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!

Testing 1 2 3

I'm sitting in my car right now waiting to pick up Connor so I thought I would try this blogging from my phone again. This is an old pic I had on my phone.



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One of our favorite places

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Another test

I was having some problems with this new app I got for my Iphone. As you can see from the 1st post I did with it, my picture of us having dinner at the Cracker Barrel disappeared. I have spent most of today trying to figure out what went wrong. I also couldn't add any new pictures for most of today. It was very frustrating! I hate computer problems! Probably because I have no idea how to fix them. lol!!! And I still don't know what I did to get it to work tonight but I'm not touching any other buttons!
I'm going to be posting these test pics a few times over the next week to make sure this is still working. I really, really want to be able to post right from the Parks at Disney with pics. It will be a great way to pass time in the lines and everyone back home (or from where ever in blogland) can see how our vacation is going.

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Testing

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Let's see if this works...

I got this app to post from my iPhone. I thought it might come in handy while we are in Disney.
Here is a test picture to try out.


My pic of the day: we went to Cracker Barrel for dinner.
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Edited to add: It worked! How cool is this going to be while we are in Disney. Mom, are you excited that I'm going to be able to post from the parks?!!!! Yea, I know stupid question, of course you are!

14 days and counting....

Wow! We are only 2 weeks away now! The time is really going by fast. Yesterday we finished up making our dining reservations. We are going to go to a couple of favorites from last time (Lilo & Stitch breakfast) and try some new ones (Sci-Fi Dine In & Raglan Road Irish Pub). Can you guess who picked the Irish restaurant? :D I can't wait to eat all that good food.

Here is the last layout from my 2008 Disney Album. This is one of my favorite layouts. It is simple in design, but it took me forever to finish. That isn't digital. I took all of my left over pictures and cut them out to fit into the mouse ears shape. I just love how it turned out!

This is my picture of the day for yesterday.
We bought this puzzle in a bottle at Disney last year.