(in the car running errands)

caroline: belle was real at disney world, right mom?
lauren: yes, she was real.
caroline: i mean real, for real.
lauren: yes, belle was real...a real person.
caroline: cinderella shares her castle with the other princesses, right mom?
lauren: yes, she shares with everyone.
caroline: they all have their own room in the castle.
lauren: that's right!
caroline: (smiling ear to ear) i can't wait to go back and eat breakfast in her castle. will all the princesses be there?
lauren: yes, they will be there (growing weary of the princess conversations!!)

disney world 2008

our first look at disney world and the castle

pluto welcomed us...sorry susanna, daddy cut you out :)

caroline trying to figure it all out

our first ride...buzz lightyear

she loves buzz lightyear!

made it about an hour and a half and she sacked out

lunch with pooh and friends on the first day

love this pix of caroline and piglet...piglet is one of my favs!

grandma, grandad, eeyore and all the grandkids

john's favorite, tigger...he asked me to take this :)

john getting some lovin' from kaitlin

once again, it was all too much for susanna :)

2 beautiful girls havin' fun...connie and kaitlin

her first ears

abby, kaitlin and caroline

caroline in her minnie glasses

her first encounter with cinderella

she liked belle just a little :)

her self proclaimed favorite, sleeping beauty/princess aurora

hanging out in minnie's house

the little girls enjoying disney

hi!!!

could there be a prettier 11 yr old in the world??

could there be a prettier 6 month old in the world??

playing in the "honey i shrunk the kids" playground

i love this pix of caleb...paint and all!

just a little tired

breakfast with the princesses at cinderella's castle

posing on the castle steps

too cool!

aunt connie and caroline riding dumbo

grandma and kaitlin riding dumbo

aunt rachel braved the teacups with the little ones

watching the parade

aunt rachel and abby

aunt connie and kaitlin

grandma and 2 very tired girls

animal kingdom

too cute!!!

asleep on the african safari

asleep at the rainforest cafe...seeing a pattern?

watching the parade with grandad

uncle david and kaitlin

dale at our dinner with minnie and friends

goofy...he was SO much fun!!!

who cares about the characters...i have this strap on my stroller :)

caroline and minnie

chip signing caroline's book

dancing with pluto

caroline dancing with one of her favorite guys in the world

the little girls swimming on our day off

helping to "co-pilot" the monorail

checking out the view from the front seat

chicken little...or as caroline says, "it's chicken doodle to me"

see you next time!!

we got back from our first family trip to disney world and boy was it awesome! caroline is not going to come down from her high any time soon and is ready to go back. mommy and daddy are still exhausted so we'll have to wait a while on that one. we took over 300 pictures so it is hard to narrow that down, but i tried. susanna was a champ, spending all day in the stroller or on me in the baby bjorn. she could not have been better!! we went with john's whole family and soaked up every minute of fun we could together. don't think we left anything undone. thank you grandma and grandad for making the trip possible for us...caroline (and both of us) will never forget it!!