Magical Plans

The other week I let you know about our plans to visit Walt Disney World in May.  Guess what, May is almost here!!!  We are getting ready to leave on Friday and I am so pumped!!!  So here is our plan of attack:  This week we are getting the camper and the car all packed up and ready to pull out of the driveway super early on Friday morning and driving all day to stop at a campground near Tallahassee.  Then Saturday (May 3, 2014) we will finish out the drive and get settled at Fort Wilderness Campground.  We might even have time for s'mores and a campfire with Chip and Dale. Here's the plan for the rest of the week:
Sunday: Animal Kingdom
Monday: Epcot
Tuesday: Magic Kingdom
Wednesday: Rest Day
Thursday: Hollywood Studios
Friday: Magic Kingdom
Saturday: pack up and go home :(

Of course there are touring plans and FastPass Plus reservations and Advanced Dining Reservations that have all been scheduled, but no one probably cares about all those details except for me.  On the phone with my parents last weekend I let them know that the college degree in Event Planning they paid for didn't go to waste, I can plan a trip to Disney for my family!

You may have noticed we will be spending quite a bit of time in the car.  So to avoid complete meltdowns I have been putting together a few things for our trip.  Of course we will be taking the Excursion so I am sure there will be a lot of movie watching.  I have new toys wrapped for the kids to get every few hours.

I got these small cookie sheets and put chalkboard contact paper on them so the kids can draw right on the board.  They are magnetic so I'll have to see if I can find more fun magnets for them.  Also they can be used as a lap pad for coloring or eating and crayons don't roll away thanks to the edges.

I also made these neck pillows for the kids because I always feel so bad when their heads flop and roll as they try to sleep in the car. 

I've also been preparing our bag that we are going to take into the park.  This is the one we will be leaving on the stroller and not putting anything too valuable

In the bag I have:

• Disposable ponchos for each of us
• hand sanitizer
• First Aid kit
• A full change of clothes for each kid
• Stain stick
• Sun Screen
• Mini brush
• Cheep glowsticks so I don't have to pay an arm and a leg for the ones in the park
• Asprin
• Quarters and pennies for penny pressing machines
• Stroller lock
• Mommy hook to hold extra bags we may acquire through the day
• Tissues
• Quick dry towel
• Wet wipes
• Autograph books and a retractable marker for the Characters

Now what am I forgetting?

We're going to...

Walt Disney World!  I'm not sure if I've mentioned it yet (probably not because I've been a bad blogger) but we have been planning this trip over a year now and I can't believe it is less than a month away.  We finally told the kids this past weekend.  They really have no clue what Disney World is so we didn't see any wild excited celebrations when we told them, but they were happy when we explained it to them.  I made a countdown chain to combat the are "we leaving yets?"  Jason does keep reminding me that it is going to take "a really long time" to get there and yes, but I remind him that we are going to have such a great time. 


You may not be able to tell in the photo above, but we each got a matching shirt with Mickey on it.  Which is a step back from the every day matching outfits that I originally pitched to Jeff.  We are planning on driving our camper there and have reservations at Disney's campsite, Fort Wilderness.  I have some surprises tucked away for the drive to help keep the kids entertained and reduce the whining (I'm sure the DVD player will help.)  I'm trying to pack up things and not panic at the last minute.  Lists have been my best friends lately.

In non-Disney news we had some bananas that were getting pretty old so my sweet girl helped me make some banana bread.  She really loved cleaning the bowl afterwards.

First T-ball game

So Jason had his first t-ball game this weekend.  He is so excited about playing and he has been trying his hardest.  We could probably work with him more on hitting and catching, but oh boy he looked cute!



Like here he is ready to field the ball


And here he completely misses it.

He did hit the ball twice.  Both times he only hit the ball a little in front of the tee, which ends up working out because the pitcher had to hurry up to grab the ball and Jason was already on his way to first.  On his first time at bat Jason ran to first then rounded and ran to second and was on his way to third when he got tagged out.  We failed to tell him that he should wait and until his coach tells him to keep going before rounding the bases. 




His second time at bat he remembered to stop and watch for his coaches directions.  He made it to third and probably would have gone home if his team had not struck out at that time.

All in all we are happy he is having a lot of fun and we hope to explain the game to him a bit better.