Trick-Or-Treat & Birthday Sweets! Oct 2013 PTR *NEW* 11/4 TR Link Posted!

[saintstickets]

Hi Bill. Always fun meeting a fellow Who Dater. How bout dem Saints! I'll be the one wearing the Saints hat as you can see from the pictures in the introduction post.

It should feel like your going for the first time with all the new things you have planned. What are y'all dressing up as for the party?

DW and I will be in Goose and Maverick "Top Gun" costumes. Finding adult costumes that aren't too "adult" for WDW is not that easy!

That's so awesome! We frequently take a day to wear all of our Saints garb, so we are always on the lookout for other Who Dat Nation members. And like DH said, he always wears his Saints hat, so if you see us first, say hi!

Lots of firsts for you! I hope you pick a good character for your very first character meet. What a tough decision! Will you be at the same party as us on the 27th?

We are leaving WDW on the 27th to return to Mississippi. I hope to leave early enough to pick up west FL radio stations and listen to the Saints/Bills game on the return trip! I know, I know...diehard fan here. Last year we had an anniversary trip planned to Hawaii and I tried to change our return trip (to no avail) in order to fly back in to NOLA and catch the opening Saints/Redskins game!

 

[dtr_angel]

just over a week to go!!!!

 

[khertz]

I think I commented on your bows on Instagram, but yay! They're so cute. Most of her bows she sells are just adorable.

Oh gosh, the Disney nightmares. I get those too before a trip. Basically 'everything that can go wrong, will go wrong.' It's just because we get so excited, I guess!

So awesome that you get to go to Be Our Guest!!!

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I had such a hard time choosing because there are so many adorable ones! I am pretty excited to wear them in the parks though.

Gah, those Disney nightmares freak me out! For me it is usually that I can't get somewhere or do something for some reason, and then it's the end of the trip and I haven't done a single thing. Or that I forgot something horribly important!

I am so excited to eat there!!

DW and I will be in Goose and Maverick "Top Gun" costumes. Finding adult costumes that aren't too "adult" for WDW is not that easy!



We are leaving WDW on the 27th to return to Mississippi. I hope to leave early enough to pick up west FL radio stations and listen to the Saints/Bills game on the return trip! I know, I know...diehard fan here. Last year we had an anniversary trip planned to Hawaii and I tried to change our return trip (to no avail) in order to fly back in to NOLA and catch the opening Saints/Redskins game!

Great costume idea, though!

I don't think that's weird AT ALL. Just yesterday, I was still at work at the hospital for the afternoon game sad1:) and had the game on in an empty patient room where I could go hide and watch for a few minutes when I didn't have anything to do. Some years we have been on our trip over 2 weekends and missed games, but this year we will only be there over one weekend and the game will be on at 1 pm on our MNSSHP day. We will be at the resort anyway all day until the party, so we should get to see most of it!

just over a week to go!!!!

 

[khertz]

Wow, sorry about the lack of updates! Life had gotten a little crazy as we got everything together for DS's birthday party, which took place this past Saturday. It went really well, and I'll do a bonus post with pics after this trip update!

And I missed it when it became official yesterday because I was at work, but we are officially in...

SINGLE DIGITS!




Tuesday October 29th

This morning, we have an early morning ahead of us as we head out to the Polynesian for a 7:30 am breakfast at 'Ohana.

We ate here for the first time last trip and didn't have the greatest experience. After posting about it on my TR, I got a lot of responses that led me to believe we just had server issues. So we decided to give it another chance. It was originally supposed to be breakfast on our departure day, but when we decided to add a day to our tickets, I thought it might be better to head straight to a park on our last day to maximize our last few hours in the parks. Luckily I was able to change the ADR easily!

After breakfast, our morning plan is up in the air. Basically, we will go to whichever park we feel we need more time in! It will probably fall between AK and DHS, and I have a feeling we will want more time at DHS, so that's what I'm going with.

Of course, no real plan in place, since it will entirely depend on what we have had a chance to do or not had a chance to do. Since there are so many characters at DHS, I'm sure that some meet & greets are inevitable.

