MICKEY WATCH VERSION 2.0

This is my second reproduction 1930's Mickey watch. The first watch was bought in 1993 after one of my first paying mural jobs. I wore that watch a lot. About two years ago it stopped keeping time correctly. Thought it was maybe the battery. After having it fixed twice I basically found out that it's almost impossible to fix old watches. The insides of watches today are made with thinner gears. So to fix my old watch you'd have to find an old watch with similar insides to use. Kinda sucked. I even took it to Disney World because I had heard that the jewelry shop on Main Street could fix it. Apparently they no longer do watch repairs.

While in Disney World I saw the current reproduction watch. I did not buy it because I refused to spend the $250.00 they were asking. When I got home I searched around on the internet and found that I could purchase the watch from Ingersoll, the watch maker, for half the price. Yay! When the watch arrived I knew I'd need to take it to a jeweler to have some links removed. Almost two weeks later I got it back. A little confusion of how many links I wanted taken out plus they broke the glass, led to the delay. But now I have it! Compared to my original this one is better made. It's made of stainless steel, not nickle , has a larger turn dial and is a wind up. I think my first one is actually closer in appearance to the original because of the thin metal, but I always had problems with the clasp on it because of the thin nickel.
The watch repair man I dealt with told me about a man who brought him one of the original watches for fixing that was given to him by Walt Disney.

WEEKEND PROJECT

I thought I'd take advantage of the long weekend and work on the continuing office makeover. Chrise took down the chandelier that we kept running into and put in a ceiling fan.

We've added the chair rail and trim just like in the foyer. This project did not get done this weekend thanks to three different Lowes not having the trim we needed in stock. Were told it would take about a week to get in. So the room is about 75% done. I got the back wall and window wall done so I could push the furniture back. We're going to carry this up into the hallway upstairs too. Room still needs an office chair and someday crown molding.

STAR WARS LEGO NIGHT

Helping Daddy build the Rancor set.

Rrrrrr...Rancor eating the piggy guard!

FRIDAY NIGHT SWIM

Forgot I had these on my phone from friday.

Swimming at Legacy Park indoor kid pool.

NATIVITY PLAY

 

Here are pics and video from the Nativity Play from school. It was rescheduled after New Years because of bad weather at the end of December. Violet originally wasn't going to be in the play because we were in DisneyWorld at the time it was scheduled. But since the play was rescheduled they decided to add her in and give her a part. With only two days of practicing I think she did pretty good. Very nervous but she managed to get the words out.

Click play then click on the YouTube button on bottom right. This will open in it up in YouTube. Once it opens in YouTube click the second rectangle at the bottom right. This will make the screen bigger.

OUR DISNEY BOOK

My souvenir arrived yesterday! Our Disney book!! I've never had an image printed on the cover and I love how it turned out. 116 pages of fun. It's a heavy book.

HUG COUPONS

Violet spent part of the evening quietly coloring. She brought us coupons for hugs. She said we can use them whenever and then asked for the hugs. I think I'll save them and cash them in when she's 12.

FUN IN THE SNOW

 

Violet's been dying to play in the snow. We missed out on the first snow fall because we were in Disney world.  Though we didn't get enough snow to go sledding she still had a little fun in it yesterday.

CHRISTMAS AT HOME

Putting out milk, cookies and carrots for Santa and his reindeer.

 

Christmas morning.

GRINE CHRISTMAS

FABSITS CHRISTMAS

Jackson under the presents. 

That's a lot of gifts.

"Did I get beer bread."

Very, very excited about her Pillow pet dream lite from Grandma!

 

She was super excited to get her Doc McStuffins and her friends from Uncle John. She's never seen these before and loves them. She goes to bed with the whole crew.

DISNEY TRIP DAY 7 LAST DAY :(

Though our flight didn't leave till 2 the shuttle to the airport left at 11 which meant we didn't really have time for much to do. We did however go back to Chef Mickey for breakfast. A great way to start and end our trip.

Though Violet had seen these guys multiple times over the week she was still super excited and enthusiastic when they'd enter the room. 

Look how happy she is.

The last day there was cold. High was going to be 59 and they were expecting a frost. In fact all the planted poinsettia plants were covered.

This is the clearest pic of all of us taken with my camera. Everytime someone would ask if we wanted our picture taken they could never get the focus right. But thanks to the photo pass I've got some good ones of all of us.

Here's three of my favorite photopass photos.

The three of us have never had so much fun running around, riding rides, wearing silly ears, dancing in and singing in the streets and eating TONS of yummy food. I will remember this trip the rest of my life and hope Violet does too. It helps I took a million photos :). See you soon Disney World.

DISNEY TRIP DAY 6 PART 2

After hanging out in Tomorrowland one more time we went and had dinner at Tony's on Main Street. Way up front in the park. A bit of a walk. Tony's is the restaurant from Lady and the Tramp.

My dessert. Mint cheesecake. Crust tasted like Thin Mint cookies. The drawing on the plate is actually stenciled chocolate. Crazy!

After dine we hung around and did the Merry Christmas Party again.

Before the party began we headed over to Adventureland to ride more rides. Did the Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse and Pirates again. This time around we did not sit in the front row. On the first day we sat in the front row and got soaked.

Jack Sparrow.

More pretty castle pics.

We got to watch the holiday stage show that we missed at the first party because we were sitting on Main Street waiting for the parade.

I don't think we can ever go back to Disney World not during the holidays.  It was the most fun we've every had. 

We finally found Rapunzel!!

Found a perfect not so crowded spot in front of the Crystal Palace restaurant to view the Holiday Wishes show. An awesome display of changing lights and projected images on the castle.

See Mickey in the middle.

And we ended the evening with the fireworks show and...

...one more trip on the Flying carpets :)!