Christie Cre8s: March 2009

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Some more Disney pics

These are some scenery pics from Disney. Just some different pictures of things I found interesting or really pretty. No people included. ; )

This is on top of the building where the Toy Story Mania ride is. I thought the barrel of monkeys were too cute!

This is a little building in Canada at Epcot. I'm not sure what it is there for but it looked so peaceful and pretty with the flowers.

This is in Morocco at Epcot. It is funny because this is the third time we have been to Epcot but really the first time we have ventured through the countries. In the past we always just walked the perimeter and didn't really go back into each country. There is a lot of fun and interesting things to do in each country.

A pretty shot of the Spaceship Earth at Epcot.

And a giraffe. We saw him during the safari ride at Animal Kingdom. And this is the first time we saw giraffes there. We saw more animals this time than we had in the past visits but the truck driver was fast! I hardly got any clear shots because every time we came up on animals, he seemed to put the pedal to the metal and I ended up with mostly blurry shots. At least I got this shot of the giraffe. And we really were pretty close to them because I just had my 18-55 mm lens on the camera. So no fancy zoom here.

Thanks again for visiting me! I'm still in the process of going through all my pictures from the trip. And I still can't decide if I'm going to do a traditional scrapbook with them or a Shutterfly book. I think I'm leaning towards the Shutterfly just because I think it will go faster. Any opinions out there in blogland? I love how my scrapbook turned out last year, but it took me about 3 months to complete. I'm not sure I want to commit that amount of time this year.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

It's a new post from me!

Really! I'm still here!

So the last week has been crazy! We got back from Disney World a week ago tonight. We had a fantastic trip. The weather was perfect, our flights were on time and smooth, the food was great, and we did some new things at Disney that we had missed before. I'm still in the process of going through my pics. I think I took around 700, so that is going to be a big process to narrow them down.

The main reason I haven't really updated anything is because right when we got back home, the flu hit our house. And I mean right when we got home. Like I stated earlier, we got home last Tuesday night. We got to our house around 10:30pm and at 1:30am Connor woke up sick with the flu. Poor guy was sick all night. And then he was just really weak and sleepy for about another 3 days. And of course right when he starts feeling better, it hit me. So being gone on vacation plus coming home to a week of sickness equals me being really behind on things.

I thought I would share some of my pictures from my Project 365 (Taking a picture of the day for the entire year.)

This is poor Connor on day two of his illness. Doesn't he look pathetic? Poor thing. I didn't notice the lego creature behind him until I uploaded the picture. I think Spencer set him there to keep Connor company.

This is one of Spencer's Lego creations.

Chris made the boys smoothies on Sunday. They had been bothering me all week to make them and I was actually getting ready to go the grocery store to get the ingredients when the flu hit me. They had seen it on the Disney channel and wanted to give them a try. So Chris took them to the grocery store and made them all up and .........the boys didn't like them. Figures. (And just for the record they were good. I tasted them.)

Here is Chris replacing the hinges on the door to the basement. Connor and Spencer both helped him with the drill.

And the last two are some pretty shots I got. This is of the blossoms on the Pear Tree in my front yard. I think it is a Bradford Pear Tree. I love these trees. They bloom early in the spring and are one of the last to lose their leaves in the fall.

And this is the view from our bedroom window today. It is a rainy day. I like the reflection of the curtains in the rainy window.

Phew! That was a long post! If you read it all and looked at all of the pics, Thanks! I hope to have some more Disney pictures to post soon.
Thanks again for visiting me!

Friday, March 20, 2009

My Personal Highlight from our trip.

On our first full day of our vacation we went to Hollywood Studios. Last year when we went, we missed out on the Indiana Jones show and Spencer really wanted to see it. So we made a point this year of going. When we made it over to that part of the park, the next show was about an 1 1/2 hours away. I asked one of the women working there what time we should be back to get a seat, when another woman walked over to us and asked us if the boys would like to participate in the show. I said, "Yes!". They would be Jr. Directors and would get to open the show by saying "Lights, Camera, Action!". We signed them up and the woman told us what time to be back and then she would escort us to special seats. Special VIP seats!!! :D
Well, Spencer takes after me and started to have a mini meltdown about having to speak in front of all those people. I don't know if it is Connor's age or if he really is fearless, but he was happy to do it and didn't seem to care at all! Spencer was a nervous wreck and I didn't want to make him do something he was so uncomfortable with, so I told him he didn't have to go out there when the time came if he didn't want to. Connor could go by himself.
Well, the time came and Spencer jumped up with Connor and went out there! We were so proud of both of them!!! If you have been there, then you know that the auditorium holds a lot of people! I completely understood why Spencer was a little freaked out by it all! But as you will see by the video, they both did an awesome job of being Jr. Directors!!!!

And yes, the guy did get Connor's name wrong.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

The picture from the previous post

It didn't work for some reason, so here it is again.
The boys celebrating the completion of their final mission.

-- Post From My iPhone

We did it!

We saved 7 countries as part of Team Possible. We saved United Kingdom, China, Mexico, Germany, Norway, Japan & France. For those who don't know what this is, it is based on the cartoon Kim Possible. And it was Connor's favorite! He loved saving the countries. Spencer had a ball too!
Here is our final mission: France.