love all the pictures. Can't wait to see your latest bags.
I enjoyed Wreck It Ralph too. I still need to watch Brave but we did family movie night with it on Friday.
Thanks Chiara! How have you been feeling?
We didn't like Brave all that much.
I know that people just raved about it, but we like the "classic Disney princess" storylines - where they fall in love and live happily ever after... So, Brave just does not rank in our top anything.
We loved Wreck it Ralph though... V watched it again yesterday.
I'm so far behind on your PTR, but I wanted to say I love that peace Mickey bag and the pics of the girls are precious!
Hi Christine!!! No worries about being behind - it happens. Glad you stopped by though - it's great to see you.
First I have to say what great photos of your girls!! You're right, they would kill you if they found out. haha But what a great representation of their spontaneity and joy for life. I hope they never loose that.
LOL - I know... But those pictures just cracked me up - they totally show their personalities... All we were missing was a good sisterly fight.
I think you would be fine with two fans. I took two for the three of us in Sept of 2011 and it was fine. When it's just Dan and I, I just take one. I'm so jealous you get to meet RuthIE and that
Walmart sounds awesome! I'm not usually a Walmart gal, but I'd make an exception for that one.
I am thinking that 2 fans will be just fine too. I am very excited to meet everyone I am meeting so far... Suzi, Erin, Kathy, Ruthie... I hope I am not missing anyone...
I am seriously getting excited for YOUR trip! When you talk about eating a BOG, I can picture the three times we ate there in December and it was just so fabulous! I want to be there right now. And one of these trips you should try Teppan Edo. We really like it. There are just so many great places to try. Next trip we are going to Chef Mickey for the first time. Someone on here, don't know who it could be, but someone was pretty persistent in wanting everyone to try CM. So, I can't think of a trip to Disney and NOT eat there.
I can't believe you ate at BoG 3 times!!! WOW!!! That's awesome... I know we should try Teppan Edo - but I am not sure I can talk the girls into that one... Maybe once they are older.
LOL about Chef Mickey's... I can't imagine who you are talking about?
Oh, I love sloppy joes!! I can have them, but no bun. Don't know if it would be the same. I know what you mean about the microwave. I used it for lots of things. It's hard not to use it now. I bought some gluten free cookies that were about $4 for the box. I opened them last night and it had exactly 10 very small cookies in it! Won't be buying those again!
Yikes about the cookies... I hate it when companies do that to you... and even worse when you don't have much of a choice.
I can't wait to see your auction item. You have me intrigued now. I don't remember if I said what my latest project was, but I made 2 dresses and hats of my MIL's goose. She didn't have a St. Patricks day outfit or an Easter outfit, so I copied the ones she had and made them for her. With a name like McGurk, she has to have a St. Pat's dress!! I'm also working on a Big Give item which won't take too long to finish. I'm loving my new machine!
Did you post the goose outfits? I have not been over to the Disbou thread in a few days... Glad you love your new machine.
I love to hear how you've met people. That story with Maryann could not be made up. Seems as though it was meant to be. And I enjoyed hearing about your Dis-meet in NC last year. You proved to yourself you could fly all by your onesie and live to tell about it. I love seeing people conquer their fears.
I know - Marianne was definately fate, with a bit of airline intervention - of course. I loved going out to NC to meet her and her family again... I hope to do it again some day. And now I feel like an "old pro"... I've flown over the ocean, flown with the girls and taken a vacation on our own, and I've flown all by myself - all in the span of a year... Considering that I didn't take my first flight until I was 23, that's pretty good.
Hope you're having a great day today. We are watching church on our computer. It's our son's church which we love but live too far away to attend. They do a live feed so once in a while we "go" to that church. It's awesome! Then we are going to a movie and later tonight a concert at a church downtown with friends. I'm hoping to get down to the sewing room a bit in between.
When I was little, we used to watch church on TV all the time... How cool that they do it by live feed. I hope you had a great night - it sounds like fun! And I hope you got down to your sewing room.
