1st trip as Mr. and Mrs. (lots of pics!) Updated 9/29: TR Link Posted!!

[stacikristine]

Guess what!!! Good news!

I'm going to get to go visit Michael at camp tonight! My dad just called and said his best friend (his wife is the children's minister, and they're like my second family) is going to visit tonight!! And my dad is driving down from OKC to meet us there. So I called Dodo (my dad's best friend--his real name is Duane, but I've called him Dodo since I was 2) and we're leaving here at 4! I texted my mom and told her not to tell Michael so I can surprise him. YAY!!! I can't wait. I'm pathetic. It's only been one night... But oh well! Pathetic I'll be. I'm still super excited!

Oh--and I've started working on the pages for my Disney Binder! I'll show you when it's finished. I'm trying to compile info for a quick itinerary/important number page right now.

Thanks so much for all the hugs and thoughts and prayers!! It's good to have DIS friends when my real ones aren't here!

 

[jenny105]

I think we're going to try for a ressie before 6. We usually eat pretty early. But who knows what will be available. Do you know when park times should be posted? And when can we find out what nights Fantasmic and Spectro are showing? It'll be here so soon! Thanks! I'm planning on it! I injured mine last summer and I have a feeling I'll always have to be careful now. Does any of your family have back problems?

The park hours should be posted sometime next week along with the schedules for Fantasmic and Spectro. I've been waiting for what feels like forever for them to post the Sept. hours so I can finalize my planning...somewhat. I'm indecisive and change everything around.

I don't think anyone in my family has back problems. It's always the same spot that hurts with mine. It cracks a lot too. Ouch.

I'm glad you get to go visit your hubby! Cute idea about surprising him too.

 

[Dancegrl624]

I had NO idea you were doing a PTR! Sorry I'm soooooo late to the game. You've been one of my most dedicated readers, so I most definately need to catch up on your PTR. Time to go read!

 

[stacikristine]

The park hours should be posted sometime next week along with the schedules for Fantasmic and Spectro. I've been waiting for what feels like forever for them to post the Sept. hours so I can finalize my planning...somewhat. I'm indecisive and change everything around.

I don't think anyone in my family has back problems. It's always the same spot that hurts with mine. It cracks a lot too. Ouch.

I'm glad you get to go visit your hubby! Cute idea about surprising him too.

YAY! I've been checking every day. I can't wait to actually have final plans! I know--I wish they would just hurry up and post them. I have my plan of what I'd like to do each day, but we'll see what the crowd levels are for that day... Ouch--back problems are soooo frustrating. I've been (well not this week b/c it hurts a lot) using an exercise ball to strengthen my core and it helps a lot. I'll just have to stay away from the flower beds for a while! It was soo good to visit him. He was SO surprised. He just sat there with his mouth open and then he came and gave me a huge hug. I'm so glad I was able to go!

I had NO idea you were doing a PTR! Sorry I'm soooooo late to the game. You've been one of my most dedicated readers, so I most definately need to catch up on your PTR. Time to go read!

Hey!! Thanks for reading! I love your PTR and Madison is just adorable...

 

[jewels1916]

Glad you got to surprise DH last night! I bet he was excited to see you!
I am laughing seeing you talk about waiting for park hours. I won't get my park hours until you are practically on your trip!

 

[annnewjerz]

I'm really sad right now and I just need to write it all out.

First of all, my back has been hurting all day. I injured it last summer and it hurts off and on. Well, last weekend we planted flowers/worked outside practically all Sunday and Monday. So needless to say, it's been very upset with me since then.

Michael left this evening to go to children's church camp until Saturday. I hate it when he's gone. We do everything together. When he's gone, I literally feel like part of me is gone. I know that sounds silly, but I do. Before we got married, I loved being alone every once in a while. When my family or roommate (whichever I was living with) was gone for the weekend or whatever, I loved being home by myself. But now I just hate it. He's only been gone overnight one other time. It was just one night. I was doing ok until I crawled in bed, and then I couldn't stop crying. Well, I've been dreading this for the past few days. This evening after church, we came home and then he had to leave. I couldn't stop the tears even before he was out the door.

