Christmas Cruising 2005

[minniegrl]

Hi All!

What a cute picture, Nan! I love how you're all "themed" all the time. Paul is such a great guy to let you dress him up all the time! hehe How was your party? I bet it was a blast!

Well today is the big baby shower! I can't wait. Since there are four women in my house, all trying to get ready, I have found myself with a little free time. I will have John post some pictures from the shower if we get some decent ones.

My belly is really starting to stick out now, and Piper has been really active this week. I had my first swollen ankles last night, after walking all over the airport, then shopping with my "girls" and going out for dinner last night. They weren't pretty, and looked totally foreign to me. Someone told me that the more water you drink the less you swell. Do any of you girls know anything about that?

Well, time for me to get dressed and put some makeup on.

Hope all is well with everyone. Enjoy the rest of your weekends!

Dede

 

[Aisling]

I had my first swollen ankles last night, after walking all over the airport, then shopping with my "girls" and going out for dinner last night. They weren't pretty, and looked totally foreign to me. Someone told me that the more water you drink the less you swell. Do any of you girls know anything about that?

Dede, both times when I was pregnant I had swollen ankles several times. And yes, I was told to drink lots of water. The water you're retaining in your swollen ankles is not the same kind of water you drink. So drink up, girl! And gentle ankle massage to stimulate drainage through your system. Sounds lovely, doesn't it!

I hope hope hope you post pictures from your shower. Can't wait to see your belly!

And Nan, I second what Dede said about Paul being such a good sport with the outfits. You're such a cool family. Chad commented that Wilson "got so big!"

Last night Chad and Louise went over to see David Blaine in the water bubble thing. They were there at 1 in the morning, and there was till a 30 minute line to get up right up to the bubble. Chad called me and said "I'm touching the glass right now, David Blaine is waving, he's laying at the bottom of the bubble". I want to go today with Jesse, because tomorrow night he comes out, after holding his breath for 9 minutes! If we go see tomorrow night, it's going to be packed over there and we won't even get close.

Tig, I heard from a little birdie that you were having allergy problems. I hope it's better, it sounded like you were really having a hard time.

Nan, how's mom?

 

[tiggerwannabe]

You're lurking on the threadkiller thread again aren't you

Yeah...my allergies are really annoying but the hives are fading slooooowly~

It's nice to see the updates from everybody...

LYMI~

 

[nskjerven]

Aisling:

That David Blane thing was a trip. Did you go?

Things are not great with mom nor working with Leeanna over issues with mom. I'll leave it at that.

Wilson has strep throat. Molly is good. Paul is working like a dog. I'm ok...might have an ear thing coming on again, or maybe allergies.

hmmmmm....guess that's about it.

Kids last weekend with THE ROCK in the background at Norway Days in SF for dancing event.....

That's all folks.....

 

[tiggerwannabe]

Sorry to hear Nan and Happy to see you!

The kids look gorgeous in their Norwegian finest

Tell everybody I said Hi!

Even when I'm not posting you are all in my thoughts fellow Christmas Cruisers

I'm off today so I'm cleaning and doing laundry. I have a pampered chef demo to go to tonight and a first holy communion party tomorrow then back to work ...

I set up my work laptop in my room while cleaning, hubby broke the one Mom gave me...why is it so hard to find a comfortable spot with these little things. In my lap is too low, I get that crick in my neck and a backache. soooo, I put it on top of a set of drawers hubby uses...it seems to be a good height, we'll see.

LYMI! cj.

 

[tiggerwannabe]

Ahhhh, the things we find when perusing the boards

 

[Aisling]

Happy Mother's Day to all us wonderful mothers!

Tig, wow I haven't seen that picture in a while. I think Chad would be mortified if he saw it.

Nan, here are a couple of pictures from the line by David Blaine. Then the camera battery went dead. It was about 1:30 AM, so lighting is bad. Chad has a picture on his cell phone right up at the bubble , but I have to get him to send it to me.

It was good to see another picture of Molly and Wilson. I hope you're taking it easy this weekend. Stress can make you sick.

I have to do some trip planning. I've hardly done anything, made only 1 ADR, but did I tell you I got an Illuminations cruise?

I'll check in later. LYMI

 

[tiggerwannabe]

Only 1 ADR!?!?!

Your pics from the Blaine line are cool!

I was happy to find your pic on that bloopers thread...it was a post dated from 2005!

Has Chad done anything with the water camera shots yet? I'd really like to see them...

6 more weeks my friend and you'll be saying Hi to us from WDW again!!! I'm sooo happy for you, I know you'll have a great time~

 

[grimgrinnin]

I've hardly done anything, made only 1 ADR, but did I tell you I got an Illuminations cruise?

Yay! I loved the Illuminations cruise. It's like being a rock-star for a day.
Been pretty quite around here. Work has been killing me. Client is launching in a brand new category on amazon today, and it's been pretty stressful. Should calm down here in a few days.

 

[Aisling]

Hi, is anyone reading this????????

I joined Tour Guide Mike, and although the info is very VERY valuable, you practically have to have a PhD to navigate the site! Or else it's just me!

I've been waiting for a good code to come out...yeah right before my dates and right after have come out. But I still had my special phone number/code to use just in case.

Nan, I hope you haven't been away from the Dis because of something with your mom. I know there were some problems. Our love to you and all your family.

Grim, hope things have calmed down for you. How's Dede?

