Cheese...Tigger!
Waiting for lunch... silly S ;o)
Beautiful Belane
LOVE me some Eeyore!
Love these boys! Are they too cute or what?!
Slurping ice cream through a straw because he could. ;o)
Saturday, April 4, 2009
More Magic Kingdom
Cheese...Tigger!Waiting for lunch... silly S ;o)Beautiful BelaneLOVE me some Eeyore!Love these boys! Are they too cute or what?!Slurping ice cream through a straw because he could. ;o)
Friday, April 3, 2009
Taking a break from pics...
Man, what a trip!
We took more than 700 pictures and I am still uploading them so I will get back to them soon.
Here's a bit more about our trip.
We arrived at the airport on Thursday at 830 am as scheduled. Everything went smoothly we made all connections and all luggage went through. YAY!
It was warm and humid in FL when we got there, but beautiful either way.
We arrived at GKTW and settled into our villa quickly for a minute, and then went across the street to the park that was a giant candy land game. SO cute. The boys ran off some steam and then we walked to dinner. The compound is large but easily navigated on foot. Or by a little motorized train that comes by every so often to give people rides. That first night was a Christmas theme complete with Santa, Mrs Claus, elves and a parade! The boys had a blast. The village is run by a few actual employees, something like 90 on staff and then they have something like 1400 volunteers each week. It's truly a magical place. We joked about the fact that all the villas were basically the same and most of them had Dodge or Chrysler minivan's parked in front of them so it was like being in some kind of weird alternate universe. ;o)
Friday was spent at Animal Kingdom. It was another warm sunny day. We went on safari, took a train to Rafiki's Island, watched the Lion King show (FABULOUS!!!) and got pics with the chipmunks, Donald Duck and Goofy.
S, D and I went on the Yeti ride, the little guys were too small so we took turns while the boys ate ice cream... or wore it as the case may be...lol
We had planned on going to Epcot that night but we were all bushed by the end of the day so we went back to GKTW for dinner and got to enjoy the Princess and Pirate night.
Saturday we went to Sea World. Saturday was HOT. We got to feed dolphins and sea lions, we watched the Dolphin shows and of course Shamu! I think Shamu was my favorite! I want to be an Orca trainer when I grow up! WOW!
We got back to GKTW about 6pm and met up with Erin's family. What a joy! Her kids just kind of took to mine and vise versa immediately. They became fast friends. S was pretty happy to have a girl to hang with that was her age, and watching E with Solomon was beautiful. They had both had such hard times at AHOPE and had been together for about a year. It was just such a HUGE blessing to see them running around together healthy and loved and in forever families!
Sunday was Magic Kingdom and RAIN... yuck! It poured most of the morning. So we did alot of running for cover. Riding inside rides and watching shows. It was alot of fun and the kids were troopers! We got to have lunch with Eeyore (my FAVORITE), Pooh, Piglet and Tigger too. Yummy! We shot at Emporer Zyrg and rode space ships. We rode Dumbo and Thunder mountain. N has no fear! He was having so much fun riding all the roller coasters!
Monday was Hollywood studios. The Tower of Terror is aptly named! OIY! The Rockin' Roller coaster is as well. SO much fun! Erin and I were front row screaming and giggling like kids...lol We then got to go see Play House Disney. And see ROCKET!!! E SO wanted to see and meet Rocket. It's the one thing that kind of disappointed me. They really didn't have anything planned for him to do anything special with Rocket. He got to meet all the characters from Little Einsteins but we couldn't get them to let him on stage after the show to pose with the big Rocket. oh well... it was still a fun day! We then got to go meet BUZZ!!! and Woody. ;o) This was Solomon's wish. He was dressed in his Buzz Lightyear outfit and was SO stinkin cute. His face was priceless. I am letting Erin write more about that and share pics. But man... it was so cool!
We ate at Pizza Planet! yum and rocked with the Block Party Bash parade. The kids got to dance in the streets and truly had a blast.
Tuesday was D's 40th Birthday. E sang daddy a special birthday song he madeup. He's so sweet!We all got up and went down to the ice cream parlor and had ice cream for breakfast. D was then serenaded by all 17 of us with a rounding Happy Birthday...Cha cha cha song. He was beaming! Then on to Universal Studios. It was packed! There were thunder and rain storms throughout the day. But we all had fun! We got to ride the Hulk roller coaster, FRONT ROW! WOOHOO!!! It was pretty warm so the kids were asking to ride water rides. We ended up just letting them play in the rain during one of the down pours (no lightening). I can't wait to post those pictures... that was so cute! Then on to dinner at the NASCAR diner for daddy's dinner. They even had Happy Birthday D up on the marquee! The dinner was grand, the company was grand and the cake was HUGE! ;o) We sang to him again and the whole restaurant joined in. He loved it!
