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

[Happydog]

Shirts look great!

Tree looks great!

That To-Do list is looking good!

Ditto! I agree! Wow! That Tree is perfect! What a beautiful theme! And the Shirts are TOOOO cute! Where did you get that Movie Cars shirt!!!!??? Whose DISign? I might sneak that one for summer.... We have two we are making! I should have them done this weekend!

Happy Thanksgiving to you!

Love to see your lists, helps me to remember what I gotta do too!!!

 

[DisneyMom14]

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!!!

Shirts look great!

Tree looks great!

That To-Do list is looking good!

Thanks. I guess it is all worth the work!

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.

I'm sitting...for now. I'm finally getting through last week's laundry!!! Last batch in the dryer! Woohoo!

Feeling nostalgic and looked for a pic of our old house with our old tree. Couldn't find a good pic of the tree but it's in the background of this pic. As you can see we really took a different directions this year!

Ditto! I agree! Wow! That Tree is perfect! What a beautiful theme! And the Shirts are TOOOO cute! Where did you get that Movie Cars shirt!!!!??? Whose DISign? I might sneak that one for summer.... We have two we are making! I should have them done this weekend!

Happy Thanksgiving to you!


Love to see your lists, helps me to remember what I gotta do too!!!

Thanks! Go see Maize! I linked his thread to his last page cuz he is in the process of opening a new one. He should be up and running after Thanksgiving and you can always pm him in the meantime. He does great work and I LOVE his cars designs as well as his football/mickeyheads.

I like looking at everybody's list also. Keeps me on track!

 

[MMitchell29]

DisneyMom that is one super cute tree. I am so happy for you that you're going to spend your Christmas in Disney. There is no better christmas present. It's more special that it will be a surprise for the kids. I also want to say:


HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY

 

[jordanyosh]

I love the old tree too. blue and silver..say winter and classy at the same time.

 

[DisneyMom14]

Hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I can honestly say that even though I loved seeing all of my family, I am plum worn out!!!! We stayed VERY busy before Thanksgiving running around with doctor appointments, haircuts, errands, and general preparing for turkey day. We had family over for Thanksgiving and had a wonderful time. Friday was back to "work" as we took the final boxes out of the attic of our old house and then had my sister's family over to decorate the cake for my godchild's first birthday which we were hosting on Saturday. The guys also decided to hang xmas lights and the girls made a quick run to Old Navy for jeans while they were on sale. My neice (6 years old - bday boy's sister) wanted to sleep over and my brother asked me to watch his two boys (2 years old and 5 months) for a couple of hours (about 8am - 10am) this morning. So my day started early with 5 kids and prepping for the 2pm bday party which was lovely. My sister's family stayed to help clean up and we ordered pizza for supper. All of a sudden, the allergies that started yesterday from the attic stuff were really kicking my butt. Yuck! Headache, sneezing, took medicine and excused myself for 20 min to lay down. I felt much better after that. Finally got the kids in bed around 10pm. Whew! Now I REALLY need to get down to some Disney work!!!! I realized with great excitement and anxiousness that we are leaving in 19 days!!!!!

Because I was way too tired to do anything physical, I decided I needed my itinerary pocket cards. I print this info on cards that can fit in my pocket, laminate them, and put them on a binder ring. Soooo convenient!!!! I finished them tonight and wanted to share with you. Feel free to give suggestions or point out any problems. The biggest pain in the butt was DHS!!!! Too many shows, too little time. I am trying to please my daughter and son as well as show my mother-in-law everything I can as this will probably be her last trip. I know that sounds morbid but she is 73 and she doesn't care to visit DW all that often. Physically, she thinks she won't be able to go back???

Anywho...here it is:

MVMCP Thursday, Dec. 17
4:00 Arrive
Check on Santa
Splash
Big Thunder
Haunted Mansion
5:30 Supper Pecos Bills
6:30—7:30 Fantasyland starting with Peter Pan moving towardTomorrowland
7:45 Totally Tomorrowland xmas Show
8:15 1st parade - don't watch just get out the way
8:45 If missed 1st one, see Totally Tomorrowland xmas show
9:30 Holiday Wishes
Entrance of Main st
Pics w/Santa?
10:05 Celebrate the Season (if time)
10:30 2nd parade
Adventureland

Magic Kingdom (9—7)
Friday, Dec. 18, 2009

Fantasyland
Dumbo
Winnie the Pooh
Peter Pan
Snow White
Small World
Tea Cups
Ariel’s Grotto

9:45—Toontown Ropedrop
Pixie Hollow
Barnstormer
Teardrop Charac.
Judges Tent
Minnie’s House

Ride the Train to
Frontierland

Get FP—Splash Mountain
Big Thunder Mount.
Lunch Pecos Bills

Adventureland
Pirates
Capt. Jack’s PirateTutorial
Enchanted Tiki Room
Jungle Cruise
Haunted Mansion
Magic Carpets

