Our 10th anniversary FAMILY celebration at WDW *9/7 Two more movie nights!*

[My2Qtz0205]

I got my CRT ADR this morning! I did not sleep much at all last night. I had my cell phone alarm on, and put it beside my pillow. I forgot to turn all my other notifications off, so I got startled awake at 3am by someone posting on my facebook page (I have a Blackberry). I made it back to sleep until about 5:30, when I woke up from a dream about oversleeping. I just got up then. I hit the reservations button right at 6:01 a.m. Then I went back to sleep! I get to do it all again on Wednesday (for our anniversary dinner), and on Friday (for Chef Mickey's). I will be so happy when it is done!!

As for parties, we did a Little Mermaid party a couple of weeks ago, a Lion King party last week (I took NO pics! ), and today we are doing Jungle Book. I need to make a list and go get my stuff for that.

 

[jaydoe]

That sounds like me!!! I was up at 3:45am! And I didn't really get a good night sleep. I kept going over and over in my head all the different ADR's I had to book. Then.....I thought to myself "Are these the right days??? Should I switch some of my days?? Should I try to just get some sleep???" Yeah....that's pretty much how my night went! THEN....once I woke up and got all my ADR's I was soooo excited, I couldn't go back to sleep! Needless to say, I was pretty exhausted yesterday !!!

But CONGRAT'S on getting CRT!!!!! Good luck to you getting the rest of you ADR's.

And have fun with the Jungle Book Party!!!

 

[My2Qtz0205]

I need to catch up here....

A couple of weeks ago my friend was sick, but my kids were looking forward to a movie night, so I just so happened to have the materials to throw together an impromptu Little Mermaid movie party. We didn't do a craft, but it was still all good.

Table decs:

I printed the photos from the Scrapbooking board. The credit for these go to susan0326.

Our menu was Ursula dogs (hot dogs cut into an octopus shape), shell-shaped Mac 'n Cheese, blue Gatorade, and blue Jello with Swedish fish "floating" in it.

The happy mermaid eating her chocolate chip cookies Dad made:

Last week my friend hosted a Lion King party. I didn't take pictures. What kind of scrapbooker am I? The menu was "Pumba Pizza" (delivery pizza with ham on it) and grapes. They made a foam monkey mosaic. It turned out cute, but it was tedious! There were hundreds of little foam squares with adhesive on the back, and you had to adhere them onto a half-sphere monkey head in a pattern. They also made jungle-themed necklaces.

Tonight we hosted a Jungle Book themed party. I did last minute prep on this. Not my best planning work. I couldn't find any table decs that were jungle-themed at The Dollar Tree or Target. We made do.

Here are Q and C getting ready to eat. I got the jungle animals from The Dollar Tree:

For a craft they made these foam jungle animal puppets:

Our dinner menu was Mowgli's Mango Chicken, Bagheera's Basmati Rice, Baloo's fruit salad, and for dessert was Monkey bread.

Whew! All caught up now. I'll be out of town next weekend, and my friend will be out of town the 2 weekends after that. While she is gone I will probably do Star Wars, since I don't think her girls would be interested in that.

As of today, we are 89 days away!

 

[shordiebecka]

I think you did awesome for last minute planning! Glad to hear you got the ADR's that you wanted!

 

[jaydoe]

Yay.....a movie night update!! I love those! Cute ideas! I love that you did the seashell pasta for mac and cheese on The Little Mermaid Movie Night! Nice touch!!

 

[My2Qtz0205]

They're done!

Here is what I have:

10/17 CRT 8:25 a.m.
10/20 Cali Grill 7:15 p.m. This is MNSSHP night, so no Wishes.
10/22 Chef Mickey's 5:10 p.m.

All in all, I got every restaurant I wanted, within 25 minutes of the time I wanted it. It was pretty easy-peasy, though I did get up super early to make the CRT and Chef Mickey's ressies.

I added our anniversary celebration to the Cali Grill ressie, and Q's bday celebration to the Chef Mickey's ressie. I would like to order a Mickey head cake for his bday, but I don't think I have to call about that just yet. I need to go back and read the Cake Chatter thread info.

 

[jaydoe]

Congrats!!! I'm glad you got everything you wanted. Especially for your anniversary dinner and the Birthday celebration!!!

Now......if only October 16th would just GET here already!!

 

[noogagirl]

I'm in! Thanks for following me over from CafeMom!

 

[noogagirl]

Hey I just noticed that we'll be there at the same time!! We're going with DH's Aunt and Uncle and another family October 18th-23rd at AKV. Those lovely DVC members are letting us sleep on the pull-out couch.

I need to start a PTR...

 

[My2Qtz0205]

Thanks for following me over!

I don't have much to update. We've taken a break from movie nights with my friend being out of town, and birthday weekends and such.

I did finish my Halloween costume! I am just being extremely lazy in uploading my pics!

