a little Disney

As much as I am disliking early church, I am enjoying that I have the rest of my day to rest, or hang out with the family, or um... work on some personal pictures:) I was sifting through nearly 1,000 images from our recent trip to Disney World and TJ asked if I would blog them... hello? Doesn't he know I haven't blogged in like years? or months? Or some ridiculous amount of time? I suppose I should though. Well, actually I'm not sure why, who even reads stuff here? It's all on facebook now.... so this is just a duplication, maybe I'll put a little extra commentary in over here;)

So, here's a quick-ish blog post using just the pictures that I randomly selected and posted to facebook. It'll do for now, if I ever make it through the other 982 photos, I'll post more here:)

Our trip: We wore matching shirts. Every. Day. it's true. Or well, mostly true. We travelled down on the same airplane, wearing the same shirts. it was cute. It attracted a lot of attention. There were 24 of us. 14 of them being children. 4 of those children being cute. or under the age of 3, that makes the automatically cute, right? Anyway, Every park we went to Grandpa requested that we all took a group photo, in our matching shirts, to start the day off right. I'm glad he did. We may have all thought he was kooky at the time, but now we have all of those photos and I don't regret a moment of it. 

This first photo is all of us piled on to some car we commandeered at Magic Kingdom. Did I mention people thought our shirts were cute? it helped us get away with a lot of stuff. The cast members were thoroughly entertained by us!

Melt my heart, this boy loved meeting the characters! I think I have 100 photos of him hugging on Characters' legs, etc! So adorable! This particular morning we actually ate breakfast with Chef Mickey {along with Chef Minnie, Chef Goofy, Chef Donald and Chef Pluto} it was super great. The breakfast was good, I loved the miniature Mickey shaped waffles. Why oh WHY did I not get a picture of them? loved them. And then we got to meet and greet each and every character at our table, it was a lot of fun.

Gah! This little boys' dreams have come true! Not only did we JUST ride the Buzz Lightyear ride, were we get to shoot laser guns at Zerg and rack up thousands, hundreds, tens of points! When we came out Buzz was right here, ready for us to greet him! Austin gave him the biggest hard plastic hug ever! and when he was all done greeting him, offered up a cool three-year-old high-five! it was priceless!

Dinner experience #325: Lunch with the characters from Disney JR. there were only 2 things that made me sad at this days' luncheon, one that Jo-Jo {from Jo-Jo's Circus} wasn't there. and two that my children have grown up so much and don't watch Disney JR. anymore, but have traded up for Disney tween shows :,( But it was a fabulous blast from the past, singing the Rocket song with June and the Handy Manny tune, also the song from Special Agent OSO (cuz he's oh so special... ;)

We scheduled some slightly wacky meal times, but this one absolutely paid off! We had lunch at nearly 2pm, but we were like the ONLY ones there, and did I mention how cute they thought it was that we all had matching shirts? Oh, yea, I may have;) so the Characters just stood around my kids, and when music would come on we would all start dancing. I'm honestly not even sure we ate much there, because we were WAAAAAY too busy dancing with the Characters!!

I have like a 1,000 more pictures of the Finding Nemo performance. It was so spectacular!! Every scene I thought was the best and so I just kept on taking pictures of them, it was sooooo great! I am always impressed with how magical Disney makes all of their stuff.

In closing, a shot of the castle. We did lots of days of disney, and I have plenty more photos to share about all the other fabulous things we got to see and do, so I'll probably have to spend a bit more time and organize them in to some sections so I can really tell the whole story. For now, a little taste of what I *hope* I'll be able to follow up on, and actually complete, for my dear husbands sake;)