Tanya90210
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 6, 2006
- Messages
- 3,975
Cast of Characters:
Me:
Disney lover, family vacation planner, Mother, Wife, had a wild streak as a teenager (who hasnt) but managed to make life all better as I learn from my mistakes. When asking my DS who I am most like he says Nala when I ask why he tells me because she is so loving, and a good mom awwwwww, melt my heart I tell ya! I will just use my name however as my screen name give it away lol
DH:
Runs a tight ship. Part time handyman, rest of time Super Dad!! (I refuse to call him Mr. Mom, because he is so much more) Keeps my kids in line and behaving because I am a sucker for my kids and they need the discipline now and then. Loves listening to music very loud
not a morning person
For this and any TR I do he will be known as Grumpy (His favorite character, which suits him well in the morning)
DS 11:
My preteen and showing every minute of it!! Always Right, wont even admit when its been proven that he isnt. Video game addict, Toy Story and Stitch addict. Does things sometimes that make you sit there and go What the heck was he thinking?? For this TR he has chosen to be called Dopey (His choice, not mine. Mostly so he and daddy could wear shirts that say Im with
).
DD 2:
Our Princess and she doesnt hesitate to let you know it either. She loves attracting attention, good or bad. Cute as a button but watch out, if she gets mad
whoa baby!! Stubborn as can be, but she cant be fully to blame for that one, both DH and I are too.. To me... she is my dream
a little girl..., who loves all things girly, someone to pass down my Barbies to and give all my old cabbage patch dolls and dress up and play tea party
plus she likes to go outside and play catch or whatnot with the boys too. For this report she will be known as Ariel (suits her well, the whole family agrees) Favorite Princess is LA!!! (Cinderella... but shes to stubborn to learn the whole thing)
DS 6months:
Our surprise baby that we didnt know was on his way on our trip last year, until just before we got home. We still like to call him our souvenir because he was our Disney Vacation Surprise
who cares if he was already on his way before vacation, we didnt know it. He is the cutest baby (not that I am partial or anything) and is a barrel of smiles, wants to stand and walk already and loves to jabber. He joined us 5 weeks before he was supposed to so he had to stay in NICU for 10 days. For this trip report I am going to call him Lucky, because both he and the puppy on 101 needed a bit of help in their first moments. Once he starts talking well see if that changes or not, as he will always be my inspiration
so tiny and fought to get the heck out of the NICU and home to us.
Backstory:
Didnt think wed be able to go back to WDW for a few years but when doing budget realized we could afford to go in December then free dining was announced and realized we could save over 1000 dollars by going then because flights would be cheaper too. Decide we should do 8days/7nights and emailed MFL Travel to see if they could find anything cheaper or just take over my booking so I didnt have to call Disney every other minute to find out this or that (come to figure I would call Dining every other minute anyways because I am such a control freak that I MUST BE the one to get all that set up). So here we are going to WDW for my birthday saving a ton of money!! ! YAY!!
2 days later . DH and I are talking about how he REALLY REALLY hates flying So at work that day I decide I will strike a bargain 2 more days/nights and well drive. I call him on my lunch and he agrees.. .YIPEEE!! 10 days 9 nights!!! But wait!!! Theres more he wants to go to the beach one day. Honey, we should just add on a night to the stay and do a beach day in the middle OK. I email MFL again and add on the extra day so finally we are at 11 days/ 10 nights all but 1 in WDW!! YAHOO!! And still everything is in our budget plan for 3000 or less.
Now I am off Got my Tour Guide Mike Subscription and found Dis for the 1st time, checked up on my old favorites, All Ears, Intercot, Mousesavers, and The Mouse for Less and start researching where we should eat, when, why, what characters we will see boy oh boy I have a lot of work to do!!!
Up Next Telling the kids!!
