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

Lots of luck to Jordan, and here's to hoping the baby comes soon :goodvibes:

Luke looks so cute with his shorter hair! He still has that cool, skater vibe :laughing: He does look older!

And that cabin looks gorgeous! You have to be sure to take lots of pics!
 
Hi, Dawn!
Don't know if you remember me or not...I've followed some of your other TRs in the past, but I haven't been around in a while. I've got a trip to WDW coming up in May, so I've been catching up on your TRs until then! Lovin' it so far!
 
Wow that baby is taking her sweet time, huh? I love Luke's cut...sometimes I am tempted to do something different with Colby's hair but I always chicken out.

Living so close to the Smokies I have stayed in several cabins...we love it.
 

Luke's hair looks good. It looks fuller. Very cute.

The cabin is awesome. I know you'll have a great trip.

I'm heading down to Alabama tomorrow to see my 'fat' daughter. The doctor said Isabella is already over seven pounds, so Jill is ready to go ahead and get her here before she gets any bigger!

Are you walking any better? I did notice when I looked down from the plane as I flew over your house and saw you waving at me from your yard that you did have a pretty bad limp. :)
 
I FINALLY caught up Dawn! Isn't that sad?? I can't wait to hear how MVMCP was for you..it was horribly crowded for us but we also went on a Friday...the very last one too. The only reason Ty made it for Wishes was b/c we couldn't get out of the park after the Xmas parade! :laughing:

Can't wait for more!! :goodvibes
 
Ooh la la, your cabin looks beautiful!! And the hot-tub on the porch, wow!!! Very romantic!!! :cloud9:

I hope birds don't come and visit you as you're taking a soak in the hot-tub. Hehehehee!

Your little niece really doesn't want to come out and say hello, does she!? Poor Jordan!!

Big thumbs up for Luke's haircut! :thumbsup2 He definitely looks like a little man!
 
no baby yet! still waiting. hopefully she'll come this week or next. i hope she doesn't decide to wait until our cabin weekend!!! surely not. that's past her due date. there's a full moon on april 8th, i believe, so hopefully by then or that night at the latest. i know that's a wives tale but you never know!

Awwww, Luke looks adorable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, me and my co-workers talk about it every day! THere are 2 of us who love the movie and the books. Emily, not so much!! She came in this morning and just gave me this look and I started laughing and said, "You didn't like it, did you?" She said absolutely not! She thought it was horrible!!! She said the actors were terrible and the writing was horrible and she said they completely left out a large amount of the book! I just laughed at her!!:lmao:

That cabin looks really, really nice!!!! I hope you guys have fun!

that's how i feel too. i feel like someone took something that i loved and twisted and contorted it until it was almost unrecognizable. and i don't want to be mean but i think kristin stewart's (bella) acting was just horrid. she blinks like she's got something stuck in her eye and she swallows a lot and she constantly looks like she's uncomfortable or in pain. i could go on and on but that was my main complaint.

thanks! i think it will be a nice weekend.

That cabin looks nice! Kinda reminds me of the cabin I stayed in with B/F's family when we went to TN a few years ago.

OMG! Luke looks so old with his hair cut!

it's very close to TN. it's near the border of south carolina and TN.

I really like Luke's hair and Anna is right, it does make him look older. Your cabin looks amazing and I know you're going to have a great time!

yep, he's growing up! thanks!

Aww Luke looks adorable...and the cabin looks fantastic! Can I come too? LOL You guys will have fun there! I hope your toe lets ya have fun too. Good Luck.

I can't believe the baby still hasn't arrived! When is/was she due?

i'm really hoping my toe will cooperate too. it's still very bruised but i'm able to put more weight on it.

she's not due until april 12th but her doctor has never thought she'd make it that far. she's been having random contractions for weeks now. but they started to get regular the week before last so that's why she thought she was going into labor. her first baby (not my brother's but her ex-husband's) was 3 weeks early.

I'm glad the baby has waited for your work to slow down but I bet you are still going crazy to see her! And I really feel sorry for Jordan. She is probably really ready.

Lukes hair looks so cute. I think he looks older too.

Your cabin is beatiful and the dogs even get their own room! We love that VRBO website. We have used it a couple of times.

she is! but i think the longer margot stays in there, the better. at least at this point. she will be 38 weeks tomorrow (see above about her due date).

oh, i love the VRBO website! i've used it for years. my ex-boss had a cabin in maggie valley on there for awhile and after i saw that i always go there if i want to rent a house or cabin instead of staying at a hotel. you can find some really good deals!

all caught up.

great updates and pics.

