bad blogger! Bad, bad, blogger!

I am such a slacking blogger. I can't believe my last blog post was August 4th... that makes me so sad! Let me explain whats been going on...

First the bad, In my last blog post we were putting our house on the market and then we were going to build our new house. As painful as it is for me to say, nothing worked out. I hate that I feel embarrassed about it. I guess I shouldn't start telling people things until I know for sure they are going to happen... lesson learned. As we stand now the house is off the market, we are slowly bringing all of our packed away things home from the storage unit, and putting the house back together so that it looks like we actually live here. It was kind of depressing and I was in a bit of a funk that our house got NO interest at all, but sadly this is the market we're in these days. We seem to have another game plan for the future but until I know its going to work i'm keeping my lips sealed!

Now the good! The other reason I haven't been blogging is because, well I wasn't here! We had the most amazing vacation to WDW and our first Disney Cruise. We were gone for nine days and had the the best time! It was exactly what we needed to get out of our terrible moods. Adam and I met some fabulous people both in WDW, and on the ship. We even booked our next cruise for 2012 with the other couple that we became friendly with. We now have cruising buddies! I've been emailing them and keeping in touch. Its like being a kid in elementary school when you had a pen pal.  I can't wait to share with you guys everything that we did and all that we are going to be doing next year. It has both Adam and I VERY excited!

My plan is that i'm going to be a better blogger. My goal is to post something at least 3 times a week. Even if it is just a small quick post. We're (mostly) settled in the house, we have power back on from that stupid snow storm we just had... seriously how does it snow in October?... and I have so much I want to share and so much Disney talk I need to let out. I find that I miss doing trip reports on message boards so I'm going to do one here! I hope you will all enjoy reading it. :)

Before I end this post i'll leave you with a teaser picture from the trip!

Can you guess where we are?? 

Double Digit Dance!!!!

WOOOOHOOOO!!!!

I'm doing the double digit dance today!!!! This time 99 days from now i'll be at WDW enjoying my first day of vacation! I love doing the double digit dance because the trip always seems to come so much faster when you're counting down double digits :)

I finally got my "long form" birth certificate in the mail so thursday Adam and I will be heading to the town clerks office to try again for our passports. Fingers crossed there will be no more bumps in the road. Tonight to commemorate our 99 day mark, Adam and I will be sitting down and concretely deciding which excursions we want to do at the ports and when we want to make our Palo dining reservations. If you all have any suggestions please feel free to shout them out!

In other awesome news, I started submitting my blog posts to the Disney Driven Life blog. my blog posts will be up on the website every Saturday starting this week! I'm totally psyched to be writing for the Disney Driven Life and I love how warm and welcoming all of the members have been. I know it sounds corny but I've felt like I needed something to "belong" to for a while now. It just has been work, home, work, home, ect.... I haven't really had an outside of work and house work hobby. I'm really looking forward to blogging with them for a long time and making some new friends along the way!

Alright well i'm off to go make some dinner and talk cruise! I'll give you all an update soon!

xoxo

-Katie

Oh and P.S. the new shoes are AMAZING!

In between Time Cont.

After the husband and wife pictures Adam and I headed back to Animal Kingdom Lodge to go take a breather and to exchange wedding gifts.  It was so nice to just be alone without anybody around. We told each other stories about what our nights were like without each other, and what it was like this morning getting ready. It was really nice to just get it all out there and decompress after all the non-stop action.

We got a text from Jared saying that my dad, his girlfriend, MD and ML, Adams parents, and his brothers were all at the bar of the Lodge.  They wanted us to come down when we were done exchanging gifts for a quick drink before heading to the reception. We were so glad that everyone was enjoying the resort and hanging out together! :)

We headed up to our room and it was time for Adam to start his wedding day scavenger hunt.  I made little cards with clues on them and hid them around the room. Adam had no clue that his wedding gift was an anniversary Disney cruise! :) So seeing as I didn't have anything to wrap I thought a scavenger hunt was a fun idea! Using a craft that ML taught me, I made the last clue look like a treasure map! I took a piece of plain white paper and wrote "ARRR.... we be going to the Caribbean Matey!" in big letters. I took a tea bag and wet it so it was damp and ran the tea bag all over the paper and let it dry. The paper turned an antique color and looked distressed which was awesome! After it dried I took a lighter and burned the edges so that it looked like a pirate map. Then I rolled it up and tied it shut with twine. It looked awesome!

Adam started his hunt and was completely confused! When he finally got to the end and found the "treasure map" he unrolled it, read it and I think he almost died! I handed him the print out of the itinerary and he was psyched! I wish I'd thought to take pictures but we'd taken so many already that the thought of taking more killed me.

Then it was my turn! Adam handed me a box that was tied up with pretty green ribbon. I opened it up and it was a beautiful necklace. The charm on it was a silver circle that had our names and wedding date engraved on it. Hanging in the middle of the circle were my birthstone, Adam's birthstone, and then October's birthstone. It was beautiful! I loved it so much I put it right on to wear it at the ceremony.

We checked the time and we had about 45 mins before the vans were picking everyone up to go to the reception. I made Adam tie up the bustle to my dress (took him forever!) and then I threw on my white flip flops because my feet were killing me!! And we went down to the bar.

I was so happy to see that our families took over the bar and were laughing and having a great time! They were all sitting together and chatting away. MD got Adam and I drinks and we all caught up on whats been going on while we were taking pictures. My mom, Auntie A, Auntie C, and my sisters were up in their rooms hanging out and they would meet us at the vans. It was funny seeing people staring at us all in formal wear and me in my wedding gown. I looked alittle out of place in a bar! hahaha

Before we knew it we had to get to the lobby. Right on schedule the vans were there waiting for us! It was time to head over to the Grand Floridian for our reception!

Sorry I don't have pictures in this post but we really were just sick of taking pictures. We also knew that Randy was coming to the reception and that there would be more pictures to be had. Picture overload will continue in my next post though, don't you worry! :)