Just the beginning of a family tradition!!

[DisGal520]

Hi Jenn - one of your photopass buddies here. Joining in to see your pics.

Nice TR so far!!

 

[jenharring]

Very nice.

It looks like somebody may have a little crush on a certain feathered friend!

thanks for reading My daughter youngest daughter accually feel in love with minnie mouse, she came home with 3 of them!

I'm subbing in!! Looks like you had so much fun so far!! The character meal looked fun and I'm glad your daughter and the rest of the gang enjoyed the characters!!!

Can't wait to read and see more!

We did enjoy the character meals. It is such a nicer and easier way to meet the characters. And if I'm going to wait, I might as well eat while I wait, unlike in the parks. We did that only a few times.

Hi Jenn - one of your photopass buddies here. Joining in to see your pics.

Nice TR so far!!

thanks for reading I cant wait until our cd comes in. I ordered them all on friday so they should be here this week some times. It said 3 to 7 business days.

 

[jenharring]

We got up at 615 am when the alarm when off. I only got about 5 1/2 hrs sleep that night. Thank goodness all the kids got way more sleep than us.
We got ready and were out the door at the bus stop buy 7:20am. We got on a MK bus to head to the Grand FL for breakfast at 1900 parkfare. When we got on the bus we let the driver know where we need to be for our adr. He didn't say wather he would be taking us or not and when we got to mk he told us to just sit tight and he would drop us off. I was so glad we didnt have to walk all the way to the monrail. We arrived early and were sitted very quickly after having our picture taken. Of course we didnt buy these as we knew we would be going to the castle and to princess storybook in norway.

dylan meeting tigger for the first time!

The mad hatter was just tooo funny. I think he was one of my husbands favorites. He was so funny talking about the pens hat and where was the pens hat. He just cant go with out his hat.

This is the only time I would allow the kids to eat this amount of sugar. ONLY in disney. They thought it was so fun to eat icecream at every meal if they so wished. I figured he they were running it off.

Up next we get my nephew for the remander of the trip and emh hours do we stay till 1am...

 

[jenjolt]

What a great breakfast!!! The kids looked like they had a great time and you got to meet such lovely characters!!!

Isn't the mad hatter a hoot!! Last time I saw him we had a conversation about how I could have possibly been talking just a few minutes before to someone in Iowa...he deemed me as sane as him LOL!!!!

Ice Cream for breakfast I love it!!!

Can't wait to hear more!

 

[wigdoutdismom]

Looks like you enjoyed your breakfast at 1900, we love that place too! The pictures were great and you all look well rested, even you Jennifer! 5 1/2 hours of sleep? I would have never made it.
Can't wait to hear about the rest of your day....

 

[Lady Lallie]

I'm joining in!

 

[jenharring]

What a great breakfast!!! The kids looked like they had a great time and you got to meet such lovely characters!!!

Isn't the mad hatter a hoot!! Last time I saw him we had a conversation about how I could have possibly been talking just a few minutes before to someone in Iowa...he deemed me as sane as him LOL!!!!
he is a hoot, we loved talking with him
Ice Cream for breakfast I love it!!!
the kids loved it to,and m&ms!
Can't wait to hear more!

Looks like you enjoyed your breakfast at 1900, we love that place too! The pictures were great and you all look well rested, even you Jennifer! 5 1/2 hours of sleep? I would have never made it.
Can't wait to hear about the rest of your day....

We did We did! This is one of those resturants that is on our do do again, We ate dinner there too, more on that later!

I'm joining in!

Yeah thanks for reading, I am enjoying you TR as well!
Ok going to do another update since I still have MY computer, the box will be here tom to send it off I hope they fix it for free and dont try to blame it on me

 

[jenharring]

We went straight to MK for the day. This was the first time the kids get to see the castle. Of course we have to stop and have a picture made and as soon as I get my cd in I will be posting some of those pictures. We then ran into I couldnt tell you who she is

but the kids stopped and talk to her and got her autograph.
We then took a few more pictures in front of the castle and as you can tell it was not crowded at all, at least not yet.

I took a picture of the castle on our way to ride...

A picture of my sweet hubby while waiting in line for...

DUMBO!

my 2 oldest

We did a little goofing off!

We then went and rode peterpan which I think is a pretty fun ride. Then off to Winnie the pooh, which is a nice ride and of course I love winnie the pooh so it was grand for me.
winnie the pooh ride

peterpan

the mad tea party, which I do so love riding ones like this!

Once we left fantasyland we headed straight for spash mnt. But not before I almost got hit by this.

