Disney!!

As almost everyone knows, I love Disney. I LOVE DISNEY!!! I really do. I grew up watching Disney movies and my nursery was decorated in baby Disney. My parents love Disney. My grandparents took my dad to Disney World the second year it was open! I think...I'm sure my dad will correct me if I'm wrong :) my dad is from Florida so we would visit there often and every time we went my parents took us to Disney World. I have so many wonderful memories there. It makes me tear up to think about all our trips!  Disney World is so magical. You get there and you're immediately five years old again! Everything is fun!! Things that would creep you out on any other normal day are suddenly so awesome and exciting (people dressed up like cartoon characters? On the street I'd be thinking "wow what a freak" but at Disney I start crying when I see Belle or Cinderella...I know, pathetic hahaha)!!! I love the rides, the food, the music, the parades, the characters, the shows, the fireworks, the monorail, I love Epcot, Animal Kingdom, Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios (oh yeeeeeaaaa! Court and Hay will remember!), Downtown Disney, I LOVE ALL THINGS DISNEY!! I love the opening ceremony of the Magic Kingdom. I cried the last time I watched it. When I see those mouse ears and the castle and hear the music on Main Street I start to lose my marbles. I'm five years old and can't stop the tears or the laughter! Nathaniel and I even went there on our honeymoon :) I so wish that I had some pictures of the family trips we took there as a kid. But my parents have all those and they aren't able to get to them right now because they're on their way to visit me!!! I'm so excited :):) next visit down to see them I'll make sure to get copies of all the old pictures!

Cue tears now

In April of this year we made our first family trip to Disney! We planned it out back in summer 2011 and saved up our money for almost two years. And this trip was every single cent!! We had originally planned on going January 2013 but we found little Briellabee (my niece, Brielle) was on her way and would be born exactly when our trip was. So we moved it to April and it just happened to coincide with Caden pumpkin's first birthday!! What a wonderful way to spend your birthday :)  I've had the absolute pleasure of spending a birthday or two there :) this was just so fun. We flew from home down to Oregon for about a week so that we could spend time with Nathaniel's grandparents. It was great to see them again!! I loved watching them love on Caden. It was the first time they'd seem him! It was precious. Then we flew down to Florida and had one day of just the three of us before the rest of my family got there. We drove to Tampa and checked out the Bucs stadium (Nathaniel's favorite team) and took Caden to the ocean for the first time. His face! He loved the water!! Once my parents got there we had a delicious breakfast with the characters. Caden was freaking adorable with the characters!! They got lots of hugs out of that little boy!! We also got to see my mom's sister and her family! I love my Aunt Jenny and her gang :) 

In the above pictures are Caden's great grandparents! They loved him!! And this picture is his first time playing the grass! He was amazed by it :)

Squinting in the Florida sun! First day there!!

First time touching the sand and feeling the ocean water

Bucs Stadium from far away

Reunited! 

 We love Mickey!

 Donald was the only one Caden was a little frightened by

 Caden's girlfriend ;)

 He loved Pluto!!

 Goofy!!

 If it was your birthday you got a birthday cupcake! And the characters danced around and sang. Mickey and Donald stopped right by us!

 Cousins! I love Steven's face, he and Caden were buddies :) Jo fed him chex mix and they quickly became best bud too :)

 This blurry picture is the only one I have of my family and their family

 The pool at their hotel! It was incredibly elaborate and so awesome! Feeling the water with me and Aunt Haley

Caden loved splashing around in the water! Brielle did not! haha

So I think I'll have to stop there. I wanted to talk about my entire trip in one entry but I've already said so much!! I guess this will have to be a multiple post kinda deal :) I'm only on day two! I have several days left. I get so excited about Disney!! I can't to get into the actual Disney Park part of the trip! :)