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.