May 2008--Everything's Coming Up Roses -- COMPLETE

[acellison]

I sat down with my 3 year old DD and "looked" through your Disney ABC Book and she loved it! She keeps asking to look at it again. Thanks for helping her get excited about our vacation

We leave Saturday!! I cannot wait

 

[Marshay]

I sat down with my 3 year old DD and "looked" through your Disney ABC Book and she loved it! She keeps asking to look at it again. Thanks for helping her get excited about our vacation

We leave Saturday!! I cannot wait

Oh, that makes me so happy to know that your girl loved it too!

I'll actually have it in the parks with me, so if you run into us somewhere, ask me to show it to her!

Have you packed yet? I did print out my packing list from our September trip...and we have the suitcases down...but that's it.

I'm working on my LGMH and will post pics soon.

 

[swwake]

Marshay - maybe you should try to publish that book! Seriously. But I guess you'd have to get the rights to use the characters and names.

 

[Marshay]

Marshay - maybe you should try to publish that book! Seriously. But I guess you'd have to get the rights to use the characters and names.

yeah, then it would be way too expensive!!

Did you see the one I did last year? It's a Disney Interactive book, with coloring pages, sticker fun pages, touch and feel (i.e., Chip's tail, Daisy's feathers), Princess memory game cards, etc. Now that was a fun book, too! It's in my September trip report below.

 

[Marshay]

Here is the sign I made to hang up on our door. The bottom left side is a pocket with decorated cards. I'll attach a pen to the sign and then hope that people write cute messages for us.

 

[Marshay]

And here are the LGMH for our stroller and my Baggalini. One side says DIS and the other says Marshay.

 

[Circusgirl]

For those of you who remember, we were trying to get pregnant with kid #2 and went to a fertility doctor. We were able to get pregnant, but unfortunately it was not a healthy pregnancy. After the appropriate waiting time, we went to a new fertility doctor to be retested and determine next steps.

Well, our plan is that we have one more month to try it on our own and then we will go forward with IVF. The timing of things is such that I will be "Fertile Myrtle" (sorry if that's TMI) while we are in Disney World!! So I'm praying and hoping that we can bring back our own "lil souvenir".

If not, then we would begin treatment in May after our trip with the actual procedure in June, if everything goes well.

So I'm definitely going on ToT, RnR and Mission Space this trip since I'm not sure when we'll be able to go back next.

All best thoughts to a sibling for your daughter with least effort and difficulty for you!!

 

[acellison]

Ooo.. I love your door signs and LGMHs

I have not acually packed anythng but I have lists for everything!!

Hopefully, once I do laundry a final time before we leave, I can just put eveything from the lists in the suitcases.

 

[Marshay]

All best thoughts to a sibling for your daughter with least effort and difficulty for you!!

Thanks! I know it's all in God's hands but I have a habit of trying to help him along...

Ooo.. I love your door signs and LGMHs

I have not acually packed anythng but I have lists for everything!!

Hopefully, once I do laundry a final time before we leave, I can just put eveything from the lists in the suitcases.

I just posted the door sign on the BC/YC thread and someone else is going to be there at the same time!! Woo Hoo!! She'll look for our door sign.

And the sign is also just easy for us to remember our room, esp late at night and for my daughter to recognize it too.

Shirts are in the laundry...I think they came out really cool -- completely different than last years, even though I used the same colors (just added yellow which gave us a cool green!!)

 

[Marshay]

Ok, here are this year's tie dye shirts.

I really like them and all the colors and patterns that show up. We added the Mickey swirl this year with a bleach pen.

My critique: If we do this next time, we won't let the bleach sit so long since it really made our fuschia turn pink. Also, we put the swirls a little too close together. But no worries, we learn a little more each time we do these.

The front of the shirts:

The back of the shirts:

I really like the sunburst pattern around the back of my MH.

Ok, so if you see these shirts in WDW -- say hello!

 

[Trentmom]

I will be saying good thoughts that you come home with that little Souvie "Myrtle" or


Love your door sign and those shirts came out great!!!!


6 more days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Imagoofy1]

Love the shirts - Just wondering if I could find enough courage to do some for our upcoming trip in September Maybe I will give it a try.

 

[Imagoofy1]

I like the look of the mickey heads with bleach pens. I think that makes it look really cool.

 

[Marshay]

Love the shirts - Just wondering if I could find enough courage to do some for our upcoming trip in September Maybe I will give it a try.

I like the look of the mickey heads with bleach pens. I think that makes it look really cool.

Oh, you definitely should give it a try. The thing I love about them is that you cannot predict how they will turn out (at least I can't). They are supposed to be "go with the flow". I envisioned these shirts to be really light purple since we used lilac as the primary color but they turned out a lot darker. But I still like them.

Also, the bleach Mickey helps to define the Mickey Head. I used a tighter stitch this time and it didn't seem to hold the shape of the Mickey head as much as it did for our Sept shirts.

