Disney Vacation, Day Three

Happy Fourth of July!



The 3rd day of our vacation was July 4th. So we all dressed up in our red, white, and blue.




We headed to a local mall, to play at a place called Monkey Joes. But when we arrived there they were closed for a private party. So we walked around for a short time and took a few pictures. Here is Gran Gran and Grandad with the girls.


The men and children dropped me and mom off at a better mall for about an hour. In the meantime they decided they wanted Godfather Pizza. So with their GPS in tote, they set off to find one. They did alright, a gas station. So they came and picked us up at the mall, to early if you asked me, we didn't buy anything. Then we set out to find another God Father's. We did, another gas station. At this time we decided that would have to do. So we placed our order and took it back to the condo. We had heard that Downtown Disney would be having a firework show. So that evening we load up and fight the bumper to bumper traffic to Downtown Disney. We finally get there only not to find a parking spot. We even had a handicap sticker and still couldn't find one. So my mom and dad drop me, Landon and the girls off. We walk up to the entrance only to find a sign that reads: No Fireworks Tonight! I was really upset. What no fireworks on the 4th? I did however snap this pic of the girls.

We ended up just going back to the condo. And that my friends ended day 3 of our vacation. I promise it gets better, lots better.

Disney Vacation, Day Two

So day two started off with, you guessed it, more driving! It actually wasn't that bad. The girls had stuff to occupy themselves. Carter is drawing on a dry erase board that both girls have. Reagan also worked on sight words and reading. And of course they watched more movies.






We arrived at our condo that afternoon. The first thing we saw was this raccoon by the dumpster. Landon just had to take a picture. It just looked right at him, like he was smiling at the camera. Believe it or not Landon wasn't the only one taking pictures. Other guests were too!

That night we took the girls to the "The World's Largest McDonald's." This was a mad house! It was like Chuck E. Cheese on steroids. They had games, rides, live entertainment, play ground and much more. The girls had a blast.

After that we were exhausted and headed back to the condo.

Disney World Vacation, Prep & Day 1

We just went on a family vacation to the "happiest place on earth," at least that is their motto. But I do have to say that Disney World lived up to our expectations.

My parents took the four of us for a wonderful, fun-filled adventure the first week in July. Since we did so much stuff and I took lots of pictures, I thought I would break up the blogs by days. Some days will require a couple of parts. But here we go.

Prior to day one, began the preparation. I wanted the girls to have cute shirts to wear to the Magic Kingdom, so around here you turn to "Gigi's Creations". I picked out the material and made a Mickey silhouette from the Cricuit machine. Then Gigi worked her magic. This is how they turned out:
I loved them. My plan was to add a pink bow, to turn the Mickey into a Minnie, but it didn't work out. But they were so cute. We even got compliments on them at Disney World.

My other project was to make autograph books. I didn't want to just buy the ones that everyone has. So I purchased little black spiral notebooks with blank cardstock paper inside. They were on the scrapbook isle at Hobby Lobby. Then I cricuted a super cute Minnie Mouse and welded the girls names using the gypsy.

Didn't they turn out so cute. I then attached a ring to one of the spirals with a mini sharpie attached. A note to anyone else that plans on going to Disney World, take a full size sharpie. The characters with "paws" have a very hard time gripping the small markers.

We left my parents house on a Friday morning at 6:30. So we spent the night there Thursday night. We had already pre-loaded the van. So we were ready to go that next morning. We stopped and had breakfast in Conway. Then on the road again.

Reagan was bright and chipper that morning because she had fallen asleep in our car while we packed our car at our house and drove to my parents. Carter on the other hand stayed awake all through the packing the car, driving to my parents, packing their van, and visiting some with the grandparents before crashing on the couch. So Friday morning this was Carter:

My parents just bought a new van, and they have two dvd players with headphones. This was very useful.

We drove to Yazoo, MS before stopping for lunch. We stopped at this "hole in the wall" diner. They had very tasty hamburgers and chocolate shakes. The girls played a little game of (old school) Mrs. Pacman.

Then they enjoyed chicken strip, french fries, and chocolate shakes. The lunch for champions, Right? Anyway, what is vacation for!

Back on the road again. We stopped in Mobile, AL for dinner and was hoping to stay the night in a hotel. But because of the oil spill, the government had pre-booked alot of hotel rooms. So not being able to find a hotel on the coast, we headed inland. Tallahassee is where we settled in for the night. And that concluded the first day of our vacation. I know it is probably boring for all of you, but we had a good time. We had to get there somehow, might as well document our whole travels.

I'm Back!

I know it has been over a month since my last blog. I have been very busy doing lots of fun stuff. Now I have some time to blog about all those things that have kept the Myers' hoppin. If you know me very well, you know the July is the most hetic time of the year for us. Enough excuses I'm ready to blog.