MAGICal Christmas 2008 - December 20, 2008

[ShannonR]

That would be great, Diana!! I am pretty computer illiterate but I know that compiling that list was SOOOO helpful in setting up email partners for the kids and arranging activities on the cruise. By the time we had our DIS meet and greet, Morgan felt she was already pretty good friends with a lot of the girls. I hope to find that there are boys Mitchell's age, because he felt pretty left out last cruise. And yes, Diana, this is what you have to look forward to in having two girls. I remember crying when the doctor told me our oops! baby was a girl, because Morgan was already 11 years old with the preteen attitude! and I knew what we were in for with another one! With as much grief as a teenage daughter can give you a headache , I would not trade her for the world!! I am lucky that she does not seem to be interested in boys yet and fear the day she finally discovers them

Let me know how I can help with starting the list! I know we have 14 months to go, but we are already SOOO excited that we can't help but want to dive in and get to know everyone and start planning! We booked the last cruise one year in advance and that year seemed to drag by, I only hope this time it doesn't feel as long of a wait

Well, I have to sign off for now and get ready for work (I work nights in labor and delivery). Everyone have a good night!

Shannon

 

[Diana Lyn]

I created the Yahoo Group, if anyone is interested in joining, just pm me your email address or yahoo id and I'll invite you!

 

[cgcw]

I created the Yahoo Group, if anyone is interested in joining, just pm me your email address or yahoo id and I'll invite you!

Diana & Amy are both great at the yahoo group stuff --- they set one up for a scrapbooking circle journal we are doing from the last cruise that sailed on -- so they are perfect for the job!

I already accepted the invite I received this morning! Thanks, Diana!

 

[ShannonR]

Thanks Diana, for creating the yahoo group! I sent you a PM with our info for the group. I hope everyone is having a great weekend so far! I worked last night and I work again tonight, but I am going to a wedding right before work of one of the obstetricians who I work with. It is supposed to be a pretty "swanky" deal being that his bride to be is the host of what is considered to be the "Good Morning America" of Mexico.

Is everyone getting ready for Halloween? We LOVE holidays at our house and decorate for each and every one of them! We even have our house all decked out in Halloween lights (it reminds me of the Griswold house at Christmas! ) Morgan is too old to go trick or treating (of course ) but the baby is just getting into the spirit of it at 3 years of age. She was still a little to young last year to get the concept of door to door, but I think this year will be a success. Rick always is the one to stay home and hand out the candy while I take the kids around the neighborhood for treats!

Does anyone know if we can take a little Christmas tree aboard the ship for Christmas? They have miniature ones at Hobby Lobby and I would love to get one with tiny lights for Christmas Day. Maybe Shirley has some sort of gift basket for Christmas that we can send the kids on the ship? We got the kids gift baskets from Shirley on the last cruise and the kids LOVED them!

Well, I guess I need to get ready for this "celebrity" wedding and then off to work! It's all worth it when I walk that plank and onto the big red boat!!!!!

Shannon

 

[Diana Lyn]

I sent out invites to Shannon, Cindy, Cindy and Amy. If anyone else wants one, just pm me and I'll invite you!

We're still in the middle of moving, we'll we're moved, we're just no where near unpacked, so Halloween is going to be a little lame-o this year. But look out Christmas!! I'm a Christmas nut---and my birthday being on Christmas only makes if more fun for me. I've already started looking for the perfect tree for our new house. Our last house had 7 ft ceilings in the family room so our tree was about 5.5 in tall. This year, I'm gonna have a skyscraper tree!!! I am planning on bringing one of those mini trees on the cruise. I got one at Michaels last year really cheap for my scrapbooking room and made all these little Mickey ornaments for it.

Shannon---hope you had fun at the wedding!!

 

[ShannonR]

Just thought I would drop a note and say Hi! I just got done working 5 nights in a row and have the next 5 nights off (I am hoping to not see 1 pregnant woman while I am off! ) I haven't seen anyone post in a while so I thought I would see what everyone is up to!?!

