MVMCV-Melanie's Very Merry Christmas Vacation - We're BACK!!!

[DisneyMom14]

Love the shirts!

I'm sitting here watching the Pats spank the Colts!!! GO PATS!!!

I'm so sorry! That was a CLOSE game!!!!

 

[DisneyMom14]

So I was a little like a crazy woman when I went to Michael's and Target and saw all of the Disney stuff in the dollar bins. Then I saw the Christmas Disney stuff at Walmart but I had already spent what I wanted so I only got a couple of things.

So here's pics of the loot I scored or the booty I plundered whichever you prefer:

DD's

DS's

I'm going to save some for stockings and the rest will be for the trip in the surprise box.

 

[Happydog]

Hi!!! I didn't quite register that you had a PTR going on here missy! Congrats on the new house, the MIL coming along (Hey I did that when mine were 3 and 6 mos. -- it was a huge help, and it was with my MIL and my DH's GRANDMOTHER too!) and the whole surprise thing... yep, done that too, we have not figured out the plan for this one yet! SO your Tshirts are adorable, your ADRs look great! Good choices!!! And yes what a deal on those Pirate League appointments, right? Our luck! SO I can't believe this trip is so close!!! It will be here before you know it! I was at Michael's on Friday, btw, and grabbed a few final treats, too, you are right they had great stuff!!!!

Looking forward to more, your back story was fun to read!!

 

[jordanyosh]

The shirts came out awesome!!!!!!!!

And what great 1.00 stuff!!!!!

Holy cow that's alot of stuff.

 

[MadilynnsMomma]

eh... a game is a game... Baseball is my real love!

All those goodies are EXCELLENT!!!

 

[DisneyMom14]

Celebrating 30 days!!!

Hi!!! I didn't quite register that you had a PTR going on here missy! Congrats on the new house, the MIL coming along (Hey I did that when mine were 3 and 6 mos. -- it was a huge help, and it was with my MIL and my DH's GRANDMOTHER too!) and the whole surprise thing... yep, done that too, we have not figured out the plan for this one yet! SO your Tshirts are adorable, your ADRs look great! Good choices!!! And yes what a deal on those Pirate League appointments, right? Our luck! SO I can't believe this trip is so close!!! It will be here before you know it! I was at Michael's on Friday, btw, and grabbed a few final treats, too, you are right they had great stuff!!!!

Looking forward to more, your back story was fun to read!!

Glad you came over! Thanks for the congrats. We are just in heaven in our new house. It'll wear off a little when I pay my first big house note January 1st. I hope having MIL along with us will be an asset. DH says the kids can stay with her at least one night. We are at Pop so only 4 in a room means she has her own room which should help with the too-much-togetherness aspect. The only thing is that I always want everyone to have a GREAT time and she is hard to please. It will bother me if she mopes or is less than enthusiastic which she sometimes is. That's probably more my problem than hers. I'm such a people pleaser that it irks me sometimes.

Anywho...Our trips are right around the corner and I'm sooooo excited!!!

The shirts came out awesome!!!!!!!!

And what great 1.00 stuff!!!!!

Holy cow that's alot of stuff.

I think I went a little overboard. You should have seen DH's face.
I will be doing the rest of our shirts this weekend. Can't wait to share!

eh... a game is a game... Baseball is my real love!

All those goodies are EXCELLENT!!!

for cheap goodies!!!

 

[raider97]

OMG!!! I saw your post about the tshirt transfers and about died!! That is the exact brand I had bought on sale from Micheals. So I broke out one pack and tried to make two shirts. They are terrible! Mine had weak spots in the transfer plus rain drop spots as well!! I am not happy about it. I found the receipt for one pack and I am taking the unused one pack. I ended up ordering some from Amy hopefully they will be in soon so I can get started!

Love the tshirts and the dollar stuff. I need to pick up some more $1 glow stick packs while I am at Micheals this week. I also got the stuff to make some Mickey bell ornaments for the table top Christmas tree I am taking. Hobby Lobby had their bells 50% off today.

Stephanie

 

[DisneyMom14]

OMG!!! I saw your post about the tshirt transfers and about died!! That is the exact brand I had bought on sale from Micheals. So I broke out one pack and tried to make two shirts. They are terrible! Mine had weak spots in the transfer plus rain drop spots as well!! I am not happy about it. I found the receipt for one pack and I am taking the unused one pack. I ended up ordering some from Amy hopefully they will be in soon so I can get started!

Love the tshirts and the dollar stuff. I need to pick up some more $1 glow stick packs while I am at Micheals this week. I also got the stuff to make some Mickey bell ornaments for the table top Christmas tree I am taking. Hobby Lobby had their bells 50% off today.

Stephanie

I'm so glad you had your receipt. I would bring back the open pack also with the samples of how much they suck! Maybe they would at least give you a credit if they won't give you the money back. I bought two more packs of transfers from Hobby Lobby - TransferMAGIC. They were 11.99 so I paid $7.80 with the 40% coupon. Good luck with your shirts. Can't wait to see them.