The cabin looks nice.

thanks! i hope it's as nice as the pictures. sometimes they can be misleading.

We are going on memorial weekend:rolleyes:, but we'll be there for 11 days and I have a Morning EMH at MK scheduled in. I plan on hanging out in Fantasyland until toontown rope drop.:lmao:
Luke does look older with his hair cut. I think it took some of the baby roundness out of his face.:sad2:

i'm sure you can manage to meet her in 11 days! fantasyland first thing in the morning is the best anyway.

Hi Dawn! LOVE Luke's hair, can't wait for your photo's. Your cabin looks beautiful, we had such fun in our cabin getaway and those hottubs on the porch are the best:thumbsup2 Hope you guys have a BLAST!
Lesley

oh, when i saw the hot tub on the porch i was sold! we rented a cabin in helen for our one-year anniversary and it had one and i LOVED it! we could see the TV from there and i was in heaven. :laughing:

I just this, we're going in November, I hope we get some deals for November. I have the Disney Visa.

He looks cute but yes they always look older after a cut. Tell Anna I feel her pain but he's still a cutie.

The cabin looks beautiful. Have fun!

i'm sure something will come along. i will try to remember to let you know if i hear anything.

i will tell her! she loves it but she hates that he looks older.

cabin looks awesome, where is it again?

it's near tallulah gorge state park, which is north georgia almost to the south carolina border. very pretty area! it's about an hour-and-a-half away from us.

I got an e-mail about free dining, and I would love to do it. My son's birthday is even during that time, but we just can't afford it. I have to use self control. I am glad your niece didn't come during your busy week, maybe she will come soon.

i hear ya on the self control!!!! it stinks having to be a responsible grownup, huh? :rotfl:

Those cabins and the surrounding woods look a lot like Gatlinburg.

they aren't very far from there. i'm guessing gatlinburg's about two hours northwest of there?
 
Lots of luck to Jordan, and here's to hoping the baby comes soon :goodvibes:

Luke looks so cute with his shorter hair! He still has that cool, skater vibe :laughing: He does look older!

And that cabin looks gorgeous! You have to be sure to take lots of pics!

i hope so too! look will always be super cool. :cool2: you know you have nothing to worry about in the picture department! :rotfl:

Hi, Dawn!
Don't know if you remember me or not...I've followed some of your other TRs in the past, but I haven't been around in a while. I've got a trip to WDW coming up in May, so I've been catching up on your TRs until then! Lovin' it so far!

i remember you! :goodvibes thanks for coming by. i'm so jealous you're going in may - i love going that time of year! have a blast!

Luke's haircut is so cute,

i think so too!

Wow that baby is taking her sweet time, huh? I love Luke's cut...sometimes I am tempted to do something different with Colby's hair but I always chicken out.

Living so close to the Smokies I have stayed in several cabins...we love it.

well, she's not actually due until april 12th but jordan has been having contractions since january, so her doctor has never thought she'd make it to her due date. she'll be 38 weeks tomorrow so she's to the point now where it's safe to have her if she wants to come. her contractions got regular the week before last so that's why she thought she was going into labor. i'm excited about the cabin! can't wait for a little getaway! :yay:

Luke's hair looks good. It looks fuller. Very cute.

The cabin is awesome. I know you'll have a great trip.

I'm heading down to Alabama tomorrow to see my 'fat' daughter. The doctor said Isabella is already over seven pounds, so Jill is ready to go ahead and get her here before she gets any bigger!

Are you walking any better? I did notice when I looked down from the plane as I flew over your house and saw you waving at me from your yard that you did have a pretty bad limp. :)

i like it too. i hope we have a decent trip. i hope my toe is cooperating by then! i want to hike down to the gorge. i hear it's beautiful down there. hope you had a great time in alabama! you're probably there right now. i am walking better but the top of my foot is still very bruised. it's very odd! my walking also depends on what shoes i'm wearing. if i'm wearing the one pair of sneakers i can get my foot in without screaming, i'm barely limping. but if i'm wearing loafers or boots for work, i'm limping more because the hard bottom of the shoe doesn't give at all and it hurts to try to bend it against that pressure. i've got 3 weeks to get better!

