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Moving on with the current of the years.
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To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
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All caught up with your "love" reports! As usual the adventures with your family are awesome. Can't wait to see what the boys look like after the Pirates League.
Great picture of the boys with their Mom & Dad. Noah looks as if in the next year he may be as tall as his Dad. He is getting to that age when it seems like they grow a foot taller in just a few months. Glad to see Dear Mable is getting her candy fix . love the Dsiney fudge
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I had no doubt that you would convert your brothers soon or later...plus with three sons already converted it would be hard to keep resisting Love the sweet stop for some snacks. Hope Eric makes it down for a day or so.
Thanks for reading, everyone! Sorry for the lack of update yesterday. I couldn't get on the boards yesterday morning.
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So glad you're all having a great time! I think you're so enjoying the family time that you want to absorb every moment. Of course, having to set the table before dinner kinda disrupts any thoughts of pictures. But I'm surprised your nephews didn't grab the opportunity to capture the moment on film.
I can't believe I haven't been taking food photos. At least I'll have plenty of pictures for the TR, but very few food ones. But at least now everyone can read on an empty stomach, I guess.
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What a great trip this is! Can't wait to see the Pirate League photos. I'm glad to see your SiL is allowing more photos of herself. That's a great one of her with Ed and all the boys.
I think she's only been in 3 photos the whole trip!
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Originally Posted by Principessa_di_Fata
Your weather mojo is in full effect, I see! Love the pictures you HAVE taken. Those boys are all just too cute! Glad to hear mom got her fudge!
Looking forward to hearing about today's activities! Mine consist on sitting on the couch and working on data entry, and then going to the BBQ place to work tonight. Wanna trade? Didn't think so!!
How about we trade in, say, 2 weeks?
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Originally Posted by disney_duke
It's OK if you're forgetting to take pictures. That just means you're having such a great time with the fam - and that's OK! I hope Eric can make it down to hang out with you guys for awhile. I see a nice family photo in the future.... speaking of.... Jackie willingly was in that photo with her cute little family!!! (am I correct in remembering she was the one who hated to be in pictures?? I think?)
Jackie still hates to be in pictures! She just wanted one or two to prove she was there!
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Caught up. I'm sold on POR after seeing the princess rooms. Gorgeous! I loved AKL--we stayed there for our very belated honeymoon. As for the plate of desserts at Boma, I knew it! We received one, too, and at the time I didn't know if it was included with buffet or because we were on a Disneymoon. In a little over three weeks, I'll be at Boma.
Your nephews have such looks of glee on their faces! Glad your folks are having a great time and eating up the attention.
Glad you got some magic at Boma! And enjoy your meal there!
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That's great news. Maybe it worked because I asked Hope to wiggle her booty a little bit too.
Hopefully the sun stays out for the rest of the trip, and you can all continue to have a great time. BTW, I love that photo of your family.
I bet Hope did the trick!
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Fantastic day!
I know on Sunday we'll be at the barber shop at MK at 10am for sure -the boys are getting their hair cut.
Enjoy!
And an extra day?! Maybe there'll be an extra chance to see you.
I'll try to get the boys into the park by then. If not, I'll just keep trying to text you our location.
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Great picture of the boys with their Mom & Dad. Noah looks as if in the next year he may be as tall as his Dad. He is getting to that age when it seems like they grow a foot taller in just a few months. Glad to see Dear Mable is getting her candy fix . love the Dsiney fudge
Noah is already taller than his mom, nana and auntie! I've been trying to avoid standing right next to him in photos so you can't tell!
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Enjoy the rest of your trip! Stinky that we didn't get to meet Maybe next year!
I'm so sorry we didn't get to meet!
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Mickey's so happy to see me back, he can barely contain himself!
Our good times continue. On Wednesday, we started the morning at Chef Mickey's. We had great character interaction. When Goofy visited us, he pulled DB Ed into the picture and then immediately thought better of it when Ed was taller than he was, so he stood on a chair for the pictures. My picture came out blurry (probably because I was laughing so hard), but DSIL got a better shot. For now, here's mine.
Wednesday we spent the day at the Magic Kingdom. A fantastic CM made a little extra magic for my parents.
And the boys had a blast at the Pirates League again. And they all chose the exact same look as last year!
We spent most of the day in the park, but the boys' face paint was making them really hot, so we left the park just before dinner.
Yesterday was our AK day. I think our EE total was 10! Unfortunately, my phone issues prevented me meeting up with Heather, but hopefully I'll see her on Saturday.
The boys had never been over to RPW, so we had some fun over there.
And I had another unusual animal encounter, this time with a hippo (but not something that can be caught on film).
Eric was able to join us last night. We had an awful wait for a table at 'Ohana (90 minutes!), but I talked to the manager and wow, did he make up for it! The meal turned out to be fabulous, with some of us starring in the show.
Today's the day the rest of the group leaves. Isaiah has been begging to stay, so I'm feeling a little guilty. I promised him he could stay more than 3 days when it's his turn. He suggested 20 more days.
Once the family flies home and Eric heads back home, Noah, Daniel and I will go to AK. The boys have decided that because we got so much done there yesterday, they'll split their time equally between EE, Dinosaur and KRR. It's also moving day for us! I really can't wait to see AOA, and the boys are excited about it too. I am slightly worried that they will be disappointed that there's no pool slide, but it should be fun enough that hopefully they won't even miss it.
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Mickey's so happy to see me back, he can barely contain himself!
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Glad the boards are back up and you could post the update! Goofy standing on the chair is great, as is the shot of the Luau. Can't wait to hear about the unfilmable hippo encounter Yay that Eric made it and yay that the magic continues for you, Noah and Daniel. But poor Isaiah... his time will come!
What a great shot of the happy couple!!! That is so perfect.
90 min wait for your ADR??!?!?? What the.. I would be beyond ticked, how did the boys deal with that? I'm sure my kids have gone bonkers
Good luck with the move to AoA!
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Maybe next year!
Didn't think so!! 
(am I correct in remembering she was the one who hated to be in pictures?? I think?)
We had an awful wait for a table at 'Ohana (90 minutes!), but I talked to the manager and wow, did he make up for it! The meal turned out to be fabulous, with some of us starring in the show.
Yay that Eric made it and yay that the magic continues for you, Noah and Daniel. But poor Isaiah... his time will come!
I would be beyond ticked, how did the boys deal with that? I'm sure my kids have gone bonkers
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