~A XMAS STORY~decorations, crowds, pixies..AND A BLOODY NOSE~ACTUAL UPDATE 11/9 p190

[FauntleroyFAN07]

that was great how half hte kids were sittind down or playing on the ground and had no intereste what so ever.

cant wait till parker is playing sports.

 

[mansionterror]

What a wonderful spring update! We had an azelea that color at our old house...it was huge. One year a hunnysuckle vine over took it and killed half of it. We also had a huge blue snow ball bush.

I love the pics from the Easter Egg hunt...those kids really got the loot, didn't they?

 

[Camster0307]

thanks! i am learning with age that most people are idiots. well, most people except my friends and family and of course my disfriends!

HA!HA! This cracked me up! I couldn't agree with you more!

Is it because we're getting smarter -- or just crankier?

Love the baseball pix of Luke, btw. He really is an adorable little boy!

 

[KristinAnne]

Pretty flowers! What is the pink one with the red center called?

 

[shannon47142]

great pictures!
I love seeing you and Anna in real life, not just in Disney time!
I think that is why I enjoy trip reports, especially repeat writers.
Thanks for sharing.

 

[xoktenox]

Oh my goodness Luke's t-ball team is sooooo adorable!! I like the one picture of the little girl with her hat on top of all her braids with the beads on them. Luke's such a ham too, doing the robot

Everything in your yard is so beautiful! I wish it would just get nice and STAY nice here. It was like 80s Sun, Mon and Tues and then yesterday and today back into the high 50s...what is going on here?! Great pictures though, made me feel happy inside

 

[MeMom]

Hilarious videos of Luke playing ball! I especially loved the one with the little girl picking up the dust at first while Luke sat on the bag. I would have been cracking up right along with you.


Pretty flowers. I stuck some fake ones in our two flower pots on the front porch the other day. Three bucks apiece, and they'll live forever, or until the wind blows them away.
I do not have a green thumb. I do have a black thumb, as in being a plant mortuary, so silk it is.

 

[punkin413]

Hey Dawn!!!!!!!!

Just dropping in! I am caught up with your updates after being gone for a few days!!

So glad Brett got to see Margot!!

hey! hope you guys had a blast at the beach.

Haha, this update was so cute!

Luke is adorable playing ball! Whoa, Coach Anna could kick my butt with those arms!

Haha, "eli's thinking, "what in the world is my crazy father doing now????" The perfect caption for that picture Dawn!

thanks! yeah, anna is a personal trainer and group fitness trainer at the gym she works at so it's her job to look like that!

You can tell you are farther south than us... your yard, trees, flowers are just weeks ahead of ours. Luke's game looks like so much fun, we have our first softball game this weekend.

As for AI---- I am so sad too. I loved Matt... what an awesome story! I would have thrown a party if it would have been Adam leaving tonight- he is too full of himself and such a drama king... not for me!

it's so pretty here - i wish spring would last longer! i just don't like adam's voice (he reminds me of axel rose from guns n roses) and he's just too dramatic. now i'm cheering for danny and chris!

I agree. Have been thinking this is what has happened. I just wonder how long it will take to find him.

Those are BEAUTIFUL!!!! Mine decided not to bloom or grow this year

This is about as funny as Matt out back going after the bee's with a tennis racket. Unfortunately I haven't been able to spend as much time outside (especially on my deck) b/c of those crazy buzzing and stinging creatures. Between the bees and the 2-3 different types of wasps we have they can chase me back in the house pretty quickly And I've been keeping my eye out for the hornet(s) we saw last year

That video of Jake is HILARIOUS!!! I had Matt watching it...we were both

they mentioned on the news tonight that him being dead was a possibility but "no indications of that". i can't imagine that they haven't found him yet if he's still running.

we sometimes don't have luck with our azaleas but we have like 5 that bloomed really pretty this year. so funny about matt with the tennis racket!