Hi D, So here is our schedule. Our Epcot days match (we don't have any TS that day, we are eating around the world.) I honestly think it is just going to be a long day and we won't break since it is our only day at Epcot. So we are totally flex. Also we will be at the same resort so I've indicated possible days we might be able to meet up with you. And I'd LOVE to meet anyone else there at the same time if our schedules match! Especially if you are at the resort. Some days I plan to have V in bed earlier so you can always come later at night too after she's asleep. I have to stay nearby of course... If anyone else wants to meet up, PM me!
Thanks Erin for taking the time to write this out for me! Our Epcot day is going to be a very long one as well - same for us - it's our only Epcot day. I was talking to Alli about it yesterday, and she was like... Pfft... I only want to ride a couple of rides... Soarin', Living with the Land, Turtle Talk with Crush, Mission Space, Test Track... LOL That's more than a "couple rides" and will likely take us a lot of the day. Thankfully - we probably won't be spending much time in WS - which kind of bums me out, but as much as we think it's cool, it's just not our thing.
Tues Aug 20 - Ohana at 11 with V's parents, Check In, Typhoon Lagoon. I hope to be back at the resort by 6 and do dinner and then have V in bed by 8 at the latest. So we might be able to meet up after you guys get back from AK.
Possibly... I am pretty sure there will be lots of nights of swimming for the girls - especially since we are pool view.
Wed Aug 21 - Magic Kingdom. I don't know if we are breaking this day. I doubt we will. we will be there early for BBB at 8:30 and CRT at 5:15 for dinner. We plan to stay and see Wishes.
Yah - this is going to be a full day for us too.
Thurs Aug 22 - Animal Kingdom. I booked Tusker house for 8:15 am otherwise we are open. and we will be at the resort in the evening from probably 6:30 ish onwards.
This is going to be an incredibly busy day for us... After dinner at CRT - we plan to stay at MK until close, this is our night to explore FLE.
Fri Aug 23 - Hollywood Studios. We have reservations for Hollywood & Vine at 8 am and 50's at 6:20. I'm not sure if we will see fantasmic or not or if we will break. We saw fantasmic last year and it wasn't a highlight for us. we did the package and by the time we got there our seats were bad and it was so full (it was july) V was scared, so I'm going to let her decide. I'd like to see it, since I have a hard time not seeing everything but it's not a huge deal if we don't. and we missed a fair bit last time. If we do break and you happen to be at the resort (that's doubtful tho) than possibly.
Will you have a cell phone when you come to the US? If so - we will exchange #s, and we can kind of text to keep eachother updated. This is our off day, and I am really trying to keep our days off as days off, with exception to skipping over to DTD.
Saturday Aug 24. This is our off day (ha!) we will sleep in, to to POR pool in the AM for just a little while then head to DTD for a little bit and lunch. take the boat back to POFQ and V can go in the pool there for a couple hours. She is dying for this pool! The concession for booking POR over POFQ was then she'd get the pool for at least 2 hours lol. Then boat back to POR and get ready for dinner 445 at Park Fare. This will be an earlier night too. V must be in bed by 8 I am hoping for earlier we will be up super early the next day. (unlikely that we would see you this day)
This will be a very full day for us too... Since it is our only DHS day... I am not sure if we will break. I am also not sure if we will see F!... We've only seen it once, and I am not sure if the girls remember that much about it? It's something I would enjoy seeing again, but since it's AM EMH this morning - I am not sure how late we will stay, unless we break in the afternoon.
Sunday Aug 25th - MK- At the parks super early. We are doing the family magic tour that morning. We have dinner at BOG for 455 and V wants to do the dessert party. Unlikely that we will see you this day as if we do break you'll be at the waterpark.
Yes, this is true... This will also be a full day for us...
Monday Aug 26th Epcot. I am pretty sure we will stay for illuminations. We don't have any reservations booked for this day so we are pretty wide open.
We will be at Epcot alllll day... We may break in the middle? But I am pretty sure we will be back for Illuminations, considering we have a day off the next day.
