Four Seasons of Marriage: Summer Picture Update

Do you remember my post last week about seasonal pictures the first year of marriage?  If not, you can find it here.

Our original idea was to buy pirate hats and have the picture taken at Magic Kingdom while wearing them.  We thought it would be such a cute picture because it would represent us getting engaged in front of the Pirates ride last summer.  But once we got to the park and started looking at the hats we couldn't find any that we liked.  It was fun trying them on though and laughing at how ridiculous we looked though!  I only wish that I had snapped a picture of Chris wearing Jack Sparrow's hat.  Now that was a sight to see!

Chris took the picture, that is why it is blurry! 

Since the Pirate idea was a bust we decided that maybe hats just weren't in the cards for the summer picture.  Since Chris was sick before we left (you can read about that here) he wasn't able to get a haircut so he was wearing his favorite Long Beach hat around the parks.  I figured that our summer picture would look better if he was wearing his "normal" hat and I was wearing nothing on my head.  I also figured that our fall picture is going to be something really fun (hats included!) so it would be okay to not wear a hat this time around.

When we got to Epcot on Sunday we were on the lookout for a photographer to take our picture in front of the ball.  I don't know if they were on their lunch break or what but we couldn't find anybody!  So Chris decided that we'd take the picture ourselves and see how it turned out.  These are the two that came out:

Picture One

Picture Two

Personally, picture number two is my favorite.  

After walking around for an hour or so we found a cast member that was taking pictures.  He was so funny and extremely nice so I felt completely at ease as he snapped away on the camera.  Usually the photographers snap them quickly and are done but he was taking his time.  I looked up the Disney Photopass Pictures online and took a picture of them with my phone.  They're a little bit blurry but you'll get the general idea.

My initial thought was that I liked the ones that were taken by the cast member because all of the pictures will look uniformed when I finally hang them on the wall after our one year anniversary.  But I also really like the ones Chris took on his iPhone.  

So, once again readers, I need your help!  Which picture do you like best?  Help me decide!

A Disney-Filled Weekend

There is something you need to know about me:
I LOVE bragging about my husband.

I'm not saying that everything is perfect every hour of every day but I will give him credit when it is due.  And he definitely gets major points for this weekend.

Last month we decided to use our annual Disney passes and go for a quick visit.  We'd leave on a Friday in September and come back on Sunday giving us just enough time for a few rides, good food, and lots of fun.  But when he came home from work on Friday, we were thrown a curve ball that neither of us saw coming.  Chris was sick.

At first we thought his allergies were acting up and a little medicine would do the trick.  But we later found out that he had a fever, cough, sore throat, and runny nose.  Not a good way to start off our trip.  But we still decided to pack up the car and drive 13 hours down to FL.

We got there at 10am the following morning and checked into our hotel right away.  The plan was to take a nap and then get up, get a shower, and go to the parks.  Poor Chris was feeling horrible by this point that I let him sleep a little longer then we planned to see if that would help.  It didn't.  He was pretty miserable all day but boy was he a trooper.  The Magic Kingdom was open until 11pm so we figured that if we got there around four o'clock in the afternoon and left around eleven we'd still get a solid seven hours to ride all of our favorite rides.

The park was all decorated for Halloween with banners and Mickey pumpkins around every corner.  We were really hoping that The Haunted Mansion was decorated as The Nightmare Before Christmas (like at Disneyland) but we were disappointed to find out they don't do that in Florida.

Since the park was moderately packed we were able to ride everything we wanted to with an average wait time of about twenty minutes.  We also tried to get a peak at the new Fantasyland but you couldn't really see too much because of the large walls blocking the progress.  It was fun to try to guess what we thought they were building and then find out we were right!

The next day we got up and went straight to Epcot.  Every time we go we eat in China because they don't fix the food in peanut oil, which means this is the only time in my entire life that I can have Chinese food!  The orange chicken is delicious.

We were so surprised at how empty the park was!  It was a little warmer on Sunday and I ended up getting sunburned (stupid eczema medicine...) but it was still one of the nicest days I've ever spent at Epcot.

We ended up getting our pictures taken in front of the ball, rode all of our favorite rides, and then left to head back to Magic Kingdom to ride Pirates one last time.

Chris was such a trooper.  I usually don't like to brag publicly (because he'll have proof of what I've said) but I really have to give him credit.  Even though he had a fever and probably wanted nothing more than to be asleep in a bed, he let me drag him around the park for some fun in the hot Florida sun.  Luckily the nyquil seems to have knocked the worst of whatever he had out of him and now he's just left with a cough.  Let's just hope I don't end up getting what he had.    

Last, but not least, here are a few of my favorite pictures from the trip.  Enjoy!

There was barely anyone at Epcot.  We were
trying to get a picture of us with the ball in the
background but failed.

The Finding Nemo ride is one of our favorites! 

Probably my favorite picture from the trip! 
We were waiting in line for Pirates the first night!

He was excited for Philar Magic!

Panoramic with the new iPhone.  The sunset was gorgeous!

We love Michael Jackson!

So cute in his 3-D glasses.  :-)

Milestones

We finally made it to 100 posts!  I'm extremely overwhelmed, happy, and quite pleased with how well this little blog is going.  

I first started delightfully married so I would have a written account of all the things that went on as Chris and I planned our wedding.  But somewhere in the midst of all that this blog started taking on a life of its own.  I knew I couldn't continue an "engaged blog" forever so it had to transform to keep up with where my life was headed.

Sharing my love for crafts, organization, and life in general is what makes my blog so special to me.   I love having people tell me that a craft I featured inspired them to try something on their own.  I believe that nothing is more satisfying than a project that you completed.

I appreciate all of the overwhelming support and kindness everyone has shown me over the past year.  My hope is to continue this blog for many years to come.  I cannot wait to see how much more this blog will grow and how many more people it can (and hopefully will) reach.