Our 1st trip as a family of three!----Update 11/3 Our Favorites/Trip Wrap-Up

[mbvisitor]

If you’re so inclined, on the “My Projects” page of shutterfly there is an option to “Post photo book to Gallery” on the right hand side of the screen.

I haven’t gone though the creative section yet....I’ll have to check it out! Thanks

 

[mbvisitor]

Actually no need to share! I've figured out how to create one. I've been in the creative section all night and this morning. Gosh those folks are talented!! Thanks for the idea.

 

[LilAnn]

Actually no need to share! I've figured out how to create one. I've been in the creative section all night and this morning. Gosh those folks are talented!! Thanks for the idea.

I have spent many hours there in the past. There are so many different ideas out there! Funny that you just posted that since I was planning on posting some of the sample pages for you to see. Now I guess there's no need. Have fun designing and planning away!

 

[cdotla]

Great photo of your daughter with Senor Donald!

And an absolutely ADORABLE one with Belle! Sigh! That one just melts my heart!

 

[Sunset Cliffs]

I can't believe how much cute character interaction you had on this trip! It seems like you lucked out on seeing some unique characters. I would have been more than a little annoyed about the line moving in & out, but it looks like it worked out for the best.

I still may take you up on your "sharing" your photo book in a gallery on shutterfly. I am SOOO not crafty at all, and anything that can give me an example would help me out greatly! You have me sold on the idea of a autograph book for our next trip!

 

[tinkgurl]

I just wanted to say bye real quick. Thanks so much for sharing your trip with your little girl. I'll be thinking of you and her alot!

 

[praisehisname]

What sweet pictures of your DD and Donald! Definitely worth the hassle of the line. Love the pics of her and Belle, too! Were you able to squeeze in some pool time after the delays in WS?

 

[disney<333]

Can we see pictures of the autograph book? I was thinking of doing one, too, for my girls! How do you get the coupons?
ADORABLE pictures with the characters! I just love Donald. What a hassle to see him but it looks like it was worth it.
I LOVE the Dolphin. We stay there a lot. Isn't the pool and location just awesome!? For DHS, we take the boat since Swan/Dolphin are the last stops before the park. For Epcot, we got off at YC/BC and walk the rest. We always beat the boat.

 

[LilAnn]

Great photo of your daughter with Senor Donald!

And an absolutely ADORABLE one with Belle! Sigh! That one just melts my heart!

Thanks Trish! I like the one of her and Belle, too. Belle is my personal favorite princess.

I can't believe how much cute character interaction you had on this trip! It seems like you lucked out on seeing some unique characters. I would have been more than a little annoyed about the line moving in & out, but it looks like it worked out for the best.

I still may take you up on your "sharing" your photo book in a gallery on shutterfly. I am SOOO not crafty at all, and anything that can give me an example would help me out greatly! You have me sold on the idea of a autograph book for our next trip!

I still can't believe our luck with the characters. It was just so different from our August trip. Plus, I love that we weren't messing with anyone else's plans since it was just the 3 of us. You know how that is, travelling with more family.

I am going to try to upload some photos soon in a few minutes of the photobook. I might be able to create a share site on shutterfly so you can see the photobook and order on too, I think. I have to read more about that. It made such a difference for us.

 

[LilAnn]

I just wanted to say bye real quick. Thanks so much for sharing your trip with your little girl. I'll be thinking of you and her alot!

I missed your send-off tink! I am sure you are having a fantastic time right now and I can not wait to read all about it and the little man!

What sweet pictures of your DD and Donald! Definitely worth the hassle of the line. Love the pics of her and Belle, too! Were you able to squeeze in some pool time after the delays in WS?

In all reality, I think the delays of the line moves only took a few minutes - 5-10 minutes at the absolute max. So it wasn't too bad really. We most definitely got pool time in that day. I don't think we missed out on the pool any of those days since it was so hot out!

Can we see pictures of the autograph book? I was thinking of doing one, too, for my girls! How do you get the coupons?
ADORABLE pictures with the characters! I just love Donald. What a hassle to see him but it looks like it was worth it.
I LOVE the Dolphin. We stay there a lot. Isn't the pool and location just awesome!? For DHS, we take the boat since Swan/Dolphin are the last stops before the park. For Epcot, we got off at YC/BC and walk the rest. We always beat the boat.

I am going to post some pictures of the autograph book next. Since I use primarily Shutterfly, they are always having some sort of promotion of some sort and it's only a matter of time before a photobook discount came out.

