High Five Life

I ordered cake! We discussed several celebration ideas for our anniversary.   We went to La Nouba and did a wishes cruise for our 10 th .   We inquired about getting Re-Hitched, which we also did for our 10 th, but Disney doesn’t offer that anymore.   We looked at some activities like meeting the dolphins and various tours, but we decided, we mostly want to spend time at EPCOT. We are getting old and kind of slow and we really just want to eat and enjoy the country pavilions.   (Which also matches with our daughter’s goals, although she is neither old nor slow.)   We decided to get an ADR for Rose and Crown and I ordered a fancy fondant 20 th Anniversary cake.   I requested a 6” but was told we would need to bump up to an 8”, so 8” it is.   I requested yellow cake with white chocolate mousse filling, butter cream frosting, white fondant, all white decorations and a white chocolate Mickey and Minnie with the inscription of “Celebrating 20 ...

The three fancy teen princess dresses are all here and I took photos! The first two are from PacificPlex, but I ordered them through Amazon.  The photos do not do these dresses justice.  The light in my basement is ish so the color is off a bit.  Both dresses come with a wrap which you can see hanging on the hangers.  I am going to have to make a slight modification in each of these dresses to make them fit perfectly but they are pretty close off the rack. The detailing on the green peacock dress is really pretty  The peacock "feathers" are fabric and are appliqued onto the front and wrap around to the back.  There are also little gems sewn on through out the bodice. Dress Back Bodice Detail She loves how there are a series of different colored underskirts that add to the overall look and color combination on the dress. Under skirts of peacock dress The blue dress has a sequined bodice that is just gorgeous and multi...

I was talking with our daughter about our upcoming Disney trip.   She is now old enough to get her driving temps and I asked if she wanted to do some of the driving for this trip.   I told her that as a new driver she would be limited to day time driving, mostly on straight roads and not in larger cities or during rush hours.   Her response was, no, she does not want to share in driving duties but would prefer to be chauffeured and eat cake.   So with that this trip has become our “Let Them Eat Cake Trip”.   I am going to do something I have never, ever done before.   I am going to post pre-trip reports.   They do this over on The Dis Boards and it is fun to follow along.   I’m not really into posting there but I thought it would be fun to blog about some of our trip preparation and share here.   I know I’m not fooling anybody; this is to make the scrapbooking easier later. Her vision is to be a Sweet 16 Birthday Princess.   She...

I've been thinking about Disney for many of my waking hours of late.  I even dreamed about it recently. We went on a pretty big Disney vacation in October but I am again in the throws of planning for an upcoming May trip for our daughters sweet 16.  The other day I realized I forgot something.  It is also our 20th wedding anniversary.  Our anniversary and our daughters birthday are less than a week apart but I had been so focused on her, I forgot about us!  I was talking about this with my husband and we realized that Disney has been part of a few big milestones in our life.  We went in 1994 for our Honeymoon.  We had a great time!  I had been several times as a kid and teen but we never went for more than 1 day and we never stayed on property because we had family in Vero Beach and Tampa. My husband had never been but loves all things Disney.  When we stated planning for our honeymoon it came up as a possible destination and we we...