'Ohana Means Family!

We had breakfast one morning at the Polynesian Resort at the 'Ohana grill that featured our favorites...Lilo and Stitch! It was so yummy and we loved the tropical juice that was fresh mangoes and papayas...mmmm.
This resort is just like stepping into a tropical island. It was gorgeous!

I love this photo...we are actually dry! I was thrilled to get a family photo that I loved!
We love our 'Ohana!

My and my sweetie!

Since this is the year of celebrations...Anli got this card from all the characters! She was thrilled!

Mickey showed up in his tropical wear too!

Mickey and our 'Ohana

Finally at last...Lilo and Stitch. You can see Virginia's monster hug to Lilo!

Cuties!

Character Jackpot

Well, the rains came down...and we racked up on characters. We were standing outside the America show and were disappointed that the show had just started. We wanted a chance to dry off for a little while and enjoy the show. So, we were just kind of standing there under the pavilion talking about what to do next...and we see a cast member walk by. He looked at us and said...you just hit the "Character jackpot." Huh?

Well, in about 2 minutes ALL kinds of awesome characters were surrounding us with NO lines. All the cast members were taking photos of us...so we took the chance to get tons of family photos...in ponchos of course!

The character can't get in the rain, so they had to find a place to bring them...and we were just standing there surrounded by them! It was just awesome and a great diversion from the rain.

Rain or shine...Disney ROCKS!

A Little Stop in Japan!

The next day we headed back to Epcot for some more fun and wonderful food. We had planned to eat our dinner in Japan and LOVED IT! It was a tepenyaki style restaurant and the girls love watching the chef cook right in front of them. Here you see volcano with steam shooting out...fun!

The girls absolutely LOVED the food. Our girls have always tried new things and love all kinds of food...we are blessed I know. It sure makes going out to dinner much more fun!

We all ate our whole meal with our chopsticks. The girls had "training" sticks as they called it and they went to town! We were really hungry...and WET. It was so nice to sit at such a nice restaurant and enjoy a wonderful meal together!

They even brought Anli out a special candle in her dessert. She got this chef's hat also. Anli wants to be a chef when she gets older...so she was in heaven!

Happy Birthday sweetie!

Magic Memories!

Here are a few of our Magic Kingdom memories! We had the best time enjoying the dry weather while it lasted...until that evening when it began to rain and never really stopped!
My princesses!

The cutie pie outfits before we had to wear our poncho uniforms! They turned out so cute!

Virginia's favorite ride is the beautiful carousel. I think we rode it about 5 times!We ate at the Crystal Palace with Winnie the Pooh and all his friends for a late breakfast in the park. Virginia picked this one for our trip and they had a blast. The food was a yummy buffet!

Jay and I always get our photo made with Tigger together since on our honeymoon that is one of our favorite pictures. So, now we make sure to get another one each time we visit the park!

Anli enjoys the Jungle Cruise...in the rain! See the poncho...it had already begun to rain. It never stopped our fun or our smiles!

Both girls bought a charm bracelet with their money this year. They collected lots of pretty charms and we look forward to adding more through the year!

Virginia had a princess theme! Her sister even used some of her money to buy Ariel for her...so sweet! My girls have the kindest hearts and always look out for others. While on the bus, Virginia gave a little girl one of her pins that we had bought them on ebay to trade. She asked if she could give her a pin..."since she only has 2 and I have so many." Melt my heart!

Quick blast from the past!

Notice the shirts? That purchase has been really good to us! I'll post the rest of the trip this weekend...but loved seeing how big our girls have gotten since then...sigh.

Epcot

Our family absolutely loves Epcot and so we made sure to head there on our first day in the parks! We were so excited that the weather cleared up and we had a gorgeously cool day in the 70s that first day. We were also amazed at the Epcot Flower Festival that was going on the week we were there! In the background you can see all the flowers, topiary trees, and characters made out of flowers! Truly it was an awesome sight to see!!!Anli was given this pin at our hotel since it is the "year of celebrations" and we were certainly celebrating Anli's 10th birthday. EVERYONE wished her a happy birthday the entire trip!
Thanks to a friend we were able to order lots and lots of pins for trading off Ebay. They actually got many pins that they ended up loving and had some pretty neat collector's pins. They loved trading and they enjoyed getting new collections.

As we walked into Epcot we saw Stitch!

Virginia LOVES Stitch!!!

Then, we headed to our favorite ride called Spaceship Earth! These are our photos of our "future" we created together!

How cute are they?

The girls hanging out with Nemo at the Living Seas!

They had some really neat playgrounds opened during this Flower Festival that we had never seen before! Since the weather was wonderful we enjoyed hanging out and playing in them for a while.

Daddy spins Virginia on the playground. It was a great playground.

We headed to Le Cellier in Canada for the BEST food in the world! Jay got a steak (of course...it's a steakhouse!) but I had an amazing mushroom ravioli that was to die for! Anli ordered her first grilled steak and loved it too! The flowers were just breath taking everywhere!

They even had a Tinkerbell Fairy garden! We were in heaven since Anli is the biggest Tinkerbell fan and has been since I can even remember. It was awesome to see how the gardeners created beautiful fairies and a garden that was so secluded.

They also had a butterfly garden with real butterflies! Virginia was so very excited! She loves butterflies...

My pretty butterfly!

At dinnertime...the rain came. This will be our uniform for the next several days as the rains came...and didn't leave! But, as we said, a wet day in Disney is better than a day ANYWHERE else:)