Move over Dumbo our circus is taking over! Surprise trip adventure!!

[Chicago Mo]

I LOVE your photos of Big Thunder and the Photopass pics too. The ones with Pascal are just adorable.

What do you mean your pictures didn't turn out at Haunted Mansion? I think they are terrific (you got the ghosts on the chandelier!).

Great photos of the kids out in front of HM.

thank you!!! You know me i am my biggest critic. I know they can be better. any little shake and i don't like it. I didn't toss them otherwise i would have any pictures this time! HA HA

Kids had a blast with the camera this time around they are all nuts.

The Pascal photos are sooooo cute !!! Thats definitely a must do for my kids when we go. And i LOVE the photos you took on the rides. They turned out so much better than mine ever do lol. Cant wait to hear how they enjoyed their surprise !!! *waiting in suspense*

Aren't they adorable? LOVE MAGIC SHOTS!!! I live for them!
Sorry don't mean to keep you suspense! just been kinda crappy mood and i want to stay ina good mood for a update!

I'm back! We had a great trip, hope to be writing about it next week!

I love the pictures you got of all the icons - Splash Mountain, Thunder Mountain, and the castle! You are super talented!

Welcome back!!! I can't wait to hear all about your trip!

thank you! Yes those pictures i do really like!!!



about an update! I really wanted to do an update today.. BUT i have a horrible twitch in my right eye which of course is making me:

I promise to be back once my eye settles down!!!

Oh my Glob this is annoying..

 

[Pluto0809]

Left us hanging waiting for the surprise! Luckily I didn't get around to reading your update till today so maybe it won't be too long of a wait till the next update.

I love the photopass pictures with Pascal! I'm going to have to try to find that one.

Beautiful pictures of BTMR and your pictures in the HM are great. Some of the best I've seen. It's so dark in there that it's hard to get anything to turn out!

 

[solana131]

You got some great PP pics already!
Are your Disney pictures up on mofoto? I am totally buying some! Love that last castle pic.....

 

[that's nice]

I don't get everyone's hatred of IASW. I guess I'm just a big sap for that ride. (not as big as my mom who cries every time she goes on it- tears of joy and tears of her childhood not of fear) I love watching my children's faces on the ride. I hope IASW brings back those memories for years to come. Feel free to flame me.

I love the pic of BTM!!! Great shot! Do you do post editing to your pictures?

Cute pics with Pascal!!!!

Love HM too!!! Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize!!!!!

 

[lovedonaldduck]

One more thing I wanted to comment on, but I forgot in all the reading I did yesterday - I am in love with this year's Christmas pattern too! I didn't get anything though, I'm not really an apron kinda girl and I couldn't spend that much for that little plate. Eventually my resistance will break down, though. Here's hoping for an awesome clearance!

 

[Chicago Mo]

Left us hanging waiting for the surprise! Luckily I didn't get around to reading your update till today so maybe it won't be too long of a wait till the next update.

Sorry i plan on doing it today!

I love the photopass pictures with Pascal! I'm going to have to try to find that one.

I just LOVE Magic Shots.. I seek them out like a treasure hunt every trip! It's right when you get off of BTM!!!

Beautiful pictures of BTMR and your pictures in the HM are great. Some of the best I've seen. It's so dark in there that it's hard to get anything to turn out!

Aww that is kind of you to say. THANK YOU! It is really dark. But i like dark shooting. with a tripod. Of course you can't HAVE a tripod in HM. I do not have stead hands at ALL!
I shoot with this hand...

So yes a ton of my pictures are VERY shaky

You got some great PP pics already!
Are your Disney pictures up on mofoto? I am totally buying some! Love that last castle pic.....

THANKS!!! No not yet i just finished my Open House Chicago pictures. I haven't finished all my Disney pictures yet! I KNOW i am a slacker! I will get them up soon i promise!

I don't get everyone's hatred of IASW.