It literaly came inches from crashing into my face. Thank god I saw it coming and stopped.
We got our fasspasses and went watched the country bear show. Of course I think this is my least favorite show in all of disney. It soo needs to be updated, but its a must do at least once, in your life that is. The very end was funny, but I figured it was on our touring plans and it had a/c. We then went and ate lunch at Liberty Tree tavern. We had reservations for 12:55 and it was around 12:40 so we went ahead and checked in. We were not seated until about 1:15 I had the fried cheese as my appitizer and my husband had the salad. I loved the fried cheese and so did the kiddos. For our meal I had the pilgrams feast, which I loved and my hubby had the pot roast, which he did not like at all. I have since found out it has a wine in the sauce thanks to wigdoutdismom. But she loved it so to each his own. For dessert I had the ooey gooey toffee cake which was ohh so yummy and my hubby had the three chocolate brownie, which must have been really good b/c he didnt want to share at all. My mom had already texted me to see where we where so I could pick up my nephew from her. She took his suite case and things over to our resort and left them in storage. I told my husband to just save us a spot for the parade and I ran to the front and got him. It was getting really hot and I would have rather went back to the room, but it being my nephews first time in disney I couldn't do that do him. We waited for the 3 oclock parade since it was almost time for it to start. Well little did I know I was were it ended, how dumb was I. The heat must have been getting to me.
This is my oldest daughter Brittany holding Davin my nephew.

pictures of the parade

my little dill boy

After the parade we decided to head back to the room and get freshed up and cool off some.
Im not sure who took this picture, but he was having fun playing with my sunglasses.

Up next dinner at Rose and Crown Pub in Epcot and do we stay until 1am for emh at MK, stay tuned to find out...

 

[wigdoutdismom]

Great update! Was this the day we were playing phone tag? I wish we could have met up, you look like a very fun group.
I think you are very brave taking on another little one. You must have nerves of steel.
The castle pics are beautiful and I love the shirts you made!
So did you head back to cool off at the pool after the parade?

 

[jenharring]

Great update! Was this the day we were playing phone tag? I wish we could have met up, you look like a very fun group.
I think you are very brave taking on another little one. You must have nerves of steel.
The castle pics are beautiful and I love the shirts you made!
So did you head back to cool off at the pool after the parade?

Thanks, I think this was the day we were playing phone tag. I was sooo sleep deprived I didnt even realize which disser I was tring to meet up with.

 

[mermaid&cinderella]

Loving your report!

 

[jenharring]

Loving your report!

thanks for reading

I'm going to try and get another update done by the end of the weekend. Hope everyone has a happy 4th! Here are some more pictures in the mean time.
Picture of the pool at ASMu.

not sure if i posted this one, but he is wearing manparis. I ment to make sure they were in the pic, sorry. this one is for wigdoutdismom

planet hollywood

 

[stace208]

I am enjoying your trip report! Can't wait to read more. Happy 4th!

 

[jenharring]

I am enjoying your trip report! Can't wait to read more. Happy 4th!

thanks for reading.

I finally have my computer back and Im going to do an update as soon as I finish eating my dinner or what ever you call it at 3am.

 

[jenharring]

Ok, I left off the last time with us headed back to our room for a little rnr and it would be a little. It was around 4 when we got back to the room and able to relax and freshen up a bit. It was then time for us to go catch a bus to EP for our dinner adr at Rose and Crown. We got to Ep around 5:30 and our ressie was for 5:50pm. My sister and nephew were there waiting for us. We didnt have to wait very long and we were seated. It was accually not very hot outside so we sat on the porch. The sun was a little bright, but it was going down. I dont think I took any pictures of what we ate here. For apps I had the cheese plate and dh had a salad. For our entrees I had the steak and potatoes, dh had fish and chips and I cant remember what my sister had. My sister has celtic disease and the chef came out to see what he could make her and she fell in love with the resturant. He even fixed her a dessert and ricecream for my nephew which is lactose intolerate. I had the bailys irish cream trifle and hubby had the apple crumble. My dessert was sooo good, my dh even tried to trade with me. I want to go back just for the dessert.
the kids got the create your own sunday which they loved.

When already had plans to head over to MK for emh and so my sister joined us. Though she really wanted to stay for illuminations. We jumped on the monorail and we were off to MK. We got there and the parade had just started. I was soo sad. We didnt get very good spots at all. I had my nephew up on my shoulders almost the whole time and was unable to get any photos. As soon as the parade was over we headed for a better view of wishes. We were in front of the castle on the bridge. We accually Here is a pic I took of the fireworks. It is about the best one.

