The Smiths are Heading Back...For 10 Days of Disney Magic! (Updated 8/16)

I think you should all go on the inaugural Fantasy cruise :rolleyes1 and get APs.

Spending other peoples money is fun! :rotfl:
 
Disney cruise gets my vote! :thumbsup2

(We did really enjoy the Behind the Seeds Tour and Jordan and DH enjoyed Pirates league if you want something smaller scale.)
 
Congratulations on Randy's union reaching an agreement-- that's great news! Hmmm-- I think the Family Magic Tour sounds really fun, honestly. I'd love to do it if we had kids! What about an amazing souvenir?
A cruise would be amazing, too, though...
 
I think you should all go on the inaugural Fantasy cruise :rolleyes1 and get APs.

Spending other peoples money is fun! :rotfl:

I would...if it wasn't $6700 not including airfare! Slightly more than the bonus ;)

Disney cruise gets my vote! :thumbsup2

(We did really enjoy the Behind the Seeds Tour and Jordan and DH enjoyed Pirates league if you want something smaller scale.)

Congratulations on Randy's union reaching an agreement-- that's great news! Hmmm-- I think the Family Magic Tour sounds really fun, honestly. I'd love to do it if we had kids! What about an amazing souvenir?
A cruise would be amazing, too, though...

I think I'm tough to impress when it comes to tours. Unless I am going to hear something I've never heard before, it won't be worth the money to me. I want to see the exciting part of backstage. Something I'll never see again. Like Keys to Kingdom. But it will be ages before Ash is old enough for that.
 

Glad to hear that the trip is on! Realize that APs come with high levels of temptation to add additional WDW trips...not sure how many the bonus will cover! :rotfl: A cruise would be great too. Have fun deciding!
 
Glad to hear that the trip is on! Realize that APs come with high levels of temptation to add additional WDW trips...not sure how many the bonus will cover! :rotfl: A cruise would be great too. Have fun deciding!

I know! That's the issue. I'm the only one of us to have had an AP and I managed to squeeze 3 trips out of it ;)
 
Ash and I did a little Disney Shopping today while Daddy was helping his Cousin-in-Law's parents move ;)

First up...new bathing suits. Lands' End is having some amazing sales right now (since I love their bathing suits but they are super pricey). So got Ash these two

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Also got me a black swimskirt bottom when I finally realized that this suit that I posted early is actually NOT Navy. Thus it doesn't really match the navy bottom I had gotten thinking that it would match both tops. :rolleyes:

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Wouldn't you think with all the blue that it was navy not black???

Next up was a swing by Target to pick up various things and the beach bags were on sale up front. I wanted to get a beach bag for this trip because 1) with my bag obsession I actually don't own a true beach bag and 2) because we always try juggling all the stuff we "need" for swim time (room keys, books, towels, sunscreen, etc) I let Ash pick. She picked this one because it was the biggest and it would "hold the most stuff if I decide I want to bring snacks to the pool" So my kid :rotfl2:

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Yay!!! Love when it's close enough to shop :banana:
 
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I love the bag. You would think that the background would be navy, it doesn't make sense that it's not!

Talk to me about the pictures you are having taken, I saw you mention it on Facebook. Marc & I (well me, really) want to have our pictures taken to make all the weight we have lost and to make up for our hideously fat wedding pictures. :lmao::rotfl:
 
I'm so glad that things worked out for your hubby's job! I definitely know how stressful all of that can be recently going through all that!! So i'm very happy for you!!!
 
Great buys! Disney trip shopping is the best!

It is!!! This is almost as fun as the trip for me...all the planning


I love the bag. You would think that the background would be navy, it doesn't make sense that it's not!

Talk to me about the pictures you are having taken, I saw you mention it on Facebook. Marc & I (well me, really) want to have our pictures taken to make all the weight we have lost and to make up for our hideously fat wedding pictures. :lmao::rotfl:

Glad you agree with me on the suit. Very odd. Also odd that I've HAD the two tops for awhile and JUST realized Friday it was black :rotfl2:

So Randy bought the photographer for me for my bday. We are using http://www.davidandvickiarndtphoto.com/ (who did Jen and Dan's anniversary photo session). I am so excited! We have never had family pics done (unless you count PP pics). Basically when they aren't doing weddings, they will come to any location you would like on property to take pics. We are doing ours on the Boardwalk. It was tempting to do either Poly or GF so you could get the castle in the back but frankly, Jen and Dan did the BW and their pics were so fun, I had to completely copy them!!! :rotfl2::rotfl2:

I'm so glad that things worked out for your hubby's job! I definitely know how stressful all of that can be recently going through all that!! So i'm very happy for you!!!

