 40 by the way:cheer2:)