Tuesday, January 10, 2012
DISNEY!
We were Blessed with an opportunity to go to Disney for the first time! There is an older couple at our church (we didn't know them) that had booked a week at a resort in Disney and could not use the week. It was a non-refundable trip. Our family was attending the Advent mission at church and they were as well. On Tuesday the 6th of December Branden was running around the Parish Hall like a crazy man playing with our kids (he does this often and some times gets in trouble - he is a big kid himself). The man and his wife see him and they say I wonder if that guy in the plaid shirt over there running around with all of those kids would like to go to Disney. SOOOOOO Long story short....we said yes and left for Disney on Saturday the 10th!! We stayed for a week and had the best time ever! Disney is the happy place. It just makes you smile and for some reason we all seemed to have an odd amount of energy that propelled us from the wee hours of the morning to very late into the night without naps. Yes that is right we park hopped and would wake up to take the first bus to the park. We would get there as it was opening and stayed until they kicked us out. If the parked closed at 6 or 7pm we would hop on the tram and go to Epcot or Disney until they closed at 9:30pm and then after that we would come back to the resort at 10pm and swim. Then around llpm we would sit in the hot tub drinking wine while the kids continued swimming. Then we would start all over again the next morning! We did all of this with all of our five children. I know it sounds crazy, but it is true and it was a lot of fun! We unfortunately do not have many pictures, but we have a few. The more kids we have had the less pictures we get and slowly I am learning to detach from having pictures of everything all the time. It is a major stress to stop and get pictures of everyone when the moment is good and the attitudes are positive so we keep going in the good moments and stop in the bad moments, but in the bad moments I don't want pics either!! Can't win either way so I just let go of pics and enjoy the moments. Also in Disney to keep up with five kids with two adults is a lot of work. Adding pictures into the mix was at many moment just too much!
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sounds like ya'll did it up right! looks like loads of fun, and it looks like a few of the kiddos did manage a nap in a stroller here and there :) Can't believe how big Emmaline is getting!
ReplyDeleteI have no idea how or when or where I came across your blog, but it has been sitting in my "blog" file on my computer for a long time. Anyway, just wanted to say HI. And I LOVE this post. Very inspiring. I am currently 32 weeks pregnant with #4. We have high hopes of vacationing at some point this coming summer and everyone thinks we are crazy with 4 kids ages 6 and under. But we are gonna do it anyway and enjoy every second of it. Thanks for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful family by the way!
Actually, I think you all got some pretty terrific pictures of the kids! I know what you mean, though, about not wanting to break the flow during the good times, yet not wanting to have a bunch of pictures of scowls and tear-stained faces, either.... What a blessing for you all to get to take this trip! We've yet to make our first trip to Disney, but I truly can't imagine managing five young kids with only two adults. Kudos to you all for doing it!
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