Lunch will probably be CS somewhere, and I have a feeling that if we stuff ourselves at breakfast, DH and I may split something.

After a nap at Bonnet Creek (and probably some packing ), we will head out to our evening park, Epcot!

Since they do the Visa Meet & Greet a little later, I think we will probably want pop in there if the line is not too long to see who is meeting. It might be our only chance to do the meet this trip!

If we need to do anything else in Future World, we should have time. Or we can just head to World Showcase otherwise and start walking in the general direction of Italy for my long awaited VIA NAPOLI ADR! If you have read either of my past 2 TR's since we started taking DS, you know my passionate love for this place!

Our ADR time is for 6:20 pm, and hopefully soon after that I will be reunited with my beloved 4 cheese white pizza! (Where is the drooling smilie?!) This is kind of different for us, having two ADR's in one day!

Then we will just hang around the World Showcase for the evening. I doubt we will stay for IllumiNations since it is our last night at Bonnet Creek and we will have to finish packing for check out in the morning (I'm already so sad about it and I'm not even in WDW yet! ) But I guess if we get a lot accomplished during our break, staying for IllumiNations may not be out of the question.

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[khertz]

Like I said in the previous post, Saturday was the day of DS's 3rd birthday party! We got up nice and early thanks to DS waking us up at 6. We had cinnamon rolls for breakfast, then went to pick up his birthday cake. This was the first year he actually understood what a birthday party was, and seeing the cake got him even more excited. We went home and let him play for awhile, knowing we would have to put him down for a nap earlier than usual so he could get a nice one in before the party. But he actually asked to go in his bed even earlier than we were planning on! He definitely understood that after nap = birthday party.

We had the party at a little pavilion in our neighborhood and it couldn't have been more perfect. My friend actually lives even closer to the pavilion than we do and let us use the refrigerator in her garage to store the cake and ice cream until we were ready to take it out for the party! We got everything set up and people started arriving right at 2 pm.

We kept it simple for food with pizza and snacks, so people started eating as soon as they got there. DS doesn't do well with eating when there are too many other fun things to be doing. But he surprised me by eating a whole slice. My friend from work was there, and she is the child life specialist at the hospital so her job is to play with the kids, help them through scary procedures, etc. Wouldn't you know, all the kids gravitated to her immediately!

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There were only two other little kids DS's age there from daycare, but it worked out perfectly. The three of them had a BLAST together! There is a playground nearby the pavilion so they had a great time playing there too.

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The little girl is one of his three daycare BFF's, so we were all really happy she came!

DH had made a a playlist of all the songs from both Cars soundtracks and the Planes soundtrack, so every once in awhile and song would come on and you could hear DS yell, "IT'S DUSTY CROPHOPPER!" And then the kiddos would all run to crowd around the stereo and dance.

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Soon it was time for cake! It came out SO amazing! I sent the girl a photo off of Pinterest and she did a beautiful job recreating it for us.

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From the top​

After cake and ice cream, we did the pinata. It was supposed to be a pull string pinata where one of the strings would open the flap for the candy, but it didn't work. lol We had to just rip it open and let the candy fall for the kids.

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Of course, since we have had what didn't fit in the pinata sitting in our candy bowl at home, DS didn't waste any time trying to grab all the chocolate and leave the Smarties and suckers for the rest of the kids.

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I did eventually have him put some back so the other kids could have chocolate too!!

Then it was time for presents!

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He got an entire Lightning McQueen band set


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He was really excited about this Planes book


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One of MANY trucks!


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A dump truck from my parents


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This suitcase DH and I got him for the trip was a big hit! He's ready for Disney World!


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Family shot with my parents and sister


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DS with his great-grandparents


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With DH's mom and stepdad


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Here's one of the birthday banner I made on my Cricut. I was pretty proud of how it turned out, and it held up really well!​

The day wasn't entirely perfect...a rainshower did roll through and brought the intense humidity out at the end of the day. Of course, the first year I had his party outside was also the first year it rained on his party day! But we were lucky we had that pavilion and just piled under until it passed over.

We all had a great time, especially DS! I think it was his most fun birthday party to date!

