Disney Pictures! Rock On!!!

Here are a few of the many....enjoy! I will up load more later!

Can you see Brian and E....oh wait Brian is covering her so she wont get wet! Too funny

The Magical World Part 4 of 4....FINALLY!

Well here are the last pieces of Disney....I know you may be wondering why no pics? Well here is the deal as stated earlier Abby's computer is very S L O W. This slowness makes my posting very long and drawn out. Then we tried to download and upload to my computer, however NO LUCK! Maybe one day you will see the pictures but at least you get the final details for now.

Part 4:

Monday: Animal Kingdom here we come. This is the day we devoted to Animal Kingdom and the animals it holds. This of course would turn out to be E's biggest day ride wise....we will get there in a minute. Per all our books (my sister read many for the helpful hints) we rushed right in and did the safari ride. The ride was wonderful and turned out to be B's favorite thing. He loved looking out at the animals. We saw many the best was of an elephant mom and her baby. This ride was so wonderful we did it 2 times (first thing and last). Now that we got that taken care of we caught a show about all the many birds. They flew around and beside us, again catching B's attention. Off to the rides we headed....well the newest ride Expedition Everest was a wait. So we fast passed it, and then took a closer look. The view was a bit scary. You look at a huge mountain (Everest) and then all you see is a train come flying down and around. Many people large and small are heading in. E and Brian both really wanted to ride it. Auntie and mommy....not so much. So Abby and I took one for the team and did the first run! Off to the big scary ride we go...and well we walked off telling Brian that we didn't think E should really ride it. He of course didn't believe us so off he and Abby went to ride. After the ride he really felt as though she would be okay to do it. So we fast passed it again, however our wait was about and hour. Off to lunch we went.

After lunch E and Brian headed up the mountain to ride the BIG ride. As Abby and I watched we both were so nervous. All you see is people flying down and screaming...then to think we let that sweet little E go one this. So we waited, and saw her and Brian fly bye. Then we ran inside to see their picture...of course Brian was holding on to E so good all you saw was his arm covering her. Then they walked off the ride, Little Bear's face was happy yet nervous. She said she had a wonderful time but doesn't think she will do it again! We were so proud of her for trying, and still to this day says it was her favorite. The rest of the day we enjoyed Animal Kingdom and caught the parade to end our day. I mean really what would a day be with out a parade!


Tuesday: OUR FINAL DAY!!!

Well we wanted to check out Magic Kingdom for the last time on our LAST day. We woke up made sure all things were packed and headed out. For our last day we let E pick all the things we were to do. Of course she wanted to ride the "Barn Yard" ride...the Toon Town roller coaster. Then we head off to the Thunder Mountain, her very favorite. Abby, Brian, and E all road this together while Little B and I hung back. We took full advantage of the Ride Switch (where if you are with a younger child you ask for a ride switch pass...then when your riders finish you can walk right up to ride) They rode as normal but after it were given FAST PASS for the day. Sure yeah great, but not on the day we are only there till Noon!!! We took full advantage of all the fast passes we could with the little time we had. After riding all that we could we headed back to Main St. We did some last minute shopping and snack buying. Saddened to leave we had to jump back on the boat to head home. We were all very sad to leave the Magical land and head back to the real world.


The trip was AMAZING, truly! I wouldn't have changed a thing or missed it for a moment. I really think the trip wouldn't have been as wonderful if my sister had not planned it out. She had it down to the meal and it ran so smoothly. Honestly if you are heading to Disney anytime soon, call her up for tips!

The Magical World Part 3 1/2 of 4

WOW! Part 3 1/2 of 4! Well it is going to be tough to get the last 3 days in one blog so here is 3 1/2!!


