It's the truth,it's actual! Road trip,CSR, DxDP,MNSSHP! *NEW PTR LINK IS UP!! PG 38*

inkedupmomma

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HELLLLO everyone! We are back safe and sound! Survived the Drive and had the time of our lives!!

For those of you who do not know us, allow me to introduce the cast!!

Me,myself and me!! Jenn aka inkedupmomma (since many ask, that means I am tattooed). I am 28 and completely addicted to WDW! My obsession and love started at a very young age, before I even went to any of the parks or knew much about them. I just KNEW it was MAGICAL and the place for me!!! My favorite princess is Snow White!
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DD- Kayla, 8 years old. LOVES WDW! She loves the planning as much as I do! Her all time favorite character is Tinkerbelle! I suspect it is because she is of small stature herself:lmao:
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DS- Jack, 3 years old. Also LOVESSSSSS WDW! Seeing things through his eyes, make sthe trip that much more magical for all of us! His favorite movie is Nightmare before Christmas, and lovessss Toy Story, Snow White and Monsters Inc. Talks about "princess castle" allll the time! Especially the "goodnight in shining armor" ( knight in cindy's castle):rotfl:
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In addition to my own personal cast, we were meeting lots of friends on this trip!

The first group I will refer to as Jophia! Jophia stands for Joe and Sophia, who I somehow always call jophia when trying to call their names! I met Sophia here on the disboards about 18 months ago, and we met in the world for the first time last September. We have been great friends ever since! We decided after meeting that we would book our trips for right around the same time, so we could spend more time together! Also, Sophia's mom Alice who my son refers to as " the gramma" joined them this year!
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The second group is my friend Kelly, her husband Jeff and their two children Lily 3, soon to be 4 and Weston 18 months! One day while facebook chatting, she mentioned she was going to plan a disney trip for August since that is when free dining is. I told her that free dining ran through til October and she was thrilled! I quick went online and ran the numbers for her and she called that day and booked for the same week we did! This was her children's first trip:cloud9: Needless to say, I was elated to be able to share that with them!:wizard:
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So there you have the cast and crew, the who. Now onto the good stuff! What,where, when and why!! maybe not in that order:rotfl2:

Where- CSR, rancho's
When- September 12-21,2009
What- we did it all and then some! Dxdp, MNSSHP, and some very special surprises!!

This trip was filled with a ton of Pixie dust and lots of firsts! I took over 4,000 pics, and plan to share as many as possible! (So long as photobucket remains my friend!!)

Welcome back to my faithful reader's and welcome to the new ones! Don't lurk, share your feelings and comments! I love hearing from everyone!

*Up next, the surprise and a lonnnngggg drive*
 
Here :yay:


Can't wait to hear all about it popcorn::
 

welcome back Jen! Can't wait to hear all about the trip!
 
I'm here!!!
:hug:
Im here Im here Im hereeee!!!!
Heyyyy girlllll
I'm here! I can't believe your trip has come and went already!
ugh..don't remind me!
I'm in! I can't wait to read more.
Welcome!
Here :yay:


Can't wait to hear all about it popcorn::
You are so faithful!

I'm here too! Can't wait to hear all about it!
Hey you, thanks for joining in!
Woohooo, I'm finally first! :banana:

Wooot... i'm never first to anything LOL
 
I'm in! Looking forward to hearing about your trip. :)
 
So brilliant me decided to tell Kayla that John would have to work Fri and Sat now, and that we would have to eave later for our trip than anticipated. Unfortunately, this made her so sooo sad, and she threw a fit. I had already said it, so I figured I might as go with it.. (bad mommy, I know!). I did this, because I have a big mouth and my kids rarely have any surprises! I'm just so excited to give, it is hard to keep my mouth shut at times! So here starts the journey!

Friday September 11,2009

We all wake up at regular school day time. John gets in the shower, I wake Kayla up and tell her daddy is running late for work and he will take her to school today..muwhahahahaha! We were committed to this trick/surprise! John gets out of the shower and puts his work clothes on, and starts saying come on Kayla, I'm late, we gotta get going! She totally fell for it! I give her a kiss goodbye and start doing all the last minute stuff!!!

About 10 mins later John returns and says mission accomplished, Kayla had NO clue that he wasn't going to work!

The rest of the day was pretty boring and full of last minute stuff. I did get a pedicure, and was annoyed at how much it cost lol. I had a gift card to this really awesome (so I thought ) Spa in town. So I assumed their pedicures would be better than the chinese place I normally go to, for HALF the price. wrong. I mean it was a pedicure, so how much can I really complain? It just wasn't worth the ridiculous price tag.

While I was out doing all that fun last minute stuff, John went to target and home depot to get last minute stuff for our magic carpet and the car ride.

We all got back to the house around 2 and John had some last minute finishing touches to do to the magic carpet..UHM hello.. we need to pack the van up still!!

Finally around 2:30 we started packing up the van and at 3:22 we were on our way to get Kayla! What's that you say?? You were actually ON TIME Jenn?? YES, yes we were! I was so proud of myself!


proof

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So in case any of you wonder how an Inkedupmomma packs...here it is! Out of control.

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Stow aways...wait, you guys are coming with!

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Mickey luggage I bought myself from John for xmas...

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YIKES

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So yeah.. I am an over packer!

Also, Kayla got her nails and toes done on Thursday night, look how cute they turned out!
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*next up, we arrive at Kayla's school, was she surprised like we hoped?? and the start of a 24 hour drive to Orlando!
 
You are too funny ....and poor Kayla :rotfl:


Keep it coming....

My son is sick and I am bored popcorn::
 
You are too funny ....and poor Kayla :rotfl:

EVERYONE told me I was soooo mean.. I felt bad after everyone said that ..but not bad enough to fess up LOL
Keep it coming....

My son is sick and I am bored popcorn::

Kayla has her first soccer game today:banana: and then we are going to NYC for my baby sister's birthday! If I can, I will squeeze in an update after her game and before we have to leave for NYC! Tell baby boy I said feel better!
 












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