Time Flies!

I'm joining the Tiggerific Blog hop today.

Hop on over to Magical Mouse Schoolhouse if you want to join in!

My last post was my 500th post. Wow! I thought time goes by so fast. Then, I was looking through our recent Disneyland Vacation photos and I REALLY thought that!!

This is a picture of my kids in the Hollywood Backlot area at California Adventure park the first time we went to Disneyland in 2006...

Same area just a couple weeks ago...

Meeting Minnie in 2006...

 

And earlier this month...

My son is taller than Minnie!!!

Where does the time go?

Postcard Friendship Friday #80

We just returned from Disneyland so guess what my PFF post is about today?? :)

I actually had a hard time finding good post cards there.  I guess not that many people buy them anymore.  Every shop I went into (and they have a LOT of shops!) carried basically the same ones with the castle and the main Mickey and Friends characters.  The morning we were leaving I looked around the shop in our hotel and found this one...It was what I was looking for all along!  It shows a little bit of everything.  Looking at it now makes me want to go back!  And if this isn't enough Disney for you, you can scroll down and see pics from our trip too. ;)

Here is a parting shot from the It's a small world ride.  On the way out they have a wall of postcards.

Postcard Friendship Friday is hosted by Beth at The Best Hearts are Crunchy.

Wordless Wednesday

I'm joining Focused on the Magic for a Disney Wordless Wednesday today.  The theme is celebrations.

What better way to celebrate your 9th birthday than at Disneyland???

Other Wordless Wednesday fun you might enjoy:

Serendipity is Sweet

Magical Mouse Schoolhouse

Angry Julie Monday

My Super Happy Disney Vacation Post!

It's been a while since I blogged.  We were busy visiting the happiest place on earth!

We flew out to California last Tuesday.  The Southwest pilots were great.  They let the kids explore the cockpit before we took off...

When we got in we headed to Angels Stadium to watch our AL West Champion Texas Rangers

play the Angels.  It was fun and we won!

We stayed at the Paradise Pier hotel.  This was the view from our room...

Our first day in the park we rode the new Little Mermaid Ride and Claire's favorite...Toy Story Mania!

This trip was an early birthday celebration for Claire so she wore a birthday button to the parks.  A cast member in Innoventions was talking to her about her visit on our 2nd day there.  He asked if she had to wait in any lines and she said yes.  So, since she was wearing the birthday button he gave her a special "fast pass" to any ride she wanted!  She chose Toy Story Mania again, which was good because its very popular and usually has a line so we probably wouldn't have had the chance to ride it again. :)

On Triton's carousel...

At our meet and greet with Chip and Dale...



Claire loves meeting the characters.  (me too!)



As an early birthday present I took Claire to a princess lunch.

It was very good...and look at that dessert platter!!



Me in front of the castle. :)



And no vacation is complete without a trip to a Build a Bear.  Claire chose to get Disney clothes for her existing animals instead of getting a new animal.  She's getting a little collection of these backpacks though...she has one from the St. Louis Zoo and now a Downtown Disney one.

We've been to Disney parks twice now and we've never ridden Splash mountain...primarily because I don't like rides with big drops or getting wet!  Well, Nathan has been bugging me since we went to Disney World about it so I gave in and we rode it, but I stuck HIM in the front!  I think I cured him...He doesn't really want to go on it again!  Look at the look on his face as we're about to drop! :)

Heading out to the parks on our last day.  This was taken in our hotel.

Another meet and greet.  Claire LOVED the characters so much!!!  She wanted to take them

home with her.  She would hug and hug them and not want to leave. :)

We also ate lots of yummy food!

They are all ready for Halloween so the villians are out in the park.  I dared Nathan to run up to the Queen of Hearts yelling "Queen of Hearts!  Queen of Hearts!  You're my favorite!"  Since he is a teenage boy who would do most anything for junk food he agreed to do it if I bought him a churro!

The Queen thought he was nuts, but it was really funny!



 And I made good on my promise and bought him that churro!

Nathan got to build his own car at Ridemakerz in Downtown Disney..



The morning we left we had a character breakfast at our hotel.  Since Claire had on the birthday button they brought out a special mickey cake and sang to her with Daisy.  She LOVED that!!

Well, that's probably more than you wanted to know about our vacation so I'll stop posting pictures for now.  Of course, I'll probably post more tomorrow! :)

Tiggerific Tuesday is hosted by Magical Mouse Schoolhouse.

Postcard Friendship Friday #79

I spent the evening last night in the museum district of Fort Worth for their educator's evening event.  There are lots of great art museums in Fort Worth and they were all handing out goodies.  The Sid Richardson Museum gave me this postcard of Frederic Remington's "The Sentinel". 

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth gave me a whole package of postcards from various artists as well.  If anyone wants to do a little post card swap for one of the cards from the Modern just private email me your address and I'll send you mine.  My email is in my sidebar. 

Postcard Friendship Friday is hosted by Beth at The Best Hearts are Crunchy.

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Just look at some of these adorable costumes from Just Kid Costumes...

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Wordful Wednesday

We've been so busy lately that I've been neglecting my blog!  It doesn't help that our internet has been messing up lately and they can't figure out what's wrong.  I have another technician coming out tomorrow.

Here's a little of what we've been up to lately...

 We went to the Fort Worth Museum for a presentation of the Hubble Omnimax show.  This is a picture of Claire with an "astronaut" that was there.  She loves outer space!  We actually got to hear a real astronaut speak while we were there.  Apollo 16 astonaut, Charlie Duke was the special guest.  It was really interesting to hear him talk of his trip to the moon.

And here is Nathan in his first pair of glasses.  He swore he DID NOT need glasses that his vision was fine.  He was mad when my husband made him go to the eye doctor.  Guess what?  He needed glasses!  He was so funny after he got them...he was amazed at all he could see now!

We are now getting into the full swing of things...art class, gymnastics, school, book club.  September is always much busier than August.  That's why I've planned a little getaway to Disneyland in a few weeks.  I figured we'd all be able to use a break about then!  I can't wait!!

What have you been up to??