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For this trip, we decided to split up our trip into 2 videos…1 for the WDW portion and 1 for the cruise portion.

I wanted to record so much more (as I always do) but between it being cold in WDW, an umbrella stroller that required two hands to push, feeling icky and carrying a toddler…I felt like I would have needed about 3 more arms in order to accomplish any more video recording.

However, we got over 17 minutes worth of video for you after making some cuts….and that’s in addition to the Snorkeling Video I already posted. Not too bad!

 

As always, thanks so much for watching and following along on our adventures. I hope you enjoyed this trip report (except for that last day…yuck!) and if you haven’t already, you can read our trip report starting at Day 1 here!

Stay tuned for our May trip…Brett will be tackling the 24 hour event at Magic Kingdom and we’ll be attending Star Wars Weekend!

 

Brett has an obsession with Jib Jab videos. Every holiday and birthday, we can expect a Jib Jab video. I personally think it’s hilarious when Trent and the animals are included, but I may just be easily amused.

Here’s the video he made for St. Patrick’s Day…enjoy!

Earlier this month, I shared the photo we took to make our baby #2 announcement and I mentioned a video…well, I finally put it together and am excited to share it! We just had to take the opportunity to surprise everyone in a unique way….because let’s face it, that’s just what we do.

We bought Trent a “Big Brother” t-shirt and brought it along with us to the party, but kept it hidden in the diaper bag. Once we sang Happy Birthday and opened gifts, we thought it was time to break the news…except right before I went to grab him, he fell down and and started to cry. Add this to the fact that he has been Mr. Super Shy Guy for months now, and we had a feeling our announcement wasn’t going to play out like we imagined. But we gave it a try anyway.

I brought Trent into the bathroom, changed his shirt and then tried to get him to walk around and see everyone…we wanted to see how long it would take people to notice! Well, he didn’t want to walk around, but I was finally able to get him past one room. Our niece, Levonna, noticed immediately, but she knew to keep quiet until others noticed (thank you Levonna!). After he made his way past the living room, my goal was to get his Nana to see his shirt.

But she was too busy telling a story to someone, so even though I said NANA! 10 times, it wasn’t until I poked her that she turned around and looked. By that time, half the people there had noticed and had to tell her to look at the shirt. This was proving to be quite the task.

Once she did notice it, she let out a deafening scream - but Papa was not so quick to catch on. She had to tell him to look at the shirt and he said “Big Brother - yeah, so what?” He apparently thought the shirt was referring to the tv show Big Brother. Nana had to scream “He’s going to be a big brother!” which then prompted Papa to grab him and hug him, which resulted in Trent getting scared and crying.

It may not have gone as planned, but things rarely ever do, and it will definitely be a fun story to share in the future!

 

It may be 2014, but I am squeezing in another Christmas post. This year was much like the past few years…we had Christmas Eve at Brett’s mom’s house, then Christmas morning at our house with just us, then extended family came over a little later on Christmas day to exchange our drawn-names gift. Let’s get started!

We switched it up a little this year and decided to do a pajama themed Christmas Eve! Hey, that worked for me because I got to be comfortable. When we were in Disney World earlier in December, we spotted these super cute t-shirts that looked like tacky Christmas sweaters and could pass as pajama shirts…Brett and I quickly grabbed one, but unfortunately they didn’t have any small enough for Trent…so he got a super cute Mickey onesie pajama with Mickey slippers instead.

Always a Disney Family…and almost a family photo.

I may get in trouble for posting these, but I am willing to risk it…our crazy family.

We ate a delicious dinner of turkey, ham, Brett’s yummy mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, stuffing and cranberry sauce. Can I have that dinner at least once a week? Some of us slower eaters were rushed to finish our dinners by the little ones anxiously staring at the gifts under the tree.

It took Trent a few gifts in order to understand he was supposed to rip the wrapping paper off and not put it back nice and neat. That’s my little Junior OCD boy. I won’t bore you with every single photo, but here are some from that night.

Lily got a kitten and you can probably tell how loud her scream was by looking at me…and the cat’s ears. Sorry, cat, hope you weren’t planning on using your cat-level sense of hearing during your lifetime.

Trent says we are too messy for his liking.

The kids made cookies for Santa.

Brett stayed up until 4am putting Trent’s main gift together, but it was so worth it to see Trent wake up on Christmas morning and start playing with it immediately. It was like a train set, but with Cars characters and set in Radiator Springs. When Brett saw it in Costco a few months ago, we knew immediately it would be his big gift on Christmas.

We set up the GoPro behind it and captured the first few minutes…

…before he turned into King Kong.

Then we opened stockings while breakfast was in the oven.

I don’t know what to do about this boy’s hair…good thing he’s scheduled for his first haircut in the Magic Kingdom later this month!

For breakfast, Brett made breakfast burritos….extra cheesy.

Then we opened the rest of our gifts. Here’s a video of our Christmas morning.

Trent got some great educational boards from Melissa & Doug, along with some coloring books and magnets. By now, he was a gift opening pro.

I love his little feet sticking out from under the boards in this next photo.

Trent already stole my pillow.

After more playing and a nap, the family came over for more gifts and desserts and coffee.

Trent got a slide…which he didn’t want to do at first (mostly because everyone was watching) but has since gone up and down a thousand times. We just keep it in the living room and he goes on it all day long.

It was another great Christmas, one that has filled our garage to the max with boxes and our hearts with happiness. We started packing it all up this past weekend, but there’s a bunch more to go - especially the outside lights! Brett can do that while I sit back and wait for the warmer weather to make it’s way toward us!