Boots, Brass and Best Friends

It has been quite a fall for me! Many sorrows, but also so many blessings. For starters, I got my first ever pair of cowboy boots. Now living in west texas for my entire life, you would think I am over flowing with cowboy boots. But no, first pair and check them out! SWEET!





Next Brass, affectionally called Dogdog. He blesses me every day, as frustrated as I get at him, he is a great protector and companion. Photos of him are one of my frustrations. Here is out latest ‘photo shoot’. GRRRR from both of us!













Dogdog has a birthday coming up this week, hopefully I can get another blog out for him by then!

And finally my greatest blessing of the fall! My best friend got to come visit from Denmark. We have the greatest time together! My mom and I decided to make Susan as Texan as possible. We came up with as many things ‘texan’ as we could.

We went to a Texas Tech Football game



Get your guns up!



We also shot in the back yard!



And lastly Susan and I went to Atlanta for a quick weekend.

We visited the aquarium



Coca Cola world





Our very favorite soda to try was called Beverly – made in Italy.

Oh and we met Jane Seymour. No biggie.

A few of my favorite things - the last

Ok as my mother reminded me, I am waaaaay behind on my Disney blogs. So here is my last blog (finally) about our Disney World trip. You think I would have done it sooner seeing as how Magic Kingdom is my favorite park to visit.

I could just say that everything we did was my favorite, but there are about 700 pictures to prove that point. So I will just add my favorite-favorite things!

Ok first (in no particular order of the favorite-favorite things)

The castle, no explanation needed.


Getting to take my niece to the bibbidi bobbidi boutique.


Eating thanksgiving dinner at the Liberty Tree Tavern


Riding the boat from the lodge


Mickey’s Philharmagic (a favorite-favorite-favorite) I especially enjoyed taking the niece to this, she had never been to the movies, much less the best 3D you can get!


Finding an authentic Disney sketch artist while searching for indoor rainy day activities.


SPLASH MOUNTAIN! Check out the look on the nephew’s face!


Just being with my famly!


I hope you have enjoyed these last few posts. Feel free to share a favorite Disney memory in the comments!

A few of my favorite things - Three

Well the last few weeks have been so busy for me that my blogging has gone by the wayside. Hopefully I can get back into the swing of things soon. So here we are at Animal Kingdom. I enjoyed this park much more this time then I did last trip. I think some things have been expanded and added and it was great fun. Animal Kingdom seems like the hottest park that we visit and this time was no exception. We made the best of things though and just had a great day.



My first favorite was breakfast this day. We got goodies and tucked ourselves away in a little quite hidden dining area.


Our first stop after breakfast was the Kilimanjaro Safari. This is a great family ride and we all enjoyed seeing the exotic animals and plants from Africa.


I love how this mist was coming through the flora.


Mom loves chai tea lattes. Well we did not have much luck finding them at Disney World. (ie they are nowhere to be found in Walt Disney World) One night I was able to do a little research and found the one and only place in all of the parts that sells chai. So this is definitely one of my favorite things!!


Our whole group loved the Birds of Wonder show and enjoyed the tie in to all of the tourist groups in the park.


Mom joined us on Everest the ride!




This is brother (aka the engineer) and myself recreating our ride picture from Dinosaur.


And to end this day we headed over to the Polynesian Resort to eat at Ohana!


Visit again soon for Magic Kingdom Memories!

A few of my favorite things - Two

These are a few of my favorite things from Hollywood Studios!



New Sunglasses! I forgot my sunglasses at the resort, so I had to break down and get a new pair. Sister ended up getting the same pair! Can you find the hidden mickey?



I really love Mickey's hat sitting at the center of HWS. Its huge and makes for a great meeting place.



Family! No complaints here!


I was so excited for the back lot tour. We got to tour a few movie sets and see some stunts. Not as great as Universal Studios and their 'attack you in 4D with a trex and king kong' but it was pretty good.


Next was dinner at Mama Melrose's. Now I love italian anyway, but this was super good italian. The desserts were amazing and my dad said it was the best steak he has ever had!

And lastly my favorite thing of the whole trip! Lights, Motors Action - Extreme Stunt Show. This was about the coolest thing I have ever seen! Stunt driving looks SO much better in real life then on the screen!


Check out this clip!

A few of my favorite things - One

Well we just got back from an amazing trip to Walt Disney World. My whole family got to come, me and my parents, as well as my Sister and her family. Between all of us there were around 1200 pictures and I have no idea how to condense it all into a few blogs. I decided to take each park and pick some of my favorite things.

The first park we visited was Epcot. I love Epcot and even with this one park, it was hard to pick favorites! Ok here we go!

Soarin is my favorite ride at Epcot and it was even more special this time because we got to take the kids. They had never experienced anything like this before and it was awesome. As soon as we got off, we were ready to go again!!

Meeting Belle, Tinkerbell and Snow White. These ladies are so great to the kids and are so into their characters. Belle really catered to young brother. He was so smitten that he asked if she would like to go pin shopping with him. Best quote of the entire trip!



I LOVE the world showcase at Epcot! I really wanted the kids to enjoy it as well, but was not so sure they would. Well my sister researched a bit and found one of the coolest things on the planet! Disney has incorporated Kim Possible missions in 7 of the countries. I have to admit this was one of the funnest things that we did! We all enjoyed it and the kids named it as a favorite activity. So another favorite of mine is completing 7 Kim Possible missions in the world showcase!

This part of Norway actually took a picture of us and it showed up on the receiver!
A secret code was revealed on the underside of these piñatas in Mexico!

Every time I visit Epcot I call my best friend Susan in Denmark, from the World Showcase country of Germany! As far as the countries in Epcot Germany is closest to Denmark. I love doing this and we always joke that I am waving at her from across the bay.

We had some really great food this year and one of my favorites was Le Cellier in Canada. We also ate at the Garden Grill where you meet Mickey!!


One of the most exciting things at Disney is fireworks! This night we had a great time picking out a spot and waiting around for the Illiminations show held in the World Showcase Lagoon. Everyone enjoyed this show but it was so awesome to watch the looks on the kids faces when the fireworks were shot off.


And here is a super cute picture of me and sis waiting for the bus.

Next favorites to come – Hollywood Studios!!