Disney Cruise!!!

I finally have a few minutes to post some pictures from our AWESOME Disney Cruise that we just returned from! I am so exhausted that everytime I sit down for more than two minutes I fall asleep. Traveling with children is probably the most tiring thing I have ever experienced. It was worth it though! We had a fabulous time and will enjoy the memories as much as we enjoyed the cruise. I'll let the pics tell the story...watch for more in the days to come.


Here are my little bed bugs in the hotel where we stayed in Orlando the night before cruising. Notice that there are no pictures of us actually getting to Florida. Going to the airport and flying with the kids was the definition of "CRAZY." Our bags were too heavy so we had to take things out of them and squeeze them into our already bursting carry-on backpacks. Janie was on this little leash thing that she hated and she was so angry about it that she just prostrated herself on the airport floor and I dragged her little bones around with the leash. People were laughing...it was kind of embarassing...man, I'm glad the traveling part is through.

Here's the fam with Grandma Sue wearing our awesome, Tanner-custom T-Shirts. I'll have to take a good pic of the designs on one of the shirts. They're really cool! They say "Alexander Retirement Celebration 2009" with a picture of a cruise ship on the front. On the back they have little stick figure people representing everyone in the family. They're darling!

Joe and Gracie with our boat, the Disney Magic in the background. I like this picture because it looks like Gracie is flipping me off, which is totally what she would be doing if she knew about said gesture.

It was so bright, she couldn't open her eyes :)

Notice the flat hair! The humidity totally skunked my 'do. :)

Unfortunately, it looks like every single picture we took of us with the characters turned out kind of blurry. I'm irritated with my camera because it didn't live up to it's price tag. Oh well. I'm having our big Nikon worked on this week.

Zoe and Taytem showing Gracie the finer points of the Nintendo DS. She was so into it!

At the sailaway party! Gracie loved the pompoms that they passed around!

We're finally onboard! We've been looking forward to this vacatin for over a year! :)

The girls looking out the porthole in our stateroom! This picture totally reminds me and Joe of an old picture we have of our labs and two cats looking out our front screen just like this. No more labs or cats...just two crazy nuts we call our children!

More pics to come...

Oh, and there was a complete LACK of Jimmy Buffet on the boat. I was seriously dissappointed. So Jimmy will be providing the soundtrack to the memories, if not the actual experience. :)