My family thinks I'm crazy..but I know you all won't! Back and my TR is started!

[jm106]

Someone has been busy!Awesome count down calendar.
We are working on some fun things now that we are getting closer. A lot of shopping and lists. I feel like I am slacking but dh will be traveling so my nights will be my own(other then kids and my homework and cleaning and well work) So I am getting busy. I have my gidt cards, will be in easter baskets which will be disney themed. Im excited, I got my Flip today. I see you have the Kodak which I considered.
Where do you order groceries from? Garden Grocer and Wego are recommended.

 

[teachermommy78]

Can you explain the rewards card to me? We have the Disney Visa. Is there something special you do with that?

 

[AKL LOVER]

Someone has been busy!Awesome count down calendar.
We are working on some fun things now that we are getting closer. A lot of shopping and lists. I feel like I am slacking but dh will be traveling so my nights will be my own(other then kids and my homework and cleaning and well work) So I am getting busy. I have my gidt cards, will be in easter baskets which will be disney themed. Im excited, I got my Flip today. I see you have the Kodak which I considered.
Where do you order groceries from? Garden Grocer and Wego are recommended.

Actually, we don't do grocery delievery. We just pack bottles of water and snacks in our luggage. The couple of years that we needed lots of diapers for DS, I just mailed myself a package to the resort. It worked well for us Saw the pic of your Flip on your PTR. We have a Flip that we bought about 3 years ago, and we really love having it! The main reason I went with the Playsport was because it uses an SD card, so you can always buy more of those to upgrade how much memory you have to record on. With the Flip you just have internal memory and we don't take our laptop with us on vacation so once we filled the memory, there was no way for us to download the video's off the Flip so we could record more.

Can you explain the rewards card to me? We have the Disney Visa. Is there something special you do with that?

The rewards card is a gift card that Chase puts your earned points on. Each point you have is a dollar. You can spend the gift card however you like...at Disney...on food...on souviners...at a Disney store...you can even have them apply your points to your package when you book/pay off your vacation. If you look at the bottom of your statement, it will give you a total of how many rewards points you have on your account.

 

[Joyciemc]

Tell you what--your welcome to steal some of mine if your going to share your to-do list on your PTR so I can steal some of yours! Because I'm sure once you sit and think of it, you will come up with plenty that you need to get done!!

Turns out you are very right! I started a mental list (first thing on it? Write the list down! ) and realized that there are things I need to do!

p.s. love your countdown calendar!

 

[Jonesloonybin]

I am all caught up! I love your countdown calendar!! If we do another one, it will be that type.

I have lists coming out my ears! My problem is keeping track of all my lists.

I cannot believe how time is flying. I feel like there is still so much to do! I haven't decided on what type of autograph book we are going to do either. What are thinking??

I am really looking forward to the Dismeet too!! I have my LGMH's ready!

Terri

 

[Moira222]

Thanks for the LGMH update....now that you mention it, I do remember hearing that around but had forgotten it. guess I need to work on my own list..45 days!!!

thanks also for the timing details on the disney visa...I will order now so I have it & then have them add $ up til the last minute. I totally plan on using that to pay for my developing grey goose & grand marnier slushie habit

 

[merbobear]

New follower here! We will be arriving at WDW the day after your family leaves! I love your Disney theme nights! I made the oil dipsticks for a Christmas party this past year (except I called them "chocolate covered pretzels" - creative! lol), I did some in chocolate and then sprinkled crushed candy cane over them.

One word: YUM!

 

[lbuzz52]

good job getting things accomplished i'm glad you posted your list as i foudn a few things i had forgotten.

 

[AKL LOVER]

I am all caught up! I love your countdown calendar!! If we do another one, it will be that type.

I have lists coming out my ears! My problem is keeping track of all my lists.

I cannot believe how time is flying. I feel like there is still so much to do! I haven't decided on what type of autograph book we are going to do either. What are thinking??

I am really looking forward to the Dismeet too!! I have my LGMH's ready!

Terri

I know what you mean about keeping track of all your lists...I seem to have a problem with that as well. Perhaps we need a list of our lists to keep track of them all??

Thanks for the compliment on the countdown calendar. The kids are really loving it. They can't wait to turn the number each day! Of course we have to make sure that they take turns and alternate days to make it fair!

