Fun Stuff #1

Well, here goes for the first of our fun adventures! I'm still so new to this, I almost forgot how to add pictures! Well, let's see.....our favorite trip to start out the new year was to DisneyWorld. Dwayne's mom was diagnosed with colon cancer last March and she went thru surgery, chemo...the whole 9 yards. So while going thru all this depressing stuff, she decided that she was going to plan a trip for her entire family....to have something to look forward to and when all her tests came back cancer free!!!!!!!!....she and everyone else was ready to hit the sunshine state wide open! Oh, did I tell you we left the day after Christmas? (Just a side note, not a very good time to go, we were packed in Magic Kingdom one night like sardines!...and that's not good when you're claustrophobic like me! Yikes!) Anyway they say that dreams come true at DisneyWorld and this trip they really did!

This has always been a dream of mine! Taking Mara to see the Beauty & the Beast show and sitting on the front row. We got there and it was already packed, but we made our way up to the front and there were a row of seats just for us! Yah!!! I was so excited! Mara loved it and so did I. I cried thru most of it. It was truly a magical moment!

Here Drew is a Pirate! We just got off of "Pirates of the Carrabean" ride and Drew got selected to get a prize!

Oh my word!! This was something we had never done before! Eat ice cream on Main Street at 2:30 a.m.!!!!!! The parks stayed open until 3:00a.m. and we were all hungry...so we pigged out on the best chocolate ice cream I have ever had! Quite magical!




Mara had chocolate ice cream all over her face! Hey....even princesses get messy every once in a while!





A profile of a Princess! Our cousin, Angie, did all the girls hair, I did the makeup! We saved about $200.00! They do this same updo and makeup inside the castle at the new Boutique. It's about $50 a child!







Here's almost all the kiddos! We ate breakfast at Chef Mickey's...a favorite of the kids'. You can see their swim suits under their princess dresses...we were hitting the pool soon!

A Family Portrait!

We had a blast! We have already made our reservations for this December(the 1st week) compliments of Dwayne's mom & dad.......our Christmas gift! Wahoo! Can't wait! 5 months & 2 weeks...but who's counting!

Fun!!!!!!!

I am going to start posting some pictures of some fun stuff we have done already this year....soon, when I get enough time to actually sit down and do it! Just a note on this past weekend.....we went camping! Yes, I was soo excited! It was a family campout with the Cubscouts and we had a blast! Can't wait till next time! Yes, I know it may be hard to picture me camping since I am such a girly type, but I also have an athletic, competitive, outdoorsey side too...that most of you have never seen and probably won't, unless you decide to go camping with me! ;) Pictures coming soon!