A Little Glimpse & Disney Day 1!

Since my computer has been out of commission I've missed blogging about two important things!  First, before we left for vacation we had our routine 20 week ultrasound.  Everything looked just fine and we got a good report that everything looked great!  Just like last time, we didn't look when she told us so that it would be a surprise!  We took John Michael with us and I was glad we did.  He sat and watched the monitor and said he was watching a movie of a baby!  Sweet moments!

Here's sweet little baby #3!  Boy or girl?!  This little one has a cute little button nose.  We haven't seen that on either of our other ultrasounds, so maybe it's a girl?  Who knows!

No matter how many times you get to do it, seeing that ultraound never gets old.  It's such an awesome and awe-inspiring thing to watch!

So.......

Let me explain our Disney vacation.  Jordan and I decided that we really needed a vacation together before the new baby comes this summer.  We thought and thought for weeks what we might like to do. We thought of lots of different places, but  ultimately, we decided to go to Disney World...by ourselves!

We figured it would probably be years before we could go leave 3 children and go somewhere on our own, so we just went for it and took a vacation by ourselves for the first time ever.  We've never left the boys so it was a really hard decision to make, but the way I look at it is we want our marriage to last 50+ years and our children are only in our home under 20 years of that total, so we need to focus on each other once in a while and remember it's not always about them.  It was so hard to leave, but we had the best time just sitting together and talking and not doing much of anything!  The boys were perfectly happy here at our house with grandparents and they were spoiled all week.  I know they all had a good time!

All the books and websites said the week after President's Day is a great time to go.  It sure was!  There were record highs, so most days it was 88, 87 degrees!  We stayed on-property at Port Orleans Riverside.

We did have to wait awhile at the airport for the Magical Express (and this was not peak season) and it did take around 3 hours to get our luggage; which is what they tell you anyway.

This is a HUGE property with 4 bus stops around the perimeter.  We stayed in the Alligator Bayou section of the resort.  To be honest, I wasn't that thrilled.  Our building looked out over the parking lot, but it ended up being great for us because it was one of the closest buildings to the main building (food/reception) and to the main bus stop.  That worked for this pregnant mama! And really, how often are you really in your room at Disney?  It was nice to not have to walk a long way after being at the parks all day!

Hello Mickey!  We had the nicest housekeeping lady everyday and she kept everything nice and clean for us.

Since we arrived mid-afternoon we just hung out and explored the resort and then headed to Downtown Disney for dinner.  It was crazy-packed and there were 2 hour waits just about everywhere.

We lucked out though!

It worked in our favor to only have a party of two.  We bypassed the 2 hour wait at Rainforest Cafe and went straight to a table on their back porch and split a plate.  We were right on the lake and we had a great view of Downtown Disney and Saratoga Springs Resort!

The weather was perfect for sitting outside by the water!  Warm and breezy!

After dinner we headed to the Ghiradelli store for a dessert treat.  I believe they pump out the smell of warm, melted chocolate to draw you in.  We split some sort of chocolate peanut butter sundae and it was really, really good!

After this we headed back to the resort to get ready to go to the Magic Kingdom the next day!