Great update! Even thought it's not Disney. I love these kinds of updates. So far this has been a hot Spring! I swapped out the baby DS's closet today. Put away all the Winter/Fall stuff and pulled out the short sleeves and shorts. I think we're done with Winter. How's your fur baby doing? All better now?

yeah, i'm glad we're done with winter! i hate being cold. i could never survive up north. he's a lot better - no fully recovered but MUCH better!

Thanks for the links! We are definitley going to eat there. It looks so good!

The Easter egg hunt and tball game were so cute!!!! I love the kid that wouldnt get out of the dirt. That would for sure be my kid! She goes to gymnatics and half the time she lays on the floor and laughs.

it was great! those kids are so funny. such a cute age!

Fun update! Luke is too cute in all his baseball gear!

Your azaleas are gorgeous! I was just thinking of taking a pic of ours for a PTR update -- great minds!

Ray is cracking me up chasing the wasp with a broom! Did he get it?

thanks! i'd love to see your azaleas. sorry i'm so behind on your PTR - i will catch up eventually! he thought he got the wasp but we saw either the same one or another one a few minutes later. i got spray yesterday so now i'm super wasp killer out there with that spray can!

Hey Dawn, Happy Spring! Love the pics and video you posted as always. Luke is a riot (my favorite is the robot video - too cute!) . So glad Sherman is feeling better. You guys must hide a ton of eggs for that hunt, Luke's basket was full! T ball is halarious at that age, you captured it well : ) Your garden looks beautiful, love the tink bird bath, I want a Mickey gnome, have you seen the pics of them?
Well, have a good day!
Lesley

you too! yeah, the whole neighborhood brought eggs to hunt. i haven't seen the mickey gnomes pics but that sounds super cute - now i have to go find one!

Don't you love watching little boys playing baseball - they pick flowers, play with the dirt, have a seat on the base while they wait. I love it. Both of my boys decided against baseball, which for DS10 is a good thing because he's in a cast now, broke his ankle on a trampoline. Luke is so cute. Love your azaela bush, so pretty. Mine died a couple of years ago

yes, they are hilarious! ouch about your DS - hope he gets better soon!

I miss Easter egg hunts outside, Luke did very well collecting the eggs!

The first year I was in Auburn, I was so excitted to have an outdoor egg hunt for Aaron.
The problem was I didn't think about the chocolate. It all melted....
What a mess, I learned after that to put only candies.
The city would put on a huge hunt for the kids and it was so much fun.
Seeing as we usually have snow here, the hunts are now indoors...

Luke is good at baseball, in no time he will be the star!
He is just too funny, it must be so comical to watch him.

Beautiful yard, Your azalea bush is so full and pretty.
The Tink bird bath is adorable.

Did Ray succeed in getting rid of the wasps?
I think your pup is thinking "our hero"....

one of the requirements for donating eggs was no chocolate! i can see why you guys have easter egg hunts inside - hiding eggs in snow is no fun! he did hit the wasp but i don't think he killed it because we saw one a few minutes later. i bought some wasp killer yesterday though and i've been zapping them left and right ever since.

 

[punkin413]

Aww, such cute photos!! I love the baseball photos and videos - hilarious!! And such pretty spring photos too! It seems like only a couple of weeks ago, you had all that snow!!

Your lady statue in your butterfly garden scared1 reminds me of the statue from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil! Do you know it?! The original statue is in Savannah. Hmmm, you love Savannah, right!? Maybe you bought it from there!!

Our weather is certainly not getting any warmer... it's the opposite, in fact!! (Funny that!) It's starting getting reeeeally cold. We had our first proper frost this morning!! Brrrr! Which is weird, because literally 2 weeks ago, I was wearing skirts and flip-flops! Where did the summer go!?

Thanks for all your fun photos!!

thanks! that is a miniature copy of the "bird girl" statue in savannah, the one you're talking about from, "midnight in the garden of good and evil." i saw it somewhere and HAD to have it. i love all the statues they have there in the parks and everything.

my cousin lives in brazil and it's getting cold there, too. it's so odd to me that you guys have warm weather during christmas but you probably think it's odd that we're having 100-degree weather in july!