 

[acellison]

Love your shirts. Do you know what day you are wearing them and to which park?

 

[Marshay]

Love your shirts. Do you know what day you are wearing them and to which park?

so you do know that I'm that obsessed!!

I'll be planning our clothes tomorrow and Wednesday. We'll be wearing both tie-dye shirts this year (the light blue one from last year -- see below) and the new ones. Probably Epcot on Monday and DHS on Thursday but not positive.

 

[Marshay]

Here are some updated photos. This past weekend we went to my nieces engagement party.

Hey Barbie -- please show them to the boys!

In our front yard

Having fun in our side yard -- the azalaes just bloomed. Notice I changed my hair again (!)

Daddy gets in on the action too

Strolling along...aren't we color coordinated!!

And one of the cousins -- now don't they look alike!! This is my DH's niece.

 

[swwake]

Love the new pics! Love your new hair. I love the coordinated one of mom and Daughter walking. You should frame it.

 

[racefanof88]

Here are some updated photos. This past weekend we went to my nieces engagement party.

Hey Barbie -- please show them to the boys!

In our front yard

Having fun in our side yard -- the azalaes just bloomed. Notice I changed my hair again (!)

Daddy gets in on the action too

Strolling along...aren't we color coordinated!!

And one of the cousins -- now don't they look alike!! This is my DH's niece.

What great pictures. I love your hair. And they shirts you made are great.

 

[Marshay]

OK, here is my "abbreviated" schedule!! If you saw my 14 page detailed schedule, you would then all realize how nutzo I am, so I'll spare you all that! (However, the detailed schedule lists all the hours each day, what clothes we'll wear, the temperature, special notes, etc). Yes, I'm obsessed!

Even with this brief schedule, you'll see I have more planned at like, MK or DHS than we will be able to do. I recognize that as soon as DD sees Donald's Boat at MK or the Boneyard at AK, that "my" schedule will go out the window.

I told DH I want 3 things:

1) To get up EARLY for our MK day so we get there BEFORE the park opens
2) To make it to our ADRs
3) To be on-time and ready for the Photopass session.

Everything else can slip but these are important to me. "Join us in 3+ weeks to hear how this story ends "


SCHEDULE

WDW Beach Club Villas
Epcot Flower & Garden Show


Saturday, May 3rd

8:45am Depart IAD

10:50am Arrive MCO

1pm Radisson Worldgate Resort

6:30pm Terrace Noodle Station - Magic Kingdom

9pm SpectroMagic

10pm Wishes​

Sunday, May 4th

10:45am Wal-Mart

11:45am BCV Pre-Check in

4:20pm Le Cellier - Canada​

Monday, May 5th

10am Epcot
• MS, Soarin, Test Track, The Land Boat Ride, Nemo & Friends
• Minnie’s Butterfly Garden, PP Neverland Garden, Pluto’s Play Zone

12:20pm Coral Reef – The Seas with Nemo and Friends

TBD Parents Babysit – Date Night!!

7:30pm Grand Floridian Café Dinner​

Tuesday, May 6th

9am MK
• Dumbo, Peter Pan, Tea Cups, Buzz Lightyear
• Barnstormer and Characters
• Jungle Cruise, Pirates, Aladdin, Haunted Mansion
• Tom Sawyer, Country Bears

11:15am Columbia Harbor House?

5:50pm Spoodles - Boardwalk

7:45pm DIS Meet at Japan gate
8pm Boardwalk or SAB​

Wednesday, May 7th

9am AK
• Expedition Everest, Safari, Tri Spin, Primeval Whirl

10:30am Lion King

11:30am Yak & Yeti Lunch

1pm Nemo: The Musical

6:30pm Akershus – Norway (Princess Dinner)

8:30pm Maelstrom and Mexico Boat Rides

9pm Illuminations​

Thursday, May 8th

Open Day (DTD or SAB)

7pm Photopass at Grand Floridian​

Friday, May 9th

9am DHS
• RnR, ToT

9:30am Playhouse Disney

10:15am Voyage of the Little Mermaid

11am Great Movie Ride and Characters

12:20pm Hollywood & Dine

6:30pm Mickey’s Pirate and Princess Party
Cosmic Rays – Magic Kingdom​

Saturday, May 10th

11:30am Segway Tour - Ft. Wilderness

6pm San Angel Inn Dinner - Mexico

8pm Mexico Boat Ride and Spaceship Earth​

Sunday, May 11th – Happy Mother’s Day!

9:30am Toy Story Mania Preview or Epcot

12:10pm Le Cellier - Canada

5:30pm Toy Story Mania Annual Pass Preview until 7pm and tour DHS

9pm Fantasmic​

Monday, May 12th

11am Check-out BCV

11:15am DHS Toy Story Mania or Epcot

3:55pm Depart MCO

6:10pm Arrive IAD​