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I love scrapbooking, and I just wanted to say your pages are gorgeous, I love them all. I can't wait to see the ones from MVMCP. I will be going this DEC. and plan to scrapbook it all. I scrapped the last trip but I feel like I missed alot of things, so this time around I will leave nothing out. I am really enjoying your trip down memeory lane.
 
I love your scrapbook pages! I'm so far behind on mine. Wanna do mine for me???

:cool1: I'm glad you like them. I am behind as well. These are the only ones I've done for this trip and it was in 2002. My inlaws gave me pics of DH's brother to make a book for them. That was about 10 years ago. I only have a couple of pages to go but for some reason I can't get that project finished. Basically, you wouldn't want to hire me for the job:rotfl2:

Great job with the scapbooking pages!!! I like the little review of your past trips. It seems like everytime you move you have a baby. LOL.

No kidding. I was very pregnant with 2 of the moves and always in the summer. Not a fun experience. Thanks for letting me know that you liked the pages. I can never have too many compliments:laughing:

I love scrapbooking, and I just wanted to say your pages are gorgeous, I love them all. I can't wait to see the ones from MVMCP. I will be going this DEC. and plan to scrapbook it all. I scrapped the last trip but I feel like I missed alot of things, so this time around I will leave nothing out. I am really enjoying your trip down memeory lane.

I know what you mean! I don't have very good pics of the MVMCP so you will probably be disappointed but I will post the few I have. I'm always so busy having fun that I forget to take pictures. So many on the DISboards do an awesome job of capturing the experience. Thanks for posting! You will love the Christmas party if you haven't already been. We loved it so much which is why we are returning for the Halloween one. It totally wore us out, though!
 
Just ordered the tickets yesterday, it'll be our first time. Can't wait! We did MVMCP in 2005 and I hear this party's better.

Enjoying your pre-trippie, sounds like you've been spending as much time planning as I have!
 
Wow, I love your SB pages!

I'm awesome at *buying* Scrapbook supplies, but I never get around to actually putting them to use! Maybe this will be the trip when it finally happens!

Your trip is just over a month away now! YAY!
 

Just ordered the tickets yesterday, it'll be our first time. Can't wait! We did MVMCP in 2005 and I hear this party's better.

Enjoying your pre-trippie, sounds like you've been spending as much time planning as I have!

:woohoo: Whoo-hoo for the tickets and :welcome: We did the MVMCP in 2005, too!!! I'm so excited for the Halloween Party, too. DD7 asks to view the parade every few days (the one on DIS). She says we should watch the first parade and then if we like it we can see the second one. It's good to know someone in this family takes after me. My little planner:love:

Wow, I love your SB pages!

I'm awesome at *buying* Scrapbook supplies, but I never get around to actually putting them to use! Maybe this will be the trip when it finally happens!

Your trip is just over a month away now! YAY!

:lmao: No kidding. I bought scrapbook supplies for years before I actually used them. Who am I kidding? I still shop more than scrap. Can't believe are trips are so close now. :cheer2: We've been planning for so long....
 
Okay, I'm checking in. I have had a busy couple of weeks. My kids all have birthdays one after the other so I've been planning DD10s party which will be this weekend. Then we found out that one of her best friends lost her father last week. It was very sudden and very sad. I spoke to my friend yesterday and she said it would have been her husbands birthday. She had forgotten that she had bought him a big screen TV and it was delievered yesterday. Naturally, she wasn't doing well. I decided to invite her daughter and a couple of friends over for a sleepover before the party. I felt she needed some alone time.

I don't mind a sleepover but it just seems like my Disney trip is sneaking up on me all of a sudden and all my precious weekends are busy. For months, it's been so far away and now I've only got one month.:scared1: Suddenly, I have a bunch to do. I need to make my daily iteneraries and make sure all my sewing is done. I think it is pretty much finished:thumbsup2 . Then my in-laws called and they want to visit for DSs birthday at the end of this month. Luckily we aren't having a big party for DS, just family, so that should be an easy one. Although anything with my MIL is always more stressful. KWIM?

