Disney World Here We Come!! 4/8/11

Several months ago Marc found out that he is going to Orlando in June for a 2 1/2 day conference. So, we thought, why not turn it into a vacation and do Disney World slowly and relaxingly? So, Marc and I have had the trip booked and planned for several months now. It has been killing us keeping it a secret from the kids. But we found out once....don't tell the kids too early otherwise you will be nagged forever!!! We decided to tell them around Samantha's birthday since that would be almost 2 months before we leave. We will leave the day after Marc gets out of school. We are doing 2 days at Universal so we can see the Harry Potter World, Marc has his conference for 2 1/2 days, and then we will have 9 days in Disney World. So excited!!!

If you know us at all, we have to tell the kids in a cute way. ;-) We put things in a box and gave them the box on Friday.The first thing on the top of the box was a paper count down chain. We did this before we went to Disney World when Marc was almost 3 and it was a nice visual for him to know how much longer until we left. Each link has the date written on it as well as the number of days left. Seeing that made Marc guess that we were taking a trip of some kind.......
Next thing were custom-wrapped Hershey bars.........
They had to unwrap (carefully) the wrapper to find a boarding pass (kinda like the golden ticket)........
That's when Marc finally figured out that we were going to Disney World!! My Mom had just been there a few weeks earlier so she brought back maps for each park. We figured we would let Marc read a book about all the rides/sows/attractions and mark on the map the things e wants to do.
We are SO excited for this vacation! We have had several things happen in our families/lives in the last few months. We are SO ready to go on vacation to rest, relax, forget the bad stuff, and spend some quality time as a family! :-)