Part 3 1/2:


Sunday was another EARLY DAY! Little Bear had to be up and ready to go for her big date at the Bippity Boppity Boutique. She picked her pink princess dress, which was good because it was the coldest day. This dress has longer sleeves on it, so a little warmer! Well off we went to get her hair done by the Fairy Godmother. E was very serious the entire time. She sat in the pretty chair and did as was asked. Abby, Brian, B, and I all watched in wonder. We had no idea her hair could do these things. (You know we are very careful with her hair, but the Fairy Godmother she did as she wanted. She obviously didn't realize E's hair falls out easily due to her alopecia) Her hair was pulled back in to a pony tail....and then braided! Yes braided, it was a rather long braid too. Then the fun came, when they added the fake hair. This is the hair that really got style up and such. So in the end E walked away with a wonderful UP DO, make-up, and her nails done. Oh and did I mention FAIRY DUST....tons of Fairy Dust everywhere (aka glitter). So much fairy dust that everyone was covered by the end of the day!

Now that she was all dolled up we thought we would try and "wake" Tinkerbell. However, there was this really hateful lady beside us who drug her daughter in front of E. So E didn't get to "wake" Tinkerbell. We watched as this other girl did it, and the grandmother felt very awful that E didn't get to do it because it was her birthday.


Next we headed to Hollywood Studios (aka MGM). We road a few of the rides and saw a couple of shows. E loved the High School Musical 3 Parade. She danced and watched as they performed. Then we did lunch at Pizza Planet, you know from Toy Story. It was great! From there we had to head back because it was dinner with Mickey...


Dinner was at Chief Mickey...Man oh man did we have a great time there. E got to see all the gang; Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto. She loved every second of it, plus they had great desserts there. Everything that could be made into Mickey ears were...aka pasta noodles, cookies and more. After dinner we had tickets to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party. This was loads of fun. It was at the Magic Kingdom and Santa was there. We took our normal family picture with Santa and headed in for Hot Coco. The Christmas party was wonderful and on one of our cooler nights (making it feel more Christmas like). Main street has snow falling (okay bubble snow, but snow), there were carolers singing, and a parade to top it off. E and B both loved the parade. It was another "magical" night at Disney.

The Magical World Update

Okay so I have almost finished the Magical World Updates...but I realized I NEED PICTURES!! Well I don't mean to harp on this, but Disney requires pictures. As I typed the last part of my magical post, I kept putting picture to come. Then I thought to myself this is crazy! So I have the post almost ready (minus pictures), and my sister will be here on Saturday. (My wonderful sister is going to bring me all the pics on cd since there are so many. I think it would take forever to email over 1200 pictures!) Therefore, the final Disney post will be up and running sometime after Saturday. Sorry for the delay but I think you will find it is worth the wait. Check back soon!!!

The Magical World Part 3 of 4

Okay....sorry friends I really have no pics for the next two post! My dear sister has them all. (she is a bit too busy to email them now...with E's Birthday party and such.)

Part 3:
Saturday was nice, very nice for the kiddos and I. You see since we were up so late on Miss E's birthday, we got to sleep in. It was wonderful. Abby and Brian headed off to the Magic Kingdom with out us and we slept till everyone woke up on their own. For most children that would be a normal hour like 8, but for E....she is a sleeper!! We got up at about 10. In the mean time Abby and Brian got to ride some rides and check out the parade. Honestly I can't tell you what all went on at the parade (this is the parade they play on Christmas day...so tons of stuff going on), since I was not there. However Abby did call and say we needed to get there because one of E's favorite singers was coming on.

So off the kiddos and I rushed...keep in mind this task a little hard! Since both kids have a stroller and B takes a lot to pack (snacks, snack, and snacks) E is such a great kiddos, she pushed her own stroller down the ramp to the boat while I pushed B. When we got to the boat ramp E and I just prayed and prayed it was the BIG boat. This boat you can just roll strollers on, the little one makes you break them down. (Boat travel much easier than bus, on bus you always have to always break down strollers) Ahead in the distance...E yells it's the big boat. We both were relieved to say the least. Once we got there Abby and Brian met us at the gate. We head right in through the MADNESS!! It was crazy there, then to the middle in front of the castle. Here we began the wait for a special singer (Hannah Montana)