You are making Mickey bell ornaments???? I'm intrigued. We are bringing a small tree as well. I am thinking of decorating our window again as well. I have some Christmas ornament graphics with characters in them that I saved God knows when. I figured I could print them on window cling paper, but I'm trying to figure out how to make a xmas tree on the window. A green poster??? I guess if I did the poster, I could just print the ornaments on regular or thick paper and glue them to the tree. !!!! That would be cheaper than clings anyway! Ooh! Another secret Disney project!!!!

"Talk" to ya' later!

 

[DisneyMom14]

Just poppin' in to say that even though I am DOG-TIRED right now, I am SOOOO excited to be going to the New Moon premiere tonight at midnight. It is completely sold out so it will be a mad-house. Lots of our students and parents will be there. I don't have any idea how I will survive off of 2 hours of sleep tonight, but I'll deal with that tomorrow! I just need to get to work tomorrow and set up a book fair for when we get back after Thanksgiving.

Oh and I'm still anxiously awaiting my Mickey mail. ???

 

[DisneyMom14]

Just poppin' in again to say New Moon was GREAT - much better than the 1st movie. I made it in to work only 15 min late.

Planning some window decorations and the 2nd half of our DIY tshirts! Can't wait!!!!

Where is that Mickey mail?????

 

[DisneyMom14]

I still have NOT been able to work on Disney stuff and it is totally stressing me out!!!! I can't just work on it any time because it is a surprise and we've been busy doing other things also.

After my late night/early morning date with a vampire and a werewolf, I (of course) was no good by the time I got home from work. I think I fell asleep sometime between 6 and 7 pm. I thankfully slept for about 13 hours. I don't bounce back like I used to. We had a family birthday party at 11am Saturday and then I promised to watch my niece and godchild so my sister and hubby could go watch New Moon after the bday party. Somehow that seemed to take up my whole Saturday. Today, we went to the Global Wildlife Center in Folsom. It was an hour and a half drive one way, pic-nic-ing, the "safari" and then the drive home. Crazy enough, when we got home, we ate a quick supper and went shopping for tennis shoes (gotta break'em in before Disney) and xmas decorations because our old house color theme doesn't go in the new house.

High time I added some pics so I'll post some from the trip today and whenever we finish decorating our new xmas tree, I'll add those too!

Hope you enjoyed the pics. Hopefully tomorrow will be the day I get to start back on Disney "work."

 

[jordanyosh]

great pix. I love the one where she's just pouring the food into the animal's mouth

 

[MadilynnsMomma]

Looks like you guys had a good time

I'm sending you some pixie dust to get workin on those Disney things

 

[erikawolf2004]

I just joined your PTR. We are doing a Christmas trip next year, so I will have fun seeing your trip this year and getting my planning in order. We went in Sept. and it already seems so far away.

 

[alboq]

Hi neighbor! We're from Houma too. And we're going to Disney for Christmas too. It's a surprise trip too. WOW!! It's our first Christmas trip to Disney. We're staying at the Beach Club Villas Dec 19-25. I've always wanted to go for Christmas, now we have DVC and go more often, so we're going for Christmas. Its a surprise, my 2DSs think we are not going back to Disney until May. I CAN'T WAIT!!! I'm sooo excited!!! Enjoying your report.


Bye, Alisa

 

[MMitchell29]

DisneyMom14, I'm here!! I'm here, sorry i'm so late actually i'm almost always late First let me say Hi neighbor nice to meet you. I absolutely LOVE your new house there is nothing better than new house smell and new baby smell. I take it you're just sticking to new house smell

I think your shirts came out perfect. esp. the Saints shirts. When you get time please tell me where you got the design from I would love to make me a shirt since my team is on a winning streak now. oh and I do remember when people was wearing the paper bags on their face, too funny.

Your dollar goodies look great. I love Target 1.00 spot esp when they have them at 50 or 75% off. I have gotten stuff for .25 cents

I think i'm all caught up now and waiting on your next installment. I hope it comes all together for you in packing and planning of your Disney trip.

 

[DisneyMom14]

First let me just say I'm soooo excited to have all of you to talk to!!!! Everything is sooo hush hush around here because of the big surprise so it's extra nice to share my excitement with you!!!

great pix. I love the one where she's just pouring the food into the animal's mouth

It was so hilarious because they told us EXACTLY what the animals would do: come up to the wagon, open their mouths, stick their tongues way to the side and expect you to just pour in the food. The first animal that approached our wagon came right by me (I guess he saw my cup) and I still FREAKED OUT! Of course, having to set the example to all of the little ones staring at me with huge eyes, I composed myself and poured, but OMG! I was like AAAAHHHH!!!!! Then everyone started getting in on it and it was so much fun!!!! We actually had this long-horn cow that followed us the entire trip around! It took an hour and a half and it was so much fun!

Looks like you guys had a good time

I'm sending you some pixie dust to get workin on those Disney things

We sure did! Thanks for the pixie dust cuz it worked! (Updating next)

I just joined your PTR. We are doing a Christmas trip next year, so I will have fun seeing your trip this year and getting my planning in order. We went in Sept. and it already seems so far away.