Tues Aug 27th - our last day - Magic Kingdom we have 8:15 at Park Fare and then will be headed to the park to stalk Mary Poppins. and hopefully just spend the day getting in everything we weren't able to get in. We will end our day with a 5 pm dinner at Chef Mickeys. V's parents will be meeting us at the Contemporary. I'm going to say 7 pm (I hope! to allow for them being behind). They will drive to POR and get V's Suitcase and say good bye.
I don't think we will see you this day either? Although we do have an ADR at CM... but it's much earlier.
I'm not entirely sure what I am doing this night. I will be flying home the next day so we could maybe meet up that night since it is your off day, if you don't have other plans. I don't know what I am doing as far as where I will be spending the night. It's easier to just stay at POR BUT I can't really justify spending an extra $100 just for me, to sleep in a room. I will likely take a cab (if disney can't transfer my luggage for me) to POP or AOA for a 1 night room only. I will fly home on the 28th. the flight will be midday I think.
I understand... I think we will be spending most of the day at the resort after we have brunch with Ruthie... I am going to have to insist that the girls have a "nap time" on our days off... I would never call it that to them - but they are going to have to take some time to rest, I don't want Alli getting sick again like last time - that was awful.
So that's our schedule in a nutshell! Epcot day will work for sure. but if something else works better that would be great too.
Cool - thanks for taking the time to write this out for me!
Love the pictures of the girls...they are both so beautiful, braces or not
Awww... Thank you. I nearly cried when I found those pictures on the computer, because it's just such a wonderful representation of their relationship. Despite my best efforts (their entire lives) to make them the best of friends and not succeeding... They are slowly coming around. But let me tell you - when they fight... YIKES! I can't even get in the middle anymore to pull them apart, it's dangerous!
No, you definitely don't need three fans...I was just going to let you pick which ones you wanted. I have one that sprays water and two just regular....they all have little carabiner clips so they are easy to tote along.
Cool - these sound awesome!
Do I have a LLBean outlet near me??? Oh yes my dear. I have a couple outlets close by, but I would rather go to the flagship store in Freeport. I just love shopping in Freeport, so I will take any excuse to go there...lots of upscale outlets! But, I want to caution you, I was just reading the reviews on this years BeanSport tees and it seems that they have changed them a lot. Different neckline, looser fit...I will have to try them and let you know how bad they are. As for colors...I would just get them all...the light blue is good for Donald...the light purple would be a Daisy-ish look. And the black and white just go with anything. The black was not too hot at all. I am going to get at least one more black one for this year.
Yes, try them out and let me know... I would love to get a couple for our trip... I prefer V necks though - crew necks always feel like they are strangling me. Hopefully they are loose enough... I am hoping that Lands End comes out with modal tanks again... I LOVE my long sleeved modal tees I got this winter - that fabric is nice and light... And they do have some left over modal sleeveless tees from last year, but nothing yet for this year. I'd love to get a few if they ever bring them out.
Aloha! I was finally able to get my ADRs made and got my first choices for each day, including BOG. We're going to do the dessert party one night but I can't make that reservation until August.
Yay!!! So glad you got your ADRs!!!! How is Hawaii??? I am sure it's magnificant!
It's great news about Alli' s schedule for next year. My three older kids all took honors or AP classes in high school. My youngest did not do well her first two years, mainly because she didn't think she could measure up to her older brother. She finally decided that she should be allowed to take AP English in 11th grade, so I agreed to let her try. I think she even surprised herself by making the honor role that year. She was recommended by her English teacher for the yearbook class in 12th grade and also took AP English that year. All she needed was the knowledge that we believed in her.
Good for you... I agree - believing in someone really gives them the courage to succeed... It sounds like all of your children were lucky to have that from you and your DH.
We watched Wreck it Ralph yesterday and the kids really enjoyed it. I loved all the references to past games I used to play. Did you happen to pause the movie at anytime?