Dreams Parade 3pm

Liberty Square
Liberty Bell
Haunted Mansion

Tomorrowland
Space Mountain (FP)
Buzz Lightyear (FP)
Carousel of Progress
Tomorrowland Transit Authority

Close at 7pm
(Early night as it was a late night/early morning)

Animal Kingdom (9-5)
Saturday, Dec. 19,2009

Donald’s Safari Breakfast @ 8:20

Get FP - Safari
Dinoland USA
Triceratops Spin

It’s Tough to be a Bug

Maharajah Jungle Trek

Africa
Kilamanjaro Safari (FP)

Pangani Forest Trail
Animal Kingdom(cont. 2)

Lunch — Pizzafari

Festival of the Lion King
1:00 or 2:00 show

Parade 3:45

Camp MinnieMickey!!!

? Boneyard
? Nemo & Friends

Hoop Dee Doo 7:15pm


I have the rest done but I am sooo tired. I'll post the rest tomorrow.

 

[jordanyosh]

Looks good so far!

 

[DisneyMom14]

Trying to recouperate today - still in my pj's . It's back to work tomorrow and I know the next 18 days will go by soooo fast!!!!!

Here are more days from my iten. cards:
EPCOT (9—9:30) Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009

Soarin’ - FP/Ride
?Nemo ride
?Crush 10am
Character Connection
Sign up for Kim Possible

Get FP—Test Track
Lunch - Sunshine Seasons

Club Cool
Norway
Mexico - San Angel Inn 2pm
Canada
United Kingdom
France
Morocco
Japan
America - Candlelight Processional 5pm
Italy
Germany
China

Test Track
Spaceship Earth

?If time? Journey into Imagination
?If time? Ellen’s Energy Universe

Illuminations 9:30pm

EPCOT Monday, Dec. 21, 2009

Soarin’
Test Track

Anything we didn’t get to do on Sunday

Lunch @ Sunshine Seasons

Ride Monorail to Magic Kingdom

If time permits, do a few favorites or missed rides or Tom Sawyer Island/Swiss Family treehouse. We've never been to either.

Pirate’s League 3pm
Liberty Tree Tavern 5:35pm
Main Street
Spectro 9pm
Wishes 10pm
Close @ 11pm

Resort Decorations/Fantasmic Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009

Sleep Wake up not too early but reasonably and go to any of the following we have time for in this order:

Grand Floridian
Contemporary
Fort Wilderness
Animal Kingdom Lodge


Drive to Hollywood Studios

Lunch
Get Star Tours FP?
Jedi Training 20 min.(1:30 or 2:20)
Block Party Bash 3pm
Mama Melrose 3:40
Fantasmic 6:30
Osbourne Lights
Close @ 8pm

Hollywood Studios Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009

Toy Story Mania (FP) & ride

Little Mermaid 9:40 (17min.)

Sorcerer Mickey picture

Playhouse Disney 10:30

Lunch Sci-Fi 11:15

Get FP— Lights, Motors, Action

HSM 3 Senior Year 25min. (12:30 or 1:30)

Get FP—Star Tours

Hunt for characters until 3:45 or Backlot tour 35 min. or Muppetvision 25 min.

Lights, Motors, Action! 33 min. (4:10)

Indiana Jones 30 min (5:30)

Osbourne Lights/Supper (quick)

Great Movie Ride 22min.

Close at 8pm

Magic Kingdom closes at 11pm so if we feel like it, we might go for a little while.

Dec. 24th - 12 hour drive home

I was able to print invites today for the kids so one more thing done. I plan to do nothing else but clothes and Disney today. We'll see how that goes!

 

[MadilynnsMomma]

Wow - your days look like they will be full of fun! I bet you can't wait to see the end of those 18 days!!!

 

[DisneyMom14]

Wow - your days look like they will be full of fun! I bet you can't wait to see the end of those 18 days!!!

We stay in the park all day. I get a stroller in case my little one get's tired. He has been known to pass out in that thing. Every trip I always think "I don't know when we'll get to come back." It makes me want to see every thing! I wish we would have regularly scheduled trips cuz then I would know that I could always catch it next time.


Your ticker says 1 WEEK!!!!! Woohoo!!!! You must be packing!!!

 

[DisneyMom14]

Don't forget to watch the Disney holiday show on HGTV tonight!!! I believe it is on at 8 (7central).

 

[DisneyMom14]

I have these really cute Tinkerbell designs that I originally planned to put on colored shirts. I recently figured out this wasn't going to work as I needed SOME of the white parts to be white (dark transfers) and SOME of the white parts to be clear (light transfers). I REALLY didn't want to have a big white glob on a colored shirt so I had a decision to make. I had white shirts to be used for our Pirate (non personalized but cute) shirts. I could scrap those and use DD and I's white shirts to make the Tinkerbell shirts. We all have some kind of pirate shirts anyway. OR I could do the pirate shirts and find two more white shirts somewhere for our Tinkerbell designs.

