Day 3 & 4 Hollywood Studios and Epcot

Spaceship Earth

at Epcot

That's Lauren and Scott in mouth of the shark on Nemo. Sorry it is so small.

Our own personal Japanese Chef! The food was awesome! Wish I could go back!

Some of the ette parents enjoying dinner together at Epcot.

The juniors with some of their sophomore buddies!

Four of the Junior "ettes" eating together in Epcot at the restaurant in Japan.

Sorry I put this picture on twice.

Spaceship Earth at night. I thought the reflection on the water was so pretty.

The next 3 pictures are of the new Toy Story 3-D ride. It was so much fun looking at all the things inside before you got on the ride.

We are always excited about the new rides they have every year.

Sorry so small. This is the AeroSmith Rockin Roller Coaster. It was an awesome ride too!

Day 2 - Animal Kingdom

That's Mt. Everest the great roller coaster ride in the far distance. It is an awesome roller coaster and makes you laugh so much!
This is the "vine lady." She is camouflaged up so good to look like a part of the tree. She was on stilts and moving so slowly. We loved watching her!

Isn't he sweet? He actually wasn't asleep.(If you click on the picture of him, you can see his face so much better when it is enlarged.) He has his "gorilla hands" laying under his head just like we would do. We loved watching him too and the other gorillas eating.

The "goofies" with Goofy!

The Tree of Life. They said that there were 360 something animals carved into this tree.

The Safari Hunters! Look below what they saw!

We had a great time at Animal Kingdom! It has become my favorite Disney park to visit. I will post more pics when I return from church tonight! Come back and visit again!

Happy Valentines Day

Everyone! Hope you have a wonderful, sweet, happy, funfilled day with those you love!

Pics in Magic Kingdom

You may want to scroll down and read my next post explaining the pictures first then come back up and look at pictures!

We're Here!!

Don't know what happened to this pic?? Small??

Sorry I didn't realize I had already put this pic on and I don't know how to delete it off!

If you look real close in the picture above, you can see the fairy godmother. That's who I want to be when I retire and move to Florida! LOL! Everyone loves you, wants your picture made with them and wants your autograph!! NO STRESS JOB!! Perfect for me!

Aren't they a cute couple??

Day 1 - Magic Kingdom

Hi everyone! Well I am just making myself sit down and put some of these pictures at Disney on for you. I am not going to edit any or make comments under each of them for now and just get them on for you to see because it is 10:15 right now and soon time for bed!

Lauren's boyfriend, Scott as you know made the trip with us this time. This was is 1ST trip to Disney World!! We were so excited because we would get to go through it all again through another person's excitment about being there! I have been there "several" times to nationals and I could probably be a pretty good tour guide if you need one to tag along with you.

Anyway, there a lots of pictures with Lauren and Scott because the dance team did not get to hang out with us too much while we were there. I have saved a few pictures of Leah's to put on here from her camera that she made so that I would have a least a few of her as well.
Hope you enjoy the pics!!

Our trip begins.....

When we arrived in Florida on Thursday morning we boarded the Disney World resorts transportation bus the "Magical Express". If you are planning a trip to Disney World in the near future, I would highly recommend that you stay on the Disney World grounds at one of their hotels. Each hotel has transportation to and from the hotel to the parks/downtown Disney/blizzard beach and more. It is so convenient and easy to do. The magical express is also a courtesy to you if you are traveling by air and they will take you right to your hotel and they even take your luggage to your room for you!! How nice is that???
Something else I found out that I did not know --- when it is time to leave and go back home if you are flying (depends on what airlines you use) you can check in on your airline and also check in your luggage at the Disney hotel and not have to worry about your luggage until you get home. Whow!! That's is so nice and hassle free!

National Dance Team Championship 2009

Don't you like our T-shirts?? All of the parents and other family members were wearing our new nationals t-shirts that we had made to support the girls!! Scott had to have one too along with all the males in our group! Who said that males didn't look good in pink???

This is the competition floor at Hollywood Studios (formerly MGM Studios).

Waiting to see if you made finals is always the hardest!

Gran with the Grandchildren

While we had everybody there to eat lunch on a Saturday we took the opportunity to take a picture. Chelsea and Leah are 16. Marcus and Trevor are soon to be 14 next week and Lauren is soon to be the big 21 in a couple of months! I am sure Gran does not want me to tell her age but she is 50 and holding!

I'm Back!

I am back and trying to catch up on my posting. I am having to charge my camera battery so that I can start posting pictures from Florida.
I can't wait to share them with you. We had a great time. The dance team unfortunately did not make finals but we did have a good time. The weather was not that great. It rained 2 of the 4 days and the temps were in the low 60's some days and then 2 nights the lows were in the 30's!!! So I felt like I was right at home. However, the temps here dropped to the single digits when we got back and we were freezing again!
Today the weather is in the high 60's and feels like spring here in Tennessee. Is Spring just around the corner??? Who knows??
I certainly have my windows up today in the house that's for sure.

