Focht Family Blog

I lied… I did get some pictures at Magic Kingdom. I forgot that we went to the Barber shop on Main Street and had everyone’s hair done. Here is Timmy’s hair….

Joshua decided he wanted a big boy cut so I had the barbers clean up what I did. They also gave him some color…

Samantha had her hair in braids already but she got some color added…

Nathan decided to get a trim as well. Here is his new hairdo…

After the barber shop we had to catch up with the rest of the family. On our way we stopped for an autograph from some new characters we hadn’t seen out yet. This is the Prince (can’t remember his name) and Princess Tiana from the new Frog and Princess movie…

My mom and I also had our hair done up with paint and sparkles but the pictures didn’t come out good on either of them. I know Christina got a picture of them. I will have to have her email me her pictures and see if they came out better.

My mother-in-law paid for a Disney photographer to meet us at the Wilderness Lodge for pictures. It was a good deal. They gave her 1 8×10, 2 5x7s and a CD of all the pictures that were taken. These are all pictures that the photographer took. Here is a picture of Nathan’s parents, Ron & Barb…

Nathan’s younger sister Christina and her friend Bridgette…

Nathan’s older sister Vicki, her husband Jim, and their daughter Alex…

Our family including sick Timmy….

Here is a picture of just the kids by one of the smaller trees…

A picture of Nathan with his sisters and all of the kids…

The WHOLE family (my mom is even in there)…

And I had to add this picture because it is the ONLY picture where Timmy is actually smiling and his eyes look bright…

Now I am hoping I can talk my brother into driving down to Statesboro for a couple of days while we are here so we can get some Brandt Family pictures! :)

Sunday everyone ended up arriving later than planned. Nathan’s younger sister Christina and Bridgette arrived on Saturday night since they were staying with us so they went to Epcot for the day. Nathan’s older sister Vicki ended up in the snowstorm driving down from NY so she didn’t arrive until dinner time. Nathan’s parents arrived a few minutes before Vicki did. We decided it wasn’t worth them spending a day’s entrance for only a few hours of park time so we went to Downtown Disney for dinner and shopping. My niece Alex and Samantha decided to pose for a picture when we got there…

We decided to eat at the Rainforest Cafe because we get a discount there. While we waited for our table Timmy was attacked by a large snake…

The kids were all given spending money for Christmas presents so needless to say there was a lot of shopping done. Then we headed home to get some sleep for the next day at Hollywood Studios. I didn’t take any pictures at Hollywood Studios or at Magic Kingdom which was the next day. Tuesday night Timmy spent the night vomiting. He had been staying at my mom’s because we had Christina, Bridgette, and Alex at our house. Alex was staying in Timmy’s bed. By 4:30 in the morning he came home with a bowl by his side and crawled into bed with Nathan and me! :( Poor baby was really sick. His ear is still bothering him so it may have been related.

Wednesday we were supposed to do family pictures in the morning followed by Animal Kingdom. We bundled Timmy up in a blanket and took a bowl with us and I made him go to the pictures and then he spent the rest of the day at home with my mom (she didn’t want to deal with the crowds at the parks). Timmy wanted me to stay home but when I said that if I stayed home Josh would be home too and would probably bug him, Timmy told me to go! :) During the pictures I can tell which pictures were first and which ones were towards the end because Timmy started out okay and kept going down hill…

Saturday we arrived early so we could hope to get the sites we wanted. Amazingly… this time they gave us the exact sites I requested!! I was so happy!! So while we were waiting for our sites to be available we spent our time touring the displays at the hotels. We first took a bus to Hollywood Studios and then took the boat that goes to the hotels that are between Hollywood Studios and Epcot. Our first stop was the Yacht Club where there was a train set up going through what was supposed to be a sugar mountain with a candy coated village. It was a nice display but it didn’t look like sugar and candy to me….

The next stop was the Beach Club (?) where there was a beautiful gingerbread carousel. The horses were made of molded chocolate with chocolate ribbons for tails… it was amazing!!!

They also had Chip and Dale’s treehouse…

The last stop on the boat loop was the Boardwalk. They had a cute gingerbread house with Donald stuck in the chimney…

Then we walked through Epcot and took the Monorail to the Grand Floridian and the Contemporary. The Grand Floridian has a HUGE gingerbread house where they sell gingerbread and other goodies out of. I couldn’t get a good picture of it because there were too many people by it. The Contemporary had a gingerbread tree…

After buying some goodies here we took a boat from the Contemporary back to Fort Wilderness to move into our sites. On the way down to the boat the kids found something to get a picture in…

On November 27 Dory turned 1!! Here is a picture of Dory. She has definitely grown since May…

I also wanted to show a picture that my mom took while I was driving down to Tampa. Here is Timmy laying on Dory with Tinkerbell laying on Timmy…

For the last 10 days or so we have been in Tampa. It is one of my favorite stops other than the fact that there aren’t a lot of kids here. They have free breakfast and lunch although we usually only get breakfast. They have nice paved roads for bike riding and a heated pool and jacuzzi so we have been relaxing and getting school done and then going out in the afternoons for pool time and bike rides. Nathan and I go back to the jacuzzi most nights to relax. Tomorrow we leave for Disney to start our 4 days of the Focht Family Christmas. Since we don’t usually have the whole family with us I will try to take a lot of pictures and keep updated. We are showing up a day early so that I can go around and look at all the Christmas displays at the different hotels.