As I am running out of time and with the busy shopping season, I just decided to scrap the pirate shirts. So here are my last shirts. I'm so glad to be done and can now start with my packing list.

Almost time for Disney TV!!!!

 

[jordanyosh]

Trying to recouperate today - still in my pj's . It's back to work tomorrow and I know the next 18 days will go by soooo fast!!!!!

Here are more days from my iten. cards:
EPCOT (9—9:30) Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009

Soarin’ - FP/Ride
?Nemo ride
?Crush 10am
Character Connection
Sign up for Kim Possible

Get FP—Test Track
Lunch - Sunshine Seasons

Club Cool
Norway
Mexico - San Angel Inn 2pm
Canada
United Kingdom
France
Morocco
Japan
America - Candlelight Processional 5pm
Italy
Germany
China

Test Track
Spaceship Earth

?If time? Journey into Imagination
?If time? Ellen’s Energy Universe

Illuminations 9:30pm

EPCOT Monday, Dec. 21, 2009

Soarin’
Test Track

Anything we didn’t get to do on Sunday

Lunch @ Sunshine Seasons

Ride Monorail to Magic Kingdom

If time permits, do a few favorites or missed rides or Tom Sawyer Island/Swiss Family treehouse. We've never been to either.

Pirate’s League 3pm
Liberty Tree Tavern 5:35pm
Main Street
Spectro 9pm
Wishes 10pm
Close @ 11pm

Resort Decorations/Fantasmic Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009

Sleep Wake up not too early but reasonably and go to any of the following we have time for in this order:

Grand Floridian
Contemporary
Fort Wilderness
Animal Kingdom Lodge


Drive to Hollywood Studios

Lunch
Get Star Tours FP?
Jedi Training 20 min.(1:30 or 2:20)
Block Party Bash 3pm
Mama Melrose 3:40
Fantasmic 6:30
Osbourne Lights
Close @ 8pm

Hollywood Studios Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009

Toy Story Mania (FP) & ride

Little Mermaid 9:40 (17min.)

Sorcerer Mickey picture

Playhouse Disney 10:30

Lunch Sci-Fi 11:15

Get FP— Lights, Motors, Action

HSM 3 Senior Year 25min. (12:30 or 1:30)

Get FP—Star Tours

Hunt for characters until 3:45 or Backlot tour 35 min. or Muppetvision 25 min.

Lights, Motors, Action! 33 min. (4:10)

Indiana Jones 30 min (5:30)

Osbourne Lights/Supper (quick)

Great Movie Ride 22min.

Close at 8pm

Magic Kingdom closes at 11pm so if we feel like it, we might go for a little while.

Dec. 24th - 12 hour drive home

I was able to print invites today for the kids so one more thing done. I plan to do nothing else but clothes and Disney today. We'll see how that goes!

We write our itineraries very much alike! Me like!

 

[jordanyosh]

Great t-shirts by the way.

 

[MadilynnsMomma]

Ohhhhh I am packed and READY to go!!! This time next week I will have seen Osborne Lights, eaten at Sci Fi and have fallen in love with EVERYTHING all over again!!!

Love the shirts!

 

[DisneyMom14]

We write our itineraries very much alike! Me like!

Too bad mine doesn't have as much down time as yours!

Great t-shirts by the way.

Thanks!

Ohhhhh I am packed and READY to go!!! This time next week I will have seen Osborne Lights, eaten at Sci Fi and have fallen in love with EVERYTHING all over again!!!

Love the shirts!

OH!!!! I can't wait!!!! I will be thinking about you next week. I hope you plan to give us a trip report!

 

[MadilynnsMomma]

OH!!!! I can't wait!!!! I will be thinking about you next week. I hope you plan to give us a trip report!

That is my plan and intentions!

 

[alboq]

Since our trip is a surprise and all the holiday stuff going on, I keep feeling like I'm forgetting something. I've gone over my checklists and my DH keeps telling me we didn't forget anything. I guess I'm in the habit of talking about the trip with the kids that it's different this time so that must be it.

Your tree looks great! Congrats on the new house also. My DH put up the outside lights this weekend. My boys and I will put up the tree tonight while watching the Saints beat the Patriots!!! 11-0!!!!!!

The countdown is getting closer! I'm so excited!!! I know you must be also.

 

[erikawolf2004]

Are they going to air that more than once? I missed it, but we have the Samantha Brown one set to record.

 

[Happydog]

Are they going to air that more than once? I missed it, but we have the Samantha Brown one set to record.

Hi, yes! They are showing it on the 11th of Dec, and the 20th I think... check the website...

 

[Happydog]

So your shirts are too cute! And I think your plans are perfect! I like that you are giving yourself some days with down time and others with lots of great activities!!! Your trip looks like so much fun!!!