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8 DAYS TO GO!!​

 

[leshunlenese]

The last day is always bittersweet

Happy Birthday Paxton! I love his shirt. He is getting so big!!

single digit dance o yeah!!!

 

[DaveinFallsChurch]

I keep laughing because it looks like there's a lot of overlap between your park day plans and mine. I'm pretty sure we'll keep running into each other and you'll be going "Ummm, shouldn't you be at a conference?"

Happy Birthday to Paxton!

 

[missangelalexis]

Single digits woo hoo!!

Your day 8 plans sound great; it's good that you are leaving space for whichever park you need more time at!

Oh my gosh, Paxton is so big! I'm glad his bday party was a success, the cake came out amazing!

 

[DisneyKid4Life]

OMG I also get so exciting after breaking the 10 day mark. Yay for you.

I really wish I could get a Disney Visa in Canada. I would certainly use it at the special meets, but mostly I just want it just to have.

I hope you get to stay for Illuminations.

Aww such a cute B-Day party for Paxton. And I LOVE that cake. I have a friend who makes speciality cakes. Hoping I can get one this year.

 

[khertz]

The last day is always bittersweet

Happy Birthday Paxton! I love his shirt. He is getting so big!!

single digit dance o yeah!!!

Just writing about it is so depressing! Especially knowing we won't be back next year...

He is getting TOO big, that's for sure! Definitely made for a much more exciting and fun party though, with him understanding what was going on.

I keep laughing because it looks like there's a lot of overlap between your park day plans and mine. I'm pretty sure we'll keep running into each other and you'll be going "Ummm, shouldn't you be at a conference?"

Happy Birthday to Paxton!

Too funny! What parks do we overlap on Tuesday?

Thanks

Single digits woo hoo!!

Your day 8 plans sound great; it's good that you are leaving space for whichever park you need more time at!

Oh my gosh, Paxton is so big! I'm glad his bday party was a success, the cake came out amazing!

I am so thankful that we decided to add the extra day. I was starting to feel like we weren't going to have enough time to do everything! Having a day to go wherever we think we need more time has me much more relaxed.

Thanks! The cake was not only pretty, it was delicious too. The same girl did his cake last year, and does GREAT work!

OMG I also get so exciting after breaking the 10 day mark. Yay for you.

I really wish I could get a Disney Visa in Canada. I would certainly use it at the special meets, but mostly I just want it just to have.

I hope you get to stay for Illuminations.

Aww such a cute B-Day party for Paxton. And I LOVE that cake. I have a friend who makes speciality cakes. Hoping I can get one this year.

All I was focused on for so long was getting everything ready for the party, but now that it's over, it's like "Holy cow, we go to Disney World SO SOON!!"

I loved using my Disney Visa! I had the one with the Castle on it and loved taking that out of my Mickey wallet, which is in my Mickey D&B purse. That's too bad you can't get them in Canada. DH got us new cards to rack up airline miles for our European trip next year instead of racking up Disney Visa points, and I'm already so sad I don't get to see the Castle every time I pay for something. First world problems!

Thanks! That cake tasted just as amazing as it looked, too! If you get a cool one for your birthday, pics or it didn't happen!!

 

[DaveinFallsChurch]

Too funny! What parks do we overlap on Tuesday?

So Tuesday is the one day I've decided to play hooky from the conference and spend all day at WDW. I have an ADR at Kona for 7:30am - right across the way from Ohana.

I'll also be in Epcot WS starting around 4pm through closing to watch Illuminations.

 

[khertz]

So Tuesday is the one day I've decided to play hooky from the conference and spend all day at WDW. I have an ADR at Kona for 7:30am - right across the way from Ohana. I'll also be in Epcot WS starting around 4pm through closing to watch Illuminations.

I'll be watching out for ya!!

 

[disneybarbie]

The birthday party looked great - I can't believe he is three already!

8 days to go.. I am soo jealous


Emma x

 

[MEK]

Adorable! Paxton is getting so big and I can tell he absolutely had a fantastic time.

Wow - that is some cake! Nice!