This is the "FIGHT" part I was telling you about...get ready! Abby and Brian had the perfect spot picked out. We were all (many people) standing there waiting on the show to begin. There was this lady and man sitting in front of us. They come every year for the parade taping since they live close by. We made small talk and such, her husband went to get drinks. So as any normal person would she placed her jacket in his spot, not to lose it. Then this larger lady walks up and begins pushing her way to the bench area. She promptly pushes the jacket over and sits her butt down. The older lady states: this place is saved for my husband. Larger lady: I don't see him. Older lady: he went to get us drinks, these are our seats Larger lady: I still don't see him. Okay then the larger lady tells one of her larger kids to come sit too. So she now pushes the coat over more and squeezes her child in there. Older lady very mad now: This spot is saved. Larger Lady: we are just sitting for a minute Older lady: you need to move on over my husband will be back soon. We have been here since 9 am in this spot. You just squeezed your fat butt in. Larger lady: Are you calling me fat...well you need to just move over lady. Older lady: If you weren't a fat sloppy person then we wouldn't be having a problem. Larger lady: get security here now... (at this point Abby sends B with Brian in case some crazy cat fight breaks out) Okay so the rude remarks over the ladies fat sloppy butt kept on coming but then the security got there. The larger lady begins with I have a bad heart and needed to sit down and this lady starts calling me names. I don't deserve to be called names and treated this way. Then the security man states well her husband was siting there and needs some room. So at this point the husband is back and sits down...the larger lady scoots over a bit as the security man is still standing there. It was great, not very "magical" but all this for a teen singer! Really older people fight over seeing Hannah too! Crazy!

Well after that we moved over to another area, listen to Hannah sing a small bit. E loved it! Then off to the rides. We rode many rides as loads of people were watching Hannah perform. Next we headed back to Epcot for more rides and dinner. Brian wanted to catch a small bit of the Christmas Story. We had dinner at the aquarium restaurant (I don't know the real name). It was wonderful...we ate with all these fish swimming by. B really liked this meal, he loved to look at the fish. Also, they had his favorite food BREAD ROLLS!! I wish I could post a picture..really all he wanted at every meal was bread! The meal was nice they gave you a fish paper and you were to circle the fish as you saw it swim by. It was a fun and a great time waster too. Oh and I am simply going to state....SHARK WAS NOT ON THE PAPER! That night as all our nights in Epcot; our goal was to run from the fireworks. B hates them and long lines at the bus once it is over. RUNNNN RUNNNN RUNNNN is what we did for the bus...actually if we didn't run for the bus it wasn't a normal day in Disney! (however Brian states that our "walk" is a run in its own right. So running was actually RUNNING!!)

The Magical World Part 2 of 4

Part 2:

FRIDAY--E's actual Birthday! Man this was the big day she had been waiting on. We knew it is going to be a great day when Little Bear woke right up (even after a very late bed time and a very early rise 7:00 am) She picked out the Princess dress she wanted to wear for her birthday breakfast. This breakfast was no ordinary one, it was at the CASTLE!!! Yes, Cinderella's Castle. Now you see, Emery really loves Belle so she was a little sad that it was Cinderella's Castle and not Belle's. The logical 5 year old reason that she does not like Cinderella as well is, well because she wears her hair in a bun. E really does not like that at all, but Abby has been telling her that we still will be nice to her. So we gave her the Cindy pep talk that even though she doesn't like her hair she will still take a very nice picture with her and not mention the hair. Well when we walked in to the castle E got very very nervous. She walked up to Cinderella (okay we pushed her a little) and guess what Cinderella had the same shoes (silver ones) as E. That right there was enough to make E want to take a picture with her. After a wonderful picture, we headed up the stairs to breakfast.

Breakfast was amazing. I really am shocked at how wonderful it went and how much E loved it. E got a magic wand and a wishing star and sweet little B got a sward. (Of course we took it away quickly) E just kept looking around taking it all in, she was in princess heaven! Our placement in the room was perfect for pictures with the Princesses. They walk right to our table and posed, then began working the room. Of course E thinks they were only waving at her because it was her birthday. E couldn't sit still she just kept watching to see who would come to her table first. The princesses that joined us were Belle, Jasmine, Sleeping Beauty (aka Aurora/Briar Rose), and Snow White. Each one came and spoke with E, signed the autograph book, and took a picture. They all commented on her birthday and how she is now a whole hand. She loved every minute of it, really it was priceless.

