Disney Vacation

This was our 3rd september in a row taking a vacation to Walt Disney World. They offer a free dining package every september and we love taking advantage of it!

We stayed at the Caribbean Beach Resort for the 2nd time. It had been refurbished since the last time we were there in 2007

Let me just say WE LOVE THIS HOTEL! the news kids pool is a giant interactive pirate ship my son loved it! It is deep enough for them to have fun but shallow enough that as a parent you can sit back and watch them have fun!

This year was the best year yet in the way SJ interacted with the characters and the way he took it all in.

Meeting the big cheese! AFter we got home we found out we may never see Mickey and Minnies house in toontown anymore as they are totally redoing that area!

AT hollywood studios we met Handy Manny.

My little man turned into a Jr. Photographer he was so cute!

To Infinity and beyond!

As we arrived!

Hmmm cant rotate this but SJ recieved a haircut at the main street barbershop! What a great haircut!

Wendi was the best character interaction of the trip. We were a bit disappointed that Peter got sent away to check on neverland but still waited to meet Wendi. She made SJ a lost boy and made him pinky swear to never grow up. So sweet!
SJ was a little hesitant of meeting Captain Hook but Hook was fantastic and found a way to ease his fears. He ended up hugging him and now he wants to be Captain hook for halloween.

Sj was mesmorized by the size of Mr. Incredibles muscles!

A scrappy blog hop

The challenge for this hop was to use stamping on a Layout. I am a great collector of stamps so I was excited to be challenged to use them. I used some great CTMH stamps to create a background PP and another stamp to accent the circle.

This is a sketch by Julie Bonner over at 52 sketches

Sorry for the crooked picture

*you can click on the picture to see it bigger and see more of the detail*

Now hop on over to ashleys blog she is one of my favorite scrappers to lift and stalk for new inspiration!

This week I will......

Its the start of a new week almost a new month. We are only a few short months from me turning the dreaded 30 EEEK I still have at least 20lbs to lose before then!
We are only a few weeks from vacation YIPPEE.

This week I will

-take a multivitamin everyday! I am so bad about remembering but it does seem to help me feel more energized and full when I take one regularly

-exercise at least 4 times with week. I have been really bad about this lately

-work on fixing my farmers tan

-get back on my lowcarb diet. Yummm chicken breast and salad

Close to free yogurt at publix until Wed

Go here to print out a coupon for $1.00 off fiber one yoplait yogurt make sure you hit back after you print so you can print two.
Take them to your local Publix where these yogurts are B1G1 free this week. Its a great deal 8 yogurts for $0.50

I saved over 40% on my Publix trip today, unfortunately it should have been more, I forgot to hand them 3 coupons that equaled $15.00 so I would have saved more than 50%. All well I will just go back and get more free stuff :)

Rachael Ray Recipe Review

Yesterday I decided I wanted to make something different for dinner. I am the queen of packaged food and decided I wanted to try and make something my boyfriend would be proud of. So I went on the net and found this recipe from rachael ray's website

the pros: the recipe was easy to follow

my son ate it

my boyfriend ate it

easily makes enough to cook half and freeze the other half for my family of 3

the cons:

i didnt like it :( ok not really it was ok but not something that I would make on a weekly or monthly basis. I would make it when I have my vegetarian mother over I think she would like it. I think that the spinach taste was a little overbearing for me. I was hoping it would taste more like spinach artichoke dip in shells.

All in all its worth the time to make it even if its just to get your kid to eat spinach

Happy 18th Birthday E!

Today my baby brother turns 18 years old. It is unbelievable to think that much time has gone by. I was 11 when he was born. I have loved watching him grow up. He really has turned into a great man and I really hope life turns out just as he hopes! Thinking back on how quickly the last 18 years have gone and how quickly E grew up, it makes me think of my own son and how in just 15 short years he too will turn 18. It reminds me to slow down and appreciate every minute with my son!

This is a sketch from scrapsketch
my boyfriend is an excellent cook but he takes FOREVER to cook but as you can see the final result is always worth it!
Another sketch from scrapsketch

The collage is print is a new service offered at Walgreens as soon as I saw them I was in love and knew I would be ordering some. i had alot of pictures from the visit to the childrens museum so this was a great way to get alot of them on a page!