Hunker down! Bad weather coming your way.

yeah, it was POURING yesterday and then this morning it was storming. i didn't have to leave the house today until around 2:00 and it had stopped raining but the wind was crazy!

I FINALLY caught up Dawn! Isn't that sad?? I can't wait to hear how MVMCP was for you..it was horribly crowded for us but we also went on a Friday...the very last one too. The only reason Ty made it for Wishes was b/c we couldn't get out of the park after Spectro! :laughing:

Can't wait for more!! :goodvibes

no, it's not sad - you're a busy lady!!!! ;) you will have to wait awhile for MVMCP - it was our last night of the trip. but it will be worth the waait - i will say that much!

Ooh la la, your cabin looks beautiful!! And the hot-tub on the porch, wow!!! Very romantic!!! :cloud9:

I hope birds don't come and visit you as you're taking a soak in the hot-tub. Hehehehee!

Your little niece really doesn't want to come out and say hello, does she!? Poor Jordan!!

Big thumbs up for Luke's haircut! :thumbsup2 He definitely looks like a little man!

yeah, the hot tub on the porch sold me! we rented a cabin in helen (a small "alpine" village near us) for our one-year anniversary and it had a hot tub on the porch. it was so nice! the big TV rotated around so you could face it to the porch and watch TV from the hot tub. :thumbsup2 the birds will stay away from me or i'll go buy a bee bee gun! :rotfl:

i'm hoping she comes soon! the worst part is not knowing if i'll be able to be there or not! i love luke's haircut too. so cute!
 
Oh NO....she can not come on your cabin weekend. That full moon thing works! I had one of mine during a full moon. I think it was DD. She came so fast she was born on the exam table. I never even got an IV that time! Is your brother excited or scared to death? How old is he? He looked young in the pics I remember seeing...well, young to my old butt. Mid 30's is starting to feel like 50's to me. I wanna be 20 again. :sad1:
 
Aww Luke looks so cute with this haircut!

The cabin looks sooo nice too! My fingers will be crossed that the baby doesnt come that weekend! :cutie:
 
The Tink meet looked fantastic, the interaction you all got was great and I would never have had spotted she was Alice too!!!

The cabin looks beautiful and the views stunning, hope your new niece comes before you go!
 
I like the cabin. It's looks very similar to the one we stayed at in Yellowstone a few years ago. :thumbsup2
 
Oh NO....she can not come on your cabin weekend. That full moon thing works! I had one of mine during a full moon. I think it was DD. She came so fast she was born on the exam table. I never even got an IV that time! Is your brother excited or scared to death? How old is he? He looked young in the pics I remember seeing...well, young to my old butt. Mid 30's is starting to feel like 50's to me. I wanna be 20 again. :sad1:

wow! i just looked to see when the full moon was in july in 1976 (the year i was born) and it was july 11th. i was born a week later, july 18th. but i was two weeks overdue - very stubborn! i bet my mom was hoping that full moon would work for her on the 11th! once her water broke though i was out in 20 minutes - my dad didn't even make it to the hospital in time!

brett's excited but he is very nervous. i don't want to go into details but brett and jordan are not together any more. they've had a very on-again, off-again, tumultuous, dramatic relationship since they were in high school and i'm glad they're not together - they don't need to be. i hope they can both be grownups though and look past their personal issues to be good parents. my parents did it - it can be done! brett is 22 and will be 23 in august. that's young to me but i know people have kids younger than that. he's super excited about being a dad (he's always talked about being a dad and he's always loved kids) but i still think he has a lot of growing up to do. one of the reasons i want to be there so badly is because i know i can keep him calm. plus jordan likes me (i have no idea why - i won't go into how i feel about her here) and i feel like i can help them both out with a sort of uncomfortable situation. but once the baby's here, they're going to have to bite the bullet and be grownups and deal with each other. i can't always be the mediator - i live 300 miles away!!!!

Aww Luke looks so cute with this haircut!

The cabin looks sooo nice too! My fingers will be crossed that the baby doesnt come that weekend! :cutie:

thanks! i hope i don't have to worry about that. surely she will be here before then!

The Tink meet looked fantastic, the interaction you all got was great and I would never have had spotted she was Alice too!!!

The cabin looks beautiful and the views stunning, hope your new niece comes before you go!

it was really neat. i loved it! i want to do it again one day. i hope the fairies stick around for awhile.

i can't wait for our cabin weekend! i think it will be a nice getaway.

