My Cherie Amour: Oh Mickey how we miss you!

We're back...from our first family vacation. I'd like to say we just returned after 2 months of a Disney trip, but the sad truth is that we came back after 5 days and just haven't taken the time to post...Thank you for your patience.

It was a wonderful trip. My lovely little dearies survived the plane trip although it was a rough trip for our laptop, which took a shower in the complimentary airplane drink (Sprite). I'm using said laptop to type this blog right now so needless to say the injuries were minor.

Where to begin...where to begin...

As you might have predicted we were packing into the wee hours of the morning and hit the sack at around 2:30 am. We set our alarms to go off at 5:30 so that we'd have plenty of time for our 8:00 flight. Our new rule of thumb should be what ever time we think we need to get up...take it back an additional hour and we should be perfect.

We woke the boys up with mom sporting the flashing Mickey Mouse ears I had brought back from my trip to California last year. We video taped our big announcement first to a sleepy Camden and then to a sleepy Jamison.

Camden's reaction to my flashing ears?...."It's too bright!" Not quite the reaction I had expected. He was more excited to hear that we were flying on a plane than that we were going to Disneyworld.

Jamison, in true Jamison form, ignored our calls of his name and jiggling him around and tried to continue his blissful sleep. He eventually sat up, found his binky, and flashed us a Jamison puffy faced smile...always so heartwarming.

We scrambled ourselves and our overly packed suitcases into the Tahoe, and headed out at lightning speed toward the airport...running a little behind. We had the unpleasant discovery that the tank was rapidly approaching the big red E and had to make a pit stop at a gas station.

After finally arriving at the blue lot parking we unloaded our two oversized suitcases, laptop bag, carryon bag, carseat, stroller and two little ones and ourselved onto the shuttle. I could almost hear the audible groan of the other passengers as the looked at all of our stuff.

Thankfully check in was a breeze and there was additional seating on the airplane which allowed us to strap Jamos into his carseat by the window. We were on our way!

Florida was hot and humid. We didn't care. Vacation is vacation.

We got our bags, and shuttled over to our resort The Animal Kingdom Lodge. It was quite a sight.

Once settled we set out to our first park - The Animal Kingdom.

It was just okay, which is why I'll quickly skip past it and get to...The Magic Kingdom

Now that's what I'm talkin bout! It was truly magical. The colors, the smells, the extremely friendly people. The kids felt like kids, the grown ups felt like kids. It really is the happiest place on earth. The pictures speak for themselves.