Twas the Night Before ... Christmas 09?! - 12/30 New TR! Please come join me!

[Happydog]

Yay! I'm here too! And off to a scandalous beginning I see.....

Ah yes, a few infamous readers, and already we are off to a silly start! I am so thrilled!

I'm joining! We are going in the beginning of the month. We were there in 06 over Christmas...so pretty! Can't wait to hear more! I am right there with you in the Christmas craziness! I bake TONS of cookies and shopped last year on black Friday from 2:00 am until 5:00 pm!!!!! I even managed to con DH into going He says never again!

OH BOY!!! I love cookies!!! And I know it is crazy but isn't it fun to shop at such random hours??!! I was on my way home around 11am that day, after putting in 5 hours of shopping! I am looking forward to it!

I'm here I'm here!!!! I think Christmas at Disney would be amazing!!! I'm so excited to hear all about your plans!

Gee, Thanks!!! Me too!! I think it will be a most memorable vacation!!!

count me in!

Great!!! WELCOME!!! SO GLAD TO HAVE YOU!

I'm here!! I'm here!!

I am so excited!

Think I can convince to go to Disney at Christmas at somepoint? I think this year would be a great year.

Well, I don't know if I can convince Mark, but I CAN tell you I took several light fixture photos in your honor while we were in Palm Springs!!! I am excited to actually start this PTR, too!!!

 

[Happydog]

signing in to follow along...

Hi!!! GREAT! The more the merrier! Thanks! Glad to have you!

So looking at our tickers we are just one day apart on arrivals!

YES! Well we leave on the 19th and get there on the 20th -- Car Train!!!

Joining in to read along. We're leaving on Dec. 16th celebrating our 15 year wedding anniversary & will stay at Pop until the 24th. It will be a surprise for our 8 & 4 year old! Anyway, I can't wait to read about your plans and eventually your trip.

Oh! Congrats on the 15 years!!! How fun will that be??!! WE surprised our boys with this last trip, we were in WDW June 28 - July 5... the plans will start to unfold, don't worry!!!

another christmas lover here!!! Love love LOVE christmas..DBF is a certified Christmas Grinch so the holidays are ALWAYS interesting for us

Can't wait to hear more! I'm subbing in

Hello!!! WELCOME!!! Glad to have you along! I have a Grinch-y DH, too.... well, he just shakes his head in disbelief with my Christmas excess, but he had fun!!!

I'm here!! Bring on the Binder Thingy!!

HEY! We get there on the same day!!! Meetup??

Wow!!! Hey, did you know WigD will be there too?!!

YES!!! THE BINDER will be BACK!!!

 

[Happydog]

So THANK YOU to everyone who has already signed on to join me for my Christmas PTR!!! This week school started (with students) and I have been a little distracted with all the fun!!! TRY EXHAUSTED...
Anyhoo, I have great plans for the next few weeks, I will provide a mini-TR on our trip out west and all the itinerary details we have so far... I will also reveal my WISH-ADR list, that I am so hoping I will get!! I want to nail this down because my ADR day is the 21st!!! GASP!!! Two Mondays from now!

Stay tuned, more to come this week...

 

[LOVEMY3KIDDOS]

After the ADR's are made, I feel like it will be here in no time!!

 

[Charleston Princess]

I do believe that first week with students is the most exhausting week of the year. I understand completely how tired you probably are by the time you get home every evening.

Looking forward to the ADR wish list and the mini-TR!

 

[cjackearl]

Hi! I'm joining again because I'm not sure you saw my first shout out!

 

[wigdoutdismom]

The one thing I know for sure is that I plan to see Wishes on the 20th! I can't wait to see that castle dripping in lights!

 

[disneyaddicted]

I'm definitley joining in, this PTR wreaks of fun and running amuck. I crave those things ya know.

