Disney Day 2 - Hollywood and Epcot

We woke up early on day to took the shuttle from the airport to our Hotel - checked our bags at the hotel and climbed on another bus to take us to Hollywood Studios.

We were all SOOOO excited.  The smiles the agreeable kids, the excitement in the air was pretty darn amazing!  

Standing in line to ride Slinky Dog - our first ride

The toy story drummers were pretty cool.  I took a few videos but they are not posting right now - not sure any Disney videos will post.

Big two wanted to ride Slinky Dog again and little two didn't so we rode a different ride - took our picture with Jessie (above) and got Mickey ice cream bars.

The new Star Wars section was open at Hollywood.

 At 12:30 we headed to Epcot for Lunch and the second half of they day.

Right when we got there we saw Minnie Mouse

The picture you have to get right?

Right at the end of the night the other three and Daddy got in line for a ride right as they closed the gates -so Taylin and I hung out waiting for them to be done.

So much fun - By the time we got to the hotel I was not sure I had it in me for Day 3, but no choice so we went to bed so we could wake up early and get to the park.

Disney Trip 2019

We took the kids to Disney in October.

We were planning the trip for a year and only told the kids a month out. 

Mark was so thrilled and excited and anxious and happy and ... and ...

it was so fun to plan it all with him to see his joy and excitement.

I never went to Disney as a kid so I couldn't relate to the emotion he was remembering when he went as a kid.  

This post is Day 1

The kids traveled so well.  We left Wichita early with a layover in Dallas.

When we got to Florida we went straight to car rental with our bags and drove to church. Then we went out to eat and back to the airport where we stayed at the hotel at the airport so we could catch the shuttle to Disney early the next morning.

oops

So in my trying to catch up and quickly doing posts I hadn't realized until Rylands birthday posts that I didn't have the kids yearly pictures in with their birthday posts.  

Well.....  I couldn't find them and was freaking out then I magically this a.m. found them on my desktop.

As you all know this time in our lives has been so weird.  Trying to stay positive, but productive at the same time.  Sense we keep having yucky weather, I'm trying to get projects that have been on my list for FOREVER caught up on. 

This blog being one.  I spent about 2 hours today sorting and ordering October of 19 pictures.  I'm about ready to start posting October.  Yesterday I got all pictures off my still camera and video camera and am putting off trying to get the pictures off my phone.  about 6 months ago my laptop wouldn't allow me to get pictures off my camera anymore by plugging in the cord so I had to e-mail them to myself either 6 pictures or 1 video at a time and then download the image or file from the e-mail and save it in my folders.  it took FOREVER.... 

so I got a new laptop, surprise from Mark, for Christmas and I refuse to just put all these pictures on the new laptop so I am going through everything on here as quickly as possible so I can move only what needs to be moved to the new laptop.  

Well... November pictures are still all on my phone so after I post October I have to just try and get them off my phone onto new laptop.  I'm worried about the number of videos because, I have a lot on my phone.  The only way I have found to be quiet and not yell and embarrass, mostly Jaren - the other two don't seem to mind as much, is to take video that Mark and I use as a coaching tool later.  So I have a lot.  Anyway I was supposed to do that today but can easily talk myself out of that one till I absolutely have to because I am afraid it won't work and I'll have to email them one at a time again which on our country satellite internet takes FOREVER

So the other thing I worked on today is cutting out jeans.  I have been saving jeans sense, I don't know, college to make a jean quilt for each of my kids.  My Mima Millie made all of us grandkids one and I love mine.  In fact it was my comforter my freshman year in college.  I have had 6 tubs of jeans sitting in our basement sense we moved in then when we finished the basement they have been the only, last thing left to put away.  I have been refusing to put them away till I cut them down.  So, I got started on that today.  For way to many hours I cut waist bands and side seams and zippers and pockets out of jeans.  It felt really good, emotionally to get that 1/2 of my tubs of jeans cut.  I say emotionally because my back is killing me.  But, the hope is with no practices this week or anything else, I can get the other two tubs all cut out this week.  The weather is supposed to get nice, almost hot nice, this week though so may be outside instead of inside doing that.

So about these pictures - here are the new yearly pictures of  our BEAUTIFUL kids this year that I forgot to post with their birthday posts.

Landrie is 8

Jaren is 10 - this is his long hair phase - he would have liked it longer - I do not care for it and am grateful that right now it is shorter.

Taylin Tess is 3

Ryland is 6 - Amy offered to Photoshop out his forehead scrape - I said not that's fine that is who he is :)

Sept 19

So Beginning of Sept is when we suprised the kids and told them we were taking them to Disney at the end of the month. 

We told the kids they had to put laundry away and had the first 'WHAT' box hidden in Jaren's laundry.

Once they all got up here and he asked what it was he opened it first and it had a card that said we are going on a trip.

So then we game Landrie her box that said 'WHEN' and we had a stapler and paper slips in there and we made a chain to see how many sleeps till we left.

Then we gave Taylin her box "HOW" and it had a toy airplane in it

Then we gave Ryland his box - he got the last box as he had been asking for a while to go to Florida and go to Disney. 

His box had a wooden cutout of Florida in it with a sticker that Holly cut out for us of Cinderellas castle and Mickey ears cut out of that.

 It was pretty awesome.

 This girl loves Peanut butter like her Papa

 Ryland had gotten a couple of bloody noses on the trampoline and was sick of having to come inside so he asked me how we could just keep the kleenex there and he could still play

 Grandparents breakfast at school

 Taylin looking tough in her Junk headband

 I had gotten to sick of doing nothing so I went to Old Lady Volleyball and was doing so good following all the rules - no running - no jumping.

Then in the back row a ball came low to my right and I went for it and POP went the toe

I knew it immediately and was done

 JJ fishing with Caleb

 This is the plaque I had made to go by the wheelchair swing that was purchased in honor of Cale and Leah.  Leah passed 2 years ago March 30th and Cales official 2 year anniversary is in a few days.

Sadly the swing is still not up.  It has been sitting in a box at the school for over a year now.