We really enjoyed the Dolphin as well. The only downside with the location was mostly due to the fact that we had stayed at the BC our last trip and nothing beats that location to Epcot! But the Dolphin was fun. And the Fountain? Yummy food and ice cream!

 

[LilAnn]

Since a few of you have asked about our autograph book, I thought I would go ahead and post up some photos. I never actually took any photos of it before we used it, so these are from a few days ago. You can definitely tell in the photos that it was a well loved and often viewed book.

I got this idea from browsing around the creative signs portion of the Dis. I wasn’t sure how our little gal was going to react to the characters so I decided to order a soft cover photobook. It’s one of the smaller sizes, 5 x 7, I think. You can make so many different sizes and choose hardcover ones as well. This one ended up working out perfectly for us.

The hardest part of putting together the autograph book was choosing which characters to put in. There are just so many that could go in there! I ended up choosing, the Little Einsteins (since we had our Play N Dine character breakfast), Handy Manny, JoJo and Goliath, the Fab Five and Pluto, Chip and Dale, Woody and Buzz, the fairies, some of the Princesses and some blank pages. We definitely didn’t get to fill it up, even though we saw a ton of characters. My next one is going to be a lot bigger, I think.

Here is a photo of our cover.

And here is a look at the inside of the book, so you can see how I arranged them.

And here is a look at the back of the book.

This really helped us since it gave our little girl more independence. She could flip through the book and find the picture of the character while we were waiting in line and get everything ready.

Here are some examples of the images I used from the Dis boards. I think most of these come from Donatalie – she’s so talented! She had one for pretty much every character!

Unfortunately, while we saw Jasmine many times in Epcot, we never actually got to meet her. Most times she was out with Aladdin and our little princess was afraid of Aladdin. Of course, now that we are home, she talks nonstop about how she “never ever got to see Aladdin and Jasmine.”

Here is a blank page that we threw in.

Thank goodness we did, too. We ended up using all the extra pages we had for characters that I thought she would be scared of!

So, I hope this post helped some of you guys. I don’t know if this is what you were thinking about? I will look into posting the full book on a share site if anyone is interested in ordering it. I customized it with her name and the year too, so it makes a great keepsake from the trip.

Sigh, I can’t wait to take her back!

 

[mbvisitor]

I'm using that cover as well!! Love Donatalie DISigns!
Thanks so much for sharing your TR. I've learnt so much for our trip!

 

[dawnbu40]

The autograph book is adorable! What a great keepsake!

 

[lexmas]

That looks so very cute! I love it! (And I also love how you can see how much she loves it!)

 

[LilAnn]

I'm using that cover as well!! Love Donatalie DISigns!
Thanks so much for sharing your TR. I've learnt so much for our trip!

Isn't it a fun cover? We got a lot of great character interaction from the book too. It was great. I hope you have just as much luck. The characters all loved it. I'm glad you are getting some good tips!

The autograph book is adorable! What a great keepsake!

I love it! And I love that I should be able to have a collection of them through the years since I'll probably keep making them for her as long as she wants to get autographs.

That looks so very cute! I love it! (And I also love how you can see how much she loves it!)

She loves the book so much! Almost as much as she loves looking at the Disney pictures. She asks every day to see Disney pictures and if we can go back.

 

[praisehisname]

Wow, what an awesome book! I wish I had know about doing that when my kids were smaller.

 

[mermaid764]

Her autograph book is adorable...you did a great job putting it together.

 

[SoonerGirl]

What a cute autograph book! When Jared was younger I made a book for him too, he loved how the characters were so excited about seeing their pictures in his book. It made for some great interactions!

 

[SRUAlmn]

I use Shutterfly for all of our photo books too! Love it! Did you just save those pics to your computer and then upload them into your photobook on Shutterfly as a full page? Very cute

 

[LilAnn]

Wow, what an awesome book! I wish I had know about doing that when my kids were smaller.

Thanks! I don't know what I would do without the Dis!

Her autograph book is adorable...you did a great job putting it together.

Thanks! It really helped us with all the characters. She was so scared of them last time.

What a cute autograph book! When Jared was younger I made a book for him too, he loved how the characters were so excited about seeing their pictures in his book. It made for some great interactions!

I have to say, we had some grea character interactions from the book too. The pictures really helped her find the right page since she can't read yet.

I use Shutterfly for all of our photo books too! Love it! Did you just save those pics to your computer and then upload them into your photobook on Shutterfly as a full page? Very cute

I did! I now have a Shutterfly album of just possible pages for autograph books. I think it turned out great as well.