Disney World {2012}

We were lucky enough to be able to go to Florida in February. It was so nice to get away for 10 days! There was a Jewelry show held in Orlando that my Dad and Tony were going to attend, so we decided to make a family trip out of it and take the kiddos to Disney World! My Brother Trevor decided to come along too. It was great to all be together.

My Dad, Tony the kids and I got there a day before Trevor came. We spent the first day getting our badges for the show and then headed to Downtown Disney for dinner.

 

After dinner we walked around Downtown Disney. I loved getting to see all the beautiful flowers! We won't be seeing those for months in Utah.

 

And of course River LOVED seeing all things Toy Story and Mickey mouse related!

 

Riv and his best buddy Buzz Lightyear!

 

It was so cute...when River saw Minnie Mouse, he ran right up to her and hugged and kissed her! It was hilarious! He was in Disney heaven.

 

It was so nice to be able to pull out some of our fun summer attire. Although it wasn't overly hot, it was a much needed change from cold Utah :)

 

Riv even got to go swimming at the hotel a few times. He loved being able to be outdoors so much! He has hated being so cooped up this Winter.

As soon as Milo would get out to the pool he would fall right asleep.

 

Our first day off to the park, we decided to hit up Epcot first.

 

Dad and Trev in Canada @ Epcot.

 

I loved all the cool plant features they had at Epcot! Isn't this Lady and the Tramp, so cute!!

 

River of course stopped at every toy kiosk. We were strong parents and didn't give in, although Uncle Trevor wasn't always so strong! ;) {I had bought Disney items at Walmart before we left to save money, and gave them to him at the end of each day.}

 

Sensory Overload is exhausting!

 

Since there weren't a lot of rides for the kids we decided to head over to Magic Kingdom and well...

 

This pic shows about how well Magic Kingdom went! :( Unfortunately, it was SO CROWDED!! To be honest it was Miserable! I think we went on one ride the whole day!! To top off the "fun" all the restaurants required reservations, Apparently that is some new rule, and come to find out all of them were booked through the week! So our options for food in the parks were narrowed down to any thing at the small food kiosks. I will tell you that we weren't to thrilled about our $50 hot dog dinner.

 

Magic Kingdom you burned some bridges! Poor Trevor was traumatized and made it clear that none of his future children would ever have the "pleasure" of attending a Disney Park! Lol!

Well after our first Awful experience none of us were too eager to get to the park the next day. We all kind of dragged our feet. We went and ate a big brunch out of the park to hold us over for as long as possible. Lucky enough day two was much kinder to us! The crowds really seemed to have thinned out and it was a much more enjoyable day!!

River's favorite character is Donald Duck if you can't tell ;)

 I was SO disappointed because while Trev and I were waiting to get on space mountain, which literally broke down as soon as we were next in line to ride!! River ran into Donald Duck at a Dance party outside of Space Mountain and Tony said he went crazy and ran over to him and started dancing with him and wouldn't leave his side. Tony didn't have the camera and by the time I got off the ride and tried running back to the dance party to get it on film, Donald walked away right when I got there! Talk about not being able to catch a break! So needless to say I was SO sad to have missed it! Tony was the only one that got to see it. All of us were pretty sad about it.

 

Gearing up for day 2!

 

Yep we are those parents that have their kids on a leash! Don't judge us :)

 

Yummy Dole whips!

The weather cooperated perfectly for us!

We only had one incident with rain. It POURED for about 30 mins, but then passed. We all hid in a covered walkway until it passed.

 

The Boys all wore their V-neck shirts on the same day! River loved being like the "big" boys.

 

Day 3: Milo watching the Marching Band on Main St.

 

I just have to say that Milo's big rimmed hat was amazing! It totally kept the sun off him, great purchase!

 

It was pretty cool that on some of the newer rides {like here @ Winnie the Pooh} they had things for the kids to play with while they waited in line. Genius!

 

 This was the third and last day we spent at the Disney Park. It was also my Birthday! Can't believe I'm 28, so weird how old I'm getting!!

{We found out later why the park was so packed the first day, the All Star game was in town and also the indie 500.}

The next park we went to was Universal. We really just wanted to see the Harry Potter land.

 

The Harry Potter thing was pretty cool. We all Loved the Butter beer! There really wasn't a lot to do other then just walk around and look at stuff. So we got done with that section of the park relatively quick. So we headed over to where all the roller coaster were. It was awesome because the park was so empty we just walked onto all the rides! The adults had a lot of fun getting to ride some "real" rides!

 

I have to say I felt so blessed that on both flights my kiddos did EXCELLENT!! Really I was so amazed at how well behaved they were, answer to prayer!!

I wanted to post this pic of the kiddos in their stroller. I finally broke down and got a double stroller after months of looking and getting discouraged, I finally decided on this Phil and Teds. I have to tell you this is the best stroller ever! It is so compact and easy to push. The kids love it! River actually loves the back seat, which I was worried about before I bought it, but it has been a wonderful stroller! Great purchase if anyone is looking for a double and sick of all the huge bulky options out there, this is the BEST!