 

[My2Qtz0205]

I'm finally getting around to posting pics of my Halloween costume. I got the tutu instructions from the Disney for Families board, and decided to give it a whirl. And I just-so-happened to have a red top with white polka dots on it. I'll probably wear my black capris under it instead of my black skirt. My capris were dirty the day I took this pic. If I can find super-cheap yellow Crocs I will get them, too, but I will not pay a lot for them, as I don't see myself wearing yellow shoes just because! I'm going to get the headband Minnie ears to go with my costume.

Side view

Front view

Close-up

One more thing to cross off my to-do list!

 

[jaydoe]

awww! That is sooo cute!! We are going the MNSSHP on the 20th. But I hadn't really planned on dressing up. Although, your costume is super cute and look pretty comfortable. My only plan was to wear some black capri pants with a orange top....then maybe get like a witch hat or something like that. Maybe get some of those fun eyelashes and go with it!!! I'm obviously not as creative as you!
My daughter is going as silvermist....tinks friend. She wears blue, which happens to be my DD's favorite color.
What about your kiddo's? What are they going as??

 

[My2Qtz0205]

awww! That is sooo cute!! We are going the MNSSHP on the 20th. But I hadn't really planned on dressing up. Although, your costume is super cute and look pretty comfortable. My only plan was to wear some black capri pants with a orange top....then maybe get like a witch hat or something like that. Maybe get some of those fun eyelashes and go with it!!! I'm obviously not as creative as you!
My daughter is going as silvermist....tinks friend. She wears blue, which happens to be my DD's favorite color.
What about your kiddo's? What are they going as??

C is going as Ariel, of course! Q says he wants to be Mickey. I think I can make that outfit. I just need to find him some red shorts, and either glue on white felt circles or sew on large white buttons on the front. I'll put him in a black t-shirt, and he can wear his Mickey ears I got him from my last trip in 2007.

 

[My2Qtz0205]

I am way behind in posting photos. It's a pain when I can only do that on our one older computer. Bah.

We have season's passes to Busch Gardens Williamsburg, and we learned a couple of things on our last trip: 1. C does NOT like 3-D movies. She was so freaked out by the Elmo & Friends movie there, and ended up taking her glasses off and covering her ears the entire time. 2. Q LOVES roller coasters. He rode The Big Bad Wolf twice in a row. I think he'll be a lot of fun to take onto the coasters at WDW.

We also went to the National Zoo in D.C. last weekend, and I observed another (hopefully not foreshadowing) quirk of Q's. The National Zoo is HUGE, so when we first got there I asked each kid what he/she most wanted to see. C wanted to see the zebras, and Q wanted to see the gorillas. Great. I would make sure we made it to those two exhibits. Q translated that to mean, "We're going to see the zebras and the gorillas, and then we're going back to Grannie's house!" So once we saw the zebras early on, he thought we would book it to the gorillas and then head out. Ummm, no! We spent more time on the Metro getting to the zoo at that point than we had actually spent at the zoo! We're going to walk around and enjoy it, buddy! That made for a lot of whining and temper tantrums, so I HOPE AND PRAY that he doesn't act like that at Disney! I can just see him wanting to visit his top two or three attractions, and then head back to the house to swim for the rest of the day. I didn't spend $4K to swim in a pool in Florida! Please let this go well, please let this go well!

We are 39 days out as of today. As in, just over a month. The kids start school again on Tuesday, Q starts up soccer practices and games next week, gymastics resumes next week, and the week after that MOPS starts back up! Also before our vacation, I am going to Nashville for a 4 day MOPS convention, so I know October 16th will be here before I know it! I AM FREAKING OUT! Slow down, time! I feel like I don't have time to catch my breath.

Quick, someone sprinkle pixie dust on me!

 

[Suellen]

I'm here! Followed you over from my PTR! HAHA! I love your costume and it actually looks like what I was thinking of getting the girls!!

 

[My2Qtz0205]

Thank you, Suellen! You can totally make those tutus yourself! I used a black elastic headband for the waistband, red tulle, some pompoms, and ribbon! I just-so-happened to find that big yellow flower pin on the clearance aisle at Michael's.

 

[Suellen]

Sending you some pixie dust! I to wish time would slow down a bit!!

I can't make them.... OMGosh I am home ec challenged!

 

[My2Qtz0205]

Girl, I am sewing-challenged myself, but these are no-sew! If you can tie knots, you can make those tutus! Mine does not look nice enough to sell, but who cares--it's for me!

 

[carps09]

Thanks for stopping by my PTR! I love your embroidered anniversary ears! It never occurred to me to have our bride and groom ears embroidered. Also, loved the Ursula dogs - too cute!! Have a great trip!

 

[My2Qtz0205]

Thanks for stopping by my PTR! I love your embroidered anniversary ears! It never occurred to me to have our bride and groom ears embroidered. Also, loved the Ursula dogs - too cute!! Have a great trip!

Thanks for saying "hi!" I wanted to have our anniversary dates embroidered so that people would know we're not newlyweds. Don't want to mislead people. I got them embroidered through disneyshopping.com because I heard that they will not embroider anything except for names in the park.