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This is a picture you will cherish forever!
Congratulations!!!
Welcome to the world Virginia!
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This is a picture you will cherish forever!
Congratulations!!!
Welcome to the world Virginia!
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You've got it. I know that's very scary, I hope they can get you answers soon!
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We are home!!! I will need to go back and catch up, but just wanted to pop in and say hi 
We got home at 2 AM and Chris and I are both exhausted. Chris went to work and it is all that I can do to keep my eyes open, but Colby wants his Mommy awake 
I see that Jennifer had Virginia and while I don't know the detail...Congratulations!!!
Jen, how is your Dad. We are all worried.
Chris and I had a fantastic trip and the only thing missing was sleep
We enjoyed meeting everyone and look forward to doing it again sometime. There will be lots of photos and trip reports coming, but here is a bare bones post of the Magic the Chris and I received.
We just got back from a whirlwind weekend. Dh and I took a 4 day 3 night to WDW without our children. This was our first ever vacation without our 3 sons and it turned out to be sprinkled with pixie dust and full of magic.
Thursday night we did the MNSSHP. We decided to collect autographs from the characters that we had not seen on our 23 day trip last summer. Late in the evening we went to see Tarzan, Jane and King Louie. I knew that King Louie cannot sign autographs, but I had made him a customized autograph page to put in our autograph scrapbook with his picture. There was not a line at that time. King Louie was so excited to see this page that he got on the floor and indicated that he wanted me to put a pen between his fingers. I had a little difficulty in figuring out exactly how he wanted it, but his handler helped and he cafefully signed his autograph page. DH took lots of pictures of this and I was totally in shock. This must be very rare and since we are avid autograph collectors it was a great way to end our first day
Day 2 was an Disney MGM Studios day. We were there for park opening, but since we had now spent 24 days in the parks without an "official dream" being won we didn't have any expectations. As we were walking out of Tower of Terror we bumped into a Dream Team member that we had talked with extensively on our previous trip. She had been assigned to chat with the park guests on the day that we met her and she had spent about 45 minutes telling us amazing stories of dreams that she had been lucky enough to award and things that she had seen. We also talked about New England as we were both from there. Anyway we bumped into her and she recognized us as we also recognized her. She was on her way to find a family that was opening the Beauty and Beast show and didn't have time to chat, but told us to find her later and told us the area that she was assigned to for the day. We walked away and decided to hit One Man's Dream as we had never been able to spend much time there on visits with our kids. Turns out we were having a very lucky day as the Dream Team was handing out Dream Fastpasses. We were so excited and DH hugged the poor girl that was handing them out I was so excited that I was literally shaking. Honestly we weren't planning on doing much that day as we planned to take an afternoon break before heading back for Fantasmic, but it didn't matter as we had won a dream
After winning the fastpasses there was no way that we could concentrate on the exhibits so we headed off to character search. while waiting for the Green Army Man to come out we saw our Dream Team friend and went to chat with her. Her and her partner had set up a bean bag toss game near Al's toy barn and they were awarding stickers to participants. Kids and adults alike were enjoying the game. AR is the name of the nicest Dream Team member that you could ever meet. Anyway, Ar and her partner we just chatting with us about our kids and their favorite characters, souvenier requests and other misc chit chat. When the Green Army Man came out we went to get his autograph and AR followed us over and asked if we would be interested in being the Opening Family for the late afternoon Indiana Jones show. Well of course we would be. We were supposed to meet her at Indy at 4:15 that afternoon. I cannot tell you how special we felt. I also must say that I have thoroughly enjoyed talking to AR on both trips and I wasn't expecting or even hoping for a dream as I truly enjoyed listening to her stories. I highly recommend talking with the Dream Team or any other CM as they all have wonderful stories to tell and I really think that they feel just a special as we do when someone takes the time to listen AR is probably the most personable CM that I have ever had the privilege to talk to and truly the conversations were highlights of our trip. Now back to the dream. We ran into some friends from the DIS at the ABC commissary and they had fastpasses for Rockin Roller Coaster. Since we had the Dream Fastpasses we all headed off together. They got Tower of Terror Fastpasses on the way by. After Rockin Rollercoaster we headed to the exit area of TOT to wait for their fastpass time. We spotted a group of 4 Dream Team members on the Cast Only Stairway of TOT. We lingered there a bit wondering what Dream they were going to be giving out. After a little while they came out of that area and it turned out that AR was one of those members and they had just handed out the Pin/Lanyard sets at TOT. It was then that she apologized to DH and I as she was not able to award us the Indy opening as it was a different CMs job that afternoon. She said that she did have something else in mind and asked us to meet her in front of Muppets at 4 PM. So a few hours passed by and we met her as planned. She and her partner were upset about the Indy mixup. We explained that we didn't care and had thoroughly enjoyed talking to them, no worries. She then informed us that She and the rest of the dream team had combined efforts and put together a little package for us. They had remembered exactly which character's each of our sons liked and had a trading pin for each of them. They had also found the Aztec coin that my son had requested. Someone from the dream team threw in a 3 plastic coins from the Pirate and Princess party and AR and her partner had selected a year of a million dreams picture frame for DH and I. Needless to say we were blown away. This was by far a better Dream than winning a Fastpass because we could see all the time, energy and thought that was put into it. She told us that we were a very special couple/family and that she wanted to celebrate that. AR if you ever read this I cannot express in words how happy you made DH and I and our 3 boys. Thank You!!!
