DW Hollywood Studios

The ride that always has the longest wait...Toy Story group shot in line

tower of terror...too bad Debi couldn't do it this year! next time!

DW Cousins

Once everyone was there (Bryan came in on Tuesday morning), we went to Downtown Disney and had a few drinks at the Irish Pub. I had never been in there before and it is pretty big and they have dancers and live music and stuff like that...so here are a few pics:

girls

boys

cool martini glass...much more sturdy

group shot :-)

DW Downtown Disney

On our first real day down there, Monday, we headed to Downtown Disney. We had plans to go to Hollywood Studios, but it was so cold and Juliette was just getting over being sick, so my mom took her back to the room and Joey and I got to go out with B&K. We did Hollywood Studios, Magic Kingdom, and Epcot all the first day. It was nice to get a lot of stuff in without having to push the stroller :-) But before we all headed out, we did spend sometime in DD.

at earl's for lunch. she loves drinking out of a straw!

joey took, and loves, this picture.

juliette kind of looking at the camera

mamma looking at the camera. photoshop with above pic to get perfect iamge.

the fam!

hi, i am juliette, i am adorable. all the time.

DW Hotel

WE'RE HERE!!!gentle... only use one finger

princess juliette got a crown upon arrival!

she also got a balloon and kissed mickey

enjoying a nice bath after 2 days of travel

Disney World...getting there

Most of you heard from us or followed us on facebook and know that getting to Disney World wasn't all that easy. And Juliette had nothing to do with it! December 11th...big-huge-ass-blizzard. Drove to airport in the blizzard (and made it there). We felt good once we were there and so make flights were cancelled, but not ours!! Dad even talked to the pilot and said we should be able to go because our plane is so automatic it doesn't even matter. And then the whole airpoirt shuts down at 1pm.

Ok. Not going to go home in this. Trying to figure out what is happening tomorrow...we get a flight out at 10 that connects in DC. Cool, I've never been to DC. Now for the plans for tonight... we called a few hotels and Brent finds one with 2 rooms on his third try. Score. It's a mile away from the MOA so we were just going to take the light rail there and then get a cab/shuttle to the hotel. Oh wait...cabs and shuttles aren't running? I issue an all points bulletin on fb (aka, I updated my status) saying we were at the MOA and not sure how we were going to make it to our hotel. Brent and Kristine's friend Pete had just picked up Alli from her job at the MOA and they saw my post, called Brent, and CAME BACK to pick us all up and drive us to the hotel!! Joey can never rip on me for fb again! (Wish I had taken a picture!!)

So we spent the night in the lovely Quality Inn in Bloomington. We had adjoining rooms, which was fun, and they had a nice breakfast (which is determined by the fact they had a waffle maker!).

Juliette loved the phone

room service? ok, it wasn't THAT nice...

this is where she learned to "dip"

video of her dip...pretty funny

MMC on the computer...close as we were going to get today!Her other love...brushing her teeth

So we take the (now running) shuttle to the airport for our 10am flight. We give a quick hello to Noelle and Rian, whose 7am flight had been cancelled, so they were taking a 10am flight through Connecticut to Orlando. See you soon :-) Or not. We got on the plane to DC and were all excited. Mom and I got lucky and there was an extra seat in our row so Juliette could sit by herself. Here she is:

Wow- we're so lucky!! Flight takes off, baby falls asleep...wow! This is going to be a cute little story to tell. UNTIL... 45 minutes in to the flight the pilot gets on the loud speaker, tells us we can't land in DC or anywhere around it (wind, rain, whatever...I just came from a blizzard) so we're going BACK TO MSP! That's right people, BACK TO MSP. This is when it no longer was a good story, and I cried. Just then the flight attendant asked if I wanted anything to drink (while I was obviously upset), um, no lady, I don't want a diet coke, I want to be in DW with my kid...yesterday! So, thanks to airplane wi-fi Brent was able to see what was up and get us on a direct flight to Orlando at 1pm. Well, 5 of us anyway. He and Kristine are on another reservation so they were on stand-by. We board not knowing if they will be with us, but they made it! Row 47! Soooo....we get to Orlando, where it's unseasonably cold, but we're there. We got on the magical express and Juliette was out!

DISNEY WORLD 2010 CAN OFFICIALLY START!!

Happy Birthday Unkie B

Happy Birthday Unkie B!! Juliette got him a ball (for the basketball hoop my parents are going to have outside, AND because she can say that word!)

Juliette really likes when he brings her "up" to the computer!

Dancing to MMC

shopping can be a hair-raising experience

After taking off her coat, there was a little static action... ahhhhhh hahahahaha!

sleeping beauty

I just love all her different sleeping positions...

early present :-)

The great thing about Juliette being 1 is that she doesn't know anything about dates and time. So giving her a Christmas present almost a month early didn't really phase her...let's just call it her Hanukkah present! I am willing to celebrate any gift-giving holiday!! There is a kitchen that she plays with at daycare that she seems to love. We don't have that much space, so we got her a small one. It's kind of cool because it can be low, or you can expand it for when she is taller. It was super fun to watch her play...I have some video, but I still need to get that on the computer. Here are some pics of her first time playing with it...

what IS this?

on the phone and making dinner!testing the food

getting the baby ready for dinner

washing up

milk for the baby

we lifted up the kitchen and she found all the doors

this will keep her busy for a long time...

daaaaaady

I love how Juliette says "daddy". It's like this long drawn out daaaadyyyy. You may have heard it :-) Anyway, they were having quite the fun this weekend at dinner time!

making her laugh

all smiles

reading time...hugawugs. goo stuff!