All of this hasn't slowed down my purchasing, however. Hubby would probably say, unfortunately. :confused3 I got some more pins to trade JIC. I ordered DS and DH navy blue crocs. DS says they are black and cool:cool2: . Then I was listening to WDW radio show podcast. Lou talked about a great new book that was out. My ears perk up, I love new disney books. This one is by Tim Foster at guidetothemagic.com. I got his magic for kids book. It looks so beautiful and just what I was looking for. I wanted a book that my kids could flip through and decide what they wanted to ride or do.

I will try and have my MVMCP mini-report up tomorrow and I will follow shortly with our trip of 2005. Then I will get back to our daily outfits and can finally show ya'll my reconstructed tees.:yay:
 
Okay, I'm checking in. I have had a busy couple of weeks. My kids all have birthdays one after the other so I've been planning DD10s party which will be this weekend. Then we found out that one of her best friends lost her father last week. It was very sudden and very sad. I spoke to my friend yesterday and she said it would have been her husbands birthday. She had forgotten that she had bought him a big screen TV and it was delievered yesterday. Naturally, she wasn't doing well. I decided to invite her daughter and a couple of friends over for a sleepover before the party. I felt she needed some alone time.

I don't mind a sleepover but it just seems like my Disney trip is sneaking up on me all of a sudden and all my precious weekends are busy. For months, it's been so far away and now I've only got one month.:scared1: Suddenly, I have a bunch to do. I need to make my daily iteneraries and make sure all my sewing is done. I think it is pretty much finished:thumbsup2 . Then my in-laws called and they want to visit for DSs birthday at the end of this month. Luckily we aren't having a big party for DS, just family, so that should be an easy one. Although anything with my MIL is always more stressful. KWIM?

All of this hasn't slowed down my purchasing, however. Hubby would probably say, unfortunately. :confused3 I got some more pins to trade JIC. I ordered DS and DH navy blue crocs. DS says they are black and cool:cool2: . Then I was listening to WDW radio show podcast. Lou talked about a great new book that was out. My ears perk up, I love new disney books. This one is by Tim Foster at guidetothemagic.com. I got his magic for kids book. It looks so beautiful and just what I was looking for. I wanted a book that my kids could flip through and decide what they wanted to ride or do.

I will try and have my MVMCP mini-report up tomorrow and I will follow shortly with our trip of 2005. Then I will get back to our daily outfits and can finally show ya'll my reconstructed tees.:yay:

That is very sad about your friends husband who passed away. I totally understand how you feel about the trips (and my wedding) for so long felt so far a way and then all of a sudden it is just about 1 month away!!! I hope all the birthdays go and the sewing as well!!!
 
I finally get time to catch up! Yay! So close... omg, I can't imagine how excited you are!

I love all of you scrapbook pages! I'm the same way. I have stickers, papers, punches, all that but haven't made a page, yet. One day very soon (or probably not) I'll get to it! :lmao: I work with kids and they keep me up to my ears in arts and crafts, so maybe I'll have a scrapbook day and I'll get them done all in one day! Yeah right, I'd probably be cleaning glue off of the ceiling if I tried that! :rotfl:

Loved your wedding dress and video clips, too!
 
I hate that feeling of time is running away. I tend to put things off so I will have alot to do to keep me busy the week before I go, but then I never leave myself enough time. It was nice of you to help your friend out by giving her some time alone, especially when you don't have much time to spare. But I say Disney Lovers are good people and you just backed that up.
One month to go. That is so awesome! I am still super stoked about your MVMCP scrapbook pages, I am sure they will be great regardless of the quantity of pics on them.
This will be my first time doing MVMCP, I love disney, I love Christmas, nuff said. :)
 
I know what you mean! We're heading down the same day and the trip has seemed so far away. Now, it's just around the corner. And like you, our weekends are filling up fast. I've started setting stuff aside that needs to be packed. I also printed an Ultimate Packing List and looking it over. I've bought my DD a few things for the trip but NOTHING for my DS12. I guess a 12 yo boy doesn't need much to head to WDW.

I am very anxious to see your tees! I bought the same ones for all of us.
 
Great pre-trip report. Love the clothes.. I am going the week after you so I know what you mean about sneaking up on you.

Looking forward to more
 
I finally get time to catch up! Yay! So close... omg, I can't imagine how excited you are!

