Have I ever mentioned how much I LOVE Disney World? Well if I haven't let me just tell you right now that I love the place, could go every year, seriously! I know there are those out there who can say been there, done that and bought the t-shirt and would never care about returning for the rest of their lives. Me on the otherhand, I'm just the opposite. My first visit was between my 8th and 9th grade summer vacation. Just got a taste of Disney then. But as an adult, I returned in October of 2000 for the millenium celebration with my oldest son Jonathan, who was at the time 7 yrs old. It was so much fun to see Disney through the eyes of a child. To have several days there and really get to see the "big" things. Since then I have been several more times (2002, 2003, 2007) and will be going again in just a week! I can honestly say that I have not seen everything, so this trip I plan on riding a few of the rides that I have missed in the past (The Tea Cups, Soarin' and I know there are still a few others) , but still ride my favorites (Space Mountain, Tower of Terror, Bugs Life, Test Track, Aerosmith's Rock-n-roll roller coaster). This time we will be taking Sara our soon to be 2 yr old daughter for the first time. I can't wait to see her expression. This will be Noah's second trip, he was just 10 1/2 mo old the last time, so he will really enjoy this trip. We also will celebrate Jonthan's 17th birthday while we are there. We will get to spend a week this time over the Thanksgiving Holiday, I have never been down there this late in the year and I am excited to see how Disney does Christmas, I'm sure it park will be decked out in wonderful decorations. Hopefully we will get several Family Christmas picture opportunities and will be able to share them with everyone when we get back.
As for Christmas and birthday presents, I think we got it covered!
T minus 1 week and counting, watch out Orlando the Bodiford's are coming to town!
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Christmas Time is here....
I just love this time of year when you can start to pull out all the Christmas decorations, yes you heard me right. The sooner the better, if you ask me! We have officially had our Christmas tree up since Nov 6th, at the begging and pleading of our soon to be 4 yr old Noah. Which is fine by me, because yours truly has been know to put her tree up before Halloween in the past. Crazy, maybe to some, but not in my family. We are genetically inclinded to put our decorations up early. But thankfully we do take the lights down after Christmas and do not leave them up all year (we may be of hillybilly decendents but we are no rednecks!)
My biggest splurge was two years ago when I bought a prelit 9 ft Christmas tree from Sam's Club, let me just tell you, these prelit trees simplify everything. The person that came up with this idea should get like a Nobel Peace Prize or something! I pull the tree out of the big storage bag its in and put the stand together, then put the three sections up, fluff and plug in the the lights and voila.....instant gratification! Saves you like 2 hours or more of wrestling with lights. This year my splurge was the 100 count unbreakable orniments from Sam's for $34, I dediced to get these mainly because I have a soon to be 4 yr old Noah and a soon to be 2 yr old Sara who hand like to touch, grab and pull! And I must say they look fabulous!
But I am a bit snobbish when it comes to decorating a Christmas tree:
You only use white non flashing lights, no tinsle (hate that stuff), orniments should have a color scheme, prefer no garland either but have been known to use it ever now and then.
See I am crazy!
I'll have to post a picture later of this years tree.............
My biggest splurge was two years ago when I bought a prelit 9 ft Christmas tree from Sam's Club, let me just tell you, these prelit trees simplify everything. The person that came up with this idea should get like a Nobel Peace Prize or something! I pull the tree out of the big storage bag its in and put the stand together, then put the three sections up, fluff and plug in the the lights and voila.....instant gratification! Saves you like 2 hours or more of wrestling with lights. This year my splurge was the 100 count unbreakable orniments from Sam's for $34, I dediced to get these mainly because I have a soon to be 4 yr old Noah and a soon to be 2 yr old Sara who hand like to touch, grab and pull! And I must say they look fabulous!
But I am a bit snobbish when it comes to decorating a Christmas tree:
You only use white non flashing lights, no tinsle (hate that stuff), orniments should have a color scheme, prefer no garland either but have been known to use it ever now and then.
See I am crazy!
I'll have to post a picture later of this years tree.............
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Been a little lacking in the posting department
Wow, can't believe it has been several months since I posted anything to my blog. Amazing how time flies and just life in general just gets busier and busier, leaving very little time for the simple things. Well today is one of those days that I am reflecting and just enjoying the quietness. You see, "quiet" is a very rare thing in this house these days. With four busy children its a commodity by any means. So when a quiet day presents itself I take full advantage of it.
This day was not planned, just happened by circumstance, you see, I have been fighting a cold for the past several days and have not felt up to par, so when my work called this morning and asked if I wanted to be on-call, I gladly took it. My wonderful husband was nice enough to get the little ones ready and took them to the sitter so I could stay home and rest. It was nice to get some extra sleep without any interuption, can you believe I woke up at 11am? I was shocked too! I finally manage to get some motivation and decided to go downstairs and wrap some Christmas presents while I do not have prying eyes interupting. The only sound being made is coming from my computer, playing Christmas music and the sound of wrapping paper being cut and folded around presents. Then I manage to go under the stairs and start pulling out Christmas decorations to put out and on the tree. This is like a walk down memory lane for me. I see decorations from the years gone by, those handmade by a tiny child who is tiny no more, that bring back warm and fuzzy memories. Look at old Christmas cards that have been sent over the last 20 years from family and friends. Ornaments that have been given to me by my dear sweet grandma, who is no longer with us. These hold a very dear and special place in my heart. My grandma was a Christmas baby and she loved the holidays like no other, it was always a time to get together with family, talk and catch up on all the things going on in everyone lives, eat and open gifts. Christmas just seems like such a magical time, I love seeing my two littlest children getting excited at all the lights and decorations. I can only hope as my children grow up that they see the importance of family and not the importance of the gifts. That they look back and reflect on the true meaning of Christmas: CHRIST! The birth of our Lord and Saviour, the One who loved us enough to lay down his life on the cross. How lucky we are to have a God that loves us THAT much!
This day was not planned, just happened by circumstance, you see, I have been fighting a cold for the past several days and have not felt up to par, so when my work called this morning and asked if I wanted to be on-call, I gladly took it. My wonderful husband was nice enough to get the little ones ready and took them to the sitter so I could stay home and rest. It was nice to get some extra sleep without any interuption, can you believe I woke up at 11am? I was shocked too! I finally manage to get some motivation and decided to go downstairs and wrap some Christmas presents while I do not have prying eyes interupting. The only sound being made is coming from my computer, playing Christmas music and the sound of wrapping paper being cut and folded around presents. Then I manage to go under the stairs and start pulling out Christmas decorations to put out and on the tree. This is like a walk down memory lane for me. I see decorations from the years gone by, those handmade by a tiny child who is tiny no more, that bring back warm and fuzzy memories. Look at old Christmas cards that have been sent over the last 20 years from family and friends. Ornaments that have been given to me by my dear sweet grandma, who is no longer with us. These hold a very dear and special place in my heart. My grandma was a Christmas baby and she loved the holidays like no other, it was always a time to get together with family, talk and catch up on all the things going on in everyone lives, eat and open gifts. Christmas just seems like such a magical time, I love seeing my two littlest children getting excited at all the lights and decorations. I can only hope as my children grow up that they see the importance of family and not the importance of the gifts. That they look back and reflect on the true meaning of Christmas: CHRIST! The birth of our Lord and Saviour, the One who loved us enough to lay down his life on the cross. How lucky we are to have a God that loves us THAT much!
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