One More Week!

I can't believe that in 7 short days we will be heading to sunny Florida! (I hope it is sunny while we are there!) Since I didn't do a great job of planning out all my layouts of our last trip for my countdown (I ran out last week), I thought I would share a few of our very first trip there. This was way back in 2005. :D

At that time Spencer was 4 and Connor was about 18 months. It is amazing to see how much the boys grew in the 3 years between our trips. And this was the beginning of my scrapbooking journey! I believe at this point I was just starting to get involved in the Message Boards and looking at other scrapper's work. And I know this because this book was made from a kit from one of my very first QVC Scrappy purchases. So this had to be when I first starting visiting scrapbook boards because I never even looked at QVC before that! lol!!
To see how much the boys changed take a look at this layout and this one from last trip. The pictures were taken in the same places.

Yep there I am with short hair!

This next layout has a funny story to go with it. Since Connor was only 18 months we really didn't think he would have a clue about getting souvenirs while we were there. We had told Spencer he could get a few things. We were only there for three days on this trip, so each day we let Spencer pick out a little something from whatever park we were at. And we weren't being mean to Connor, we just really didn't think he would know or care that Spencer was getting some things. And for the most part, he didn't care. Until this last night. We were at Epcot and Spencer wanted one of the light up toys. At first we said no, and then we kept walking around and they have these stands that sell those toys about every 100 feet. So we finally relented and let Spencer get one. Again, not thinking Connor would object or want one too. WE WERE SO WRONG! We got about 25 feet away from that cart, and Connor let out the biggest wail of despair that he didn't get a light up toy too. We tried to calm him down, but it wasn't working. He wanted a light up toy, dang it! So we literally ran at full speed to the next light toy stand and this is what he picked out....the Tinkerbell wand. He still looks a little pitiful in this picture but he did recover and his parents learned a valuable lesson. Just because he didn't talk a lot back then (and he has since made up for that-now he is Mr. Chatterbox), he so knew that he was getting the short end of the souvenir stick on that trip and he was done with that!

Give me my Tinkerbell Wand!

Thanks for visiting again and reading all my countdown posts to our trip. And don't forget that next week I'm going to try and blog from the parks a few times with my Iphone. I hope it works!