I will post Florida pictures as soon as I can.
Everybody enjoy the day!

Good Luck Pioneerettes Dance Team!

This past Sunday the dance team had their family/friends performance of their Dance Nationals Hip Hop routine at the high school. Joy, of Simply Joy Catering, made a GREAT cake for us to celebrate the occasion!! Everyone loved it and there wasn't hardly a piece left! We got tickled with the girls. They wanted to get the piece so that they could "eat their own face!"

They were so funny!

If any of you are needing a cake for any special event, birthday, wedding, anniversary, ect. Give Joy a call or email. She can fix you right up with a great tasting cake or other catering item! Her link is to the right on my blog.

It's that time if you have been keeping up with my Mickey time ticker on my blog you will know that we will be packing our bags and heading to

NATIONALS!

The W.C. High School Pioneerettes Dance Team heads to Orlando, Florida on Thursday to compete Sat. in the Universal Dance Association's National Dance Team Championship.

They will be competing this year in the Hip Hop Division.

We have been watching the weather channel quiet often and it looks like it is going to be very cool while we are there! Ugh! I was hoping for some warm weather to at least get a little bit of sun while were were there! Guess beggars can't be choosers!

GOOD LUCK GIRLS! WE LOVE YOU!

Happy 17th Birthday Hayley P.!!

The Grandey family would like to wish my daughter's best friend, Hayley "P" a very, very Happy 17th Birthday today!!

Leah and Hayley have been best friends since 3rd grade. 3rd grade was Leah's first year going to school at Eastside and it was Hayley's first year at Eastside moving from Sparta!

We love Hayley absolutely to death. She's just like one of our own. She went with us to Florida this summer (as you can see from the pictures above!) and we all had a great time! Her mom, Kim and step-dad, Brad are good friends of ours as well and we all have a great time together. I also might add that I have Hayley's nephew, Caleb in preschool. So I get to see the Hillis/Mackie family quite often!

WE HOPE YOU HAD A GREAT DAY MISS HAYLEY!

New Blogspot to visit

Everybody needs to check out the new business that Stephanie Eden and Tabitha Sullens are starting. They have a giveaway that is in progress now.

Here's how to play along for a chance to win in their very first give away....What you could win - One free silhouette design, an 8x10 print, AND a custom silhouette pendant!!!

Checkout their blog today to see how to enter!

Good luck Stephanie and Tabitha!

Do you recognize any of these children???

I have had the biggest time tonight going through some of my family pictures and organizing them and I ran across this sweet picture made at the fair in 1997.

Have you figured out who they are?

Well starting from left to right --

My daughter, Leah

John Ryan, Simply Joy's Caterings son

Holly Hodges is holding Katie, Simply Joy's daughter

My daughter, Lauren (who will kill me for posting this because her eyes are closed!) Sorry Lauren

and in front of Lauren is Dillon, Simply Joy's son.

Lauren, Holly and John Ryan were 9 years old, Leah is 5 years old, Dillon is 3 years old and Katie is maybe 1 1/2.

During this time in John Ryan and Lauren's lives they liked each other. You know the 9 year old "puppy love". That is how we were introduced to the Tubb family. We have been friends ever since that time and have shared lots of fun times together.

I could write a book on the Grandey/Tubb memories that would probably be as thick as a Harry Potter book!! LOL!

Getting to sleep late again!

It has been snowing on and off all day but the sun did come out for awhile. I just knew that we would probably have school tomorrow. Well it started snowing again in the late afternoon and the snow started covering my road again. Not long after that we got a call on the "red" line LOL saying that there would be NO SCHOOL TOMORROW!! Wow this long weekend has now turned into 6 days!!

Bet we go on Thursday though. It is supposed to warm up tomorrow.

Not believing this!!

Why does it snow on a day that we already have off from school???? Never fails!!

We'll just hope for another "snow" day off tomorrow!

Congratulations to Victoria!

Wow we are all soooo excited! Victoria Woods, Warren Co.'s reigning Fairest of the Fair won the State Fairest of the Fair pageant tonight in Nashville!

Victoria's Aunt Cynthia Duncan and I have been friends ever since we were in the 7th grade. We have watched many fairest of the fair pageants and I told Cynthia and her mom, Barbara Woods that I thought Victoria would win our Fairest of the Fair this year. She is not only beautiful on the outside but on the inside as well.

Congratulations Victoria! We are so very proud!

My New Header!

Well I think everyone has gotten a kick out of my pictures of Joey, Leah and Scott playing guitar hero!
Katie has surprised me with this just a few minutes ago!
She did a great job! I am impressed Katie Pooh!

Thank you so much!