I have been lurking and posting on and off for about two years now. We finally took our first trip to Disney in December (the 12-20th). I hope you don't mind me sharing a bit about our trip and some pictures of the clothes I made for my daughter?
I had planned to post pictures right away after our trip but Christmas came so soon and I needed a Disney break for a while because our trip was sort of difficult. A month before we left, my grandparents passed away within 8 days of each other and then my uncle was diagnosed with Stage III colorectal cancer between my grandparents passing away. By the time the trip came along, I was really needing a happy pick me up. We had a lot of fun when we were healthy, we had two good park days as a family before we started to get sick. We had a nice room for our first Disney vacation but we won't stay there again. I guess it was good that we got sick because we got to enjoy the view. We got to stay at two hotels and that was fun. It was like we had two trips in one, sort of.
It will be a long time before we will be able to go back to Disney World but the kids had fun and I love to sew, so I'd like to be a more active person on the Disboutiquers Board if you'll let me. PLUS, who did I luck out to meet at the entrance of Disney's Hollywood Studios but Theresa and Heather Sue!!!
It was fun to meet them in person. Sort of magical, since pretty much most of the things I sewed for my daughter had Heather Sue's designs on them. A year ago, she taught me how to machine embroider via pm but she probably doesn't remember that. It was really super cool to meet them in person!
Well, here goes...How on earth do you all get your children to stand still in pictures? I have three and I can never seem to get them to stand still, lol.
Heather Sue's appliques stitched out better than anything else I bought. I would highly, highly recommend her embroidery designs. They are the best.
and I'm not just saying that 'cause I met her, lol.
Julianna had an appt for the BBB on Tuesday morning. I woke up that morning feeling kind of strange but figured that it was all the fast food we had been eating. I took Julianna to the BBB and then the boys came to the park and we went to CRT for breakfast. Christopher and I went on the Haunted Mansion ride. Little did I know that that would be the only ride that I would get to go on at MK.
I didn't throw up or anything, just felt off. The rest of my family ended up pretty sick later in the week.
On Tuesday night we had just gotten into the park using our
MVMCP tickets, taken the kids on the carousel and lined up in Liberty Square (?) for the parade when dh told me he was really sick and had to go back to the room. I wanted the kids to see the parade so the kids and I watched the parade and then left the park and went back to the hotel.
BUT...we met some really, really nice people who were standing near us. Well, pretty much everyone was super nice. One lady offered for my kids to go up in front of her by her kids. The couple behind us I saw the next day on teh bus to DTD and they were super nice. There was a family with college children who go every year and had picked up cookies they weren't going to eat and offerred them to my kids. I wish I could tell them all again how much I appreciated their kindness.
Wednesday dh stayed in the room with Nicholas and I took Christopher and Julianna to DTD for the Frog Princess movie and then rushed back to the room to get them ready to go to 1900 Park Fare dinner. Nicholas wanted to go but I didn't think I could take all three of them by myself. There is no custom in this picture but someone THERE had a little girl in a custom that might be a disboutiquer! So if you were there at 5:30 or 6pm on Wednesday, Dec. 16th with a little girl in a Tinkerbell custom, it was super cute! Christopher was not into pictures the whole trip but he LOVED the step-sisters at Park Fare. Julianna met Prince Charming and fell in love at first sight when he told her she had the most beautiful gown in all the parks, just like his fair princess Cinderella. It was so sweet even I fell in love.
Anyhow...on Thursday, we went to AK for DS's birthday because DH was feeling better. At that point we thought it was food poisoning or something since he was the only one that had been sick throwing up. At 4pm we were trying to get to DTD to spend the gift card that Nicholas got for his birthday and were on the bus to POR to get to a bus to DTD and wham both little ones threw up on their older brother. Let's just say that at the time I think I was pretty much in tears. It was really sad. All I could think was how badly I felt that we all got sick, the horrible things people were probably thinking and saying about us and that it was supposed to be a dream trip that we would never do again...The money for the trip was gifted to us as we would never take a trip like this if we paid out of our own pocket. We'll go to Disney but never stay fancy like we did again. After everything that had happened before we took the trip, I finally broke down.
Here's the two little ones less than two hours before they got sick. It was a really humid day but they seemed normal all day, until right before they got sick. I felt horrible that they got sick. They threw up over 10 times in a little more than 2 hours by the time the dr. got to the room, which was five minutes after the birthday cake was delivered.
J's halter dress is wonky while she's sitting in the stroller. Heather Sue design that stitched out perfectly!
Friday (18th): we just stayed in the room. Didn't go anywhere by this time our oldest son had gotten sick. I did go to DTD by myself that night to pick up some things that our son wanted.
Saturday (19th) afternoon:
Saturday afternoon, I had thought Julianna and I were in the clear to go to MK. Certainly this meant good luck, right? lol...The boys were still under the weather so we left them and went to see Tink and Ariel.
Julianna and I stood in line for an hour to see Tink and another hour and a half to see Ariel, we were so excited, it wasn't that bad. Then we left the park and decided to take a boat ride for the first time on our trip. I loaded Julianna and the stroller onto the boat and someone said, oh, that's so sad...look at that autograph book floating in the water. Someone's going to be heartbroken over that. Yes. lol. That was Julianna's autograph book. At this point, what else can I say,
I was able to grab the book out of the water and tear the pages out and iron them, so all is not lost.
This is what she wore that afternoon to MK. I kind of wish now that I had used all softer colors in the patchwork, but I didn't realize that when I was sewing it. These are the first jeans I've ever appliqued more than one design on so things aren't exactly straight like they should be. The back of the one leg says...A dream is a wish your heart makes. The other designs are all Heather Sue's! The glass slipper was done using a sheer type fabric and I've washed them three or four times now and the applique looks like new. I had a pair I had put a different designer's applique on and the satin stitch wasn't as good at holding the fabric and the jeans looked really tough after one wash.
She was supposed to wear this to Chef Mickey's but we had to cancel it. She did wear it for a couple hours at DTD one night:
Anyhow, hopefully you don't mind me sharing about our trip. Don't get me wrong. We had some really, really fun and happy moments. It's just that right now, I'm still remembering a lot of the sick moments. The kids, however, they don't remember any of that at all anymore. They've started watching the Disney Vacation Planning DVD and telling us they are going back to Disney on our way home from camping this summer. I don't know who is going with them though...
and prayers, Nini.
My son had to wipe the computer clean and reinstall only the necessaties software back on. He said we had too much junk on our computer. 
Anyway I lost all of my bookmarks and favorites for all of the blogs, embroidery sites and sewing sites.
I would really appreciate it if everyone would share their favorite websites with me so I can rebuild my files.
