Animal Kingdom

Animal Kingdom was another super fun day!! We again were first in line at the opening, where we were then walked over to the Pandora ride, that is a walk through the park, but its Disney's newest ride, just opening last May, so everyone wanted to do it.  We got up to the line and again got immediately on the ride.  It was so cool.  It's called Flight of the Avator and it was unlike any ride we've ever done.  We all loved it!  That ride was up to a 4 hour wait later in the day!

The Tree of Life is pretty amazing, so many animals are carved into it

These are completely out of order, but they are from our room at the resort.

So cool to have a giraffe RIGHT outside our door

And back to Animal Kingdom.  We had lunch with Mickey and his friends.  Brexten thought it was so cool!  He yelled to each character across the restaurant when he saw them.  Crossing my fingers its a good sign for Santa coming up!

They have little books where the kids can find a cast member and learn about something in nature, whether it's animals or environments and collecting badges - if you know Brennar, this was so cool for him.  He tried to get as many as possible

This picture does not do Pandora ANY justice, it was so incredibly cool.  I can't believe people can dream up these things and then put them to life.

It was another hot, exhausting and wonderful day in Disney!

Disney World - Magic Kingdom

After 18 months of planning and waiting our Disney World Trip was here!!!  I have been so excited to take the kids, and it didn't disappoint!  It was exhausting and wonderful all at the same time!

We got in on a Thursday and just sort of hung out around the hotel, we had a early morning so we all needed to get to be early. 

And early it was!! We had to be to the entrance of Magic Kingdom at 6:15 am, which mind you, was 4:15 our time!  But we did it and it was so worth it!  We were first in line!  We were able to ride the newest ride at Magic Kingdom immediately,  after we got off the ride, about 15 minutes from when we walked in the wait was already 90 minutes!

Seven Dwarfs Mine train ride pictures!

 

 

We hit up Ariel's grotto to meet her and rode her ride right after.  It was pretty neat to get to meet a character so early!

 

After Ariel was Dumbo - Brexten loved it!  Bryden loved everything he got to do:)

He was a little miffed that he didn't ride with mama on Dumbo, but as soon as it started his smile never left!

Grampa and Brilee enjoying it too!  It was so nice having an adult for each kiddo!

I think this picture is great! 

She quickly learned that if she just smiled I'd put the camera away for awhile:)

Favorite picture of the trip!! Love this place and these PEOPLE!!

Even though it was mid-October, it was HOT, like 85-90 HOT, we sat as much as we could!

Not a traditional Disney ride, but all kids got to go on it so we couldn't pass it up

We were able to get a reservation at Cinderella's Royal Table for lunch our first day, but unfortunately only for 4 of us. 

Cinderella

 

It was sure fun to see 5 princesses in one stop though!

Snow White

Jasmine

Sleeping Beauty a.k.a Auroura a.k.a Briar Rose - fun fact, she is the only princess with 3 names!

Ariel - our personal favorite of the meal

Test Track was up next - Bryden had been begging to go on it each time we walked past, we did a lot of walk from one side of the park to the other to get on specific rides with least wait times.  So he was so excited when we finally rode it.  He was a CRAZY driver though!

Pure joy, and sweat")

Brennar and Grama were behind us and kept bumping us

Brilee got a chance to go to the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique again, but didn't pick out a traditional dress or hairstyle

She was a Halloween Minnie, with colored extensions

 

Our last event of the day was story time with Belle - the kids got to be part of the story, Bryden was a salt shaker and Brennar was a plate.  Brilee was too shy to do it but got to go get her picture taken with Belle at the end!

We also went to Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party later in the evening, super fun!  Not many people can say they were able to trick or treat at Disney!!

Rocky Mountain Pumpkin Ranch

Not much to say about another pumpkin patch, except, WE LOVE FALL!!

Can you spot Brilee???

So made at myself about the exposure here!  Would have been a good one!

Brilee is in heaven

This little dude is super into animals too, his sissy loves it!

Until next year, pumpkin patches!