Well, I thought that I'd distract myself and cheer myself up by finally uploading pictures onto photobucket and putting pictures of our new house up. I put the camera card into the computer and copied the pictures of my brother's prom onto the computer. I took the card out and put it back in to get the others. They were gone!!! GONE. I have no clue what happened. I tried looking through the card, and then putting it back into my camera. They're really gone. It was pictures of our first apartment right before we moved, my favorite cousin's wedding, a fun girls night with my other cousin, and pictures of our new house. I am just devastated. Pictures mean SOO much to me. I have literally thousands on my computer and back-up disks. My heart is just aching. I've been praying that they just got mixed up and that they'll turn up, but I just have no clue what happened to them.

So, needless to say, I'm sitting here with tears streaming down my face. I'm sorry to be so down during this post, but I needed to share. I'm sure everything will be fine in the morning. Thanks for listening!

Hi there---just coming our of lurkdom to suggest something for your pictures. If you haven't done anything with the card (i.e. taken more pictures on it, or even if you had) you may want to try using ZAR. It's a photo recovery program that's free and you can download from online to recover photos from corrupted memory cards or even cards that you hare re-formatted and deleted all of the photos from. You may want to look into that, I know how much it stinks having photos disappear so hopefully you are able to recover them with this!

 

[stacikristine]

Glad you got to surprise DH last night! I bet he was excited to see you!
I am laughing seeing you talk about waiting for park hours. I won't get my park hours until you are practically on your trip!

He was. It was adorable. He just sat there with his mouth open and didn't move for a few seconds. Haha--yeah, you'll be waiting a long time! But I started planning this past September/October...So I've been waiting too long too!

Hi there---just coming our of lurkdom to suggest something for your pictures. If you haven't done anything with the card (i.e. taken more pictures on it, or even if you had) you may want to try using ZAR. It's a photo recovery program that's free and you can download from online to recover photos from corrupted memory cards or even cards that you hare re-formatted and deleted all of the photos from. You may want to look into that, I know how much it stinks having photos disappear so hopefully you are able to recover them with this!

Hi! Thanks for posting! And thank you SOOOO much for the suggestion! I've never heard of that. I'll check it out tonight. That would be so good if I could get them back. THANKS SO MUCH!!

 

[jenny105]

YAY! I've been checking every day. I can't wait to actually have final plans! I know--I wish they would just hurry up and post them. I have my plan of what I'd like to do each day, but we'll see what the crowd levels are for that day... Ouch--back problems are soooo frustrating. I've been (well not this week b/c it hurts a lot) using an exercise ball to strengthen my core and it helps a lot. I'll just have to stay away from the flower beds for a while! It was soo good to visit him. He was SO surprised. He just sat there with his mouth open and then he came and gave me a huge hug. I'm so glad I was able to go!

I'm hoping they come out June 1st (monday) so I can plan while I'm at work. I'm a travel agent so I can get away with it. Maybe I'll try using an exercise ball and see if that helps. I need to start working out more regularly. Gotta look good for Mickey. I'm glad you got to see him!

 

[Dancegrl624]

I just read your whole PTR (I just clicked on the links in your 1st post). Your plans look great! I think we saw that same DOI a few years ago (Madison was in preschool)! We really enjoyed it, but I think we saw it in reverse order! Ours started with PP and 101 Dalmations. I know we also saw Lilo & Stitch and I think the Little Mermaid. I don't know what else was in the show.

 

[stacikristine]

I'm hoping they come out June 1st (monday) so I can plan while I'm at work. I'm a travel agent so I can get away with it. Maybe I'll try using an exercise ball and see if that helps. I need to start working out more regularly. Gotta look good for Mickey. I'm glad you got to see him!

That would be SOO good! I'm not a travel agent, but my boss never gives me enough stuff to do, so I can still get away with it! Haha. I LOVE my exercise ball. I have the best ab workout for it. My hubby and I are going to try to run in the 4th of July race here too. Yay!

I just read your whole PTR (I just clicked on the links in your 1st post). Your plans look great! I think we saw that same DOI a few years ago (Madison was in preschool)! We really enjoyed it, but I think we saw it in reverse order! Ours started with PP and 101 Dalmations. I know we also saw Lilo & Stitch and I think the Little Mermaid. I don't know what else was in the show.

Wow! You're fast. Thanks!! I'm so excited about the trip. That's awesome that we were prob at the same DOI. We absolutely loved it. So cute.

 

[stacikristine]

Guess what!!!! My pictures are back!!!!!

Thanks a TON, annnewjerz! I downloaded ZAR and now they're back

And my hubby just walked through the door! The reason I'm still on here is that he's going to shower to get the jr high boy smell off! So I can finish up this post.

