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Christmas Roller Coaster

December 29, 2015 By Callie Leave a Comment

Someone was nice #santacame

Someone was nice #santacame

Our Christmas roller coaster went up that hill, paused and now is slowly heading back to the station. I love preparing our homes and hearts for Christmas but I do not love the aftermath.

I forget about it every year.

I’m always so excited at all the fun Christmas things coming-what should we try this year….

How did your time go? Anything fun and new or old and loved?

We made cookies this year-and I mean she really did make them. We talked about ingredients and measuring and pouring and mixing and baking. She adored it.Honestly that child made a pretty darn good batch and ate four that night!

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She grabbed her shoes at least three times a week at night and smiled-asking to get in the car and drive around to see lights. Of course we did.

We dressed in matching jammies and got excited…and prayed for my Dad as he battled like a soldier through heart surgery.

We pressed our hands in salt dough and I begged for the Santa picture we couldn’t she wouldn’t do this year. My heart melted as I realized this was year 4 of Christmas with her and that the years were racing.

Rocking away

Rocking away

Now we face the toys to open, the decorations to take down, the week on the couch watching Harry Potter took its toll and the house was wrecked. Oh but I love/hate it.

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We have missed our friends….we have missed outing but our couch sitting has been amazing.

I hold her and think don’t let it slide, don’t race. I know to well what school brings-time away, time demands and I don’t want it to start.

For now it’s just me, and her, and him and HIM. Oh and Grandma is usually here too.

Merry Christmas Baby Jesus-thank you for this time.

Now go clean your house already. It looks like Minnie Mouse is basically in every corner of my house now!

Filed Under: Birthdays, Christmas, Christmas Traditions Tagged With: christmas, cooking, traditions

Chef Mickey’s @ The Contemporary Resort-Walt Disney World

November 17, 2015 By Callie Leave a Comment

Moving right along on my WDW bucket list…ahhh the table service restaurants. Do you have a WDW bucket list? You should! It’s chock full of fun ideas to do while you’re visiting. You can check mine out here.

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Chef Mickey’s is located at the Contemporary Resort in the Magic Kingdom area of Walt Disney World. What’s great about that? You can easily spend your day at Magic Kingdom and then jump on the monorail to the Contemporary for a meal.

Oh the monorail-I love the monorail. We may have ridden it twice.

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To get to Chef Mickey’s from riding the monorail you must go down an elevator which is a little confusing. I’m guessing that if you stayed at the Contemporary you’d get used to the monorail way. Our Home is Wilderness Lodge so we weren’t used to it.

After signing in at the hostess desk we were invited to go and get a picture taken by the WDW professional picture takes and since we had memory maker of course we said yes!

Row was a little crazed at our table reservations. I would say the waiting/over stimulation was what did it. She enjoyed terrorizing me and jumping on the couches. Note the look on mine and her face-exactly. They also had a tv area for the littles while they waited.

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Like I said-terrorized…..but hey it is what it is. Uhem rapid movement.

We sat at our table and there was a great buffet! I really liked that everyone had an opportunity to choose what they liked. I would say the food was not as great as the non buffet table service dining offered at WDW but the atmosphere more than made up for it. The Fab 5 to be exact-Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald, and Pluto all dressed in Chef’s outfits came table to table for pictures and autographs. Now let it be known that 2 year olds and characters don’t exactly mix. I was hoping when she saw her girl Don Duck and Ninnie she would be excited but she was less than. I however was!

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Not feeling it…

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and notice the gaze….

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and then she considered touching her….

The characters were amazing. We were celebrating Row’s birthday while on vacay so she got a special treat!

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and even Mickey came over and blew her a special birthday kiss.

The characters really knew how to handle the littles and never over stepped their boundaries which is oh so appreciated for mommies of introverts. The bread pudding btw was so amazing.

Chef Mickey’s is definitely one for the bucket list. If you have a meal plan that includes table service dining you should definitely book Chef Mickey. I know we will be back when Row’s a little older. The downside of eating at character dining restaurants is you have to wait sometimes for the character rounds. They will come back to you, they will dance, and you will have an amazing time.

Did I mention that the monorail could be seen running through the hotel the whole time we ate-super cool!

 

Filed Under: Birthdays, Booking Disney, Dinner, Disney, Restaurants, review, Uncategorized, Vacation Tagged With: birthday, booking disney, chef mickeys, contemporary resort, dinner, restaurant, review, travel, Vacation, walt disney world, wdw

Living with a Threenager

October 30, 2015 By Callie Leave a Comment

It happened my precious baby big girl turned 3 this past weekend. Our friends and family braved the rain from Patricia and swam on over to celebrate. It was tough going because I had planned on having lots of outside activities to keep those roaring toddlers busy but all the Mamas held down the fort. I would like to tell you the Daddies did too-but this is what the Daddies did…

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We decided to have a Daniel Tiger birthday since our girl adores him! Grandma got Row a custom made Daniel dress for twirling. After Row gets dressed she likes to put her shoes and socks on and tell us it’s time to go “gotta go” in fact.Photobomb-Lola the Pug

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We celebrated by eating Daniel’s unsmooshed tiger cake-I did not make this one. I usually make all of our cakes but I am more of a buttercream simplest when it comes to cakes. I bought all the stuff for this particular cake and contemplated making it for a good three weeks but then once I looked at our October month of travel craziness I opted to have a local baker make it and she did a fabulous job. It was so worth it! We had tiger tails-pretzels dipped, mud pies, cupcakes, fruits and veggies and tiger juice. Oh and my dear friend Jennifer let us borrow her awesome handmade trolley.

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Hubs and I have started a birthday book for Row. Every year we write on a note card things we remember for the year-one from each of us and I put them in her birthday book for down the road. I also take a picture of her with all her gifts from that year. Mainly because I think it’ll be cool for her to see later on. I wish I had seen all those cool 80’s toys I got!

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I have created a Disney monster and we kind of love play dough! As the girls in my play date say-Callie loves a good party! Here’s to another magical year.

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Filed Under: Baking, Birthdays, cakes, Cooking Tagged With: baking, birthday, cooking, daniel tiger, party, three, threenager

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