Epcot!

I am so behind, it's going to take me a month to get through our Disney trip at the rate I'm going! I'm going to try to catch up in the next few days. In sad sad news, my camera is broken! :( I put it on the counter and it slid off of the counter onto the tile floor and broke! I was SO sad, I use my camera every day! Luckily Cooper's b-day party had passed so I have the pictures of that, but it's been very hard to take pictures of V-day and everything. The other camera we have is not a good one at all and takes horrible pictures. So, my blogging will probably continue to be bad for the next couple of weeks. Luckily we had a warranty on the camera so it's getting fixed right now... hopefully I'll have it back in 2-3 weeks...ahhhh!!!!

Ok, on to Disney. The next day of our Disney trip we headed to Epcot. We started our day by having breakfast in the hotel. Here is Cooper posing with his pins he had bought the day before. By the end of the trip this necklace was filled with pins!
A group shot (minus mom and dad) in front of Epcot.

They have a fun Nemo show that we went to see. The kids had fun posing in the shark's mouth! I couldn't get Jackson up there though.

Here he is! This was the name of the show.

One of my favorite things at Epcot was this virtual video game they had. You stood in this box and did a few actions while it taped you. Then you moved to the video game area and "played" yourself on the game. It was so fun!

Here are Cooper and Daddy doing their "victory dance" on the video game.

Our crowd playing the video game.

Here's Cooper playing himself, you can probably tell he's jumping up here.

I just had to post this funny picture of Dad! Eliz shared her hat with him. Luckily I don't think he checks my blog much so he probably won't get mad :).

We did a few other fun roller coasters and things at Epcot but I didn't get many pictures of that. I do however have this WONDERFUL one of E and C being silly while waiting for the monorail.

This was when we got back from Epcot, the kids are eating dinner. Our hotel had this cute area where the kids could sit in kids' tables and eat while watching Disney movies. TV at every meal, it was our kids' dreams come true!

Disney Day Two

On day two of our Disney trip we woke up bright and early and the girls all went to a princess breakfast at Cinderella's castle. It was so fun because the breakfast starts before the park even opens, so we practically had the entire park to ourselves, as you can see. Great for photos of the main drag of Disney, usually this street is packed with people!

Here's Princess Elizabeth, ready to go in to the breakfast. I didn't post many pictures of the breakfast, but if you check out Laura's blog (TLEB in my sidebar) you'll see lots of pictures of her with the princesses she met. It was a little girl's dream! (sure would have been mine when I was her age!)

The beautiful mosaics (spelling??) on the inside of the castle.

Inside the breakfast waving the wand she got.

Then we met the boys at Hollywood Studios. It was a very rainy day so luckily there were lots of things to do inside. But it wasn't very fun trying to change a sopping wet boy's diaper in the ladies restroom when I was also dripping wet. Luckily we only had one day we had to do that! One great thing about the weather was it made the park practically empty! There were tons of characters to meet and sign the boys' books, and we hardly had to wait for any of them.

Here they are with Piglet and Pooh

I love this picture of Cooper with Minnie. He was SO into the characters. After the first or second meeting he was a pro and when we'd see a character he'd run over to me and ask for his book so he could get in line to meet them.

Jackson wasn't too sure of the charcters and mostly wanted to stay away from them, but for some reason he loved Minnie Mouse!

Mr. Incredible and Frozone, yeah!!!! Cooper's showing his muscles too. Pretty impressive huh? (we couldn't get J in the pictures without one of us with him)

Here's Lotso (the bad guy from Toy Story 3)

Another fav- Mickey! We actually got J into this one. He LOVES Mickey and Minnie!

We had these cute shirts made for Disney with Buzz light year on them. This was the only one I could get of the two of them in the shirts!

This was the longest character line by far-meeting Buzz and Woody! Here the boys are eyeing their idols.

Getting excited to meet Buzz!

While waiting in line they had all these things for the kids to play in. Here they are in a rocket.

AHHHHHH!!!! Getting grabbed by the claw!!!!!!

Uh oh, about to be blasted into outerspace!

Finally, getting to see Buzz and Woody.

Our trip is now complete!

There were two Toy Story rides, one here at Hollywood Studios, and one at Magic Kingdom. These two were definitely Cooper's favorite rides. We got to ride on this one a few different times. One time it even broke when we were halfway through it and we got to walk through the entire set, which was really cool! I thought the outside of the rides were so fun looking!

On one of his two favorite rides.

After Hollywood Studios we went back to Magic Kingdom for a few hours. Cooper and Ryan rode a car racing one, which he LOVED.

We ended the night riding their tea cups-such a classic ride. We rode on these when we came to Disney World when I was 5!

Another fun night. Jackson did a great job sleeping, he woke up part way through the night but then slept with me and actually slept! It worked out great and we were well-rested and ready to go the next day.

Disney Trip Day One

So on our first day to Disney, it was a lot of flying, but we still got to go to Magic Kingdom for awhile which was fun. Watch out, here are some STELLAR pictures on the airplane... :)

Let the Memories Begin!!! After we made it to the hotel and dropped off our stuff, we headed to Magic Kingdom to meet my parents and Laura + fam.

Right when we got there they were having a parade. So we hopped in line to watch. These girls were nice enough to let the kids sneak in front of them so they could have a front row view.

Jackson was in awe.

The characters got VERY close. Woody even came and patted Cooper's head because he was wearing a Toy Story shirt. I think a little too close for comfort. Right after this Cooper moved back by the grown-ups.

A much better view safe with Grandpa!

Then we toured the Swiss Family Robinson Tree House.

Then it was off to the Aladdin magic carpet ride! Both of the boys' first rides, and they loved it.

Before we left the park, Gma and Gpa let each kid pick their own balloon. Jackson kept seeing balloons the entire time we were here in Disney and so would constantly say "boon boon boon!"

Loving his Minnie/Mickey balloon.

Loving his Mickey balloon!

The beautiful Cinderella castle.

We stayed at the Grand Floridian which was absolutely beautiful. Here are a few pictures of our room/bathroom.

Jackson showing off his "first trip to Disney" shirt.

The four kids hanging out in our room.

Then we went to dinner, then to bed! A fun-filled day.