I like the cabin. It's looks very similar to the one we stayed at in Yellowstone a few years ago. :thumbsup2

i'm looking forward to it! it's nice that we live very close to the mountains like we do. although i don't have them in my back yard like you do!
 
I just cut mt ds hair as well..he had it pretty long and I was styling it for a while but it needed to be really evened out...ugh the clippers were out and it is short..he is adorable of course but its so hard to cut their hair when they are young! I feel annas pain lol..Luke is still adorable as ever and has our hearts:love:
 
before i continue with the TR i wanted to show you some pictures from last night. me, anna, erin (from my september 2007 TR) and another friend named astra all got together last night and watched "twilight". we have all read the books (anna is actually reading "twilight" now but the rest of us have read the whole series) and we all were VERY disappointed with the movie. so we decided to get together and complain about it. :lmao: i wish i could've recorded us watching the movie. i was laughing so hard i had tears rolling down my cheeks.

for those of you who liked the movie, i'm sorry but i strongly disagree. i think the screenwriter just butchered the book. you have the right to your opinion and i respect that - i just disagree! :laughing: i think the reason i feel so strongly about it is that i loved the book so much and it's like someone took something i love and just chopped it to pieces and tried to hand it back to me on a silver platter. i don't think so!

oh, and you know they're totally going to do a spoof movie (like "scary movie") of "twilight." i can just see it now.

EDWARD: say it......OUT LOUD.

BELLA: you need a breath mint.

:lmao:

that's one of the worst scenes i think, mostly because it's way overdramatic and because it's NOT EVEN IN THE BOOK!!!!!! :headache:

okay, anyway. enough complaining. if i listed everything i didn't like about it we'd be here all night.

here is anna and me getting the food ready. we had mexican. i promise i was helping - not just drinking a margarita!

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oh, and here is luke's new hair. i wanted to get a better angle but he was very busy playing a new lightning mcqueen video game so he couldn't be bothered. by the way, see the outfit he's wearing? it was a bat costume that anna got at old navy for him right after halloween for like $5. he wears it ALL THE TIME! :rotfl:

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this is erin and astra.

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food porn!!!!!!

here is the mexican lasagna i made. so good! go here for the recipe: http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=31076599&postcount=1389

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and here's the rest of the spread. we had a salad with chicken, corn relish, cheese & tortilla strips, and homemade guacamole and pico de gallo to top everything off. i love mexican!

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go here for pico de gallo recipe: http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=31112599&postcount=1409

chris noticed that we were all color-coordinated and we hadn't even noticed it, so we had to get a picture. we totally didn't plan this!

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he told anna and astra to make a "pink sandwich" and then he told us to do our charlie's angels poses. erin and i decided we'd pick our noses instead. :rotfl2:

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anyway, so that's that. just wanted to share those with you.

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when i last left you we had just met some really awesome fairies. as we were leaving the hall of fame ray called me and said he was getting on the monorail. i told him just to head towards fantasyland and to call me when he got there. we stopped for a potty break in toon town and then headed back over to fantasyland. look who i saw riding the teacups as we walked by.....

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my second-favorite female disney character, alice! i was having some great character luck this morning! i asked anna and chris if they wanted to meet them - i'm always up for meeting alice! they said yes so we went over to the area where they always go after they ride the teacups and were the second group in line to meet them.

here they come!

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i went first. anna took a few pictures of me talking to alice and the mad hatter. i don't remember the whole conversation but i do remember the mad hatter commenting that i had on the same colors as the queen and asking if i worked for her. i told him of course not, that i just liked red but not as much as her.

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next was anna's turn. around this time ray walked up to us - he had seen us before he even had to pull out his phone. so i was talking to him, telling him about my tinker bell experience, and didn't get to see what happened with anna, alice and the mad hatter. but the picture came out cute!

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when they tried to get luke to go up there, he wasn't having it. he usually loves characters but he wasn't familiar with the mad hatter and i think his nose was freaking him out! :rotfl2: so chris went instead and got their autographs.

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i don't know what the mad hatter said here but this picture is hilarious because it looks like chris is arguing with him!

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we split up at that point. first i will tell you what anna and company did.

luke had been dying to ride the tomorrowland speedway. he's really into cars right now so he thought these were so cool! he had loved these when they came to the pirate & princess party last may, too.

