Easter in Disney

We spent Easter at the Happiest Place On Earth this year.  While I won't be blogging every pic or detail of our trip, I just wanted to share our Easter.

Disney thinks of everything, and so does the Easter Bunny!  He made a special trip to bring the girls their baskets.  When they woke up they were quick to spot them despite bring so sleepy.  They have serious bedhead but were happy with their goodies!

 After a quick breakfast, we went outside where the hotel was doing a "Candy Scramble" (their equiliant to an Egg Hunt).  The lawns were split into section by age, taped off & covered in candy.  Every kid got a bag & when the buzzer went off the kids were free to fill their bags (& pockets) till they couldn't hold anymore.  Joe & Gianna were waiting with her age group. While I was with Marissa.

Can you see all the candy on the ground?? 

 When the girls' bags were jam packed with goodies, we dropped them off in our room & headed to the Magic Kingdom.

We took the girls for driving lessons....Gianna wasn't too bad at it either.

We did a few more rides then watched the show at the castle.

 In the afternoon, we watched the Easter parade that marched before the regular parade.  Kicking off the parade was Mr. & Mrs. Easter Bunny of course!  The girls took pics with them the day before, which must've helped with the delivery of their baskets. ;)

The Azalea Trail Maids were back again in the parade, looking lovely in their beautiful gowns.  You can read more about them HERE.  There was an ocean of girls in colors ranging from yellow, aqua, baby blue, lavender & peach.  There is only one that wears pink.

Following the maids are an assortment of Bunnies.....

Then starts the normal parade which wouldn't be complete without Mickey & Minnie!

We left the park shortly after the parade to relax back at the hotel. Basically, we were tired.  I got sick the week before we left & Joe wasn't feeling great either, so we (the adults) took naps while the girls watched TV.  They didn't complain, they had CANDY!! ;)

We had dinner at the Yachtman's Steakhouse that night.  While we were waiting to be seated we took pics. Looking back, I should've asked someone to take a family pic, oh well.

I didn't take pics of dinner but the girls' desserts required pics (they asked).  They each got a hollow egg to decorate with edible "paint".  They had fun with it, of course!

Going back to our hotel we made sure to stop in the lobby to take pics of all the handmade chocolate eggs that were on display.  There were so many beautifully done eggs but I'm only going to share a few, since this post is so pic heavy.  If you have Instagram, you can look me up (sarar7499) & see all the pics I took while on vacation.  In case you need to see MORE!! ;)

As much as I enjoy all the cooking & Easter activities at home, celebrating it at Disney was relaxing!

12 on 12 April

Can't believe it's the twelfth of April already! This month is just insane!

Since Blogger won't let me post the pics in order (I'm on my iPhone), I can't give you the reasons for my pics, though I'm sure some are self-explanatory. I'll fix it when I get back!   ETA: All fixed!

Taking a bus ride over to Hollywood Studios after Breakfast.

Hollywood Studios

Went for FastPasses for the Toy Story Mania ride.  Good thing we got them early!!

Face Painting is a must at least once (or twice) a vacation!

Still young enough to get her face painted.

Went to see the car show.  No matter how many times we've seen it, it's still exciting!

Waiting to see the Muppets show in 3D.

Watched the parade with all the Pixar characters

Had to see the Little Mermaid show

Introduced the girls to Indiana Jones, they had no clue about the movies, but liked the show

After all day at the park we got to see the Fantasmic show.  We haven't seen it since Marissa was a baby.  It was great but chilly that night.  The girls liked all the effects.

After the show we stopped in a gift shop to buy the girls t-shirts to wear over their clothes, since it was CHIL-LY!! 

Easter 2012

Hoping everyone had a wonderful Easter!!

We spent the day having a wonderful time at the Magic Kingdom.

Project Life February

Back with my February pages for my Project Life album.  I think February has been a lot of fun to work on.

This is the end of January into February.

Jan 29-Feb 4

 

While looking for a stamp, I came across these older Heidi Swapp month stamps & decided to add that to the beginning of each month. 

Feb 5-11

I included a pic of my month from the Photo365 app in the title  pocket.

This is the part I liked best, adding page inserts!!I had lots of pics I wanted to include between my nephew's birthday on the 11th & Joe's birthday on the 12th PLUS I included my 12on12 pics in a LO format.  I really like how it looks IRL, all the different size page protectors.  You can't see it well in this pic from those 3 pics on the left are in a separate photo sleeve.

You can see it better this way on the flip side.

Then I added this 4x4 pocket page but I trimmed off the pockets I didn't need, saving it for something else.

Front:

I really love how these came out!  They were fun to make too.  The best part (I've said it before) is using up OLD stash!! I can not say it enough!  It makes me happy to put things to use that I loved enough to buy long ago.

Back:

Feb. 12-18

For my January 12on12 pics I used an accordion insert & made the pics really small.  Then I saw a LO of Amy Tangerine's on Pinterest that led me to make this:

I think this is how I'll be including all my 12on12 in my album.  The journaling is simply printed on another sheet of cardstock.

I didn't have that many extra pics to include but this one "had" to be included so I created a super simple LO & added that in a 8x8 page protector.

The flip side held a valentine from Gianna & the top to some candy that Marissa got. Simple.

Feb. 19-25 

 

This looks more on the simple side but if you look close up, it's got lots of fun washi & some old Making Memories clear accents.  I'm happy with it. 

 

This is what I'm up to for now.  I've got March started but had to stop since it life got busy.  It won't take long to catch up again--it's been so fun!  Really love that I've got a smaller area to play with.  So if I only have time to do one or two days at a time it's ok.  I'll post the rest of February along with March once I'm done. Then it's on to April!  I'm sure it's going to be lots of fun to make those pages with Easter & our Spring Break pics.  Looking forward to playing already!! ;)

Project Life January

Since deciding on doing Project Life, I've been on a mission to catch up.  It's taking awhile, but I'm getting there.  I was just going to keep it simple & not add anything extra except what came in the kit.  But I was easily lured in by seeing gorgeous albums from other people (both on blogs & on Instagram). 

Then of course I wanted to play with my Silhouette Cameo, which lead me to create this cover page.

I took some of the extra papers that come with the kit for this.  Since I'm all about gray (& yellow) right now, I used those. Sorry for the wonky pictures but I was in a hurry & this is as good as it gets! ;)  Bear with me!

This is the flip side since I just couldn't leave it blank.

I didn't create these first few pages in order since the ideas would randomly pop in my head as I got more comfortable with the Cameo. 

Originally, I didn't see the need for the cover page at all but this came to mind & I knew it was meant to be.

Now onto January.  Since I started this project not realizing that I'd join doing PL I had just been taking pictures with my iphone so the majority of my pics are small.  I realized I could fit a week's worth of pics on one page.  This means I can always add more if I have a lot more pics to add here or there.  So for now the LO's are more one page oriented. 

Jan. 1-7

 Jan 8-14

Jan 15-21

 Jan 22-28

The best part of this for me, is that I've been digging through some OLD supplies that I've basically forgotten about.  Still fun to play with though.  I like using washi tape on my LO's too!  Didn't think I'd give in to that trend but once I used it I was hooked!  Love that stuff!

 

I know January doesn't end on the 28th but I combined the end of January with the beginning of February, so I'll share that page with February.  I'm still not sure, once I catch up, if I'll post these weekly or monthly like this.  Right now I'm just trying to catch up!! ;)