DIS Dads The DIS Dad's Club VI - Man's Room

[Rental01]

WANT!

 

[stopher1]

WANT!

These are cool - I saw them a few weeks ago when I was there. They did a similar pair in '05 for DL's 55th. Both looked awesome... but they also have an incredible price too. Ouch.

 

[Emma's Dad]

I spend most of my perusing in the Theme Park boards.

But I stumbled across this, and quickly realized I AM A DIS DAD!

So I request the honour of joining this elite club.

I am 39 from Canada, and as the name suggests I have 2 kids ages 8 and 6 (born in '02 and 04).

More info to follow.

Welcome to the club! You are member# 561!

I'm not Canadian, yet I happened upon this thread as well. I too, am a Dis Dad not yet in the club. So at the risk of sounding like my 5 3/4 year old DD, please, please, pretty please can I join your club!!!

I promise to do all of the newbie initiation type things without complaint. I'm a great beer wench! If part of the initiation is to dress up like a woman, my daughter insist that I put make up on once or twice a month, so I am ready for that.

If you do accept me I guess you should know a little about me:

My name is Garry, I'm 30, I live in Ohio, I love football, I love MMA, I make my own beer, I play softball, I work as the Transportation Coordinator for a day-hab for adults with developmental disabilities, and I'm awesome.
I have been married for 6 1/2 years to my wife Brandy who is awesome!
I have one child, Katelyn, who is awesome!
We are going to Disney World in 96 days, which is SUPER AWESOME!!!!!

..also, I like the word awesome.

So, anyway, I hope that I can join the rest of you Dis Dads....
....it would be a-w-e-s-o-m-e!

Pretty pleases are accepted here! Welcome! You are member # 562!

WELCOME TO THE DIS DAD'S CLUB!

You have been added to the DIS Dad's Club list

 

[prattpak]

WANT!

Want, heck this is a NEED!!! I hope they still have these in October. $80...money well spent!!!

 

[Rental01]

These are cool - I saw them a few weeks ago when I was there. They did a similar pair in '05 for DL's 55th. Both looked awesome... but they also have an incredible price too. Ouch.

Yeah - that's the only thing stopping me. lol

 

[DisDadDoc]

I've mentioned it here before, but it bears repeating, otherwise the rest of my post won't make any sense. My wife's parent's live about 45 minutes away from Disney World. And since we live up in Wisconsin, our kids don't get to see their grandparents that much. So, whenever we plan a trip to Disney World, we never keep it a surprise because when the kids start to miss grandma & grandpa, we always have a date to fall back on and say "well, we'll see them in June" or whatever.
Well, as I said a few days ago, we're spending Easter with my Aunt and Uncle in Houston this year. We had planned on coming back home on the Wednesday after Easter and spend the rest of the week around the house. We decided instead to fly to Orlando for four days, then home. And we decided this would the the perfect time to surprise the kids with a trip to Disney World!

Great planning!

You guys have inspired me to start my first trip report!

Last May, I surprised my DW by taking her to Disney. If we're married 100 years, I doubt that I'll ever be able to pull something like this off again, so best to immortalize it with a trip report.

See the link below (or on my signature if I do it right!)

This Doesn't Look Like New Orleans Trip Report

 

[twokids0204]

Somebody queue up the canoe joke.

I wasn't going to go there... as this is more of a family board.

Let's just say American Beer is *clears throat* hmmmpp hmmpp... close to water

 

[trennr]

Let's just say American Beer is *clears throat* hmmmpp hmmpp... close to water

I'm quite certain the fellas over at A&W would disagree.

 

[BigTex71]

I wasn't going to go there... as this is more of a family board.

Let's just say American Beer is *clears throat* hmmmpp hmmpp... close to water

I had some pretty potent beers in Germany (the country, not the Epcot version.)

 

[MiJo]

I spend most of my perusing in the Theme Park boards.

But I stumbled across this, and quickly realized I AM A DIS DAD!

So I request the honour of joining this elite club.

I am 39 from Canada, and as the name suggests I have 2 kids ages 8 and 6 (born in '02 and 04).

More info to follow.

I'm not Canadian, yet I happened upon this thread as well. I too, am a Dis Dad not yet in the club. So at the risk of sounding like my 5 3/4 year old DD, please, please, pretty please can I join your club!!!

I promise to do all of the newbie initiation type things without complaint. I'm a great beer wench! If part of the initiation is to dress up like a woman, my daughter insist that I put make up on once or twice a month, so I am ready for that.

If you do accept me I guess you should know a little about me:

My name is Garry, I'm 30, I live in Ohio, I love football, I love MMA, I make my own beer, I play softball, I work as the Transportation Coordinator for a day-hab for adults with developmental disabilities, and I'm awesome.
I have been married for 6 1/2 years to my wife Brandy who is awesome!
I have one child, Katelyn, who is awesome!
We are going to Disney World in 96 days, which is SUPER AWESOME!!!!!

