Our Disney World Trip!!!

This is Dan, for once! I decided to take the lead on our vacation report.

Well, we had a great start for summer with going to florida to play at Disney World for 4 days!!! Thanks to Bill and Jan who made it possible for this to happen, we had an amazing time.

For all those who dont know about Disney World, its huge! It consists of 4 parks, and only a 3rd of Disney Worlds Land is used. It has its own water systems, highways, transportation and an underground city that helps maintain the parks.

We left on a sunday and arrived in orlando in the afternoon. We didnt have to pick up our luggage at the airport as we had special Disney tags that would take them from pheonix straight to our resort at Disney! (very nice feature) That night we went to downtown disney and goofed around, ate at Earl of Sandwich, and then passed out at the resort.

Highlights of the trip were spending time with the family having fun was number one (Emmy had a blast with her cousin Paul). We also loved the Monsters Inc. Laugh Factory Stand up show (Monster Inc. computer characters interact with the audience to help with jokes). Expedition Everest, a roller coaster at Animal kingdom that goes forward, reverse, forward through a crazy track, very fun. Looking at the animals with Emmy as she loved them all! Dans favorite parts were seeing how excited Emmy got to see Handy Manny, playhouse Disney, the tea cup ride and many other rides. German food at Epcot was a plus for Dan and also a tradition with his family.

Overall we had an amazing time and loved every minute. It was a blessing to be able to go and we thank the Dannenberg family for putting it together and making it happen. Here are some pictures of our trip below


Heres Emmy Waiting for the train to come at the Magic Kingdom.


Emmy is having fun with Paul at Micky Mouse playground!


Having fun with mommy and Aunt susan and Paul on the tea cup ride!


Daddy takes emmy on the Dumbo ride that she had a blast on.


Emmy with cousin Paul at the elephant statues at Animal Kingdom.


Quick family picture.


This is Emmy passed out from a long day of playing.


Emmy hanging out with Grandpa!


Emmys highlight of the trip, meeting her favorite Disney Character Handy Manny!!!


Daddy and Emmys run in with Jack Sparrow!


Emmy passed out on our last day.

Disney World

Those of you that know Emmy well know she is a strange girl.

She does not like too many TV shows, but her all time hero is a character on Disney's Playhouse called

HaNdY MaNnY -- her hero.

She was so excited to be able to meet him, here is a picture of the first encounter with her favorite character of all time!






We are still out of town, but I thought I would post this one photo.

Reading can be fun!

Take the Quiz here!

I had taken this quiz before, but saw this on Brooke's blog, and thought I would post it (thanks for the idea Brooke :). I actually just finished reading Persuasion, so this is extra fun kinda! I love reading, and can't wait to curl up with a book once Emmy and my work are put to rest for the night. Dan will often be mad at me for staying up till one or two in the morning reading. Persuasion was a great read, I recomend it!

Anyone for a SWIM???

Lately we have been swimming in PaPaw and MaMaws pool, and Emmy loves it! She has so much fun singing fishy songs and splashing and kicking in the water. It will definitely be something we keep doing often for the summer.

Last week she finally started wearing clothes the next size up. She is a bit of a little girl, in that she is 17 months old and just over 20 pounds! But she finally can wear some of the clothes she got for her birthday. Here are her cutest pajamas (thank you Nanny and Great Grams). She is modeling them so well, you'd think she was on a runway!

Mommy finally painted Emmy's toes again too! Emmy went to Ulta with me one day and picked out a bottle of nail polish, and so we had to paint her toes!

Here is Emmy all ready for church, and she is sporting Mommy's heels! The black and white polka dots almost match - nice try cutie!

And we can't leave out the picture of Emmy in Mommy's Shox, with her 'pretty' necklace on. She is all dressed up with no party to go to!

This is the last week of finals, yeah! Dan is almost done with all his tests and his studio presentation, and then its just a waiting game to see if he gets into the graphic design program. Me, I am just hanging in there between the late nights of work and the days playing with Emmy. Sometimes I am feeling out of balance a little, but I know its only for a short time. Soon enough the summer will be long gone and we will be back to life as normal. Someday when school is done for Dan and we have a real job with actual income, it will be a weird feeling I think! I can't imagine life without student loans etc. but I also can't wait to get there! I plan to enjoy every stage we are in, poor students is just the stage for now, and we aren't perfect, but we are making the most of every day!