Glad to see Sherman up and about.
I love that pic of both of them, Eli is protecting his stick !

thanks! eli is such a goofball.

Winter will probably always be my favorite time of year, but I agree that as I've gotten older, I definitely enjoy Spring more and more. But I have to enjoy other people's gardens and flowers b/c I do not have even the slightest hint of a green thumb! I guess I just need to hire a gardener or something if I ever want anything beautiful in my yard!
Loved all the pics! Luke is just too stinkin' precious! And, yeah, I am pretty much completely envious of Anna's body! I think I'm going to print out a pic of her, tape it to my treadmill and fridge and use it as my motivation!

i'm lucky because ray has a green thumb. mine is sort of brown! about anna's body, i know, i know. being so close to her, i've come to realize that not everybody can have that body. even if i were to work out as much as anna does (she's a personal trainer and group fitness manager) and eat the way she does i still wouldn't look like her. anna is a natural athelete and has always been tall and thin, even before she worked out the way she does now. when she was pregnant with luke, you couldn't even tell she was pregnant if you were looking at her from the back. it was sickening. and i've also come to realize with being her friend how AWFUL a lot of women are. you should see the looks she gets. it's really sad. that jealousy just comes pouring out of some women when they see her and it turns into ugliness and it makes me so mad because they don't know what a sweet, funny, great person she is. anyway, i wanted to share this. she recently had some promotional pictures taken for the gym and i thought this one turned out so good.

that was great how half hte kids were sittind down or playing on the ground and had no intereste what so ever.

cant wait till parker is playing sports.

i know! they are so funny!!!!!

What a wonderful spring update! We had an azelea that color at our old house...it was huge. One year a hunnysuckle vine over took it and killed half of it. We also had a huge blue snow ball bush.

I love the pics from the Easter Egg hunt...those kids really got the loot, didn't they?

sorry about your azalea. they are so pretty but very tempramental. yeah, the kids got LOTS of candy that day!

HA!HA! This cracked me up! I couldn't agree with you more!

Is it because we're getting smarter -- or just crankier?

Love the baseball pix of Luke, btw. He really is an adorable little boy!

probably a little bit of both.

Pretty flowers! What is the pink one with the red center called?

i don't know! i asked ray and he couldn't remember either. i just know we thought it was pretty so we bought two of them at home depot. sorry!

great pictures!
I love seeing you and Anna in real life, not just in Disney time!
I think that is why I enjoy trip reports, especially repeat writers.
Thanks for sharing.

thanks! i enjoy sharing little bits and pieces so i'm glad you enjoy reading them!

Oh my goodness Luke's t-ball team is sooooo adorable!! I like the one picture of the little girl with her hat on top of all her braids with the beads on them. Luke's such a ham too, doing the robot

Everything in your yard is so beautiful! I wish it would just get nice and STAY nice here. It was like 80s Sun, Mon and Tues and then yesterday and today back into the high 50s...what is going on here?! Great pictures though, made me feel happy inside

the t-ball game was so cute! thanks. i know you guys up north are ready for the weather we've been having. it's been so nice! maybe it will start to stay warm soon!

Hilarious videos of Luke playing ball! I especially loved the one with the little girl picking up the dust at first while Luke sat on the bag. I would have been cracking up right along with you.


Pretty flowers. I stuck some fake ones in our two flower pots on the front porch the other day. Three bucks apiece, and they'll live forever, or until the wind blows them away.
I do not have a green thumb. I do have a black thumb, as in being a plant mortuary, so silk it is.

that was actually jake, the little boy who batted after luke. he was so funny that i had to video him! and yes, that little girl was funny, too. i love how they're like, "hmmmm.....whatever. baseball, playing in the dirt, laying in the grass.....whatever."

i hear ya on the fake flowers......sounds like a plan to me! ray has the green thumb, not me. mine's sort of a brown shade.