..also, I like the word awesome.

So, anyway, I hope that I can join the rest of you Dis Dads....
....it would be a-w-e-s-o-m-e!

Welcome to the Club!

Less than 3 weeks 'til airshow season!

 

[billybobblockhead]

I've mentioned it here before, but it bears repeating, otherwise the rest of my post won't make any sense. My wife's parent's live about 45 minutes away from Disney World. And since we live up in Wisconsin, our kids don't get to see their grandparents that much. So, whenever we plan a trip to Disney World, we never keep it a surprise because when the kids start to miss grandma & grandpa, we always have a date to fall back on and say "well, we'll see them in June" or whatever.
Well, as I said a few days ago, we're spending Easter with my Aunt and Uncle in Houston this year. We had planned on coming back home on the Wednesday after Easter and spend the rest of the week around the house. We decided instead to fly to Orlando for four days, then home. And we decided this would the the perfect time to surprise the kids with a trip to Disney World!
They know we're flying to Houston, so they won't question why we're packing bags or driving to the airport. I'm hoping they don't pay much attention in the Houston airport when they announce boarding for Southwest flight 2202 to Orlando. If they do notice it, we'll just pass it off by saying we couldn't get a direct flight. I can't wait to see the looks on their faces when the realize they've been had and we're sneaking in a trip to the World!

Hope that it works out for the best.

Hey guys! It's been a crazy few weeks for me, with a little posting here and there - but not as much as in the past. I've been busy of course with family stuff... including pulling off a surprise party yesterday for my DW's 40th (tomorrow). I'm working on getting some pics up on my FB page, and might share a few here as well. It was a "wilderness" theme, which is her absolute favorite place to be having grown up camping in Yosemite National Park all of her life before we left the state of California (and our favorite resort at WDW too). I've been working on it for the past 7 weeks, and yeah, she had no clue. As her suspicions started to flare up, I went on the offensive and sent out all kinds of conflicting alternate messages just to mess with her head. Let me tell you the aggressive tactics worked and she had no clue. So 75+ of her friends and local family (cousins) were able to be in attendance to honor her. It was awesome.

And finally ... Welcome New Dads!

I've managed to do this one time, but nothing like 75 folks. I had maybe 15, but hey, it worked for that one time.

WANT!

Need.

 

[AirGoofy]

my wife has a cousin on the crew of the #43 Best Buy car driven by AJ Allmendinger. I don't know exactly what he does, but I'll see if I can find out. :

That is really frickin cool. I wish I had one if those jobs that I loved. I was encouraged to get the stable job with health insurance/ benefits and that looks like it will be BEVERLY-ED away. My goal now is to be a boat captain at WDW. Have a great trip.

 

[garryhman]

So, my family (DW and DD{6}) are going to Disney World in 95 days along with one of my wifes friends kids (he's 5), and I'm thinking about doing a trip report for the first time. First I have a few questions for you guys.

1. Should I do a Pre-trip report? If so, would it be in the same thread as the post trip report?

2. Picture documentation is necessary, but trying to get my wife in front of a camera is like trying to get a nun to do a striptease. How important is having pics of her? (of my wife at WDW, not the striping nun)

3. What have you seen in other trip reports that you liked or disliked so I have a better idea what is read worthy or not.

4. Can I put video in it, and if so, how?

Any feedback is good!

 

[Disneyferris]

My goal now is to be a boat captain at WDW. Have a great trip.[/QUOTE]

Sounds great. I would even enjoy driving the trains.
Sign me up for a WDW job.

 

[AJRitz]

So, my family (DW and DD{6}) are going to Disney World in 95 days along with one of my wifes friends kids (he's 5), and I'm thinking about doing a trip report for the first time. First I have a few questions for you guys.

1. Should I do a Pre-trip report? If so, would it be in the same thread as the post trip report?

2. Picture documentation is necessary, but trying to get my wife in front of a camera is like trying to get a nun to do a striptease. How important is having pics of her? (of my wife at WDW, not the striping nun)

3. What have you seen in other trip reports that you liked or disliked so I have a better idea what is read worthy or not.

4. Can I put video in it, and if so, how?

Any feedback is good!

1. Sure, do a pre-trip, and just segue from pre-trip to trip report in the same thread.

2. Don't worry about your wife not wanting to be in pics. I've seen other trip reports the included camera-shy participants. Get pics of the kids and your locations and you'll be plenty interesting.

3. Whatever is honest and reflects you and your family's personality will be worth reading. The reports that are unreadable, IMHO, are the ones that are "forced" into a particular style or format with which the writer is clearly not comfortable.

