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An emergency vacation to Disney, BlogHer11 & moving to NY; ALL in 3 wks!

by Lily @militaryfamof8

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In the spirit of making sure my husband pleases me enough to want to stay married to him during our move to NY, he decided to surprise the entire Family with an “emergency” vacation. How cute right? ;D

IT’S OUR 1st VACATION TOGETHER AS A FAMILY EVER!!!!!
Financially we were never able to afford anything like this, not even for all of us to go to one amusement park all at the same time, but THANKFULLY we are BLESSED enough at this time to finally have a real vacation 😉
even during vacation they get labeled!!!


So last week he came home and said “We have 3 hours to clean house and pack!!!”  I know the suspense is killing you… it took us 7 hours to leave the house 😉 YOU try cleaning house, planning pets feedings,emergency laundry AND packing for 7!!! We ended up packing dirty clothes and choosing to do laundry at the hotel lol.

We packed outfits, cameras, memory cards, stuffed animals, toys, snacks, you name it; we had it…
except my sanity.   I lost it in the shuffle of life between the first (1993) and last child (2005).  It makes for much more excitement everywhere we go if you ask me!

So here we are, almost a week away; and I finally had a chance to get on a computer and say hello to the world!!!  I will post about our adventures later, right now I am BEAT!  Today was the 1st day we took it slow.  We still did the tourist/vacation things; but spent a lot of time in the hotel pool and hot tub as well 😉
Let me say that I LOVE seeing my Family play in the pool, it’s fun; BUT I LOVE it even more as I am watching them from the hot tub!!! 😉

Can’t wait to show you our adventures!!
Can’t wait to getting home, so my husband and kids can have fun packing the house while I am at #BlogHer11, and right after BlogHer while our stuff is being shipped to NY, we get to take our 1st ever cross country trip.  The entire Family in a car, from Cali to NY…
somewhere along this trip I will need wine and tissues!!!

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  1. Kim @ Stuff could... says

    July 25, 2011 at 12:37 am

    Wow what a vacation! Nice of your husband

  2. Da Truth says

    July 25, 2011 at 11:23 am

    I’m glad you are happy that we went on this vacation; NOW will you stay married to me while we drive to NY?!?!??!
    Just think of all the shopping outlets there will be between Ca and NY!

  3. Mellisa Rock says

    July 25, 2011 at 12:15 pm

    How exciting to take your first ever vacation with the whole family. It sounds like you are loving every minute of it!

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  9. Shelly Wighte says

    August 15, 2011 at 3:44 pm

    How incredibly fun! And by the way I just love the picture of the kids in the cage lol. Looking forward to reading about your trip.

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  11. Nathan says

    October 10, 2011 at 6:16 am

    Lily, we have definitely dropped the ball on our friendship and weekly talks, we need to catch up!

    I am so glad you guys finally got to go to Disneyland for vacation and I am also happy for you to be moving to NY, this will be so good for you, I just know it!

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