How is unpacking going, Diana? It is truly one of the biggest pains to move into a new house When we moved down here almost 4 years ago, I said I would NEVER move again because of all the work it brings!

Is everyone ready for Halloween? We certainly are! It is so nice to not have to wear coats, hats, and mittens over the kids costumes now that we live in Texas (it wasn't surprising to have it snow on Halloween when we lived in Michigan ) Does everybody's kids trick or treat? Only my youngest will. Morgan is going out with some of her girlfriends to a Halloween festival. Oh the bond of teenage girls, right?

I am going tomorrow to buy my little Christmas tree, mini lights, and mini ornaments for the cruise. My husband tells me "Shannon, they will be at Hobby Lobby again next year before the cruise", but I want to start buying things NOW!!! I am sure I will drive him nuts this next year just like last time (but I know he still loves me ) I have a little basket that I started collecting things for the cruise and just kept them in the basket (although, I found that a lot of what we purchased, we ended up not needing at all! )

Well I will sign off for now, but I hope that I hear from you all soon!
Shannon

 

[Kborn]

Good afternoon ladies...Just wanted pop in and say Hi! We are booked for this cruise as well, we booked on our Oct. 13 - 20 cruise. There are several families from that cruise that rebooked for this one as well...

I see a little back ground is in order...sailing

Kborn (Keith 47 @ sailing) a little side bar, I may be 47, but I will always act 19!!!!!
Tina (DW 45 @ sailing-BTW, I did not type that, I would never tell my wife's age in public)
Josh (DS - aka. "little Man" age 8 @ sailing)

This will be our 9th DCL cruise, Josh's 8th - can you say SPOILED ROTTEN! This will be our 1st Christmas Cruise, we went to WDW last year for Christmas and loved it, so we had to book the Christmas Cruise. We meet several families that have cruised over Christmas and loved it....

We are DVCer's as well, bought into Wilderness Lodge in June of 97 and purchased into Saratoga Springs June of 2006. We have only used our points for the parks.

OK, enough rambling....

I look forward to typing at everyone soon...

Keith

OK, I'm not done, I just had to throw in a few pictures from our last cruise. We renewed our 10 yr. vows on Castaway Cay and the pics turned out very well...

 

[nzdisneymom]

Keith - welcome to you and your family! I loved the pics from your recent trip - how cool to renew your vows at CC.

I'm Cindy D., wife to Gary and mom to Nathan and Zachary. This will be our 4th DCL cruise (our 3rd one is coming up in April). Our first one was in Dec. 2005 and it returned to Port Canaveral on Christmas Eve. It was so cool being on the ship with all the holiday festivities, so I cannot wait to be on the ship on Christmas day itself. We haven't told the kids and they fortunately don't lurk at DisBoards

Even though this will be the Western itinerary which we did before, we had to miss Cozumel because of hurricane damage... we were disappointed because we had really wanted to go there. We weren't excited about Costa Maya but the more I read, the more I think we'll enjoy a day there as well - but what really sold us was the double-dip at Castaway Cay.

 

[Kborn]

Thanks Cindy D, I think it will be great waking up with Santa Mickey....

We are with you about Castaway Cay, it would not hurt our feelings if the ship broke down on Sunday and we had to STAY THERE ALL WEEK!

We also heard they make snow on Castaway Cay, we were at MGM last year when they were making snow, it was incredible!

Well, back to work...

 

[Diana Lyn]

Welcome Keith and family! Those photos are beautiful. We were married at Disney World 5 1/2 years ago....we plan on doing a vow renewal at 10 years at Castaway Cay too!

I'm Diana, Bruce the Shark is my DH, he seldom posts. We have two girls, Emma, now 4, Julia, now 3. We just moved to Florida from upstate NY and this will be our 5th cruise, and the girls 3rd, so we know all about being spoiled rotten with 2 cruise before they each turned 3!

 

[cgcw]

Keith & Family. Your family is beautiful and no worries, I won't tell your wife that you spilled the scoop on her age. Just don't ask for mine.

