Copponex Disney Christmas 2011

These pictures will be out of order.  KINDA LIKE MY LIFE?!

SO, we had, for a VERY long time planned a trip to Disney at Christmas!! I HAVE NEVER BEEN at Christmas, and was just dying to go.  Can you believe I have never been at Christmas?  Well now I can say I have!  And I LOVE IT.  It was probably my favorite.  I love the cooler weather and the decorations!

We booked a studio room at Saratoga Springs Resort.  We stayed there in May for Gina's wedding.  It was awesome!  Macy slept on the couch, Brady in his little bed and Greg and I in a queen.  (Which is do-able in do or die situations, but I told him when we first got married if he wanted the marriage to last I needed a king ;)  )

So let me pick up where we left of.  We left Big Canoe and I was sad to go.  I LOVE spending time with Mike and Anne and their girls.  We don't see them nearly enough, but I finally feel like we are at a good point in our life where we relate to each other and our kids can play together.  

I don't know if you remember I had no options for giving Macy a drink last time we went to Florida so I gave it to her in Brady's bottle.  This happened again, and I gave it to her in one of Brady's bottles that had been cleaned, but not ran through the dishwasher.  She could smell the formula and gagged and wouldn't drink it (I don't blame her!)  This was the beginning of us learning that she gags a lot when she smells stinky stuff.  IT IS SO FUNNY

We drove down in one day, which was fine.  We actually left a day earlier than we had planned and stayed at The Rosen Shingle Creek   Thank goodness Greg is so good with Pricelines "Name Your Price!"  I recommend using it, we get great deals on there all the time.  We had dinner at Margaritaville in CityWalk at Universal.  That place is a LOT of walking!  Dinner was good- Brady was a bit of a challenge, and both Greg and I were thinking... can we do this for a whole week by ourselves?? haha

We checked out Monday and ran around Orlando.  We both had some work stuff to do.  We checked into Saratoga Springs about 2.  I had no idea, but when Greg was checking us in, he bought us annual passes!!  UM HELLO!? I couldn't believe it and immediately text Emily Parker because I knew she would be jealous :P

So, I was unpacking and Greg said... Do you want to go to Magic Kingdom tonight?  I hadn't planned on it, but SURE!  So we hopped on a bus and went over there for the night.  We had a great time, and stayed pretty late, I think around 11?  Which meant we didn't get home until 12:30.  Macy is AMAZING though, and when she gets tired, she just falls asleep in her stroller no problem!  If she starts getting whiney I tell her to lay her head down, and she does and doesn't wake up at all!

This picture was taken a few days before we left for Disney, but to cute to not include as an example!!

I caught her SUCKING HER THUMB!  What's up with that?

 The first ride we did was It's a Small World.  It is Macy's favorite!  Brady slept and I am sure Greg wishes he could have.  I'm just kidding, I think he secretly likes that ride.  And if not, he loves to see Macy happy so he would ride it over and over again for her!  I love that about him.  

 Checking out the castle!

 The double stroller is a GOD SEND and a MUST if you have two kids.  I would not recommend two umbrella strollers because what if you need to have both kids?  You can't push two strollers at once!

 Watching the parade

I love when she gets super excited and starts waving at them :)

Macy would NOT stop talking about "Mickey Jungle" so we went to Animal Kingdom on day 2.

Brother getting ready

We did the walking trails, the safari, dino-land, lion king and watched the parade.

(waiting on Greg to get back with my snack!)  Money exhibit behind us.  

 Brady was absolutely adorable that day!

Triceratops spin!

That afternoon we went back to Magic Kingdom because I really wanted to watch the castle projection show again!  We also caught the fireworks and went straight home after that.  

 I don't think I have pictures from Wednesday?  I think we went back to Magic Kingdom.  We had dinner at Ohana, which honestly was a disaster.  It was GOOD and we loved it, but Brady had a MELT DOWN.  Come to find out, he was having tummy issues, I had to buy him a new onesie :(  Macy slept through the whole thing.  

We decided to go to Hollywood studios after that and see the Osborne Family lights.  ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.  So glad we didn't miss that.

Thursday was our Epcot day!  I LOVE EPCOT.  I am a weirdo I guess- but it might be my favorite?  We rode Spaceship Earth, Nemo, Soarin'  I can't think of anything else?  

After that we went to Le Celliar and OH. MY. WORD.  

Best steak I have ever had.  And BOTH KIDS SLEPT.  It was great, they let us bring our stroller in and pushed it up to the table.  Greg and I were pinching ourselves that we got this lucky!

We stayed for the Candlelight Processional.  It was AMAZING.  I wish Macy wasn't so SENSITIVE to loud noises.  She was squirming and covering her ears most of the time.  The closing number was the Hallelujah chorus and I just cried and cried and thought about Hallie and the Greens.  We went home after that!

  

This was the ride home. 

HAHA

Brady with his sign for Hallie :)

We had a great trip! I hope we go back EVERY year at Christmas time! 

It's kinda neat, all of my kids have birthdays three months apart.

Tripp in March

Tripps heavenly birthday in June

Brady in September

Macy in December

We have planned a trip in March for Tripp's birthday.

I think we will be back in June and maybe even in July too for the 4th!

We will likely be back in September and already have reservations for December's Christmas Party!