Saturday was our day for AK. We got to the park a bit later than we would have liked, but we had been to breakfast with a group of DIS friends so being late was so not an issue. Anyway we got fastpasses to KS then headed over to Everest. We had planned to do the Single rider line as the regular line was 40 minutes. We walked up and DH thinking he was a funny guy demanded that we be seated together, Immediately. The CMs looked at him and laughed. The started up a conversation with a wonderful CM named Eric. Eric has been on the Everest Team since opening and he was so knowledgable. Having rode the ride before I asked why the sequences occur in the order that they do. I found it strange that you approach the torn up track, the see the shadow sequence that shows the Yeti ripping up the track. I think it should be the other way around, but what to I know. Eric explained that there was more to the sequence than that, it turns out that when you meet the yeti towards the end that that is the actual scene that is depicted in the shadow scene. If you weren't traveling so fast you would be able to see another set of tracks to the side of the Yeti. Obviously we had never noticed it. Eric then offered to take us to the Control Tower for a tour. More Pixie Dust for us. The control tower has video screens showing every section of the ride. They showed us the Yeti scene and sure enough there is a second set of track there. They also showed us how the tracks switch and some other very cool mechanical things. After our tour we were escorted to the front of the line and could choose any row we wanted. Eric also explained that Joe Rodi designed the entire ride around row 9. Row 9 has the best view and the best positioning throughout the ride so row 9 is what we chose. He also suggested that if you lean as far forward as you can, nearly laying your head in your lap during the part of the ride that goes backwards you will have a heightened coaster experience. Boy was he right!!! It felt like we went through an inversion, but in reality it wasn't even close. After our ride we hunted Eric down and thanked him for the information, tour and riding tips. He then handed us fastpasses to go back on and told us to try to hold our arms straight out in front of us and lift our feet off the floor during the helix section. So back on we went. Let me tell you that I could not hold my arms out straight or keep my legs up as the force was so strong. So we had a magical moment and now you all know a few secrets of Everest so I hope that we are spreading the Magic Too.
Now I have plenty of laundry to do and lots of attention to give. I don't think that Chris and I will be getting away alone anytime in the forseeable future as my parents are completely worn out from having the kids for 4 straight days. It seems they discovered that being a full time parent was much different than they had remembered and while the kids were well behaved they kept them running
Mom said that it will take her a month to get her house back in order. Maybe she'll understand now why my house is never in pristine condition 
I think we all learned new appreciations for each other. While we missed the kids and they missed us it was a very nice weekend for us all
We got home at 2 AM and Chris and I are both exhausted. Chris went to work and it is all that I can do to keep my eyes open, but Colby wants his Mommy awake I see that Jennifer had Virginia and while I don't know the detail...Congratulations!!!
Jen, how is your Dad. We are all worried.
Chris and I had a fantastic trip and the only thing missing was sleep
We enjoyed meeting everyone and look forward to doing it again sometime. There will be lots of photos and trip reports coming, but here is a bare bones post of the Magic the Chris and I received.We just got back from a whirlwind weekend. Dh and I took a 4 day 3 night to WDW without our children. This was our first ever vacation without our 3 sons and it turned out to be sprinkled with pixie dust and full of magic.