I'm the other-Cindy on the thread. My DH, Gary (aka Garfield here on the DIS although he hasn't posted in forever) -- Hey -- CindyD, did you see that -- Cindy & Gary twice on this thread -- will be sailing with our sons who will be 14 and 8. We live in the Chicagoland area, so we will certainly be looking to get away from the mid-winter weather come cruise time.

This will be our 3rd Disney cruise, our first 7 day on the Magic. The other two have been 4 day DVC member cruises. We are sailing in just another couple of weeks over Thanksgiving on a 7 night cruise on Royal Caribbean. We're sailing with friends we met on the last couple of cruises. I'm looking forward to comparing it with a 4 day and Disney. I hope it's going to be just as enjoyable.

I can't wait to spend Christmas on the Magic.

 

[nzdisneymom]

Cindy - that's too crazy that there will be two Cindys married to two Garys - how funny is that?!

It's been so fun thinking about the cruise today. When we were at Castaway Cay just before Christmas, it snowed when we got off the ship in the morning, and then they had cocoa and cookies when we were re-boarding in the afternoon. It was such a beautiful time of year - mild but not too mild.

 

[ShannonR]

Hi everyone! Welcome Keith! I am Shannon and along with my husband Rick , we have 3 children, DD15 , DS12 , and DD4 (all at cruising time). My son is soooo excited that there seem to be so many boys around the same age as him on this cruise because on the last Disney cruise we took in March, there were ZERO!!!

This is our 2nd Disney cruise, but we have made it a mission in life to be consumed by everything Disney so we plan to take several more in the future with trips to WDW in between. We are from the VERY south of Texas (10minutes from the border of Mexico) so the weather in the bahamas isn't that different for us, but we can't wait!! to see the big red Mickey boat at Christmas . Rick and I have have been together for 22 years and we have decided that we would love to LIVE on Castaway Cay (you think I can talk Disney into it, Ha!Ha!)

So how was everyone's Halloween? It was SOO hot here that we had to wait for the sun to go down before we ventured out to trick or treat and by then, Melissa (DD3 )was getting tired, so we were only out for 30 minutes.
Now we are ready for Thanksgiving! We decorated the next day (we are huge into holidays at our house, well okay maybe just me )and put up the big blow up turkey in the front yard. I have to work Thanksgiving night, but we will have our meal before going to work!

Well, I will sign off for now and get ready for work (13 hours tonight because of Daylight Savings Time, you know ).

Shannon

 

[Kborn]

Just popped in to say Hi...OK, I'm good!

I also wanted to "bump" up the thread, I found us on Page 4

 

[nzdisneymom]

I suspect we'll have more folks joining us once it's the New Year and people start making their holiday plans for 2008. It's so fun to think about this time next year we'll be getting so close to going.

 

[cgcw]

We've been busy here getting ready for our Thanksgiving cruise. We leave on Saturday and while we are mostly packed, we have some odds & ends to finish up.

Have a great Thanksgiving everyone!

 

[Kborn]

We've been busy here getting ready for our Thanksgiving cruise. We leave on Saturday and while we are mostly packed, we have some odds & ends to finish up.

Have a great Thanksgiving everyone!

Have a great cruise....

 

[tinkerbell_29]

Hi everyone! We booked this cruise late last night. We were doing the Mexican Riviera cruise but changed our minds. We are also DVC members SSR and VAK. Our first DCL cruise was the Med cruise back in july. We went on the same one as CindY D. Hi Cindy! We will also be celebrating my mom's birthdya on this cruise. It's a big one but if I tellI'm im trouble. Look forward to getting to know ya'll!
Lissa
Cast:
Me: Lissa 30
Mom: Nancy ?
Brother: Matthew 28
Stateroom: 8586 main dining

 

[nzdisneymom]

Lissa - Welcome welcome! I'm so excited you guys are going! And how wonderful to be celebrating your mother's what? 40th birthday?

 

[tinkerbell_29]

No she is older than that Cindy D. I told her I was jealous this year she gets to celebrate at WDW and next year on a cruise while matt and I work on our B-days.

Lissa