4. Sure, put video in. You just have to link to the video after uploading to someplace like youtube or vimeo. Just copy the link from the URL bar on the page where you uploaded the video, and past it into the link dialogue box (it's the Earth with a chain link in front of it in the "Go Advanced" posting box.

 

[AJRitz]

I'm going to post this over at DISDads.com too, but since the timeline is fairly short, could any Dads who are available for a podcast Skype-call/recording test on this Thursday night at about 9 p.m. Central Time please send me an Email at my screen name @DisDads.com

 

[FreezinRafiki]

Less than 3 weeks 'til airshow season!

Bad news - the Blues aren't coming anywhere near Southeast Wisconsin this year. I may be forced to go see the - gasp - Air Force Thunderbirds. You won't be mad, will you?

 

[afwdwfan]

So, my family (DW and DD{6}) are going to Disney World in 95 days along with one of my wifes friends kids (he's 5), and I'm thinking about doing a trip report for the first time. First I have a few questions for you guys.

1. Should I do a Pre-trip report? If so, would it be in the same thread as the post trip report?

2. Picture documentation is necessary, but trying to get my wife in front of a camera is like trying to get a nun to do a striptease. How important is having pics of her? (of my wife at WDW, not the striping nun)

3. What have you seen in other trip reports that you liked or disliked so I have a better idea what is read worthy or not.

4. Can I put video in it, and if so, how?

Any feedback is good!

1. Pre-trip reports are good, but not necessary. If you want to do some introductory stuff beforehand go for it... if not, just do a post trip report.

2. I'd say as long as you have some pictures, even if not of the whole group you'll be fine. I'm still not sure I want to put pictures of my family on here... I'm fine with Facebook where I can control who sees it, but an internet forum that anyone can see is another story.

3. I haven't seen any that I dislike. Everybody has a style that works for them. Just tell it the way you saw it. Share your opinions, even if you don't think everyone will agree. Just be honest and have a good sense of humor. You will likely find a few DIS Dads pirates stopping by to harass you from time to time.

4. AJRitz's answer is better than anything I've got.



If anyone is interested, I started my first pre-trip report this afternoon. The link is in my sig. I'm off to a slow start, but I've already got another post about ready to be added sometime later this week.

 

[carlnix30]

More "peanut buttery, Beverly snow!! I am willing to pay $5 to shovel snow! Any takers? That's $5 dollars when the job is done, no sooner!

 

[stopher1]

Ok Dads - so tomorrow is my DW's 40th birthday, and yesterday I threw her a surprise party, as I've previously mentioned. I've been planning this party for her for the past 7 weeks or so, and wow - it was fun. We had a fairly decent response rate, with 82 affirmative. Unfortunately due to various illnesses running rampant around town, our actual number in attendance was around 66 or so - but that's perfectly okay - my lovely bride felt very loved.

I hosted the party in one of the rooms at our church. It's a very non-descript room most of the time - and is used for all kinds of different functions like this, as well as classes, seminars, cheerleading practice, puppet shows, concessions sales for basketball games, etc, etc... so it pretty much needs to be non-descript. But I transformed it, as hopefully some of these pictures will attest.

Our favorite resort at WDW, the Wilderness Lodge, found its way in to the party in a variety of forms, including the background music that was playing the entire time. A couple of my Groupies friends got me the background music from the Lodge to play throughout the party - it was cool!

I pretty much raided my house, my office and a friend's house (I've mentioned her before - she lives in a charming little log house in the woods, near the river that runs through my town) - as well as the church itself, borrowing several of their Christmas and ficus trees to create my own little woods.

I had 10 tables for our guests, and each one had a different and unique centerpiece - though each one was created using the same basic elements:

• a woodsy base fabric
• a pair of pinecones
• some enamelware dishes or cookware
• a landscape print of some sort
• a mason jar filled with grasses, twigs & wildflowers
• a framed wallet size picture of my DW at some point in her youth
• a table card with various FUN FACTS & TRIVIA about my DW - all 10 were completely different - no two cards had the same facts
• a mini lantern with flickering tea light

Here are pictures of the guest tables.

There were two large banquet tables made in to display tables, as well as one small table used as another display table. Here are a few pictures of the display tables.

I put this Half Dome puzzle together when I was a teenager. It hung framed in my mother's house for years, but she gave it to my DW about a decade ago. It now hangs over our mantle.

(that is a real deer hide too)

My wife loves, LOVES, LOVES to play Scrabble. Here I set it up with various woodsy, wilderness themed words. Do you see the Lodge here?

Here was the other smaller display table, with a collage print of about 28 shots of my DW throughout her life time... the WL Groupies moose mascot came out of hiding here too, in addition to a couple of the table centerpiece fabrics.

More to come in the next post...