 

[DisneyLaura]

anna is a natural athelete and has always been tall and thin, even before she worked out the way she does now. when she was pregnant with luke, you couldn't even tell she was pregnant if you were looking at her from the back. it was sickening. and i've also come to realize with being her friend how AWFUL a lot of women are. you should see the looks she gets. it's really sad. that jealousy just comes pouring out of some women when they see her and it turns into ugliness and it makes me so mad because they don't know what a sweet, funny, great person she is. anyway, i wanted to share this. she recently had some promotional pictures taken for the gym and i thought this one turned out so good.

Great picture Anna! Yes women can be very ugly because they are jealous!

That's funny about her being pregnant and not showing from the back - showed all over

 

[LISAMWDW]

Eli with the stick is hysterical! What a cutie! It is finally starting to be spring in Michigan. Nothing is blooming yet but it is coming!

 

[2xcited2sleep]

Hi Dawn! Love the spring update! I want to live in your neighborhood. It looks like you guys have so much fun!! Hope you have a great weekend!

 

[punkin413]

Great picture Anna! Yes women can be very ugly because they are jealous!

That's funny about her being pregnant and not showing from the back - showed all over

i'm sure i will too!!!! i carry my weight in my thighs and my butt so i'm sure that's where i will start spreading out first.

Eli with the stick is hysterical! What a cutie! It is finally starting to be spring in Michigan. Nothing is blooming yet but it is coming!

he's so silly - he LOVES chewing on sticks! hopefully your spring will be there soon.

Hi Dawn! Love the spring update! I want to live in your neighborhood. It looks like you guys have so much fun!! Hope you have a great weekend!

thanks! we have a lot of fun - it's a great neighborhood. i don't want to live here forever but i am very lucky to have found it.

 

[punkin413]

before i start my update i wanted to share some pictures with you. we had company this weekend. our friend johnny, who was actually our roommate before we got married for about 2 years and now lives in tallahassee, came up with his wife, lani (her name is leilani but she goes by lani), to go to a friend's wedding on saturday. they got here friday night and left this afternoon. it was great to see them! they brought their two dogs, atlas and lokie.

we had a blast with the dogs! you should've seen eli when they first got here - you could tell he was amazed with their size, especially atlas, the rottweiler. he's HUGE! eli's little face was so funny!

this is lokie. he's a pit bull/chesapeake bay retriever mix and he's a real sweetie. he's a daddy's boy and LOVES to play fetch with the tennis ball.

and this is atlas, the rottweiler. he is SO clumsy and just hilarious. i really bonded with him - he loves girls and he was just all about me this weekend! he's playing with one of eli's eeyore dolls here.

he thinks he's a lap dog when really he's one of the biggest rottweilers i've ever seen. here he's laying on my lap. at one point he just sat down on me and i couldn't breathe!

and the FUNNIEST thing about atlas is that he LOVES to watch TV! when he walks into a room and sees a TV, he runs straight to it, even if it's not on. he just stands there and waits to see what's going to happen. it's so cute! here he is watching the kentucky derby yesterday.



so funny! anyway, it was a great time and we enjoyed seeing johnny and his "family" this weekend.

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back to the TR!

when we last caught up we had just finished chowing down on some casey dogs - well, everyone but me who just ate a couple of fries and drank some milk to try to settle my icky stomach. after our afternoon snack we went back to tomorrowland to use our buzz lightyear fastpasses. when we got there ray only had 4 fastpasses in his pocket - he must have dropped the 5th one! i told him i'd stay outside but he insisted that i ride. so me, anna, chris and luke headed into buzz. the fastpass line was even backed up!

so luke and chris decided to entertain themselves by doing some really silly dancing!

finally it was time to get on the ride! anna and i got in a car together and then chris and luke were behind us.

shooting some aliens!!!!!

i beat anna.

honestly though i think it's because she was watching luke more than she was shooting!

here are some SERIOUS shooters!!!!

you can't even see luke's head!

luke is actually happy to be captured by zurg!

after that we decided to go hop on the train in toontown. luke had been wanting to ride the train and we thought we'd take it over to frontierland and check out the wait for BTMRR. i wasn't interested in splash because it was so cool outside and i don't think anyone else was, either! at this point i was starting to feel VERY icky! the milk at casey's didn't do much for my queasy stomach. i wasn't sure if i'd really ride BTMRR or not but if not i could sit with luke while everyone else did.

