Under the Boardwalk..

I found lots of unedited, unposted photos from last January/February and I am having fun with them.

These were taken on the last day of our Walt Disney World vacation last year, while touring around the Disney's Boardwalk.

Ahh. It makes me so excited that we are going back to a Disney park in less than a month, this time, back to Disneyland Paris we go!

xoxo

Disneyland Paris: Take One.

J & I took a little trip to Disneyland Paris a few weeks ago. We really enjoyed it! Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant is absolutely, stunningly gorgeous! And, it's pink. 

I love me some Toy Story!

[Photos (c) Heather Castleberry Photography]

a little sneak peek..

stunning.

makes me even more anxious to visit beautiful walt disney world (though these photos are of disneyland paris.)

we leave in a little over 2 weeks for wdw. perhaps sometime soon, i'll be visiting that the paris park, as well. :)

xoxo,
heather

Our Rainy Day Activities..

My new umbrella. :)

So, what do Jason and I do on a rainy-day-after-Christmas? Sleep in, then go shop, of course!

We had a few things to get and wanted to buy some Christmas stuff for next year on the cheap. :)

We started out at Target and found some great colored lights for the outside of the house, a matching tablecloth set with napkins and a red tree made of sticks for the duration of the winter, a cupcake stand for me, and I also got this little baby for my DS.



It's a Tinkerbell stylus, complete with a little screen cleaner (the little bug).

After Target, we went to Wal-Mart and got some Christmas wrapping paper to match our annual decor, new sparkling icicle lights, some color-changing over-sized lightbulbs to line the walk-way outside, and I bought my gingerbread shirt I have been trying to find in my size. Yay!

We grabbed a bite to eat at Panera and I discovered my new favorite sandwich. The Mediterranean Veggie. Yum!

Of course, no shopping trip is complete without a trip to Ross. And, as usual, I found lots of lovelies that I HAD to have. :)

Including these:




Libbey glass Ka-Dinks colored sundae glasses, I have been wanting for over a year now, and finally found them again. They make me want to eat tons of ice cream, just to use them, because they make me smile. :)

I also got some Disney princess stickers for my Disney World scrapbook that is soon to be a work in progress.

Last stop? Best Buy, to look at DS games. We ended up leaving with..




The Biggest Loser for the DS. It has healthy recipes, work outs, calorie counter, and a calorie 'book' where you can look up grocery and restaurant items and their caloric and nutritional information. It is going to help me get back to healthy eating and weight loss, again. :)

AND, we got..



TOY STORY MANIA for the Wii!

FYI: Toy Story Mania is an interactive ride at Walt Disney World and Disneyland. And, one of mine and Jason's favorites, at that! We were so excited to find that they had this game, based off of the ride. Needless to say, that is what we spent our evening doing. They have the same themed-target games, plus some extras. Also, it came with 3-D glasses for some of the games that you can unlock in 3-D, just like at Disney World!

Well, that's all for now. Look for Disney posts and pics to come. They will go up on their respective dates, so the 11th-20ish of December.

I hope everyone had a Merry and safe Holiday!

We Have Arrived!

Our ear hats above the bed.

Today, Jason and I got to Orlando at around 3:30 and checked in to our resort and unpacked.

We took a little trip down to the local Wal-Mart for groceries, so we could take our own lunches during our week at Disney, so we could spend money elsewhere. :) We also found lots of Disney goodies for our trip. I got a Minnie ears headband, to go along with my personalized ear hat and my Santa hat with mouse ears, that Jason got for me from Disneystores.com, before leaving for our trip.

While at Wal-Mart, in the frozen treats aisle, I almost fainted when I saw Blue Bell ice cream! In my excitement for our trip down South, I did not even think about having Blue Bell, the best ice cream EVER! :) So, we got some! Yay!

Our next stop was Downtown Disney, to purchase our park tickets. We also got a little sneak peek of all the cool stores and goodies there, for future reference. Even though we weren't in the parks yet, it was still so exciting to know we were so close. We could already feel the magic there and were ready for everything else Disney World had in store for us!

The rest of our evening was spent relaxing and adding pins to our brand new lanyards, so we could trade pins during our trip.

Nice of you to join us, videocamera!

This little baby arrived at Casa del Castle today, just in time! We are leaving after midnight tonight for Disney World!

Apparently, the 10 days estimated arrival date when Jason ordered it, was from the time it reached the continental United States, not when we would actually get it. It was ordered almost a month ago, and Jason had already prewarned the company we ordered it from, we were going to send it back if it didn't reach us in time, since they didn't list the reaching the US thing when he purchased it from them. No point in keeping something if you don't get it when you need it, right? Not to mention, I just about had to chase the mailman down the street to get it from him!

Anywho, it's here and all is well!

EAR HATS!!

Jason surprised me with a box full of Disney goodies, today!

He ordered us personalized ear hats to wear at Disney, Mickey shirts, 2 Mickey head ornaments and a Mickey/snowman figurine.

Yay! The anticipation is just too much! We can't wait for DISNEY!