Thank you! He keeps reminding me that we aren't completely safe until the final vote this week but I am breathing a little easier!
 
It is!!! This is almost as fun as the trip for me...all the planning




Glad you agree with me on the suit. Very odd. Also odd that I've HAD the two tops for awhile and JUST realized Friday it was black :rotfl2:

So Randy bought the photographer for me for my bday. We are using http://www.davidandvickiarndtphoto.com/ (who did Jen and Dan's anniversary photo session). I am so excited! We have never had family pics done (unless you count PP pics). Basically when they aren't doing weddings, they will come to any location you would like on property to take pics. We are doing ours on the Boardwalk. It was tempting to do either Poly or GF so you could get the castle in the back but frankly, Jen and Dan did the BW and their pics were so fun, I had to completely copy them!!! :rotfl2::rotfl2:
We were thinking about doing a photopass session at Boardwalk already but I'd really like to make sure we get nice photos and sometimes photopass is not very reliable in that department. So basically, if we decide to do something like this, I might be a big ol' copy cat too. :rotfl2::lmao:
 


With the weight I lost, I need a new bathing suit. I'll have to check out Land's End. Which one did you go to Kristine?

David & Vicki Arndt are the BESTEST LL!! If you decide to get photos taken, I HIGHLY recommend them! They are super duper! So much so that I cannot WAIT to see how Kristine's turn out! :goodvibes:goodvibes
 

David & Vicki Arndt are the BESTEST LL!! If you decide to get photos taken, I HIGHLY recommend them! They are super duper! So much so that I cannot WAIT to see how Kristine's turn out! :goodvibes:goodvibes

Your photos are so amazing, that I can't wait for Kristine's either!!! I've contacted them so we will see how it goes. Let's see if I can convince Marc to do it, though that shouldn't be too hard. Especially if I say it will count as Birthday/Christmas presents. :rotfl2: He'll agree to anything to get out of shopping! :rotfl:
 
We were thinking about doing a photopass session at Boardwalk already but I'd really like to make sure we get nice photos and sometimes photopass is not very reliable in that department. So basically, if we decide to do something like this, I might be a big ol' copy cat too. :rotfl2::lmao:

Copy away!!!



With the weight I lost, I need a new bathing suit. I'll have to check out Land's End. Which one did you go to Kristine?

David & Vicki Arndt are the BESTEST LL!! If you decide to get photos taken, I HIGHLY recommend them! They are super duper! So much so that I cannot WAIT to see how Kristine's turn out! :goodvibes:goodvibes

Sears at the mall Jen. But they are also online. Google Lands' End codes and something always comes up! :thumbsup2

Your photos are so amazing, that I can't wait for Kristine's either!!! I've contacted them so we will see how it goes. Let's see if I can convince Marc to do it, though that shouldn't be too hard. Especially if I say it will count as Birthday/Christmas presents. :rotfl2: He'll agree to anything to get out of shopping! :rotfl:

Love it! I love picking out my own gifts! Although this one was actually Randy's idea in part because we have NO pics of us hanging up in my house and he HATES that. So I told him that I have to have GOOD pics if I'm going to hang them up!
 
Love it! I love picking out my own gifts! Although this one was actually Randy's idea in part because we have NO pics of us hanging up in my house and he HATES that. So I told him that I have to have GOOD pics if I'm going to hang them up!

You don't even have any wedding photos hanging up??
 
You don't even have any wedding photos hanging up??

You know that my immediate thought to this was "you've been in my house, you know the answer" and then realized that no, you haven't been :rotfl2: I have one wedding pic framed. It literally took 8 years to hang it up! Don't forget that I got married before digital. So we got one enlargement and I never had it framed or hung it up. I hung it in our room for our 8th anniversary to surprise Randy. He thought it was a nice start but would REALLY like me to start hanging up pics of us (the Dining Room is decorated in scenery shots of WDW)
 
Randy just got the call. His contract is ratified. Disney is getting a big chunk of cash from the Smiths tomorrow!!!!
 














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