Christmas Cruising 2005

[KKB]

Jill--truly, you CANNOT be Tigs Mom!
Gorgeous dress!
Kris

 

[LynnTarrant]

KKB
I agree cute bunny Gorgeous dress liked the pant suit too.
Nan I'll try and post a pic of our bunnies

 

[trinibjill]

Thank you Kris. You are my friend for life. Some pictures are very deceiving.
Jill

 

[3xthecharm]

nskjerven: Soo cute. Our Cocoa Puff looked like a brown version of you furry friend. I would love to post pictures of our bunny, but we lost him to flystrike this summer. One of our friends lost their inside rabbit to it too. The vet said that the flies have been very hard on the rabbits in our area.

How is it working having the bunny inside? Smell? Care?

Sadly, it's out of the question for us. I'm allergic to the Timothy Hay. DD is allergic to the pine chips. We got two guinea pigs instead. Two months and still going strong.

My son still wishes for a new bunny, but I would worry constantly about it being outside. Flystrike is a terrible way to die.

 

[Aisling]

Shelly, the pantsuit is VERY elegant. Pantsuits are a fine alternative to dress/gown for formals. But I like this dress, too. What do you think? I found it at the link you posted.

Jill, OMG you're going to look like a real in your gown. I am not kidding!

The dress i have slated for formal night is red, also...if i can fit into it by then, that is

Dede, THAT is the deciding factor for me But dammit, I'm gonna try. I'm glad you're wearing red, too. I was a little hesitant, ever since I saw Gone With the Wind when Rhett made Scarlett wear that hot red dress to plain Jane Melanie's party, to make Scarlett look like a floozy!

Nan, wow, what a cute bunny! I didn't expect the long ears. Continued for Polly. Does she let the kids snuggle with her?

And Kandice, have you tought of a parrot for a pet? I'm not kidding, my brother and his famikly have had some bad luck with beloved pets dying on them, and they got a beautiful green parrot that talks! They love their Cookie so muck, talk to it day and night. And she is getting familiar with them that she sits on their heads and snuggles in their hair. (No poop accidents yet!) Just an idea!

I am going to be very under dressed!!!

My gramma (may she rest in peace) told me two ways to never feel underdressed: one is to get some inexpensive but beautiful jewelry to accentuate yourself, and two is to wear sexy underwear under your clothes and that'll make you feel glamourous and act glamourous and no one will even know why you'll have that seductive smile on your face and why you're walking around with an extra air of femininity.


BBL, gotta answer the phone

 

[Aisling]

Jill,
I hope our cruise doesnt get cancelled. I mean, if it does, it does. We'll just go to WDW instead. Those poor NOrleans folks come first. But I'mj ust hoping they figure out another way than cancelling our cruise. I feel really crappy writing this, like I don't give a damn about them, but I do. It's so hard to emotionally deal with this.

Victims' Next Homes: Cruise Ships, Trailers

 

[shelly3girls]

Aisling,
I actually love that dress, it is beautiful. The problem I had in the past with dresses is that my belly gets really big but the rest of me stays relatively small and dresses just show the big belly which makes me look HUGE. I bought the pantsuit but I think I will use it to eat at Palo. I went to the store today and my Mom bought me a beautiful sequined black top that will work for semi-formal night with a skirt. I am going to wait until closer to the cruise for formal night b/c I would love to get a dress like this if I can get away with it.

DeDe- You are so encouraging. With past pregnancies I was very self concious about my size. It is pretty rediculous b/c I gained 28 lbs. onto my size 4 frame but I just was not confident enough to try to pull off pregnancies and feel good about myself. I am determined to wear stylish clothes this time and show off my beautiful belly. My goal is to be a positive example to my DDs and show them you can feel good about yourself no matter what your size.

I am proud to say that I have a new bathing suit for the cruise and I feel awesome in it. I can't wait for my big belly to fill it in!

 

[3xthecharm]

Aisling: Funny, we have to parakettes(sp?). DS loves them. The one has started to let him hold him.
Total count: 2 birds, 2 guinea pigs, and 1 dog. One more pet and I'll start to feel like Mrs. Noah.

I like the black dress, too sis. The high but definite waistline would show off your trim top.

DD4 starts preschool tommorow (along with Shelly3girls' DD4). I just need to make it through to dropping her off in the room without crying. DH thinks this is funny since I'll be working right in the building with her, just downstairs.

 

[trinibjill]

How about both outfits? The pant suit for the semi & the dress for formal?

Aisling - I like Grim's thought. Carnival has 21 ships - Disney has 2. It wouldn't make sense for them to go that route to help the victims. They have many other things they can do.

Also, I agree, if they do this we will be joining you in Disney World.

Jill

 

[Aisling]

If I were younger, I'd buy this dress just to have in my closet. I think it's SO pretty, like a dress a free-spirit young lady would wear, preferably barefoot. Ah, to be young again!

Jill, how's Tig? We miss her!