Thursday night we did the MNSSHP. We decided to collect autographs from the characters that we had not seen on our 23 day trip last summer. Late in the evening we went to see Tarzan, Jane and King Louie. I knew that King Louie cannot sign autographs, but I had made him a customized autograph page to put in our autograph scrapbook with his picture. There was not a line at that time. King Louie was so excited to see this page that he got on the floor and indicated that he wanted me to put a pen between his fingers. I had a little difficulty in figuring out exactly how he wanted it, but his handler helped and he cafefully signed his autograph page. DH took lots of pictures of this and I was totally in shock. This must be very rare and since we are avid autograph collectors it was a great way to end our first day
Day 2 was an Disney MGM Studios day. We were there for park opening, but since we had now spent 24 days in the parks without an "official dream" being won we didn't have any expectations. As we were walking out of Tower of Terror we bumped into a Dream Team member that we had talked with extensively on our previous trip. She had been assigned to chat with the park guests on the day that we met her and she had spent about 45 minutes telling us amazing stories of dreams that she had been lucky enough to award and things that she had seen. We also talked about New England as we were both from there. Anyway we bumped into her and she recognized us as we also recognized her. She was on her way to find a family that was opening the Beauty and Beast show and didn't have time to chat, but told us to find her later and told us the area that she was assigned to for the day. We walked away and decided to hit One Man's Dream as we had never been able to spend much time there on visits with our kids. Turns out we were having a very lucky day as the Dream Team was handing out Dream Fastpasses. We were so excited and DH hugged the poor girl that was handing them out I was so excited that I was literally shaking. Honestly we weren't planning on doing much that day as we planned to take an afternoon break before heading back for Fantasmic, but it didn't matter as we had won a dream
After winning the fastpasses there was no way that we could concentrate on the exhibits so we headed off to character search. while waiting for the Green Army Man to come out we saw our Dream Team friend and went to chat with her. Her and her partner had set up a bean bag toss game near Al's toy barn and they were awarding stickers to participants. Kids and adults alike were enjoying the game. AR is the name of the nicest Dream Team member that you could ever meet. Anyway, Ar and her partner we just chatting with us about our kids and their favorite characters, souvenier requests and other misc chit chat. When the Green Army Man came out we went to get his autograph and AR followed us over and asked if we would be interested in being the Opening Family for the late afternoon Indiana Jones show. Well of course we would be. We were supposed to meet her at Indy at 4:15 that afternoon. I cannot tell you how special we felt. I also must say that I have thoroughly enjoyed talking to AR on both trips and I wasn't expecting or even hoping for a dream as I truly enjoyed listening to her stories. I highly recommend talking with the Dream Team or any other CM as they all have wonderful stories to tell and I really think that they feel just a special as we do when someone takes the time to listen AR is probably the most personable CM that I have ever had the privilege to talk to and truly the conversations were highlights of our trip. Now back to the dream. We ran into some friends from the DIS at the ABC commissary and they had fastpasses for Rockin Roller Coaster. Since we had the Dream Fastpasses we all headed off together. They got Tower of Terror Fastpasses on the way by. After Rockin Rollercoaster we headed to the exit area of TOT to wait for their fastpass time. We spotted a group of 4 Dream Team members on the Cast Only Stairway of TOT. We lingered there a bit wondering what Dream they were going to be giving out. After a little while they came out of that area and it turned out that AR was one of those members and they had just handed out the Pin/Lanyard sets at TOT. It was then that she apologized to DH and I as she was not able to award us the Indy opening as it was a different CMs job that afternoon. She said that she did have something else in mind and asked us to meet her in front of Muppets at 4 PM. So a few hours passed by and we met her as planned. She and her partner were upset about the Indy mixup. We explained that we didn't care and had thoroughly enjoyed talking to them, no worries. She then informed us that She and the rest of the dream team had combined efforts and put together a little package for us. They had remembered exactly which character's each of our sons liked and had a trading pin for each of them. They had also found the Aztec coin that my son had requested. Someone from the dream team threw in a 3 plastic coins from the Pirate and Princess party and AR and her partner had selected a year of a million dreams picture frame for DH and I. Needless to say we were blown away. This was by far a better Dream than winning a Fastpass because we could see all the time, energy and thought that was put into it. She told us that we were a very special couple/family and that she wanted to celebrate that. AR if you ever read this I cannot express in words how happy you made DH and I and our 3 boys. Thank You!!!
