The Life and Times of the Watters Family

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Looking through all of our sunny vacation pictures makes this dreary, rainy day much more dreary and rainy! If summer doesn’t come this year I think I’ll be ready to move in September!

pictures

I finally uploaded all the pictures from our trip to iphoto, now I need to sort through them and and post them on Flickr. I hope to have them up tomorrow. Here’s our group shot that we had one of the Disneyland photographers take on Friday. We had so much fun and we have so many great memories to keep with us.

Disney Day four

1. Buzz Light Year’s Astroblasters
2. Finding Nemo Submarines
3. Splash Mountain
4. Pirate’s Lair on Tom Sawyer Island
5. Aladdin Show (this was really fun!)
6. Grizzly River Run/California Screamin’ (we split up– Caleb didn’t want to get wet)
7. Shopping in Downtown Disney
8. California Screamin’ (Cory, Katie and Caleb x2)
9. Soarin’ Over California
10. California Screamin’ (Caleb & Cory x2)
11. Electric Light Parade (so cool– we accidentally stumble on this and we were so glad we caught it)
12. Fireworks Show (wow– it makes me cry when the play Walt’s voice)
13. Fantasmic (We’d never seen this before and it was AMAZING!)
14. Pirates of the Caribbean
15. Splash Mountain/Winnie the Pooh (Caleb didn’t want to get wet again)

We were at the park from 9:15am-midnight yesterday!!

Look for a big picture post coming soon.

Disney Day three

1. Jungle Cruise
2. Thunder Mountain
3. Tarzan’s Treehouse
4. Alice and Wonderland
5. Grizzly River Run (x2)
6. California Screamin’ (x2, Cory x4)
7. Ate Dinner at Rainforest Cafe
8. Watched the Parade of Dreams
9. Pirates of the Caribbean
10. Splash Mountain (x3)

I’m WAY too tired to upload pictures tonight!! We are taking the day off tomorrow and hanging out by the pool. We are all wiped out and we’ll have a long day on Friday so we need a day to relax.

Disney day two

We had another fun filled day in D’land. The sun came out today and it was SO nice! It’s been a blast so far and we’re only half done!

Here’s what we did today:

1. Peter Pan
2. Dumbo
3. Storybook Canal Boats
4. Thunder Mountain
5. Splash Mountain
6. Disney Railroad
7. Roger Rabbit
8. Soarin’ Over California
9. Grizzly River Run (x4)
10. A Bug’s Land
11. Monsters Inc.

I am loving being here with my Watters family but I do miss my sisters!! Someday we’ll have to plan a family vacation here. Love you sisters!

Disneyland day one

We had so much fun our first day at Disneyland! We arrived at the park at 9:30am and went on 5 big rides in the first 2 hours! It was a bit chilly, especially after getting wet on a couple of the rides. We are hoping the sun comes for our other days at Disneyland.

Here’s what we did today:

1. Indiana Jones
2. Thunder Mountain
3. Pirates of the Caribbean
4. Splash Mountain
5. Winne the Pooh
6. Astro-Blasters
7. Soarin’ Over California
8. Grizzly River Run
9. Space Mountain
10. Matterhorn (during fireworks — which  was super cool!)
11. Tea Cups
12. Mr. Toad
13. Snow White
14. Pinocchio
15. Pirates of the Caribbean (again)
16. Nemo Submarine

Here’s a few pics from the first day:

Kelly and I picked up a birthday button for Cam yesterday. She had them write “Roon” on it– that’s her nickname for Cam.

Seany had just eaten a Mickey Mouse ice cream sandwich.

Mike took the front on Splash Mountain and got SOAKED!

Caleb leaps for joy as we enter California Adventure!

Mike and Cam on our way California Adventure– oooh–look at those calf muscles!!

Kelly and Mike riding Winne the Pooh.

Today we are just hanging out at the house– hopefully around the pool! We are celebrating Cam’s 30th birthday and Kelly’s 20th.

Happy Birthday Cam! 30 is good. I love you SO very much.

I get to see more of this sweet sight

in about 2 weeks! I am really looking forward to our vacation. I think I feel just about as excited as I did last year before we went which is surprising to me. I thought I was so excited last time because it was our first trip but the excitement returns when I reminisce with Cam and the boys about all the fun we had last year.

We will be celebrating Cam’s 30th birthday while we are in CA. I have no idea what to get him or how to celebrate the day to make him feel extra special and loved. Any ideas?

We are still super busy. After this weekend soccer is over and our weekend commitments will be cut in half. On Saturday we have The Walk for Life, a soccer game and a baseball game and unfortunately they all overlap a bit. Sunday is Mother’s Day and I am hoping for a fun, relaxing, family day.

I am hoping so that our life calms down a bit after vacation and we can begin working on our summer plans. Pray for lots of sun!

ready, set, fly…

We bought our plane tickets for our D’land trip in May! We are very excited!

going back!

Looking through our Disneyland pictures the other night (trying to find a picture of Kelly and the boys) reminded me of how much fun we had! It was such a great trip, full of so many wonderful memories! And we get to go do it all again this May (our Christmas gift from Mike and Terri– Thank you!). We will be going with Cam’s parents, Kelly, Cory and cousin Katie. Cam’s grandparents will also be in California while we are there.

We will be leaving May 24th and returning May 31st. This time we have City Passes so we will spend 3 days in Disneyland, go to the San Diego Zoo, Universal Studios, and Sea World. Cam will celebrate his 30th birthday while we are in California.

We are all very excited. 95 days to go!

Disneyland Pictures- finally

We had the best time ever! So many amazing memories and so much fun!

Disneyland Vacation Update

Hello. Cameron here posting on Betsy’s behalf since it wasn’t practical for both of us to head out in search of decent wifi.

As the previous sentence might suggest, we’ve had a bit of a headache finding a decent wifi connection from the hotel room. Fortunately, my trek didn’t require me to go any further than the hotel lobby, for now. I’m still only getting pretty weak signal here, but at least it’s stable enough.

Once we find a better connection (which we will, I promise), we’ll post more (including pictures). In the mean time, if you want to follow us using an abbreviated all-text version of our progress, you can check out http://www.twitter.com/watters. I’ve been posting activity updates via SMS during our entire trip.

We’ve been having a great time so far and look forward to sharing stories and photos with everyone just as soon as we’ve got a better Internet connection. It’s 2007. What kind of hotel doesn’t have decent connectivity for customers?