Disney on Ice w/ the Greens

We decided to make it a family double date and took the kids to see the newest Disney on Ice: Celebrations. It goes around the world showing different things people celebrate. We visited South America for a Carnival, China for the Cherry Blossom Festival, Hawaii for a Luau (complete with fire circle on the ice!) and some old fashioned American holidays too. We tried for a family pic, but couldn't get both ours to look at the camera...big surprise. I think the Green family looks cute in theirs. This was an early b-day present for Caroline who is turning 5 this week!!

Mickey started off the show with his Fantasia outfit and brooms. We were a tad late and missed a little, but Christian still loved it. He plans on dressing like this for Halloween.

Lots of the villains paid a visit during the Halloween portion...the costumes were very cool

Here's who Baylor will look like at Halloween

Mary Ann probably won't appreciate this one, but I love her reaction as Christian is explaining something to her:)
Caitlyn and Caroline

For the Valentines portion of the show, Minnie wished she could be a beautiful princess and find her prince charming. Her fairy godmother granted her wish and all the princess came to visit w/ their own prince to show Minnie what to look for.

Above is Aladin and Jasmin...Belle and her prince are below

All the princes and princess'

And who would have guessed that Mickey would turn out to be her prince charming?!?!

New Orleans...Mardi Gras (the new Princess and the Frog movie is based here too)

The Big Finale

And we're off

waiting to get on the plane and then later we have our "can't wait to get there smiles"

This was what greeted us in our hotel room

Look how sweet these two can be

story time w/ Belle was our first official activity and you can see Baylor's great reaction above. They tried to pick Christian to play Gaston in their story, but he was too shy

Meeting the Little Mermaid

Our family loves Dumbo and the Tea Cups

Hanging out in Minnie's living room

Star Wars at Disney

When we began planning this trip in January we had no idea that it fell on one of THE big weekends for many Disney/Star Wars fans. Christian was so excited when we arrived at Hollywood Studios on Sunday and found Star Troopers greeting us. It was lots of fun to see all the special stuff they do just for these weekends.

Bobo Fet a.ka. Christian

There was a big parade with characters from the movies. Goofy even dressed up like Darth:)

an Ewok

a bounty hunter

We love R2-D2!!!

all the characters from the parade and a few stars from the movies

My little Storm Troopers

Memorial Day at Animal Kingdom

We started out the day at Donald's Breakfastsaurus...very yummy. He brought Daisy, Goofy and Mickey along with him

Then it was off on a Safari to see tons of animals. We also went to Nemo: The musical which is a fabulous show. Christian and Jeff rode Dinosaur: the ride, Baylor and I visited some characters and just had fun walking around

The Tree of Life

Baylor loved seeing Minnie anytime she could

We were walking along and all of a sudden there's Pocahontas...this was the best character encounter b/c we weren't expecting it and Baylor got so excited

Back at the hotel

We tired Jeff out

The kids slept in the same bed. Christian fell out the first night...Baylor the second...by the third we had it down and all stayed in one place

We decided to get silly before going to sleep