I love all of you scrapbook pages! I'm the same way. I have stickers, papers, punches, all that but haven't made a page, yet. One day very soon (or probably not) I'll get to it! :lmao: I work with kids and they keep me up to my ears in arts and crafts, so maybe I'll have a scrapbook day and I'll get them done all in one day! Yeah right, I'd probably be cleaning glue off of the ceiling if I tried that! :rotfl:

Loved your wedding dress and video clips, too!

One of the best things I've heard is to scrapbook the pictures you love:love: Don't worry about getting "caught up". If a picture speaks to you, then scrap it. I used to do everything in order, but I feel so much better now. If I want to scrap my Disney trip, I just do it. I'm glad you liked the video clip. I had to figure out how to get my home movie onto the computer and then edit. It was the first one I've ever done. :banana: Horay for me:)

I hate that feeling of time is running away. I tend to put things off so I will have alot to do to keep me busy the week before I go, but then I never leave myself enough time. It was nice of you to help your friend out by giving her some time alone, especially when you don't have much time to spare. But I say Disney Lovers are good people and you just backed that up.
One month to go. That is so awesome! I am still super stoked about your MVMCP scrapbook pages, I am sure they will be great regardless of the quantity of pics on them.
This will be my first time doing MVMCP, I love disney, I love Christmas, nuff said. :)

I promise I will get them up soon. I couldn't find my camera to take the pics of the pages and then when I finally found it, I didn't have time. We had 3 girls sleep over last night and are having a skating party today with 15 kids. Yikes! I think I even agreed to this. I'm going to get some of the pictures up today and will try and post the few scrapbook pages I've done this evening.

I know what you mean! We're heading down the same day and the trip has seemed so far away. Now, it's just around the corner. And like you, our weekends are filling up fast. I've started setting stuff aside that needs to be packed. I also printed an Ultimate Packing List and looking it over. I've bought my DD a few things for the trip but NOTHING for my DS12. I guess a 12 yo boy doesn't need much to head to WDW.

I am very anxious to see your tees! I bought the same ones for all of us.

O man, I didn't get my countdown calendar done in time for the 30-day mark. 29 days for us now!!!:woohoo: I may need to hit Michaels again and get some stickers for it. I think all a 12 year old would need is a new video game. At least if he is anything like my son who is already a maniac for the games. So much so that I've had to impose a strict time when he is allowed. I've been kinda packing as I go. I've got numerous XL zippies, one for each day and as I collect things for that day, I'm tossing 'em in. Tees should be up soon. I wanted to finish my trip down memory lane.

Great pre-trip report. Love the clothes.. I am going the week after you so I know what you mean about sneaking up on you.

Looking forward to more

:wave: Hey! Welcome to my trip report. I'm glad you are enjoying it. I'm so excited to be going in Ocober!

That is very sad about your friends husband who passed away. I totally understand how you feel about the trips (and my wedding) for so long felt so far a way and then all of a sudden it is just about 1 month away!!! I hope all the birthdays go and the sewing as well!!!

I appreciate the sympathy. It was so sudden. He was diagnosed the week before he passed with a brain tumor. I can't imagine losing my hubby. It really makes you hold your loved ones a little tighter.

Birthday party #2 is up next. I took the girls swimming last night so that took up a chunk of time. They kept talking about Zach Effron (High School Musical). I asked my DD if she liked him and she said, "yeah, but not kissy kissy". :lmao: We're talking 10 year old.

I hope all is going well with your planning as well. I have been so behind in my reading as well as my writing. I miss the boards and hopefully will be able to catch up soon. Before I/we leave, anyway.:laughing:
 
Married with Kids, MVMCP Dec 11 2004 with kids in tow

This trip began with one of those postcards that Disney sends out: $60 for All-Star sports or music. When I called the CM said that I actually have a cheaper code under my name for $50/night. Oh, yeah, baby. I pounced on the opportunity :hyper: Since DS was still only 1 we just needed the one room. Ah, the cheaper days. Then I call my friend and tell her we are going to go down just for MVMCP and how cool it is and there is snow on main street and everything.:hyper2: She is totally on board. I make another reservation and order the tickets. Our plans were to drive down, go to the party that evening. Wake up and do Breakfast at ohana (big mistake-time wise). Then they were heading over to Melbourne to see her parents. We were going to stay another night to relax before our drive home.