I'm a huge Christmas nut, I start celebrating November 1st, I put up 4 trees, I have an attic full of wrapping paper but always buy more. I am not one of the nutters to go out black friday at 3:00am to shop, I am the nutter who has to wake up and work retail on black Friday, but I love that day, it's so festive and most people are in jolly moods. I make about 4 different kinds of cookies, maybe one kind actually turns out, one kind ends up burned, one kind ends up dog food, and the rest end up as paper weights.

My trip is early December, I cannot wait. Christmas time and Disney, could it get any better? It could if maybe a ton of chocolate was involved.
Any way nice to meet you and your family. (cute boys you have) I have subbed and will be back for more.

Ty

 

[jenjolt]

Oy I have to agree I was exhausted the first week of school with the students but it gets better!! I really can't wait to hear more about your trip!!!! I also am anxious to see some of those pictures from Palm Springs!

 

[shordiebecka]

can't wait to hear more

 

[Disneymoon09]

cant wait to read about your plans! Our dates are Dec 1-8th and I cannot wait to see Disney again at christmas!

 

[Happydog]

I do believe that first week with students is the most exhausting week of the year. I understand completely how tired you probably are by the time you get home every evening.

Looking forward to the ADR wish list and the mini-TR!

It really really is!!!!

That and the fact my DH has a play he is rehearsing for opening night on FRIDAY... GASP! SO we are all over the place... don't worry, my new update will be coming tomorrow I think!!

Hi! I'm joining again because I'm not sure you saw my first shout out!

OH dear goodness I am sorry I missed ya!! I think my fingers forgot to "click" on the multiquote button!!! SO YAY!!!!

The one thing I know for sure is that I plan to see Wishes on the 20th! I can't wait to see that castle dripping in lights!

OH MOST DEFINITELY!!!! I can't wait to see that castle!! We'll compare notes, okay??!!

 

[Happydog]

I'm definitley joining in, this PTR wreaks of fun and running amuck. I crave those things ya know.

I'm a huge Christmas nut, I start celebrating November 1st, I put up 4 trees, I have an attic full of wrapping paper but always buy more. I am not one of the nutters to go out black friday at 3:00am to shop, I am the nutter who has to wake up and work retail on black Friday, but I love that day, it's so festive and most people are in jolly moods. I make about 4 different kinds of cookies, maybe one kind actually turns out, one kind ends up burned, one kind ends up dog food, and the rest end up as paper weights.

My trip is early December, I cannot wait. Christmas time and Disney, could it get any better? It could if maybe a ton of chocolate was involved.
Any way nice to meet you and your family. (cute boys you have) I have subbed and will be back for more.

Ty

WELLL WELCOME!!!! Thanks for coming over! Oh we'll have some fun, don't you worry! And I am right there with you on the cookies, I make a ton that look great, and then I have tossed a ton in the trash, too!!!
FOUR Xmas trees!!!! FUN!!!! I love wrapping paper!!!

Oy I have to agree I was exhausted the first week of school with the students but it gets better!! I really can't wait to hear more about your trip!!!! I also am anxious to see some of those pictures from Palm Springs!

I loaded all the photos on photobucket, now I just need to get it posted! I am getting there!! starting to recover!!!

can't wait to hear more

YAY!! The more the merrier!!

cant wait to read about your plans! Our dates are Dec 1-8th and I cannot wait to see Disney again at christmas!

Again!!?? Great!! I have only seen the beginnings of decor since we went last year the first week of November, I am just bursting with excitement now, so I can only imagine what I will be like in three months!!

 

[shannn]

I agree about the first week of school. I'm in my third week and I'm just now getting to where I don't feel like I want to fall directly into bed at 3:15 when school is over!!

I can't wait to see the castle at Christmas either. I've got a couple of choices for our itinerary that I'm debating over on my PTR. I've never planned an adult/surprise vacation so I'm completely confused about how to plan it!

