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As promised, here are pictures of some of the items I bought for our trip:
My new watch, which is on my wrist still
Both pair of Skyler's new flip-flops:
My new t-shirts:
Our Flowers & Cake from our Anniversary:
Here is a picture of a cute Tear Apart Cake (cupcake type cake) I was going to have ordered for our 100 Days til Disney Party:
And last but not least, here's a picture of Miss Sturgis (or as Erick called her Sturgie Girl):
I am still working on getting Skyler's Autograph Books made. I made two on Shutterfly, however I think I'm going to see what I can make on Photobucket or Snapfish, since the person I got a reply from at Snapfish was quite rude with his response of telling me I won't receive my shipment via Fedex and they only want to send via UPS, and well, you all know my frusteration with UPS by now, so I am looking into other options for that if they won't let me pick them up at Target (which is right down the street from us) which I won't mind driving to Target to pick it up from. I'll continue to work on it in other ways. I tried uploading the pictures via my iPhone at one of the kiosks at Target and had quite a hard time getting them to go to the Kiosk.
Thank you so much Mernie and Melissa. Melissa I have to agree with you his flip flops are cute(wish he'd get used to wearing his rather than mine). The cupcake cake was too cute when I saw it. If we don't get one for 100 Days til Disney, certainly 30 Days til Disney (thinking it might be too much cake between our Anniversary and Skyler's Birthday). I will have a picture of a Pooh Cupcake Cake for Skyler's Birthday as DMil has already offered to buy it for Skyler's Birthday.
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Thank you so much Jodi. I thought this was the cutest Mickey and Minnie Tear Apart Cake I have seen. I know thry also make one that looks kind of like an ice cream parlor, however I didn't think it resembled The Plaza Ice Cream Parlor too much. This one is too much fun. Erick has turned me into a Tear Apart Cake fan, as he thinks they're the coolest thing he sees in the bakery section of Grocery Stores.
Great pictures! I got the Nightmare t-shirt for my trip, too!
Thank you Cam! How cool you got the same Nightmere shirt! I love it and think it will be great for MNSSHP. Hope you have a fabulous time on your trip and please let me know how you like your new Samsonite Spinner Suitcase.
I had a scare earlier as I was trying to type an update. It looks like Shutterfly isn't going to get my business after all with the Character Meal Autograph Book I made and saved on my account sincethey won't give me my choice of shipping method and want to send it UPS (not letting thst happen). My iPhone with still1/2 a battery decided to shut off on me and give me problems, so I rushed over to the Mac Store to have it looked at (the sales guy was no help
except telling me to make an appointment, whih is rather difficult when Erick has our car the majority of the time). I was just frusterated my phone didn't want to work an I haven't had a problem with it since I got it.
I did upload those pictures of the Autograph Book Pages into my Snapfish Account an can hopefully get it done on there without any problemsif not I'll have to try to make a Blurb Book(which give you more pages too) Erick said since it wasn't that much money to go ahead and have a bound book instead of loose photographs. He actually liked the idea of Skyler having his own
custom Autograph Book for the trip.
I love all of your updates and the tear apart cupcake looks YUMMY!!!!
Thank you so much. I can't wait to order the tear apart cupcake cake. I figured I'd post a picture of it incase anyone else was looking for a cute Mickey & Minnie Cake to order as well. It was too cute when I saw it not to share with my fellow Disney Passporter Friends! I'm glad you're enjoying the updates. Thank you so much for reading along.
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