Highlights of this trip include:

  • First trip to MVMCP
  • First trip with my friend's family (BFF, BFF's hubby and 2 girls)
  • First stay at AS-SP
  • Character meal at Ohana
  • Getting Xmas stockings personalized at DTD
  • Tracey vows that she is done having kids after seeing me with mine:confused3 She said, "Ya'll did so great with everything. We would not have done as well." IDK I thought it was a very smooth trip:rolleyes1

Our families arrived at AS-Sp withing 1/2 hour of each other. Right about check-in time, 4:00. The resort was cute. We were in the football section. Overall, we found the AS-Mu to quieter. There were obviously some type of school groups around. They were very loud, especially at the pool. But we weren't planning to spend much time here.

This is the opening scrapbook page of this trip. I love this picture of the girls at DTD:goodvibes Oh, and I know I am missing some letters. Gotta head back to Hobby Lobby to fill in those "s"s and "r"s.

A close-up of the cuties

Here is the All-Star Sports page

The map of the evening plus tickets and an armband.


We grab some quick snacks and get ready. This was all before I knew about the DIS and that you can actually go into the parks at this time! So, we went at 7. As soon as we arrive at the park, I think "I don't have the tickets". Somehow I just knew it, and, sure enough I didn't. DH takes the bus back and hunts around while we wait. I send my friend on in with her girls. They head straight for Dumbo. Even though I didn't know about the DIS, I knew enough to have a plan. Neither of us was as interested in the shows as the rides. The park was not crowed at all. I don't think it is an exaggeration to say the girls road goofy barnstormer 20 times. The were allowed to stay on multiple times. No line. Minimal waits at the fantasyland rides, like 5 minutes or so.

Here are the girls meeting the characters. Nobody was around at all.




Here's a few of the rides


This is the picture we took at the end of the night. No kidding. It was near midnight. Notice the difference. My family looks tuckered out, hers adorable.


And the parting shot. We didn't see the parade and sorta saw the fireworks, but mainly the girls got to ride everything to their hearts content. Not bad.


I remember when I made reservations at Ohana, we had thought it would be great for the kiddos and a way to finish out the events of the night before. I recall our ADR was around 9:30 or 9:45. Tracey's hubby was like, or we eat way earlier than that. But we told him no way were we going to be getting up any earlier after partying all night. As it is we should have made a lunch ressie. We really had to drag ourselves to the feast.



Big hug for Mickey


The baby enjoyed the pineapple bread. Truely, the breakfast was the favorite thing for him.:laughing:


Afterwards, we drove around on the monorail, then we headed to DTD. Tracey had wanted to get one of the silhouettes that they used to do at the MK. We were fortunate enough to find them at DTD. The artist doesn't draw them or anything, just looks at the child and cuts the profile out of black paper. Really amazing.

I went into the Days of Christmas Store. It was super packed. I'm thinking that DTD on Saturday pulls a lot of locals. It was very hard to move in here. My kids each picked out a stocking and we had their names sewn on them. They did this in the back of the store. Here my oldest DD with hers that Christmas Eve.


After touring DTD we said goodbye to our dear friends. Her hubby said we need to do this every other year. Cool, that's a plan. Unfortunately, it just didn't worked out that we were able to return in '06. Overall, we would return to do it again. The kids had a blast and the crowds were light on our night. I was a little disappointed in the "snow on mainstreet". I thought it would look a little more realistic, but it was pretty obviously bubbles.
 
I appreciate the sympathy. It was so sudden. He was diagnosed the week before he passed with a brain tumor. I can't imagine losing my hubby. It really makes you hold your loved ones a little tighter.

Birthday party #2 is up next. I took the girls swimming last night so that took up a chunk of time. They kept talking about Zach Effron (High School Musical). I asked my DD if she liked him and she said, "yeah, but not kissy kissy". :lmao: We're talking 10 year old.

I hope all is going well with your planning as well. I have been so behind in my reading as well as my writing. I miss the boards and hopefully will be able to catch up soon. Before I/we leave, anyway.:laughing:

Oh that is even more sad about your friend...It really does make you thank fun and always make sure you let the ones your love know that you love them.

Ahhh to be 10 again! I remember having posters on my walls of all the "hot" celebs. :laughing:

The plans are going great...I hope you do get to get all updated before the trips! Can you believe they are almost here? How exciting you are in your 20's for the countdown.