I have decided on an autograph book. I'm going to do the same kind that we've done in the past. I bought a spiral bound artists journal/pad and we had each character sign a different page (DD and DS each had their own book). When we got home I added pictures of the kids with the characters as well as stickers to decorate. It ended up being a mini scrapbook for each of them. They really love to go back and look at the pictures and autographs. Oh, and I left a few pages empty at the begining so I could make a couple of intro pages with our dates and a family pic and such. I also decorated the cover of each and used sticker letters to put their names on them--but I did this when we got home so it wouldn't get messed up while we were there.

So bascially, we have used these for the past 3 trips and they are almost full. And of course, once you have a character sign it once, you don't want them to sign it a second time when on the subsequent trip. And it's been 3 years since we started them, so I thought it was a good time to start a whole new one with whole new pictures! I got the spiral bound books over the weekend at Michaels--they were buy one get one free!!

Let me know if you'd like me to post pics!

Thanks for the LGMH update....now that you mention it, I do remember hearing that around but had forgotten it. guess I need to work on my own list..45 days!!!

thanks also for the timing details on the disney visa...I will order now so I have it & then have them add $ up til the last minute. I totally plan on using that to pay for my developing grey goose & grand marnier slushie habit

Get your list on girl--you will feel so much better once you do!! (note the peer pressure--just do it! )

I have a feeling that a good portion of my rewards card is going to go towards my OGM slushie habit as well. I won't tell if you won't tell!

New follower here! We will be arriving at WDW the day after your family leaves! I love your Disney theme nights! I made the oil dipsticks for a Christmas party this past year (except I called them "chocolate covered pretzels" - creative! lol), I did some in chocolate and then sprinkled crushed candy cane over them.

One word: YUM!

Hi! Thanks for joining in! Are you guys going down for the first time? It looks like you might be from your signature. I'm going to head over and check out your PTR straight away...Always happy to keep up with another trip report to make the days go by faster until we leave!

 

[AKL LOVER]

good job getting things accomplished i'm glad you posted your list as i foudn a few things i had forgotten.

Isn't forgetting something for your trip your worst nightmare?? I cannot even tell you how obsessed I am right now with checking other people's lists. If there is a PTR out there with a to-do list, I've probably read it!! And just when you think your list is perfect (i.e. complete), you find something else to add....

 

[AKL LOVER]

This was a pretty productive weekend for me. Got lots of done plus I started and almost finished a planning journal (yet something else that I added to my to-do list). But at least I got some more things done and checked off my list!

So here where I stand with my list...

• reserve rental stroller--done!
• finish our schedule spreadsheet--done!
• make an EMH and park hours spreadsheet--done!
• make a spreadsheet with our ADR #s--done!
• make countdown calendar--done! will post pics tonight
• decide what kind of autograph book we're going to do this year--done!
• pre-order photopass
• start my Disney box--done!
• make and laminate LGMHs
• dig out the kids ID tags--done!
• email allergy sheet for DS to Disney since I'm not going to make any more ADR changes (hopefully! )--done!
• finish last year's scrapbook
• exchange a t-shirt I ordered from the Disney store
• play around with the video of DS's bday taken on our new Playsport
• ask neighbor to feed the cat while we are gone
• order gift cards 'from Mickey' for the kid's Easter baskets
• order Disney Visa rewards card--done!
• make our planning journal--started and almost done!
• pack

Maybe I'm crazy for continuing to post and repost my to-do list, but I feel like by posting it here, I'm being held accountable to finish everything on it! So thanks for helping to keep me on track.

I will be sure to post pictures of the planning journal when it's finished. Off to get more of that done now.

Up next...an exciting announcement!!

 

[mrssmith06]

You've got a lot done now!!!

 

[Moira222]

way to go! i got as far as writing out a to do list I have been preoccupied this week making fairy cookies & fairy wings for a Fairyland themed daddy daughter dance.

 

[AKL LOVER]

You've got a lot done now!!!

I know, but why is it that my list keeps growing even though I'm busy checking things off??

way to go! i got as far as writing out a to do list I have been preoccupied this week making fairy cookies & fairy wings for a Fairyland themed daddy daughter dance.

To be honest, I have a lot of non-Disney stuff that I SHOULD be preoccupied with ....but Disney things are just so much more fun!