It was a wonderful way to end the week. Erin and I stayed up late gabbing like little girls...lol
Wednesday morning we were up early finshed last minute packing and then went to say good bye to GKTW and our new family of friends! We all cried and hugged and were sad to leave. GKTW is truly magical, the people are wonderful it was so so neat to be in a place that takes these kids with life threatening illness and gives them such a gift! E was not ready to go! He just kept saying, No Home No home...lol I was feeling the SAME way! ;o) I think we all went into Henderson withdrawls... and reality illness...lol
Thank you Make a Wish...and Thank you Give Kids the World!
More pics to come soon.......
We took more than 700 pictures and I am still uploading them so I will get back to them soon.
Here's a bit more about our trip.
We arrived at the airport on Thursday at 830 am as scheduled. Everything went smoothly we made all connections and all luggage went through. YAY!
It was warm and humid in FL when we got there, but beautiful either way.
We arrived at GKTW and settled into our villa quickly for a minute, and then went across the street to the park that was a giant candy land game. SO cute. The boys ran off some steam and then we walked to dinner. The compound is large but easily navigated on foot. Or by a little motorized train that comes by every so often to give people rides. That first night was a Christmas theme complete with Santa, Mrs Claus, elves and a parade! The boys had a blast. The village is run by a few actual employees, something like 90 on staff and then they have something like 1400 volunteers each week. It's truly a magical place. We joked about the fact that all the villas were basically the same and most of them had Dodge or Chrysler minivan's parked in front of them so it was like being in some kind of weird alternate universe. ;o)
Friday was spent at Animal Kingdom. It was another warm sunny day. We went on safari, took a train to Rafiki's Island, watched the Lion King show (FABULOUS!!!) and got pics with the chipmunks, Donald Duck and Goofy.
S, D and I went on the Yeti ride, the little guys were too small so we took turns while the boys ate ice cream... or wore it as the case may be...lol
We had planned on going to Epcot that night but we were all bushed by the end of the day so we went back to GKTW for dinner and got to enjoy the Princess and Pirate night.
Saturday we went to Sea World. Saturday was HOT. We got to feed dolphins and sea lions, we watched the Dolphin shows and of course Shamu! I think Shamu was my favorite! I want to be an Orca trainer when I grow up! WOW!
We got back to GKTW about 6pm and met up with Erin's family. What a joy! Her kids just kind of took to mine and vise versa immediately. They became fast friends. S was pretty happy to have a girl to hang with that was her age, and watching E with Solomon was beautiful. They had both had such hard times at AHOPE and had been together for about a year. It was just such a HUGE blessing to see them running around together healthy and loved and in forever families!
Sunday was Magic Kingdom and RAIN... yuck! It poured most of the morning. So we did alot of running for cover. Riding inside rides and watching shows. It was alot of fun and the kids were troopers! We got to have lunch with Eeyore (my FAVORITE), Pooh, Piglet and Tigger too. Yummy! We shot at Emporer Zyrg and rode space ships. We rode Dumbo and Thunder mountain. N has no fear! He was having so much fun riding all the roller coasters!
Monday was Hollywood studios. The Tower of Terror is aptly named! OIY! The Rockin' Roller coaster is as well. SO much fun! Erin and I were front row screaming and giggling like kids...lol We then got to go see Play House Disney. And see ROCKET!!! E SO wanted to see and meet Rocket. It's the one thing that kind of disappointed me. They really didn't have anything planned for him to do anything special with Rocket. He got to meet all the characters from Little Einsteins but we couldn't get them to let him on stage after the show to pose with the big Rocket. oh well... it was still a fun day! We then got to go meet BUZZ!!! and Woody. ;o) This was Solomon's wish. He was dressed in his Buzz Lightyear outfit and was SO stinkin cute. His face was priceless. I am letting Erin write more about that and share pics. But man... it was so cool!
We ate at Pizza Planet! yum and rocked with the Block Party Bash parade. The kids got to dance in the streets and truly had a blast.
Tuesday was D's 40th Birthday. E sang daddy a special birthday song he madeup. He's so sweet!We all got up and went down to the ice cream parlor and had ice cream for breakfast. D was then serenaded by all 17 of us with a rounding Happy Birthday...Cha cha cha song. He was beaming! Then on to Universal Studios. It was packed! There were thunder and rain storms throughout the day. But we all had fun! We got to ride the Hulk roller coaster, FRONT ROW! WOOHOO!!! It was pretty warm so the kids were asking to ride water rides. We ended up just letting them play in the rain during one of the down pours (no lightening). I can't wait to post those pictures... that was so cute! Then on to dinner at the NASCAR diner for daddy's dinner. They even had Happy Birthday D up on the marquee! The dinner was grand, the company was grand and the cake was HUGE! ;o) We sang to him again and the whole restaurant joined in. He loved it!