I took this of my sis while we watched wishes.

my sis holding my youngest ds. He slept threw ALL of wishes.

my nephew davin watching wishes

I decided once we got home after looking threw all of our pictures that I wanted a dslr before our next trip. It is in the works.
When wishes was over we headed toward Peter pan.
My sis took this along the way.

The kids liked this ride so the rode it with there aunt cynthia and my Davin was asleep by this point so he didnt get to ride. After pp we went toward dumbo to see how bad the line was and we saw these lovable characters.

In the mean time my dh and dd went to ride snow white, which I thought at the time might be a little to scary for the younger dd.
Minnie rode dumbo with someone and we were told they were going to be doing a meet and greet, so we headed right over for that. We didn't have to stand in line for long. But on our way over we spoted this silly dog.

then off to mickey and minnie

I have more and as soon as I get my photopass pictures uploaded I will post them.
They finally caught up to us and we walking over the big bridge I do believe over to the side of the castle and took a few more pics.

It was close to midnight so we decided to head out since the kids were starting to crash. We did stop how ever and have a few pics taken by a photopass person. And then our lovely wheel on our stroller came flying off when my dh was tring to straighten it. A run a wheel in MK. What a sight to see. It was so funny, but up setting at the same time. My think was on know what are we going to do for the rest of the trip if it cant be fixed. Well we went straight to the front to guest relations and they found there maintence guy to come out and with his tools. What a God sent. He took of the part, repaired it and but our wheel back on. We were back in busniess. We tried to tip, but he said no thanks its my job. My husband was Soo Happy. He decieded at that point that we would be doing disney a lot more for vacation. Thats all it took, well I was so happy to hear this. It was getting close to 1am by this time and we all needed to go back and get bathes or at least I thought so.
We got to the buss stop and suprisingly we didnt have to wait but about 5 mins. We got back to the room and I let the kids wash up really quick and jump in bed. My sister told me then no matter what get me up before you leave. Of course we were not in bed again until close to 2:30am and we had to be up by 6am to make it to emh at AK. I dont know what I was thinking. I must have been tring to kill us all. We had a breakfast adr for Donald's Safari at 9:30 am, so we could have sleep in a little late.
So do we get up or not and does my sister make it to AK...

 

[MEK]

Hey Jen:

I just read your first day! Great start to your trip, with a few bumps in the road! Your family picture at Teppan Edo is so great! Your kids are adorable. At least you took pictures during the cooking at TE. I forgot to do that, so I have no volcano pictures. It was chocolate ginger cake I had for dessert. Thanks .....cause I could not remember!

 

[wigdoutdismom]

Great update!
You took some really good pictures with the characters but I could tell the kids were starting to fade, that happens late at night when you've been going, and going and going....
I'm thinking you got up but your sister did not make it.....
If it were me, I would never have gotten up, no how, no way!

 

[jenharring]

Hey Jen:

I just read your first day! Great start to your trip, with a few bumps in the road! Your family picture at Teppan Edo is so great! Your kids are adorable. At least you took pictures during the cooking at TE. I forgot to do that, so I have no volcano pictures. It was chocolate ginger cake I had for dessert. Thanks .....cause I could not remember!

I loved the ginger cake, yummmy!!

Great update!
You took some really good pictures with the characters but I could tell the kids were starting to fade, that happens late at night when you've been going, and going and going....
I'm thinking you got up but your sister did not make it.....
If it were me, I would never have gotten up, no how, no way!

They were starting to wind down. Let left not to long after this, or at leasted headed that way.

 

[MEK]

Jen:

I skimmed through all your pictures this morning and they are really good, especially your fireworks pictures. Do you know how pictures I have taken of the fireworks (Wishes) and I still can't get ONE to look like that? I am hijacking that picture for my TR, because my battery went dead right before Wishes!

Anyway, your kids keep get cuter and I am going to read all the details of your TR at work today, but you guys are going strong! I didn't DIS much yesterday, just updated my own TR. Now I have to get ready for work. Stupid work - keeps cutting into my Dis'ing!

 

[jenharring]

Jen:

I skimmed through all your pictures this morning and they are really good, especially your fireworks pictures. Do you know how pictures I have taken of the fireworks (Wishes) and I still can't get ONE to look like that? I am hijacking that picture for my TR, because my battery went dead right before Wishes!

Anyway, your kids keep get cuter and I am going to read all the details of your TR at work today, but you guys are going strong! I didn't DIS much yesterday, just updated my own TR. Now I have to get ready for work. Stupid work - keeps cutting into my Dis'ing!

thanks for reading I hope you enjoy!