Tiggie, I haven't been lurking lately, but I probably will later. Your TKers are a bunch of cool beans!

 

[nskjerven]

yup, I've been off my rocker with mom stuff. Her doctor layed it out that we have to take TOTAL control, right down to daily med management...

so not much time to rattle off at the mouth lately...

But I think of you guys everyday and reflect on our great vacation and wonder if we'll get to do it again in the future.

the kids keep asking me to plan a WDW vacation via the london trip, but just not sure it will happen that way.

paul has agreed on london, but to be honest I'm so overwhelmed with mom's stuff that it makes it hard for me to plan anything fun like that.

so...of to get the brownies today, we've got a meeting with some older girls this afternoon and bridging up to juniors this weekend. the acitivities never end...

lymi,

N

p.s you've gotta invite me into the TKs..paste link here....I could use some more humor right about now.

 

[tiggerwannabe]

MY COMPUTER AT HOME IS BEING RETARDED AGAIN, i'M ACTUALLY AT WORK POSTING THIS...

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=12746836#post12746836

There's your link Nan, join us PLEASE!

The TKers are an awesome, supportive, FUN group! Someday Aisling will come out of lurkerdom and join us in some actual conversation~

LYMI~!

cj.

 

[minniegrl]

Hi all!

I'm doing grea, Aisling. Thanks for asking! John felt Piper move for the first time this morning. It was so exciting. I really thought that it was too early, but I think the key is a full bladder. Anyway, I called him in this morning because she's always pretty active first thing in the morning. I felt her moving, so I put my hand on my tummy, and I could feel her from the outside! John came in just in time to feel her 3 times before she settled down. The expression on his face was priceless.

Other than that, I'm just gearing up for the last week of school. I'm so happy to be finishing things up so I can concentrate on baby stuff full time for a few months.

Nan, sorry to hear about things with your Mom. Its always hard when you have to take over the life of an adult for them. I went through the initial stages when I lived with my Gpa for 6 months before I moved out to PHX. Its a sad thing. My thoughts are with you and your family.

OH, and one last note for today! We finally got a closing date - June 15th! Wahoo!

Bye for now!

 

[tiggerwannabe]

That's Great News!

Did his face look something like this? ~ You knew one day I would use this picture against you, didn't you John?






LYMI ~

 

[nskjerven]

Hello dear friends:

Happy Early Memorial Day Holiday weekend to you.

I'm up early for a meeting (yuck) then we are off to the Lake to take Mom home for a few days and packing more stuff of hers to bring back here.

Hope you are all safe and have a great weekend.

LYMI,

N

 

[tiggerwannabe]

 

[nskjerven]

hello from sunny california. we're home from the lake. quick up and pack and back home. nice to sleep back in my own bed last night. we're watching the races today. monaco and indy. we're f1 fans, but have to see what's happening with the girl driver too. this weekend there was an article on the front cover of our sports section about go karting....good gracious, paul told me not to read it. I think he thinks I'll pull wilson's plug. wil has a race the weekend of 7/9, but that is the opening of pofc and I want to do dland that weekend. not sure what will happen then. we got our london tiks. we travel 8/5-8/22, now the planning begins. chicken says hi, wants to know what is going on...I told him that the baby moved, anything else going on out there? going to snop over on ebay thing morning. wilson decided to set up dland in his room (we have monorail, orange stinger, triton's carosel (sp) and of course the castle which hasn't even been outta the box yet) I'm going to see if I can find any other pieces there, we bought these over the past few years and of course now they are done making/selling them.

ta ta,

N

 

[LynnTarrant]

Hey Nan hope you are planning to drop in on us while you are here we'd love to see you and the children, let me know what your plans are and maybe we can do something together if you'd like to?

 

[nskjerven]

oh yes, I would love that. Molly of course would want to see the bun! The wedding is on 8/12 in surrey, other than that we haven't made plans, so tell me what looks good to you guys so that we can plan it make it a date. I'll pm you so we can chat thru email to nail down the rest of the plan....yipee I'm making plans so it has to be a vacation now!!

N

 

[tiggerwannabe]

Sorry guys, my internet's been down and now I have a party to go to so this'll be short...

Nan, great to hear from you, it sounds like that weekend may be a split one eh? Have you tried WDWMerchandising to find the pieces you need for Wil's room? Maybe they have some left in stock or can tell you where to get them.

Aisling, we really need to hook up a play date! My fil told me yesterday one of his family's kids were upset cause they only came home with 1 statue of liberty, he mentioned getting one for the kid and I thought it'd be a great excuse to see you. I bet everybody's busy with the school year ending and summer's official kick off today.

Brittany went to the shore with a carload of her friends, the rest of my clan will be at my sister's SIL's house for a bbq. Mom admitted last night that she hasn't been on the DIS at all in a while, I'm sure she's busy with her skating competitions, work and riding her motorcycle.

Lynn, I miss our little impromptu conversations, I can almost hear you when you write. Tell hubby Hi for me, he was great company too-you two are the sweetest

Dede and John, closing next month! I bet you two are soooo ready for this move.

I've been talking to Sharon (Havencruiser) about hooking up at the Disney fans gathering in Allentown & think I think she's gonna make it. Her daughter Tara is doing a study with Cornell this summer so I won't get to see her.

I gotta get going, I did say this would be short...Happy Memorial Day everybody I hope you all have an awesome summer!

LYMI,

colleen.