Friday, August 22, 2008

Birthday Surprises...

Grace and Drew have birthdays that are 3 days apart...3 days shy of 2 years apart. Drew was born 104 weeks and 9 minutes after Grace was born and so their birthdays thus far have been grouped together. Tim and I had this brainstorm about 7 months ago that we would go to Disney for their birthday. I had the idea to keep it a secret...until we left for the trip. So last Saturday at 6:23 am we rolled out of our driveway with sleepy kids and a rented minivan loaded with our stuff for the big trip. I was beside myself with excitement and the kids were just plain confused! A few hours into the trip we revealed our destination and it was cute to listen to them chatter about what all we would do once we were there, etc.








It was a great week. We stayed at Ft. Wilderness and for those of you with kids debating this trip...I can't tell you how awesome this place is. It is a campground but they have these precious cabins and it is a Disney Resort so you get ALL the Disney perks (after you pay for them). You take a boat over to the Magic King(dom)...Zach called in Magic King all week thus we have renamed the park! :-)

We were in for the next surprise...Tropical Storm Fay was headed our way and in all my secretive planning, I truly had NO CLUE! How moronic is that? We spent our last 2 days in blue ponchos but our spirits were not dampened. The parks were less crowded and we had a blast rain and all. I will spare all the details but both kids had a great birthday and I now have a 6, 4 and 2 year old! WOW, the time continues to FLY!



the very first ride...



mommy and her boys!


Drew's birthday dinner with Mickey

Happy Birthday Grace!

Splash Mountain...front row!

1 comment:

Sylvie said...

Amy,

Rob and I took our boys on a "surprise disney trip" when they were much younger too.

It was hilarious. It was a school day and we acted like we were going to school, but missed the turn and just kept going (for 7ish hours).

They went nuts trying to figure out why we weren't making them go to school and where we were going. When we pulled into the Disney gates they didn't believe it. Griffin said "it must be a Disney furniture store...they wouldn't take us to the real Disney World on purpose!" LOL

What a fun memory you created for your kids! Mine still remember that surprise trip as one of their favorites!