I am scared to death of dolls... That is my only reason!! I don't even mind the song.
Clowns aren't very nice either.

I guess I'm just a big sap for that ride. (not as big as my mom who cries every time she goes on it- tears of joy and tears of her childhood not of fear) I love watching my children's faces on the ride. I hope IASW brings back those memories for years to come.

well you saw the pictures of the boys on that ride.. They aren't huge fans of it either! Meg on the other hand is a firm LOVER of this ride. so we do it every time! Oh the things i do for my kids!!!
I want the memories too.. But more with haunted mansion or Peter Pan!

Feel free to flame me.

Never! everyone has their opinions! If i didn't have such a horrible fear of the dolls i wouldn't find it so horrific!!

I love the pic of BTM!!! Great shot! Do you do post editing to your pictures?

My Canon i shoot in raw format and use lightroom for editing save as JPEG The other cameras are point and shoot so they use JPEG format no real editing. I have no idea in how to use photoshop i really want to learn!!! I see some magnificent things people can do!

Cute pics with Pascal!!!!

I the crazy person who seeks out every magic shot Disney has to offer! So worth the $$ for Memory maker!

Love HM too!!! Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize!!!!!

Thanks now THAT song will be stuck with me for the rest of the day!


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Fun stuff! First off i am PLEASED to report the twitch is GONE!!! I hate those things.

The kids and i had to go to Target.. you KNOW what happens when we go to target right?


YETI WALK!



Yes we found Bigfoot again in the forest of Christmas trees.

then it apparently started snowing blue snow flakes.


Once i was able to tear them away from Christmas antics we walked past an aisle with the bean bags which were all strewn about... I said ugh oh..
well like any kid would do:



You jump on them like a pile of leaves.. I laughed so hard.. YES we found them like that.. BUT we did clean them up. and walked slowly away.

The entire reason of going to Target was to buy this:

LOADS OF FUN! I was going to wait until Christmas.. But the kids that I AM i wanted to play right away! WHAT A FUN GAME!!!! it's a favorite now..

Then we had to stop at petco, Need to feed a certain ferret, then saw these guys!



this one wanted to come him with us.. and Honestly if it wasn't the holiday season i would have!!!
Then i was reminded why i do NOT need any more animals:




Video:


Nope NO MORE ANIMALS!!!

Yesterday i was just.. angry.. People were coming out of the woodwork to aggravate me.
So i had this at work:

friend bought me a coffee...
then Meg made my lunch:

CAN THAT BE ANY SWEETER??
So this brightened my day tremendously!!!

Today is a new day!!

SO ON WITH THE SHOW!

 

[Chicago Mo]

One more thing I wanted to comment on, but I forgot in all the reading I did yesterday - I am in love with this year's Christmas pattern too! I didn't get anything though, I'm not really an apron kinda girl and I couldn't spend that much for that little plate. Eventually my resistance will break down, though. Here's hoping for an awesome clearance!

Isn't is awesome?!? I am not a apron person either this is the first time i will be wearing one.. i think the holiday spirit has really bitten me in the behind!

there is 25% off the christmas stuff now!

 

[Chicago Mo]

So i left off with antics in Target.. Wait no.. that's my real crazy life..

We left HM i took a picture of the castle! Yep back on track. Hope you are too.

Our next destination was another surprise for the kids and came with a Fairy Godmother Dis-er and true friend of mine:

(Matt's Face- )

TESS and of course CHARLIE​

Do you see that fabulous dress Tess is holding? SHE MADE THAT! Seriously I would not lie to you! SHE MADE this beautiful Belle dress with her two hands!!! People who can sew are an enigma... I am in AWE what they can do with a piece of fabric!

If you had guessed YEP the surprise was Bippity Boppity Boutique!!!

Back when we had our annual Dis meet Tess had asked Meghan who her favorite princess was (at the time) it was Belle! I was surprised as Ariel is her absolute favorite. she said she has already dressed up as Ariel and Belle was her second favorite! Who knew! I digress..
Tess presented Meg with this stunning dress and she couldn't wait to get it on!