The scrapbooking pages are great long with the pictures from MVMCP! I would love to go down there for the holiday season one year.
 
Early December is our absolute favorite time to tour. It is usually still warm enough to swim but no crowds and the decorations are beautiful. We loved it so much that we went back in Dec 05. It is tough, though, because we have to take the kids out of school. I really don't mind so much as long as they are doing well, but the school seems to frown on such a thing.:confused3 Sheesh.
 
The change of plans

My mom calls me on Sunday. She saw the travel channel thing on WDW. She's all excited telling me about a ride that make you seem as though you are gliding and you fly over California.

Me:"Yeah, Mom, that's Soarin".
Mom:"I want to ride that one"
Me:"Mom, that's at Epcot. We weren't going to go to Epcot this visit. You were like, 'what's there to do at Epcot?'"
Mom, disappointingly, "Oh, it looks like fun"
Me: "Let me see what I can do"

Now, I told her all this back in May when I was making ADRs but she wasn't into it then. Lately, she's been calling every day with planning advice.

So, I check Tourguide Mike and conclude that we could tour Epcot on Columbus Day and then tour MGM on the day we are driving home. (I hope I'm not giving anything away there.) After all, the kids are mainly interested in seeing High School Musical Pep Rally, the Cars and Power Ranger characters, plus riding Star Tours. Seeing the Incredibles is also high on the list. I think we could get this done that day without having to arrive early. I will not be rushing into the parks since we will be up late the night before at MNSSHP. Then hubby and I confur:idea:

We decide I should try to get another day at a value resort. I call with my pin code and secure the family suite. Total 249. I hang up. Then start thinking, "$249, that doesn't seem like a reduced rate." I check disney.com and find out that it is their regular rate. I call back the next morning and, long story short, I was booked a room with my pin code but the room isn't reduced because they don't reduce that room even though I was told it was reduced. Clear as mud, eh? So I just cancel the whole thing. I give it the big whatever. We can tour MGM and then drive home. We will be tired but it is only about 6 hours. We can do it. Of course, this messes up my ADRS!

another change


Then Mom calls again, "I've been talking with Aunt Anette".
"Yeah"
"She says that the Sci Fi is a lot of fun and you can sit in little cars"
"Yeah"
"I am thinking I don't want to do the 50s Prime Time because it is not what I thought"
"Ok, I'll make some more calls, and quit talking with Aunt Anette."

So after a couple more calls, I get the following general Itenerary Is this my third or fourth general itenerary?:rolleyes:

Sun-Drive down-tour MK Tomorrowland and Toontown, view Spectromagic
Mon-Epcot-Garden Grill at 11:20
Tues-Magic Kingdom-Cindys for Dinner 4:20 View fireworks?
Wed-Animal Kingdom-Breakfastosaurus 8am:scared1: early
Thurs-BBB at Magic Kingdom at 2:20, Crystal Palace 4pm, MNSSHP
Fri-MGM Sci-Fi at 1:25

Yet another development

I call my sister that night as I emailed her the itenerary for MK on Oct 9. She hmmms, and haws and then lets me know that they are probably not coming. :sad2: Her hubby is working major overtime. Frankly, I don't see how this matters, he doesn't like Disney, anyway. If you read my post #5 on page one, you will find out why I am unsurprised by this news.:rolleyes1

In other news

The sleepover/skating party went great. My girls are in the center back with glasses and the center front with the blue sweater.


DS even got into the skating. He "wubbed" it. He would grab any number of the above girls and they would skate him around the rink.


Later that evening I began work on the very needed countdown calendar. Here I am surounded by my "old skool" scrapbooking stickers. Good to know you can use them for projects.


Dear Becky is my little planner's helper. She is loving marking off the days.


The finished project. Tada!
 
I love how you did the colors of the mickey heads on your countdown calendar!
 
Your last post describes yet another reason why I won't take anyone else with me to disneyworld!! I would be throttling your mom right now if I was you. There isn't enough prozac in the world to keep my ocd'ness from going all crazy on her! You are a saint!:rotfl:

I love the countdown calader!
 
The countdown calendar came out great!!!!! I am sorry your plans keep changing also but I guess that can be some of the fun. The trips are coming so fast and I will have to keep an :magnify out for you at MNSSHP!

Glad to see the parties all went well and that your DS enjoyed skating with the girls.
 








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