Disney Day 4! *final day*

On our last day at Disney, we went to Animal Kingdom and ended in Epcot. It was extremely hot that day or at least felt like it because of lack of shade. It was over 90 (in November). There wasn't a ton of stuff Hadley could do here but we took in a safari, a couple shows, and a character lunch. 

the sun/shade situation was not ok

the tree of life 

Christmas trees were everywhere, I swear I didn't need to seek them out, they found me

Mickey's safari lunch. Daisy was her favorite. I do find it weird that you can not find Minnie anywhere.... 

playing some music

selfie with the giraffes

and elephants. The family of elephants were in the water because it was so hot!

My favorite show was the finding nemo one, it was awesome. and cold inside.... nice and refreshing

we headed over to Epcot and found the actual clown fish for Nemo!

We did a couple more aquarium type things at Epcot and the sphere science fiction ride which was super fun! We had dinner reservations in Italy at Epcot so we headed there but on our long stroll over there... little miss fell asleep in her stroller! and then transferred into the booth. So james and I had a private dinner date for two :) top left photo in the collage is her in the booth.

She proceeded to sleep during the transfer back into the stroller, walking past another Hanson concert (how lucky was I to hear them TWICE in one week) and finally woke up as we strolled out the exit of Epcot. It was funny, she was like where are we going! All in all I can say we came, we saw, and we conquered. Our first Disney trip as a family is complete!

We headed back through Jacksonvile, FL on the way home and stopped in to see my brother and sister in law for a quick bday celebration for hadley.

cuddling with Marla

cuddled with chris

Having so much fun in their little pool on their patio..... water was quite cold, but as I'm sure you could guess.... she did get in fully SEVERAL times, against our wishes. 

What a fun trip we all had! What a great trip to end 2015. Happy New Year everyone!

Disney Day 3! and Hadley's birthday!

We had a fun filled LONG full day at the Magic Kingdom planned for her birthday. We started the day with balloons that my mom and cousins arranged from the hotel.

We headed to Belle and the Beasts castle for our Be Our Guest Lunch. We've concluded this was the best food we had the whole trip. I bet dinner would have been superb (next time!)

Hadley talked to Lumiere before going in :)

I was obsessed (still am) with taking pictures by christmas trees (I was looking for best ones for our card this year). This one was in the grand ball room of the castle.

It's my birthday I'll pout if I want to (I wanted to show you the ballroom we ate in), she wasn't really pouting just didn't want to take the picture

There were two other rooms you could eat in, one was the beasts area and it was dark and spooky in there! 

My yummy lunch

The birthday girl

Right after lunch we had a fast pass for right next door at the Enchanted Tales with Belle. It was the highlight of my trip, I really liked how interactive it was. James even got chosen as one of the Knights.

We made a stop to see the Fairy God Mother, we were in line for the step-sisters but they took a break but Hadley was happy to see her. 

Counting her birthday 3 fingers!

loving the hugs

Hadley went on her first real roller coaster, too. and it went FAST. I was holding her down haha

She loved it... but did have some worry faces. She did cry when it was over.... but because she didn't want to get off :)

the castle!

I have a better pic of the castle but I'll show you on Christmas!

We had dinner at the Crystal Palace buffet where we met all the Winnie the Pooh characters.

Hadley was a pro at meeting characters and had so much fun. (although she wanted to finish eating before greeting anyone... haha girl loves her food)

  They were filming for a disney show and we got to see them light the castle like 5 times that night with the frozen cast on stage.... that was pretty cool.

Had a visit with Tink!

We ended the birthday day with a visit to Mickey and he talked! He even sang her happy birthday!

What a great fun birthday! Too bad she won't remember it, but I have the best pictures!

This photo was taken around 8:30 pm she looks whipped. We went right out for the parade and intended to stay for fireworks but we couldn't hang. 

She's such a big girl, I could barely hold her like my baby!

She was OUT. Started on the bus ride back to hotel and then the long walk back to the room plus we got her in jammies and such. It was comical. 

Disney day 2

For Disney day 2, we started out in Epcot went to Magic Kingdom and then looped around back to Epcot! We were craaaazy. This was also the day we did over 20,000 steps! (moms fitbit tracked us). We were at Epcot Norway to have breakfast with the princesses! Hadley was super excited and had the best time ever.

with her cousin delilah

hadley and belle

Here's a collage of her hugging the princesses. She is truly giving each one of them a heart felt hug. Gotta love my sweet girl

When in France....... have some champagne! This is me and my cousin Jessie (delilah's mom)

hanging with the Eiffel Tower in the background

our little fam going to Epcot

after a morning at Epcot with met up with the rest of the family at Magic Kingdom to ride the Haunted Mansion 

Hadley loves spooky things and this ride was for any ages so it was a blast

gotta do the dumbo ride

dumbo ride selfie with mom

we were shooting things on the buzz lightning ride... some of us took it way serious haha

side view of the castle

the day before her birthday!

We were supposed to go back to Epcot to do the food and wine festival for dinner (they had great small snacks to try at each country) but our little girl took a spill on the water area and boy did it look painful.

we went back to the hotel and decided she was ok so we rallied some troops to go to Epcot after all.

here's the 3rd rounder gang back at Epcot

had to stop back in France with mom

being silly (there was no stool for hadley, james was holding her up haha) right before the HANSON CONCERT!! Yes ladies born in the 80s HANSON! the mmmbop singing brother trio was at Epcot for like a week singing twice a day! It was A.W.E.S.O.M.E.

We ended with an impromptu fireworks display! what a fun day!