Saturday was our day for AK. We got to the park a bit later than we would have liked, but we had been to breakfast with a group of DIS friends so being late was so not an issue. Anyway we got fastpasses to KS then headed over to Everest. We had planned to do the Single rider line as the regular line was 40 minutes. We walked up and DH thinking he was a funny guy demanded that we be seated together, Immediately. The CMs looked at him and laughed. The started up a conversation with a wonderful CM named Eric. Eric has been on the Everest Team since opening and he was so knowledgable. Having rode the ride before I asked why the sequences occur in the order that they do. I found it strange that you approach the torn up track, the see the shadow sequence that shows the Yeti ripping up the track. I think it should be the other way around, but what to I know. Eric explained that there was more to the sequence than that, it turns out that when you meet the yeti towards the end that that is the actual scene that is depicted in the shadow scene. If you weren't traveling so fast you would be able to see another set of tracks to the side of the Yeti. Obviously we had never noticed it. Eric then offered to take us to the Control Tower for a tour. More Pixie Dust for us. The control tower has video screens showing every section of the ride. They showed us the Yeti scene and sure enough there is a second set of track there. They also showed us how the tracks switch and some other very cool mechanical things. After our tour we were escorted to the front of the line and could choose any row we wanted. Eric also explained that Joe Rodi designed the entire ride around row 9. Row 9 has the best view and the best positioning throughout the ride so row 9 is what we chose. He also suggested that if you lean as far forward as you can, nearly laying your head in your lap during the part of the ride that goes backwards you will have a heightened coaster experience. Boy was he right!!! It felt like we went through an inversion, but in reality it wasn't even close. After our ride we hunted Eric down and thanked him for the information, tour and riding tips. He then handed us fastpasses to go back on and told us to try to hold our arms straight out in front of us and lift our feet off the floor during the helix section. So back on we went. Let me tell you that I could not hold my arms out straight or keep my legs up as the force was so strong. So we had a magical moment and now you all know a few secrets of Everest so I hope that we are spreading the Magic Too.
Now I have plenty of laundry to do and lots of attention to give. I don't think that Chris and I will be getting away alone anytime in the forseeable future as my parents are completely worn out from having the kids for 4 straight days. It seems they discovered that being a full time parent was much different than they had remembered and while the kids were well behaved they kept them running
Mom said that it will take her a month to get her house back in order. Maybe she'll understand now why my house is never in pristine condition I think we all learned new appreciations for each other. While we missed the kids and they missed us it was a very nice weekend for us all 
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Yup it was good sticky snowball weather...if you could find enough in the metro area...it does look a little dicey in the mountains. But what do people expect for Colorado in October???
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I think it was Glynis
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So who thinks Virginia will have red hair too?
I know she does!! Jennifer said that it is a bit lighter than Olivia's but it is definitely red.
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How about next summer. We have a 3 week window and would LOVE IT if some of you were there at the same time My aunt just called, my cousin had her football player, er, baby at 10:09am this morning. The baby weighed in at 10lbs, 10oz.
I saw the new poster and was confused, but then I saw the photo and knew exactly who was posting
Has anyone had any experience with thyroid problems? My optometrist suggested that I have some tests done, as she said that one of my eyes is larger than the other one, and she had never noted that before. I've been feeling extremely fatigued lately and my body aches, I don't know if it might be that or just stress. I slept more than 12 hours the other day and still felt tired.
My Dad gets very tired with his thyroid problem. My mother just said this morning that she thinks she is going to have hers checked as she can't seem to get over the tired feeling these days. Of course my children wearing her out didn't help
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Hey guys! You have all been very busy! I haven't really been able to keep up lately. I've been sick for six weeks with a sinus infection, yeast infection, sinus infection, yeast infection. A very vicious circle! The doctor finally gave me a steroid shot and new antibiotics last Thursday, and I mostly stayed home until today. Sending out PD and prayers to all of those who need them!
Congrats to Jennifer on Virginia's arrival! The picture of the three girls of the family is priceless!
Denise -- I'm hoping that you get good news on tests for Rees today. You've been in my thoughts and prayers!
Jen -- I'm sending prayers for you that the eggs stick! Boy does that sound funny...like gum on a shoe or something...
Amy -- love all the pics from the fall events. Thanks again for loaning the lobster costume for Will.
Becky -- love your pics! It makes me homesick for DCL!
Hi Elizabeth and Lindsay! It is rather miserable here today, isn't it? Only Dallas would go from sunny and 90 yesterday to rainy and a high of 58-60 with dropping temps throughout the day. I want the 70s for a while!
Have a great day everyone!
Congrats to Jennifer on Virginia's arrival! The picture of the three girls of the family is priceless!
Denise -- I'm hoping that you get good news on tests for Rees today. You've been in my thoughts and prayers!
