Mandy, OMG...that is terrible about your MIL. Mine lives in Clearwater FL....about 1100 miles away. It's teh perfect set up.
My parents live even farther. The only bad is that there is really nobody to watch my kids....except DS17 and he is out mostly!!!
So....on to the important stuff.
kidding.....how was your Sunday at WDW?? I don't think Dole whips can be THAT bad for ya. It's fruity.
You are awesome for dropping 4lbs. I am trying to be back on track so I can step on the scale THIS Wednesday.
OMG...that stupid bird is still throwing himself into our windows. It goes on all day every day...never stops. What a freak.
I keep staring at my family room thinking about those Pottery Barn lamps. Me want.
Have a great day,
Channing
OK, About our day at Disney We decided to do the MK since it has been FOREVER since we have been on any of the "mountains" and I also wanted to do Hall of Presidents and Haunted Mansion. DH also wanted to do some photo stuff. We got to the park about 5:30 and hung out on Main street looking at the windows and and checked out a few shops we have never been in. We also did some fun pictures in front of the castle. Oh yea, my sister was with us! The 3 of us have so much fun together, we are like a bunch of HS kids!
We decided to head to Thunder mt. and Splash mt. and get a FP for one and ride the one with the shorter line. Splash mt. was closed for tech. difficulty so we got a FP for BTM.
DH took some cool pictures in sepia tone of the building fronts and a very photogenic bird that could have been on Top model
We also took a hilarious picture of me looking up under the Liberty Bell and my sister yells out "hey stop looking at Bell's crack!"
I died laughing and we got a few strange looks. Then a CM that was walking by said "you know that's not the real Liberty bell, don't you" And I said "yea, I've the seen the real one and it's crack is a lot wider, longer, and cleaner" He just laughed and said "i'm not gonna touch that one!"
Anyways, we went on Haunted Mansion and I love the new rehab! The bride room is so good and so much to look at! We of course took some MORE pics, and then took off to the Hall of Presidents. We had just missed the show and had to wait 30 minuets so we decide to go get some Figaro fries! YUM! I love Figaro fries
We had our fries and then headed back to the HOP. I really enjoyed it but looking all those white men that have been our president made me realize that a black man or a woman could be the next addition to the HOP! Or it could be another old white guy if the democrats don't get it together (speaking as a Floridian whose votes don't count, ok shoving my soap box under the bed)
We then took off back to BTM and had a blast riding it! DH got some great shots of me and my sis, of course I was so goofing for the pics. We never did SM, but it was cooling down and I was fine with not getting wet.
We did POTC so I could say hello to my pirate Boyfriend, Jack! 
He slipped up and called me Kristin, that dog! I heard she was some obsessed wench 
JK!
After POTC we stopped by Casey's so DH And Sis could get a hot dog and I got the corn nuggets. We crossed Main street just time b/c they shut the lights off for Spectro Magic before we finished crossing the road. We ate at the noodle station and then went to Space mountain.
There was this annoying family of 4 that was in front of us calling another group and yelling at them to hurry up. They said "just push up here and tell people your looking for your family and when you get in the building just jump in the fast pass line and meet up with us and jump back in the regular line." I hate that and I decided if they show up and try to skip us I was going to say something! It was obvious by the phone calls that they had been on another ride while these people waited in line. We were almost into the room where you load when the people in front of us saw the people coming behind us. I turned around and it was five more people, but they were just pushing by people in the standby line not in the FP line,all older teens and adults! I was so mad. My sister and DH stood side by side and blocked them and when they tried to pass them my sister asked them where they were going and they said that their family was in front of us. She said "well i guess you should have gotten in line at the some time and turned around." The two groups were only separated by 5 people. The people sent a teen girl back to kinda tell them come on and try to get them passed us. My sister said sorry, and told her it didn't matter that you can only ride in groups of 6 and they would be separated anyways.
They got mad at us and then tried to pass by my sister. She stuck her arms out and held onto the rails on both sides. They said "c'mon its only five people." She said ok so if its that important you can join your family BEHIND us, your not skipping anyone else. They finally caved and went behind us and then when we got up to get on the ride the people in front of us told a CM what happened and they made all nine people leave the ride!
They skipped probably 200 people.
After Space mt. we headed over to Dumbo to watch wishes from behind the castle! It was cool b/c the fire works were behind us and in front is us. We got our ice cream and Dole whips and headed home!
The crowds were not bad at all for a Sunday with EMH! WE left the MK at 10:40 and it was hard going to our car and going home and not the GF!
Channing, I could only be so lucky to live far away from my MIL! Seriously we are blessed that both sets of parents are close but the truth is they don't agree on how many kids we have, like I honestly planned it?
My parents refuse to take more than 2 kids,remember mommy witch.
And my MIL is crazy. We have NEVER asked either set to take the kids. We have friends that love us and our kids and are eager to help and my sister is great about keeping the kids so we can have a date now and then. My MIL gets an itch to have them for a over night visit about every 3 months and then realizes about bed time that it's hard and she get cranky because she can't chain smoke so she will call us and down right lie about being sick. We know she lies because we have seen them in town and even caught her tugging on a big bag of water softening salt at Sam's after calling us and telling us her back was out! Ooops, her bad brain
By the way we are about an hour from Clearwater, we love the west coast beaches in FL! Especially Lido in Sarasota! St. Armonds Circle is awesome
You crack me up about that bird! I reminds me of the windex commercial!
I love pottery barn, Esp. PBK!
Have a Grand day girls! I am leaving in the am for our trip to Tallahassee, not looking froward to a 8 hour drive with the kids alone
I haven't packed yet so I need to get a move on!
Mandy
....and I really don't get into the whole movie star thingy, but WOW!
I really need a nap!!
We left the house just after 1am, thinking we would scoot down the tollway and be home in under an hour- WRONG!!! They had it down to 1 lane since they were doing repairs on the El tracks (Elevated train from those not in Chicago). We got home close to 2:30am, and my IL's (who are saints!!!) were still awake and not at all cranky about being there so long 
Maybe I was already getting sick, since I NEVER nap that long.
Now I have to wait until next week to see it. I am such a moron for forgetting to double check the time on the VCR clock when I programmed it 
and would so get that tree if I were at Disney for Christmas. We normally put four trees up at our house! We put up a pink tree in the girls room with, purple and white lights, hand beaded snow flakes, pink beads, Disney princess ornaments (of course
BUMMER.
I have Jojo home. She said ehr stomach hurt, but she ate choc chip pancakes....she has a stuffy head so I think she's definitnely getting something. I keep staring at my family room thinking about those Pottery Barn lamps. Me want. I am going to look online and see if they have them.....I was planning on going back out there today, but with Jo home.....
