3rd Times a Charm! Mar. 8-14..lots of pics

[jenseib]

Lurker here!

I found your trip report a little late in the game but have enjoyed it sooo much! Thanks for taking lots of pictures, and Claire is soo adorable! She looks like she had the most magical time ever

Pop is where my DBF and I are hoping to stay (although if you notice my ticker our trip is only in the hopeful stages, really, as it's too early to make reservations, but we've been saving up for a long time to make it happen.)

Thanks for reading. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

 

[WrightFamily06]

Love the added pictures . We just love Claire's Belle dress soo pretty

 

[momminnie]

I have been reading your report all this week. I have really enjoyed it. We will be going in Sept. for free dining. We will be staying at the PORS. I am so ready! we will be going this time with another family. I'm not too sure about how I'm going to deal with that. I'm use to planning our whole trip for us. They want us to do everything together. I am scared that is going to be too much together time. Our family is just me, hubby and DS10 and DS22. Ds22 won't be going for the 1st time on our family vacation. The other family will be the mom,the dad ds11 and ds6. I guess I sound a little selfish huh? Any way I'm a picture freak also and they are not. Your pictures are great. I'm on to your food report now.

 

[jenseib]

I have been reading your report all this week. I have really enjoyed it. We will be going in Sept. for free dining. We will be staying at the PORS. I am so ready! we will be going this time with another family. I'm not too sure about how I'm going to deal with that. I'm use to planning our whole trip for us. They want us to do everything together. I am scared that is going to be too much together time. Our family is just me, hubby and DS10 and DS22. Ds22 won't be going for the 1st time on our family vacation. The other family will be the mom,the dad ds11 and ds6. I guess I sound a little selfish huh? Any way I'm a picture freak also and they are not. Your pictures are great. I'm on to your food report now.

Thanks for reading.
I don't think I would want to do everything together either. It's hard, especially if you don't have the same touring styles.
If I were you I would make up an itinerary of what you guys plan to do and tell them theses are your plans, and they are welcome to join, but also if they can;t make or do all of it you can just meet up at the meal or something. I really t hink it would benefit you both if you do actually plan time away from each other though.

 

[dawz1026]

I have enjoyed reading through your report and seeing all of your beautiful photos..Claire is a DOLL! My dh is constantly saying how he wants to go to Ohio and its funny because he always said when he hits lotto he wants to buy his own farm! It must be beautiful living on a farm?Do you have photos of your farm to share as well?

 

[jenseib]

I have enjoyed reading through your report and seeing all of your beautiful photos..Claire is a DOLL! My dh is constantly saying how he wants to go to Ohio and its funny because he always said when he hits lotto he wants to buy his own farm! It must be beautiful living on a farm?Do you have photos of your farm to share as well?

I posted some pics on the last couple of pages of stuff around the farm. And I think I have farm pics in my pre trip report, whcih has the link in my signature. Thanks for reading.

 

[jenseib]

I've been doing some thinking about the next trip we do, whenever that may be.... LOL!
Claire wants to go now of course. We were looking at pictures on other reports the other day and Onetreehilladdict has pictures of the pony rides. Claire is now obssessed with this. So I am thinking that on the next trip we will try to take one day with no parks and do the pony rides at Fort Wilderness and maybe the sing along at night. Also I've always wanted to hit the boardwalk and try Beaches and Cream. Do they take the dining plan at all for icecream? (I know for sure not the kitchen sink)
And also maybe a day at Universal or two. That would make it a bit different and make DH a little more happy to change it up a bit. Of course we only will have like 5 or 6 days most likely, so that means missing some Disney parks. But we'll manage, (I guess. LOL!)
No trips are planned at this point anyways.

So now for more pictures.

 

[jenseib]

 

[meanmom121]

beautiful pictures

 

[mickeystoontown]

Beautiful pictures, Jen. When we first started going to Disney, we had just six days to do parks and on two of those days we went to Universal Studios and Sea World. After two years of doing that, we started to concentrate on just Disney. Then, after another year, we started adding more days to our vacation until we eventually moved up to nine days in Disney.

We like to take at least one "down day". On this day, we either sleep in and then do something like resort hop, shop at Downtown Disney or rent watercraft. Or, we'll get up like usual, do some of those things and then come back to the resort for a rest. On our other non-park day, we usually hit a water park and then have the afternoon to do whatever. It really does help the morale of our group to get that extra bit of sleep and relaxation.

Because we are staying at Pop this year, we are taking the extra money we saved and are going to see Cirque de Soliel and we'll still have a little extra. I thought about the horseback riding too. Hunter's only been on a pony a long long time ago. I haven't ridden a horse since I was a little girl. Lacey gets to ride horses when she works the church camp for Autistic children. I have no idea when or if John has gotten on a horse. I'll have to do a little more research on the horseback riding. It sounds like a neat thing to do.

 

[btallennc3]

This is to cute someone just posted this on another place on dis and AI thought of clair when I saw it. So I tought I would share it with you.

I had not seen this before, and maybe you haven't either. You add in your child's name and the site generates a Disney personalized video for your child. FOR FREE! http://sun7news.com/spread-bis.php

 

[jenseib]

Thanks guys!
Whew! We just got back from Claire's dance rectial. It was so cute and she did really well.
I WANTED to get some nice pics of her, but I failed. my plan was to get us dressed and ready and then dress her in her costume and take some at my home outside. Well we ended up getting done with her hiar about 5 minutes before we had to leave, so no go there. Then when we arrived there was very little time and she was being lined up to perform since she was 5th. After, her hair wasdroopy and she kept making faces. UGH! And I found the ones I did take are mostly out of focus. Not sure what the heck I was doing, bedsides being rushed.
I'll post some later, but I am very unimpressed with what I took.
And now I'm tired and Claire is all hyped up. LOL! She just went out with Skip to help him water the cows.

 

[WrightFamily06]

Your pictures of the New MK parade are so beautiful , I love all the close-ups and how vibrant the colors are

 

[meanmom121]

Awww!!! Tell that girl, I said "Congrats on getting through her dance recital"

I remember when Grey was taking dance - the recital day was just murder - getting ready getting there and the whole production plus the rehearsal day before. It was always the longest most tiring day - But then that moment your child is on stage is just pure magic.

Grey has changed to cheerleading after 5 years of dance so, no recital this year

Actually she'd still be doing dance if I could afford for her to do both. - but not in the budget

 

[jenseib]

Here are some recital pictures.

Again, I was not happy with how they came out. I didn;t take any of the performance because I "thought" I was videoing it, but I never hit the buttton hard enough, so I didn't. I had bad camera karma all day, I swear.

For the Finale they each walked out and were to strike a pose. Claire had talked to me about it when I was curling her hair and deided all on her own that twirling was her best pose. LOL! So thats what she did.

 

[meanmom121]

I'm so sorry about the video mishap but I have no idea what you are talking about when it comes to the pictures. Claire looks absolutely beautiful.

I use to have the same problem with Grey's hair post recital. One year I even had it professionally done (cuz I'm not a talented hair professional like yourself) I know they used 3/4 can of hairspray and it was still limp post recital.

 

[WrightFamily06]

Beautiful recital pictures , so sorry about your video camera not working

 

[mickeystoontown]

What???? No pink hair? Just kidding. We all know how she loves pink hair and I just knew she would have pink hair in her recital.

Seriously, I love the pictures and I hate that your video didn't record.

 

[jenseib]

Thanks everyone.
She did at least get a pink dress which sh was very happy about and it twirled, so another plus.

 

[ZeroToHero]

Your photos are gorgeous, as usual, so hush you! Haha. And I spy a giant Pixy stick...... yum!