 

[MyMuse]

I LOVE the Christmas season. Christmas decorations, Christmas music, Christmas STUFF. I am the freak who gets up on Black Friday to stand in line for a store opening at 3am!!! I am the industrious baker who churns out ten different kinds of Christmas cookies!! I am the nerd who can't wait for the Christmas wrapping paper display to go up at her local Container store! I'm just a Christmas dork who plays Christmas music in her car and her house during all waking hours from Thanksgiving until New Years... I can’t wait to spend a Christmas in Disney, and I can’t wait to share it with you!

YAY for Christmas!

I don't do the shopping or the baking, but all other Christmas stuff I love! The carols, the lights, general atomsphere.... it all!

I'm completely to be doing a Disney Christmas!

Can't wait to check out your report

 

[raider97]

I'm in excited to hear about your planning.

Stephanie

 

[eandesmom]

Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not … even …. a … mouse. WAIT, WAIT, WAIT. There IS a Mouse!! Yes, most certainly a mouse. It IS Disney World after all! HOW could it be Christmas in Disney WITHOUT the Mouse??!!
I LOVE the Christmas season. Christmas decorations, Christmas music, Christmas STUFF.

I am SO in! I Christmas!

I am the freak who gets up on Black Friday to stand in line for a store opening at 3am!!!

Ugh. Not me. UGH! Besides, black friday is decorating day!!!!

I am the industrious baker who churns out ten different kinds of Christmas cookies!!

again. Not me. I'll eat yours vicariously though! my family wishes I was that baker

I am the nerd who can't wait for the Christmas wrapping paper display to go up at her local Container store!

I am the nerd who orders it through the school fundraiser every year even though I don't really need new paper.

I'm just a Christmas dork who plays Christmas music in her car and her house during all waking hours from Thanksgiving until New Years... I can’t wait to spend a Christmas in Disney, and I can’t wait to share it with you!
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Looking forward to it!!!

 

[PracPerfPatricia]

Christmas at Disney......it's lovely-we were there a couple of years ago from about 12/14-12/21 so we weren't there on the Day itself but it was lovely...

Everything is decorated...

If you like this kind of thing...there are the Santas from all over the world in Epcot telling stories in the individual countries...(in addition to all the other various activities all over the parks...)

Can't wait to see the PS photos...

That's right-we're back to 180 day ADRS...good luck with that...

 

[lmillercrew]

WOOHOO another PTR to follow along on.

 

[Happydog]

So I thought I would kick this PTR off with my little summer side trip to sunny Palm Springs…

Now if you read my TR you know that a few weeks after we returned from WDW I packed my family up for a flight across the country to Oregon… My family lives in central Oregon, and we go every summer for two weeks. Within that period, my DH and I typically have a “get away” trip, too.

This year we decided to return to Palm Springs, CA. Now, we have vacationed there before in the summer, just us a few years ago, and we were not necessarily expecting to go back, but the resorts we stayed at were running these amazing deals (since it was off season for them) and it was just tooo good to pass up!

So first, a few photos from our vacation in Oregon, checking out the town that my parents live in... and also the boys hanging out at my parents house. They live on 10 acres, the boys can play in the creek they have running through their property (read man-made creek bed that doubles as the irrigation pathway to water the pasture on their property!) They can be outside the whole day (temps are generally in the 80s, sunny blue sky, no humidity), and they like to take ATV rides with my father… They just play “ranch hand” for a few weeks.

This is an old IceCream parlor that still makes their own... very good!

Gotta get a Pizza picture!!

Playing in the river!

Playing around the Yard, looking for lizards, campfires...

Going Bowling!!

Now for our getaway, my DH found this great deal at a resort in Palm Springs that included “dining credits” with the reservation. So for every $199.00 you spent a night, you received $200.00 towards meals… So basically food was “free” if you will… it was the DDP for adults! It was a little extravagant, I must confess. Hugely decadent, decidedly fabulous eats. They also had a package for $200.00 for alcohol… if you can believe it. Hiccup. WE did not do this one, but we thought about it!! Seriously, we were concerned we would not get our money's worth b/c we are not heavy drinkers...

SO, we went with the Dining package – called (appropriately) the "Glutton package". I have posted photos in the next post....