Jen -- I'm sending prayers for you that the eggs stick!
Boy does that sound funny...like gum on a shoe or something...Amy -- love all the pics from the fall events. Thanks again for loaning the lobster costume for Will.
Becky -- love your pics! It makes me homesick for DCL!
Hi Elizabeth and Lindsay! It is rather miserable here today, isn't it? Only Dallas would go from sunny and 90 yesterday to rainy and a high of 58-60 with dropping temps throughout the day. I want the 70s for a while!
Have a great day everyone!
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Just how many pages are we shooting for this weekend?
Obviously a WHOLE LOT !!!
Well, this is what will happen:
We can post whatever. We can post hundreds of pages. Everybody that is gone will come back and NONE of them will read through what they missed. They will simply ask us to post a recap for them. So even if we DO post hundreds of pages worth of stuff it won't really matter.
Really as I'm reading every post
Elizabeth, we can all make a pact now that we will NOT give a recap. They will just have to read.
I was planning to anyway.
That'd be me
Hello, everyone! I promised myself that I would come home from preschool this afternoon and clean. Guess what...I didn't do so well. I had an idea that I wanted to play around with a little in Photoshop, and time really slipped right away.
I am going to do one of these for each park. They are 11x14, so they will take up one of my living room walls when printed and framed. I'm calling it my Christmas present to myself, but I don't know whether I'll get them all done by Christmas. I haven't really done much with our trip photos yet, and the trip was almost 14 months ago!
My parents are coming here in a little over a week, so I better not let myself do any more before I get the house cleaned up!
Beth
That looks great
Since I last posted last night we have posted 16 pages of pouting posts....I am so proud of all of you!!!
It was so good to talk to you!!! I forgot to tell you to tell Olivia congrats on being a big sis.
Ibeing an "auntie" again!!
IT was good talking to you as well. I told her she got a big grin on her face.
Poor Olivia! She doesn't want to miss out on the fun! She is obviously taking the "sister" thing very seriously!
I love the pic of the 3 of you together! Now you have to get used to having a tiny one again. Or do you handle the newborns at work? I was thinking you work with the moms, but maybe you get to hold the babies, too.
Jen, sending lots of good thoughts to you and your dad!
Fabulous!
Desperate Housewives was pretty good! My cake was marginal. I like whipped frosting, and the frosting on this cake is the "buttercream" kind. It is kind of greasy which is why I don't like that kind. If I could ever manage to plan ahead I would ORDER a cake from Sam's with the kind of frosting I like. I can't believe the weekend is over! I didn't accomplish ANYTHING! I did manage to squirt some blue cleanser into my toilet before I went to the grocery but that was it! I need a housekeeper.
I work with both the mommies and the newborn babies
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Marci, I hope your new medicine does the trick!
Becky, great pictures!
Robyn, love the girls' costumes! They are so cute (and evil )
Jen, and prayers for your dad!
We had a very busy day yesterday, filled with lots of Halloween fun. No pictures downloaded yet, but I'll try to post them later this week. Tonight, we're hitting the thrift store to finally find Kevin a pair of pants and shirt for his Lumiere costume.
The kids and I just got back from "booing" the neighbors. Does anyone else do this in your neighborhood? Nobody did it last year, but I thought it would be a neat tradition to start. We'll see if it catches on.
Which reminds me, Deb, I totally forgot about the sticker chain you sent me. I tried that last year with some of my friends, and it didn't catch on at all.
I'll be sure to mail Colby some stickers this week though.
Becky, great pictures!
Robyn, love the girls' costumes! They are so cute (and evil
)Jen,
and prayers for your dad! We had a very busy day yesterday, filled with lots of Halloween fun. No pictures downloaded yet, but I'll try to post them later this week. Tonight, we're hitting the thrift store to finally find Kevin a pair of pants and shirt for his Lumiere costume.
The kids and I just got back from "booing" the neighbors. Does anyone else do this in your neighborhood? Nobody did it last year, but I thought it would be a neat tradition to start. We'll see if it catches on.
Which reminds me, Deb, I totally forgot about the sticker chain you sent me. I tried that last year with some of my friends, and it didn't catch on at all.
I'll be sure to mail Colby some stickers this week though. Ask away! I'm always happy to answer questions!
I was raised to respect everyone's beliefs. I think the world would be a much better place if everyone was just allowed to worship how and where they feel the most comfortable.
I'm just glad I was on someone's brain!!! It's nice to be loved!
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