Birthday weekend

Where to start!
It was a fabulous birthday weekend in Disney! I got to see the pretty lights, many decorated trees in the resorts and parks and celebrate in a magical place with my family! It was awesome!

While we were there they were pre taping the parade for Christmas day! We got to see these huge Mickey heads that will be in the parade on TV for Christmas day! Be sure to look for them, we saw them first here!! yay!! We also got to see the cheerleaders that you will see also, it was very cool. Some of the other stuff was being recorded while we were eating lunch so we didn't get to see it all.

In the contemporary resort they had a very cool gingerbread display with hidden Olafs throughout the display. Here is one of them! Cute! I don't have the picture of the whole thing with me right now to post it, maybe I can add it later here.

We went early to Magic Kingdom to get in line for the new Seven Dwarfs mine train ride. We only had to wait about 20 minutes! The boys loved the ride. We were the only ones that knew you could rock the cart you were in, thanks to cousin Len! But no one could see us and follow along since we were in the last car. As we were walking out of the ride Dev was yelling to everyone..."you can rock your car!" LOL...it was cute!

Look closely! The boys are holding Tinkerbell! It's kinda hard to see since they are both wearing green shirts!

One night we saw the Spectacle of Dancing lights at Hollywood studios. The light display was gorgeous and they even made it snow!!!

You gotta love Dev's face on the Expedition Everest ride! He rode it at least 3 times and wanted to ride it more!! We kept getting in the single rider line and only waiting 5-10 minutes each time to ride it!

The boys talked me into riding the river rapids ride! At least we had our ponchos because we would of been pretty wet otherwise!!

I have to give myself props for this selfie!! We are going around on this ride pretty fast!! and...look! I even was able to get the castle in the background as we cirlced!! Wow!!

Mike wasn't too thrilled on the spinning tea cups!! ha ha!

Happy that I got my birthday Disney button! yay!! Now we all have one!!

One of the most spectacular displays was the castle transformation! Wow,, they kept lighting up the castle in different colors, I think I took pictures of at least 22 or so transformations and I know there were more than that! Two of my favorites besides the full lights are the gingerbread and the candy canes!

Truly gorgeous and definitely worth seeing!!!!

Mark has been busy and decorated our door like a snowman!

Our neighborhood had a Christmas party and even had a carriage ride with Clydesdales! The boys loved it. The carriage took us around the neigborhood and the boys even got to ride up front with the driver. After the ride was over both boys even petted the horses! wow! It was very nice!

Bry worked on his rock climbing skills at a jamboree we went too. He got up the wall pretty far, but decided to come down before he got to the top. Man....he almost made it!! Maybe next time!!

We finally got our tree up!!

It was a little late this year with Mike out of town and then we were out of town, but now it's up! Ready for Santa!!

Dev's class had a field trip to see the Nutcracker and I got to go! It was a lot of fun. It was a cute live performance geared for kids and they all loved it! This is our stop light selfie on the way to school the day of the field trip. 

Well the boys only have the rest of this week before Christmas break! Tonight we will finish up the teacher gifts and Bry is in a Christmas program Thursday night. I am actually done shopping for Christmas and have all my wrapping done also! yay!! I'm all set! Now just to get the Christmas menu planned, shopped for and get the cookies ready for Santa next week! I think we will be in the cozy 70's on Christmas day! Perfect to play outside after opening presents!!  Not sure if I'll be back on here before then, so I hope everyone has a Very Merry Christmas!!!