Magic Kingdom AGAIN :)

Our 5th and final Disney day was spent back at Magic Kingdom. It was either there or Epcot and my parents went with the flow, so we got to choose the most magical place of all again :) 

Unfortunately I still wasn't feeling very well, so we rented a wheelchair for me for the day. I felt like a huge dork and James admitted to being embarrassed to be around me, but it was such a blessing. Don't know if I could have made it through the day without it.

 Big thanks to my dad who pushed me all day. (Even though it was completely embarrassing to have people see just the two of us and me with my Happy Anniversary pin and then wish us a Happy Anniversary. At one point my dad proclaimed, "Not me, these two (gesturing to me and James, who kept his distance from his handicap wife.)

It did rain on us this day and we all got pretty wet, but it didn't stop any of the fun.

This is the end of the day. Poor little Makai. We did plan on leaving the parks a couple of the days for naps, but that never happened, so he napped in strollers and on shoulders and not at all some days. What a trooper.
(Just noticed my mom is glancing over at Ezra. She was most likely watching to see if he was putting his fingers in his mouth like he did for just about every picture we tried to take. She got him some stuff to put on his fingers to help break the habit. So far no luck, but I'm going to keep trying. Thanks mom.)

This is my favorite picture of our whole trip. He is holding hands and staring up at Rapunzel (his favorite-est princess ever). I can just see the magic in his eyes. Seriously, I keep looking at this one and it almost makes me tear up.

She is making a "pinkie promise" that she won't tell anyone that she is his favorite princess. She also gave him a kiss on his cheek and let him hold her hair. So precious.

Cinderella is the ONLY princess that Makai would see. He cried and ran from the rest, but he barely loosened his grip on Cinderella.

Seriously, who is that guy in the front? Okay, I guess I'm not much better, but gotta love my dad's genuine smiles and cute little Ezra being so brave.
Ezra LOVED Splash Mountain. We did this one a handful of times.

The Toy Story ride. We rode this one a handful of times too. Even Makai enjoyed it. Have I mentioned how kid/baby friendly Disney World is? Makai went on most of the rides with us.

These boys... They are my favorite. (Makai too)

Is there a more magical place than this? I want to be Minnie Mouse.

 We got a sneak peak tour at the New FantasyLand opening this December. It was so neat. They had the kids put on a little play with Belle and Ezra was chosen to play the Beast! He had to "roar" in front of the audience and he did great!

Ezra with his Beast cape, Makai/James was the pepper shaker and that other little boy is Maurice (Belle's Father) in jail.

Here he is "roaring" at Belle.

It was clearly a very ferocious roar.

At the end of the play they shared a dance. I could just die over how happy this makes me.

Belle gave my handsome prince a big smoocher-oo in front of everyone. He loved it.

We had an early evening and went back to the condo to pack and get ready for our long drive back. I am so happy to have these memories to share with my parents. My dad is the king of video-taping so I can't wait to see the movie he makes! Big thanks to mom and dad for their help with the kids and little old me. Love you guys.

We will be going back in the not too distant future if anyone wants to join us? I miss it. It wasn't even that bad being pregnant besides getting sick and hating myself in all our pictures. So glad we have like a bazillion pictures and family videos to help us remember and re-experience the magic over and over again. 

Downtown Disney

So I mentioned in my last post that I started feeling sick towards the middle of our trip. I blame James who kept promising all he had was allergies and smooched on me anyways. Pregnancy makes sickness a little bit harder, so when I woke up Thursday morning feeling worse we decided to take the day off and take it easy. So we went to Downtown Disney :)

Before we started the day I got pampered by my 3 favorite boys :)

We made a quick stop at Target to get some souvenirs and this is where I found Makai. 

We had lunch here. It's owned by the same people who did Rainforest Cafe, so it has that same kind of feel only with Dinosaurs. It was awesome! They even have a pit filled with "bones" covered by sand so the kids could explore. 

This guy was right above our table. Makai loved watching him move.  

 We also LOVED the Lego store:

These are made of legos. Ezra thought it was so neat. 

Lego Woody and Buzz = Christmas wishlist

Lego Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

This was James' favorite

 Right outside the Disney Store:

We spent most of our time in the Disney Store and ToyLand.

The boys got to ride the train there. There was so much to see. They even had a little splash pad for the kids. If I wasn't trying to get home so I could lay down we probably would've stayed a lot longer. We did get a really cool Christmas gift for the boys that I'm pretty excited about. 

We got home early evening and went swimming. Then our Florida Friends came over for a little bit to play a game and say good-bye. After that I let James get the boys ready for bed and then I went to bed. No fun being sick on vacation, but my family was so understanding and that really helped.

Only one Disney Day left :(

Hollywood Studios

Our 3rd Disney day was spent at Hollywood Studios:

We waited in line forever to meet these two.

Another long day for little Mak.

Don't know the lady James is sitting next to, but this picture is just awesome to me. Love my mom's face!

This was at the speedway stunt show. It was an awesome stunt driving show and they had a real Lightning McQueen there. It was so neat for the boys.

We did a lot more, but I started getting sick this day, so I was a little out of it. We saw a lot of shows and met a lot of characters this day and they were all great.

Animal Kingdom

Our next Disney day was spent at Animal Kingdom. We started the day by seeing the Lion King show. This was awesome! It was James' favorite part of our whole Disney trip.

Our first and only meet and greet with Mickey

I love my dad's face in this one. He and James had big smiles for most of this Lion King show.

"Raffe's" are Makai's favorite, so he was so excited to a real one on our Safari. 

Ezra came on this ride twice and decided that was enough for him. It really is a scary ride. Especially if you sit next to the weirdo I had to sit next to :)

Of course we had our daily ice cream stop while waiting for the big non-pregnant kids to go on a ride. 

I love this pic of Makai. Classic.

obviously we were having a really hard time having fun.

For dinner that night we ate at the Rainforest Cafe. Why have I never been there? It was so cool. The best part is that the place is so loud with animal noises and thunder storms so no one noticed my kids screaming and going a little wild!

Loved Animal Kingdom. My boys are animal lovers so they had a great time at this Disney Zoo.

Magic Kingdom

So, as I have mentioned, our family was able to go to Disney World recently. James and I honeymooned there and always talked about going back around our 5th anniversary which was this August. We were blessed to have my parents come with us. So many people told us our kids were too young, but I think their ages were just fine. I think 4-6 is the perfect age for the magic of Disney. The boys LOVED it. So Makai may not remember it. We'll just have to go again :)

We drove which is about 13 hours. We decided to leave at 3:30am thinking the boys would go back to sleep for a good chunk of the ride. That wasn't so smart. They didn't go back to sleep and I don't do well on little sleep. They did take a little nap though and we made it there safely that evening. We relaxed with my parents, went swimming and unpacked. The next day we relaxed some more, went to church, swam some more and went to bed early to get ready for DISNEY WORLD!!

Our first Disney day was spent at Magic Kingdom. It was magical. And hot.

We gave this kid his binky any time he wanted it during the week, so he pretty much had that and his "kitty" all day every day. I thought it would be a nightmare to get him back to 'binky only in bed' but he has been wonderful about it since we got home.

watching fireworks. Makai couldn't quite make it :)

It was a late first night, but so fun! James and I LOVE Magic Kingdom.

Coming Soon: Animal Kingdom