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[punkin413]

i hardly ever see the front of the train, so i snapped a picture as we walked by via the super secret tomorrowland pathway to toontown.

waiting to board the train.......

we saw a couple of interesting things while waiting to board the train. first was this lady. she was SNOOZING!!!!! after we initially started laughing at her, i started getting worried because this lady was really out! even the train whistle didn't wake her up. we started watching her closely to see if she was breathing and eventually she did move.

then we saw this chick. interesting choice of clothes to wear to disney world.

finally on the train......

when we stopped at the main street station a lot of people got off so we rearranged our seating a bit. here's mr. cool waiting for the train to leave again.....

happy people arriving at MK!

some furry, silly friends were out front meeting guests.

we made it to frontierland and i had to make a pitstop at the bathroom to deal with my stomach issues. being sick at magic kingdom is no fun!

we eventually made it over to BTMRR and i don't remember what the wait was but i know it was over an hour. no, thanks!

so then we decided to check out the HM wait again. i think it was at 30 minutes at that point so we hopped in line. while we were standing in line anna realized she didn't have her little photopass card that was on the bungie cord. they looked everywhere but couldn't find it. i told her not to panic, that we'd check to see if they could find the pictures and put them on her other card.

i also started to feel REALLY bad at this point. my stomach just wouldn't settle and when i'd change the direction i was looking quickly i'd get dizzy. i rarely get like that and so it kinda freaked me out a little bit, but i didn't say anything to anyone, just told ray that i was feeling very funny. i think maybe riding space mountain when my stomach wasn't feeling too good wasn't a good idea!

while we were waiting luke kept asking what this was and we told him it was a silly halloween ride. he didn't seem too worried.

after a good little wait we finally made it in. luke was very timid during the stretching room, just sort of holding anna's neck really tightly. but he was okay.

here they are in their doom buggy. you can see luke is just checking everything out!

some HM pics for erica........

the dancing scene...it turned out halfway decent! i've seen worse.

i wish i could get a decent shot of the hitchhiking ghosts but i never do!

next up........giant gingerbread houses, a surprise DIS meet and pineapple envy.

 

[CanadianWDWfan]

Wow, Anna you go girl!

Great promo pic, I think she should feel so proud of herself.

The video of Atlas was funny! They were both beautiful dogs.
I had a rottweiller too, he was a fantastic dog and also a big baby. I miss him, his name was Zeus.

Too bad you still felt aweful that night. Kinda scary to feel so dizzy. You were a real trooper.

Luke is a funny little boy, he just loves to dance.

 

[KristinAnne]

Gotta love the need to be a trooper at Disney...especially at MK! I did too one day when we were there in June, and it ended up backfiring when we went for our anniversary dinner at CRT. Lucky for us, we got a little pixie dust that evening. I hope it didn't get much worse for you!

 

[Charleston Princess]

Ahhh, being the owner of big dogs, I loved seeing the photos of your friends' doggies -- too cute!

What a shame that you were feeling so rotten -- it's hard to enjoy yourself when you are sick.

Luke and Chris dancing in line cracked me up!

 

[burly]

Yay another update!
Boo icky tummy.

 

[VandyFan10]

the dancing scene...it turned out halfway decent! i've seen worse.

Ohhhhhhh.....Please e-mail me this Great Picture!!

I'm still determined to ride this ride until it stops at this scene and I can actually get some decent pictures. I know if I could get still for just a second I could get some REALLY good ones with my camera

Oh well I guess I just have to keep riding it over, and over, and over..........