Originally, we were just going to wake the kids up and tell them, "Get dressed, we're going to Disney today!" But with how early we'd need to get them up and how much two of them resemble Grumpy dwarf in the a.m., we figured they'd just whine, "I don't want to!!!" And roll over... so after agonizing over WHEN and HOW to tell the kids 
about our impending trip to WDW (4/5-12)... we finally agreed to include it with our Easter festivities. (SIDENOTE: the kids' grandpa was instrumental in getting this trip finalized and he wanted to participate in "telling" them... however, he lives in a different state).
So, on Easter, after the regular festivities, the kids spied an enormous Easter Basket "hiding" on top of the fridge. We told them it was their gift from mom and dad and grandpa. In the basket were 64 eggs in four colors. Each of our four kids were assigned a certain color to open. They each got 16 eggs. Inside the eggs were puzzle pieces to make their own, separate puzzle. They had to put their puzzles together for clues to what their "gift" was.
Well, the night before, I had purchased the puzzles from a craft store... The kind you can custom draw on. I drew four different pics on the four 16 pc. puzzles: 1) Airplane w/clouds, a sun and a Mickey balloon floating in the sky; 2) Castle with a sun and mickey balloon floating in the sky; 3) POP Century with little mickey heads around it (for our dd's who can read); 4) Mickey's sorceror hat w/Mickey ears popping out under it.
Needless to say, dd5 and dd6 figured it out and were excitedly trying to keep quiet as ds3 and dd2 
finished their puzzles. They looked at all the "clues" and exclaimed, "We're going to Disneyworld!" So, we called up my dad; unfortunately, he'd forgotten to turn on his phone, so we left him a msg with all of us saying, "WE KNOW WHERE WE'RE GOING... WE KNOW WHERE WE'RE GOING!" Then dds5&6 start yelling, "Disneyworld, Disneyworld! Thank you!!!!!"
And now, the countdown begins... 8 sleeps til Disney!
The kids LOVED putting their puzzles together all day by the way! And they will likely make their way into the scrapbook, if they ever give them back to me! lol....
about our impending trip to WDW (4/5-12)... we finally agreed to include it with our Easter festivities. (SIDENOTE: the kids' grandpa was instrumental in getting this trip finalized and he wanted to participate in "telling" them... however, he lives in a different state).So, on Easter, after the regular festivities, the kids spied an enormous Easter Basket "hiding" on top of the fridge. We told them it was their gift from mom and dad and grandpa. In the basket were 64 eggs in four colors. Each of our four kids were assigned a certain color to open. They each got 16 eggs. Inside the eggs were puzzle pieces to make their own, separate puzzle. They had to put their puzzles together for clues to what their "gift" was.
Well, the night before, I had purchased the puzzles from a craft store... The kind you can custom draw on. I drew four different pics on the four 16 pc. puzzles: 1) Airplane w/clouds, a sun and a Mickey balloon floating in the sky; 2) Castle with a sun and mickey balloon floating in the sky; 3) POP Century with little mickey heads around it (for our dd's who can read); 4) Mickey's sorceror hat w/Mickey ears popping out under it.
Needless to say, dd5
and dd6 figured it out and were excitedly trying to keep quiet as ds3 and dd2 finished their puzzles. They looked at all the "clues" and exclaimed, "We're going to Disneyworld!" So, we called up my dad; unfortunately, he'd forgotten to turn on his phone, so we left him a msg with all of us saying, "WE KNOW WHERE WE'RE GOING... WE KNOW WHERE WE'RE GOING!" Then dds5&6 start yelling, "Disneyworld, Disneyworld! Thank you!!!!!"And now, the countdown begins... 8 sleeps til Disney!
The kids
LOVED putting their puzzles together all day by the way! And they will likely make their way into the scrapbook, if they ever give them back to me! lol....
Have a great trip!! 
I will miss them.
