Momof2Disneyboys
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Hello and welcome to my TR! Come on in and make yourself comfortable. I hope you enjoy taking this little journey with my family and I!
A little bit about us. . . This was our 6th trip to WDW. We started going in 2005 and fell in love and keep going back!
This intro is pretty much copied from my PTR (which can be found here http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2550396 ), so feel free to skip it if you want!
My name is Shelly. I am a mom to 2 boys, 11 and 9. I have been married to my wonderful DH for 12 ½ years. We live in PA, so we love getting away to the warm sunny state of Florida! After many years of working in banking, in 2005 I decided to call it quits and stay home full time with my boys. I became very involved with their school, PTO, and soccer organization. Last winter I decided that it may be time to get back into the work force, but didn't want anything that would interfere with my volunteer activities, and the kids school schedule. So, I now work as a Teaching Assistant for our school district on an on-call basis.
And I love it! The flexibility and being on the boys schedule are wonderful job perks, but I also love working with all the kids. My hobbies- well, obviously I am more and more obsessed with Disney each trip and am always busy planning the next trip! 
DH loves Disney almost as much as I do! He didn't at first, but I think each trip gets better and better for him. Probably because we take each trip at a more relaxed pace!
I recently asked him if he would like to try somewhere else for vacation and he said Is anywhere else going to pick us up at the airport and have everything we need & want to do right there? Nope, not hardly honey! He is a Quality Assurance inspector for a large company outside of Pittsburgh. He works a lot of hours and really looks forward to relaxing on vacation. He is a wonderful husband and father and enjoys taking the boys fishing & coaching DS's soccer team.
DS11 is our oldest and a very responsible young man. He is growing up way too fast.
Where does the time go? How do I have a 6th grader??? 
He is an excellent student in school and we are very proud of him. He loves Disney, Star Wars, Pokemon, video games, playing outside, fishing, and riding his 4-wheeler. He played soccer for several years, but decided to give it up last year when he had to move up to travel soccer and it became more like work than fun! 
He did his first season of track this past Aug/Sept and loved it! He is hilarious and not in the least bit shy. Those of you who have read my previous TR's know just what I mean! He loves to sing and dance and always be the center of attention.
DS9 is our little guy! He is in 3rd grade. He also does very well at school, but needs to be pushed a little harder to do so! He is very laid back. He is used to his older brother doing everything for him and he likes it that way! He has played soccer for the last 4-5 years and loves it and is very good at it! 
He loves Star Wars, video games, all sports, and playing outside. He is not quite as outgoing as his brother in the sense that he wouldn't jump in front of the video camera and sing & dance. But he is very outgoing at school and makes friends easily. And he is the first one to stand up to anyone who is mean to him and he is definitely not afraid to speak his mind (probably got that from me 
)!
Both the boys are picky eaters. So eating at Disney is always an adventure for us. DS11 is doing much better and will try new things. He is just at that in-between stage where he still doesn't care for the choices on the adult menu, but sometimes a kids meal is too small. DS9 has true eating issues. He even used to have a speech therapist, not to teach him to talk, but to teach him to eat. He hated all that was food.
He has come a long way, but still has a ways to go. Most times it is torture trying to get him to try something new. So unfortunately it is a lot of chicken & corn dog nuggets for him at WDW. But we make do and he doesn't ever starve. If we are going to eat somewhere that I think there may not be anything for him, I will feed him his favorite a jelly sandwich (only Smucker's seedless strawberry jam and NO peanut butter) in our resort room before we head out. That way I at least know his belly has something in it! For those of you who may have read my previous TR's or Dining Reviews DS9 is the kid who ordered a grilled cheese hold the cheese, at Big River Grille. And ordered a turkey sandwich hold the turkey, at the Plaza! The kid loves his breads. Thank goodness. And we have since learned that most restaurants will make him some type of pasta even if it's not on the menu. He loves pasta too. No sauce of course.
Okay, now that we got introductions all taken care of On with Disney!!!
A little bit about us. . . This was our 6th trip to WDW. We started going in 2005 and fell in love and keep going back!
This intro is pretty much copied from my PTR (which can be found here http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2550396 ), so feel free to skip it if you want!
My name is Shelly. I am a mom to 2 boys, 11 and 9. I have been married to my wonderful DH for 12 ½ years. We live in PA, so we love getting away to the warm sunny state of Florida! After many years of working in banking, in 2005 I decided to call it quits and stay home full time with my boys. I became very involved with their school, PTO, and soccer organization. Last winter I decided that it may be time to get back into the work force, but didn't want anything that would interfere with my volunteer activities, and the kids school schedule. So, I now work as a Teaching Assistant for our school district on an on-call basis.