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so super cool! :cool2:

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those are all the pictures that anna took until we met up with them again, so i'm assuming they just kind of walked around for awhile at that point. i know they ate at cosmic ray's for lunch so i bet that's what they did during this time. she takes more pics than i do so i can't imagine them doing anything else and not having pictures of it!

back to me and ray.....

i told ray uncle scrooge had been out so we went over to get in line to meet him. i love the christmas tree lot theming. so cute!

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here we are walking up to get his autograph....

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when we stood on either side of him to pose, he shook his head at ray and pointed over to the side. we were like.....huh? the CM working with him said, "he doesn't want you in the picture," to ray. :eek: :lmao: so ray walked over to the side so me and scrooge could get our portrait made together. i was laughing here because i thought that was so funny!

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here i'm telling him that ray's a really nice guy and asking him if he can join us for the picture.

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he reluctantly gave in and waved ray over. as they were taking the rest of the pictures, ray said to him, "you really are a scrooge, huh?"

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after that ray and i decided to just walk around. neither of us were really that interested in riding anything at MK this trip. we really just wanted to walk around and take it all in and enjoy it. it's the favorite park for both of us and we knew we wouldn't be back for awhile.

we saw pooh walking by in fantasyland. hi, mr. pooh bear!!!

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they've changed the name of this store. it used to be called, "tinker bell's treasures." i guess this is to go along more with the movie?

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they've redone the inside of it, too.

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make a wish! i love this area. so pretty!

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we saw some of my favorite ladies. i wanted to meet them but the CM there said they were getting ready to go have lunch and would be back later.

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i was feeling pretty yucky by that point. i hadn't felt that well all morning - nothing major. just a little queasiness. it was around 11:00 at that point, so ray suggested i eat something and it might make me feel better. so we decided to head to casey's. i think it was just ray's evil plot to eat there. he LOVES that place. he could eat there every meal of our trip and be perfectly content.

some pics i took along the way.....

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the christmas decorations at MK are so classic and festive!

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this main street CM had her holiday colors on, too.

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we did some shopping before we actually went into casey's. i know i looked at the jim shore pieces to see which one i wanted for this trip. then we headed across the street to the emporium and i shopped while ray went to get some food. he was apparently starving! i got the minnie mouse baby outfit that i gave my brother for christmas for my niece (look at my christmas pictures to see it - in the index under "non-TR stuff"), a 2009 calendar, a tag for the front of my car, a mickey mouse ears santa hat and a couple of other little things and of course i got a castle fleece throw! that thing is my FAVORITE blanket EVER!!!!!! it's SO SOFT. i love it. i won't let the dogs lay on it for fear that they'll ruin it. i will take a picture of it soon and post it here for you.

of course i had this all sent to the front of the park to be picked up when we left later that night. such a GREAT service!!! :thumbsup2

when i called ray when i was done he had already eaten his hot dog. i wonder if he was hungry? :rolleyes:

i then headed towards casey's and while i was in line, anna called me and suggested we meet at noon to watch, "mickey's twas the night before christmas". we had talked about seeing this on that day instead of waiting until MVMCP to see it. i've heard it's really good and there's just SO MUCH to take in at MVMCP. it made more sense for us to get that out of the way. so i took my hot dog to go and we headed that way.

the piano dude was playing at casey's. i love this guy! he's really talented and just loves what he does.

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we saw a little mischevious alien on the way. this is one character i haven't met yet - just haven't seen him out and about when i've had the time.

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we got to the theater in tomorrowland around 11:30 and got pretty decent seats in the middle. not up front but not far back either. here's the theater.

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i ate my food after we got our seats. here's my hot dog (with mustard and sauerkraut), sliced apples and water from casey's.....

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when anna and company showed up i got their tickets and went and got fastpasses for space mountain for later before the show started. when i got back luke was amusing himself by letting pluto model his sunglasses.

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pluto found a seat between me and luke and here he is waiting for the show to start.

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up next.....minnie serenades.......





............GOOFY!

(you thought i was gonna say mickey, didn't you? :upsidedow)
 
Okay first, the mexican food looks yummy!!!! I love Mexican!! I might have to beg you to email me your mexican lasagna recipe!:goodvibes

I love the pics with Alice and Scrooge!! Too funny he wanted Ray out of the picture. Donald did the same thing to Chad only because he had a Mickey shirt on!:rotfl2:
 












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