Thanks for coming along! Funny how even though you just get back, you just want more. My two kinds of crack: Disney and Chocolate! Sorry about the gratuitous drug reference. Trying to compare it to an addiction.

Hi neighbor! We're from Houma too. And we're going to Disney for Christmas too. It's a surprise trip too. WOW!! It's our first Christmas trip to Disney. We're staying at the Beach Club Villas Dec 19-25. I've always wanted to go for Christmas, now we have DVC and go more often, so we're going for Christmas. Its a surprise, my 2DSs think we are not going back to Disney until May. I CAN'T WAIT!!! I'm sooo excited!!! Enjoying your report.


Bye, Alisa

Lucky girl!!! DVC!!!! I love meeting neighbors with Disney addictions. Makes me feel more normal. We'll have to see if we're crossing paths on our trips. Good luck on the surprise. It's hard!!!! I keep slipping and talking in riddles, etc. I'm so afraid I'm going to blow it!!!!

DisneyMom14, I'm here!! I'm here, sorry i'm so late actually i'm almost always late First let me say Hi neighbor nice to meet you. I absolutely LOVE your new house there is nothing better than new house smell and new baby smell. I take it you're just sticking to new house smell

I think your shirts came out perfect. esp. the Saints shirts. When you get time please tell me where you got the design from I would love to make me a shirt since my team is on a winning streak now. oh and I do remember when people was wearing the paper bags on their face, too funny.

Your dollar goodies look great. I love Target 1.00 spot esp when they have them at 50 or 75% off. I have gotten stuff for .25 cents

I think i'm all caught up now and waiting on your next installment. I hope it comes all together for you in packing and planning of your Disney trip.

WELCOME!!!! Love the new house and new baby smells too!!! No more babies for me but I have relatives that let me borrow theirs!!! They never say no to free babysitters!!!

I got my Saints design from Maizes Designs. He does GREAT work!!!! No more bags! Wear that black and gold proudly!!! 10 - 0! Woohoo!!

Wow! .25 cents!!! Man, that's a deal!!!

Thanks for joining in!

Update comin' up!

 

[DisneyMom14]

Do you ever feel like everything that NEEDS to be done keeps getting in the way of you doing what you WANT to do?????

I've felt like that for about a week or so now but getting time off for the holidays is almost worth getting paid about half of what my friends and family get paid. That's because I'm finally able to sneek in some Disney stuff!!! Yay!!!!!

So in between doctor visits, haircuts, computer problems, running back and forth to Hobby Lobby with more 40% off coupons, Christmas decorating, and Thanksgiving plans, I've managed to make a few shirts. Almost done now!!!

Here is one of our Anniversary shirts . Jessica did this beautiful design. The kids will be wearing thier Mickey/Minnie shirts the day we wear these.

This shirt is my FAVORITE one. I have one for my husband also.

We plan to wear these in Epcot the day we do Candlelight Processional. I plan to have us wearing black long sleeve shirts underneath with Santa hats.

I'm not quite finished with shirts. Need more transfers and might have to rethink our pirate shirts and Tink shirts but I hope to finish in the next couple of days.

I did have to take time to decorate for Christmas the last couple of days. We usually decorate on Black Friday (no fighting crowds for me) but Saturday we are hosting my godchild's 1st bday party. We didn't want to feel rushed or have boxes down and in the way so we decided to decorate early. In our old house, we could really do any color and for the last few years have chosen to decorate in blue, silver, and white which was beautiful. BUT the new house colors really clashed with our decorations AND hubby (last year) decided that our 7 ft tree would look like a dwarf with our 12ft ceilings. Soooo he bought a 9 ft tree on sale after christmas last year. The challenge was to now fill a 9 ft tree with new decorations. Because of our color scheme, we figured we should do red and gold. I knew what I WANTED but I'm no Martha Stewart. So, I made my DH call his half sister to help. She's just got a knack for crafty stuff and an eye for pretty things. She showed up and taught me how to make bows and even brought more ribbon because you know I had no clue how much ribbon it took to tie bows. Anyway, I had poinsettas, some ribbon, some bulbs and picks, and an idea. She helped me tie it all together (literally) and here is the finished product! Hope you like it!

And a close up:

Next to do:
finish washing clothes
finish cleaning house before family shows up for Thanksgiving
cook for Thanksgiving
buy more transfers
finish these gazillion shirts I decided to make for this trip
adjust our last trip's packing list
finish my iten pocket cards
print ADR invitations and mousekeeping envelopes
wrap presents to make room in my closet
buy any travel items I ran out of
secretly start packing!!!

I might have more but that's all I can think of right now!
See you real soon!!!!
Happy Saintsgiving!!!

 

[MadilynnsMomma]

Shirts look great!

Tree looks great!

That To-Do list is looking good!

 

[jordanyosh]

Have a Happy thanksgiving. and try and sit still for a minute or two.

The T-shirts are coming out fantastic!

The tree did come out great as well. I would've love to have seen the other tree as well.