For some reason I thought his actual B-day was during your Florida trip. Call me confused. I guess because it was last year?

Any how - Yay for 7 more days! I'm down to 7 sleeps myself!!!

 

[khertz]

The birthday party looked great - I can't believe he is three already!

8 days to go.. I am soo jealous


Emma x

I can't believe it either!! It feels like he was just born, and now he is a three year old!

I'll be on a plane a week from today!

Adorable! Paxton is getting so big and I can tell he absolutely had a fantastic time.

Wow - that is some cake! Nice!

For some reason I thought his actual B-day was during your Florida trip. Call me confused. I guess because it was last year?

Any how - Yay for 7 more days! I'm down to 7 sleeps myself!!!

He had the best time! He is still talking about it days later. The cake came out better than I could have imagined!

You're correct, his birthday is on the 24th! The same as Nick's, if I'm remembering right?? We just like to have a party for him before we leave to celebrate with family since they can't ALL come to Disney World with us. And because he's definitely NOT spoiled or anything, getting a birthday party and spending his birthday in Magic Kingdom.

So exciting!!!!

 

[afwdwfan]

And I missed it when it became official yesterday because I was at work, but we are officially in...

SINGLE DIGITS!​

Awesome!!! My jealousy just crept up a notch or two.

We ate here for the first time last trip and didn't have the greatest experience. After posting about it on my TR, I got a lot of responses that led me to believe we just had server issues.

I hope that was, indeed, the case. Hopefully this time will be much better.

Of course, no real plan in place, since it will entirely depend on what we have had a chance to do or not had a chance to do.

Those are the fun park days. Just take your time and go with the flow.

Or we can just head to World Showcase otherwise and start walking in the general direction of Italy for my long awaited VIA NAPOLI ADR! If you have read either of my past 2 TR's since we started taking DS, you know my passionate love for this place!

You've talked about Via Napoli before? I don't seem to recall that...

Our ADR time is for 6:20 pm, and hopefully soon after that I will be reunited with my beloved 4 cheese white pizza! (Where is the drooling smilie?!)

NOt exactly a smilie, but I think it is appropriate for this situation...

IMG_0466-1 by kristygio, on Flickr
This suitcase DH and I got him for the trip was a big hit! He's ready for Disney World!

My SiL got that same suitcase for DS for our trip last year. He loves that thing! Any time he goes anywhere and needs to take extra clothes he wants to take Lightning McQueen.

Happy Birthday to Paxton! It looks like it was a great party, despite the rain.

And a 3 year old boy can NEVER have too many trucks. ​

 

[mandas08]

Yay for your trip getting so close!

I kinda of fell off here for a bit after getting back from our Sea World trip. But I am back in time to see you off

I cant believe Paxton is already 3, I remember reading your babymoon trip report lol. It really is crazy how quick they grow up. Its so sad for us mommy's to see our little ones lose their baby cheeks.

The party looked like it went really well. How neat that your neighborhood has a shelter for you all to use. Its a shame it rained, but it sounds like you didnt let it ruin the day.

I absolutely love Paxton's shirts. His birthday shirts are always the best. And the cake WOW! That is amazing. I enjoy playing around with cake making. I am in no way near that level but I hope someday

Your sign is also great. I need to get myself a cricuit!!

 

[dtr_angel]

Paxton's birthday party turned out great! I especially love the picture of him with all the Nestle Crunches in his hands, lol. The suitcase is super cute! We had Gavin's party at a park pavillion and loved it - we also had a rain issue but were safely covered until it passed. I'm glad everything went well.

Does Paxton understand you are going to Disney? You must all be so excited!

I think having 2 ADRs in one day might be stressful, but it's your last day in Disney so I think you'll be fine! Plus you don't know when you'll be back... sadface! live it up!

 

[dtr_angel]

oh and I love the banner you made - very creative! Thanks to my trusty Silhouette Gavin will have awesome banners every year LOL.

 

[amazingact21]

Single digits! That's so exciting!


Aw, Paxton's 3rd birthday looks like it was a hit! I love the picture of him with his Cars suitcase; he's ready to go!