 

[nskjerven]

Thanks so much all of you for your awwwwws to Polly Bun. She is an exceptional rabbit. She was the bunny at DS pre-school for about 1 year + and the director left (sad story, not her choice) so we volunteered to adopt Miss Polly Bun, just last May. We had known her since she came to the school, just a little handful then. She hopped around the room everyday and was very played with and petted by the preschoolers. Since I knew she was so well played with I knew we would have lots of snuggle time with her. At first when she moved in with us, I think we blew it and left her alone too much. It was hard having her outside. Her old cage was on the ground and at school they would just open it and she would hop out. We have a real hutch, for which she needs to be picked up and set down and the ground to run around. Just dawned on me as I typed this that is why she is so hard to catch. I think now that she is inside we will continue the daily dose of love and snuggles. Both Molly & Wil are happy to tickle her under the chin and on the ears thru her cage, and then when she is out they pet her with ease. I talk too much huh? Yes, btw, the room smells and the hair is bad and I'm allergic to cats, so I figure I'm allergic to her too, but too late I love her like one of the kids. She's in to stay (at least for now)

OK, love the dress talk. Got me looking today too. I got a short dark red dress, I'll photograph later for approval. It isn't dressy enough for formal, but pretty, so what the heck. Oh yeah, it was from Nordstrom rack, 60% of last marked price....total price...15.99, ha. Doesn't matter if I wear it once at that cost.

Shelley, I wish I had my prego body again. I loved the look. Very sexy I think. I was lucky and lost weight during my pregancies, so it was a good clothes time for me.

I have to add that I'm very sad for the Katrina victims, but I also hope it won't impact our trip. If it does, oh well, but since we've planned this for so long I really hope we can see it thru this Xmas. I don't think we'd make the trip to WDW if we couldn't do the cruise too. It's just not the same in my mind to not to both.

I figure soon we, at school or girl scout troop will start to figure out how we can help. Last year our troop donated cookie money to the Red Cross for tsunami and Molly's class did a recycle drive and rasied I think +$300. That doesn't sound really like a lot I know, but we have a very large immigrant population at our school so it was very much a sign of genorosity that even those who don't have alot themselves gave to the cause. I'm thinking that maybe our troop can try to help out a sister troop in New Orleans.

Well, pretty late here on the west coast and back to school tomorrow...should get to bed..

Tiggie, where are you? You ok?

Nan

 

[tiggerwannabe]

Sorry I've been a little scarce...

I'm okay...spent my whole weekend with hubby

We watched movies, he cooked, the kids were off doing their thing...we didn't go to one BBQ this weekend. It was nice to forget the world's dilemmas for a couple days.

I'm caught up with my reading, it's so nice that everyone gets along so nicely


I have some editing to do on my who's cruising link-I've been slacking on that duty lately

My latest thought on the cruise is if I buy the internet package am I able to pay for that ahead of time and mny excursions?

I want to have enough credit onboard to not have charges to worry about when I go home.

The outfits are adorable

I'm leaning towards red for formal, brown is very popular of late-maybe I'll get a brown dress for semi-formal...some of us were speaking of doing Palo on semi-formal night...isn't that the night the pics would be with Captain Mickey and Crusin Minnie? Can we do Palo and still get pics with Mickey and Minnie?

Formal night has the pics of Mickey, Goofy and Donald in their tuxes and Minnie in her white gown correct?

Mom, Tori, Grim, Dede ... help me out here?

 

[tiggerwannabe]

Okay-now I'm gonna scream a little!

I have to copy my itinerary and who's cruising list over to our new thread

Since our original thread was locked I can no longer edit it---sooooo----I'll be messing with that later, I've got work to do.

~It's payroll week again~

 

[nskjerven]

Tigg: that sucks....good luck. I guess best to save everything offline in case we are priated again, 'eh?

Sounds like a nice weekend. I figure Paul and I will have one of those in 10-15 years....Molly @ 18-23 well on her own & Wilson will be 15-20 by then and maybe outta our hair for a weekend. Seems like it will never happen....but then again it's hard to believe we celebrate our 9th wedding anniversary and 14 together anniversary this year, so time really does fly.

Off to a new doctor this morning. My last one keep yelling at me about my weight....just not the kind of support I need. Come on, I know I weigh too much, ya think I can't see that??? Encouragement, ok, complaining, not good... Wish me luck with this one for a personality fit.

N

 

[tiggerwannabe]

My list is not totally lost

it now has to be moved-I have to copy it over,
and I may lose the coloring and may have to manually add the photos back on...

annoying-not lost

~How are you feeling today?~

-Hope everyone is having a day-

 

[grimgrinnin]

Formal night has the pics of Mickey, Goofy and Donald in their tuxes and Minnie in her white gown correct?
Mom, Tori, Grim, Dede ... help me out here?

We had Mickey and Minnie:

grim

 

[domiii]

What a handsome foursome, especially the two in the middle!!!!

 

[trinibjill]

How's this for interesting. The refugees are refusing to go on the cruise ships?

 

[tiggerwannabe]

Beautiful picture John!

I was hoping to get a group shot in the atrium-do we grab a ship's photographer to do that or do you think we'd have to do our own?


I was playing with my photobucket - Here's an oldie but a goodie

I uploaded my Dec WDW trip from 04 into my photobucket, click below to see the slideshow...be forewarned!!! There are over 200 pictures in this show!

http://photobucket.com/albums/a42/M...1IOA_ENTRANCE.jpg&slideshow=paused&interval=3

 

[domiii]

I was hoping to get a group shot in the atrium-do we grab a ship's photographer to do that or do you think we'd have to do our own?

Somewhere I read to grab a ship's photopgrapher. I bet if we ask at guest services .... seems from what I have read they will do what they can to make it specail for all.

How's this for interesting. The refugees are refusing to go on the cruise ships?

Perhaps, as stupid as it sounds, it's hard to let go, even if there is nothing there?