m2zjj
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Let me start this by saying that I have never done a PTR or TR before but with just over 18 long months to go until we leave I thought that this would be a good way to help keep my excitement level high when most people I know are calling me crazy for planning this far out.
First thing you should know about me is that Im a terrible speller and my grammar isnt much better. Now my spell check catches most of my spelling errors but does nothing for the other errors I make so read at your own risk
Now a little history. When I was a kid all I wanted was a trip to Disney world but with a single mom working 2 jobs to keep the house afloat that wasnt going to happen. So years later when my now DH proposed first I said yes then I reminded him that he promised to take me to Disney for our honeymoon.
We got married on September 11, 2004 and left the next day for 7 wonderful days in Florida. I was so unprepared for what I was getting myself into. So much time went into planning the wedding that I never gave much thought to the honeymoon and even spending 5 full days in the parks we hadnt done nearly as much as we wanted to. Sitting on the plane on the trip home I could only think that it would probably be 8-10 years before we could go back.
Fast forward to 3 ½ years later and my 1 ½ year old son wins a contest that I had signed him up for and we were thrilled to find out that his prize was a trip to Florida. So instead of using the trip to take a beach vacation we requested a hotel as close to Disney as possible and after finding the Dis bought tickets from UT and Zach had his first Disney trip arriving the day after his 2nd birthday. Now we did more this time than we did on our first trip, thanks to all the wonderful info we got on the Dis, but with a 2 yr old there are things you just cant do. Still we had a great time and vowed to go back when Zach was a little older. The plan was to go back in 2 years when he was 4 but life had other plans for us.
In the spring of 2009 when I was just starting to plan our next trip I found out I was pregnant. We did the math and with me being due at the end of January 2010 we figured that we could still go in September 2010. Having a 8 month old might be a challenge but we could do it. Well that was what we though until my first ultrasound when I saw 2 heartbeats. Suddenly the Disney trip was out of the question, there was no way I was taking two 8 month old babies and a 4 year old to Disney.
At the same time as all this is going on my sister had her own drama going on with regards to her own trip to Disney. She had promised her daughter that they would go when she was 6 or 7 but much to her surprise (shes in her 40s) she got pregnant and her trip was postponed as well.
So now I wanted to wait until my girls were 3 (in Jan 2013) and she wanted to wait until her son was 5 (in Nov 2012) to take our trips. After a little discussion we decided to combine our trips and go together. Now Im planning a trip for 3 adults and 5 kids for August 2013. But Im never happy to leave things alone so when I realized that if we went a year earlier we could save money since my twins would be under 3 and wouldnt need a park ticket the whole trip was moved up a year to August 2012.
OK I think that's enough for tonight I'm sure that anyone who read all that is scared away for good now.
First thing you should know about me is that Im a terrible speller and my grammar isnt much better. Now my spell check catches most of my spelling errors but does nothing for the other errors I make so read at your own risk
Now a little history. When I was a kid all I wanted was a trip to Disney world but with a single mom working 2 jobs to keep the house afloat that wasnt going to happen. So years later when my now DH proposed first I said yes then I reminded him that he promised to take me to Disney for our honeymoon.
We got married on September 11, 2004 and left the next day for 7 wonderful days in Florida. I was so unprepared for what I was getting myself into. So much time went into planning the wedding that I never gave much thought to the honeymoon and even spending 5 full days in the parks we hadnt done nearly as much as we wanted to. Sitting on the plane on the trip home I could only think that it would probably be 8-10 years before we could go back.
Fast forward to 3 ½ years later and my 1 ½ year old son wins a contest that I had signed him up for and we were thrilled to find out that his prize was a trip to Florida. So instead of using the trip to take a beach vacation we requested a hotel as close to Disney as possible and after finding the Dis bought tickets from UT and Zach had his first Disney trip arriving the day after his 2nd birthday. Now we did more this time than we did on our first trip, thanks to all the wonderful info we got on the Dis, but with a 2 yr old there are things you just cant do. Still we had a great time and vowed to go back when Zach was a little older. The plan was to go back in 2 years when he was 4 but life had other plans for us.
In the spring of 2009 when I was just starting to plan our next trip I found out I was pregnant. We did the math and with me being due at the end of January 2010 we figured that we could still go in September 2010. Having a 8 month old might be a challenge but we could do it. Well that was what we though until my first ultrasound when I saw 2 heartbeats. Suddenly the Disney trip was out of the question, there was no way I was taking two 8 month old babies and a 4 year old to Disney.
At the same time as all this is going on my sister had her own drama going on with regards to her own trip to Disney. She had promised her daughter that they would go when she was 6 or 7 but much to her surprise (shes in her 40s) she got pregnant and her trip was postponed as well.
So now I wanted to wait until my girls were 3 (in Jan 2013) and she wanted to wait until her son was 5 (in Nov 2012) to take our trips. After a little discussion we decided to combine our trips and go together. Now Im planning a trip for 3 adults and 5 kids for August 2013. But Im never happy to leave things alone so when I realized that if we went a year earlier we could save money since my twins would be under 3 and wouldnt need a park ticket the whole trip was moved up a year to August 2012.
OK I think that's enough for tonight I'm sure that anyone who read all that is scared away for good now.
My girls are 1 and my son is 4. 
love the pic of your hubby with the twins its a very sweet pic. Yay on starting your ptr I keep meaning to start one but never actually settle down to do it lol.
Congrats! The on site / off site question will be answered in the next update I promise. 
after all but while checking prices I started really looking at the cost of airfare vs. renting a van and driving and what I found surprised me. If prices stay close to what they are now we could fly into MCO, rent a mini van and a car, and pay for the extra parking on the second vehicle at the parks for about the same cost as renting a 12 passenger van up here and driving down. Im such a dork because the thought that I had something else to research for our trip had me so excited. I really do have almost as much fun planning our trips as I have on them. 
This will be my longest vacation ever and what better place to take a long vacation than the happiest place on earth right. So its settled, fly down, stay for 9 glorious days, and fly back. Now back to the waiting for the 12 month mark. 