Me:
Disney lover, family vacation planner, Mother, Wife, had a wild streak as a teenager (who hasnt) but managed to make life all better as I learn from my mistakes. When asking my DS who I am most like he says Nala when I ask why he tells me because she is so loving, and a good mom awwwwww, melt my heart I tell ya! I will just use my name however as my screen name give it away lolDH:
Runs a tight ship. Part time handyman, rest of time Super Dad!! (I refuse to call him Mr. Mom, because he is so much more) Keeps my kids in line and behaving because I am a sucker for my kids and they need the discipline now and then. Loves listening to music very loud
not a morning person
For this and any TR I do he will be known as Grumpy (His favorite character, which suits him well in the morning)DS 11:
My preteen and showing every minute of it!! Always Right, wont even admit when its been proven that he isnt. Video game addict, Toy Story and Stitch addict. Does things sometimes that make you sit there and go What the heck was he thinking?? For this TR he has chosen to be called Dopey (His choice, not mine. Mostly so he and daddy could wear shirts that say Im with
).DD 2:
Our Princess and she doesnt hesitate to let you know it either. She loves attracting attention, good or bad. Cute as a button but watch out, if she gets mad
whoa baby!! Stubborn as can be, but she cant be fully to blame for that one, both DH and I are too.. To me... she is my dream
a little girl..., who loves all things girly, someone to pass down my Barbies to and give all my old cabbage patch dolls and dress up and play tea party
plus she likes to go outside and play catch or whatnot with the boys too. For this report she will be known as Ariel (suits her well, the whole family agrees) Favorite Princess is LA!!! (Cinderella... but shes to stubborn to learn the whole thing)DS 6months:
Our surprise baby that we didnt know was on his way on our trip last year, until just before we got home. We still like to call him our souvenir because he was our Disney Vacation Surprise
who cares if he was already on his way before vacation, we didnt know it. He is the cutest baby (not that I am partial or anything) and is a barrel of smiles, wants to stand and walk already and loves to jabber. He joined us 5 weeks before he was supposed to so he had to stay in NICU for 10 days. For this trip report I am going to call him Lucky, because both he and the puppy on 101 needed a bit of help in their first moments. Once he starts talking well see if that changes or not, as he will always be my inspiration
so tiny and fought to get the heck out of the NICU and home to us. Backstory:
Didnt think wed be able to go back to WDW for a few years but when doing budget realized we could afford to go in December then free dining was announced and realized we could save over 1000 dollars by going then because flights would be cheaper too. Decide we should do 8days/7nights and emailed MFL Travel to see if they could find anything cheaper or just take over my booking so I didnt have to call Disney every other minute to find out this or that (come to figure I would call Dining every other minute anyways because I am such a control freak that I MUST BE the one to get all that set up). So here we are going to WDW for my birthday saving a ton of money!! ! YAY!!
2 days later . DH and I are talking about how he REALLY REALLY hates flying So at work that day I decide I will strike a bargain 2 more days/nights and well drive. I call him on my lunch and he agrees.. .YIPEEE!! 10 days 9 nights!!! But wait!!! Theres more he wants to go to the beach one day. Honey, we should just add on a night to the stay and do a beach day in the middle OK. I email MFL again and add on the extra day so finally we are at 11 days/ 10 nights all but 1 in WDW!! YAHOO!! And still everything is in our budget plan for 3000 or less.
Now I am off Got my Tour Guide Mike Subscription and found Dis for the 1st time, checked up on my old favorites, All Ears, Intercot, Mousesavers, and The Mouse for Less and start researching where we should eat, when, why, what characters we will see boy oh boy I have a lot of work to do!!!
Up Next Telling the kids!!
, which to us is late for dinner, but well deal. We realize since the days have been added we need to add more
but that decision will come later, gotta tell the kids 1st. 
so Grumpy and I talked and decided itd be ok to tell them on Easter, with some one ground rules
DS could only ask 1 question about the trip per day, and must write both question and answer down on the sheets I provide for him. We had 2 weeks till Easter so I prepared a Trip Journal for him and filled out the information we knew for sure we would be doing (ADRs, Parks, Hotel info) along with some fun stuff in the end for him to do and 2 pages with 56 lines each for him to do his questions on, since Easter was 112 days from departure day 
no I am not ashamed
WDW for my Birthday
Cant beat that! 
hoping to meet some while we are down there as there are tons of people going the same time as we are. Went to home depot 2 or 3 times to get our LGMHPC 
(I sure wasn't going to plan my own birthday). From what I know that is all done... or so he said... we'll see how he did later I guess 
that'll be in about a week... I am not a last minute packer but I am also not a 2 months before one either... I figure a week before will do that way we don't pack something that will just get unpacked. 
My dh and I enjoy flying but when we open up the trip to include all 5 of our kids, driving is the only option. We enjoy seeing the sites like the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, South of the Boarder in S.C. and the boys enjoy finding all the sports stadiums along the way. We also play the license plate game and Colorado is one that we usually have a hard time finding!!!
just as we were getting ready to get back on the highway making it so we had to smell baby spit up for over half of the drive, we stopped, cleaned him up and got back on the rode. Later that afternoon Ariel, she decided to stink up the place with her diaper **shudder*** so we had to make another stop to get her cleaned up and try and air out the van before we got back on the road. We stopped at rest stops during night and took naps here and there throughout the day. DH did most of driving, by his own choice, I was mostly the early morning driver, which was great because that made me the lucky one who got to drive onto property :-D It was amazing to see the signs again and Pop Century was all I had dreamed it would be. The signs they show on the websites dont even do it justice.
