Le Artist

We made salt dough Christmas ornaments for the family yesterday. Here are my little artists at work. Notice even Banastre is really paying attention to the details! They all turned out so well, but some family members won't have theirs until after Turkey Day, so I won't post more pics until then!!!

Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who needs toys?

We unpacked the new Christmas tree today and put it up. Banastre found this a lot more fun!!

Christmas Lights at MGM

The white specks are snow!!! It's snowing in Florida when it's 70 degrees!!!!

The whole family enjoying hot chocolate.

We had Thanksgiving dinner with Grandma and Grandpa on Sunday evening, then headed over to MGM to see the Osborne Family Spectacle of Lights. These are just a few pictures, but it is unbelievable!!!!! The lights are choreographed to music and dance every few minutes. I have a video I will post later. I am now officially in the Christmas mood!!

Thanksgiving at the Clubhouse

This past Saturday, Legends Clubhouse had Pilgrims & Pizza. We took the kids and had a lot of fun. Elizabeth won the first game of BINGO. Banastre colored, and we all made turkeys for Banastre and Elizabeth from their handprints and footprints! It was too cute!

(I just can't figure out why I look drunk in all of the photos...maybe the camera is too slow!!!

Elizabeth's 7th Birthday

On Wednesday we celebrated Elizabeth's 7th birthday. She was "conveniently" sick Wednesday morning when waking up and just had to miss school. Tuesday night, we had her open her gift early. She received a beautiful Princess dress, gold mary-jane crocs, and a special invitation to the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique located inside Cinderella's Castle at WDW Magic Kingdom. (She has begging to go to the BBB since our first trip to Disney World three years ago when BBB was only located in Downtown Disney) She was very excited and could hardly sleep that night. She was even up before us Wednesday morning.



We got ready very quickly and were off to the Magic Kingdom. We arrived early enough to see the opening show, stopped to get Miss Elizabeth a birthday button, and then we were off to the rides. Our third ride was the Jungle Cruise.
Halfway through the ride, our skipper asked Elizabeth if she would steer the boat. Elizabeth hesitated at first, but then gladly took over. She successfully navigated us through the remainder of the ride. As we were getting off the boat, she was given her "Jungle Boat Skipper License."





Now, we were on our way to her appointment at Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique. We were supposed to be there at 10:10. As we were walking by "small world", we just had the urge to go ride real quick. Elizabeth and Matt stood by the entrance to the ride while Banastre and I took the stroller to the parking area. Elizabeth was approached by a "Dream Team" member and asked if she would be the Small World Cruise Director of the Day. Of course she accepted the job.

Here she is waving to the boats as she sends them on their way.

Waving to more boats. She was given a special certificate thanking her for being the cruise director, then we were put on a boat by ourselves for our on cruise. It was a really special moment and Elizabeth is already proclaiming this the best day ever!

We arrived at Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique just a few minutes after her appointed time. We waited about three minutes before she was taken to her chair.

The beginnings of the "Diva" hairstyle.
Hair style complete.

Her Fairy Godmother in Training applying her make up.

Our beautiful Birthday Princess on her royal throne.

What should a Princess do next? Ride Cinderella's horse on the Carousel.

Does this thing go any faster?

We rode a lot more rides and enjoyed ourselves immensely. Then we went to the front of the park to watch the parade and wait on Grandma and Grandpa to join us.

Elizabeth playing hopscotch while waiting on the parade.

Fairy Godmother pointing and waving to Elizabeth.

Cinderella pointing to Elizabeth. Below, the Blue Fairy is blowing Elizabeth a kiss. I missed pictures of a chimney sweep from Mary Poppins kissing Elizabeth's hand and Ariel mouthing "Happy Birthday Princess" to Elizabeth. She really received a lot of attention on her special day!

We all went to Mickey's Philharmagic after the parade and then it was time to head to Elizabeth's Birthday dinner at O'hana's. Elizabeth enjoyed all of the food and activities. Banastre enjoyed playing peekaboo with his napkin.

Here's Grandma, Grandpa, and Matt goofing off!

One last pic of our beautiful Princess on her birthday!!

It's very hard for me to believe that she is seven years old. I look forward to watching her grow and change even more in the coming years. She is turning out to be such a beautiful person inside and out and I couldn't be any more proud of her and all of her accomplishments. Happy Birthday Angelbaby!!!!!!!

Happy Halloween

Halloween was definitely an adventure this year. We were very happy to be living in a community this year instead of out in the middle of nowhere! We knew we had lots of safe and convenient places to trick-or-treat. Elizabeth absolutely had the best time ever. Banastre still isn't too sure of what all happened. When I tried to put his costume on, he screamed bloody murder and fought me as hard as he could. But, as Mommy, I won. We jumped in the car and drove to Grandma and Grandpa's house. There both kids received lots of goodies. Then we headed on our way to trick-or-treat. Banastre wanted to "wak" every where. He looked at everyone's "pumkims" and admired their "Yo Ho's" (any skeleton, pirate, or monster). But once we arrived at a house and rang the doorbell, he would wait for the people to answer and then run the other way yelling, "No, no, no". He was actually ok at a couple of houses and tried to give them candy from his bucket. He would only say trick or treat when we were walking between houses. He also acted very tired the entire night. (Mom and Dad's favorite part was the house that gave the kids candy and all the parents margaritas...we will definitely start there next year!!) We finished up around 8 and came home to give out candy to the other little princess and ghouls. It was a great time, but I hope Banastre will understand a little better next year. He refused to wear the gator head most of the night. But they were both still looking great!
Elizabeth the Vampiress
He actually started crying and jerked the head piece off right after this was taken.

Waiting for treats at Grandma and Grandpa's.

This morning, Banastre woke up with a very pink eye. After the doc appt. it is confirmed that he has pink eye. That might explain his behavior yesterday. It does give me hope that next year will be much better!