And I love it! The flexibility and being on the boys schedule are wonderful job perks, but I also love working with all the kids. My hobbies- well, obviously I am more and more obsessed with Disney each trip and am always busy planning the next trip! DH loves Disney almost as much as I do! He didn't at first, but I think each trip gets better and better for him. Probably because we take each trip at a more relaxed pace!
I recently asked him if he would like to try somewhere else for vacation and he said Is anywhere else going to pick us up at the airport and have everything we need & want to do right there? Nope, not hardly honey! He is a Quality Assurance inspector for a large company outside of Pittsburgh. He works a lot of hours and really looks forward to relaxing on vacation. He is a wonderful husband and father and enjoys taking the boys fishing & coaching DS's soccer team. DS11 is our oldest and a very responsible young man. He is growing up way too fast.
Where does the time go? How do I have a 6th grader??? He is an excellent student in school and we are very proud of him. He loves Disney, Star Wars, Pokemon, video games, playing outside, fishing, and riding his 4-wheeler. He played soccer for several years, but decided to give it up last year when he had to move up to travel soccer and it became more like work than fun! He did his first season of track this past Aug/Sept and loved it! He is hilarious and not in the least bit shy. Those of you who have read my previous TR's know just what I mean! He loves to sing and dance and always be the center of attention. DS9 is our little guy! He is in 3rd grade. He also does very well at school, but needs to be pushed a little harder to do so!
He is very laid back. He is used to his older brother doing everything for him and he likes it that way! He has played soccer for the last 4-5 years and loves it and is very good at it! He loves Star Wars, video games, all sports, and playing outside. He is not quite as outgoing as his brother in the sense that he wouldn't jump in front of the video camera and sing & dance. But he is very outgoing at school and makes friends easily. And he is the first one to stand up to anyone who is mean to him and he is definitely not afraid to speak his mind (probably got that from me )!Both the boys are picky eaters. So eating at Disney is always an adventure for us. DS11 is doing much better and will try new things. He is just at that in-between stage where he still doesn't care for the choices on the adult menu, but sometimes a kids meal is too small. DS9 has true eating issues. He even used to have a speech therapist, not to teach him to talk, but to teach him to eat. He hated all that was food.
He has come a long way, but still has a ways to go. Most times it is torture trying to get him to try something new. So unfortunately it is a lot of chicken & corn dog nuggets for him at WDW. But we make do and he doesn't ever starve. If we are going to eat somewhere that I think there may not be anything for him, I will feed him his favorite a jelly sandwich (only Smucker's seedless strawberry jam and NO peanut butter) in our resort room before we head out. That way I at least know his belly has something in it! For those of you who may have read my previous TR's or Dining Reviews DS9 is the kid who ordered a grilled cheese hold the cheese, at Big River Grille. And ordered a turkey sandwich hold the turkey, at the Plaza! The kid loves his breads. Thank goodness. And we have since learned that most restaurants will make him some type of pasta even if it's not on the menu. He loves pasta too. No sauce of course. Okay, now that we got introductions all taken care of On with Disney!!!
YAY Shelly!!! I am sooo excited to read about your trip!!! 
Just love it there! The theme, the atmosphere, the pool looks great, the grounds are beautiful, on the monorail, views of the castle, etc. But when the time came to book the resort for this trip I started having second thoughts. Not that I didn't think the Poly would be wonderful, I am sure it is. It's just that we are more of Epcot and DHS people than MK people. So naturally it just makes more sense to stay at one of the Epcot area resorts where we will be within walking distance of our 2 favorite parks. So I started researching the BC, YC, and BWI. I always thought we would go with the BC when staying in this area, but the more research I did the more I realized that the BWI is the one for us! We LOVE the BW area and visit it on every trip. We love the fun atmosphere, the new rooms look awesome, all the food options in the area, the great location, the entertainment, and that very cool pool & slide! And nope - we are not afraid of that clown a bit!! 
So we saw no reason to not book the same week in 2010. So here it was December 2009 and we were booked for November 6-14, 2010! That is the furthest out I have ever booked. I told myself I would just book it and forget about it for awhile. Not start counting down or planning or anything until it was a little closer to 6 months out. Yeah right, like that was going to happen. 
So it was one LONG countdown! 
So AT was much cheaper this time even with paying the baggage fees. Now I know with AT you have to keep a close eye on them. They are famous for changing their flight times. I originally booked an 11:00am flight down. That eventually turned into a 12:40pm flight. Which I wasn't happy about. But they added a 7:30am flight and we were able to change to that. I wasn't thrilled about that early of a flight, but it was better than not getting to WDW until late afternoon. 
Yes, you are first! 
So glad you are joining us!
Great start! 
