Animal Kingdom

Mornings at Fort Wilderness!

We are in cabins next to each other!

Meme and Papa in 2852

The Wilkinsons in 2854~

Mya ready to drive to the Animal Kingdom!

Waiting for the bus!

Cayden is ready to get autographs today!

Either Cayden is looking or

Mommy is looking!

Smile!

Here's our bus!

Cayden spots Rafiki right away!

Rafiki signs his name!

Everybody SMILE!

Mya, the tiny dancer!

In her own world!

Meme and Mya dancing to Lion King music!

Exploring~

Cayden and Mya decide to become Wilderness Explorers.

They take the oath!

Make a W with your thumbs together!

Now they can look for certain animals and earn badges!

The Tree Of Life!

Cayden's hands are almost as big as a gorillas!

Earning their first badge with a ranger!

Look everywhere,

you don't want to miss a thing!

Sam, the ranger, has lots of questions for Cayden~

He answers them all!

Sam is proud of Cayden!

Badge number 2!

Mya sees her friend, Pocahontas!

She asked Mya if Cayden was her twin...

She hears that a lot!

She was so very beautiful!

Tree of Life animals~

So awesome!

We saw the live show Finding Nemo!

Then more exploring!

Badge number 3  ~ Insects!

We remember Grammy Gert and 

stop to dance on sewer caps! 

A musical badge is next!

My little drummers!

Cyle and Cayden on safari!

Princess Mya looking for animals!

Mya and I waited while everyone else rode 

Expedition Everest... even Cayden!

Cayden DID NOT like it one bit and is hoping not

to have nightmares!  He kept singing ...

It's all about the bass, bout the bass, bout the bass...

NOT THE YETI!!

Just trying to take his mind off that scary ride!

Time to get painted!

What will Mya be?

A PANDA!

Can you guess what Cayden will be?

He was so thrilled to open his eyes!

A DINOSAUR!

This girl is CRAZY!

Work it Mya~

Waiting in line to see Donald Duck.

I remember Sarah scared Donald since her face was painted 

like a tiger...

Cayden knew he could scare Donald too!

First Donald saw Mya... oh my!

Cayden hid behind his book...

until the last second and really gave 

Donald a FRIGHT!

Mya said "Don't be scared, it's just us Donald!"

and our Meme and Papa!

We came home after dinner and watched 

Sleeping Beauty 

under the stars!

Where will we be tomorrow...

come back and see!

They Are HERE!

Our countdown continued...

Thanksgiving this year was shared with some sweet friends in Florida~

Donna and Mike were great hosts who provided us with not only delicious food, but great company as well!  Mike and Martha, Frank and Mildred also joined in the fun!   

Dave and I spent Black Friday having a sailing lesson!  Our instructor, Mike, is awesome!  Great at explaining and teaching!  We have two more lessons set up before we head home!

We then went to dinner at Doc's.  One of our favorite places.  Sando was working ~ we love her crazy personality!  Dave and I waiting on the beach for our table.

      The beautiful sunset from our table!

Cyle, Cayden and Mya... on board, ready ... just wanting for a maintenance check to be cleared for take off!

All systems a go~  some of them were a bit nervous about flying!


Landing... Mya checking it all out!

Once they landed in Orlando, they boarded the Disney Magical Express bus to Fort Wilderness Resort!  Mya quickly fell asleep... they had woke up at 2:30 am to drive from Van Wert to Indianapolis, Indiana airport for a 7:30 am flight ~ she was exhausted!

Cayden, on the other hand, stayed awake and was the first one off the bus!

He spotted us right away!

My spunky Mya Bryn at check in!

We had to wait for our cabins to be ready so we headed to Pioneer Hall for lunch.

We got the text they were ready and we headed to Cabins 2852, and 2854!

Did a bit of unpacking, then we headed to Epcot!  It was 2:30 by this time and

we thought we would spend our first day there!

Once inside the park

PLUTO greeted Cayden and Mya!

He practically "swallowed" Mya!!

They were thrilled to meet him!

Pluto is such the Poser!

Two Ears up!

We rode 

SPACESHIP EARTH, 

THE SEAS WITH NEMO AND FRIENDS,

TURTLE TALK WITH CRUSH...where Cayden was singled out and Crush had some great questions for him!  Cayden told Crush that his Mom brought him to Disney and then Crush had some questions for Bri!  So fun!!

We ended up a the Trails End Restaurant in Fort Wilderness~

Complete with hoola hoops!

So much fun!

Sarah and Molly also met Pluto!

Remember this girls?

And... they loved the hoola hoops too!

Soon it will be Layla Lynn in these pictures too!

Animal Kingdom is next!

Come on... Let's GO!

We are all so Excited!

Yesterday, Bri and Mya sent me this...

The real excitement, for me, is knowing that Cayden & Mya really have no idea just how much fun they are about to have at Disney World!

6, 5, 4... Follow us to Disney!

We can't wait!

The Final Countdown has begun!

What fun I have been having with Cayden & Mya!  They watch each day to see who will text them from Disney!

Everyday- it's a new friend!

With a special message!

We can hardly wait to get to Disney!

Disney friends can't wait to meet Mya and Cayden!

They even want to meet their Mommy!

Cayden & Mya try to guess who it will be next!

Today when they got this text....

Bri sent me this text...

Mya just ran my phone out to the family room yelling "Cayden! Cayden!! Know who texted us?!? ELSA AND ANNA!!" Cayden screamed, "I KNEW IT!!" 😬

They are both just so EXCITED!  

So are Meme & Papa!