Our fairy godmother in training showed us to a dressing room so Peanut can change:



Floofy!


Isn't it extraordinary? I do. Meg was enchanted by the beauty she is becoming! Next up the FULL WORKS.




Lot's of pictures:


Me and Tess


She is SO HAPPY






I have to say Meg's fairy godmother in training: Caitlyn was just as cute as a button too. Meghan LOVED her!! She was sweet and kind. I highly recommend her.

While Peanut was transforming into a beautiful Belle Do you really think i would leave out the boys?
No way:




They thought i was joking when i told them they were getting 'it' done too. Heck no! Get your Knightly caboose in that chair!


We have done the PL a couple of times, the Barber shop, but BBB was a first. Reading the Dis I was informed Harmony Barber shop no longer does the hair gel! BBB was upset something about the HBS was taking their business?!?! I don't know. What i did know was the boys wanted hair color and BBB was the only place to get it! FINE. sign them up too! Right?

If that isn't a MOM I AM GOING TO KILL YOU look nothing is. Needless to say NO BBB did NOT have the hair gel either... so the boys had PIXI DUST sprinkled in their hair.



yeah:

Picture overload next post.




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[oopsiDAISY]

LOVE the BTMR photos, so beautiful and artistic!
And, speaking of artistic photos... Something a little Let me know when you are ready to photo the Cave Hill Cemetary in Louisville, KY... I will SO be there with you, that place is amazing!!!

Note to self: get that game at Target, but keep the kids off the beanbags.

GORGEOUS Belle dress! Cannot wait to see what our little Princess Meg Belle looks like after her transformation!

OMGooodness!!!! Not only would Gabe not like going to BBB, but Brian would probably KILL me if I signed Gabe up for something like that! Your boys are troopers! All that, and no hair gel?

 

[Chicago Mo]

so the boys not only had a bit of PIXI dust but they GAVE THEM SWORDS AND SHIELDS!










i present Sir Zack! New pin and everything!



meanwhile in the other chair:

She is still getting all gussied up







Sir Matt was up next:


Bloody Nose and All Matt was going to be knighted.

By the time Matt hopped into the chair and Zack sat by me the -Pixi dust- looked like this


yeah. GONE.



















After the boys were... ahem.... Transformed?... inducted? Into their knighthood they decided it was time for a war. YOU WILL NOT TAKE OUR FREEDOM! Hey you gave them weapons!

Meg was STILL being oggled over:




i wont make you wait as long as we did:




Princess Peanut Belle!





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[Chicago Mo]

My pretty girl





I do recommend it for girls! Totally worth it. For boys? No. thankfully my kids are good sports, went with it for me.
We ohhhh and aaaaaahhhhh all over Meg.. I mean peanut... I mean BELLE!
Tess and Charlie had to leave us i think they had an ADR? i don't remember! but we would meet up again a little later! for yet ANOTHER Surprise i had for the kids! hey this IS a surprise birthday trip right?@?

i wanted pictures all the posted pictures are from a PP!







Since we pretty much RAN out out the door this morning we forgot the tripod!!! so Tom went back to the resort to pick that up while we went on out merry way we needed to see one Special princess!



Which i will post more about tomorrow!









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[Chicago Mo]

Ohh I almost lost your post in my frantic uploads!

LOVE the BTMR photos, so beautiful and artistic!

Thank you!!!

And, speaking of artistic photos... Something a little Let me know when you are ready to photo the Cave Hill Cemetary in Louisville, KY... I will SO be there with you, that place is amazing!!!

You KNOW this is something i really want to do!! there are SEVERAL places i want to get to.... Yet this is an adult trip!

Note to self: get that game at Target, but keep the kids off the beanbags.

YES YES YES 100% YES!

