Day 4....Hollywood Studios

Hollywood Studios was on the agenda for day 4. We loved this park so much we ended up going again another day. However, when we went on day 4, we were all exhausted and it was VERY hot and humid. Despite that, we enjoyed it! We started the day with breakfast at Playhouse Disney's Play 'n Dine at Hollywood & Vine Restaurant, then we immediately went to ride the 3D Toy Story Mania ride. This ended up being one of our most favorite rides that I think we rode about 4 or 5 times. You have on 3D glasses and shoot at targets and it keeps a score....Dale and I got a lil competitive, but in the end we played girls against boys and yes, the girls won!! We had lunch at the 50's Prime Time Cafe. This is based in the 50's and is setup just like you were going to Grandma's for lunch. Your waitress is your Aunt, the busboy is your annoying brother, your cousins are there....the whole works. We were very tired and not really that hungry because we had just had a huge breakfast just a few hours before, but went anyway. When you don't eat all of your food they make a big deal about it and she did the choo-choo train thing w/ both Braden and I and then even brought him a special dessert! You will have to look at the pics below to see! We enjoyed a few shows that afternoon...Beauty and the Beast, the stunt show, High School Musical 3 Pep Rally, and the Block Party Bash parade. We have lots of pics of those but did not think you would want to see those. We then had dinner the the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant. Here you sit in an old car and watch a movie just like a drive-in. It was very cool and the kids thought they were so special because we let them sit in the front! After dinner we got on a bus and headed over to catch the SpectroMagic light parade and fireworks show at Magic Kingdom. Joey and Christi Crow (a couple I graduated high school with) and their kids and Christi's parents were in Disney at the same time as us, so we hooked up with them that evening for the parade and fireworks show. All the kids hit it off great! And we enjoyed visiting with Joey, Christi, Brenda and Joe too! It was great to see them and I will tell more about our visit w/ them later!

Waiting outside the restaurant for breakfast
When we came back to our table from the buffet, we found JoJo sitting there!!

And she had to have a pic w/ Mommy

June, from Lil Einstein's

Goliath

Goliath kept trying to steal their food!

The characters at this breakfast were great and there were only about 8 families in there so we got lots of attention!

Leo loved Braden's hair!! He even put in his autograph book, "You have cool hair! Love, Leo".

Waiting in line for the Toy Story ride. The decor was so cool! It looked just like the toys in Andy's room!

Mr. Potato Head really talked!

The theme complete w/ the Army men from the movie!

They even had different things from the movie where you waited in line to meet Woody and Buzz. He is such a nut!

Ahhhhh!! She is packed in a suitcase!!

Braden was very excited to get to finally see Woody. Although he was a lil disappointed that Jessie was not there.

Sulley was hilarious!

They enjoyed seeing the Cars, but were getting in a lil picture taking slump!

Snow in Florida in July!?!?

Waiting for lunch at 50's Prime Time Cafe. We are very tired right now!

The theme of this rest. is very much family style. And since Braden did not eat his food our "Aunt" fed it to him!! Then....

she brought it back to him for dessert!! (His nuggets w/ cool whip on top!) And he loved them! Go figure!!

Our table for dinner at the Sci-Fi Dine In Theater

Back at MK for the fireworks show. Jolea really took to Dale and he enjoyed playing w/ a lil girl again! She re-named him Elle!!

Their bed surprise from housekeeping!

They even put their balloons in the window for all to see!

Day 3...Magic Kingdom

We spent Day 3 back at Magic Kingdom. We started that day w/ breakfast at the Crystal Palace w/ Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet and Tigger. It was one of our favorite breakfasts and also allowed us to be in the park right away when it opened. From there we enjoyed MK and all its great stuff to do. We did have to spend about an hour in a bathroom fighting the rain! But other than that is was a great day! Braden got to meet Buzz Lightyear and ride his ride, we got to visit both Mickey and Minnie's houses and have pics taken w/ them together, and for the highlight of the day, we got to eat dinner at Cinderella's castle! We took the dress Cinderella sent Kaylee for her to wear and she was beaming the whole time she had the dress on! When her and I came out of the restroom from putting it on, Braden's face was priceless! His jaw was almost touching the ground and all he could say was "sissy, you look so pretty!" It was very sweet and one of those "it was all worth it" moments! Kaylee got to meet Cinderella and then was literally treated as a princess (they actually called us the Royal Family!) during the whole meal! It was wonderful!!!
After we left there and discovered it was once again raining, we decided to call it a night. Until we got back to our resort and the rain had stopped! So Dale and the kids decided to swim for a lil bit. We thought this would pacify them and we would stop hearing "could we go swim".....not so much!!!

Another one of the large toys at our resort. Kaylee had to have her pic w/ it before we left that morn.

The Crystal Palace....where we at breakfast

Breakfast w/ Pooh

Eeyore

Piglet!!!

This is in the center of the restaurant....we were waiting for Tigger to make it to us!

Still waiting!! Notice mine and Kaylee's matching shirts!!

And finally Tigger!!

Buzz Lightyear!

Stitch was so funny! He also acted like he was licking them!

And the teacups!! Dale's fav!! You can't really tell, but Alice (in Wonderland) was riding in the cup just behind them (the blue one).

Checking Minnie's mail @ her house

Checking out the freezer. It was really cold!

Braden was helping her out on making Mickey a cake

One of my fav pics!

Awwwwwwwww!
Even more of an awwww!!! He did this on his own!!

The Princesses!

We had to walk up these stairs to get to the restaurant and she was so cute holding up her dress!

The chocolate crown that came on her dessert!

Our flower shaped pool....they are in there somewhere!

First Day of School

We had our first day of school today! Braden started 1st grade, Kaylee started 3rd and I stayed as the aide in Pre-K! We all had a great day and although the kids are not, I am exhausted!!! We had to do it without Daddy this year! He is in Omaha this week. But I managed to get everyone ready and fed and we were even early to school!!! Well, here are a few pics. Enjoy!

His teacher, Mrs. Willard

Her teacher, Ms. Heinrich

She is growing up way too fast!

He was VERY excited!!