FINALLY....

More Disney pictures....

There seems to be VERY little time to blog this summer.... Lily and Ty are keeping me VERY busy and I am pooped (not a good sign given the fact that we have 2 more months of summer).

At any rate.... back to the Disney trip.....

I am not promising that all of the photos are the best quality... the first day I was too tired to fool around much with camera settings and many times the littles were not super patient for photos.

I had big intentions to take LOTS of pictures. We traveled with Jeff's family and I planned to get pictures of everyone. Well... somehow that didn't happen. When we got home I was talking with Lily about it and she said, "Don't worry about it mom, we were on vacation".

(FYI..... the bracelets are for the kids club...helps them keep track of where the kids are)

Once we made it on the ship we headed straight to lunch.... all 4 of us were very hungry.....

it turns out that Ty was more tired than hungry....

After lunch and Ty's lunchtime nap we headed to our wonderful room.....

Oh my... that bed was so comfy!!!!

Even though Lily was tired she wasn't going to nap anytime soon.... SO.. the boys took a little rest in the room and Lily and I explored the ship.

We found the ice cream first.....

Lily suggested I get a photo of this mural.....

and the beautiful chandelier....

After dinner we took a quick walk and found Toy Story playing on the BIG screen....

This is about all we saw because everyone was ready for bed...

This was one of their favorite things about the cruise... THEIR BEDS....

Ty slept on the high bunk and Lily slept on the lower bunk...

They thought they were SOOOO cool....

Each night our pillow on the bed was turned to this side....

A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep....

Surprise

Well... I was hoping to share a video showing the morning that we surprised Lily and Ty with Disney news... BUT... it was 4am and even with a little closet light on it is very hard to see the video and very hard to hear (I was talking very quietly).

SO let me tell you (and I realize this isn't as good as a video) how it all went down....

The week before we left was BUSY...Lily had 2 rehearsals for her tap recital... the kids were finishing school... I was trying to hide the fact that I was packing like a mad woman... the littles were tired from a busy week.

The night before we left Lily had a tap recital which ended around 10pm... the littles didn't get to bed until about 10:45pm (way past their usual 7:30 or 8 bedtime).

Needless to say at 4 am when I tiptoed into Lily's room she was TIRED.

I whispered... Lily.. time to get up... we're going to Disney World.

Her eyelids fluttered and she was trying hard to open her eyes.

I repeated.. Lily we are going to Disney today...

She said in a very tired voice.. TODAY... ARE YOU SURE....

It didn't take her long to realize we really were going to DISNEY.

She left her room to tell Ty.....

She didn't whisper quite like I did with her.... she told him we were going to Disney to celebrate graduating from school.

Ty was a bear... he was TIRED.... he wanted all of us to leave his room... he covered his head.....

We told him the whole family was going...

Lily asked if we could stay 5 nights.....

We told her we were staying 7 nights.... 4 on the boat and 3 at the Polynesian....

She was beyond excited and Ty was beginning to wake up slowly...

She was done trying to wake him and ready to get this trip moving....

Lily was dressed and in the car within minutes and Ty wasn't far behind (although still a little bear-like).

Eating egg mcmuffins at 6am.... we were the first customers that morning at the golden arches...

Where we've been

We just returned from 4 days on the Disney Dream with Jeff's family (thank you Grandma and Grandpa N) and then 3 days at the Disney Polynesian Resort just the four of us....

What a fun week!!! We were not ready to come home!!!!!

BY THE WAY... the littles had no idea this trip was coming..... we told them at 4:45am the day of the cruise.

Let's just say they were surprised...

(we did get it all on video and hopefully it turned out enough to post)

More pictures coming soon.....