GORGEOUS Belle dress! Cannot wait to see what our little Princess Meg Belle looks like after her transformation!

well you missed it because they are UP!

OMGooodness!!!! Not only would Gabe not like going to BBB, but Brian would probably KILL me if I signed Gabe up for something like that! Your boys are troopers! All that, and no hair gel?

IF they did the gel like i WAS TOLD it wouldn't be so bad.. just pixi dust hair sword and shield? I wish i knew- we would have gone back to the Pirates league.

 

[CaseFace5]

I just LOVE that dress that Tess made for Meg! Seriously!!!

I don't care that I am an adult I want to go to BBB in a pretty poofy dress and get all made-up DAMN-IT!!

Anywhoo...

Love your BTMRR and HM pictures. They came out so cool! I'm asking Santa for a new camera so I can get some good pictures like that for our house. Hopefully I've been a good enough girl to get one!

And because I am way far behind, you asked me about the Cars suite. I really liked the cars suite. When we stayed I had wanted to go check out the Lion King area and never got to. I had a ton of pictures of the inside of the cars suites but like the dumb-bumbs that we are.... Sken and I forgot my camera in a taxi on our cruise this past January and they are all gone...

 

[KatMark]

Oh you three mischieveous little kids and your shennagians in Target.

Tess did such an awesome job on the Belle dress for Meg.

And your boys sure are troopers for sitting in a "girlie" salon and getting pixie dust and swords. And of course they are going to have a sword fight. Doesn't everyone (just ask Mark)?

And I don't have enough adjectives to describe the beautiful Meg and her turning into Belle. She looks beautiful.

I can't wait to see where you go next.

 

[Clarf]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!



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OMG, WTH IS this? I have never seen that before. Scary. I was at your whole post about the scariest ride in the world. It totally is! Why do my kids love it? We had to ride it twice! I have to say though, your pictures turned out really well. And you got one of the pink poodle in France. That is my kids favorite thing on that ride. It's so close to the beginning I wish you could see it and bail.


Ummmmm you had a picture of one of the people in the Asia section. What was up with his slanty jewel eyes?

That whole post had me cracking up. Run away, run away!

Your pics of Splash and BTMRR were amazing. Just beautiful.

Where the heck was that Pascal PP? We didn't get that one.

I love your kids "grim" looks, and the family pics by the statues. Again, didn't know there was a PP there!

Your HM queue pics were amazing too. I especially love the one of the organ.

You used to do ghost hunting? AWESOME! My youngest said she saw my grandma standing next to me on Halloween. My grandma passed away just over a year ago, and I was standing in the kids' room getting their stuff ready for bed on Halloween, and Maura comes into the room and says "Mommy, Grandma Rita is standing next to you." So matter of fact. I know she was there.

I loved your updates. I can't believe I got so far behind!

 

[Denovagirl]

You think you got it bad??!! I had to ride IASW at least 6 times!!! No joke. No exaggerating. Six timessssssss!!! lol...

Sigh... Love all your pics by the runaway train! They look awesome! And the HM pics!!

So far birthday day is turning out amazing! Can't wait to see the rest!!

 

[spiritsim]

WOW sorry I have been MIA!!!! I have been unpacking boxes and getting settled in to our double wide in NC. Plus the girls have stayed over a couple times and of course we had their birthday party , life has been crazy lately!!!

 

[disneyfreak25]

Cute trip title!

 

[solana131]

Thank you so much for such a detailed BBB report. I will do my BFF duty and show it to Val. She is planning on taking both her DD and DS there on their trip. She will be very interested in this

Tess.....that dress is amazing! Gorgeous! Perfect! And Meg looks so darn adorable in it! She is on cloud nine

 

[Wood Nymph]

Meg looks very pretty. I see that she even had her nails done. The dress is perfect for her. Tess is very talented. She even got the size right.

Our five year old granddaughter is going to have a BBB appointment in January. I'm very excited to see her transformation. It should be fun. I can't wait.