 

[AKL LOVER]

Man, I got so excited this morning because we flipped our calendar to 30...I thought, woohoo, one month to go! Then I log onto the DIS only to see my ticker say one month and one day It would appear that the counter on my phone is dumb and can't figure out how many days it is until May 2nd. Then I actually spent 10 minutes counting on a real calendar trying to figure out which count down was correct. I mean, really?? Didn't I have anything better to do? Guess not!

So I guess I'm really at 31, because our calendar should say 0 on May 2nd not on May 1st.

But today is Friday (yay!)...and tomorrow we'll be at 30!

 

[teachermommy78]

I talked to my dh about the reward card for the Disney visa and he informed me that he used the reward points towards the balance of our trip . What is he THINKING??????! I could have used those reward points!

 

[AKL LOVER]

I talked to my dh about the reward card for the Disney visa and he informed me that he used the reward points towards the balance of our trip . What is he THINKING??????! I could have used those reward points!

AKK! I completely understand where you're coming from. While I guess it doesn't actually matter if you use them toward your trip balance or use them while you're on your trip, it just seems more rewarding to do it the second way!

 

[Joyciemc]

Man, I got so excited this morning because we flipped our calendar to 30...I thought, woohoo, one month to go! Then I log onto the DIS only to see my ticker say one month and one day It would appear that the counter on my phone is dumb and can't figure out how many days it is until May 2nd. Then I actually spent 10 minutes counting on a real calendar trying to figure out which count down was correct. I mean, really?? Didn't I have anything better to do? Guess not!

So I guess I'm really at 31, because our calendar should say 0 on May 2nd not on May 1st.

But today is Friday (yay!)...and tomorrow we'll be at 30!

Awww, but now you are at 30! So whoo-hoo for that!
And I almost sat down with a calendar to count days yesterday because I didn't know if DH had already changed our countdown, so I wanted to make sure we were on the right number! Who does that? Well, at least the both of us do!

I am annoyed that my ticker says '4 weeks and 1 day'. It may be accurate, but I feel like it is rubbing it in my face that we are a bit more than 4 weeks still... amazing what these trips do to our minds!

 

[AKL LOVER]

Today is a great day people...that's because our countdown calendar says...

So we are busy doing the 30 day dance around here. Feels good to do it for real after I mistakenly started doing it yesterday!



And to add to that, we have another reason we are dancing in our house...





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...Mickey mail has started arriving!!



First we have a gift card I ordered with a birthday check from my grandmother. Thank you Gram!!

Next we have the all important ME tags!

And last, I got our Disney Visa rewards card in the mail...but I have no picture of that because the batteries on my camera have died and I have to go get more!



Now we are just waiting on our Resort mail with luggage tags and MYW package stuff. I'm worried that I don't have it yet, I thought we usually got it by now. But I'm going to resist the urge to call Disney just yet. I figured that if I don't get it this week in the mail, I will call them next Saturday to see if it had been sent out yet.




We cannot wait to be enjoying Disney and warm weather in a month!

 

[Moira222]

Awww, but now you are at 30! So whoo-hoo for that!
And I almost sat down with a calendar to count days yesterday because I didn't know if DH had already changed our countdown, so I wanted to make sure we were on the right number! Who does that? Well, at least the both of us do!

I am annoyed that my ticker says '4 weeks and 1 day'. It may be accurate, but I feel like it is rubbing it in my face that we are a bit more than 4 weeks still... amazing what these trips do to our minds!

LOL we have counted out from the calendar twice to see if Katie remembered to tear of the link from the countdown chain

Today is a great day people...that's because our countdown calendar says...

yeah yeah yippee yahooeeee


So we are busy doing the 30 day dance around here. Feels good to do it for real after I mistakenly started doing it yesterday!



And to add to that, we have another reason we are dancing in our house...


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...
...Mickey mail has started arriving!!


First we have a gift card I ordered with a birthday check from my grandmother. Thank you Gram!!

Next we have the all important ME tags!

And last, I got our Disney Visa rewards card in the mail...but I have no picture of that because the batteries on my camera have died and I have to go get more!



Now we are just waiting on our Resort mail with luggage tags and MYW package stuff. I'm worried that I don't have it yet, I thought we usually got it by now. But I'm going to resist the urge to call Disney just yet. I figured that if I don't get it this week in the mail, I will call them next Saturday to see if it had been sent out yet.




We cannot wait to be enjoying Disney and warm weather in a month!

How exciting to have Mickey Mail!!! I am doing the dance for you too!!!