Disney World really is the happiest place on earth

Well, as most of you know, our family went to Disney World a few weeks ago and we had a MARVELOUS time. I made a countdown calendar for the kids (translation: for me!) and as we peeled off each number we got more and more excited. It was a great trip and it was even more magical experiencing it with Audrey and Reed. No, we didn't take Lauren. She got the special privilege of being spoiled by Granny for the entire week!

Here's the bad news.... We took a crazy amount of pictures... I mean probably like 2000 pictures. We have a memory card that holds about 500 and I have a brand new laptop that I just got in May so we figured we would just take as many as we like, then we would transfer them over to my computer and clean off the memory card and start over. When we got home, I got all of the pictures organized and was getting ready to sort through them and make a back up copy of the ones we would actually use. I am not kidding, on the night that I was sitting down to finish this all up, my computer totally crashed. We have taken it to the Geek Squad and they couldn't do anything so now it is being sent off to this data recovery place in KY. Hopefully they will be able to find our pictures and it won't cost us a ton of money....but we don't know yet.

Luckily we did still have some pictures from before the trip and the last 2 days we were there on our memory cards. Here are some of my favorites...

Peeling off the last number before we go on our trip!

Here we are with Lightning and Mater.

While we there, our good friends the Kellows were there too! We actually kind of just ran into each other and got a picture of all of us.

This was at Chef Mickeys which was an absolute blast! I think it was the most fun thing we did as a family! We were celebrating Reed's 4th birthday and the characters were SO great and funny. One of the pictures we lost was of Minnie giving Jay a big kiss. I promise if we get it back I will post it because I think it's the biggest smile I've ever seen on Jay's face in a picture.

Audrey and I went to the Perfectly Princess Tea Party which was also a lot of fun. Audrey enjoyed it very much and got to meet Aurora. We met all of the Disney princesses on our trip with the exception of Jasmine. Audrey also keeps reminding me that we didn't meet Tinkerbell, but at the time she wasn't doing character greetings. Her movie came out 2 weeks after we were there and now Tinkerbell is there. I guess we'll have to go back soon so we can meet her!

This picture was taken LATE on the last night we were at the Magic Kingdom. I realized that we had not gotten a family pic in front of the castle because every time we were there, there was some kind of parade or show or something. So Jay set up the camera on a trash can, set the timer, and we tried. Though you can't see us very well, I think the castle looks beautiful!

The kids and I in line at this really awesome new ride at Hollywood Studios called Toy Story Mania. We rode it 3 times and would have done it more but you can only do so many fast passes.

It's a 3-D arcade game and you play for points much like the Buzz lightyear ride at MK. So much fun!

We had to bring our little Lauren some Minnie ears. Even though we were having fun, I missed her like crazy. We know she was in great hands. Thanks again Granny, she had a great time with you!