Great pictures of the girls. Both the good one's and the fun one's.
I loved the references too... It was such a fun movie! It didn't surprise me at all that it was directed by John Lasseter, he is just amazing! I did not pause the movie - but I did hear that if you did, there were Hidden Mickey's all over - which is cool.
Thanks for the compliments on the pictures.
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Yesterday did not turn out at all as I'd intended...
First of all... Josh wanted to go price dryers - ours is almost dead (we've limped it along for almost a year), and we were planning to purchase one with our tax refund. Josh wanted to buy a whole new washer/dryer set - but the frugal person I am, I can't justify purchasing a new washer just to purchase one - there is nothing wrong with ours - yet. Knock on wood. Josh also wanted to get something nicer than what we have... Well - I managed to talk him out of that too... Realistically - I want the same dryer that we have - the appliance place still carries the newer version of it - and we have had ours for almost 10 years, which is a pretty good run for a dryer... Considering I do several loads a day, and when the girls were younger, even more... We definately got our use out of it. And now that it's an "older model" - we can get it for a decent price. So, I think I've talked him into going that route.
When we came home, after much talk about what we'd like to do with our refund, we decided to sit down and rework our budget for the year. We stick to a pretty strict budget, but with Feb being such a nasty month for us - we need to get more $$ into savings...
So, when it comes right down to it - I am not going to have as much $$ out of our refund as I would have liked. The good thing, is now our trip is officially in the budget, but... It's still going to be tough to save up enough to pay it off on time. Because my hours at Target aren't what they used to be, and I've transferred a lot of my income to my bags, I need to contribute more to our budget from my bags. Which means - almost all of my custom orders will go straight to the budget - it's only fair... Honestly, I know how fortunate I am that I get to be here all day, every day and do what I love - the only way this is possible is because Josh goes to work every single day and works very hard. I am lucky and I know it. So, only my auctions will be going towards our trip... Which means, I really need to get my behind in gear and start working on my big auction for this spring/summer - our trip really hinges on it.
Which comes to... In all likelyhood, unless Disney comes to their senses... I may have to drop a couple days off of our trip... I don't want to do this - but it has always been part of the plan. Our trip HAS to stay under a certain amount - if that can't be done, then I need to make it happen - the only way to do that is to stay for less time. Yes, it sucks, but more importantly - we are very lucky that we get to go at all, and we should be happy about that. If we have to take off days, the first option to go will be the water parks... I know that this will not make the girls happy - but they are not willing to give up their park days either - and I feel in August it's important for them to have days off too... So that leaves the water parks. In the end - it will all come together, but we just have to wait to see what Disney does. We are still going - but they are only going to get so much $$ from us, so the release of their codes will depend on how long we get to stay. I went online last night and made the extra necessary ADRs we'd need if our trip changes, I was very happy to be able to snag the ones I wanted... Fortunately - our MK days would stay the same, so I did not have to change the hard ones (CP, CRT, LTT & BoG).
I plan to rework our trip schedule this morning, before I go up to my sewing room, to accomodate any of our changes. I will not post this new schedule until we know for sure what is going on - I don't want to confuse everyone.
Josh made an amazing dinner last night... NUM... Rib eyes, hashbrowns and corn... It was amazing!!! It's my favorite meal! OK, ok , one of my favorite meals - my problem is that I have too many favorites.
Today - I will be starting my next custom order. On the side - I will be working on my auction bag as well... Custom orders always come first - but once I meet my daily benchmark, I can set it aside and work on the auction bag... Hopefully I will finish it by the end of the week, and I can move on to my big auciton bags this weekend.
I hope you all have a wonderful day today.
D~
Her favorite color is purple and she loves tie dye!
If I don't have a good bout of at least four swear words in a row, I don't feel like the product is complete. 
The people that arranged it were a little annoyed that no one saved any cupcakes for me - LOL... But that's OK - it was still very nice of them, and it gave me nice warm fuzzies. 
They are such goof-balls!
Won't be buying those again!
