Fun Crazy: I made it - I can't believe it's really here!

[hlrababy]

Hey, just checking in with you! Did you finally decide on a costume yet?

 

[hlrababy]

I love your slide shows! Of course, they made me teary eyed!!

 

[Alysa]

Thanks Hlrababy!
I still have not decided. I wanted to pick up the kids costumes first at the Disney store and see if they had any good adult ones first. But I may run out of time...I'll do DH's Shang costume first (heh heh) and then decide...
I have one more video of DS on our homeless trip (we were moving and had no house for a month so we went to Vero beach and Disney for two of those weeks) and it is my sons last trip were he was a baby at 8 months.
I hope to finish and post it soon!

 

[Alysa]

OH MY GOSH!

I entered the Share Your Favourite Disney Parks YouTube contest with that video of DD and Tigger and I have been contacted as one of the possible ten finalists!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They are going to let me know on the 11th, how exciting!!!!

I'll let you know if we make it!

 

[Alysa]

I am soooooo sad!!!!!!

They sent me the rules and regs and I saw that you have to be a legal resident of the US. WHICH I AM NOT!!!!

I called them and said a friend at MIT in Boston would submit it for us and the fellow I talked to said that we would not be able to because the official deadline date was over and that he was so disappointed because it was his favourite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am SOO depressed! It's official. I never win ANYTHING! Not once. In my whole entire life! MY sister on the other hand wins everything. She has never not won something from the Princess Margaret Lottery.

Oh well. I get lucky because it was my memory, right? I always say I'm unlucky in contests but lucky in life.

PS. The prize was an all inclusive trip to Disneyland. Where I have never been. Ever. And they have 10 000 league ride there again. Which I loved.
Oh well.

 

[hlrababy]

I am soooooo sad!!!!!!

They sent me the rules and regs and I saw that you have to be a legal resident of the US. WHICH I AM NOT!!!!

I called them and said a friend at MIT in Boston would submit it for us and the fellow I talked to said that we would not be able to because the official deadline date was over and that he was so disappointed because it was his favourite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am SOO depressed! It's official. I never win ANYTHING! Not once. In my whole entire life! MY sister on the other hand wins everything. She has never not won something from the Princess Margaret Lottery.

Oh well. I get lucky because it was my memory, right? I always say I'm unlucky in contests but lucky in life.

PS. The prize was an all inclusive trip to Disneyland. Where I have never been. Ever. And they have 10 000 league ride there again. Which I loved.
Oh well.

Awww, I am sorry!!!! That really stinks!

 

[Alysa]

Awww, I am sorry!!!! That really stinks!

Thanks hon'!
I'm okay now. And I really don't mind. I am lucky in life! DH is at the lab again tonight so to make myself feel better I created our final family trip video!

Here it is - so background: We were homeless for a month while our house was being sold and our new one was not ready yet. What to do...hmmm...Disney!!
So after two weeks at my grandfathers condo while he was on a golf walkabout, we took off for 10 days at vero and 4 at Wilderness Lodge. Our absolute favourite resort. DD liked it for the pool and the "free" hot chocolate she could take her mug and go get any time she liked. I guess because we don't have a lot of sweets at home, that is her favourite special treat when we are out. And isn't DS so ridiculously chubbers?! Anyway, it was heaven and making the slide show really made me want to go back again. And the song is apt because it is:
1. About going home, which we did.
2. My son's favourite movie song to sing to, and it was his first trip that he didn't sleep though 99.9% of.
3. Very wilderness lodge-ish, where we stayed. I guess I could have put some Copeland to it too but I felt like I had to stick to the Disney music theme.
Now the only question is what music to use for our next trip. In 60 days!!!!!

Our most recent trip to Disney - too long ago!

 

[Diamondintheruff]

WOW!!!

Loved the video. That must have taken alot of time to put it together. I love how you matched some of the lyrics with the pictures (moon, sun, wind etc).

 

[Alysa]

Thanks Diamondintheruff!
Not too long - imovie is really easy. The most time consuming part is taking out the zooms it puts in automatically. Anyone know how to do that witha ll the shots at once?
It is so worth spending the time making the video because DS and DD love watching it. (And I do too!)

