Y'know what!?: July 2007

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Family Photos

Lisi Wolf came over to Noni and Papou's and took some AMAZING photos of the family. Amazing because they look great and it is really hard to coral that many Hassons....

Lisi was great and here is a link to her oybaby contact page if you would like to hire her to take photos of your family. http://www.oybaby.com/contact.htm

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

More Disney

It became all about Tinkerbell

Sleeping Beauty

The crabby queen of hearts!

Goofy signs Sylvie's autograph book

Super shy around Alladin

Breakfast at Goofy's Kitchen - we ran into some characters...

Sophia and Baloo

Sophia and Jasmine

Sylvie and Mason at Buzz Lightyear

Sylvie wore her Cinderella dress the entire day and every "cast member" who works there (that includes everyone from Ariel to the sweepers) has to say"Hi Princess!" to her all day long. That was my favorite part. Sylvie's favorite part was seeing the princesses in the parade. I was literally choked up by that point. The teacups and dumbo and small world and pirates - we did em all! At the very beginning, Sylvie turned and said "Mommy, is this real or pretend?" and, since we were in the pirates ride, I told her it was pretend. She wasn't scared again the whole day. She crashed at about 3 while we ate dinner at the bayou lagoon (or somehting like that) which was perfect because she got up about 1 1/2 hours later and our day lasted from 8:40 am until 11:30 PM.

I got the feeling that we were in a special place, not just because they work hard to make it all seem magical but because you can just tell that being there is a special occaision for all of the families there; a fancy family from Spain with a little 4 year old dressed as Belle, a 14 year old in a wheel chair waiting in line to take her photo with Ariel, four 22 year olds celebrating their friendships with a reunion at disneyland, and us, 3 Sedlik cousins with our own 4 children and one grandma all there to spend a memory day together. It was perfect.

Here are some of the facial expressions which made me verklempt all day long....

"We are at Disneyland!"

Screaming during the pirate free fall

Amazed at the animals on the jungle cruise

WHOAH!

just plain awe

new baby tinkerbelle toy in flight

Gradma and Sylvie ride Dumbo

Secrets from Ariel

Amazing fireworks and a real life tinkerbelle flying through the air!

Thank you to Cousins Sandra and Sophia for being Disneyland EXPERTS and leading us around all day with their well-trained disneyland noses. We sniffed out all of the best rides, experiences and merchandise! We couldn't have had the day we had without you guys

Monday, July 02, 2007

Wishka

Last weekend we went to my Uncle Jody and Aunt Lynette's place on the Wynooche River (or the Wishkah River - not sure). My cousins were there with their families and it was really nice to see each other all growed up with kids.
It was perfectly sunny and warm and we all loved playing in the shallow river. At night we had a huge fire in the Chevy Fire Pit and made smores and then lit some fireworks once it was dark. The house was full so we slept in a pop-up trailer on the side of the river. We aren't big campers yet so we didn't even have sleeping bags. We brought down comforters with white duvet covers and embroidered pillows. Once we got everyone into the trailer, it took a while for us to all fall asleep (no air traffic noises) but even Joey slept well. In the morning he made me promise not to do that again soon, "too sticky" he said. It was great to sleep "outside" with only the noises of the river and frogs.
In the morning we went up to the big house for coffee, bacon and pancakes - every campers dream! It was nice to spend time with our cousins big and small and to be hosted by Aunt Lynette and Uncle Jody who took care of everything and the place looked amazing! Thanks!

Leo on the River