It was a wonderful way to end the week. Erin and I stayed up late gabbing like little girls...lol
Wednesday morning we were up early finshed last minute packing and then went to say good bye to GKTW and our new family of friends! We all cried and hugged and were sad to leave. GKTW is truly magical, the people are wonderful it was so so neat to be in a place that takes these kids with life threatening illness and gives them such a gift! E was not ready to go! He just kept saying, No Home No home...lol I was feeling the SAME way! ;o) I think we all went into Henderson withdrawls... and reality illness...lol
Thank you Make a Wish...and Thank you Give Kids the World!
More pics to come soon.......
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Next stop...Magic Kingdom...
Look who joined us....lol YAY! We had SO much fun with Erin and her family. We were just like a blended family almost immediately. The kids are just GRAND! We miss them already and we just left them yesterday.
Look we got to meet Pooh! It had poured all morning, so my hair is a wreck...lol But N had given me a pretty flower to help.;o)
These guys were eating it all up!!!
Sea World
We got to feed and pet the dolphins at Sea World. How VERY cool is that?! D took video of us feeding them, and not so many pics. So here's all the proof that we have...lol The Dolphins were very smooth and soft, and friendly. It was such a cool experience!
This is N playing some steel drum. Such a ham!
The boys had fun feeding them...or trying to feed them. There was a bit of a space between the wall and the seals and their arms weren't quite getting the fish out far enough. So the crane below them was getting a feast...lol
Dolphins
This is N playing some steel drum. Such a ham!
We also got to feed the seals although we weren't able to touch them. The guys D is feeding here was very vocal. He wanted you to know he was there, and you had better feed him.
The boys had fun feeding them...or trying to feed them. There was a bit of a space between the wall and the seals and their arms weren't quite getting the fish out far enough. So the crane below them was getting a feast...lol
Dolphins
Pirate and Princess night at GKTW
One of the wonderful things about GKTW is that they have a really fun activity every night. The first night we were there was Christmas, the boys both got to meet Santa and princesses and eat snow cones. Our second night was Pirate and Princess night. There was music and face painting and dancing. One of the really cool things to see was the guys dressed as Prince's dancing with all the little princesses in their beautiful princess gear. SO sweet! There were some beautiful smiles that night!
This is E bustin a move.
And E as a pirate... he's got the look down doesn't he?!
Sami even got to be a princess for a bit.
CUTE!
And E as a pirate... he's got the look down doesn't he?!Sami even got to be a princess for a bit.This is supposed to be Mickey Mouse...lol The kids doing the face painting had obviously never done it before, but they were some pretty terrific volunteers and the kids had a blast! SO who it was great either way! ;o)
More carousel riding. This was just a cool picture. ;o)
CUTE!
Animal Kingdom
Sami and I in front of a beautiful tree. 
These tigers were amazing! D got some really great shots of them playing and just being stunning animals. The boys were very impressed!
Ok so how cute are they?!
This guy was sitting there watching us, watching him. He was pretty fearsome. He just kept cutting his eyes at us. E tried waving and smiling at him, but this guy wasn't cracking...lol Probably a good thing!
This is what happens when you don't use your listening ears...LOL
These guys were mezmerised by the fish. 
Just cause this was such a great shot. How cute is he?!
This is an upside down tree... well it's not really upside down, but the name of it mean's "upside down" Cool huh?!
The first of MANY pizza lunches. E is going to turn into a Pizza~
LOVE IT!
We're baaaaaaaaccckkkk
Our trip to Disney with Make a Wish was truly a dream come, or E's Wish come true! ;o)
Our first day was pretty fun already. We had a good flight the boys were both excellent. Of course it helped that there was in flight entertainment....lol
There was a carosel on property that was open from early morning until about 9pm the boys rode it almost every time we passed it. 
Our first Disney stop was Animal Kingdom. And these were the first guys we met. SO cute!
This is our villa, I am looking pretty rough, I guess traveling doesn't do good things for me...lol The villas at Give Kids the World (GKTW) are absolutely amazing! They are little duplex condo things and have all the amenities. They were very comfortable. I just can't say enough good things about GKTW! They were truly awesome! Accommodating, loving, every one was happy and friendly. If they could help you they did.
There was a carosel on property that was open from early morning until about 9pm the boys rode it almost every time we passed it. Our first Disney stop was Animal Kingdom. And these were the first guys we met. SO cute!
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