After our breakfast we spent the day riding the rides at Magic Kingdom. She loved the roller coasters the most. In the afternoon B and I headed back to the room to take a nap. This gave Abby and Brian some good one on one with the Birthday Girl. I think she got to ride a lot more rides and didn't have to worry about us slowing her down. Then in the evening we had DINNER with the Princesses in Norway (Epcot). Of course for dinner you have to wear a different princess dress. So the family met B and I at the room, did a quick wardrobe change, and off we went.

(please note the dress change here!)

Dinner was also with the princesses, however, we were not sure which ones would be there. Also to our surprise you got a free picture with one of them. GUESS WHO IT WAS????? (insert drum roll here) BELLE!!! E's favorite princess every. Yes she got to go one on one and have a very nice professional photo done with Belle. It was "magical" to say the least. Then through out the meal other princesses stopped by the table to see E. The princesses at this meal were Alice (in wonderland), Mulan, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella. It was so sweet to see them talk with E about everything. Mulan even planted a BIG KISS on B's cheek. He had her lipstick on him the rest of the night (note the picture you can kind of see the kiss mark). After an amazing meal, we headed out to the rides.

You see with your stay you get "magical hours"....where a park will open early or stays open late. This was our night at to have "magic hours" at Epcot, so we were ready to party. We spent them watching the fireworks (B hated it see his scared face in the picture) and checking out other rides. Also E got to meet up close Mickey, Donald (who tickles her), Minnie (her favorite), Pluto, and Goofy. It was tons of fun but we were up WAY TO LATE. We got back to the room with to knocked out children, making bed time very easy.

The Magical World Part 1 of 4

Disney World here I come....

Okay so here is the good news...I am slowly working on the Disney Blogs. Here is the bad news, all the pictures are on my sisters nice camera. I took a few, but she has such a great camera we used it for all the pictures. That is just a side note. As she gets them emailed to me I will post a blog of just the best pictures. However, I do realize all blogs are better with pictures. Okay so here is part one of four. (I know you are thinking 4, wow. But a 6 day trip has tons of blogging opportunities)

PART ONE:

Let me begin this blog with a huge GREAT JOB ABBY...the reason I say this is because my sister the TYPE A person she is did a wonderful job planning this trip. The trip was amazing from the second we landed until we left. It really was very well planned. As you can see below the airplane ride was fun; then the Magical Express was just as amazing (and we didn't have to lug around the 8 bags my sister checked...yes 8 for a 6 day trip. Thank goodness for the magical express which takes your bags straight to your resort). Finally we made it to our resort at about 4ish. It was wonderful, because the idea was to head to the Magic Kingdom to make the AHHHH factor not interrupt Friday's events (E's actual birthday). You should have seen E's face when we walked into the Magic Kingdom. Her face lite up so brightly and she had the largest smile I have ever seen. You know you can explain to a 5 year old what it will be like...but really they don't understand until they SEE it with their eyes. It was pure happiness and joy that she was beaming. This is the point where I realized this trip was going to be the most wonderful memories ever. Memories you can never make or see again.

After the shock of walking into this magical place, we rode on a couple of rides. Then we headed back to the resort. When we got "home" our bags were in our room ready to go. The magical express really is wonderful. We all caught our breath and then headed to dinner. Dinner...we ate at our Lodge. It was a very fun, loud, and crazy. As many of you know E is a more of a watcher in new situations. She really would rather watch than do. Well at dinner this watching is no option. If you needed something you had to stand on the chair and yell, yes yell for what it was you needed. When someone yelled for it and you had it; you had to run the item to their table. So if you needed ketchup....well you ended up with about 20 bottles instead of just one. It was tons of fun and a nice ice breaker for E to learn the crazy Disney ways. After a long day of travel, a surprising view of Disney World, and a crazy dinner we headed to our room for some rest. Friday was to be a very busy and big day. It is E's 5th Birthday and we have breakfast in the castle.

Below are a few pics from inside our resort. I couldn't help but take the one of E next to the bears...since I call her Little Bear.