I'll update soon with pictures of our house and what I've done with my Disney Binder soon.

YAY! Happy day.

 

[annnewjerz]

Guess what!!!! My pictures are back!!!!!

Thanks a TON, annnewjerz! I downloaded ZAR and now they're back

And my hubby just walked through the door! The reason I'm still on here is that he's going to shower to get the jr high boy smell off! So I can finish up this post.

I'll update soon with pictures of our house and what I've done with my Disney Binder soon.

YAY! Happy day.

You are SO welcome. Glad I could help and even more glad you were able to get your pictures back. Now go spend some time with your DH I know how difficult it is being apart from your significant other (my DH was on a submarine for about 6 years of our 9 year relationship, gone for 6 months at a time), but the reunions when they come back home definitely make you appreciate them that much more, IMO.

......now, I need to be getting back to my lurkdom.

 

[khertz]

YAY! I'm so glad for you that your got your pictures AND your husband back!!

 

[stacikristine]

You are SO welcome. Glad I could help and even more glad you were able to get your pictures back. Now go spend some time with your DH I know how difficult it is being apart from your significant other (my DH was on a submarine for about 6 years of our 9 year relationship, gone for 6 months at a time), but the reunions when they come back home definitely make you appreciate them that much more, IMO.

......now, I need to be getting back to my lurkdom.

Thanks again! I was so happy to get them back! It's so good to have my Hubby back too. Wow--you must have missed him so much! Yes--the reunions are wonderful. Thanks again! Happy lurking!

YAY! I'm so glad for you that your got your pictures AND your husband back!!

Thanks!! Me too! I'm more happy to have my hubby back than my pictures though!

 

[jenny105]

Double yay! Now the icing on the cake would be if Disney announced their park hours for Sept today.

 

[jewels1916]

Yay! Glad your pics were recovered, and DH made it home! I'm hoping they post your hours today!

 

[stacikristine]

Double yay! Now the icing on the cake would be if Disney announced their park hours for Sept today.

I know!!!! I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

Yay! Glad your pics were recovered, and DH made it home! I'm hoping they post your hours today!

Thanks! Me too! It was a good weekend. Much better than my down-in-the-dumps night! I know--I can't wait for them to post the hours!!!

 

[Roxychica7]

Oh gosh Staci! I've been thinking about you all week, I just didn't get a chance to post before I left for the weekend! Thank goodness you were able to save your pics! What a great suggestion! It's amazing some of the genious things that are out there that we don't know about! Can't wait to hear about your new house and Binder!

 

[stacikristine]

Oh gosh Staci! I've been thinking about you all week, I just didn't get a chance to post before I left for the weekend! Thank goodness you were able to save your pics! What a great suggestion! It's amazing some of the genious things that are out there that we don't know about! Can't wait to hear about your new house and Binder!

Thanks Jess! I'm soooo glad I got them back! My memory card doesn't work anymore, but heck--I'd much rather go spend $15 on a new memory card than lose all my pics that were on there!!! I'll post pics of the binder and house soon!

 

[stacikristine]

Now that my pictures are back, I have an update! I know…finally…

I’ll start with pictures of our new little house. I can’t tell you how much we love it here. It’s about double the size of our last apt (at least it feels that way) and it’s been so great to plant flowers and really feel like it’s ours. We’re definitely content to stay here until we leave Ada (we have no clue when that will be…probably within 5 years). Without further adieu, here is our little place:

It’s a two-bedroom, but the laundry room is HUGE. We have the desk and some other stuff in there. I didn’t take a picture of the guest room (we’re still trying to get everything put away in there) or the laundry room (it still has a few boxes in it).

Here’s the living room:

With a little touch of Disney:

The window in the living room is our second favorite thing about the house. It is so unique.

Here are a couple of shots of our bedroom

With a little more Disney:

I know…it doesn’t have a picture in it right now. I had a picture of my whole family from our last trip, but I don’t know where I put the pictures when I moved from my parents’ house to our apt. I guess we’ll just have to wait to fill it with our Sept trip picture!

And now…for our favorite part of our house: The CLOSET!!

These pictures don’t even pay it justice. We could fit a card table in the middle of it!



I mentioned earlier that we planted flowers a few weekends ago (the cause of my back problem flare-ups…) and here are a few pictures. I took these a few days ago, and they’re already a lot bigger!

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