Power Disney

We powered through Disney World in one day. Yes, I was quite nervous about how 2 children would handle an all day event, but, to much surprise, they did wonderful! We are lucky to have Uncle Stacey that works for Disney so he got us a great deal on the Animal Kingdom Lodge and had free passes for us for 1 day. So we decided to do it all. We left the hotel at 8:30am and headed to Animal Kingdom, spent a few hours there and went to Magic Kingdom to finish up the day. We rolled back to our hotel at 8:30pm with 2 tired and hungry children but tolerable. It had been a few years since we had been to the parks and the kids are at a fun age to enjoy it. We can’t wait to do it again!

Highlights of the day plus some things we learned along the way:

1. Always start the trip with the Magic Kingdom. We went to Animal Kingdom first because it closed earlier than Magic Kingdom and the kids could hardly enjoy it because they couldn’t wait to see the castle.

2. January was a fantastic time to go…great weather and short lines! Con: there was a huge crane taking down Christmas lights off the castle so all the pictures has it in them. 

3. Never buy the huge balloons. They look cute but were about to be the end of me. By the time we got back to the hotel, I had had Mickey ears and Ariel in my face for about 8 hours was seriously about to lose it.

4. Watching giraffes eat their breakfast from our balcony was amazing!

 

5. The cool app WDW Wait Times is a necessity. It tells all the current wait times of the rides!

6. Tate was just tall enough to ride the “big” rides including Space Mountain. He loved it!

7. According to Maren, Minnie is so scary she couldn’t even enjoy going through Minnie’s house in fear of running into her.

8. The teapots and Dumbo are classics 9. It’s nice to have grandparents that live an hour away from Orlando and uncles that work there!

10. Buying beautiful princess dresses at Disney always a bonus. Princess Tiana/Maren enjoyed wearing her dress around the fantasyland even though it was over her jacket and jeans. 11. The light parade and firework show ended the day as one of our favorites!

Highlights of 2009

One of my New Year’s resolutions is to be better at my blog and here it is, Jan. 8, and I am just getting too it. I’m working on it:) Here are some highlights from a wonderful year. I love going back through the pictures. It seems that the year goes so fast, it’s almost a blur and these pictures help me remember what fun we had! Here’s to another great one!

Our Disney Cruise

Trip to Chicago for our godson, Aiden’s , baptism

San Antonio Rodeo Tate learning to ride his bike

A surprise visit to IN to celebrate Dad’s 60th birthday

Tate’s first teeball season

The bluebonnets

Fiesta

Trip to Port Aransas

Preschool Graduation

Trip to Big Cedar Lodge in Branson, MO

Tate’s dinosaur birthday at the Witte Museum

A visit from Mamaw and Papa

The White Family came to visit

Tate’s first day of Kindergarten

Tate’s football and soccer season (at the same time)

A trip to Houston

A girls trip to Las Vegas

The annual golf trip to Waynesville

Maren’s 3rd birthday

Auntie LaShona’s visit

Trip to the Pumpkin Patch

Buzz and Jessie

Tony, Eva and the gang

Jason and Mike finishing the SA 1/2 Marathon

Our family picture

Christmas 2009

Snow in IN