I finally watched the Disney World Planning Video that Disney sent me. It was ridiculous. I sat there beside DS with DD on my lap and she and I had a good little happy cry together. DS is SO excited!

Plus we finally made our advent calendar. It has 25 pockets so we are going to run through it twice, starting in 8 days! I want to go by the Dollarama and get some fun treats for it. DD sewed for the first time, I'm so proud of her!). She did ten of the mickey heads (you can see one or two in the photo). I told her I wanted to take a photo so she HAD to go upstairs and put on her Cinderella outfit on first. I can't believe how different DS looks in the photo compared to the video. My babies are growing up so fast!

Okay the photos are not loading onto the site very well. I'll update this post with those as soon as they go up! Now it's back to work for me. Hope you all had a great weekend, cheers!

 

[Alysa]

Hi Alysa,

I just double checked with our legal team. Unfortunately this YouTube contest is only open to U.S. citizens, so we won't be able to include you as a finalist. We're very sorry that you're not eligible, we just loved your video! But please keep coming back to our YouTube page, we plan on creating new contests over the year and we will try to open up other contests to Canadian residents as well.

Thanks,
Scott

If you can picture me my head is down onmy desk and I am sobbing.
Well, not really that bad. But it sucks!

 

[Diamondintheruff]

I guess you'd better start practising the phrase "It was such an honour to even be nominated" with the glazed look in your eyes and the static smile on your face.

 

[Alysa]

I finally figured out the images!

 

[Diamondintheruff]

The kids look so big now!

That countdown is quite a project. I'm impressed.

 

[Alysa]

Thanks Diamond!
The countdown was worth it - the kids come tearing down every morning asking - "Is today the day we start the countdown?!!??!"
Well DD does, DS just asks "Okay?"

Don't they look big there? Sniff!

 

[Alysa]

DD is mad over fairies lately so we have been reading all the books we can find on them but at the end of "The Fairy Chronicles", there are big huge fat scary Gremlins. Well DD has come downstairs twice now. I just marched her back upstairs and have handed her "The Girls Book of Flower Fairies" instead. Much better. So she clutches at her book and says. "It's okay Mummy, I'll just think about nice things like Fairies and Disney and what I am going to wear and how handsome Daddy will look when he turns into Chang."
I kid you not, word for word. That girl! I don't know where she gets it from!

 

[Diamondintheruff]

We've read a few of the Disney fairy books over the last year. Haven't seen any Gremlins yet. Although DD gave up "princess" stuff she still thinks Tink is cool. DD really liked those books last year but now that her reading level has improved and she reads on her own she's been reading the High School Musical novels. I guess the pre-teens are heading my way. Both her and DS9 went ga-ga over a tiger beat magazine (can you believe they still have them?) last month and now Miley and Jonas brothers plus numerous other Disney channel stars are plastered all over their bedroom walls.

Don't forget to take pictures of your DH dressed up as Chang for us too!

 

[Dr_Finkelstein]

Hi Alysa,
Have just started on your PTR - will need to read through it all! Your kids look so cute!

Di x

 

[Alysa]

Hi Di!!
How lovely, thanks for coming by! You'll have to pass along any Universal tips you have. Even though I told the guys I don't know anything about it, they still aren't doing any of their own planning. Is there anything that is "must do" before they show up?
Slainte!

 

[Alysa]

Hi Diamond

Don't forget to take pictures of your DH dressed up as Chang for us too!

Oh, I'll take lots, not to worry! Heh heh heh.

 

[Alysa]

I LOVE Dollarama!
I went there today and picked up a bunch of stuff for the advent calendar. Just goofy little treats. Everything was a loonie! Excellent!
Here is a shot of the loot, plus our dog Bingley came by to make sure I was using the camera correctly (he's just like DH!) He HATES having his photo taken, can you tell?

I'm worried about DS though. He does not understand the finer points of waiting until tomorrow for the next treat and keeps trying to open all the pockets. It think I will have to fill each pocket the night before...